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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Holiness | January 14, 2025
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- Pastor ed young: sometimes when you're perusing around the
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- Bible, open it to the first chapter of judges.
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- Joshua had led the children of israel to conquer the
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- Promised land.
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- He didn't clean out all the evil that was there, demonstrated in
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- The lives of all the -ites, the perizzites, all the -ites.
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- But now he died, and now the sons of jake had to go and
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- Possess the land that they'd inherited, but there were some
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- Still evil for our understanding isis like people, demonic
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- People there.
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- And so, judah, one of the sons, inherited the area around
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- Jerusalem, but it was occupied.
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- Canaanites, perizzites.
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- And he looked at the king who ruled there, he saw how strong
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- He was, and so judah went to his brother, simeon, and said,
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- "let's join forces.
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- And if you'll help me conquer the land of judah, which is
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- Where jerusalem is, i'll help you possess the land that
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- You've inherited."
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- And so, they came together, and they did battle with the king.
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- Read it there in joshua chapter 1, adoni-bezek, adoni-bezek had
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- An army over 10,000, but god's army battled him, and they
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- Defeated him, and ran him out of the area.
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- But adoni-bezek, he escaped, was running away, the king, and they
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- Ran him down, captured him, and cut off both thumbs and both
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- Big toes.
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- And bezek said, "i deserve that, because i have conquered 70
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- Different kings, and that's exactly what i did to them.
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- I cut off their thumbs and their big toes."
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- I looked at that a long time, and i said, "what happens when
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- You don't have your thumbs?"
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- You can't grasp anything, really.
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- It's awkward.
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- You can't function even to write or to do--to pick up anything
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- Without your thumb.
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- Try it.
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- Then i said, "what about your big toes?"
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- They give us balance.
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- Without big toes, you just sort of waddle around, awkward.
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- Without thumbs, big toes, you are completely disabled.
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- You don't function properly.
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- Kings had to fight, kings had to lead, and their thumbs are gone,
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- Big toes are gone, out of business.
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- I know a lot of people right now, maybe in this place, and
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- For all practical purposes it's like your thumbs are gone, using
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- It as a metaphor because you can't really grasp things.
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- You don't see the long ramifications of decisions that
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- Are made.
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- You work just on the basis of natural law, natural ability,
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- Talent, education, and that's about it.
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- You can't really grasp, there's no depth to life.
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- You make silly, foolish choices.
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- And then without toes there's no balance.
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- How in our culture today we've lost all sense of balance, all
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- Sense of proportionality, and when that goes crazy and
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- Bizarre, life gets confusing, life gets confusing.
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- But a lot of people are running around without their thumbs.
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- They can't grasp, they don't get it, they don't think far, they
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- Don't move far, and a lot of times your life and my life, we
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- Get out of balance.
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- That's what we're studying about, how to get in balance,
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- How to see a long way, how to be in and figure out what god is
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- Doing in this world.
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- And a lot of people in our secular society are so confused.
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- Something happens, and i hear all kinds of people say, "i'll
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- Pray about that.
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- Oh, i'll pray for you."
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- The question is to whom do you pray, and to whom do i pray?
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- Well, everybody prays to their own god.
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- We had one of our hurricanes sometime back, and i was in a
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- Room with a lot of the so-called leaders of our city, and our
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- Mayor at that time called upon a pastor to pray, and he prayed to
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- Mohammed and allah and buddha and everybody in the world.
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- Next time we gathered he called upon a fine evangelical pastor,
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- And he prayed the prayer for us, and he prayed in jesus's name,
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- And the mayor said, "oh, ecumenical prayers.
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- Ecumenical prayers."
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- Let me tell you something, folks.
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- Our god is a peculiar god.
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- He is one god, look at this universe, and you see, did you
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- Notice it didn't come together by accident?
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- You notice how everything fits together, moves together?
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- In your body, in life, in purpose.
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- And therefore we say we're going to pray, it doesn't make any
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- Difference--it makes all the difference in the world if
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- You're praying to whom it may concern or the true and living
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- God revealed in the bible.
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- As we look and study romans chapter number 1, we begin to
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- See how god operates.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, all you and i have to do is to master
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- 39 verses.
