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Ed Young - Giving Hope To The Hopeless

December 8, 2024 | S24:E50

Ed Young - Giving Hope To The Hopeless
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.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Giving Hope To The Hopeless | December 8, 2024
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  • Dr. ed young: "it was the best of times;
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  • It was the worst of times.
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  • It was the age of wisdom; it was the age of foolishness.
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  • It was the season of light; it was the season of darkness.
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  • It was the spring of hope; it was the winter of despair.
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  • We had everything before us; we have nothing before us.
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  • We were all going to heaven-no; we were all going the other way,
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  • To hell."
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  • Heh, heh..
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  • Opening words of charles dickens, a tale of two cities...
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  • One city was paris.
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  • They had a revolution.
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  • Heads were cut off.
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  • There was division.
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  • There was war.
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  • There was violence.
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  • There was all kinds of corruption exploding in
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  • Paris that spilled off into france.
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  • It was the darkest of hours.
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  • The other city in the second part of the tale was london.
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  • Not perfect, but they had a spirit of christ, and god,
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  • And redemption, and hope in the lives of the people.
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  • So there's two different cities,
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  • And there's a tale of two different cities...
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  • We live in a city-metropolitan houston, texas.
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  • My, what a city, what a moment
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  • In which for you and i to be alive!
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  • Various cities in the history of mankind-perhaps no city
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  • Before has been so privileged and blessed
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  • As we are now in houston.
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  • Look at where we are in houston: houston has the number one
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  • Wealthiest zip code in texas, with a medium income,
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  • Average income $240,151.00 per person.
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  • Houston area housing, start rates climb to $28,990
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  • This year, showing growth for the last eight quarters.
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  • Forbes magazine says houston is the top big city where
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  • Self-employment opportunity is growing the fastest.
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  • This fall, forbes magazine declared
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  • Houston the best city for jobs.
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  • Houston has the most college graduates
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  • Over age 25 per capita.
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  • This is the best, best one: u-haul declares houston
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  • As the number one destination for relocation moves!
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  • (audience laughs)
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  • And last but not least, forbes declared houston among
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  • The top "coolest" cities to thrive in america!
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  • We've got the "cool" factor, ladies and gentlemen!
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  • (audience whoops and applauds)
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  • A tale of two cities.
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  • That's one city.
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  • Urban houston, metropolitan houston, downtown, midtown,
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  • Suburban areas of houston.
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  • That's one city.
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  • But we've got another city.
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  • We've got the inner city...
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  • Oh yeah.
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  • The inner city.
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  • Well, we know about, we heard about it.
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  • Used to been there, and we had a flight from the inner city.
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  • We call it "white flight"-oh no.
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  • It's white flight; it's black flight; it's brown flight.
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  • Anybody who's in the inner city,
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  • They fly out as soon as they can get out.
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  • It's flight by all.
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  • Flight, leaving behind blight.
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  • Let's look right here-let's look in harris county.
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  • That's the best way to look at it.
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  • Fatherless cast a shadow of fear-343,647 out of
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  • 1,184,988 children in harris county live with single mothers.
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  • Did you get that?
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  • Single mothers.
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  • Poverty casts a shadow of fear; 802,318 out of 4,336,853--
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  • That's the population of harris county-people in harris county
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  • Live below the poverty line, one out of four.
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  • Broken educational system; lack of knowledge casts
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  • A shadow of fear.
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  • Almost 1,910,739 adults, residents can't read!
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  • One out of every four adults in our area cannot read!
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  • Did you get that?
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  • Abuse and neglect cast a shadow of fear;
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  • 25,438 child abuse and neglect reports filed in harris county.
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  • 19,834 are-listen to this-78% of the perpetrators are parents.
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  • 18,053 or 71% of these parents were unmarried;
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  • 52% of victims were female, ages 1 to 3.
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  • Gang rule cast a shadow of fear; 41,000 registered gang members
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  • We know about-there are others we know about in houston.
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  • Gangs are connected, of course, to the drug trade.
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  • We could go on and on, because there's a tale of two cities!
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  • In every city in america, there's a tale of two cities.
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  • And therefore, here is illiteracy, illegitimacy,
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  • Immorality, depression, despondency,
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  • Fear, and finally, there's hopelessness.
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  • Hopelessness in the inner city,
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  • And a helplessness in the inner city, and it's stacked up
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  • Generation, after generation, after generation.
