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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Goal | March 29, 2026
- God's will
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- Is good.
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- So a lot of people say, well, god's will is good.
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- Let's see how this works.
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- Y'all think this is good for me?
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- I'll bring it back to you, keith.
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- Don't worry.
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- Y'all, i don't like this.
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- I said works for me.
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- That's that's not good.
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- If you've been around
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- And you think for a moment, everybody needs a life coach
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- The sake of the world, you can spend
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- A hunk of money
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- Bringing in someone to coach you into life.
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- Everybody needs a life coach.
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- We decided that and then we decided, well,
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- How do you pick a life coach?
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- And we
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- Came to the decision that
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- If you're a secular person or a god fearing person,
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- You can't find one superior to jesus of nazareth.
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- There's not another one.
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- You line them all up.
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- Nobody can meet the requirements.
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- He is the best life coach anybody could get.
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- All right.
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- So we pick a life coach, and then we pick him.
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- And we discovered something.
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- He'd already selected you and me.
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- He'd already asked us.
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- Invited us to be on his team.
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- And we didn't get involved in calvinism or arminian ism.
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- We just know that we need a life coach.
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- Jesus. we decided.
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- Boy, that's the life coach.
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- And then we discovered he'd already picked us.
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- And so we signed up to be on his team
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- To be coach, to live a life.
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- Then we dealt with the big question.
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- Are you coachable?
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- Am i coachable?
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- And i've talked to a lot of coaches
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- Since that time and various fields, tutors and education
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- People in athletics, those who train people
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- In a lot of different skills. and i asked them,
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- What do you look for in somebody?
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- You will coach somebody on your team,
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- Somebody in your classroom. what do you look for?
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- What's the characteristics?
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- And i summed it all up in two words.
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- Somebody who is humble
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- And somebody who's committed.
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- So here we are.
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- And now we ask the big, overwhelming question.
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- Well, i'm on this team.
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- What's the goal?
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- What is the goal?
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- What are what are we reaching for?
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- Jesus said,
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- Come, follow me and i will make you fishers of men.
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- And they thought that success was catching a lot of fish,
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- Being successful in the selling of the fish,
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- Having plenty of money because they were big fishermen.
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- But jesus taught them that, hey,
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- There's something bigger than that.
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- That is worldly success.
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- By the way. they caught a lot of fish as well.
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- But i'm going to move you and do a life of fulfillment.
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- And that's fishing for people,
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- Building the right stuff and people.
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- And so
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- We come and ask, well, what is the goal?
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- Well, what are we reaching for?
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- We're on the team of christ.
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- What should go out there?
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- And i submit to you and john 1010,
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- We have a series of verses i think will sum up
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- What every single person would like to see.
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- This is my life goal.
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- It's worthy.
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- It's worth it.
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- It's what i would love to have.
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- Now, in this chapter
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- Ten of the gospel of john, jesus is talking about
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- He was the shepherd of the sheep.
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- He says, i'm a shepherd.
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- I'm your coach.
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- And he talks about the kind of coach he was.
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- He is verse two, but he jesus
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- Who entered by the door is the shepherd,
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- The coach of the sheep.
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- We're the sheep.
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- He's our coach.
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- We're on the team.
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- To him, the door keeper opens and the sheep hear his voice.
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- And he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
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- When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them,
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- And the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
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- Years ago i was in jerusalem by the sheep gate,
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- And i happened to be there on the day
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- When all the shepherds were bringing their sheep in.
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- Some would be sheared,
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- Some would be sold, some would be traded.
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- And i'm telling you, wherever i looked, there were sheep
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- And there were shepherds here, there.
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- And i asked the guide and the world,
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- Do they know this is my sheep?
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- This is my sheep, this is yours.
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- Are they branded?
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- Said, oh, no, said all the sheep know the voice
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- Of the shepherd.
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- And the
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- Shepherd has a name for every one of his sheep.
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- So they never get confused.
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- That's what jesus say when you're on his team.
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- He is our shepherd.
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- He's our coach.
