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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Growing Up In Christ | March 23, 2026
- What do you see?
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- What do you see?
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- Oh, here we go.
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- Some of us look out and we have rose colored glasses.
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- We see everybody.
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- You are beautiful.
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- Everybody's wonderful.
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- We're all going to be healthy
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- And rich and wise and have fun.
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- And, oh, rose colored glasses
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- Just can't see anything but marvelous stuff.
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- We've been talking about
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- Having a life coach long time.
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- Then we move from having a life coach talking about
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- How do we proceed and progress
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- In our christian walk.
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- And i looked at some verses
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- And i reviewed them again, like john 1010,
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- Jesus said, i've come that
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- You might have life and might have life abundantly.
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- And i looked again at that word abundant abundantly.
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- And it's such a pregnant word.
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- It means that we are surrounded
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- By beauty, by excellence,
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- By an overcoming, overwhelming presence.
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- We are surrounded with overflowing
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- Ministry to our lives and our needs.
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- That's the abundant life.
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- And i thought.
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- Am i experiencing that abundant life?
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- Are you experiencing
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- That abundant life?
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- Then i looked again at john
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- Chapter 15.
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- We talked about that.
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- Jesus says, i'm the vine.
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- You're the branch. remember?
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- Now in that branch, if we just abide
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- In the vine where the branches,
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- He'll hang fruit on our lives.
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- And i looked up that fruit, and therefore
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- We need to have some of that love and joy and
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- Peace and patience and kindness and goodness
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- And faithfulness and gentleness and self-control, discipline.
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- And i said,
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- It is some of that beginning to come out in my life
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- Is beginning to come
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- Out in your life.
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- And then i looked over and remembered
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- That little verse and said, grenadians chapter five.
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- If anyone is in christ,
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- They are a new creation in christ, new creation.
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- All things are passed away.
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- Everything has become new.
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- And i ask myself, oh, things passed away.
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- Is everything becoming new?
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- Then i look at the end of john 15
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- And as we talked about, we were back bear fruit.
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- Then there's much fruit, then there's more fruit.
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- And then jesus says,
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- As he has been obedient to the commandment of the father,
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- The father has bathed him in his love.
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- And he says, as you, that you and i,
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- If we are obedient to him and walk with him.
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- He bathes us in his love.
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- And i stopped and said,
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- Am i being bathed in the love of jesus christ?
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- Are you being bathed in the love of jesus christ?
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- Then the latter part of john 15, there's that
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- Tremendous christian word, joy.
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- That's it, isn't it?
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- So you look at all the
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- Benefits of being in christ, and we back up and say,
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- What does it mean to be in christ?
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- To be in a relationship?
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- You don't say for a relationship
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- With a relationship.
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- You're in a relationship.
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- So when we say we are in christ, it means that
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- We believe in jesus.
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- But we entered into a relationship
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- With jesus the christ.
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- Zip line.
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- And i can stand and say, i believe in that zip line.
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- It will take me across this valley.
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- But as you take and clip on and get in that little seat,
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- And then i am in to the zip line, right.
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- I believed in and now i'm into as zip.
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- I go across the valley.
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- When we're in christ, it means that
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- We have been invited and we have entered
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- Into a personal relationship with jesus christ.
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- Have you experienced that?
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- Are you experiencing that?
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- Am i experience that kind of personal
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- Relationship with christ?
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- I'm in christ
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- And you're in christ because we have entered
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- Into a relationship with jesus christ.
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- You see, everything in the world has a place to belong.
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- Everything.
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- A tree belongs in the ground
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- Where it is surrounded,
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- And it grows.
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- It is nourished and it grows.
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- A tree has a place all right.
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- A fish has a place to belong in water.
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- Surrounded where it grows.
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- No danger of being caught by this crowd.
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- But anyway, a fish has a place to belong.
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- A tree has a place for anything you name.
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- And the created order.
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- It has a place to belong.
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- Human beings.
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- You and i have a place to belong.
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- Augustine said it best
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- In a paraphrase.
