1. TBN
  2. Programs
  3. The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young
  4. Episodes
  5. Ed Young - Finding The Answer
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young

Ed Young - Finding The Answer

August 8, 2025 | S25 E190 | 29:0

Ed Young - Finding The Answer
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
#inActive #Calling #Purpose #Worship #Focus #SeekGod #RelationshipwithGod #Fool #Foolishness #PresenceofGod #Praise #Honor #GlorifyGod #Reverence #FearoftheLord

Closed captions

Show Timecode
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Finding The Answer | August 8, 2025
  • ...
  • 00:00:00.633 --> 00:00:01.347
  • Male announcer: spend time with god each day.
  • 00:00:02.449 --> 00:00:04.184
  • Get dr. young's 90 day devotional, "putting god first."
  • 00:00:04.284 --> 00:00:08.221
  • Ed young: it is my prayer that this devotional will help you to
  • 00:00:08.321 --> 00:00:09.389
  • Become all that god has designed you to become.
  • 00:00:10.890 --> 00:00:14.360
  • Announcer: call or go online to get a copy
  • 00:00:14.360 --> 00:00:16.629
  • For yourself or someone you love.
  • 00:00:16.629 --> 00:00:18.731
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:40.653
  • Dr. ed young: ecclesiastes is a very bright book.
  • 00:00:31.010 --> 00:00:49.129
  • It is bright because it is written under the dazzling
  • 00:00:49.129 --> 00:00:54.434
  • Background of darkness, and that darkness is death.
  • 00:00:54.434 --> 00:01:02.208
  • You read ecclesiastes, and solomon is always couching
  • 00:01:02.208 --> 00:01:07.147
  • Everything under the background of death.
  • 00:01:07.147 --> 00:01:12.652
  • And he asks over and over again, in many, many ways,
  • 00:01:12.652 --> 00:01:18.758
  • "what is life for under the sun?"
  • 00:01:18.758 --> 00:01:26.533
  • He asks, "what does your life mean?"
  • 00:01:26.533 --> 00:01:30.837
  • And by the way, it's interesting to observe as you read
  • 00:01:30.837 --> 00:01:33.406
  • Ecclesiastes, he talks in general terms,
  • 00:01:33.406 --> 00:01:37.544
  • And then he talks about, "i, i, i."
  • 00:01:37.544 --> 00:01:41.014
  • Remember when he said how narcissistic solomon is?
  • 00:01:41.014 --> 00:01:43.583
  • "i, i, i, i, i, i," but we come to the 5th chapter,
  • 00:01:43.583 --> 00:01:47.787
  • Which we're going to look at, and he says: "you,"
  • 00:01:47.787 --> 00:01:52.525
  • Second person singular, he says, "you."
  • 00:01:52.525 --> 00:01:55.261
  • He changed from, "i, i, i," and general kind of teaching to,
  • 00:01:55.261 --> 00:01:59.499
  • "you."
  • 00:01:59.499 --> 00:02:00.934
  • He makes it very pointed, and the question he keeps asking is,
  • 00:02:00.934 --> 00:02:05.972
  • "what does your life mean?
  • 00:02:05.972 --> 00:02:10.443
  • What difference does your life make under the sun?
  • 00:02:10.443 --> 00:02:14.647
  • What are you here for?
  • 00:02:14.647 --> 00:02:19.519
  • What can you and i do in this life that has not only meaning
  • 00:02:19.519 --> 00:02:25.191
  • Now, but meaning 100 years or 1,000 years that will have
  • 00:02:25.191 --> 00:02:29.495
  • Any significance in all of eternity?"
  • 00:02:29.495 --> 00:02:33.266
  • And he keeps asking that question,
  • 00:02:33.266 --> 00:02:35.068
  • And it's a very uncomfortable question.
  • 00:02:35.068 --> 00:02:38.338
  • But, folks, that question is the greatest question
  • 00:02:38.338 --> 00:02:44.210
  • That can be asked, the most important, significant question
  • 00:02:44.210 --> 00:02:47.947
  • That we have to face.
  • 00:02:47.947 --> 00:02:51.985
  • "what are you here for?"
  • 00:02:51.985 --> 00:02:58.157
  • Now we come to the 5th chapter of ecclesiastes,
  • 00:02:58.157 --> 00:03:02.795
  • And here we see solomon takes on a whole new characteristic.
  • 00:03:02.795 --> 00:03:08.101
  • And it's stunning, but we see now solomon,
  • 00:03:08.101 --> 00:03:13.006
  • I think, goes back to the early years of his life.
  • 00:03:13.006 --> 00:03:16.309
  • He was a young man, discipled by a godly man,
  • 00:03:16.309 --> 00:03:19.545
  • A godly prophet.
  • 00:03:19.545 --> 00:03:21.781
  • How he became king.
  • 00:03:21.781 --> 00:03:23.916
  • How he built the temple.
  • 00:03:23.916 --> 00:03:25.585
  • How he dedicated the temple.
  • 00:03:25.585 --> 00:03:27.086
  • How he prayed in the temple.
  • 00:03:27.086 --> 00:03:28.755
  • How he brought sacrifices to the temple.
  • 00:03:28.755 --> 00:03:30.857
  • How he studied the word and obeyed the word.
  • 00:03:30.857 --> 00:03:32.959
  • But now he's an old man, and he didn't finish well.
  • 00:03:32.959 --> 00:03:38.865
  • All of a sudden, he'd married all these women from all over
  • 00:03:38.865 --> 00:03:41.834
  • The world for so-called, "political reasons."
  • 00:03:41.834 --> 00:03:44.771
  • And now they've brought all their pagan altars into israel.