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- He knows everything about us.
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- Every hair on our head.
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- He has counted.
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- He's not counting his eye on my head as he used to.
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- But that's how he knows
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- Us intimately.
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- He's our shepherd.
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- And then what does he say?
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- He says in verse ten, the thief comes only to steal and kill
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- And destroy other, other shepherds, other competitors.
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- I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
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- Jesus says, i came.
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- I solicited you on my team.
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- You join my team.
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- I am your coach.
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- So you can have. here's the goal.
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- Abundant life.
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- Life is so.
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- It is life in infinity.
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- It is a completed life.
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- It is a full life.
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- And the word abundantly.
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- There is a word person.
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- It is a word.
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- It means in excess.
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- It means more than excess.
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- Abounding in success, abounding in excess,
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- In your success.
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- Paul says in one corinthians two nine, eye
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- Has not seen and ear has not heard.
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- Neither has it entered the heart of man.
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- The things that god has prepared for those
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- Who love him,
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- For those who are on his team and function
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- And are humble enough and committed enough.
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- He promises life
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- Overflowing, and we can't even imagine that
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- It's beyond anybody's ability to comprehend.
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- So that's our goal.
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- Would everybody be satisfied with abundant life?
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- Anybody want to add to that?
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- Can you extrapolate from that?
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- Well. no, no no no i think that's the top.
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- That's assume a bottom.
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- That's the ultimate is it not?
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- Abundant life.
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- Now, how do you get that?
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- Well, we're on the team.
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- Let's go back to the operative passages
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- We've revolved around for several weeks.
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- And that is romans 12, verse one and two.
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- You're familiar with it.
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- Therefore, i beseech you, brethren.
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- Now paul has summed up all the doctrine
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- Which we're all phi beta kappa.
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- And right we went through all that
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- And all the doctrine, he says.
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- Now i get the practicality.
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- This is how you put it together.
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- Therefore, i urge you, brethren, by the mercies
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- Of god, you present your body a living sacrifice.
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- Remember a living killing, holy, acceptable to god.
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- No words.
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- We die to ourself and our goals.
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- We present our bodies.
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- That's the first step on being on the team of christ.
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- That is humility and lord, i just.
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- Here it is i i'm living, but i'm i'm dead a living killing.
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- I've killed all of my self in my desires.
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- A living sacrifice that's wholly acceptable to him,
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- Which is your reasonable service.
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- That's a humility it takes.
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- And out of him the coaches a
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- And then the next thing, not only humility.
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- Would you be committed
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- And said, when we present our body a living sacrifice,
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- And then what's the next part that we have in there?
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- It said, we're not conform to the world.
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- We're transformed by the renewing of our mind.
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- And that is a commitment.
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- Our minds are renewed.
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- And then he says, why?
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- We have this renewed mind
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- So that we can prove
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- What the will of god.
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- Now, the will of god for most
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- People is far too spooky,
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- Where the idea god has hidden his will.
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- Ooh, where is it?
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- Maybe it's under that chair.
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- Ooh. and sometimes you play like remember, like as kids
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- Game, i spy, i spy, i, we're looking for god's will.
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- It is so mysterious. should i go there?
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- Should i do this?
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- Listen, ladies and gentlemen, god's will is about decisions
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- We make.
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- But if you want to begin to find out
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- God's plan and purpose for your life, guess where you start.
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- The bible.
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- The bible says it's god's will.
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- We be saved.
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- We know christ. we're on his team.
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- That's first number two.
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- He says it's god's will that we be filled
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- With his spirit as he leads us in our life.
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- That second and third is god.
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- Will we be growing and maturing in our faith?
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- The third is god's will that we be submissive to one another.
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- We be submissive the last thing we are to be serving.
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- Now these are five things the bible clearly states.
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- It is the will of god for you and for me.
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- When these things are operative in your life, in my life,
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- Not perfect, but they're operating in your life.
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- In my life.
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- Guess what god's will is about?
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- The multiplicity of decision we make
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- About vocation, or going or buying or selling or whatever.
