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Ed Young - How To Make Decisions

January 7, 2026 | 29:0

Ed Young - How To Make Decisions
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - How To Make Decisions | January 7, 2026
  • As we walk into 2026,
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  • We're reminded that, well, time moves forward.
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  • God never changes.
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  • His love is steady.
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  • His truth is sure.
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  • His word provides everything we need to live
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  • With purpose and clarity and strength.
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  • Though the world shifts beneath our feet.
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  • God calls us to walk with confidence,
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  • Grounded in faith and anchored in his promises.
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  • This is where we learn to walk each day
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  • In the victory god has already given us.
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  • So join me today as we take another exciting
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  • Step with jesus christ on the winning
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  • Walk.
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  • You. know, it was a man of faith.
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  • The bible tells us.
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  • And he had a wife and sons, married wives,
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  • And they had a household, a family of faith, which was
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  • Counter-cultural, going in the opposite
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  • Direction of everybody else on the planet.
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  • So judgment came in the form of a flood.
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  • The flood waters came and destroyed everybody,
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  • But they had at least a 120 years.
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  • Genesis six three, 120 years to turn back to god.
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  • Oh yeah, because that's when god
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  • Said the.
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  • Noah,
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  • Go build a boat.
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  • Now that's crazy.
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  • He was 100 miles from anybody.
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  • Water.
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  • Nobody had ever seen it. rain.
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  • Moisture came from the earth.
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  • The first rain that was recorded in history
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  • Was with the flood waters.
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  • And it came those 40 days and 40 nights.
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  • Here he is building a boat.
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  • This righteous man is god created man.
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  • There's worshiping man.
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  • And you can imagine the ridicule.
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  • Well, no.
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  • What do you build in there, man?
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  • Large proportions, isn't it?
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  • By the way, you remember the dimensions of, of the ark.
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  • 150ft long, a football and a half long.
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  • You know, the super bowl.
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  • I'll give you that
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  • Nose measure a football and a half on sale on,
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  • 25 yards wide, 15 yards high.
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  • It wasn't for going in where it was for existence.
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  • Now, people have studied the art for many years,
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  • And some scholars and people who are supposed to know
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  • About boats said, you know, that boat wouldn't float.
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  • He couldn't possibly inhabit two of every kind and keep
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  • People alive for all those 40 days, 40 nights, etc.
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  • But now go to branson, missouri.
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  • You can see a replica ark.
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  • Go to other places on the earth.
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  • You see, the art has been exactly
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  • Reconstructed, and now there is common belief
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  • That what is reported, the bible
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  • That many people just said, oh, it won't work.
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  • Now they see exactly
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  • How it could have worked and it did function amazing in
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  • The whole built
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  • That big art by faith.
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  • He got in
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  • The rains, came
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  • And he floated out there
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  • A million miles from nowhere,
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  • And his boat ended up on mount ararat.
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  • Remember, we climbed up erect a few months ago,
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  • And i can imagine that noah walked out of that ark
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  • And he looked around. there was nobody.
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  • No people, no inhabitants, no landmarks, no nothing.
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  • He started over from ship.
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  • A lot of people think that noah exercise more faith
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  • After the flood than he did before the flood.
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  • Because what's the first thing noah did
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  • When he got off the boat?
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  • The bible says he built an altar.
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  • He worshiped in thanksgiving.
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  • The ark was salvation.
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  • The altar was transformation.
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  • You can be saved and not be transformed.
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  • But that's
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  • The transformation that took place as noah
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  • Had a new chance to begin life on this earth
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  • By faith,
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  • Noah,
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  • I'm asked you a question.
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  • What is faith?
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  • How would you define faith?
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  • How do you get faith?
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  • How do you continue to live in faith?
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  • Does faith grow?
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  • Can it grow?
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  • Does faith decline?
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  • What do you do when you lose your faith?
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  • Can you get it back?
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  • Is there such a thing
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  • As lose your faith and then reclaiming your faith?
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  • We have a lot of questions about faith.
