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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - God's Role In Salvation | May 28, 2026
- Come unto
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- Me, all ye that labor and heavy laden, i will give you rest.
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- That's a general call to follow christ.
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- We have a a big call to follow christ.
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- And that's a general thing.
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- That's the whole area.
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- I think of of natural faith.
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- We look at the world we see was created by god.
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- And god sends out a general call to us to come to him, to
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- Believe in him.
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- And that's a general broad call that he gives to anybody
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- And everybody. that's a general call.
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- But then there is a specific call.
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- One of the greatest verse
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- In the bible, and there are many of them.
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- Is romans chapter eight, verse 31.
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- And it says,
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- In light of all this, what do you have to say?
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- If god be for us,
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- Who can be against us?
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- I wonder,
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- As i say, that if god be for us,
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- The congregation with ancer, who could be against us?
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- Okay, if god is for us,
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- And then i'm going to turn
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- And point at the choir
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- And they'll answer nobody.
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- Alright.
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- If god before us.
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- That's
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- A gigantic assumption, isn't it?
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- That's a strong profession of faith.
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- Do you really believe that?
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- Do you know not just by faith
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- Or assumption, because you've always heard it.
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- Do you know that is absolutely, positively true.
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- And that's what we're going to talk about.
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- The validity of that tremendous,
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- Overwhelming statement.
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- If god can be faithful, who in the world can be against us?
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- Nobody. nothing.
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- That's an overwhelming thing,
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- Not overwhelming thing.
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- See, a lot of people say i'm a christian
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- Because, boy, it's exciting.
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- Or i'm a christian because i love to go to church
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- And and we interact there
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- And we intermingle there and we get involved.
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- And i like that i'm
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- A christian because i know jesus taught the
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- Highest principles by which mankind can live.
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- That's why i'm a christian.
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- Let me tell you something.
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- All that is fine.
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- But we don't become a christian by feeling.
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- We may accept christ
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- In an emotional moment, feeling, need, etc., etc.
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- But that's not enough.
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- Feeling has to be transferred
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- Into fact, into truth.
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- And we are a christian because jesus,
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- What he said about himself is absolutely true.
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- We are a christian because the facts of history,
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- That salvation history we've talked about
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- Is absolutely true.
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- So we don't just float around in that honest fear.
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- We also have feeling, but our feeling is based
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- On absolute fact and absolute truth.
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- That's the foundation
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- Of valid,
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- Alive, functioning,
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- Experiential christianity
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- Based on
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- Truth.
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- Now we looked at another famous verse in the bible.
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- Romans 828 and we love that verse.
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- Been around church for a while,
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- Going through some bottom experiences.
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- We love to say,
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- For we know that all things work together for good
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- To those who love the lord
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- And those who are the called according to his purpose.
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- Now that's a fabulous claim,
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- A fabulous promise we can step into
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- And believe and profess, and it changes everything.
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- But we need to understand it fully.
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- For all things
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- We need to understand.
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- As christians, we go through all things
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- The good, the bad and the ugly.
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- How many people i know are supposedly
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- Foolishly, stupidly misinforming,
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- If that's a word, mad at god because god took a child.
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- Because they have a lifetime health problem.
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- Because they have served up so many problems
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- And they have so many enemies.
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- And we go on and on and on and on.
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- We have to understand that all things happen
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- To all people and christians are not excluded.
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- We're a part of all things. why?
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- We live in a fallen, broken world where evil is rampant.
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- So we are caught up in all of this.
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- It's good to say boys, christians, we don't have tough
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- Times.
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- Boy, as a christian y'all always get a promotion.
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- I won't lose my job.
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- A lot of people had the idea because we're a christian.
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- We're bulletproof and independent from all things
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- That are breaking out in a fallen, broken world.
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- That's not true.
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- All of us could stand up and say, in my life,
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- This happened in my life, this did not happen.
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- So we're caught up in all things,
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- Old things.
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- Now, i will put a little parenthesis over here.
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- If we live the christian life genuinely
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- In obedience, in practice,
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- Prayer, worship,
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- We run everything by our lives through jesus christ,
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- Who runs our life, who is our lord and savior.
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- We are exempt from a lot of stuff
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- That befalls the
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- World that does not accept and know jesus.
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- I give you that.
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- That's absolutely true.
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- But the same token, we're not exempt
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- From the whole suffering agenda of the world
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- That we have to understand.
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- So all things
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- We're involved in, all things christians
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- Work together for good.
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- That's what we have that the world does not have,
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- Because god in his formula of life
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- For those who are his sons and daughters in all these things,
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- The good, the bad, the ugly, the ups and the downs,
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- They are working together by a divine divine recipe,
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- A divine formula that god has for all of his children.