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- He said you will be restless.
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- Your life, your heart will be restless
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- Until you rest.
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- Get this phrase in him,
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- In him.
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- That's where we find rest.
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- We have a place but belong.
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- But we are restless.
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- Until we rest in him.
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- And we enter into a relationship with him.
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- When he invites us and we receive him,
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- And we are in christ because we entered into christ.
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- Why are we not growing up?
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- Yeah,
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- Well, we're not growing up.
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- So many of us are static in our christian life.
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- We're we're we're just something's happened to us.
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- We haven't matured.
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- We're not
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- Progressing with the moment
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- Of transformation.
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- Scripture
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- Passage in hebrews, in your bulletin,
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- Passage in first corinthians 13, the love chapter,
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- A little verse is nestled down there
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- Against all the definitions of love.
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- And the verse says,
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- When i was a child, i spake as a child, and i became a man.
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- I put away childish saying, no.
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- It goes on and talks about why are we still children?
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- Why are we still immature in christ?
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- Why are you and i?
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- I don't have things to do with age all the time.
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- There's some people who are 70 who are very immature.
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- Some people who are 19, who are very mature in christ.
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- What happened to us?
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- We're still babies.
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- What's the characteristic of a baby?
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- For things a baby does only four things sleeps,
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- Cries, eat and poops.
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- That's it.
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- A baby don't know what's going on.
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- Babies.
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- That's all it eats, sleeps, cries, poop.
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- That's a baby.
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- And the scripture says in hebrews and the scripture says
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- In corinthians, there's some of us who are in christ.
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- We have entered into christ, we're still children.
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- We're still immature,
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- And we've been talking about growing up in christ.
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- So how do we know that we are in that process
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- Of being mature
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- In the lord?
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- How do we know? what are some things?
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- So first of all, we have to have a transformed mind.
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- If our minds are being transformed,
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- That's a clue that we're growing up.
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- And we looked at romans 12 one and two.
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- How many times be not conformed to this world?
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- Be ye what transformed?
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- How by the renewing of your mind.
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- Garbage in, garbage out.
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- Computer talk.
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- We renew our mind by what we put in our minds.
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- And we renew it.
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- And christ, the holy spirit renews our minds, our thinking.
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- Because we're surrounded by the wisdom of the world.
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- Natural wisdom.
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- Worldly wisdom.
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- And we have little cliches, little sayings
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- That describe whirling wisdom.
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- You hear them all the time.
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- We say
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- That's not true, but yet we are part of that environment.
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- A statement like
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- The one who has the most toys at the end wins.
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- Or that one.
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- Or if you don't touch your own horn, who will do that?
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- Ever heard that one?
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- That's worldly wisdom.
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- And we're surrounded by people
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- Who operate on that basis.
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- Get more, have more, enjoy more.
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- You only live once.
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- Have all the gusto that you can.
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- Worldly wisdom.
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- But also when we are in christ,
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- We receive a different kind of mindset
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- And therefore begin to have supernatural wisdom.
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- What does supernatural wisdom?
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- It works in a different dimension, a different area,
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- And we begin to understand.
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- Phrases like.
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- He is no fool
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- Who gives what he cannot keep in order
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- To gain what he cannot lose.
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- That is supernatural wisdom.
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- One life to live soon will be past only what you've done.
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- For god will last.
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- Supernatural
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- Wisdom.
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- I'd rather have jesus and silver or gold.
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- Supernatural wisdom everyday.
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- What jesus said is sweeter, better than the day before.
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- Supernatural wisdom, not just church talk.
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- And you see,
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- We are with this wisdom, this supernatural wisdom.
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- The potential of the mind
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- Of christ being created in you and being created in me.
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- We have a whole different worldview to a that we are
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- Maturing is that we are developing
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- A transformed mind.
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- Also, another mark they were maturing
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- Is we're developing a transformed heart.
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- What makes your heart beat fast?
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- That's a good question. think about that.
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- What makes your heart beat fast?