  • 00:03:44.771 --> 00:03:48.107
  • All these mice had come, and now he'd moved away from god.
  • 00:03:48.107 --> 00:03:54.180
  • And we see that, incidentally, in a little interesting thing.
  • 00:03:54.180 --> 00:03:58.084
  • Don't miss this.
  • 00:03:58.084 --> 00:04:00.219
  • In the book of ecclesiastes, the hebrew word that is used for god
  • 00:04:00.219 --> 00:04:04.657
  • Is usually "elohim," which is just a pedestrian word.
  • 00:04:04.657 --> 00:04:08.594
  • It's just a reference to god in a general sense.
  • 00:04:08.594 --> 00:04:12.332
  • The covenant word for god in the bible,
  • 00:04:12.332 --> 00:04:15.735
  • Mentioned 500 times, it's an interesting word.
  • 00:04:15.735 --> 00:04:20.073
  • It's the word "jehovah" or "yahweh."
  • 00:04:20.073 --> 00:04:23.376
  • In other words, solomon writes, knowing that somehow
  • 00:04:23.376 --> 00:04:28.047
  • He had drifted away from having a covenant with god.
  • 00:04:28.047 --> 00:04:31.150
  • What does it mean to have a covenant with god,
  • 00:04:31.150 --> 00:04:33.186
  • This word that is used?
  • 00:04:33.186 --> 00:04:34.620
  • It means there is an understanding of grace.
  • 00:04:34.620 --> 00:04:38.424
  • It means there is a hope that the messiah would come
  • 00:04:38.424 --> 00:04:42.028
  • And change this world.
  • 00:04:42.028 --> 00:04:44.330
  • You see, that's the covenant relationship god has
  • 00:04:44.330 --> 00:04:47.100
  • With israel, and those are the words.
  • 00:04:47.100 --> 00:04:49.469
  • Solomon does not use that word.
  • 00:04:49.469 --> 00:04:51.571
  • He knows somehow he has moved out from under the covenant,
  • 00:04:51.571 --> 00:04:56.275
  • The protection, the umbrella of almighty god,
  • 00:04:56.275 --> 00:04:59.379
  • So he does not use the word "yahweh" or "jehovah."
  • 00:04:59.379 --> 00:05:02.949
  • Interesting, isn't it?
  • 00:05:02.949 --> 00:05:04.851
  • But he comes here and tells us, "let me tell you about worship."
  • 00:05:04.851 --> 00:05:09.355
  • He built the temple. he knew about worship.
  • 00:05:09.355 --> 00:05:13.426
  • His dad, david, who had experienced so powerfully
  • 00:05:13.426 --> 00:05:16.496
  • The grace of god, was a man after god's own heart.
  • 00:05:16.496 --> 00:05:20.099
  • He knew worship.
  • 00:05:20.099 --> 00:05:21.734
  • Solomon had worshiped, and now he tells us in these
  • 00:05:21.734 --> 00:05:25.071
  • Seven verses, follow me carefully, how to worship
  • 00:05:25.071 --> 00:05:28.341
  • And how not to worship.
  • 00:05:28.341 --> 00:05:32.078
  • That's big, isn't it?
  • 00:05:32.078 --> 00:05:33.746
  • Did you know one of the things that distinguishes us
  • 00:05:33.746 --> 00:05:36.315
  • From animals is that we can worship?
  • 00:05:36.315 --> 00:05:40.887
  • Animals can't worship.
  • 00:05:40.887 --> 00:05:43.089
  • We can worship.
  • 00:05:43.089 --> 00:05:44.857
  • We're made in the image of god.
  • 00:05:44.857 --> 00:05:46.192
  • We can call upon god.
  • 00:05:46.192 --> 00:05:47.527
  • We can know god.
  • 00:05:47.527 --> 00:05:48.928
  • The human beings, we have the capacity to worship,
  • 00:05:48.928 --> 00:05:51.364
  • Awe to god.
  • 00:05:51.364 --> 00:05:54.300
  • He tells us, first of all, how to worship.
  • 00:05:54.300 --> 00:05:56.202
  • Look at it, verse 1, chapter 5: "guard your steps as you go
  • 00:05:56.202 --> 00:06:01.140
  • To the house of god and draw near to listen."
  • 00:06:01.140 --> 00:06:04.510
  • In other words, when you came to church this morning to worship,
  • 00:06:04.510 --> 00:06:08.314
  • Did you guard your steps?
  • 00:06:08.314 --> 00:06:10.883
  • Before you came, did you pray, "lord, speak to me today.
  • 00:06:10.883 --> 00:06:14.520
  • Lord, i need a word from you today.
  • 00:06:14.520 --> 00:06:17.223
  • Come and tabernacle among us today."
  • 00:06:17.223 --> 00:06:19.592
  • Did you come with expectation?
  • 00:06:19.592 --> 00:06:23.129
  • Did you come that a hope in god would break through and heal,
  • 00:06:23.129 --> 00:06:27.500
  • Restore, in form, guide, bring you through this dark place,
  • 00:06:27.500 --> 00:06:32.438
  • Or lift you up in the place of opportunity you're in so
  • 00:06:32.438 --> 00:06:35.608
  • You'll maximize your life?
  • 00:06:35.608 --> 00:06:37.977
  • Did you come praying?
  • 00:06:37.977 --> 00:06:40.112
  • That's what he's saying.
  • 00:06:40.112 --> 00:06:42.114
  • "guard your steps when you go in the of god."
  • 00:06:42.114 --> 00:06:44.817
  • Don't go into church casually or flat-footed.
