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Ed Young - God So Loved the World

April 30, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - God So Loved the World
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 - God So Loved the World | April 30, 2026
  • Did you know that god
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  • Love the altona khamenei just as much as he loved
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  • Mother theresa?
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  • Did you know that
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  • God loved billy graham just as much as you love adam?
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  • Hitler? did you know that
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  • God is no respecter of persons?
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  • He loves the person drugged out, living on
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  • The street as much as he loves a multi-millionaire.
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  • With 16 different houses and 200 airplanes.
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  • Understand that god loves the whole world
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  • With no partiality.
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  • God so loved
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  • The world.
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  • In 1878,
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  • Some archeologists were digging around the sands of egypt,
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  • And they ran into an obelisk
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  • With hieroglyphics written on it,
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  • And they translated the hieroglyphics,
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  • And they discovered a civilization, a culture,
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  • A nation that heretofore
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  • Nobody knew anything about.
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  • And so, as they did in those days,
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  • The british took this artifact
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  • From egypt and transported it to london.
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  • They named it cleopatra's needle,
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  • And they erected it by the thames river.
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  • At the same time.
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  • Some englishmen said, you know, they may come a day
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  • When london will be flattened, the british isles
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  • Will no longer exist, and people may wonder
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  • What kind of life we had here.
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  • So they put together a time vault,
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  • Buried it under cleopatra's needle, thereby the thames.
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  • And they put in it the london phone book.
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  • They put in pieces of clothing.
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  • They put in it accounts of how they ran their government.
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  • And finally they were thinking of all the stuff
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  • They could put in.
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  • They put some toys in it.
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  • They said, you know, we need to pick out
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  • One religious verse
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  • And put it in this time vault
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  • So they'll know something about what we believed.
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  • Now, can you imagine a debate that followed?
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  • Which
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  • Verse, which word, what religion?
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  • And they
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  • Debated it for a long time until they finally decided
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  • On one verse.
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  • You could probably guess what it is.
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  • It's the only verse most of us can quote outside
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  • Of jesus wept.
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  • John 316
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  • And john 316.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, is the pivotal verse
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  • In the bible,
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  • The old testament, the new testament comes
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  • Together, and in that brief, succinct verse
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  • You have a magnificent summary
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  • Of christianity
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  • And what it means to be a christian.
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  • The problem with it
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  • Is that we all know it.
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  • The problem with it we become jaded and quoting it.
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  • And we never, most of us perhaps sat down and looked
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  • At that verse and say, lord, what are you saying to me?
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  • What are you saying to the world?
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  • Every time you come to the word love,
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  • With few exceptions, the cross is not far away.
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  • As you read the bible, look at it in the usa.
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  • You see love.
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  • You see the cross. because those.
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  • There's no better demonstration of love
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  • Than god dying for us in christ on that cross.
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  • And we see with john tree 16,
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  • There's a reference to if i be lifted up.
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  • One verse separates that which john says,
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  • You must be born again to have eternal life.
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  • And then he gives us john 316.
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  • Let's look at it.
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  • For god
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  • So loved
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  • The world. god.
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  • Omnipotent, omniscient.
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  • I'm that present all the names of god.
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  • I don't, i elohim, all the names of god,
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  • All the attributes of god. god.
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  • So by the way, the word soul,
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  • There is one of those pregnant words, nor the pregnant word
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  • Is. it's a word
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  • That has deep meaning that you might overlook.
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  • You find
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  • When you're reading
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  • The scripture, you look for a little pregnant words
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  • That will grow and expand, and they mean more than
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  • You think they mean.
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  • And that's that little word.
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  • So who pass?
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  • It means god so
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  • Lavishly, god lavishly.
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  • World of the world.
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  • And god loved the world more than anybody
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  • Has ever loved the world.
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  • And more than we can understand how much he loves the world.
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  • God lavishly love.
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  • We say we love.
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  • It's the word of god.
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  • It's a greek word means sacrificial love.
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  • But let's try to understand
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  • Something of the extent of god's love.
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  • Read the book of hosea.
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  • Great little book.
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  • God tells hosea to go and marry gomer.
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  • She's a beautiful gal.
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  • But he said gomer is going to be unfaithful to you.
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  • She's going to commit adultery and she's going to break
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  • Your heart.