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  • And you got two extremes.
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  • You got one extreme that says, "let's throw more money at
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  • Those people, and let's just throw more money!"
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  • The other extreme says, "let's take all the money away!
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  • Let 'em go to work!"
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  • You got a problem...
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  • Most of them have a felon among the males there,
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  • And they can't get a job because they have a record.
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  • Two extremes: take away all the money.
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  • Throw 'em more money!
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  • Both are radically wrong.
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  • Now, what are we to do?
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  • Two cities-a tale of two cities right here-right here where
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  • We live, right here in the cities around the world.
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  • A tale of two cities.
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  • Some people just say, "ohhh, just give up!
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  • You know, you're...
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  • It's not a hope..."
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  • Let me tell you something,
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  • What we've got a christian people, folks.
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  • First of all, we have the commands of god, and we have the
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  • Promises of god, and in light of that, without the communication
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  • Of god, let me tell you-there are some redemptive answers.
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  • Now, let's start right here!
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  • Good place to start with the book, is it not?
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  • The book always gets us in tr-gets me in trouble.
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  • If it doesn't get you in trouble,
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  • You're not reading it properly.
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  • (audience laughs)
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  • Chapter 15.
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  • The bible says, "now we who are strong..."
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  • That's all of us here.
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  • We're in urban america.
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  • We're the top side.
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  • We're the strong. oh yeah!
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  • Every one of us, we're the strong.
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  • "...ought to bear the weakness of those without strength,
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  • And not just please ourselves..."
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  • The strong are to bear the weakness of the weak.
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  • That's a good place to start.
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  • What else would...?
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  • "each of us is to please his neighbor for
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  • His good to his edification."
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  • We're not to please ourself.
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  • We are to please the weak to his edification.
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  • Edification means that they are to be edified
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  • And they're edified when you and i are educated.
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  • We begin to understand; then we can build up.
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  • "well, i understand it..."
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  • Just hold on!
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  • I thought i did, too, but i can tell you,
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  • I understand it better. edification.
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  • We're not just to please ourselves.
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  • Uh, you're not gonna find your life by just serving your life.
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  • Edification.
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  • We're to be a part of the edification process
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  • Of the weak-of the weak.
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  • Verse 3: "for even christ did not please himself, for as it is
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  • Written, the approaches of those who reproached you fell on me."
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  • We are to identify with this.
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  • "boy, if i were in the inner city..."
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  • Let me tell you something: a few escape,
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  • But a precious, precious few escape.
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  • If you're in that inner city and i were in the inner city,
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  • Let me tell you -there's oppression;
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  • There's generation, after generation, after generation.
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  • There is no easy way out of the trap;
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  • No easy way out of the trap.
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  • Let me tell you that.
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  • We've got to identify. put on those shoes for a while.
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  • Go down and look walk around.
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  • Different universe...
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  • Verse 4: "for whatever was written in earlier times was
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  • Written for our instruction so that perseverance and the
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  • Encouragement of the scriptures, we might have hope, that may the
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  • God who gives you and me perseverance and encouragement
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  • Grant to you of the same mind of christ,
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  • That according to jesus christ."
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  • We've been given perseverance and encouragement.
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  • We're to go and give perseverance and
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  • Encouragement to the weak!
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  • Tale of two cities.
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  • One city-"oh, ho!
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  • Man, eh, eh, eh!"
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  • There is that other city...
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  • "oh, housing, you can't property
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  • -it's so expensive around here.
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  • Let me take you some places in that second city.
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  • You can buy all the property you want, and houses you want for
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  • Miles, and miles, and miles, and apartments you want for miles,
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  • And miles, and miles.
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  • A tale of two cities...
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  • Then what else?
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  • Verse 7: "therefore, accept one another just as christ
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  • Also accepted us to the glory of god."
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  • We were accepted; we are accepted him.
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  • And he goes on to say, "jesus was a servant of the jews
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  • And a servant of the gentiles."
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  • That's verse 8 all the way through verse 12.
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  • Now verse 13 says that, "may the god of hope fill you with
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  • All joy and peace, believing so that-we read it-you will abound
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  • In the hope by the power of the holy spirit."
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  • So you say, "how in the world can i accept this?
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  • How in the world can i bear the burden of the weak"?
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  • We can do it on the basis of love.