  • 00:06:44.817 --> 00:06:49.489
  • Anticipation, you see, for worship to take place,
  • 00:06:49.489 --> 00:06:53.359
  • Not only must there be testimony in word and song and the
  • 00:06:53.359 --> 00:06:56.596
  • Teaching of the book, but there has to be those who receive,
  • 00:06:56.596 --> 00:07:01.868
  • Those who come with open minds, open hearts, wanting to feel
  • 00:07:01.868 --> 00:07:06.172
  • The touch, the reality of the living god, see?
  • 00:07:06.172 --> 00:07:10.309
  • It's a twofold way.
  • 00:07:10.309 --> 00:07:13.613
  • And he says, "we come to listen.
  • 00:07:13.613 --> 00:07:17.683
  • We come to listen.
  • 00:07:17.683 --> 00:07:19.051
  • We draw near to listen."
  • 00:07:19.051 --> 00:07:20.853
  • That's the first, he says, "this is how you worship."
  • 00:07:20.853 --> 00:07:24.757
  • You could sit in a pew, go through the motions,
  • 00:07:24.757 --> 00:07:26.859
  • Check all the box, "i went to church.
  • 00:07:26.859 --> 00:07:28.761
  • It was okay," and say, "boy, you know,
  • 00:07:28.761 --> 00:07:31.197
  • He didn't perform as good today."
  • 00:07:31.197 --> 00:07:33.232
  • But you see, we come and say, "lord jesus, i need your word.
  • 00:07:33.232 --> 00:07:37.403
  • Let your spirit come and bring my life into reality with you.
  • 00:07:37.403 --> 00:07:44.343
  • I wanna catch fire, have meaning, significance,
  • 00:07:44.343 --> 00:07:47.780
  • And confidence, hope."
  • 00:07:47.780 --> 00:07:49.115
  • All of that happens in worship, private worship,
  • 00:07:49.115 --> 00:07:52.318
  • And corporate worship like we engaged in now.
  • 00:07:52.318 --> 00:07:55.087
  • Come in tiptoe.
  • 00:07:55.087 --> 00:07:57.189
  • Come with great expectancy.
  • 00:07:57.189 --> 00:08:01.694
  • "come near and listen."
  • 00:08:01.694 --> 00:08:04.030
  • And then he tells us how not to worship.
  • 00:08:04.030 --> 00:08:07.800
  • And look, these are strong, strong words.
  • 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:10.570
  • They're a little frightening to me as i kept looking at them.
  • 00:08:10.570 --> 00:08:14.540
  • He says, "rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools;
  • 00:08:14.540 --> 00:08:19.445
  • As they do not know they are doing evil."
  • 00:08:19.445 --> 00:08:23.115
  • In other words, phony worship, foolish worship,
  • 00:08:23.115 --> 00:08:26.619
  • It is coming like a fool to church,
  • 00:08:26.619 --> 00:08:29.755
  • Coming like a fool when you do your quiet time,
  • 00:08:29.755 --> 00:08:32.224
  • Coming like a fool.
  • 00:08:32.224 --> 00:08:34.427
  • And he says, "when you come as a hypocrite,
  • 00:08:34.427 --> 00:08:38.064
  • Without sincerity, look what happens."
  • 00:08:38.064 --> 00:08:40.566
  • He says, "it's not just not a good thing to do."
  • 00:08:40.566 --> 00:08:43.536
  • He said, "it is an evil thing to do."
  • 00:08:43.536 --> 00:08:47.940
  • Ladies and gentlemen, it is absolutely dangerous
  • 00:08:47.940 --> 00:08:51.444
  • To go to church.
  • 00:08:51.444 --> 00:08:54.347
  • It's a ferocious thing. it's a frightening thing.
  • 00:08:54.347 --> 00:08:56.582
  • It's an overwhelming thing to go and say,
  • 00:08:56.582 --> 00:08:59.418
  • "i'm going to worship," and not worship.
  • 00:08:59.418 --> 00:09:03.289
  • It is the worship or the sacrifice of fools.
  • 00:09:03.289 --> 00:09:08.928
  • And then he tells us exactly, precisely what the sacrifice,
  • 00:09:08.928 --> 00:09:13.933
  • What phony, hypocritical worship is all about.
  • 00:09:13.933 --> 00:09:17.436
  • Look what he says first of all in verse 2.
  • 00:09:17.436 --> 00:09:20.673
  • He says: "do not be hasty in word or impulsive in thought
  • 00:09:20.673 --> 00:09:24.010
  • To bring up a matter in the presence of god.
  • 00:09:24.010 --> 00:09:26.512
  • For god is in heaven and you are on earth."
  • 00:09:26.512 --> 00:09:30.182
  • What is he saying?
  • 00:09:30.182 --> 00:09:32.251
  • He said, "fools worship foolishly,
  • 00:09:32.251 --> 00:09:36.188
  • Engage in foolish worship when we forget who god is."
  • 00:09:36.188 --> 00:09:42.962
  • We forget who god is.
  • 00:09:42.962 --> 00:09:46.732
  • I had a member of the staff once in a meeting said,
  • 00:09:46.732 --> 00:09:49.602
  • "oh, we need to have a come-to-jesus movement."
  • 00:09:49.602 --> 00:09:53.039
  • Let me tell you something. i don't like that terminology.
  • 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:58.177
  • No, no, no, we use christ as an expletive, of all things.
  • 00:09:58.177 --> 00:10:05.351
  • We gotta remember who god is.
  • 00:10:05.351 --> 00:10:08.120
  • Who is god?
  • 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:10.589
  • He is omniscient, he's all-knowing.
  • 00:10:10.589 --> 00:10:15.294
  • There's no thought we've ever had, no emotion
  • 00:10:15.294 --> 00:10:17.830
  • We've ever experienced, nothing we've ever done
  • 00:10:17.830 --> 00:10:20.099
  • Or said or not done that he doesn't know about.
