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April 27, 2025 | S25:E100

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Foundation | April 27, 2025

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Dr. ed young: north carolina has the greatest variety of trees
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Than any other state in the union.
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They have every variety of oak, white oak, black oak, blackjack
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Oak, water oak.
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They have sassafras trees, they have beach, they have all kinds
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Of trees, and in the fall, ladies and gentlemen, in the
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Fall, about 5.2 million people go to north carolina to see the
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Fabulous trees that are there.
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Nothing else like it in america, until 2015.
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A hurricane called irene hit the coast, 125-mile-an-hour wind,
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But what happened also, more than anytime we know in history,
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The salt water went way inland, and it got down underground, and
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Got down in the roots of this beautiful, beautiful forest.
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And now you have what they call, nasa, that's recently
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Photographed it, a ghost forest.
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A ghost forest, 21,000 acres, dead trees,
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Gray, white.
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The beautiful, beautiful forest was gone.
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That's what is happening in the united states today.
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We have a hurricane flowing through our land, and just like
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That salt water began to hurt the very roots of north
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Carolina, we're seeing today the basic fundamental principles
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Upon which our nation was built, the constitution, the bylaws,
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The freedoms, being totally thrown aside.
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It seems like increasingly every day, every day, as the alien
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Poison begins to destroy the foundation of our land.
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Also what's happening in the west in different areas,
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According to nasa photos.
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The plates, the tectonic plates are beginning to move, and they
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Also move underneath, and it destroys, it kills that which is
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Above it.
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So, we see a hurricane sweeping through our land by any honest,
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Open, objective, observation.
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I tragically pray that there'll be a reversal, a revival, a
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Coming to god, and coming christ all across the board, from
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Washington, to seattle, to portland, to new orleans, to las
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Vegas, to houston.
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That's the only hope we have, ladies and gentlemen.
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And in the situation in corinth, the apostle paul sees what is
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Happening in the culture of corinth.
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And the culture of corinth had bled over with its salt water,
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And all of a sudden, the church was becoming more like the
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Culture than the culture was becoming like the church.
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And folks, we must not let that happen in the body of christ,
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Because the deadly poison will come in and destroy the
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Foundation upon which we stand.
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Paul speaks to this and says, well, what do god-fearing people
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Do in this s.o.s.
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Moment in the history of corinth?
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It applies what we are to do in this s.o.s.
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Moment in the united states of america.
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Here's what paul said to do.
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He starts off, "we have the mind of christ."
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Woah, did you get that?
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Now, paul is about to deal with deep, moral questions in the
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Life of the people who were in the church at corinth.
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He is going to come at them as clear as zigzagged lightning,
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Naming people, chapter, verse, with how low the church had sunk
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And moved away from their christian moorings.
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He's going to deal with it, but first of all, he does
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Something else.
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He says i want you to remember who you are, and i want you to
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Remember what you have.
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And that's where we have to start.
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Before we get all out into super-negativity, let's as
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Christians, remember who we are, and remember what we have.
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And paul says you've got the mind of christ.
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Listen, these are--we dealt with this in chapter
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1 and chapter 2.
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He ends up--we've got the mind
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Of christ, gosh, if you and i have the mind
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Of christ, and we're christians, that's really something.
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But having the mind of christ and using and developing the
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Mind and the mentality of christ is two different things,
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Is it not?
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Having the mind of christ means that as christians, we have
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Great potential.
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Potential means you haven't done it yet.
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That's what potential--oh, they've got great potential.
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Okay, let's see some of it.
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We can have the mind of christ and not trigger that mind in.
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We'll discover through the power of the holy spirit, when they
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Said you have the mind of christ.
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So, paul is really challenging and thrilling the church, before
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He gets down to deal with deep, deep moral problems in
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The church.
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And those moral problems came from the culture in which the
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Church found itself, sound familiar?
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So, you have the mind of christ.
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Chapter 3 he says, "and i brethren," brothers and sisters,
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"could not speak to you as spiritual men, but as to men of
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Flesh, as to infants in christ."
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He said, "i gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for
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You're not able to receive it."
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What's paul saying?
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Let's go back and understand this, it's important.
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There's three words translated flesh or fleshly there in these
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First verses.
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Paul is saying you were flesh, that means you're human, and i
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Came to you, and i fed you milk.
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That's what we feed the babies, okay?
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We feed milk, and what was milk?
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Milk was simply christ came and died for your sin,
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That's milk, that's salvation.
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That's the first step.
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That's receiving christ, praying the prayer.
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My savior, that's milk.
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But he says i want to feed you meat, but you're still like a
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Natural person, like someone who has never known christ, that's
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The way you're living.
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But i fed you milk then, but four-plus years have gone by.