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  • About 30 years ago now, three or four of the guys in the church
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  • Took me down to the then the toyota center to see
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  • A closed-circuit prize fight.
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  • I don't remember who was fighting.
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  • I don't know whether it was foreman, or frazier, or ali,
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  • Or sugar ray-i don't know who was there, but boy,
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  • We were fired up!
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  • We went to this fight, big ole screen.
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  • I'd never seen anything-man, it was packed!
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  • Man, there was frrrrrr! man, it-i liked it!
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  • Oh, ho! goodness!
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  • It was so good!
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  • So when the fight was over, i was walking down some steps, and
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  • I was showing them with my great knowledge of boxing.
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  • You know-ehhhhhhhh-i had my hands up.
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  • We were talking, walking in the crowd, and i was showing
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  • Ehhhhhhhh, and, and so, coming up the steps was another man.
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  • He was a 18 year old kid then.
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  • I didn't know him-african american, and, and i looked over
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  • There, and he was showing his friends the same thing...
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  • Ehhhhh....
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  • So we got down to the bottom.
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  • We just never met each other-we just got down and we laughed,
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  • And i was doing like this...
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  • He started laughing. he says, "who are you"?
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  • I said, "i'm ed young. who are you"?
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  • "i'm james dixon."
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  • And, it, he, he's an 18 year old kid who happened to be a pastor.
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  • His dad was a pastor.
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  • His grandfather was a pastor, and his father was a pastor.
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  • He was beginning a little church there...
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  • And so we laughed and talked.
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  • I got to know him, and uh, time went by, and he started, he came
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  • Up to our church at woodway, and i showed him around,
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  • And he-"oh...."
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  • And he started to come up there and park his car at night
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  • And just pray in our parking lot.
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  • Praying the lord would give him a vision to build
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  • A church there in the inner city.
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  • I've kept up with james casually through the years.
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  • Now he has the title of bishop.
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  • He's got a big church down there in the inner city.
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  • I called him and talked awhile, and i told him my burden.
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  • I said, "we live in two cities."
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  • I said, "i need to know more about,
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  • Not like i hadn't been there.
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  • I didn't go when we'd things, etc..
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  • But you know...
  • 00:13:43.469 --> 00:13:44.937
  • I said, "i really want to know,
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  • Are there any answers here, what's going on"?
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  • And he's told me this story.
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  • He said, "last saturday, we had some ministry going on down
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  • There in one of the toughest areas in anywhere around here,"
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  • And i'll not identify it, purposely so.
  • 00:14:00.386 --> 00:14:03.255
  • "and they're just miles and miles of, of slum rooms,
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  • Apartments-couple of stories high."
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  • He said "we go down there as a church and do ministry
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  • And try to help these.
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  • Most of these are single mothers
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  • -birth mothers with multiple kids.
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  • Many times, don't even know who the fathers were..."
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  • And he said, "we were doing ministry there with them."
  • 00:14:21.674 --> 00:14:23.909
  • He said, "i was sitting outside, kind of steering all our teams
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  • As he went into all these areas..."
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  • And he said, "then here comes the ice cream truck, saturday.
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  • And it comes down the street, and there's that music--
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  • Do, do, tootle toot!
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  • Do, do, tootle toot! do, do, tootle toot tooo!
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  • Do, do, too..."
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  • He said, "not a kid came out."
  • 00:14:42.628 --> 00:14:44.663
  • He said, "i knew there were hundreds and hundreds of kids.
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  • It's miles of these slums..."
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  • Do, do, tootle, toot!
  • 00:14:49.435 --> 00:14:51.070
  • And the ice cream truck comes by-"do, do, too..."
  • 00:14:51.070 --> 00:14:53.706
  • Good weather "do, do, tootle toot.
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  • Do, do, tootle toot, do, do...no kid came out."
  • 00:14:56.342 --> 00:14:58.777
  • He said, "i sat there wondering what in the world"?
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  • Do, do, tootle toot, do, do tootle toot.
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  • He said, "the ice cream truck went on through.
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  • Not a kid came out."
  • 00:15:05.250 --> 00:15:08.120
  • He said, "i wondered why"?
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  • Then he said, "i realized they didn't have enough money
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  • To buy a popsicle -not a one of them.
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  • Not this area.
  • 00:15:18.063 --> 00:15:20.332
  • And he said, "i went and ran down that ice cream truck.
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  • I said, 'come on back...'" do, do, tootle toot!