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  • You know the hebrews chapter 11.
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  • There's a whole chapter on faith.
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  • It's a centerpiece in the bible on faith.
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  • It gives us and the opening verses,
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  • Sort of a general definition of faith.
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  • Look at hebrews 11 one through three.
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  • Now faith is the
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  • Substance of things hoped for,
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  • The evidence of things not seen,
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  • For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.
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  • And by the way, this is the rest of hebrews.
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  • You have a general definition of faith,
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  • And then the rest
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  • Of the chapter tells us, men and women in history
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  • Who live by faith in all kinds of circumstances.
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  • Then he says a key verse in verse three, by faith
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  • We understand, understand there means something
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  • You come to believe by evidence,
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  • By proof, by faith we come to believe.
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  • We understand that the world,
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  • The world, were framed by the word of god,
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  • So that the things which are seen
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  • Were not made of things which are visible.
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  • In other words,
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  • By the way, the sizes came up with the big bang.
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  • Remember the big bang said bang.
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  • The world came into being.
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  • There it is, right there in hebrews.
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  • Is it not?
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  • The world was made by god
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  • Out of things that were not seen.
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  • And boom, there was an explosion.
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  • And now there are things that are seen.
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  • And this gives us understanding.
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  • Let's talk about faith.
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  • Three levels.
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  • Three levels of faith.
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  • Now they're all sort of subsets here.
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  • But let me tell you a basic understanding of faith.
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  • First of all, faith is reason.
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  • It's reason. it's understanding.
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  • It's reason.
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  • And then on top of reason, faith is belief.
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  • And on top of belief there is commitment.
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  • And then you have faith as reason.
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  • And then reason leads to belief.
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  • And belief leads to commitment.
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  • And then with those three you have certainty.
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  • You see a lot of people try to move
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  • From reason to certainty.
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  • I'm going to figure all this out.
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  • I'm going to work through it.
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  • Then i'm going to be certain it never works like that.
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  • Reason is the base.
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  • It moves to belief, then it moves to commitment.
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  • And then hopefully it comes to certainty.
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  • Up to that point, it's all tentative.
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  • It's all i hope it's perhaps it's experimental.
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • Except in math.
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  • Every decision you make.
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  • Every decision i make comes by way of faith.
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  • Therefore, somebody might say, well,
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  • You know, i don't need faith, i don't.
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  • I don't think about those things.
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  • Every decision, every choice we make
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  • About everything on the planet comes by the way of faith.
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  • You say, well, is it practical?
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  • How practical is that?
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  • If we can't do anything, accomplish
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  • Anything, make any decision without faith.
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  • That's pretty practical, isn't it?
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  • So let's seek to understand
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  • Faith from the very, very beginning.
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  • When you decide
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  • Who you want your plumber to be,
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  • It's a faith decision.
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  • You decide
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  • Who you want to marry.
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  • Faith decision.
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  • You decide you need surgery.
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  • Who your surgeon is going to be, a faith decision.
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  • Pretty important when you say
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  • Positive work.
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  • Let's take a plumber.
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  • Are you got pipes that arrested all of your house?
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  • Need you get a plumber.
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  • So you go and use. what reason?
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  • Reason?
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  • Try to find a plumber who can do this.
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  • You use your mind.
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  • You use understanding, reason
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  • And then you move to belief.
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  • Then you say, you know, i believe enough.
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  • I've investigated enough.
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  • And i have reasoned that this would be my plumber.
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  • Now i believe he will do it.
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  • And then you commit and you give him the job.
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  • And once it is completed,
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  • All those process, it's sort of tentative.
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  • It's sort of, you know, i don't know,
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  • But when it's completed and it works, you have certainty.
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  • Picking a mate a lot of people are not married.
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  • You know why they think they move from reason to certainty?
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  • Oh, i'm going to figure all this out.
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  • She's the right one. he's the right one.
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  • Bang, bang. i'm certain now.
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  • No no no no, it start with reason.