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- Romans 8:1 through 39, 39 verses, that's it.
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- And by the way, this isn't a little walk through the tulips.
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- Tragically, you want to think, grow, mature, bring your bibles,
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- Hopefully a pen in your hand, because regardless of your
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- Theological acumen and regardless of how long you've
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- Been to church and how many times you've read through the
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- Bible, you will not get this just like, phew.
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- And by the way, it's gonna take some vocabulary.
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- You got to learn some big words.
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- Listen, any discipline of life, whatever you do, there is that
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- Specialized vocabulary that gives meaning and understanding
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- Of how you function, how you live in this life.
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- And god has given us a beautiful world, but it is not a
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- Simplistic world.
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- You pick up anything in this world from a leaf, and you could
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- Take four or five steps, and before long you're over
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- Your head.
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- But we look at god, and he is saying, this is it.
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- He's telling us how he operates.
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- Isn't it exciting to know he didn't leave us just wandering
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- Around and guessing?
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- He gave us instructions.
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- He gave us an understanding of how this works.
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- And he starts off, we've already looked at chapter 6 a little
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- Bit, and by the way, these 39 verses in romans chapter 1, it's
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- Not something new that he hadn't brought up in romans before.
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- He's just sort of squeezing it all down.
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- Big principles, big understanding of god and life
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- And how we relate to him and how we don't have to go through life
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- With no thumbs and no big toes, unable to grasp, unable
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- To balance.
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- In chapter 6 he tells us what's happened to us in jesus christ.
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- In chapter 7 he confesses, told us he'd been brought up under
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- The law.
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- Most of us here, unless we've been brought up in a strict
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- Orthodox jewish background, have no real concept of the reverence
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- Of the law, the reverence of the torah, how every jewish boy and
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- Girl were brought up from birth all the way through maturity to
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- Reverence the law, to keep the law, to follow the law, to hold
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- The law up before them morning, noon, and night, as they went in
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- And as they went out.
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- It was the law.
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- God's revelation of how to live on sinai, and now the transition
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- Is coming, and the apostle paul has taken us from sinai to
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- Christmas, to calvary, to easter,
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- To the second coming, to heaven.
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- Quite a trip, is it not?
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- Quite a trip.
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- And here he puts it all together.
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- He starts in romans chapter number 7, he says, you know,
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- "those things i want to do, i end up not doing them, and those
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- Things i don't want to do, i end up doing them," and you see he
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- Is still thinking in this period of his life as paul confesses,
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- As an old testament person, he's an old testament christian.
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- You run into those all the time.
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- "are you a christian?" "oh yes."
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- "well, how do you know you're a christian?
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- If god would ask you, 'why should i let you into my heaven
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- If you died?' what would you say?"
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- "well, i did a lot of good things.
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- You know, i help people, and i went to church."
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- And we recite all these things as if that's going to impress
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- God almighty.
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- Because if, boy, that's how i'm going to get there, you can
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- Hammer this, and i have for 40 plus years, and some nincompoop
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- Who is absolutely still in the baby pool of christianity,
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- "well, i'm gonna try harder to be a christian, pastor."
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- Quit trying.
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- That's not what it's all about.
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- There's no law keeping involved.
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- We've already discovered if we've read a little bit in
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- Romans chapter 6, it's by grace, it's by grace.
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- He said, "well, that gives me a license," we'll see about that.
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- So, we come to romans chapter number 8.
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- Before we get there, paul says-- now, he's a christian.
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- He said, "i am still involved in a life that is lived like i
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- Don't have my thumbs and my toes."
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- He said, "o wretched man that i am."
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- Boy, that word wretched.
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- That's nauseating, huh?
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- He says, "i am wretched."
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- He said, "who in the world will deliver me from this hypocrisy,
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- This sin, this shame, this disgrace?
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- Who will deliver me?"
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- And he says, "thanks be unto god through jesus christ, my lord."
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- Okay, that's a great answer.
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- How does it work?
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- Used to drive around the country, i don't see it anymore.
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- You see signs up saying, "jesus is the answer"?
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- Oh yes, how is he the answer?
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- How does it work?
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- How's it function?
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- Is it just piosity?
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- Oh, jesus is the answer.