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  • But you go marry her anyway.
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  • And hosea did.
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  • It was a
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  • Study through josias home life,
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  • His marriage of how the israelites
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  • Had fallen away from being obedient to god,
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  • Though god had loved and blessed them phenomenally.
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  • And so it's a picture of the love of god.
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  • Gomer had an affair.
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  • Gomer left.
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  • Hosea moved in with one man, married him.
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  • Another man married him, another man.
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  • Until finally she was just living
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  • With a man of the streets who was just
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  • As immoral and decadent as she was.
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  • And this man, the streets
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  • Could not even support her in clothes and food.
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  • So god says, oh, you go
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  • And give support of food and clothes
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  • And money to this sorry bum that is
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  • Now living with your wife.
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  • And don't let your wife know that you're
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  • The source of her basics that she needs to live.
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  • Isn't that something?
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  • And hosea did that.
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  • Hosea did that.
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  • But finally he threw gomer away
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  • And gomer ends up on the slave block.
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  • And when they auction off slaves in jerusalem
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  • And that day they stripped them naked.
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  • You can imagine the disease, the the dirt.
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  • How she looked.
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  • Bashir did.
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  • She stood there being auctioned off.
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  • The auctioneer said, what am i bid for this,
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  • For this, for this, this woman.
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  • Somebody said
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  • Three shekels ago
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  • He said, oh, six shekels of gold.
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  • Yes, seven shekels of gold.
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  • I hear you over there.
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  • Eight.
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  • Nine until finally hosea, instructed by
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  • God to go and buy back his wife from the slave market.
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  • He says 15 shekels of gold.
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  • All the other bidders got quiet.
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  • But then someone who.
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  • Good old boy, they had said 15 shekels of gold
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  • And a bushel of barley.
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  • And hosea said,
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  • I bid 15 shekels of gold,
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  • And a bushel and a half of barley.
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  • And the auctioneer said so.
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  • And so hosea came up
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  • And covered his wife, and took her out.
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  • And god instructed him to love her,
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  • To restore her, to honor her,
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  • And to bless her as his wife.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, that's a little picture
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  • Of how much god loves each
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  • And every one of us.
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  • God loves the world.
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  • Do you get that?
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  • Did you know that god love the altona khamenei
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  • Just as much as he loved mother theresa?
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  • Did you know that
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  • God loved billy graham just as much as you love adam?
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  • Hitler? did you know that
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  • God is no respecter of persons?
  • 00:09:52.570 --> 00:09:55.774
  • He loves the person drugged out, living on
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  • The street as much as he loves a multi-millionaire.
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  • With 16 different houses and 200 airplanes.
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  • Understand that god loves the whole world
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  • With no partiality.
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  • God so loved
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  • The world.
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  • Now we got that much
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  • Staggering to some.
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  • What did he do?
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  • How do we know he loves the world this much?
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  • Because he gave
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  • His only
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  • Begotten son and the word gave or give.
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  • There is a different word. it's not like i.
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  • I give you a gift.
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  • Here's your birthday. here's a tie.
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  • It's not like we give a gift.
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  • It's like in the lord's prayer.
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  • Give us this day our daily bread that give their says.
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  • We have to have bread in order to stay alive.
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  • That's the same word.
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  • Forgive.
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  • Their god gave.
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  • For god so loved the world,
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  • He gave that which is an absolute necessity
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  • For us to live, and that is his only begotten son.
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  • I only begotten this sort of a king james type biblical word.
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  • It means god gave that which is unique,
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  • That which is unlike any other gift.
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  • You know what god gave us.
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  • Follow me.
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  • One third of the trinity.
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  • How about that?
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  • God the father, god the son, god the holy spirit.
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  • He gave his son, who is his son.
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  • Not in a biological way.
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  • Jesus is god wrapped up in human flesh.
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  • God gave his unique, only begotten son,
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  • Demonstrating his love.
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  • He gave that son.
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  • He offered that son.
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  • He allowed that son to enter into time and space
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  • And history.
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  • That's magnificent love.
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  • Supernatural love
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  • Everybody wants a happy home.
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  • But let's be honest.
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  • A happy home doesn't just happen.
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  • It's built.
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  • It's shaped.
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  • Day by day by day.