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  • Then you go to a belief, you begin to put it together.
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  • And then you make a commitment which may be engagement.
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  • And then when you say i do and he says, or he says,
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  • I will, there is the certainty that comes.
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  • Faith has three basic steps.
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  • You don't move from reason to certainty.
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  • Let's take a surgeon.
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  • Your gp says you need surgery.
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  • You go and try to pick a surgeon.
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  • You use reason, right?
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  • Good idea.
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  • Use reason.
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  • And then we're reasonably he's like,
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  • This is the person who can do it.
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  • Then you have a certain belief about methodology
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  • And how it will be done.
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  • And then you make a commitment.
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  • In that commitment.
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  • You lie on that table,
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  • Put that thing over,
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  • Count backwards to whatever.
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  • That's pretty committed.
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  • And then, commitment.
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  • And then following the surgery, things go well.
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  • And then you have what certainty.
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  • Certainty.
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  • So phase.
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  • And there's something.
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  • Well, find this guy over there.
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  • Faith in something that we say.
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  • Well, christians have faith, and non-christians
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  • Don't have faith.
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  • No, we all have the same amount of faith.
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  • The difference is what you put
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  • Your faith in, what i put my faith in.
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  • For example, let's look at,
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  • Go back through and talked about reason
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  • Understanding.
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  • That's where we start.
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  • Science is normally operate by faith.
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  • Scientists do not discover
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  • A whole lot of things through inductive reasoning.
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  • What is that?
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  • They don't say, well,
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  • I see this over here and i see that over there
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  • And understand that molecule over there.
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  • And this works over here.
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  • And they put all this together inductively,
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  • And they come to a conclusion,
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  • Something that works and that's accurate.
  • 00:11:58.030 --> 00:11:59.965
  • Normally that's not the way science works.
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  • Science works with a faith assumption,
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  • With a thesis,
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  • With an idea and a concept.
  • 00:12:08.841 --> 00:12:11.811
  • And then this is deductive reasoning.
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  • They begin to deduce from that evidence as to
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  • Whether or not that faith assumption is accurate.
  • 00:12:17.716 --> 00:12:20.820
  • Science operates by faith primarily.
  • 00:12:20.820 --> 00:12:24.023
  • And so we look at the universe,
  • 00:12:24.657 --> 00:12:27.193
  • God's godless people say, oh,
  • 00:12:27.193 --> 00:12:29.461
  • The universe came together by by chance
  • 00:12:29.461 --> 00:12:32.998
  • It is all came by accident, by atoms coming together
  • 00:12:32.998 --> 00:12:36.769
  • Back in some primeval moment billions of years ago.
  • 00:12:36.769 --> 00:12:40.239
  • It just evolved.
  • 00:12:40.239 --> 00:12:42.675
  • Let me tell you something to say.
  • 00:12:42.675 --> 00:12:44.910
  • This universe came together by chance
  • 00:12:44.910 --> 00:12:48.347
  • Is like saying there was an explosion.
  • 00:12:48.347 --> 00:12:51.917
  • And there print shop and out produce.
  • 00:12:51.917 --> 00:12:54.320
  • Webster's unabridged dictionary.
  • 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:57.423
  • Man, what are the odds of that explosion at a print shop?
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  • And you have a dictionary perfectly put together.
  • 00:13:02.628 --> 00:13:05.397
  • What are the odds in that?
  • 00:13:05.397 --> 00:13:06.632
  • Ladies and gentlemen, the odds of that happening
  • 00:13:06.632 --> 00:13:09.768
  • Are less than the odds that this universe
  • 00:13:09.768 --> 00:13:12.671
  • Would come together without a designer.
  • 00:13:12.671 --> 00:13:15.975
  • Abraham lincoln i said it recently.
  • 00:13:16.742 --> 00:13:18.544
  • Abraham lincoln said,
  • 00:13:18.544 --> 00:13:19.979
  • You go to outer space, you look back on the earth.
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  • You may be an atheist.
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  • He said.
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  • You stand on the earth and look at outer space.