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He's writing back to the church.
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He said you still on a milk basis, and that means christ
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Saved us in a situation where he died for our sins, meat would be
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I saved you from your sin.
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Follow me, very subtle, listen.
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Milk, salvation, i died for your sin.
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Meat, now you begin to move from your sin.
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The sin appetite is taken away, you're grown up.
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See the difference?
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They're still in kindergarten, and they need to move on up
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Through adolescence and become mature.
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But they've stayed right there all this time.
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And then he goes on and talks about meat.
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He said, "i gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for you
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Were not yet able to receive it," babies aren't.
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"and even today you are not able."
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He said, "you are still fleshly."
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Another greek word is used.
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How do you know you're fleshly?
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There is jealousy, there is strife, and you are fleshly, and
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There's division.
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And when he says, "i am of paul and another, i'm of apollos, are
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You not like normal men?"
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And he says, what then is apollos?"
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Verse 5, "and what is paul?
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Servants through whom you believed, even as the lord gave
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Opportunity to each one."
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What's this all about?
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He's saying you're still children, and you should
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Grow up.
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The proof that you're still children is all the debating,
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The jealousy, the fraction.
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"oh, i like paul," and maybe paul, remember, maybe paul was a
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Roman, maybe he had a different color skin, you think?
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And then peter, another one of their heroes, maybe he was
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Jewish, you would think a different color, maybe skin, and
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Background, and language, and he said here's somebody else.
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Here's apollos, he was egyptian, and he's saying you're
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Still partial.
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You've divided the church into groups.
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I like this one, i like that one, and he says no, this is not
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How the church operates, and we'll see that.
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So, we understand where we are.
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We have the mind of christ, potential, but we still in the
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Low, low levels.
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We've just come to christ, we haven't matured and grown up in
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Our faith, in our walk with the lord, and we stay back here.
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And paul said you need to be up here, and i proved to you that
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You're still a child, because you're divided, you're jealous,
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And there's strife among you.
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That's the beginning.
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And then paul does something, speaking to the church there,
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And he's speaking to all of us, so we can get it.
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We see pictures, you know, jesus taught in parables.
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He would tell a story, and it would illustrate a
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Profound truth.
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That was his primary method of teaching, was it not?
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And so, jesus said i want to tell you a story, and then paul
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Uses the same picture here.
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Not in parable, but he does it with a metaphor.
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A metaphor means this is like that, so we'd get it.
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This is like that.
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And now he's tellin' that church, as he's telling us in
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The 21st century, you know who you are?
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He told him what they had, the mind of christ.
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He said now i'm gonna tell you who you are.
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And look at these verses, look at verse 6.
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He said, "i planted,
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Apollos watered, but god was calling the growth.
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So then neither the one who plants, nor the one who waters
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Is anything but god who causes the growth.
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Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each will
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Receive his own reward according to his own labor.
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For we are god's fellow workers."
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He's saying all of you in the church, you're god's field.
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You're god's field.
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And he said.
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Paul said, i came along, and i planted the truth of god,
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The good news.
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He said apollos came along, he watered.
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He watered the field, you and i, challenged to grow up.
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And paul is saying look, it doesn't matter who plants and
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Who waters, it is god who caused the growth, the maturity.
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It's god who's behind all this.
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A seed is--the word of god is planted there, but god takes and
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Explodes it.
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So we're god's field.
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I thought about the parable in matthew 13, remember?
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Jesus got out of a boat, and he looked up in the side of the
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Mountain, and he saw, i'm sure, somebody sowing seed.
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And jesus looked up there, and said scattering seed, and that's
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The seed of truth, what happens to the seed?
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He said some of it falls in the road.
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He said in the road, that's people who don't get it.
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Ever talk to somebody, you talk about god, christ, church, and
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They don't get it?
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They just miss it.
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It's blurred out.
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They don't want any part of it, not interested, boring, silly,
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Crazy, ridiculous.
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Then they'll tell you, "well, i know somebody who was a
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Christian," i mean, it's ridiculous, it's like the road.
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The truth is just stamped out.
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It's not interested. it doesn't apply.
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Don't understand it.
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He said you sow other seed out there, it falls on stones,
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Stony ground.
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What kinda happens that when the truth comes to somebody?
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We've seen it.
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Here is a rock, it's covered by soil, and somebody comes to
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Christ, man, i have a new life, a new beginning.
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I'm forgiven, i'm excited about god, and christ, church, and
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They're running around here on fire for god.
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And we say isn't this wonderful?
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But the roots of their profession hit the rock, they
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Just flame out, burn up, lose their passion.
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And here, paul is saying that happens to us.
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We get excited and, bang, shallow, doesn't grow down
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Anywhere, rocky soil.