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  • Do, do, tootle toot! do, do, tootle toot do!
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  • Said the truck came back.
  • 00:15:28.173 --> 00:15:29.508
  • Said an hispanic man and his son were in truck.
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  • He said, "park right here.
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  • I'm gonna buy ice cream for any kid that wants any."
  • 00:15:36.548 --> 00:15:40.119
  • He said, "i sent my guys up there and said first two or
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  • Three kids came-four or five kids came-seven, eight kids."
  • 00:15:42.354 --> 00:15:45.624
  • He said, "there's a long line of kids there."
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  • He said, "but they came out from anywhere from 4 to 5,
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  • Even up to 16 or 17."
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  • He said, "they all had their heads down."
  • 00:15:57.002 --> 00:16:00.973
  • He said, "they came up there to the little gate, the truck and
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  • They'd say, 'what do you want'?
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  • And they would point to one of the ice creams-tootie fruity,
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  • Whatever..."
  • 00:16:13.619 --> 00:16:16.688
  • And he said, "then they would look out and say, 'oh yeah...'
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  • And they would order it."
  • 00:16:18.657 --> 00:16:19.992
  • And he said, "i would pay for it."
  • 00:16:19.992 --> 00:16:22.094
  • He said, "then i realized every one came with their head down
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  • And," he said, "i went over there and said,
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  • 'hold your head up.
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  • Hold your head up!
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  • Look up there and read what you want and tell the man, and..."
  • 00:16:30.369 --> 00:16:34.440
  • He said a lot of them couldn't read
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  • -6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12-couldn't read.
  • 00:16:40.979 --> 00:16:43.549
  • He said those that could read,
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  • They were hard to hold their head up.
  • 00:16:44.950 --> 00:16:49.988
  • And he said, "i bought ice cream,
  • 00:16:49.988 --> 00:16:52.791
  • And i bought ice cream..."
  • 00:16:52.791 --> 00:16:54.726
  • And i told him, i said, "james, heh-i'm jealous!
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  • I wanted to be there!
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  • I'd wish i could have been there to buy some ice cream
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  • Myself-i'm jealous of you!"
  • 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:05.938
  • And i said, "i want to go there right now..."
  • 00:17:05.938 --> 00:17:07.706
  • So we left his church, went together.
  • 00:17:07.706 --> 00:17:11.443
  • Went to the spot.
  • 00:17:11.443 --> 00:17:12.778
  • We got there friday afternoon at time the buses were arriving.
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  • Here buses coming-i mean, kids coming out of there
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  • -all young kids, this stream of buses.
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  • I mean dozens, hundreds-hundreds,
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  • Just everywhere, all the way through this slum area.
  • 00:17:24.656 --> 00:17:27.493
  • All of 'em came out there, and they started to scatter and go
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  • Up, and i noticed there wasn't a single adult there to meet
  • 00:17:30.662 --> 00:17:35.634
  • A single one of 'em!
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  • Not an adult-not an adult!
  • 00:17:37.336 --> 00:17:42.808
  • And they'd run up in those little places.
  • 00:17:42.808 --> 00:17:45.777
  • I looked over there, and there's some guys on a rail here,
  • 00:17:45.777 --> 00:17:49.314
  • Hanging over the rail the second story, and a guy hanging over
  • 00:17:49.314 --> 00:17:52.017
  • A rail, and i said, "who are those guys"?
  • 00:17:52.017 --> 00:17:54.086
  • They said, "they're bloods."
  • 00:17:54.086 --> 00:17:56.121
  • Said, "how do you know"?
  • 00:17:56.121 --> 00:17:57.456
  • Said, "they got on red and black.
  • 00:17:57.456 --> 00:18:00.025
  • Bloods, gang.
  • 00:18:00.025 --> 00:18:02.828
  • And they're sort of supervising, running everything here
  • 00:18:02.828 --> 00:18:07.299
  • -in charge of everything here..."
  • 00:18:07.299 --> 00:18:12.971
  • I'm beginning to get it.
  • 00:18:12.971 --> 00:18:16.642
  • Don't have to be very smart to figure that out, do you?
  • 00:18:16.642 --> 00:18:18.710
  • Anybody need any explanations?
  • 00:18:18.710 --> 00:18:21.280
  • You listening?
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  • Whoooo!
  • 00:18:25.317 --> 00:18:27.553
  • What's happening in the inner city?