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- Okay, tell me how that answer is incorporated into your life and
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- In my life.
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- Paul tells us.
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- Romans chapter 8, we've already looked at one verse.
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- "therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are
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- In christ jesus."
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- Ladies and gentlemen, that verse is what the bible is all about.
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- That verse is what romans is all about.
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- Jesus is the answer.
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- Why is he the answer?
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- Because in jesus christ there is no condemnation.
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- Remember, we've already established the fact that
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- Somebody whines and says, "i just want a god of love, not a
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- God of wrath--" because god is a god of love, he is a god of
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- Wrath, and he cannot overlook and neglect and just pass over
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- And forget all the garbage that collects in your life and in
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- My life.
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- No, no, no, it doesn't work like that.
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- So, jesus christ, he says, "there's no condemnation for
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- Those who are," what?
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- What is the first thing?
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- "those who are in christ."
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- Underline that, put a star by it.
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- A hundred and sixty-four times in the writings of paul in the
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- Bible he mentions the phrase, "in christ," "in christ jesus,"
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- "in our lord."
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- You think that's important?
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- And then he develops it.
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- I haven't even got the scripture yet for the day.
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- This is just the introduction.
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- Look at verse number 2, it tells us how we are set free, "for the
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- Law of the spirit of life in christ jesus has set you free
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- From the law of sin and death."
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- Look here, we already are in prison.
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- "in the law of my mind making a prisoner of sin which is in
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- My members."
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- Lord, he said my mind, man, i'm right with god, but in my flesh
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- I get all mixed up, and he says, "for the law of the spirit of
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- Life in christ jesus has set you free from the law of sin and the
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- Law of death."
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- We are set free because we become men and women in christ,
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- And what sets us free?
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- It says, "for the law of the spirit of life and
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- Jesus christ."
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- Here's another law.
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- It's the holy spirit.
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- It's--you see, when we go through salvation, we go through
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- These experiences, understanding what we have, built in you and
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- Me is a new life.
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- Remember we talked about how physical birth takes
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- Place, remember?
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- Then we talked about spiritual birth takes place.
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- And we come through that, with that we have the holy spirit,
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- The power of the holy spirit, but we don't use it, we don't
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- Provide for it, we don't truly understand how it functions and
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- Let the holy spirit of god function in us and in everything
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- We do.
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- There's a resource of power there that will set us free from
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- All the trash that accumulates in our life.
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- And then look at verse 3, "for what the law could not do," by
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- The way, it tells what the law could not do.
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- The law cannot save you.
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- Keeping rules cannot get you to heaven.
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- What the law cannot do.
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- You see, we come to faith in jesus christ, we're not only
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- Forgiven, that's great, but also we're empowered.
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- That's the holy spirit power to operate in us to keep us clean,
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- To keep us right, so we can march and make our way from the
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- Baby pool all the way to the temple where there's waters to
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- Swim in.
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- You see it?
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- It's a beautiful, beautiful picture.
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- "the law of the spirit of life in jesus christ," is the holy
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- Spirit, "has set you free from the law of sin and death."
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- We're free.
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- That's liberty in christ.
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- And let you ask, "for what the law could not do," why could not
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- The law do this?
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- It's weak.
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- We're all weak.
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- Nobody can keep the 10 commandments.
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- Nobody has ever kept all the 10 commandments.
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- If you say, well, you know, last time i checked them, i was doing
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- Pretty good.
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- Well, read beatitudes, and then jesus says, "if you have thought
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- And have hatred in your heart toward anybody," bang, rock,
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- It's as if you killed them.
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- So, motive is there, and if the 10 commandments didn't get you,
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- I guarantee you the beatitudes in 5, 6, 7 will take care
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- Of you.
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- So, we can't keep the law.
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- We can't do it.
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- It's impossible, because it's weak.
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- But look what god did.
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- God, he's sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh as
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- An offering for sin.
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- He condemned sin in the flesh.
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- In other words, jesus came to take care of the garbage in your
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- Life and in my life, and the penalty, the condemnation that
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- You and i deserve for breaking the law, and we were
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- Born lawbreakers.
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- But god came in jesus christ and provided a savior and answer
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- For life.