  • 00:10:20.099 --> 00:10:22.802
  • You don't have any secrets from god.
  • 00:10:22.802 --> 00:10:25.304
  • I don't have any secrets from god.
  • 00:10:25.304 --> 00:10:28.240
  • He's omniscient, he's all-knowing.
  • 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:32.344
  • He is omnipotent. he is all-powerful.
  • 00:10:32.344 --> 00:10:35.981
  • He speaks, and it happens, all-powerful.
  • 00:10:35.981 --> 00:10:41.053
  • Whew, this is who god is.
  • 00:10:41.053 --> 00:10:43.789
  • He's omnipresent, he's present everywhere.
  • 00:10:43.789 --> 00:10:48.394
  • That's the reason i'm always sort of uneasy when somebody
  • 00:10:48.394 --> 00:10:52.865
  • With a pious twang in their voice says,
  • 00:10:52.865 --> 00:10:57.203
  • "lord jesus christ, we welcome you and your holy spirit
  • 00:10:57.203 --> 00:11:01.006
  • In this place."
  • 00:11:01.006 --> 00:11:02.441
  • Let me tell ya, the lord jesus christ,
  • 00:11:02.441 --> 00:11:04.110
  • The holy spirit is already there, anytime, anywhere,
  • 00:11:04.110 --> 00:11:06.879
  • Any place, anywhere you go.
  • 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:08.581
  • He is omnipotent. he is omniscient.
  • 00:11:08.581 --> 00:11:10.783
  • He is omnipresent. don't have to invite him.
  • 00:11:10.783 --> 00:11:14.854
  • He's already there.
  • 00:11:14.854 --> 00:11:17.156
  • So we have to understand worship, worship.
  • 00:11:17.156 --> 00:11:21.927
  • And then he would say that worship has to transform
  • 00:11:21.927 --> 00:11:24.563
  • Areas of your life.
  • 00:11:24.563 --> 00:11:26.899
  • A number of years ago, it just stands out in my mind,
  • 00:11:26.899 --> 00:11:29.635
  • I got up and i had my quiet time.
  • 00:11:29.635 --> 00:11:31.604
  • I was in the word.
  • 00:11:31.604 --> 00:11:32.938
  • It's one of those times when heaven opens, you know,
  • 00:11:32.938 --> 00:11:35.841
  • And god speaks.
  • 00:11:35.841 --> 00:11:37.276
  • And i guess i cried and i confessed and he came close
  • 00:11:37.276 --> 00:11:42.348
  • And i was inspired, and it was one of those mountaintop
  • 00:11:42.348 --> 00:11:46.552
  • Moments, you know, you have, not every day.
  • 00:11:46.552 --> 00:11:49.388
  • It was just a mountaintop moment,
  • 00:11:49.388 --> 00:11:51.090
  • And i went in and ate breakfast with jo beth and the kids,
  • 00:11:51.090 --> 00:11:54.827
  • And i went and got dressed in my suit,
  • 00:11:54.827 --> 00:11:57.263
  • And i just was walking out, and i kissed jo beth,
  • 00:11:57.263 --> 00:12:01.801
  • And i went out, and she said, "would you mind takin' out
  • 00:12:01.801 --> 00:12:05.704
  • The trash?"
  • 00:12:05.704 --> 00:12:10.576
  • And i wanted to say, "yeah, i mind," but i didn't.
  • 00:12:10.576 --> 00:12:15.915
  • And i went back and i got the trash,
  • 00:12:15.915 --> 00:12:18.384
  • Knowing that my oldest son had walked by that trash four times
  • 00:12:18.384 --> 00:12:22.021
  • Already that morning, and he hadn't even made up his bed.
  • 00:12:22.021 --> 00:12:25.691
  • I'm sure of that.
  • 00:12:25.691 --> 00:12:27.660
  • But i went back to get the trash,
  • 00:12:27.660 --> 00:12:29.461
  • And there were some--it wasn't tied up with one of the little
  • 00:12:29.461 --> 00:12:32.932
  • Tie things then, you know?
  • 00:12:32.932 --> 00:12:34.433
  • And i saw some old apples there.
  • 00:12:34.433 --> 00:12:36.101
  • By the way, while i'm here, let me tell ya one of my pet peeves.
  • 00:12:36.101 --> 00:12:43.742
  • One pet peeve is when people park over the line
  • 00:12:43.742 --> 00:12:46.312
  • And take two places.
  • 00:12:46.312 --> 00:12:47.646
  • That just--i think that oughtta be capital punishment.
  • 00:12:47.646 --> 00:12:53.519
  • But i've got a greater pet peeve than that.
  • 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:56.355
  • That is those little sticky things they put on fruit.
  • 00:12:56.355 --> 00:13:02.661
  • Whatever government regulation brought that to bear,
  • 00:13:02.661 --> 00:13:05.965
  • They oughtta go to jail forever.
  • 00:13:05.965 --> 00:13:10.903
  • And they put 'em on evidently with permanent glue.
  • 00:13:10.903 --> 00:13:14.607
  • I mean, it's unbelievable.
  • 00:13:14.607 --> 00:13:16.408
  • What in the world does that do?
  • 00:13:16.408 --> 00:13:17.877
  • Can anybody tell me?
  • 00:13:17.877 --> 00:13:19.211
  • No, it's some gimmick, some company that--i'd love to be
  • 00:13:19.211 --> 00:13:23.349
  • The guy that makes those little sticky things they put on
  • 00:13:23.349 --> 00:13:25.517
  • All the fruit in america.
  • 00:13:25.517 --> 00:13:28.821
  • Anyway, back to the trash.