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  • He said, you can't be an atheist.
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  • Have you ever tried to
  • 00:13:31.357 --> 00:13:32.658
  • Read a historical novel out of order?
  • 00:13:32.658 --> 00:13:36.195
  • It would be hard, if not impossible, to understand.
  • 00:13:36.195 --> 00:13:38.931
  • The plot would.
  • 00:13:38.931 --> 00:13:40.532
  • And yet we read have studied the bible in much the same way.
  • 00:13:40.532 --> 00:13:44.169
  • Like a novel, the bible tells a story
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  • With the beginning of middle and end.
  • 00:13:46.538 --> 00:13:49.008
  • And when you read in chronological order,
  • 00:13:49.008 --> 00:13:51.243
  • You will see history unfold in a new
  • 00:13:51.243 --> 00:13:53.712
  • And understandable and memorable way.
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  • Listen, in this new year, i want to challenge you
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  • To read through the bible in 52 weeks.
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  • At the end of each of two weeks you will know and understand
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  • Like never before.
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  • If you believe that you're
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  • Here by chance, or if you're here
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  • Because you have been designed by designer.
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  • What a difference by designer chance
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  • That makes all lives in the world.
  • 00:14:45.064 --> 00:14:46.532
  • And how we make decisions every day of our life.
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  • What's right, what's wrong, what will work,
  • 00:14:49.702 --> 00:14:52.705
  • What will not work, and these are faith decisions.
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  • So faith is reason.
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  • Reason.
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  • They are here to say, well, you know,
  • 00:15:02.314 --> 00:15:04.383
  • I don't have faith that you have in the church
  • 00:15:04.383 --> 00:15:07.119
  • With people here who are not christians.
  • 00:15:07.119 --> 00:15:09.588
  • Somebody stand up
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  • And tell how jesus christ came in their life
  • 00:15:10.656 --> 00:15:13.625
  • And changed everything, gave him a fresh new beginning,
  • 00:15:13.625 --> 00:15:16.862
  • A new outlook on life.
  • 00:15:16.862 --> 00:15:18.364
  • And there's a freshness there.
  • 00:15:18.364 --> 00:15:19.798
  • They never want somebody who's not afraid to say, boy,
  • 00:15:19.798 --> 00:15:22.001
  • You know, i wish i could believe that,
  • 00:15:22.001 --> 00:15:24.436
  • But i don't have enough faith.
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  • If somebody from
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  • Mars came down to this earth
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  • And we explain to them about procreation
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  • How we cooperate with god and produce life, and,
  • 00:15:34.713 --> 00:15:38.751
  • Mars would say, i can't even imagine
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  • That we procreate by the exchanging of earwax.
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  • They they i have no frame of reference.
  • 00:15:46.959 --> 00:15:49.828
  • You say we think people who
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  • See someone who comes to christ have a new life.
  • 00:15:52.965 --> 00:15:55.601
  • They back up and say, i have no frame of reference for that.
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  • I wish i had faith like that.
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  • We all have the same amount of faith.
  • 00:16:01.206 --> 00:16:03.575
  • Ladies, gentlemen, it's just what we put our faith in.
  • 00:16:03.575 --> 00:16:07.379
  • And when someone puts their faith into something
  • 00:16:07.379 --> 00:16:09.715
  • Other than jesus christ, and that occupies the core
  • 00:16:09.715 --> 00:16:13.986
  • And the center of their life, therefore it's no wonder
  • 00:16:13.986 --> 00:16:18.323
  • That they have trouble.
  • 00:16:18.824 --> 00:16:19.892
  • Believe me, we all have the same amount of faith.
  • 00:16:19.892 --> 00:16:22.494
  • All. we have
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  • The same progressiveness.
  • 00:16:23.662 --> 00:16:26.465
  • This is development from reason
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  • To believe to commitment and then to certainty.
  • 00:16:29.968 --> 00:16:32.871
  • That's how it works.
  • 00:16:32.871 --> 00:16:34.239
  • Someone who says, i just, i just need more faith.