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  • That's why i want to encourage you to read
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  • This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
  • 00:12:27.792 --> 00:12:31.029
  • This 90 day devotional is from
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  • Decades of real life pastoring,
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  • Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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  • In the page of this book each day
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  • You will find a simple rhythm
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  • As of scripture,
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  • Practical, down to earth navigation,
  • 00:12:47.212 --> 00:12:50.148
  • And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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  • We're not talking about something complicated here.
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  • We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
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  • 15 minutes.
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  • Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
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  • Your home on what matters the most in christ
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  • Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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  • Your life.
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  • Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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  • Everything else changes.
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  • Conversations change.
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  • Priorities change.
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  • Hearts begin to change.
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  • Take that first step today.
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  • Call the number or visit the website below
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  • For god so loved the world
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  • That he gave his only begotten son.
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  • And here's the one
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  • Whosoever that's in the king james, whosoever.
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  • The modern translation say whoever.
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  • But i think they mess up.
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  • They leave all the little greek words
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  • So and the word so we read before god.
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  • Soul members lavished.
  • 00:14:09.961 --> 00:14:11.596
  • But this word so means anytime,
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  • Anywhere, anyplace, anytime, any situation.
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  • God is always a god of love.
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  • You can't escape god's love.
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  • You can't earn god's love,
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  • But you can't reject god's love.
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  • That's the free will that you and i have
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  • Free will to choose.
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  • He gave his only begotten son, that who saw.
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  • Anybody, anywhere, anytime, ever believes in him
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  • Will not perish
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  • But have everlasting life.
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  • You know how long everlasting life is, i can tell you.
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  • Maybe a few of us have seen the rock of gibraltar.
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  • I've seen it.
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  • Gigantic rock man.
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  • People live there. it's. it's something.
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  • As long as it would take a
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  • Pigeon to land on gibraltar.
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  • They got a lot of them there, by the way.
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  • And take his beak and begin to rub on that giant, giant rock.
  • 00:15:18.629 --> 00:15:23.735
  • As long as it would take him to rub so long
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  • That that rock became just sand.
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  • How much time that would take?
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  • One nanosecond would have gone by an eternity.
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  • That's how long eternity is.
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  • It's like forever.
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  • For god so loved the world
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  • That he gave his only, only unique, begotten son.
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  • That who so ever believes in
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  • Him will not perish, but they'll live forever.
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  • Quite a verse.
  • 00:16:02.106 --> 00:16:04.742
  • Now that's john 316, but you know, jesus keeps on
  • 00:16:04.742 --> 00:16:10.281
  • Speaking in verse 17,
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  • 18, 19, 20 and 21.
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  • Five more verses.
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  • You know what has happened to us.
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  • We stopped at john 316
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  • And we said, boy, it is the everest.
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  • It is the top.
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  • We've forgotten to look at those following
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  • Five verses, and they are part of one of the
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  • Greatest chapters in the bible, which is john chapter three.
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  • And those five verses, you know what they do?
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  • They explain.
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  • John 316.
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  • So we won't just go over the words.
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  • We'll know exactly what is being taught
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  • By the son of god.
  • 00:16:56.661 --> 00:16:58.563
  • So let's look at those verses.
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  • They are very, very important.
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  • And we're going to just take and look at four words,
  • 00:17:03.067 --> 00:17:06.003
  • Four key words you find in john 316.
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  • And the first word is world.
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  • It's mentioned twice in john 17.
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  • And then believe is mentioned three times in the next verse.
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  • And then from there to 21 it's talking about judgment.
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  • It's talking about perishing.
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  • Look what we learn from the word world.
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  • Look at john 1617.
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  • For god did not send the son into the world
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  • To judge the world, but that the world
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  • Might be saved through him.
  • 00:17:41.072 --> 00:17:44.108
  • What does that say?
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  • It says that jesus came to the world not to judge us.
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  • There will be a day for that in his second coming.
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  • But he came into the world not to judge us,
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  • But that the world through him
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  • Might be salvaged,
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  • Restored for the purpose for which it was made.
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  • Each one of us were salvaged in this life,
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  • And we're saved in eternity.
  • 00:18:07.765 --> 00:18:10.535
  • What are they?
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  • He came so that through him
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  • We might be okay.
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  • Salvaged.
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  • Now, have you heard somebody say.
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  • How can.
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  • The god of love.