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  • Let me tell you: number one, hope is crushed.
  • 00:18:32.090 --> 00:18:39.431
  • When hope is crushed, you got different world.
  • 00:18:39.431 --> 00:18:43.402
  • You say, "well, i don't know what we can do about that!"
  • 00:18:43.402 --> 00:18:45.904
  • Oh yes!
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  • Let me ask you a personal question.
  • 00:18:48.073 --> 00:18:49.741
  • Just think for a minute-you have to think hard: if you had all
  • 00:18:49.741 --> 00:18:53.545
  • The power and all the resources-now stay with me!
  • 00:18:53.545 --> 00:19:00.919
  • I've had longer to think about this, and pray about this, and
  • 00:19:00.919 --> 00:19:03.555
  • Cry about his than you have; but if you had all the power and all
  • 00:19:03.555 --> 00:19:07.726
  • The resources, could you mark off a square of the inner
  • 00:19:07.726 --> 00:19:12.931
  • City-how many blocks, how much, i don't know, and if you had
  • 00:19:12.931 --> 00:19:17.302
  • Power and resour-all the power, all the resources,
  • 00:19:17.302 --> 00:19:20.239
  • Could you make a difference in the lives of those families
  • 00:19:20.239 --> 00:19:25.143
  • And primarily single mothers?
  • 00:19:25.143 --> 00:19:27.379
  • Could you make a difference there?
  • 00:19:27.379 --> 00:19:28.780
  • Could you clean that place up for god
  • 00:19:28.780 --> 00:19:30.782
  • And for christ and for humanity?
  • 00:19:30.782 --> 00:19:33.352
  • Could salvation come there in lives and hope?
  • 00:19:33.352 --> 00:19:35.954
  • Could you do that with all power and all resources?
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  • The answer, by the way, is yes!
  • 00:19:38.991 --> 00:19:42.961
  • The answer is yes!
  • 00:19:42.961 --> 00:19:45.664
  • Where do you start?
  • 00:19:45.664 --> 00:19:48.433
  • You start first of all of getting the bad guys out
  • 00:19:48.433 --> 00:19:52.004
  • -no questions asked!
  • 00:19:52.004 --> 00:19:54.273
  • (audience applauds)
  • 00:19:54.273 --> 00:19:57.075
  • Now that's not an easy thing.
  • 00:19:57.075 --> 00:19:58.810
  • You say, "oh, you can't do that!"
  • 00:19:58.810 --> 00:20:00.445
  • Just sit back!
  • 00:20:00.445 --> 00:20:04.616
  • Get the bad guys out.
  • 00:20:04.616 --> 00:20:06.018
  • "well, i have my rights..."
  • 00:20:06.018 --> 00:20:07.352
  • No you don't.
  • 00:20:07.352 --> 00:20:09.688
  • Everybody there knows who they are.
  • 00:20:09.688 --> 00:20:12.491
  • No!
  • 00:20:12.491 --> 00:20:14.026
  • Get 'em out-get 'em out!
  • 00:20:14.026 --> 00:20:15.394
  • Number two, find the champions that are in that area.
  • 00:20:15.394 --> 00:20:19.998
  • There's a few champions down there
  • 00:20:19.998 --> 00:20:21.700
  • That are frightened and beat up.
  • 00:20:21.700 --> 00:20:23.468
  • Find those champions and tell them, this is now a safe place!
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  • Okay?
  • 00:20:31.043 --> 00:20:33.111
  • Then you bring all the king's horses and all the king's men
  • 00:20:33.111 --> 00:20:37.349
  • And see who really cares, who really loves,
  • 00:20:37.349 --> 00:20:40.786
  • And who really wants to be a part of the healing.
  • 00:20:40.786 --> 00:20:43.155
  • I'm talking about the lions of corporations and businesses;
  • 00:20:43.155 --> 00:20:46.558
  • I'm talking about all the politicians who talk the game
  • 00:20:46.558 --> 00:20:50.128
  • And play the game and exploit people.
  • 00:20:50.128 --> 00:20:52.798
  • I'm talking about the non-profits.
  • 00:20:52.798 --> 00:20:56.134
  • I'm talking about the churches.
  • 00:20:56.134 --> 00:20:58.303
  • I'm talking about the hospitals.