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  • Let me tell you something.
  • 00:16:38.644 --> 00:16:39.878
  • Let's talk about security of believers.
  • 00:16:39.878 --> 00:16:42.214
  • For example.
  • 00:16:42.214 --> 00:16:45.084
  • Once saved, always saved all.
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  • We baptists love that one.
  • 00:16:46.852 --> 00:16:49.021
  • Why do we believe that it's taught in the bible?
  • 00:16:49.021 --> 00:16:51.790
  • But let's say it another way.
  • 00:16:51.790 --> 00:16:53.759
  • Let's say, for example, how are we saved if we're saved
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  • By doing good and not doing evil,
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  • We can lose our salvation, could we?
  • 00:17:00.666 --> 00:17:02.301
  • If that's how we're saved, it's because
  • 00:17:02.301 --> 00:17:04.369
  • When we begin to do evil and not good, we'd be lost.
  • 00:17:04.369 --> 00:17:07.206
  • We were saved by doing good and not evil.
  • 00:17:07.206 --> 00:17:09.575
  • Now we can be lost by doing evil, not good, right?
  • 00:17:09.575 --> 00:17:13.078
  • But we're not saved by doing good by works.
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  • We're saved by the grace of god in jesus christ.
  • 00:17:15.581 --> 00:17:18.517
  • Therefore, we are eternally secure.
  • 00:17:18.517 --> 00:17:21.653
  • And we, when we wander away from god in christ
  • 00:17:22.554 --> 00:17:25.491
  • And we slide back because we are in christ, we know that.
  • 00:17:25.491 --> 00:17:29.862
  • And our faith begins to operate, and we feel like
  • 00:17:29.862 --> 00:17:32.664
  • Someone who is no longer at home in this life.
  • 00:17:32.664 --> 00:17:36.969
  • We become a bomb.
  • 00:17:37.402 --> 00:17:39.338
  • You're in a bomb is a bomb is
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  • Is something that in the center, in the core,
  • 00:17:41.840 --> 00:17:45.544
  • There is a compound that is unstable.
  • 00:17:45.544 --> 00:17:48.447
  • That's the reason it's a bomb.
  • 00:17:49.047 --> 00:17:51.416
  • And if you're living my life, there's a compound
  • 00:17:51.416 --> 00:17:54.086
  • That is unstable.
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  • We haven't blown up, but we will blow up.
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  • We're bombs
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  • In the center of your life.
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  • In my life, when there's god in
  • 00:18:03.328 --> 00:18:04.730
  • Jesus christ, he gives us stability.
  • 00:18:04.730 --> 00:18:07.966
  • Stability.
  • 00:18:08.267 --> 00:18:09.434
  • And we understand this through reason and through belief.
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  • You see, as christians, we look back on the facts of history.
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  • You and i can believe that
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  • Christmas is real.
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  • God visited this earth in human flesh.
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  • Incarnation.
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  • You could believe that.
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  • We can believe that jesus died on the cross for your garbage.
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  • In my garbage, we can believe that our substitute.
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  • We believe that god raised him from the dead.
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  • We can believe that the resurrection easter.
  • 00:18:38.730 --> 00:18:41.466
  • But you can believe that.
  • 00:18:41.466 --> 00:18:43.535
  • But it really doesn't
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  • Become yours until that which happens in the past
  • 00:18:44.770 --> 00:18:48.340
  • Affects how we live in the present.
  • 00:18:48.340 --> 00:18:51.276
  • In other words, we have to live on the basis of
  • 00:18:52.211 --> 00:18:54.413
  • Our of the gospel, on the basis of what jesus has done.
  • 00:18:54.413 --> 00:18:58.984
  • Now, peter
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  • And paul were brought up as jews, right?
  • 00:19:01.486 --> 00:19:05.457
  • And they were taught that a gentile and a gentile is
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  • Anybody
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  • Who's not a jew in the bible, if you're
  • 00:19:09.561 --> 00:19:10.963
  • You're the jew or a non-jew, if you're a non-jew, you
  • 00:19:10.963 --> 00:19:13.732
  • A gentile.