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  • Send. in
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  • To hell?
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  • Let me remind you biblically.
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  • Theologically.
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  • God never sends anybody to hell.
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  • He never does that.
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  • Jesus has died
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  • For all of your trash and all of my trash,
  • 00:18:47.538 --> 00:18:51.309
  • So that if we choose to go to hell, god doesn't send us.
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  • We've got to go over the body that he has provided.
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  • He has died for us, so we will never condemn ourselves
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  • To eternal separation from god.
  • 00:19:02.587 --> 00:19:05.556
  • Isn't it beautiful
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  • That he came into the world to redeem?
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  • To save?
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  • We know there's creation.
  • 00:19:12.363 --> 00:19:14.198
  • There's the fall and there's redemption.
  • 00:19:14.198 --> 00:19:16.867
  • He came in the redemption motif
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  • To salvages now and to save us in eternity.
  • 00:19:19.904 --> 00:19:23.507
  • So we look to the word world.
  • 00:19:23.507 --> 00:19:25.343
  • It helps us understand the word world in john 316.
  • 00:19:25.343 --> 00:19:28.779
  • And then we see the word believe.
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  • Look at it.
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  • John 318 he that believeth in him is not judged.
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  • He who does not believe has been judged already,
  • 00:19:38.389 --> 00:19:41.592
  • Because he has not believed in the name of
  • 00:19:41.592 --> 00:19:44.462
  • The only gotten to the father.
  • 00:19:44.462 --> 00:19:46.163
  • What is that about?
  • 00:19:46.163 --> 00:19:47.031
  • It's about to believe.
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  • People believe on the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:19:48.866 --> 00:19:51.435
  • What does believe mean?
  • 00:19:51.435 --> 00:19:53.404
  • Well, i'd have to know all the facts.
  • 00:19:53.404 --> 00:19:55.139
  • A lot of us know the facts. does that enough
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  • To believe
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  • Three times in one verse.
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  • Jesus said, believe.
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  • What in the world has believed me?
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  • I believe, what do you believe?
  • 00:20:06.984 --> 00:20:09.153
  • What does it mean to believe
  • 00:20:09.153 --> 00:20:11.856
  • For god so loved the world that he gave
  • 00:20:11.856 --> 00:20:13.824
  • His only begotten son, that whoever stretches out on
  • 00:20:13.824 --> 00:20:17.762
  • Jesus and rest shall be saved.
  • 00:20:17.762 --> 00:20:20.998
  • It's to put our full trust in him
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  • To believe his atoning death for us to understand.
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  • He's given us a genius of life.
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  • It's a stretch out fully on him.
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  • That's to believe.
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  • That's to believe
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  • Whoever believes in him.
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  • Oh, that's a big word.
  • 00:20:41.018 --> 00:20:42.219
  • And then the last word we have
  • 00:20:42.219 --> 00:20:43.587
  • The last three verses here is the word perish.
  • 00:20:43.587 --> 00:20:47.458
  • Or we'd say the word judgment.
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  • Look at it. verse 19.
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  • This is the judgment that the light has come into the world.
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  • What is the light of the world is jesus.
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  • Jesus came and he lighted up the world.
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  • Has come
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  • Into the world, and men love the darkness
  • 00:21:04.642 --> 00:21:06.877
  • Rather than the light, for their deeds were evil.
  • 00:21:06.877 --> 00:21:11.215
  • So everyone who does evil hates the light and does not
  • 00:21:11.215 --> 00:21:16.020
  • Come to the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
  • 00:21:16.020 --> 00:21:20.424
  • But he practices the truth, comes to the light,
  • 00:21:20.424 --> 00:21:24.095
  • So that his deeds
  • 00:21:24.095 --> 00:21:25.129
  • May be manifested as having been wrought in god.
  • 00:21:25.129 --> 00:21:29.066
  • What is that about?
  • 00:21:29.066 --> 00:21:31.135
  • It says that jesus came and gave light in the world,
  • 00:21:31.135 --> 00:21:34.972
  • But the world enjoys darkness.
  • 00:21:34.972 --> 00:21:39.410
  • What is darkness?
  • 00:21:39.844 --> 00:21:40.878
  • The absence of light.
  • 00:21:40.878 --> 00:21:42.880
  • As long as
  • 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:44.115
  • Jesus was not in the world, the light in the world was dim.