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- That's a distinctive
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- This all things work together
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- For good to those who love god,
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- And those who are the called according to his purpose.
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- We see this lived out in many situations.
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- A lot of us could stand and say, man.
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- This was the worst thing that have happened,
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- But that was in a microcosm
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- That was micro in the macro of life,
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- In the macro of eternity, all things work together
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- For good to those who love god
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- And those who are the called according to his purpose.
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- Many illustrations in the bible one i love is lazarus.
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- What a story.
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- Lazarus died.
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- Close friend of jesus.
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- Jesus went there four days after he had died.
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- He'd received a message
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- From martha that come quickly, lazarus is sick.
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- And when jesus gets there, what is martha say,
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- If you had been here, he would not have died.
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- But jesus on a guilt trip, right?
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- Yeah. read it right accurately.
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- You've not been here and he wouldn't have died.
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- And jesus,
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- If you read this scripture at that moment, he was angry.
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- Oh, yeah.
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- And he was tearful.
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- He was angry and he was tearful.
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- And jesus, then you were to think
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- He would have said, just hold on, gang.
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- You think this is a bad deal?
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- Zip it a minute.
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- I'm going to bring him back to life.
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- Just watch this.
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- He didn't do that.
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- He wept. why?
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- Because death is never a good thing, people.
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- Well, death is just natural.
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- No it's not.
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- Death is not natural.
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- There's nothing natural about it.
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- It is evil. it is wrong.
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- In the face of jesus,
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- All things work together for good.
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- And he turned around to that tomb.
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- And i've been right there on that little road
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- Where lazarus tomb was in jerusalem.
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- And he says, lazarus, come forth.
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- And lazarus erupted out of the grave alive.
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- See all things in the economy of god in the eternity of god,
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- Work together for good to love him
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- And those who are called according to his purpose.
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- Because we are christians, bad
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- Ultimately will turn
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- Out to be good, though we may not see it
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- Next week, or next year or the next decade.
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- But that's the promise that god
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- Gives to us as his children.
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- And then you see that word purpose over your bibles,
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- Romans chapter eight.
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- I've just about worn out 3 or 4 bibles with romans eight.
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- You'll see the pages.
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- I can hardly read the scripture
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- For the notes i put in the margins.
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- Romans 828 now we're ready, for we know that god calls us
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- All things to work together for good to those who love god,
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- To those who are called according to his purpose.
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- Purpose.
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- We're going to begin to understand life.
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- I wonder how many people are walking this earth
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- And you ask them the question, who are you?
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- Well, i'm.
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- I'm a carpenter. i'm this. no, no, no.
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- Who are you?
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- Big question, isn't it?
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- Can you go through life
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- Not having a real valid answer to that?
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- Who are you?
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- What about the next one?
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- Where did you come from?
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- Oh, why are you here?
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- That's purpose.
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- And where are you going?
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- Big questions paul deals
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- With right here as we walk through romans chapter eight.
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- That's doctrine.
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- Know that's basic,
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- Fundamental belief upon which we build our lives
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- And make our lives glorious for him purpose.
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- He said, if we are living according to
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- His purpose, what is his purpose?
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- And i'm going to jump down here and get ahead.
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- We go back and pick up this verse.
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- Look at verse 29.
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- We're going to talk
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- About predestination, but he's in verse 29.
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- He says, he also predestined us to become, get this conformed
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- To the image of his son, the image of his son.
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- We were all born. image of god, right?
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- Every human being has something
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- Of the stigmata, the image of god in their life.
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- But now we are to a metamorphosis
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- From my sinful life.
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- Through a metamorphosis, i am conformed
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- And i become more and more like the image of
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- That whom i have turned my life over to
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- When i was a boy, there
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- Was a popular little song called mother.
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- Derived from the acrostic motif.
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- Though the lyrics are not christian.
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- They are certainly universal in their application
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- Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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- I had to
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- Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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- Would you believe that?
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- And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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- Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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- With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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- For mother's day only.
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- So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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- Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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- Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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- To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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- To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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- To get you a copy.
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- Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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- And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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- Or give one to your mother.
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- And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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- We're all in christ.
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- We're all in the family of god,
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- And there's absolute equality there.
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- So let's look at this.
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- This is our purpose. don't get lost.
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- This is our purpose
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- Being conformed to the image of his son,
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- So that he would be the first born of many brethren.
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- Now we're going to look at what god did
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- Five things.
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- Read any commentary.
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- They'll talk about five chains of truth.
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- And here we get into heavy theological water.
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- First of all, look at what he says.
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- The first link in that chain.
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- He says, for those whom he for
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- Knew he for you,
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- You for know something, you know it in advance.
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- Is that not right?