  • 00:19:13.732 --> 00:19:14.866
  • And peter and paul were taught that
  • 00:19:14.866 --> 00:19:17.135
  • Gentiles could never know god. why?
  • 00:19:17.135 --> 00:19:21.540
  • Because their pedigree
  • 00:19:22.007 --> 00:19:24.109
  • And because of their practice,
  • 00:19:24.109 --> 00:19:27.246
  • Their pedigree.
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  • A gentile is not from abraham.
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  • A jew's pedigree is from abraham.
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  • A gentiles practice is not keeping the law.
  • 00:19:33.819 --> 00:19:36.855
  • A jews practice is keeping the law.
  • 00:19:37.589 --> 00:19:39.825
  • Therefore gentiles can never know god.
  • 00:19:39.825 --> 00:19:41.793
  • But you read the book of acts,
  • 00:19:41.793 --> 00:19:44.596
  • There is peter over there, and he gets with cornelius,
  • 00:19:44.596 --> 00:19:47.699
  • Who was a gentile, a centurion, and he tells cornelius
  • 00:19:47.699 --> 00:19:51.503
  • About god in christ.
  • 00:19:51.503 --> 00:19:52.571
  • And joseph cornelius, a gentile,
  • 00:19:52.571 --> 00:19:56.275
  • Accept jesus christ and becomes a christian.
  • 00:19:56.275 --> 00:19:59.044
  • There's a problem.
  • 00:19:59.044 --> 00:20:01.446
  • Peter had no problem.
  • 00:20:01.446 --> 00:20:02.681
  • He saw that this gentile had become a christian.
  • 00:20:02.681 --> 00:20:06.585
  • He saw that the performance of jesus was putting his life.
  • 00:20:06.585 --> 00:20:12.124
  • The pedigree of jesus was putting his life
  • 00:20:12.124 --> 00:20:14.626
  • To the christian.
  • 00:20:14.626 --> 00:20:15.727
  • So peter went over there and love eating breakfast
  • 00:20:15.727 --> 00:20:18.397
  • With him, and he fell in love with bacon.
  • 00:20:18.397 --> 00:20:23.101
  • Realized that jesus
  • 00:20:23.568 --> 00:20:25.837
  • And peter just loved the way the gentiles ate.
  • 00:20:25.837 --> 00:20:28.540
  • But some big shots from jerusalem came
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  • Some of the family of james.
  • 00:20:31.677 --> 00:20:33.178
  • There in the strict judaism, who believe you had to take
  • 00:20:33.178 --> 00:20:36.248
  • All the practice of jew after you receive christ as messiah.
  • 00:20:36.248 --> 00:20:39.818
  • And they saw that peter was eating with the gentiles.
  • 00:20:39.818 --> 00:20:43.188
  • They heard about it.
  • 00:20:43.188 --> 00:20:43.955
  • So while they were there,
  • 00:20:43.955 --> 00:20:45.157
  • Peter didn't eat with cornelius anymore.
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  • He he did move out bacon.
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  • Paul and galatians chapter two.
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  • He faced peter with this hypocrisy.
  • 00:20:53.865 --> 00:20:57.502
  • He said, peter,
  • 00:20:57.869 --> 00:20:59.838
  • If these gentiles are already christians,
  • 00:20:59.838 --> 00:21:03.241
  • And you've been told that everything is clean,
  • 00:21:03.241 --> 00:21:06.144
  • Don't change how you live, because those who come,
  • 00:21:06.144 --> 00:21:09.848
  • Who haven't yet caught up with what it means
  • 00:21:09.848 --> 00:21:11.950
  • To be born again, and a child of god.
  • 00:21:11.950 --> 00:21:14.886
  • He looked in peter's face and pointed that out to him.
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  • This is what happens to us, ladies and gentlemen.