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- Guess how that comes out?
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- Have to put out a fleece.
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- We just have to say
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- What the psalmist said.
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- Trust in the lord with all your heart and proverbs.
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- Lean not upon your own understanding,
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- And all your ways acknowledge him.
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- Oh, he'll direct your life.
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- A child takes their
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- First step unsteady.
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- Unsure.
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- Reaching for a father's hand.
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- No one is born knowing how to walk.
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- It takes training, strength.
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- Balance. time.
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- Walking with god is no different.
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- Like all journeys, walking the winning
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- Walk requires the proper equipment and preparation.
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- By outfitting our lives with the word of god,
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- We will be able to follow where the master leads.
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- Psalm 119 says, your word is a lamp
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- Unto my feet and a light under my path.
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- God doesn't rush the journey.
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- He lights the next step
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- In the winning walk.
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- Doctor ed young shares practical, biblical guidance
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- To help you develop the strength and spiritual
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- Balance needed for a steady, daily walk with christ.
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- If you're ready to grow stronger in your faith,
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- Call the number on your screen
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- And request your copy of the winning walk today
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- And begin walking confidently with him.
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- And then you have three little words there
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- In the second verse of romans 12 says, god's will is good.
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- It's acceptable,
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- And it's perfect.
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- God's will is.
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- Like this quote i have on
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- This quote was given to me by a man who may be here today.
- 00:12:44.620 --> 00:12:47.690
- He was traveling.
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- He saw it.
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- He bought it.
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- It does not have a label.
- 00:12:50.693 --> 00:12:53.429
- It really does.
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- It's not tailor made.
- 00:12:55.097 --> 00:12:56.999
- I think it, you know, does.
- 00:12:56.999 --> 00:12:58.701
- All right.
- 00:12:58.701 --> 00:13:00.970
- And god's will
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- Is good.
- 00:13:04.974 --> 00:13:06.842
- So a lot of people say, well, god's will is good.
- 00:13:06.842 --> 00:13:10.246
- Let's see how this works.
- 00:13:10.813 --> 00:13:16.952
- Y'all think this is good for me?
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- I'll bring it back to you, keith.
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- Don't worry.
- 00:13:25.828 --> 00:13:28.664
- Y'all, i don't like this.
- 00:13:29.231 --> 00:13:30.366
- I said works for me.
- 00:13:30.366 --> 00:13:32.368
- That's that's not good.
- 00:13:32.368 --> 00:13:34.370
- But god's will is as well.
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- It's,
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- It's good.
- 00:13:41.210 --> 00:13:42.845
- And it said it's acceptable.
- 00:13:42.845 --> 00:13:46.682
- Oh, yeah.
- 00:13:46.982 --> 00:13:51.120
- Goodness.
- 00:13:51.420 --> 00:13:53.055
- Can you find the arms of this son? you.
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- I don't see how you wear this, bob.
- 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:07.169
- I really don't.
- 00:14:07.169 --> 00:14:10.005
- Y'all think this is acceptable?
- 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:13.742
- No, no no no. oh.
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- I'm. god's will.
- 00:14:19.381 --> 00:14:24.753
- It's perfect.
- 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:27.923
- A lot of people think god's world is just like this coat.
- 00:14:29.091 --> 00:14:31.360
- Oh, it's so narrow.
- 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:32.995
- It's so binding.
- 00:14:32.995 --> 00:14:35.064
- Oh, if i'm in god's will, i'll miss out on everything.
- 00:14:35.064 --> 00:14:39.702
- Oh, what a horrible thing is.
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- God's will. no no no no no.
- 00:14:42.004 --> 00:14:47.009
- God's will.
- 00:14:47.343 --> 00:15:02.992
- How are we doing?
- 00:15:03.425 --> 00:15:06.195
- Thank you.
- 00:15:06.495 --> 00:15:06.862
- Reuben.
- 00:15:06.862 --> 00:15:09.832
- It's perfect.