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- And then we see it in verse number 4, "so that the
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- Requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us."
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- Now, what are we trying to--what's our goal here?
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- It's become holy.
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- Oh boy, i'll never make it.
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- No, you won't.
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- I won't either.
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- It's become perfect.
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- No, you won't make it.
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- I won't either.
- 00:19:18.936 --> 00:19:20.304
- But look what happened, what jesus, what god did.
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- When god gave jesus christ, who was perfect, and he was putting
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- On the offering plate there on the cross, "so that the
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- Requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us."
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- What's the requirement of the law?
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- Perfection.
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- How's that working for you?
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- I've already said, it doesn't work.
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- But look what happened, jesus came, and he filled you up and
- 00:19:41.325 --> 00:19:46.364
- Filled me up with the righteousness of god.
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- That's a big old word.
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- With the perfection of god, which makes us acceptable
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- To him.
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- Therefore we go through god, not as people who've been messed up
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- With our thumbs and our toes, but it has been filled up in us.
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- God has poured righteousness into you and righteousness
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- Into me.
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- Therefore we go to god boldly and confidently because we are
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- Sons and daughters.
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- You have children, they may rebuke you, you may not have a
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- Good relationship with them, but they're still your kids, right?
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- They're still your kids.
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- We may be out of fellowship with our kids, but never out of
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- Relationship with our kids, because their blood is
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- Our blood.
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- And that's what he's saying.
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- That's the reason we say, hey, you can just go and you have
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- A license.
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- Whatever you do, you're forgiven.
- 00:20:49.727 --> 00:20:51.095
- Whatever you do right now, you're forgiven.
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- "well, that's privilege, that doesn't make any sense.
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- I'm a christian, and here's somebody who does this."
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- No, no, you can do anything you want to do if you're a
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- True christian.
- 00:21:00.971 --> 00:21:02.340
- If you're in christ, freedom.
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- Oh man, i like this religion.
- 00:21:04.375 --> 00:21:08.646
- You know what the difference is?
- 00:21:08.646 --> 00:21:10.348
- Now we're in the family, and we have new desires if you're
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- In christ.
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- New desires.
- 00:21:16.354 --> 00:21:17.688
- If you're in christ, you have a new walk.
- 00:21:17.688 --> 00:21:20.925
- If you're in christ, if you're in christ.
- 00:21:20.925 --> 00:21:24.862
- And therefore, that's which i desired, i no longer desire.
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- I may bounce into there sometimes, but, boy, i don't
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- Stay, because that's not who i am, and that's not who you are.
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- We let the spirit begin to work in our life.
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- You see how it works?
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- And when you walk, you better have your big toes if you're
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- Gonna walk, folks.
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- You better have your thumbs if you're gonna grasp anything in
- 00:21:49.520 --> 00:21:52.690
- This life.
- 00:21:52.690 --> 00:21:55.426
- God has brought salvation to us, and that we tried to keep all
- 00:21:55.426 --> 00:22:00.598
- Those rules and regulations, but the dams are down, the
- 00:22:00.598 --> 00:22:04.268
- Guardrails are off, but jesus comes, and he saves us.
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- If you're in the middle of the atlantic ocean and you're in the
- 00:22:08.139 --> 00:22:12.076
- Middle of the atlantic ocean by yourself, if you can't swim,
- 00:22:12.076 --> 00:22:14.979
- Guess what?
- 00:22:14.979 --> 00:22:16.313
- You're gonna drown.
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- If you're in the middle of the atlantic ocean, and you're a
- 00:22:17.681 --> 00:22:19.350
- Pretty good swimmer, like i am, you'll stay up a while
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- Longer, maybe.
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- Or if you're in the middle of the atlantic ocean and you are
- 00:22:25.656 --> 00:22:27.725
- An olympic long distance champion, you're still
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- Gonna drown.
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- What do you need?
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- A savior.
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- Somebody to come and take you out.
- 00:22:37.435 --> 00:22:39.870
- And that's exactly what jesus christ has done for us on
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- That cross.
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- He took all of our garbage there, he took it on himself, he
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- Took all of our judgment, and all of our condemnation upon
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- Himself, and therefore you and i are set free because we have a
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- New desire.