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- You for know you for, he for.
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- And you, you know, in advance.
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- And here is the theological dilemma of the ages.
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- And i'm not going to solve it this morning.
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- There's one
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- View you can find in the bible that is told
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- That if you are elected by god, bang!
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- That's how you get salvation.
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- If you haven't been elected by god, you do not get salvation.
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- Salvation comes by the choice of god in every life.
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- There's another view in the bible that says, oh no,
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- Whosoever will may come to god and come to christ.
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- So here's the here's the challenge will you have
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- Is your salvation and my salvation
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- Based on by being elected by god?
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- Or is your salvation and my salvation based upon free will?
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- The choice that we've made
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- Both of those are biblical truths.
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- How can that be
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- Free will?
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- We chose christ.
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- We get inside.
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- We see we were elected to be in the family of god before
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- Time began,
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- And we see the word there.
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- We have been for known by god.
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- It means that god knows the choices
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- We're going to make and god knows ahead of time.
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- He is arm nation.
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- Certainly he would know the choices
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- We were going to make.
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- That's simply what this is saying.
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- So you're talking about with election.
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- You're talking about the armenians free will.
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- The calvinist, you've been elected by god.
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- It's like arguing about the chicken and the egg.
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- Which came first.
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- I don't know, nobody knows.
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- It doesn't matter.
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- The important thing is, if we're in christ,
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- We're in christ.
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- And that's the whole truth about it.
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- And he for you that we would be in christ.
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- So what is god done about our salvation?
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- Remember what we are.
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- We're discovering our purpose.
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- What's he done?
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- And these these five chains of truth
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- That tells us what god has done.
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- He has for known us.
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- He has known us
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- Before we receive life in this world.
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- He knew this because he is.
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- Nishant, not only have we been forenoon,
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- But also we have look at the next phrase.
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- We know it.
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- We have been predestined.
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- Predestined pre also
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- Means before and destined has to do with destination.
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- We know that we have come to
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- Christ and he knew that it was known to him.
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- And now we know he knew our ultimate destination.
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- He knew we'd have free will.
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- And also we've been taught.
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- Let me tell you what i do.
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- I keep nominating people and they keep getting elected.
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- That's all i know, i nominate them,
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- I share christ, and god keeps elected him.
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- I think that's how it works practically in evangelism
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- And practically coming in on your life.
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- And we have been predestined in the sense god knows as he's
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- Omniscient what our destination is going to be.
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- Not a perfect illustration.
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- Let's say you and new york and you were setting sail
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- On a ship that was destined to go to london.
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- How many of you have been recruited?
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- If you hand, you have my sympathy anyway. but.
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- But you have a lot of choices on that cruise.
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- They tell me the whole kind of places.
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- Different places to eat, different thing.
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- You make all of these choices
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- And that's free will.
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- But i'll tell you, where is that ship going to end up?
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- London.
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- So i think that helps us understand.
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- We have predestined and in our predestination
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- We make a lot of choices.
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- And by the way, we make bad choices.
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- Christians made bad choices.
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- Sometimes we're foods.
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- We're foolish, right?
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- Sometimes we filled with ego and pride.
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- That's right.
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- Now god's going to have a tough time
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- Taking all those departures from his way
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- And turning
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- Out them to be good, but he somehow even can do that.
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- But you see, we're predestined in the sense
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- We know our destination, london.
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- A destination is heaven.
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- Our destination is these areas of life.
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- But in the meantime, we have free will on this earth.
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- We make decisions day by day by day.
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- And what's the next thing?
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- Two things we've been pre known.
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- We've been predestined.
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- Look at the next one in your bible
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- It says we have been called.
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- How important those he predestined.
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- He also called.
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- Called.
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- There are two kinds of call that god places on us.
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- The first call is a general call.
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- Come unto me, all ye that labor and heavy laden,
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- I will give you rest.
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- That's a general call to follow christ.
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- We have a a big call to follow christ.
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- And that's a general thing.
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- That's the whole area.
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- I think of of natural faith.
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- We look at the world we see was created by god.
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- And god sends out a general call to us to come to him, to
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- Believe in him.
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- And that's a general broad call that he gives to anybody
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- And everybody. that's a general call.
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- But then there is a specific call,
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- The theologians call it, and a personal call.
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- Now that's difference.
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- The general call says, whosoever will, let him come.
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- For god so loved the world.
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- He gave his only begotten son, who believes in him.
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- Without them.
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- That's general calls he gives it.
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- But the specific call comes is when we receive him,
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- The general call is an external thing.
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- The specific call becomes a
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- Personal internal thing.
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- See the difference?
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- There's a general call to come to christ.
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- There's a whole thing.
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- I'm a christian.
