Ed Young - God Laughs

May 31, 2026 | 27:29

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - God Laughs | May 31, 2026

Let me tell you something.
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Psalms is not an inside
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Story of how we talk to god in said.
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Kind of why a little pious voice
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Filled with biblical terminology.
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Oh no, you read psalms.
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It is tough,
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Straightforward,
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Passionate in every kind of situation
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Of life, in celebration and depression
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And success and failure.
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Family challenges, brokenness,
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A time of exaltation and coronation.
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It's all in psalms,
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We're going to look at psalm chapter one,
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Which we've already taught a few weeks back,
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And we're going through all the way through psalms 23.
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There's going to be a study of those songs.
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A couple of them i've put together
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That will be perhaps the climax of this
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Little section of psalms that we're going to deal with.
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Ladies
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And gentlemen, my brothers and my sisters, i pray
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That god will teach us to pray.
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As those early disciples said to jesus as they saw him.
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Pray as they saw as a whole different thing
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From what they understood.
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Teach us to pray.
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And in the book of psalms, the prayers are raw.
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If you read it, they're rough.
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They're not generally nice little prayers
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Prayed by nice little people who are seeped
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In all kind of biblical and theological truth.
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Some people pray, and i've been in groups
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And somebody will stand up and pray, o mighty
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God, thou who aren't there in thy honest fear.
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And beloved, i beseech you.
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And they quote 3
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Or 4 verses of scripture to god who wrote it.
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And we say, boy, bill
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Can sure pray, katie.
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And therefore we call someone
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To pray, saying, i just gave prayer.
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I can't pray like that.
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Let me tell you something.
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Psalms is not an inside
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Story of how we talk to god in said.
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Kind of why a little pious voice
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Filled with biblical terminology.
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Oh no, you read psalms.
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It is tough,
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Straightforward,
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Passionate in every kind of situation
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Of life, in celebration and depression
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And success and failure.
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Family challenges, brokenness,
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A time of exaltation and coronation.
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It's all in psalms, but it's not seeped and all
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Kind of super pietistic,
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Biblically king james language.
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You got that?
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I've heard privately
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And publicly some of the great godly,
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Biblical teachers of the past 50 years.
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I've been with them privately.
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I've been heard them pray publicly.
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And i can tell you, not one of them
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Prayed as effectively
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As the first prayer i ever heard
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My daddy pray.
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He prayed something like the psalms.
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He was 44 years old,
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Never had known jesus christ,
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Knew a little bit or basically nothing about the bible.
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Never prayed with his family where my mother
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And the brother and i, we prayed every night.
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It doesn't matter when, where, how that we spent in my home.
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We went on their bed and daddy would never be in the room.
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We would read the bible
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And the open window and pray for missionaries.
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And i would have to pray.
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My brother would have to pray and my mother would pray.
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All those years,
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All those years,
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I was 15 years old, never
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Heard my daddy pray
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Until a man took you to one side,
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Introduced him to christ.
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Amazing to the family and to a lot of people.
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Walk down the aisle of our little church there in law.
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Mississippi
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Was baptized
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And then we got there on the bed.
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Romance and dad slept every night.
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My mother opened that bible
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As she had done every night of my life.
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Even when i came in late for a date,
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She'd wake up and there she'd be.
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We have to have our devotional, edmond.
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I mean, there was something
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That's tough,
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But on this particular night,
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My dad had been baptized.
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He came and.
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Sat down on the pit with us.
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I didn't know if he'd pray,
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But he did.
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He prayed like one of us.
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Psalmist.
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Those powerful prayer i have ever heard.
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We learn how
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To pray straightforward candidly
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As we study the great book of psalms.
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For will quit all the chivalrous
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And all the phrases and all the
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That may be real, or it may be pseudo,
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And we'll get on praying ground and talk to god and have him
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Talk to us through his book and through our hearts.
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Let's pray.
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Father,
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Forgive me.
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Forgive us when we've just spoken
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Some words and just
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Mumble some things that we think
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Will be acceptable to those
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Who may be around.
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Lord, teach us to pray as
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These old some has prayed
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When the light was shining
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And success was all around,
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And when there was a fear of death
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And family disruption and immorality.
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Lord, teach
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All of us as your sons and daughters
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How to pray.
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In the name of jesus.