  • 00:13:28.821 --> 00:13:34.894
  • And i got all the trash together,
  • 00:13:34.894 --> 00:13:37.062
  • And i put it on, and it was full, and i take it out.
  • 00:13:37.062 --> 00:13:40.199
  • And i remember i got to slam dunk it outside in
  • 00:13:40.199 --> 00:13:43.035
  • The trash thing, and some of it came out on my pants,
  • 00:13:43.035 --> 00:13:48.073
  • And jo beth says, "we've got another one."
  • 00:13:48.073 --> 00:13:53.012
  • Boy, i went stormin' back in there,
  • 00:13:53.012 --> 00:13:55.414
  • And i got that other one, and i went out and i--this was the guy
  • 00:13:55.414 --> 00:14:02.554
  • Who just a little bit before in the holy of holies of prayer,
  • 00:14:02.554 --> 00:14:08.761
  • This is a guy who is covered in shekinah, takin' out trash.
  • 00:14:08.761 --> 00:14:18.804
  • You see, my problem then, and many times since,
  • 00:14:19.972 --> 00:14:23.542
  • And probably yours is we don't transfer our worship to how we
  • 00:14:23.542 --> 00:14:31.083
  • Live, how we think, what we do, because worship is to transform
  • 00:14:31.083 --> 00:14:39.425
  • Your life and my life and the mundane things as well as
  • 00:14:39.425 --> 00:14:43.829
  • The big, big things that we encounter, is it not?
  • 00:14:43.829 --> 00:14:49.201
  • So he says, "we are fools engaged in foolish worship
  • 00:14:49.201 --> 00:14:52.538
  • When we forget him with whom we are dealing with,
  • 00:14:52.538 --> 00:14:56.809
  • Him whom we are worshiping."
  • 00:14:56.809 --> 00:15:00.946
  • And then he says to us, the second thing involved here
  • 00:15:00.946 --> 00:15:03.949
  • About foolish worship, the sacrifice of fools.
  • 00:15:03.949 --> 00:15:06.852
  • Look at it, verse 3, he says: "for the dream comes through
  • 00:15:06.852 --> 00:15:11.023
  • Much effort and the voice of a fool through many words."
  • 00:15:11.023 --> 00:15:14.793
  • You are a fool engaged in foolish worship,
  • 00:15:14.793 --> 00:15:18.497
  • And i am when our worship is filled with words and dreams.
  • 00:15:18.497 --> 00:15:25.204
  • We go to god and we've got our agenda,
  • 00:15:25.204 --> 00:15:27.606
  • "god, let me tell you what i believe you need to say to me,
  • 00:15:27.606 --> 00:15:30.676
  • And i wanna make this deal with you.
  • 00:15:30.676 --> 00:15:32.177
  • And god, god, god," and we talk, and we talk,
  • 00:15:32.177 --> 00:15:34.246
  • And we have all our dreams and our aspirations and what we
  • 00:15:34.246 --> 00:15:37.249
  • Think and what we know and how we cut a special deal with god
  • 00:15:37.249 --> 00:15:41.086
  • And we just talk--when god wants to say somethin' to you and me,
  • 00:15:41.086 --> 00:15:44.990
  • When in the world is he going to say it,
  • 00:15:44.990 --> 00:15:47.426
  • Even when we're trying to worship,
  • 00:15:47.426 --> 00:15:49.128
  • When our mind and our tongues are just babbling?
  • 00:15:49.128 --> 00:15:55.234
  • You have an appointment with bill gates, oh.
  • 00:15:55.234 --> 00:15:59.071
  • And you sit down with mr. gates and said, "mr. gates,
  • 00:15:59.071 --> 00:16:01.707
  • I wanna tell you what i think about the internet,
  • 00:16:01.707 --> 00:16:04.076
  • About the computer industry, and about it," and you spend
  • 00:16:04.076 --> 00:16:06.712
  • All your time telling him what you know about the iphone
  • 00:16:06.712 --> 00:16:10.716
  • And all the rest of us, and you walk--is that stupid?
  • 00:16:10.716 --> 00:16:16.822
  • Man, you were the man who started some of this.
  • 00:16:16.822 --> 00:16:19.458
  • Or down with albert einstein, "dr. einstein,
  • 00:16:19.458 --> 00:16:21.994
  • I had a course in physics when i was in high school,
  • 00:16:21.994 --> 00:16:25.631
  • And i wanna tell you what i have figured out
  • 00:16:25.631 --> 00:16:27.933
  • About this physical--"
  • 00:16:27.933 --> 00:16:29.268
  • You're with albert einstein.
  • 00:16:29.268 --> 00:16:30.803
  • Is that insane?
  • 00:16:30.803 --> 00:16:34.940
  • We are with god.
  • 00:16:34.940 --> 00:16:38.010
  • He might wanna say somethin' to us, speak a word.
  • 00:16:38.010 --> 00:16:44.149
  • But we're just [mumbling] talkin' about dreams,
  • 00:16:44.149 --> 00:16:46.718
  • And we quote scripture to god.
  • 00:16:46.718 --> 00:16:48.353
  • I never understand that.
  • 00:16:48.353 --> 00:16:53.859
  • Sometimes we just wait and be still.
  • 00:16:53.859 --> 00:16:57.096
  • Elijah wanted to meet with god.
  • 00:16:57.096 --> 00:16:58.764
  • Man, he'd had a tough time, had a victory,
  • 00:16:58.764 --> 00:17:01.400
  • Now he was depressed.
  • 00:17:01.400 --> 00:17:03.268
  • He's in a cave.
  • 00:17:03.268 --> 00:17:04.837
  • He said, "oh, god, i need a word from you."
  • 00:17:04.837 --> 00:17:06.939
  • He needed to worship, and boy, here comes a tornado,
  • 00:17:06.939 --> 00:17:10.409
  • Winds blowing.