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- Some who followed sports
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- Five years ago when the aggies were paying taxes.
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- I'm telling you, i was so excited about that guy
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- Who won.
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- You don't even know keith.
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- I mean,
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- What makes your heart beat fast?
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- You know,
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- Determine what makes my heart beat fast.
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- What makes your heart beat fast?
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- It determines something of what our heart is set on.
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- It is out of the passion of the heart. as.
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- As a man thinketh, so is he.
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- We think in one way we're developing the mind of christ.
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- Then our heart speaks to us, gives us a passion
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- To follow through on that transformed heart.
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- That's a sign we're going, maturing
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- And also transformed. i've
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- What do you see?
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- What do you see?
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- Oh, here we go.
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- Some of us look out and we have rose colored glasses.
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- We see everybody.
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- You are beautiful.
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- Everybody's wonderful.
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- We're all going to be healthy
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- And rich and wise and have fun.
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- And, oh, rose colored glasses
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- Just can't see anything but marvelous stuff.
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- Is that developing mature spiritual eyes?
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- The eyes in christ would have rose colored glasses.
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- A child takes their first step unsteady.
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- Unsure.
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- Reaching for a father's hand.
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- No one is born knowing how to walk.
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- It takes training, strength.
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- Balance. time.
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- Walking with god is no different.
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- Like all journeys, walking the winning
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- Walk requires the proper equipment and preparation.
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- By outfitting our lives with the word of god,
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- We will be able to follow where the master leads.
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- Psalm 119 says, your word is a lamp
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- Unto my feet and a light under my path.
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- God doesn't rush the journey.
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- He lights the next step
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- In the winning walk.
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- Doctor ed young shares practical, biblical guidance
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- To help you develop the strength and spiritual
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- Balance needed for a steady, daily walk with christ.
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- If you're ready to grow stronger in your faith,
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- Call the number on your screen
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- And request your copy of the winning walk today
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- And begin walking confidently with him.
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- We talk about tithing, giving 10%
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- Of our income or more than that if we're more than blessed,
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- Nobody tithes a time.
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- Somebody say, well, our tithes their time.
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- Well, get your calendar out and see how you're doing.
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- I know you're not.
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- So time
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- Just when transformed, feed
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- A sense of direction in life a will, a purpose in life
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- That's a part of growing up and being matured.
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- And then finally,
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- Well have transformed hands.
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- Oh, yeah, if we're growing in christ,
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- We will have transformed
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- Hands, he said.
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- What are you talking about?
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- We'll have hands with what
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- I call kingdom
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- Calluses.
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- Kingdom calluses.
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- Tolstoy and one of his novels
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- Wrote about the ideal czar would have a palace
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- In which any one and his realm of control
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- Could come and be fed and sit at his table.
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- The only qualification is when they came to the gate.
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- They would say, show me your hands.
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- And if your hands were slick
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- Like mine, it meant you didn't work
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- And you would not eat with the czar.
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- But if your hands were closed, they would welcome
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- You in, and you would sit and banquet with the king.
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- With the czar.
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- So in matthew 25,
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- The judgment, jesus is on the judgment seat.
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- Remember?
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- And a lot of people, they're excited
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- Because they think, boy, i'm in the kingdom.
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- I made a profession of faith in jesus christ.
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- I was baptized in the church.
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- I profess to be a christian.
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- I'm okay.
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- And jesus is going to say, let me see your hands.
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- You may not be okay, because let me see your hands.
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- What do you mean?
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- Because there was a group who thought they were okay
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- And jesus said, no, you're a bunch of goats.
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- You're not sheep, you're goats.
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- They said, we thought we're okay.
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- And jesus said, you know, i was hungry.
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- You didn't give me anything to eat.
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- He said i was thirsty.
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- You didn't give me anything to drink.
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- And he said to these who thought they were okay
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- Because they had professed faith.
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- He said, you know, i was in prison.
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- You didn't visit me
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- Sick.
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- They didn't come to see me.
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- And they said, lord, we didn't know
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- You were hungry or we didn't know you were sick.