  • 00:21:44.115 --> 00:21:47.718
  • But jesus came and gave light.
  • 00:21:47.718 --> 00:21:50.788
  • And what happens?
  • 00:21:51.222 --> 00:21:52.623
  • You put light down in a hole.
  • 00:21:52.623 --> 00:21:54.258
  • Watch over roaches. run!
  • 00:21:54.258 --> 00:21:57.495
  • Jesus is the light of the world.
  • 00:21:57.495 --> 00:22:00.064
  • He came to cast out darkness
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  • Individually in your life and in my life.
  • 00:22:01.866 --> 00:22:04.268
  • And wherever we go
  • 00:22:04.268 --> 00:22:05.903
  • And wherever he goes, he cast out darkness.
  • 00:22:05.903 --> 00:22:09.440
  • Darkness is the absence of light.
  • 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:11.208
  • And god came and gave light.
  • 00:22:11.208 --> 00:22:14.545
  • And therefore, where light comes,
  • 00:22:14.545 --> 00:22:17.848
  • He came not to judge or condemn.
  • 00:22:17.848 --> 00:22:20.050
  • He came to turn on. the lights.
  • 00:22:20.050 --> 00:22:24.288
  • And he's bidding for every one of us.
  • 00:22:25.089 --> 00:22:27.324
  • We're all on the auction block.
  • 00:22:27.324 --> 00:22:28.959
  • Have you noticed?
  • 00:22:28.959 --> 00:22:29.894
  • And god in jesus christ is bidding for us?
  • 00:22:29.894 --> 00:22:33.264
  • He says, i bid my son.
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  • I put him there.
  • 00:22:36.367 --> 00:22:38.302
  • I love him and he loves you.
  • 00:22:38.302 --> 00:22:40.738
  • He's providing for your life to be alive
  • 00:22:40.738 --> 00:22:46.410
  • And to be a light to the world.
  • 00:22:46.410 --> 00:22:51.515
  • Twas battered and scarred.
  • 00:22:52.082 --> 00:22:54.385
  • And the auctioneer thought it scarcely worth his while.
  • 00:22:54.385 --> 00:22:57.855
  • The waste much time on the old violin.
  • 00:22:57.855 --> 00:23:00.691
  • But he held it up with a smile.
  • 00:23:00.691 --> 00:23:03.227
  • What am i being?
  • 00:23:03.227 --> 00:23:04.094
  • Good folk, he cried.
  • 00:23:04.094 --> 00:23:05.796
  • Who starts to bidding for me?
  • 00:23:05.796 --> 00:23:08.199
  • A dollar? only two.
  • 00:23:08.199 --> 00:23:10.267
  • Who will make it?
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  • $303 once, $3 twice.
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  • Going for only three, but no.
  • 00:23:15.406 --> 00:23:19.043
  • From the room far back.
  • 00:23:19.043 --> 00:23:21.812
  • A gray haired man came forward and picked up the bow
  • 00:23:21.812 --> 00:23:24.882
  • And tightening the strings on the old violin, he played
  • 00:23:24.882 --> 00:23:28.619
  • A melody pure and sweet,
  • 00:23:28.619 --> 00:23:31.522
  • As sweet as the angel sings.
  • 00:23:32.122 --> 00:23:34.859
  • The music ceased, and the auctioneer,
  • 00:23:34.859 --> 00:23:37.962
  • With the voice that was quiet and low, said.
  • 00:23:37.962 --> 00:23:41.799
  • Now what am i bid for the old violin?
  • 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:45.603
  • And he held it up with a bow.
  • 00:23:45.603 --> 00:23:48.405
  • $1,000.
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  • 2000. who make it? three 3000.
  • 00:23:50.040 --> 00:23:53.210
  • Once. 3000.
  • 00:23:53.210 --> 00:23:54.645
  • Twice. going and gone, cried he.
  • 00:23:54.645 --> 00:23:58.449
  • The people cheered,
  • 00:23:58.916 --> 00:24:01.285
  • But some of them cried.
  • 00:24:01.285 --> 00:24:04.488
  • We do not quite understand
  • 00:24:04.488 --> 00:24:07.324
  • What changed is worth.
  • 00:24:07.324 --> 00:24:10.194
  • Quick, came the reply.