  • 00:17:10.409 --> 00:17:11.743
  • And he said, "boy, god is gonna be in this tornado.
  • 00:17:11.743 --> 00:17:13.846
  • I know he's gonna speak to me in this mighty tornado."
  • 00:17:13.846 --> 00:17:16.648
  • But the bible says, "the lord didn't say a word to him."
  • 00:17:16.648 --> 00:17:19.985
  • Huh, huh, tornado, god didn't speak.
  • 00:17:19.985 --> 00:17:24.456
  • And then there was the earthquake.
  • 00:17:24.456 --> 00:17:25.824
  • Man, the earth begins to separate, it's rattling.
  • 00:17:25.824 --> 00:17:28.127
  • That'll get your attention.
  • 00:17:28.127 --> 00:17:29.728
  • Surely, god is going to speak to his prophet elijah
  • 00:17:29.728 --> 00:17:33.031
  • In the earthquake, but god didn't say a word.
  • 00:17:33.031 --> 00:17:37.236
  • Then there was a fire. oh, that's how god speaks.
  • 00:17:37.236 --> 00:17:39.938
  • Here's a giant fire.
  • 00:17:39.938 --> 00:17:41.540
  • In the middle of the fire, god is gonna really zap elijah
  • 00:17:41.540 --> 00:17:44.643
  • And say the word that he needs.
  • 00:17:44.643 --> 00:17:46.879
  • God wasn't in the fire.
  • 00:17:46.879 --> 00:17:50.349
  • Then the bible says, "god spoke the way he usually speaks,
  • 00:17:50.349 --> 00:17:57.689
  • A still small voice."
  • 00:17:57.689 --> 00:18:03.362
  • We're fools engaged in foolish worship when we just spend
  • 00:18:03.362 --> 00:18:07.266
  • That time battling around.
  • 00:18:07.266 --> 00:18:10.536
  • Maybe god wants to say something to you and me.
  • 00:18:10.536 --> 00:18:13.939
  • Let's learn how to still and quiet ourselves so he can speak,
  • 00:18:13.939 --> 00:18:21.513
  • Okay?
  • 00:18:21.513 --> 00:18:23.215
  • And then he talks about another kind of fools who engage
  • 00:18:23.215 --> 00:18:26.151
  • In foolish worship, this foolish sacrifice.
  • 00:18:26.151 --> 00:18:29.054
  • And look at it. it starts in verse 4.
  • 00:18:29.054 --> 00:18:31.423
  • He said: "when you make a vow to the lord,
  • 00:18:31.423 --> 00:18:34.059
  • Do not be late in paying it; for he takes no delight in fools."
  • 00:18:34.059 --> 00:18:38.463
  • And he talks about vows.
  • 00:18:38.463 --> 00:18:41.033
  • Have you ever said to god, "god, if i get a good report
  • 00:18:41.033 --> 00:18:43.669
  • On this health situation, i'm going to--"?
  • 00:18:43.669 --> 00:18:48.373
  • Or, "i'm going to start"? or, "i'm going to stop"?
  • 00:18:48.373 --> 00:18:52.144
  • Made promises to god; he takes that seriously, yeah.
  • 00:18:52.144 --> 00:18:56.381
  • You see, if i tell you something,
  • 00:18:56.381 --> 00:18:59.718
  • I want to keep my word.
  • 00:18:59.718 --> 00:19:01.386
  • If i tell god something, i certainly wanna keep my word.
  • 00:19:01.386 --> 00:19:06.024
  • It's a vow.
  • 00:19:06.024 --> 00:19:07.559
  • We made a vow when we got married, a vow.
  • 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:11.330
  • We know jonah made a vow at the temple,
  • 00:19:11.330 --> 00:19:14.199
  • "oh, lord, i'll serve you."
  • 00:19:14.199 --> 00:19:16.735
  • But god said, "i've got an assignment for you, jonah.
  • 00:19:16.735 --> 00:19:19.538
  • I want you to go to nineveh."
  • 00:19:19.538 --> 00:19:20.906
  • Jonah says, "i hate those ninevites."
  • 00:19:20.906 --> 00:19:24.876
  • So he runs and heads out for tarshish.
  • 00:19:24.876 --> 00:19:27.379
  • You know the story. he's shipwrecked.
  • 00:19:27.379 --> 00:19:30.382
  • He's thrown over the sea.
  • 00:19:30.382 --> 00:19:31.717
  • He's swallowed by a giant fish, remember?
  • 00:19:31.717 --> 00:19:33.619
  • And he's living in that fish.
  • 00:19:33.619 --> 00:19:35.153
  • And i love this passage.
  • 00:19:35.153 --> 00:19:36.688
  • It says, "he was in the fish three days and three nights,
  • 00:19:36.688 --> 00:19:39.925
  • And then he prayed."
  • 00:19:39.925 --> 00:19:42.227
  • I don't believe it'd have taken me that long.
  • 00:19:42.227 --> 00:19:47.432
  • That's how far he got away.
  • 00:19:47.432 --> 00:19:49.534
  • And his prayer is tremendous, but he ends up by saying,
  • 00:19:49.534 --> 00:19:51.970
  • "i will keep the vow that i made to serve you,
  • 00:19:51.970 --> 00:19:57.342
  • To go where you want me to go."
  • 00:19:57.342 --> 00:19:58.944
  • He ends up in nineveh and has one of the greatest turnings
  • 00:19:58.944 --> 00:20:01.913
  • To god that you see in all of history,
  • 00:20:01.913 --> 00:20:05.984
  • And the sorriest sermon he preached there you've
  • 00:20:05.984 --> 00:20:08.487
  • Ever heard: "repent, or 40 days, you've had it."