- 00:15:09.832 --> 00:15:14.003
- And that's why we realize our goal
- 00:15:11.900 --> 00:15:17.306
- Is abundant living.
- 00:15:17.306 --> 00:15:20.442
- And we discover god's will.
- 00:15:20.442 --> 00:15:23.012
- And it's
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- Good.
- 00:15:25.214 --> 00:15:26.648
- It's accessible.
- 00:15:26.648 --> 00:15:27.750
- Some translations say pleasurable, and it's perfect.
- 00:15:27.750 --> 00:15:31.286
- It just fits.
- 00:15:31.653 --> 00:15:33.288
- It's just designed for you and for me
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- To have this excessive life of over.
- 00:15:35.991 --> 00:15:40.029
- Oh, we.
- 00:15:40.262 --> 00:15:43.132
- There's a story that i
- 00:15:43.132 --> 00:15:45.601
- Read years and years ago, and i just can't forget it.
- 00:15:45.601 --> 00:15:48.604
- It's just a it's a super story.
- 00:15:48.604 --> 00:15:51.673
- It's about a man who got on a bus.
- 00:15:51.673 --> 00:15:57.079
- He wanted to go to detroit.
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- He bought a ticket to detroit,
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- And he got on the bus, and he took a long trip.
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- And when he arrived and got off the bus,
- 00:16:06.889 --> 00:16:10.092
- He discovered that he was in kansas city.
- 00:16:10.993 --> 00:16:14.763
- Yeah.
- 00:16:14.997 --> 00:16:16.598
- And he started asking people about different things.
- 00:16:16.598 --> 00:16:19.101
- They tried, he said.
- 00:16:19.101 --> 00:16:20.102
- Where is woodward avenue?
- 00:16:20.102 --> 00:16:21.503
- And they said, we never we don't know the woodward avenue.
- 00:16:21.503 --> 00:16:23.806
- What he said.
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- What about cobo hall? no, no, no.
- 00:16:25.074 --> 00:16:28.343
- And finally they convinced him he wasn't in detroit.
- 00:16:28.343 --> 00:16:31.447
- He was in kansas city.
- 00:16:31.447 --> 00:16:34.483
- What happened?
- 00:16:34.483 --> 00:16:36.385
- He got on the wrong bus.
- 00:16:36.385 --> 00:16:39.588
- When you get where you're going.
- 00:16:40.322 --> 00:16:44.359
- Where would you end up?
- 00:16:44.860 --> 00:16:47.229
- Where would you be?
- 00:16:47.229 --> 00:16:49.064
- There's a lot of busses running in our town.
- 00:16:49.064 --> 00:16:51.733
- Is it not a lot of destinations,
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- A lot of roads, a lot of calls,
- 00:16:54.970 --> 00:16:57.773
- A lot of things we can get on and follow and be a part.
- 00:16:57.773 --> 00:17:01.009
- A lot of pads.
- 00:17:01.009 --> 00:17:03.745
- And the question is when
- 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:05.948
- You get where you're going, where will you be?
- 00:17:05.948 --> 00:17:09.551
- Where will i be?
- 00:17:09.551 --> 00:17:12.554
- It's a matter of destination.
- 00:17:13.188 --> 00:17:16.191
- It's not well, i intend to get there.
- 00:17:16.925 --> 00:17:19.294
- The prodigal son didn't think he'd end up
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- Feeding pigs of all things.
- 00:17:21.763 --> 00:17:23.632
- He was jewish and never that.
- 00:17:23.632 --> 00:17:26.535
- That was not his goal.
- 00:17:27.002 --> 00:17:28.971
- But he took improper means to reach his goal.
- 00:17:28.971 --> 00:17:33.041
- A lot of people get married in the church.
- 00:17:33.909 --> 00:17:35.711
- Beautiful young couples.
- 00:17:35.711 --> 00:17:37.913
- Oh, they're in love.
- 00:17:37.913 --> 00:17:39.548
- They are part of the covenant making with god
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- And with each other.