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We pray to you, lord, because we know we can't get through
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Any other way except in the name of jesus.
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Amen.
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We studied
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Psalm one.
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Remember it.
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We all should know it.
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It's a psalm that says,
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If you walk with ungodly folks
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And stand around
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With ungodly folks
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And sit down
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With ungodly folks.
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You're going to end up
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With a life that's messed up.
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It's contagious.
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You're going to be like chaff.
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Just no foundation, no content.
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Chess.
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If that's the kind of life we live,
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That's what we learn in psalm.
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In psalm two,
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It is an intellectual song.
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Psalm one talks about godliness.
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Psalm two talks about ungodliness.
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Psalm one says we won't be chaff.
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If we stay with god.
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We'll be like a tree
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Planted by the rivers of water.
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Solid.
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So i'm to says
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Not a word about morality.
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Psalm to ask the question why?
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It's almost an intellectual song, by the way,
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It's most of the psalmist who study it carefully.
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Say the psalm one is psalm two, where in originally one psalm
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And therefore we sung come to psalm two.
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And it's a lesson in ungodliness.
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Psalm one is a lesson godless.
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Psalm one is the christ honoring psalm.
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Psalm two is the anti-christ honoring psalm.
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So let's begin with psalm two.
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Open your bibles. hope you bring them.
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New american standard
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If you didn't have one with you.
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Look in the pew in front of you.
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We have a bible.
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The skies there.
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You may think it's a hymn book.
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Psalm chapter number two.
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Now, let me tell you a little background
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About everybody said, well, david wilson. no.
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David wrote
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73 psalms of the 150.
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A guy named asap, he's probably a musician
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Or someone in the choir who wrote music for worship.
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He wrote 12 songs.
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The sons of cora, probably
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Other musical godly people that era.
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They wrote nine of them.
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There are 51 songs that nobody know who the author is.
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They're called orphan songs.
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Nobody know who the author is.
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Two females wrote songs.
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Hannah and deborah solomon wrote a song.
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Various other authors wrote songs
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And they were put together and they cover over a thousand
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Years of history.
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They go all the way back
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To 1440 bc, in the time of moses.
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And by the way, moses wrote one of the songs,
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And he goes over a thousand years all the way to 586,
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In the time of ezra and the babylonian captivity.
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So it covers a thousand years of prayer
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And praise and worship and prophecy,
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Prophecy there in the scripture.
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And we come to psalm two.
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Let's look at it.
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The verse says,
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Why are the nations in an uproar?
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And the people's devising a vain thing?
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The kings of the earth take their stand,
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And the rulers take counsel together against the lord
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And against his anointed, saying,
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Let us tear their fetters
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Apart and cast their cords from us.
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So there we have.
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Why do the nations gather?
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Why do they plan? why do they play it?
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Because they want a new world
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Made in the image of secularism and humanism.
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And that's what it's all about.
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And this is what we're seeing here.
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Marriage is one of god's greatest gifts.
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You might say, next to the gift of our salvation, christ.
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It's number one.
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But let's be honest, it also brings real challenges.
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Every couple of face disagreements, miscommunication
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Or financial pressure, family tensions, and seasons
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Of frustration in the whole area of marriage.
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You know, saying that if you're married, left unchecked,
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Those struggles can slowly erode into
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Even a marriage that should be great.
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Into a marriage, that's just okay.
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But that does not have to be your story.
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In the ten commandments of marriage,
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I share biblical truth, practical wisdom,
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And a little humor drawn from more than 50
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Years of ministry and marriage experience.
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These ten timeless principles are designed to help husbands
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And wives protect what matters most and strengthen
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That relationship, and build a marriage
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Based on love and joy, and a lasting commitment
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That's filled with laughter and pleasure and excitement.
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Listen, god never intended marriage to be.
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Let's just survive and hang on.
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He attended it to sing and to thrive.
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Listen, if you really want a healthier,
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Christ centered marriage that still has warmth, passion,
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And purpose, these ten commandments of marriage
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Is just for you.
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Call them on your screen or visit the website below
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To regress your copy of the ten commandments of marriage.
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Do it today.
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So you have, first of all, in the first three verses,
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The voice of the narrator, david, and he is saying,
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This is what he sees in his world.
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And by the way, you go right back to acts chapter four.
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And peter is speaking.