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- If there's still those pagan desires, those lustful desires
- 00:23:00.624 --> 00:23:04.662
- There in your life, you better check whether or not you're in
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- Christ, because he makes brand people.
- 00:23:07.331 --> 00:23:12.236
- And whether or not your walk is with him, you better check
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- Whether not you're in christ.
- 00:23:15.172 --> 00:23:19.310
- I didn't intend to say this, but i am.
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- I meet a lot of people, run into a lot of situations,
- 00:23:23.514 --> 00:23:27.284
- My vocation.
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- I watch television, somewhat.
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- If you got a number on your back, i might see you.
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- If you don't, news, i'd probably see you.
- 00:23:38.529 --> 00:23:43.067
- You know what breaks my heart in individuals, in our culture, in
- 00:23:43.067 --> 00:23:51.675
- Our city, in our world?
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- If, if you and i and those
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- Servants in every walk of life,
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- The commercial world, the political world, the medical
- 00:24:04.822 --> 00:24:07.625
- World, educational world, would simply let jesus christ come in
- 00:24:07.625 --> 00:24:15.466
- Their life, let jesus christ come into their life, they'd get
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- New thumbs.
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- They'd be able to grasp things that seems to be beyond
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- Their grasp.
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- They would get new big toes, and they'd be able to walk in ways
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- We can't even imagine.
- 00:24:33.450 --> 00:24:37.154
- But yet we live in the flesh?
- 00:24:37.154 --> 00:24:40.891
- That's what we see?
- 00:24:40.891 --> 00:24:43.527
- It is mind boggling.
- 00:24:43.527 --> 00:24:46.163
- I could never understand how isis, when they were running
- 00:24:46.163 --> 00:24:51.001
- Roughshod over much of the middle east, were just killing,
- 00:24:51.001 --> 00:24:55.506
- Beheading christians left and right.
- 00:24:55.506 --> 00:24:57.374
- I said, you know, of all people, people who are christians?
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- Why?
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- What--they accept, they love, they forgive, they serve, they
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- Reach out to anybody, everybody, anywhere, anytime, regardless of
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- Any other consideration.
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- And they're the ones that evil went after wholesale?
- 00:25:15.659 --> 00:25:18.696
- Why?
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- It's because the power and the witness of christ is
- 00:25:20.030 --> 00:25:25.169
- Diametrically opposed to evil, any shape, fashion, maybe
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- Objectively, maybe subjectively, but that's who we are, and
- 00:25:30.608 --> 00:25:36.180
- That's what we must do, and that's how we, you and i,
- 00:25:36.180 --> 00:25:39.817
- Must live.
- 00:25:39.817 --> 00:25:41.619
- Begin to live like that, we'll understand more and more of what
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- It means to be a man, a woman, a teenager, a young person who is
- 00:25:46.090 --> 00:25:53.330
- In christ and will move out of the shallow water, will move
- 00:25:53.330 --> 00:25:57.935
- Into waters that we can swim in, and we begin to make a
- 00:25:57.935 --> 00:26:02.272
- Difference in this day and this age and this time.
- 00:26:02.272 --> 00:26:07.711
- Pastor ed: have you ever tried to read a historical novel out
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- Of order?
- 00:26:15.352 --> 00:26:16.687
- It would be hard if not impossible to understand the
- 00:26:16.687 --> 00:26:19.356
- Plot, wouldn't it?
- 00:26:19.356 --> 00:26:20.991
- And yet we read and study the bible in much the same way.
- 00:26:20.991 --> 00:26:24.395
- Like a novel, the bible tells a story with a beginning,
- 00:26:24.395 --> 00:26:27.264
- A middle, and end, and when you read in chronological order, you
- 00:26:27.264 --> 00:26:31.235
- Will see history unfold in a new and understandable and
- 00:26:31.235 --> 00:26:35.139
- Memorable way.
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- Listen, in this new year, i want to challenge you to read through
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- The bible in 52 weeks.
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- When you give "the winning walk," this month, we want to
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- Send you a one-year chronological bible.
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- It's arranged in daily readings that will take about 15 minutes
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- To read each day, at the end of 52 weeks, you will know and
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- Understand like never before the full story of the bible.
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