- 00:17:42.885 --> 00:17:44.453
- And they have dreams of
- 00:17:44.453 --> 00:17:46.522
- Wonderful life together, love making together, children
- 00:17:46.522 --> 00:17:50.159
- Together a good vocation, a life that's filled
- 00:17:50.159 --> 00:17:53.795
- With significance.
- 00:17:53.795 --> 00:17:54.997
- They want a christian home.
- 00:17:54.997 --> 00:17:58.200
- But somehow that picture of utopia
- 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:02.104
- Ends up in reno.
- 00:18:02.504 --> 00:18:05.440
- What happened?
- 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:07.543
- They got on the wrong bus.
- 00:18:07.543 --> 00:18:10.445
- They wanted this christian home
- 00:18:10.445 --> 00:18:12.781
- With christian kids, but they made improper choices.
- 00:18:12.781 --> 00:18:16.885
- They had their priorities right.
- 00:18:16.885 --> 00:18:19.087
- But somehow their commitments didn't match their priorities.
- 00:18:19.087 --> 00:18:24.359
- And how
- 00:18:24.593 --> 00:18:25.460
- Many people, how many of us are here?
- 00:18:25.460 --> 00:18:27.930
- When we stop and look around,
- 00:18:28.564 --> 00:18:29.965
- We may realize that we want to end up there.
- 00:18:29.965 --> 00:18:32.834
- But winning up over here, you say the guy on the bus
- 00:18:32.834 --> 00:18:36.405
- Going to
- 00:18:36.405 --> 00:18:38.407
- Detroit, he's out, ended up in kansas city.
- 00:18:38.407 --> 00:18:41.043
- What was he thinking on a long trip?
- 00:18:41.043 --> 00:18:43.111
- Didn't he say he signed by the side of the road?
- 00:18:43.111 --> 00:18:46.148
- Didn't they stop and and eat some meals?
- 00:18:46.148 --> 00:18:48.650
- Wasn't there other people on the bus?
- 00:18:48.650 --> 00:18:51.453
- I mean, what what's what's the matter with him?
- 00:18:51.453 --> 00:18:54.957
- He didn't figure out before he got all the way
- 00:18:54.957 --> 00:18:57.593
- To saint louis that he wasn't headed for detroit.
- 00:18:57.593 --> 00:19:01.730
- What happened?
- 00:19:02.064 --> 00:19:04.199
- That happened to us.
- 00:19:04.199 --> 00:19:07.035
- So we need to take a timeout.
- 00:19:07.035 --> 00:19:08.870
- Coaches take timeouts.
- 00:19:08.870 --> 00:19:10.172
- You know that
- 00:19:10.172 --> 00:19:11.306
- When you take a timeout, everybody here needs a timeout
- 00:19:11.306 --> 00:19:14.376
- And say, all right at the end as i move along.
- 00:19:14.376 --> 00:19:18.280
- Am i experiencing this abundance, this joy, this life?
- 00:19:18.280 --> 00:19:22.050
- Let's take a timeout.
- 00:19:22.050 --> 00:19:24.152
- And maybe we need a socrates
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- To run around
- 00:19:26.722 --> 00:19:27.623
- In the congregation and come up to us
- 00:19:27.623 --> 00:19:29.891
- And ask you and me some questions.
- 00:19:29.891 --> 00:19:31.727
- That's what socrates did.
- 00:19:31.727 --> 00:19:32.961
- Remember, he asked everybody questions they didn't like.
- 00:19:32.961 --> 00:19:35.897
- They hated him.
- 00:19:35.897 --> 00:19:37.366
- He'd ask questions like, who are you?
- 00:19:37.366 --> 00:19:40.435
- No, no, no.
- 00:19:40.769 --> 00:19:41.436
- Who are you? who?
- 00:19:41.436 --> 00:19:44.373
- He'd ask questions like, why are you here?
- 00:19:44.373 --> 00:19:47.776
- What is your purpose in life?
- 00:19:48.410 --> 00:19:51.380
- He'd ask these big, simple, gigantic questions.