  • 00:20:08.487 --> 00:20:11.790
  • I mean, that doesn't have any glamour to it, does it?
  • 00:20:11.790 --> 00:20:13.992
  • But they came to christ, amazing.
  • 00:20:13.992 --> 00:20:18.297
  • Keep your word to god.
  • 00:20:18.297 --> 00:20:20.899
  • You say, "well, god is a god of grace,
  • 00:20:20.899 --> 00:20:23.068
  • A god of forgiveness.
  • 00:20:23.068 --> 00:20:24.469
  • You know, he'll forgive me when i break my word."
  • 00:20:24.469 --> 00:20:26.571
  • Go back to that vow.
  • 00:20:26.571 --> 00:20:28.974
  • Let me tell you something.
  • 00:20:28.974 --> 00:20:30.509
  • God's love and god's grace is not gonna bail us time and time
  • 00:20:30.509 --> 00:20:35.814
  • Again until, first of all, we meet the next thing that we read
  • 00:20:35.814 --> 00:20:41.019
  • Here in our scripture, and that is genuine worship.
  • 00:20:41.019 --> 00:20:43.922
  • It's found in that 7th verse, and it's so clear: "for in many
  • 00:20:43.922 --> 00:20:49.594
  • Dreams and many words there is emptiness."
  • 00:20:49.594 --> 00:20:54.199
  • Worship of fools, forgot who god is.
  • 00:20:54.199 --> 00:20:58.770
  • Worship of fools, many words.
  • 00:20:58.770 --> 00:21:01.540
  • Worship of fools, "i made these vows to god
  • 00:21:01.540 --> 00:21:04.209
  • And i didn't keep them."
  • 00:21:04.209 --> 00:21:05.644
  • But now he said, "let me tell ya how you worship me."
  • 00:21:05.644 --> 00:21:08.780
  • He says, "fear god," "fear god."
  • 00:21:08.780 --> 00:21:17.155
  • Listen, god is holy, ladies and gentlemen.
  • 00:21:17.155 --> 00:21:20.992
  • All this pedestrianism, this, "somebody up there likes me."
  • 00:21:20.992 --> 00:21:26.164
  • "oh, god is so sweet."
  • 00:21:26.164 --> 00:21:28.533
  • And listen, the fear of god is where we begin,
  • 00:21:28.533 --> 00:21:32.337
  • Our awesome god.
  • 00:21:32.337 --> 00:21:33.972
  • He's abba to be sure, but also he is a god
  • 00:21:33.972 --> 00:21:36.875
  • Not to be trifled with.
  • 00:21:36.875 --> 00:21:41.413
  • That's our god.
  • 00:21:41.413 --> 00:21:44.850
  • You read moses there.
  • 00:21:44.850 --> 00:21:47.552
  • He was a shepherd.
  • 00:21:47.552 --> 00:21:48.887
  • He walked by that burning bush.
  • 00:21:48.887 --> 00:21:50.589
  • He said, "there's a bush that's on fire that's not
  • 00:21:50.589 --> 00:21:53.058
  • Being consumed.
  • 00:21:53.058 --> 00:21:54.793
  • I'm going to go over there and see what's happening."
  • 00:21:54.793 --> 00:21:56.795
  • And he went toward the bush and god speaks and says,
  • 00:21:56.795 --> 00:21:59.598
  • "moses, take off your shoes.
  • 00:21:59.598 --> 00:22:04.336
  • You're on holy ground."
  • 00:22:04.336 --> 00:22:07.239
  • And it says that moses hid his face in fear.
  • 00:22:07.239 --> 00:22:13.578
  • It's not a fear of bodily harm, that lightning's gonna
  • 00:22:13.578 --> 00:22:16.882
  • Strike us, but it is a fear of deep conviction
  • 00:22:16.882 --> 00:22:20.852
  • Of where we are with him.
  • 00:22:20.852 --> 00:22:23.388
  • You see, if there's active sin in your life and my life,
  • 00:22:23.388 --> 00:22:26.525
  • You can go to church, give to church, sing, praise,
  • 00:22:26.525 --> 00:22:30.295
  • Solo, preach sermons.
  • 00:22:30.295 --> 00:22:32.264
  • You can do everything in the world,
  • 00:22:32.264 --> 00:22:34.299
  • But god's not gonna deal with you and me
  • 00:22:34.299 --> 00:22:36.635
  • Until we get clean with him.
  • 00:22:36.635 --> 00:22:38.503
  • So it begins so many times with confession and repentance,
  • 00:22:38.503 --> 00:22:41.506
  • Does it not?
  • 00:22:41.506 --> 00:22:42.841
  • Confession and repentance.
  • 00:22:42.841 --> 00:22:45.177
  • The fear of god, that's where we begin,
  • 00:22:45.177 --> 00:22:51.383
  • An awesome god, a loving god, a triumphant god,
  • 00:22:51.383 --> 00:22:54.586
  • A caring god, a god who came down to this earth to meet us
  • 00:22:54.586 --> 00:22:58.290
  • Exactly where we are in jesus christ.
  • 00:22:58.290 --> 00:23:01.026
  • That is the god whom we are to worship.
  • 00:23:01.026 --> 00:23:03.728
  • This is how you worship. this is how you do not worship.
  • 00:23:03.728 --> 00:23:07.399
  • You begin with the fear, the reverence to a holy god.
  • 00:23:07.399 --> 00:23:14.339
  • The word "fan" in the original latin means,
  • 00:23:14.339 --> 00:23:17.609
  • "passionate devotion to god."
  • 00:23:17.609 --> 00:23:23.882
  • Isn't that something?