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- We didn't know you need clothes.
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- We didn't know you in prison.
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- And jesus said, if you've done it under
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- The one of the nobody's the least to me.
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- You didn't do it to them.
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- Therefore you didn't do it to me, because that's who i was.
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- And they didn't have calloused hands
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- And they were condemned. why?
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- Our profession leads to a life.
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- It leads to maturity.
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- It leads to.
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- As we begin to develop a transformed mind
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- Or transformed heart transform, feed.
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- We develop until we develop transformed
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- Hands.
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- Show me your hands.
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- Let me tell you something.
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- The nail scarred hand of jesus.
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- When we graduating this earth
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- Will reach down and be thrilled to take hold of a kingdom.
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- Calloused hands who have served
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- In his name.
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- A hand that has bled.
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- A hand that has kept the hand scarred.
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- Hand there.
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- Jesus loves to hold a hand like that.
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- Show me your hands.
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- Tell you something about getting to heaven.
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- Let's look at three things.
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- Three things.
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- Biblical principles.
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- We will begin in heaven
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- Where we left off on earth.
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- That were you.
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- And if you're not going to value it, should worry us.
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- Where we leave off here, we begin in heaven.
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- Next point, each will be enjoying
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- God with the capacity we bring with us.
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- Oh, i take it to a basketball game i love, i know
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- Basketball and i would look at it was one level
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- Some of you look at. it was what?
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- Take me
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- To a symphony with a fabulous orchestra.
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- You, who are musicians would enjoy.
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- It was one level.
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- I would enjoy it with a lesser level.
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- I'm the loser because i didn't enjoy it in the level.
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- I'm not equipped to do that.
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- My ears, my mind is not being trained like it should.
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- Just like you would enjoy basketball
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- Because you haven't been trained
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- Like perhaps you should.
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- So what i'm saying, each of us will be
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- And join god with the capacity we bring with us.
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- You say, well, there's going to be ranks in heaven.
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- Yes, but we don't know it.
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- That's the third point.
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- Everybody's cup will be full,
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- But some cups will be larger.
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- That's heaven.
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- Other words,
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- I'll have my little teacup there.
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- It'll be full.
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- I feel okay, but i'll miss so much that player.
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- You'll have a cup that may be larger.
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- It will be filled to capacity.
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- Mine is because the older batch.
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- And it will be deeper because we bring there as we've
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- Been growing and develop in the kingdom with our calluses.
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- So this is the impetus for you and
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- For me to grow up in christ.
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- I ask the holy spirit, lord, look at my mind,
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- Do some work of transformation there and spell it out.
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- Be exact. be specific.
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- Don't just pray.
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- Lord, forgive me of all my many sins.
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- That is silly.
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- Name them
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- That serious.
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- Transform mind, transform heart,
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- Transform feed.
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- Oh yeah, transform the eyes,
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- Transform hands.
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- And they say your hands.
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- They're still the hands
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- Of a child in christ.
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- Child.
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- My dad, when i was about 15.
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- How to say bro?
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- Hemorrhage right here.
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- My dad was.
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- You've heard me say hardest working man.
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- That anybody who knew him had ever seen.
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- He held two jobs, most all of my years at home.
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- Two jobs.
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- He would shave at night
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- About 830, 9:00 at night so he wouldn't be slowed down.
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- Going to work the next morning at 430.
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- He didn't want to be slowed down.
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- I had to shave as my dad.
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- He'd work eight hours, go take the first job.
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- The second job he worked out the eight hours.
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- That's how he operated.
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- Hardest working man you've ever seen in your life.
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- But he had never sick.
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- Really?
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- But out of the blue, he had this cerebral hemorrhage.
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- He'd been a christian then, maybe 2 or 3 years.
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- He was a babe in christ.
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- And so they diagnosed what
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- His problem was now a little town,
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- But they had nothing to do about it.
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- We didn't have any funding to go anywhere else with my.