- 00:19:51.380 --> 00:19:55.284
- And people got mad at him.
- 00:19:55.284 --> 00:19:57.185
- And socrates said, and unexamined
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- Life is not worth living.
- 00:20:00.088 --> 00:20:03.125
- And it's not.
- 00:20:03.492 --> 00:20:05.527
- Our unexamined life is not worth living.
- 00:20:05.527 --> 00:20:10.132
- And sometimes we need to take a time out
- 00:20:10.999 --> 00:20:13.035
- And see if we are indeed on the right bus.
- 00:20:13.035 --> 00:20:17.372
- Well, what are our choices here?
- 00:20:18.106 --> 00:20:19.574
- They're really just two.
- 00:20:19.574 --> 00:20:21.143
- Jesus tells about them and the gospel according to matthew.
- 00:20:21.143 --> 00:20:25.814
- He just sits down.
- 00:20:26.248 --> 00:20:27.249
- He says matthew seven,
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- 13 and 14
- 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:33.655
- Entered through the narrow gate.
- 00:20:33.655 --> 00:20:37.326
- You know, the right bus
- 00:20:37.826 --> 00:20:40.796
- For the gate is wide and the way is broad
- 00:20:40.796 --> 00:20:43.398
- That leads to destruction.
- 00:20:43.398 --> 00:20:44.933
- And there are many who entered there in.
- 00:20:44.933 --> 00:20:48.470
- That's the wrong bus, for the gate is small,
- 00:20:48.470 --> 00:20:51.907
- And the way is narrow that leads to life.
- 00:20:51.907 --> 00:20:54.209
- There's our words, okay, that's where you want to go.
- 00:20:54.209 --> 00:20:56.845
- And that that's the abundance we're talking about.
- 00:20:56.845 --> 00:20:59.314
- It said it's a narrow way and few there be that go that way.
- 00:20:59.314 --> 00:21:03.618
- Not many get on that bus,
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- But a lot of people get on the broad.
- 00:21:07.756 --> 00:21:10.492
- So they just two choices.
- 00:21:10.492 --> 00:21:11.893
- There's there's the broadway
- 00:21:11.893 --> 00:21:14.296
- Man on everybody's fall around that way, the
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- The flow of culture, the flow of influence,
- 00:21:17.032 --> 00:21:20.235
- The flow of pleasure, man.
- 00:21:20.235 --> 00:21:22.237
- Everybody wants to be healthy, wealthy, wise
- 00:21:22.237 --> 00:21:24.740
- And have a good time in the process.
- 00:21:24.740 --> 00:21:26.641
- Right in there.
- 00:21:26.641 --> 00:21:28.210
- We just get caught up.
- 00:21:28.210 --> 00:21:29.211
- That's the broad, broad
- 00:21:29.211 --> 00:21:30.879
- Way to a lot of people are on the broadway, man.
- 00:21:30.879 --> 00:21:33.915
- It's inhabited and they're moving down their broadway.
- 00:21:33.915 --> 00:21:37.986
- But jesus says the broadway
- 00:21:37.986 --> 00:21:41.022
- Leads to
- 00:21:41.289 --> 00:21:41.923
- Destruction, to emptiness.
- 00:21:41.923 --> 00:21:44.559
- It leads not to detroit.
- 00:21:45.093 --> 00:21:47.629
- It leads to kansas city.
- 00:21:47.629 --> 00:21:49.798
- And who in the world wants to go to kansas city?
- 00:21:49.798 --> 00:21:51.933
- When you're trying to get to detroit?
- 00:21:51.933 --> 00:21:55.504
- They're broadway.
- 00:21:55.937 --> 00:21:57.606
- You're on the wrong bus.
- 00:21:57.606 --> 00:21:59.674
- And this is a matter of means and ends.
- 00:21:59.674 --> 00:22:01.977
- Ends and means.
- 00:22:01.977 --> 00:22:04.479
- Sometimes we have big means
- 00:22:04.479 --> 00:22:07.449
- To small goals to small.