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He says, and he quotes this same passage and he said,
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This is what i see in the world.
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Two then the second voice begins with verse four,
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Five and six.
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It's the voice of god the father.
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How does god respond to all the
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Pride ego?
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I know how to do it.
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I've got more money.
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I've got more power.
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I've got more prestige.
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How does god respond to all of this ostentation?
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Show that we see here with the leaders of entity
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In our world today, as they saw in that day?
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God responds. then you hear from god.
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He has three verses. god speaks.
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And then finally you hear the voice of his son jesus.
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And by the way, this is a messianic psalm
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That means in here is prophecy and what jesus speaks,
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He's speaking as if this has already taken place.
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And then finally, you have the voice of the holy spirit.
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That's the last three verses.
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We don't have time to execute this like i would love to,
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But let me touch on the top of this.
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Look like god says.
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He says, he who sits in the heavens, that's god lasts.
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You know what god does?
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All of our boastful.
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Look what i've done. look what i have.
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Look who i know. look where i've been.
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Look at the material stuff.
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By god, just laugh.
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He the only time in the bible
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You find god laughing.
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It's not a real hearty laugh.
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It's sort of a cynical.
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It's a laugh that we've engaged in when a three year
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Old comes up and says, daddy, let's arm wrestle,
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I think i can beat you, you know?
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So yes, let's let's just try that out here.
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You know, and that's the way god laughs.
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He who spoke
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And the world came into being.
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So the father just laughs.
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He scoff.
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He will speak to them in his anger.
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That will speak to him
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In his righteousness and terrify them in a fury.
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But as for me, god says, i have installed my king
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Upon zion, upon my holy mountain.
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And by the way, we know that is jesus
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Christ, king of kings and lord of lords.
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And then jesus speaks.
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He said, i will surely tell the decree of the lord.
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He said to me, you are my son.
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That gives us his identity.
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Today i have begotten you.
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He says, ask of me, and i will surely
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Give you the nations as your inheritance.
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That's his destiny and the very ends of the earth
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As your possession.
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And that is his authority.
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What's he saying?
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He is saying there will come a day.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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When we leave this earth, if we die in jesus christ,
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There will be a new heaven
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And a new earth established right here on our present
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Heaven and earth and cosmic system.
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And god will rule as king of kings
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And lord of lords,
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And we'll have our resurrection bodies to live
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And be creative and serve him forever and forever.
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That's what he's saying right here in this scripture.
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When jesus speaks
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And then we go and we read the next part.
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Verse nine, he said, you shall break them with a rod of iron.
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You shall shatter them like earthwork.
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There's going to be a payday someday.
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Read matthew chapter 25.
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There's the final judgment.
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There's one
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Group of sheep over here, one group of goats over here.
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And jesus stands up as this scripture says,
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Way back in prophets.
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He says, i've got a word for those of you who are sheep.
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He said, i was thirsty.
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You gave me something to drink, i was hungry and you gave me
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Something to eat.
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He said i was naked and you gave me clothes.
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He said i was sick and you came and visited me.
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He said i was in prison and you came to see about me.
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And the sheep said, lord jesus,
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We don't remember when we did that.
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And then jesus says, if you've done it to one
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Of the nobodies in the world, did you get that
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When you've done it?
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There's one of the people that don't count in the world.
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He said, if you've done it, one of those
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The least, the last, the lost.
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Jesus said, you've done in to me.
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And he goes over to the goats.
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Forgive me,
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But it may have some accuracy
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As i look around
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And some inaccuracies as i look over here.
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But he says to the goats, he says, i was hungry,
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I was searching, i was naked, i was in prison, i was sick.
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You didn't come to see me.
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They said, lord. in other words,
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We would have come if we'd known it.
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He said, if you have not done it
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To one of these, nobody.
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He said, it's like you didn't do it for me.
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And this is where the words of judgment comes in here.
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You see, the idea here is that
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They're saying that we're in chains.
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Chris ain't no. we're free.
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Those who are living in what is called total
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Freedom ends up living and license,
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And you will receive
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The results of those who are living in license.
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You see the addictions and the bottom
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Outlets of so many lives in the world today.
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Make me a
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Captive lord so i can be free.
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That's what the christian says.
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And then the holy spirit speeds.
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Verse ten.
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Now therefore, o kings.
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Show discernment.