  • 00:20:58.303 --> 00:21:00.038
  • I'm talking about every entity, the educational system
  • 00:21:00.038 --> 00:21:02.808
  • And go in and rehab, and train, and build,
  • 00:21:02.808 --> 00:21:06.144
  • And see those who can be getting off drugs.
  • 00:21:06.144 --> 00:21:08.547
  • Those who can't, we send them to some of these military bases
  • 00:21:08.547 --> 00:21:11.817
  • That are basically empty, and we provide to them
  • 00:21:11.817 --> 00:21:14.553
  • And give them another chance.
  • 00:21:14.553 --> 00:21:16.154
  • Otherwise, we get 'em off drugs.
  • 00:21:16.154 --> 00:21:17.756
  • We love 'em. we train 'em.
  • 00:21:17.756 --> 00:21:19.424
  • When i was in high school, we had vocational training.
  • 00:21:19.424 --> 00:21:22.160
  • We had shop.
  • 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:24.029
  • You learn how to be a carpenter; you learn how to pour asphalt;
  • 00:21:24.029 --> 00:21:26.898
  • You learn how to build something, to make something,
  • 00:21:26.898 --> 00:21:29.368
  • And to weld.
  • 00:21:29.368 --> 00:21:30.702
  • That's gone today!
  • 00:21:30.702 --> 00:21:32.037
  • Go in there!
  • 00:21:32.037 --> 00:21:33.572
  • Train these who are salvageable.
  • 00:21:33.572 --> 00:21:35.974
  • Love those who are lovable.
  • 00:21:35.974 --> 00:21:37.843
  • Provide protection for those kids!
  • 00:21:37.843 --> 00:21:40.879
  • The kids don't go out and play around
  • 00:21:40.879 --> 00:21:43.115
  • There because they're in danger.
  • 00:21:43.115 --> 00:21:45.217
  • Did you read the statistics that are there on the wall?
  • 00:21:45.217 --> 00:21:48.286
  • Those aren't just numbers!
  • 00:21:48.286 --> 00:21:50.589
  • They're human beings, god's precious gift to us!
  • 00:21:50.589 --> 00:21:54.826
  • (audience applauds)
  • 00:21:56.661 --> 00:22:04.970
  • Say, "well, you didn't mention..."
  • 00:22:04.970 --> 00:22:06.505
  • Oh, i don't have all the answers.
  • 00:22:06.505 --> 00:22:09.808
  • I see the problem.
  • 00:22:09.808 --> 00:22:12.244
  • I see some beginning ways to move, and i see with
  • 00:22:12.244 --> 00:22:16.281
  • A cooperative effort, to get the bad guys out,
  • 00:22:16.281 --> 00:22:19.484
  • To find the heroes and champions that are there within,
  • 00:22:19.484 --> 00:22:22.521
  • And to turn loose god's people!
  • 00:22:22.521 --> 00:22:27.092
  • By god's grace, this family, be patient, be prayerful
  • 00:22:27.092 --> 00:22:34.166
  • -we're gonna throw everything we got to make a difference for
  • 00:22:34.166 --> 00:22:37.402
  • Jesus christ in the inner city of this part of the world!
  • 00:22:37.402 --> 00:22:42.073
  • (audience-someone says, "amen!" audience applauds.)
  • 00:22:42.073 --> 00:22:50.081
  • You say, "well, i don't know if i want to..."
  • 00:22:50.148 --> 00:22:52.017
  • Let me tell you something: your ice cream's melting!
  • 00:22:52.017 --> 00:22:57.622
  • We can go through there and -"do, do, tootle, toot!
  • 00:22:57.622 --> 00:23:00.392
  • Do, do, tootle, toot!"
  • 00:23:00.392 --> 00:23:01.860
  • "oh, here's some clothes, here's some food, here's some help."
  • 00:23:01.860 --> 00:23:04.329
  • "do, do, tootle, toot!"
  • 00:23:04.329 --> 00:23:05.664
  • "bye!" "do, do, tootle, toot!
  • 00:23:05.664 --> 00:23:06.998
  • Do, do tootle, toot!" "oh, i feel so good!
  • 00:23:06.998 --> 00:23:08.333
  • Let me tell you what i did! i really gave!
  • 00:23:08.333 --> 00:23:09.935
  • I helped, i...." that's all good and fine.
  • 00:23:09.935 --> 00:23:12.370
  • That's a band-aid, folks.