- 00:22:07.983 --> 00:22:10.385
- In other words, we just spend a lot of time and money
- 00:22:10.385 --> 00:22:14.089
- And effort and blood and sweat and tears to reach this goal.
- 00:22:14.089 --> 00:22:18.827
- And the goal is not worthy of all the effort
- 00:22:18.827 --> 00:22:22.831
- We put into it in order to get there.
- 00:22:22.831 --> 00:22:26.435
- You know, we have big means
- 00:22:27.035 --> 00:22:30.505
- Little goal out there, not worthy of all that
- 00:22:31.373 --> 00:22:34.843
- We put into it.
- 00:22:34.843 --> 00:22:37.412
- And let's flip that over.
- 00:22:37.412 --> 00:22:38.580
- Sometimes we have a worthy goal,
- 00:22:38.580 --> 00:22:41.950
- High goal worthy goal.
- 00:22:42.417 --> 00:22:44.453
- We use shabby,
- 00:22:44.453 --> 00:22:46.988
- Immoral means to get there.
- 00:22:46.988 --> 00:22:49.191
- You see it all the time.
- 00:22:49.191 --> 00:22:51.993
- There's a revolution in this nation
- 00:22:51.993 --> 00:22:54.830
- And in this
- 00:22:55.163 --> 00:22:55.997
- Nation, this revolution takes place.
- 00:22:55.997 --> 00:22:58.700
- And there are people who say,
- 00:22:58.700 --> 00:22:59.835
- We're going to get the
- 00:22:59.835 --> 00:23:00.936
- Bad guys out and we're going to let the people roll,
- 00:23:00.936 --> 00:23:04.306
- And they go down there.
- 00:23:04.306 --> 00:23:05.340
- They throw out the bad guys, and they begin to rule
- 00:23:05.340 --> 00:23:08.543
- And give them five, six, ten years, maybe less.
- 00:23:08.543 --> 00:23:11.680
- All of a sudden they have the same problem
- 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:14.783
- That the bad guys got.
- 00:23:14.783 --> 00:23:16.117
- I got the bad guys out.
- 00:23:16.117 --> 00:23:17.552
- The good guys and the good guys become bad guys.
- 00:23:17.552 --> 00:23:20.589
- In other words, what is happening?
- 00:23:20.589 --> 00:23:22.224
- They had a worthy goal, but they got corrupted with
- 00:23:22.224 --> 00:23:24.993
- The means they used to get their.
- 00:23:24.993 --> 00:23:27.729
- We can have high goals
- 00:23:28.196 --> 00:23:31.433
- And we can have shabby,
- 00:23:31.933 --> 00:23:34.636
- Immoral means to reach those goals.
- 00:23:34.636 --> 00:23:37.606
- Oh, it's justified that i did that because i wanted to
- 00:23:37.606 --> 00:23:42.077
- Fill in the blanks.
- 00:23:42.077 --> 00:23:43.645
- I wanted our company to succeed.
- 00:23:43.645 --> 00:23:45.747
- Oh, i cheated a lot.
- 00:23:45.747 --> 00:23:47.115
- But the main thing was, i passed that test
- 00:23:47.115 --> 00:23:49.618
- And i graduate.
- 00:23:49.618 --> 00:23:50.886
- Oh, and that justifies all the cheating i did.
- 00:23:50.886 --> 00:23:53.688
- You know, you're mayor
- 00:23:53.688 --> 00:23:55.557
- Shabby means where they go.
- 00:23:56.157 --> 00:24:00.195
- The other end is elaborate
- 00:24:00.762 --> 00:24:02.397
- Means to reach a flimsy goal.
- 00:24:02.397 --> 00:24:05.901
- That's the broad way that leads to destruction.
- 00:24:05.901 --> 00:24:09.137
- Ladies and gentlemen.
- 00:24:09.137 --> 00:24:10.372
- And you're not going to find abundant life on that broadway.
- 00:24:10.372 --> 00:24:13.909
- You find abundant life on what?