  • 00:23:23.882 --> 00:23:25.951
  • A fan, passionately devoted to god.
  • 00:23:25.951 --> 00:23:32.057
  • And that's what we are to become as worshipers.
  • 00:23:32.057 --> 00:23:36.261
  • We're to be fans of god, celebrate him, love him,
  • 00:23:36.261 --> 00:23:40.832
  • Listen to him.
  • 00:23:40.832 --> 00:23:42.701
  • Don't offer the sacrifice, the worship of fools,
  • 00:23:42.701 --> 00:23:46.304
  • But go to him in openness and let him touch and deal
  • 00:23:46.304 --> 00:23:50.775
  • And lead and heal and forgive.
  • 00:23:50.775 --> 00:23:52.844
  • We are to be fans of him.
  • 00:23:52.844 --> 00:23:55.113
  • And what the bottom line here is,
  • 00:23:55.113 --> 00:23:57.349
  • How are we to worship him?
  • 00:23:57.349 --> 00:23:59.184
  • Wholeheartedly, wholeheartedly, we're to love the lord our god
  • 00:23:59.184 --> 00:24:07.292
  • With all our strength, with all of our power,
  • 00:24:07.292 --> 00:24:09.961
  • With all of our might, with our mind, with our souls,
  • 00:24:09.961 --> 00:24:14.132
  • With the whole shootin' match of your life and my life,
  • 00:24:14.132 --> 00:24:17.636
  • Wholeheartedly.
  • 00:24:17.636 --> 00:24:21.373
  • How do you land this plane?
  • 00:24:21.373 --> 00:24:25.443
  • I think we land it in a psalm that pretty well sums
  • 00:24:25.443 --> 00:24:29.247
  • All of this up, the 100th psalm: "make a joyful noise
  • 00:24:29.247 --> 00:24:35.387
  • Unto the lord all ye lands.
  • 00:24:35.387 --> 00:24:37.956
  • Serve the lord with gladness.
  • 00:24:37.956 --> 00:24:40.025
  • Come before his presence with singing.
  • 00:24:40.025 --> 00:24:41.960
  • Know ye that the lord, he is god.
  • 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:44.195
  • It is he that hath made us and not we ourselves.
  • 00:24:44.195 --> 00:24:47.365
  • We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
  • 00:24:47.365 --> 00:24:50.468
  • Enter into his gates," come into church,
  • 00:24:50.468 --> 00:24:54.105
  • "with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise.
  • 00:24:54.105 --> 00:24:56.341
  • Be thankful unto him and bless his name,
  • 00:24:56.341 --> 00:25:00.612
  • For the lord is good.
  • 00:25:00.612 --> 00:25:02.981
  • His mercy is everlasting, and his truth endureth
  • 00:25:02.981 --> 00:25:08.653
  • To all generations."
  • 00:25:08.653 --> 00:25:12.290
  • That is wholehearted worship, and it sums up these verses
  • 00:25:12.290 --> 00:25:18.763
  • As well as they can be summed up.
  • 00:25:18.763 --> 00:25:21.733
  • Let me tell you something, ladies and gentlemen.
  • 00:25:21.733 --> 00:25:23.835
  • We learn to worship like that, just a little bit of that,
  • 00:25:23.835 --> 00:25:29.941
  • Wholehearted worship as fans of the lord god almighty,
  • 00:25:29.941 --> 00:25:34.813
  • It will absolutely change our lives.
  • 00:25:34.813 --> 00:25:41.353
  • Ed: there's never been a better time than right
  • 00:25:44.189 --> 00:25:46.825
  • Now to make god a priority in your life.
  • 00:25:46.825 --> 00:25:50.195
  • That's why we've created this 90 day devotional,
  • 00:25:50.195 --> 00:25:53.932
  • "putting god first," number one.
  • 00:25:53.932 --> 00:25:56.334
  • And when you and i do that, he is faithful to give the
  • 00:25:56.334 --> 00:25:59.771
  • Direction of guidance you and i need every day
  • 00:25:59.771 --> 00:26:02.874
  • To walk through life.
  • 00:26:02.874 --> 00:26:04.876
  • It is my prayer that this devotional will help you to
  • 00:26:04.876 --> 00:26:07.579
  • Become all that god has designed you to become.
  • 00:26:07.579 --> 00:26:11.950
  • Male announcer: call today or go online at winningwalk.org to get
  • 00:26:12.017 --> 00:26:15.820
  • Your copy of dr. young's 90 day devotional "putting god first."
  • 00:26:15.820 --> 00:26:20.692
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:26:23.995 --> 00:26:33.938
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:26:33.938 --> 00:26:37.208
  • Ed: what is the number-one priority in your life?
  • 00:26:37.208 --> 00:26:40.378
  • It's what you worship, that's it.
  • 00:26:40.378 --> 00:26:42.547
  • It's god's desire for us to worship him.
  • 00:26:42.547 --> 00:26:45.350
  • He has created us for that very purpose.
  • 00:26:45.350 --> 00:26:48.953
  • When we come into his presence with a sense of expectancy,
  • 00:26:48.953 --> 00:26:53.324
  • He transforms our lives and we'll never be the same.
  • 00:26:53.324 --> 00:26:57.762
  • Question, do you need this kind of transformation in your life?
  • 00:26:57.762 --> 00:27:02.567
  • Call the number on your screen.
  • 00:27:02.567 --> 00:27:04.469
  • We would love to speak with you and help you start a personal
  • 00:27:04.469 --> 00:27:08.006
  • Relationship with god, and let me thank you for watching today
  • 00:27:08.006 --> 00:27:11.643
  • As we take another step in the winning walk.
  • 00:27:11.643 --> 00:27:16.014
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:27:18.016 --> 00:27:29.928