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- I've accepted the journal called,
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- You know, i've joined the church.
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- I've been through all the rituals
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- And and i'm sort of here and there and john in church,
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- But somehow it hasn't become personal and specific.
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- It doesn't determine how i think,
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- The decisions i make, how my life operates.
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- We're talking about the modus operandi of god.
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- That's what this is.
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- We're seeing how we are saved,
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- And we're seeing how we can come to the idea
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- That all things work together for good to those who love the
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- Lord, those who are the called according to his purpose.
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- And we've seen what his purpose is.
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- We're to conform to the image of his son day by day.
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- By the way, that's sanctification.
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- That's sanctification, which you mention here,
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- But it's implied.
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- And then we have this general call, and then we have
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- This very specific call upon our lives,
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- Very personal, intimate call.
- 00:22:07.015 --> 00:22:10.385
- And that is when salvation becomes fabulous,
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- Genuine, it's verified.
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- And then something else he's done.
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- Look at the next of these five words he says
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- And whom he called.
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- He also justified, justified justification.
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- Read in romans chapter one through four.
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- It's all about justification.
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- We're saved by faith, not by forks, and therefore
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- We are justified before god.
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- What's it mean to be justified?
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- It means god is our judge.
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- He looks at you and me who are in christ.
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- He sees the righteousness of christ.
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- We've made a great deal.
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- We've given jesus christ our old life,
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- And he's given us his new life.
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- We've given him our unrighteousness,
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- And he has infused with you and me his righteousness.
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- Therefore, when god looks on you and me, he sees perfection.
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- We've been justified and we know there's no
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- Condemnation.
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- That's the last phrase here.
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- No condemnation in christ jesus, because the price
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- Has already been paid for your sin and my sin,
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- And therefore we are justified by faith.
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- But faith in the big thing.
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- We have the idea if i had bigger faith
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- Or smaller faith, i need more faith.
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- No, faith is sort of faith.
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- I don't know if it's quantitative.
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- There.
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- A lot of people say, oh, if you had enough faith.
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- No, faith is not the question.
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- We have faith.
- 00:23:42.544 --> 00:23:43.512
- God has given us faith, and he knows exactly
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- How we can use that faith or not use that faith.
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- This goes back to the election.
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- This goes back to the calvinist and got to the armenians.
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- He's given us faith by our free will.
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- We can use that faith or not do that faith.
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- If we use that faith, we are safe.
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- We are right with god.
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- That's the word,
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- And therefore we are justified.
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- And sanctification is built in this, by the way,
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- Because we're justified.
- 00:24:16.745 --> 00:24:18.213
- We enjoy growing up in the lord jesus christ.
- 00:24:18.213 --> 00:24:21.249
- And then finally we are glorified.
- 00:24:21.249 --> 00:24:24.619
- Look at this last word.
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- He also glorified us.
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- Glorified.
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- Remember, the word glory means wait.
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- It means there will come a day when you and
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- I will be heavyweights.
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- We'll waste something with god.
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- We're wasting with heaven.
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- And that glorification begins now.
- 00:24:41.736 --> 00:24:43.972
- And it's interesting in the tense of these words,
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- Glorified is present tense.
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- Aorist is present tense.
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- Other words, in a sense, we are already being glorified
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- As we have gone through the metamorphosis
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- And we are being conformed to the image of jesus christ.
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- There's a touch of glory in us now.
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- So we
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- Have these five chains tells us
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- What god has done
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- So that we can know
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- That we're saved, that we're know in his family.
- 00:25:18.506 --> 00:25:21.543
- And god has done all of this for us.
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- There's those five fabulous things.
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- And then we
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- Come to that tremendous verse that we already
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- Claim, remember, right up front.
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- And just a few seconds ago,
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- All things work together for good
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- To those who love the lord
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- And those who are called according to his purpose.
- 00:25:43.665 --> 00:25:47.369
- Micro.
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- Tough,
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- But christians in god's hands.
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- Macro.
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- It will be
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- And is magnificent.
- 00:26:00.682 --> 00:26:05.687
- When i was a boy,
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- There was a popular little song called mother.
- 00:26:07.389 --> 00:26:11.159
- Derived from the acrostic motif.
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- Though the lyrics are not christian.
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- They are certainly universal in their application
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- Of mothers everywhere as a child.
- 00:26:21.670 --> 00:26:25.006
- I had to
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- Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
- 00:26:26.107 --> 00:26:29.444
- Would you believe that?
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- And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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- Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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- With this little acrostic for mother's day.
- 00:26:37.886 --> 00:26:41.289
- For mother's day only.
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- So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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- Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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- Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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- To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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- To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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- To get you a copy.
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- Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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- And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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- Or give one to your mother.
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- And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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