- 00:24:13.909 --> 00:24:16.244
- The narrow way to broadway is the wrong bus.
- 00:24:16.244 --> 00:24:19.681
- Our bus is the narrow way is the right bus.
- 00:24:19.681 --> 00:24:22.517
- And the amazing thing how god has built this world.
- 00:24:23.585 --> 00:24:27.122
- God has built this world.
- 00:24:27.122 --> 00:24:28.690
- If you and i get on the wrong bus,
- 00:24:28.690 --> 00:24:31.793
- We'll never end up in the right place.
- 00:24:31.793 --> 00:24:35.497
- No matter how much we pray or how much magic we want,
- 00:24:35.497 --> 00:24:39.134
- Or we want forgiveness for all the wasted choices in years,
- 00:24:39.134 --> 00:24:43.238
- You get on the wrong bus.
- 00:24:43.238 --> 00:24:44.406
- You don't end up in the right place.
- 00:24:44.406 --> 00:24:45.807
- God's built this world like that
- 00:24:45.807 --> 00:24:47.842
- Every single time.
- 00:24:48.276 --> 00:24:51.279
- So when you get where are you going?
- 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:53.348
- Where will you be?
- 00:24:53.348 --> 00:24:55.817
- Oh, we i go abundant life.
- 00:24:55.817 --> 00:24:58.153
- How do we get there?
- 00:24:58.153 --> 00:25:00.488
- We see it through humility.
- 00:25:00.488 --> 00:25:02.557
- That is worship.
- 00:25:02.557 --> 00:25:04.426
- We see it.
- 00:25:04.426 --> 00:25:05.560
- We find the will of god and it fits us.
- 00:25:05.560 --> 00:25:07.562
- And it's beautiful.
- 00:25:07.562 --> 00:25:08.430
- It's magnificent.
- 00:25:08.430 --> 00:25:10.665
- And then we see it.
- 00:25:10.665 --> 00:25:11.766
- The abundance takes place when we get our means
- 00:25:11.766 --> 00:25:14.636
- And ends together.
- 00:25:14.636 --> 00:25:15.937
- We use the right means to reach the lofty
- 00:25:15.937 --> 00:25:18.974
- Goals.
- 00:25:18.974 --> 00:25:21.943
- Christian home
- 00:25:21.943 --> 00:25:23.411
- Had to say no to a lot of things
- 00:25:23.411 --> 00:25:26.181
- In order to say yes to christ, a moral life.
- 00:25:26.181 --> 00:25:30.018
- You have to say no to a lot of things
- 00:25:30.018 --> 00:25:32.754
- In order to say yes to christ.
- 00:25:32.754 --> 00:25:35.624
- A good night's sleep
- 00:25:35.624 --> 00:25:38.893
- Had to say no to a lot of things
- 00:25:38.893 --> 00:25:41.596
- In order to say yes to christ.
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- I weigh 400 pounds.
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- It's a good goal.
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- I don't want to lose weight,
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- But you say you have to take steps in order to do it.
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- In order to get there, have to use the means
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- To get to the desired end.
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- The abundant life.
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- Your word is a lamp to my feet,
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- A light into my path.
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- Notice the promise in that verse.
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- A lamp for my feet i can see right here.
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- A light for your path.
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- We can see out there.
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- Not just inspiration.
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- For a moment, but guidance for a lifetime.
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- The christian life
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- Was never meant to be lived casually,
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- But it is a walk, a daily, intentional,
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- Fateful walk with the lord jesus christ.
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- That's the heartbeat of this book.
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- The winning walk in his pages, i share practical,
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- Biblical principles that will help you cultivate
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- A consistent devotional life, applying god's truth
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- In the practical realities of everyday living.
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- This isn't about religion.
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- It's about relationship.
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- It's about learning to trust god step by step
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- And stay in step with our lord.
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- The christ.
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- So i encourage you to call the number on your screen
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- And request your copy of the winning walk.
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- Do it today.
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- And then we begin walking victoriously,
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- One step at a time.
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