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Then he said there's another thing, the truth of god goes
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Out, and the word goes into thorns.
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You know, kind of thorns.
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And the truth of god doesn't grow up and alive like that,
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Because those thorns--we're so wrapped up in the world.
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I've seen a lot of people come to christ, and couples, and they
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Have children, and unfortunately, become
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Successful, which is a tragic thing in a lot of lives.
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And then they get involved in this, and that, and travel, and
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Activities, and games, and sports, and education, and all
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The homecoming of all the colleges and universities,
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And -- and all of a sudden, all the concerns of life, looking
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After all the stuff that surrounds you and surrounds me,
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And it's thorny ground.
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And the word of god never develops and permeates all those
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Aspects of life, see?
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But then he says there's the fourth kind of ground.
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And by the way, all of us could mostly identify with those
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Three, pretty much.
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But he said when the word of god and truth comes into a life, and
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They receive christ, and that ground is fertile, it is
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Watered, and it grows, and you see matured.
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In other words, about one fourth, right,
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25% make it, right?
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Really understand it and rejoice in it.
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What paul is saying, he said we're all god's field.
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We're god's garden.
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It's an agricultural picture.
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What happens to the truth of god when it comes to your life and
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My life?
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That's the bottom line.
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And then he goes on and gives us another metaphor, and
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It's beautiful.
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He said we're not only god's field, but let me tell you what
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Else we are.
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Look at it there in chapter 3 of 1 corinthians.
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He says we're god's building.
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Not only a field, we're a building.
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He said, "according to the grace of god which was given to me,
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Like a wise master builder," he said, "i laid the foundation,
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And another is building on it.
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For each man must be careful how he builds on it.
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No man can lay a foundation other than the one which is
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Laid, which is christ jesus."
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In other words, we can say jesus is our foundation, okay?
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It's that rock upon we stand.
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What is that foundation?
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It is on jesus christ.
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And jesus christ, if we are on his foundation, really you know
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What that means?
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Everything in your life and my life runs through the grid, the
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Grid of jesus.
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We've got the mind of christ.
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We can develop and began to think about eternal things, and
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It spills over into our practical life, and we're on
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That foundation, and everything, the grid, goes through
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Jesus christ.
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That's the foundation.
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And then paul just says here's the foundation, it's
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Jesus christ.
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He said, "now if any man builds on the foundation with gold,
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Silver, precious stones, or wood, or hay, or stubble," he
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Says, "each man's work," verse 13, "will become evident.
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For the day will show it, because it is to be revealed by
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Fire, and the fire itself would test the quality of each
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Person's work.
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If any man's work which had been built on it remains, he will
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Receive a reward."
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What's this all about?
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So here we are, we receive christ, we make christ the grid
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Of our life, it is our foundation, and then the
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Foundation is important, isn't it?
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But what's more important?
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What do you put on top of that foundation?
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That's you, and that's me.
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What kind of materials do we use?
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The foundation determines how high the building can go.
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A foundation on jesus christ, man, that building can go
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All the way to heaven, right?
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So, you've got a foundation for really a life that means
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Something, and you put a chicken coop on top of it.
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What's gonna last?
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Gold, silver, precious stones, what is gold, silver, precious?
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I don't know.
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That's what's gonna last forever.
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We leave this earth, what's gonna last?
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When we graduate, what's gonna be there?
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Gold, silver, precious stones, gold.
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I thought of the golden rule, many things.
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Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you.
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Christ gives us the power to do that, and that's gold, isn't it?
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That's going to be here after we leave this earth.
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What does that really mean, the golden rule?
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It means whatever you need, that's what you give.
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I need somebody to comfort me, comfort somebody.
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I need somebody to listen to me, listen to somebody.
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I need somebody to care for me, care for somebody.
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What you need is that what you give.
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Bread on the water, works every time.
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So, thats gold, that's gonna last as we leave this earth,
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With the practice of the golden rule.
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What is silver?
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By the way, silver is a valuable commodity.
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Silver reflects light better than anything i know.
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Silver is a conductor of power, of energy.
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So, if we reflect something of the image of christ as he is
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Building in us to other people, that's the silver, isn't it?
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And that silver, it conducts the life, the mentality of christ
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To others.
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That silver, that's gonna last.
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And what about precious stones?
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Put precious stones in fire, what happens to a diamond?
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It gets brighter, anything that's on it.
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True of most precious stone, emerald, sapphire, my goodness,
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They just catch fire.
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When the fire goes out, it enhanced, they stand.
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That's what's gonna be here, these intangible things, as we
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Leave this earth.
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But what's gonna be burned up?
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The wood that we build on top of our life.
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What would be wood?
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I looked up the word "wood" there, it had to do with
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A stock.