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Take warning, o judges of the earth,
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Shout this out to the leadership.
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Worship the lord with reverence,
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With joyce, with trembling.
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Do homage to the son, that he will not become angry,
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And you perish in the way, for his wrath may soon be.
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Kindle.
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How blessed are all they all who take refuge in him.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you and i must learn
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How to worship, how to pray, how to communicate with god.
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Because the problem most of us have,
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The problem that the world is caught up in.
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It's one operative word.
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One little operative word.
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It's wrapped up in all of this.
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We've been taken.
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We've been taken.
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What does it mean to be taken?
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To be taken means that.
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Well, i've been fleeced.
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I've been kind.
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I believed in you.
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And, boy, you just took advantage of me.
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I confided in you and you just went public on me.
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I asked you to pray for me, and you exported me.
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All of us know how it feels to be taken.
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That's one definition of the word, is it not?
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Flimflam, man?
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Con artist, slick and clean with the right words.
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But there's another kind.
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We can be taken physically, morally,
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And spiritually.
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There's a movie that's been out,
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I don't know, 15 years.
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It's entitled taken.
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How many of you have ever seen it?
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Let's confess. let your hand.
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A lot of us.
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There've been three
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Sequels to it.
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The theme is overwhelming.
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The theme is a father
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Who goes to the end of the earth
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To get his daughter back,
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Who had been taken.
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The story is very simple.
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Divorce.
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The father had been a secret agent.
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Fraught.
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I don't know how they trained.
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Highly trained in all kinds of
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Weaponry and physical combat.
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He's divorced of his wife.
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His wife is married, a very wealthy person.
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And they were bringing up his daughter.
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And in the process, for the daughter's
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17th birthday, they gave a trip to
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Paris for her and her 17 year old girlfriend
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To see one of their favorite bands
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That was going to be performing.
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And all these men paid and.
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But because she was 17, her father,
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This secret agent man, had to give permission as well
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As the mother for them to go.
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And he did not give permission
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Because he knew the world, he knew the climate.
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He knew that deadliness that was out there
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For two innocent, naive, 17 year old girls.
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And the mother said, man, you've always been so limited.
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You've always been so judgmental, man.
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They've got to grow up and get out on their own.
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And the stepfather jumped in.
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He said, finally, i'll sign and give him for her to go, but
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I have to go with him
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And said, i'll go and i'll just be behind the scenes.
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They won't know i'll there to protect them.
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And man, you know what the teenage girl said about that?
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Finally, with all the harping, the claiming
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He was super pious, he was too judgmental,
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Wouldn't let his 17 year old girl grow up.
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He relented.
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The story is one of tragedy.
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She landed in paris with her friends.
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There's a sharp young parisian guy there
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Who was there to support the sex trafficking was going
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On, and immediately they found themselves in a
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In apartment there, and the bad guys come in
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And she calls her daddy, hiding under the bed.
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Her cell phone said, daddy, come help me.
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But they came and drug her out.
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And the rest of the story is brutal,
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Vicious, cold, hard.
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And how this dad gets up and goes
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There and just wipes out everybody in the process.
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And finally she is chained
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To a bed in a yacht
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Where she been purchased by a chic.
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He's wiped out a lot of them.
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And the sheets.
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Number one protective guy is there.
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They hear shooting in the deck and she says, what is that?
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And the guy said, that's her father.
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He's come together.
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They begin to shake and he does
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Go and get her.
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And she runs
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And hugs him and says,
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Dad, i knew you'd come.
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Is anyone here trapped in chains?
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And so much of our society is,
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Oh, we know that our heavenly father in jesus
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Christ wants to come and save us
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And give us new life and bring us back
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Into a relationship with life at his best.
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Marriages today face more pressures than ever.
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Many couples live
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With stress, disappointment, distance and discouragement,
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Wondering if the joy they want shared can ever return.
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But god's design for marriage has not changed.
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In doctor young's the ten commandments of marriage,
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You'll find practical biblical principles that can help
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Transform your relationship from the inside out.
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Whether you've been married for months or decades,
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These truths can help you communicate better, grow closer
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A strong marriage doesn't happen by accident.
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It grows when a husband and wife choose
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To build their relationship god's way with christ.
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At the center of your home,
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There is always hope, healing, and a path forward.
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Ed Young - God Laughs

May 31, 2026 | 27:29

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