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- One of the sisters of my mother had married a man
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- Who'd been successful in malvern, arkansas,
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- And they came and out of his generosity,
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- He arranged for my dad to go to touro infirmary
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- In new orleans to see what they could do about this
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- Cerebral hemorrhage.
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- And they diagnosed it.
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- They had two ways to approach it.
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- They could cut the skull open, prepare it like a,
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- Inner tube or something.
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- But that was high risk in those days,
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- And that's not what they did.
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- Instead, they went and they blocked off
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- The arteries on one side of the neck.
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- And you've got authorities that can function
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- When this arteries clogged up and they blocked it off
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- To take the pressure off this side.
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- You block here pressure off here.
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- And that is what they did.
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- So they one of the operating room
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- And another one of my mother's sister was a nurse.
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- And she was allowed to go in there.
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- And when they rerouted your blood, that's literally
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- What happens.
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- Your blood is rerouted when this happens in your body,
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- When that happened, my dad died on the operating table,
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- But he came.
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- He was brought back to life
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- And to recover.
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- And when he began to function again,
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- My aunt, who had been there with him
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- When he medically died, ask said homer,
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- Do you know you died on the operating table?
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- He said, yes, i know that.
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- He said, i went to heaven.
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- He said i was in heaven and everything was golden.
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- Now let me tell you something.
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- A lot of people have all these spooky visions
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- And stuff, and i just look at them twice.
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- Do i have to tell you that was nothing like my dad.
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- He was a redneck among rednecks,
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- A blue collar guy, no nonsense period.
- 00:24:05.990 --> 00:24:10.628
- So when my dad said he went to heaven
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- And all heaven was gold, you didn't have to say.
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- I wonder if he really went.
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- You knew.
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- But he said what troubled me
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- Was that i wanted to stay, but i couldn't quite understand.
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- But i was a little baby.
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- He lives another 16 years.
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- I wish i could tell you he became a biblical
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- Scholar, a giant.
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- But he did not have that capacity.
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- But i can tell you
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- He began to change as he got into scripture
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- First time in his life, and and little subtle
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- Things would begin to notice.
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- Because i'm sure in his trip
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- To heaven today, he did not want to be
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- A baby.
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- Oh, grow up in christ.
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- Grow up in christ.
- 00:25:09.620 --> 00:25:12.356
- That's what he's calling upon you and need to do
- 00:25:12.356 --> 00:25:15.793
- Is to let the lord jesus christ continue
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- To transform us.
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- Your word is a lamp
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- To my feet, a light into my path.
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- Notice the promise in that verse.
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- A lamp for my feet i can see right here.
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- A light for your path.
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- We can see out there.
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- Not just inspiration.
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- For a moment, but guidance for a lifetime.
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- The christian life
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- Was never meant to be lived casually,
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- But it is a walk, a daily, intentional,
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- Fateful walk with the lord jesus christ.
- 00:25:54.898 --> 00:25:58.502
- That's the heartbeat of this book.
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- The winning walk in his pages, i share practical,
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- Biblical principles that will help you cultivate
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- A consistent devotional life, applying god's truth
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- In the practical realities of everyday living.
- 00:26:12.983 --> 00:26:16.420
- This isn't about religion.
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- It's about relationship.
- 00:26:19.089 --> 00:26:21.025
- It's about learning to trust god step by step
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- And stay in step with our lord.
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- The christ.
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- So i encourage you to call the number on your screen
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- And request your copy of the winning walk.
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- Do it today.
- 00:26:35.005 --> 00:26:36.540
- And then we begin walking victoriously,
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- One step at a time.
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- Thank you
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- For joining me today on the winning walk
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- To be a part of the winning walk family.
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- I'm delighted you're a part.
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- It's a privilege to open god's word together
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- And go through this.
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- Remember, spiritual growth happens
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- One fateful step at a time.
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- Until next time, keep walking with our lord.
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- Keep trusting his promises.
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- We must keep our eyes fixed on christ.
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- See tomorrow as we grow in our winning
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- Walk with the lord jesus christ.
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