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It's the kind of wood, you know, you put your head in,
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You're bound.
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I think a lot of people in the church live their life on the
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Basis christianity is all of this that i do not do.
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I don't do this, don't do that, don't do that, don't do this,
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And that defines christianity, that's wood.
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Silly, not biblical.
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And then what is the hay?
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Wood, hay, hay is what you would take, and you would fill in
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Cracks, wouldn't ya?
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You know, if you got a crack you can take some hay, put some mud
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With it, fill in the the crack.
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It worked for a while, it's temporary, and keeps the cold
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And the wind out, hay.
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What happens when fire comes to hay?
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It burns up.
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We fill in the cracks.
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I've got a problem in my life, and we put a band-aid on it.
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It's not healed before god in his grace.
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We put a band-aid on it, it burns up.
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What about stubble that's there?
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Wood, hay, stubble, that's something else, another kind
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Of hey.
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You get in a barn, and we have somebody here who cleans a horse
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Barn every morning, i'm looking at them.
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And when you clean it all up, there still are stench, so you
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May put some hay down to cover it up, right?
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Bring a little better order in there, right?
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But when fire comes, the hay burns up, the stubble burns up,
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The wood burns up.
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It doesn't last, that's temporary, panacea kind of
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Things we do, even in our christian life.
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And he says you go to heaven, but it's such as by fire, by the
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Hair of your chinny, chin, chin, using biblical terminology.
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And then he says not only are you these two things, you're
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God's building, you're god's field, he says an amazing
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Thing here.
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Verse 16, "do you not know that you are a temple of god, that
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The spirit of god dwells in you?
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And if any man destroys the temple of god, god will
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Destroy him.
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For the temple of god is holy, and that is what you are."
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We are the very temple of god, and the picture there is in the
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Holy of holies in the synagogue, where the shekinah dwells.
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When we receive christ, now that spirit, which everybody has, is
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Invaded by christ and the holy spirit, and now there's the holy
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Spirit indwelling in you and in me, and that's the part, as we
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Grow and mature in our faith, because we're on
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That foundation.
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So, there is that spiritual part that is renewed, and that is the
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Soul that will last forever.
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This body won't, but thank god we'll get a brand new,
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Resurrected body, the prototype is the resurrected body of
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Jesus christ.
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And our soul will reside there forever, because we've received
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Christ, and he's redeemed us, and he's taken that human
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Spirit, and he's made it into a sanctuary, a temple for
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God almighty.
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See, paul is telling them this is what you have, and this is
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Who you are.
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And then he moves on and he does a very fabulous thing here at
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The end.
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And i'll skip over some verses.
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In verse 30, he said, "the lord knows the reasoning of the wise,
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That they're useless.
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But let no man boast for," look at verse 21, chapter 3.
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Paul says, "for all things belong to you.
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Whether paul, or apollos, or cephas, or the world, or life,
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Or death, or things present, or things to come.
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All things belong to you, because you belong to christ,
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And christ belongs to god."
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Do you need anything?
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This whole thing belongs to you.
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I can go to a mountain in colorado and look over there,
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And i don't own a foot of dirt in colorado, but i look out
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There and say, "look at the beauty.
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Man, that belongs to me.
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That belongs to me."
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Oh, it belongs to you.
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The present, the future, it's all ours in christ, because we
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Belong to christ, and christ belongs to god.
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What an inheritance we have.
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Therefore in the church, as the culture begins to bleed into
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Much of the church, paul said to corinth this is what you do,
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This is how you live, and god's saying the same thing to all of
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Us right now in this moment of his history.
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Male announcer: trials are woven into the very fabric of life.
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When we least expect it, storms can come and turn our lives
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Upside down, they can come crashing like waves on our
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Finances, our health, and our relationships.
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So how do we weather these storms and turn the trials
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Of life into triumphs?
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In his booklet, "hope in the storms of life,"
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Dr. ed young looks at how the apostle paul, though beaten,
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Robbed and shipwrecked, found great joy in life, a joy that
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Our heavenly father wants to fill your life.
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Ed: you and i have a problem.
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It's a sin problem.
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When adam sinned in the garden of eden, his spirit became
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Filled with the poison of sin.
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And it continues to operate in your life and my life today.
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You see, we are natural-born sinners, but when we confess our
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Sin, and turn from it, and receive jesus christ,
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What happens?
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The holy spirit lives in us, and we begin to mature in our faith.
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We grow up.
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This is the process of sanctification, maturity,
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Growing up in christ, and seeing our lives bear fruit for god and
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For his kingdom.
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We want to help you experience this kind of victorious living
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In your own life.
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Time together next time on the "winning walk."
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Ed Young - The Foundation

April 27, 2025 | S25:E100

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