  • 00:24:10.661 --> 00:24:13.130
  • The touch of the master's hand,
  • 00:24:13.130 --> 00:24:17.301
  • And many a man with life out of tune.
  • 00:24:17.301 --> 00:24:19.770
  • Is battered and torn with sin.
  • 00:24:19.770 --> 00:24:21.972
  • Is auctioned cheap to the thoughtless crowd.
  • 00:24:21.972 --> 00:24:24.742
  • Much like that old violin,
  • 00:24:24.742 --> 00:24:27.611
  • A bowl of pottage, a glass of wine, a game.
  • 00:24:27.611 --> 00:24:30.180
  • And he travels on.
  • 00:24:30.180 --> 00:24:31.382
  • He's going once, he's going twice.
  • 00:24:31.382 --> 00:24:33.651
  • He's almost gone.
  • 00:24:33.651 --> 00:24:35.853
  • But the master comes and the food is.
  • 00:24:35.853 --> 00:24:39.857
  • Crowd can never quite understand
  • 00:24:39.857 --> 00:24:43.060
  • The worth of a soul.
  • 00:24:43.527 --> 00:24:46.363
  • And the change that's wrought
  • 00:24:46.363 --> 00:24:49.733
  • By the touch
  • 00:24:50.067 --> 00:24:52.403
  • Of the master's hand.
  • 00:24:52.403 --> 00:24:56.774
  • Everybody wants a happy home.
  • 00:24:57.408 --> 00:25:00.411
  • But let's be honest.
  • 00:25:00.411 --> 00:25:01.912
  • A happy home doesn't just happen.
  • 00:25:01.912 --> 00:25:04.815
  • It's built.
  • 00:25:04.815 --> 00:25:06.083
  • It's shaped.
  • 00:25:06.083 --> 00:25:07.518
  • Day by day by day.
  • 00:25:07.518 --> 00:25:09.653
  • That's why i want to encourage you to read
  • 00:25:09.653 --> 00:25:12.222
  • This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
  • 00:25:12.222 --> 00:25:15.459
  • This 90 day devotional is from
  • 00:25:15.459 --> 00:25:17.962
  • Decades of real life pastoring,
  • 00:25:17.962 --> 00:25:21.231
  • Counseling, and building my own home and family.
  • 00:25:21.231 --> 00:25:24.602
  • In the page of this
  • 00:25:25.069 --> 00:25:26.070
  • Book each day you will find a simple rhythm
  • 00:25:26.070 --> 00:25:29.406
  • As of scripture,
  • 00:25:29.807 --> 00:25:31.642
  • Practical, down to earth navigation,
  • 00:25:31.642 --> 00:25:34.578
  • And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
  • 00:25:34.578 --> 00:25:39.083
  • We're not talking about something complicated here.
  • 00:25:39.083 --> 00:25:41.719
  • We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
  • 00:25:41.719 --> 00:25:44.722
  • 15 minutes.
  • 00:25:44.722 --> 00:25:46.423
  • Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
  • 00:25:46.423 --> 00:25:49.126
  • Your home on what matters the most in christ
  • 00:25:49.126 --> 00:25:53.530
  • Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
  • 00:25:53.530 --> 00:25:56.800
  • Your life.
  • 00:25:57.101 --> 00:25:58.235
  • Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
  • 00:25:58.235 --> 00:26:01.205
  • Everything else changes.
  • 00:26:01.205 --> 00:26:04.208
  • Conversations change.
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  • Priorities change.
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  • Hearts begin to change.
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  • Take that first step today.
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  • Call the number or visit the website below
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  • And get cardinal rules for a happy home
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  • And begin your 90 day journey
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  • Right now.
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  • Whatever season you're in right now.
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  • No one thing.
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  • God is present.
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  • He is near to the brokenhearted.
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  • He has strength for the weary, his wisdom for the uncertain.
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  • You don't have to face tomorrow alone.
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  • Choose faith and confidence over fear and doubt.
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  • Choose trust over.
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  • I'm not quite sure.
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  • And rest in the peace that only jesus christ can give.
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  • And may his presence guide you, his word sustain
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  • You and his spirit empower you in the days ahead.
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  • May the lord keep his hand on your life,
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  • And i'll see you next time on this family
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  • Winning walk with jesus christ.
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