  • 00:23:12.370 --> 00:23:14.139
  • We gotta go in there and deal with the cancer and cut it out
  • 00:23:14.139 --> 00:23:16.908
  • So there can be health!"
  • 00:23:16.908 --> 00:23:19.211
  • (audience applauds)
  • 00:23:19.211 --> 00:23:22.147
  • I don't know how to do it.
  • 00:23:22.147 --> 00:23:25.517
  • Don't, don't think there's any prideful thing here.
  • 00:23:25.517 --> 00:23:28.320
  • There's only brokenness here; but i can tell you, i believe
  • 00:23:28.320 --> 00:23:33.758
  • With the power, gonna be tough to get it.
  • 00:23:33.758 --> 00:23:38.930
  • Governors, presidents, lieutenant governors,
  • 00:23:38.930 --> 00:23:42.834
  • Elected people, lines of industry, all big corporations
  • 00:23:42.834 --> 00:23:47.739
  • -everybody will give you lip service.
  • 00:23:47.739 --> 00:23:49.875
  • Let's see if they'll get down in the trenches and we can cut out
  • 00:23:49.875 --> 00:23:54.513
  • A space and see a safe place of redemption, and we look
  • 00:23:54.513 --> 00:23:58.183
  • -we cut out another space.
  • 00:23:58.183 --> 00:24:00.986
  • See a same place redeem...
  • 00:24:00.986 --> 00:24:02.821
  • And we cut out another space.
  • 00:24:02.821 --> 00:24:04.789
  • No telling what god can do when his people begin to be obedient
  • 00:24:04.789 --> 00:24:09.661
  • To his book and realize that our ice cream is melting, and we
  • 00:24:09.661 --> 00:24:13.498
  • Want our ice cream to be served as long as there's breath
  • 00:24:13.498 --> 00:24:16.968
  • In your body and mine!
  • 00:24:16.968 --> 00:24:19.938
  • Dr. young: i'm amazed when i look at a caterpillar.
  • 00:24:20.005 --> 00:24:22.607
  • God designed it with all the dna to become
  • 00:24:22.607 --> 00:24:25.210
  • A beautiful butterfly.
  • 00:24:25.210 --> 00:24:27.546
  • You and i are a lot like that caterpillar.
  • 00:24:27.546 --> 00:24:29.714
  • God has a design for our lives and wants to
  • 00:24:29.714 --> 00:24:32.651
  • Transform us into something beautiful
  • 00:24:32.651 --> 00:24:36.555
  • But many times we're content with inching along in life
  • 00:24:36.621 --> 00:24:40.358
  • Like that caterpillar.
  • 00:24:40.358 --> 00:24:42.794
  • Do you want to experience the transformation that
  • 00:24:42.794 --> 00:24:44.829
  • God has designed for you?
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  • Dr. ed young: i love romans 12:2 - the apostle paul writes
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  • Inspired by the holy spirit:
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  • "do not be conformed to this world be ye transformed
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  • By the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what
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  • The will of god is", the plan of god, the design of god.
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  • And that design is "good, acceptable and perfect",
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  • The apostle tells us.
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  • Now this verse reminds me of sort of a little simple
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  • Pedestrian illustration - a tube of toothpaste, you know you can
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  • Take in shape it from the outside and it's just pliable.
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  • You can move it around.
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  • Phillips has a translation that says "don't let the world
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  • Squeeze you into its mold".
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  • Perhaps he was thinking about toothpaste.
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  • And that's what can happen to us.
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  • The world can just form us.
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  • But if we're in christ and christ is in you, guess what,
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  • Were transformed and this is the illustration with the balloon.
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  • Christ in us the holy spirit is in us and therefore we are
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  • Shaped by him because our mind is being shaped by him.
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  • You can dent the balloon and change its shape
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  • A little bit but it bounces back.
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  • It is being transformed from within.
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  • What about you?
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  • Are you like a tube of toothpaste?
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  • The world just sort of shapes you?
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  • Or are you being transformed from within by the renewing,
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  • The building, the refreshing of your mind and your heart?
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  • That's transformation!
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  • That's christianity!
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  • That's our walk with the lord.
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  • Think about it - try it.
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  • God in christ will build in you as he's continually building in
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  • Me a brand-new mind where you see things differently and you
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  • Realize that, hey, "i don't know when it started exactly but
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  • There's a transformation project going on within me".
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  • That's the thrilling part of walking with christ!
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