  • 00:21:19.124 --> 00:21:21.560
  • We know all these facts historically,
  • 00:21:21.560 --> 00:21:24.029
  • But we have to take them
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  • And incorporate that
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  • Into our lives and discover this is how we then live.
  • 00:21:26.365 --> 00:21:30.635
  • Oh, i'm burdened with my sin.
  • 00:21:31.269 --> 00:21:32.938
  • I can't handle this.
  • 00:21:32.938 --> 00:21:35.273
  • We have to live on the basis our sin has been covered
  • 00:21:35.273 --> 00:21:37.809
  • By the blood of christ. we're forgiven.
  • 00:21:37.809 --> 00:21:39.478
  • Don't let that beat you down and keep you down.
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  • Live on the basis of that.
  • 00:21:42.981 --> 00:21:44.316
  • That's a part of the belief system that we have.
  • 00:21:44.316 --> 00:21:47.452
  • And then finally, look at the last thing we see here.
  • 00:21:47.452 --> 00:21:51.089
  • You were talking about faith, reason,
  • 00:21:51.089 --> 00:21:53.992
  • Belief, doctrine, what we have.
  • 00:21:54.626 --> 00:21:57.396
  • Then that comes commitment,
  • 00:21:57.396 --> 00:21:59.765
  • Commitment, commitment.
  • 00:21:59.765 --> 00:22:02.801
  • You walk on the edge of a cliff,
  • 00:22:02.801 --> 00:22:05.704
  • Slippery rocks and you slide and you start falling down
  • 00:22:05.704 --> 00:22:09.408
  • That cliff hundreds of feet below.
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  • There's your sliding down.
  • 00:22:12.511 --> 00:22:13.845
  • You see a head, a branch sticking up out of the cliff.
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  • You're going to slide right by that branch.
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  • How much faith is it going to take for you to grab
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  • Hold of that branch?
  • 00:22:24.222 --> 00:22:27.392
  • Oh. it's going down.
  • 00:22:27.859 --> 00:22:29.027
  • It's going to take no,
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  • It's not, it's not going.
  • 00:22:31.196 --> 00:22:33.198
  • They are the anti faith, is it.
  • 00:22:33.198 --> 00:22:35.300
  • When you're sliding down that cliff to grab that branch.
  • 00:22:35.300 --> 00:22:39.204
  • But once you grab that branch
  • 00:22:39.204 --> 00:22:42.641
  • That's a little faith that you have.
  • 00:22:42.641 --> 00:22:44.176
  • But that branch in its strength
  • 00:22:44.176 --> 00:22:47.446
  • Will hold you up and save you.
  • 00:22:47.446 --> 00:22:50.348
  • When we extend our hand to jesus christ
  • 00:22:51.183 --> 00:22:53.819
  • We extend our hand to him.
  • 00:22:53.819 --> 00:22:55.587
  • He grabs us and he puts and you and me, his pedigree.
  • 00:22:55.587 --> 00:22:59.224
  • He's a son of god.
  • 00:22:59.658 --> 00:23:01.159
  • Is that a pretty good family to be?
  • 00:23:01.159 --> 00:23:02.494
  • And he puts in you and me his practice.
  • 00:23:02.494 --> 00:23:05.030
  • A life of perfection.
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  • Is that enough for you and me?
  • 00:23:06.665 --> 00:23:08.433
  • And therefore that gives us salvation.
  • 00:23:08.433 --> 00:23:13.104
  • Faith
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  • Saves
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  • Faith.
  • 00:23:17.075 --> 00:23:19.578
  • It works everywhere.
  • 00:23:19.578 --> 00:23:21.847
  • We're on top of our game.
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  • We're on the bottom of our game.
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  • Faith,
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  • What is it?
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  • Faith?
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  • How do we get it?
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  • Faith.
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  • We can't lose it
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  • Once we're in christ and christ is within us,
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  • And then we can handle whatever life puts in front of us
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  • On our plate.
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  • And that is the certainty of our faith.
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  • We see it works.
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  • It applies.
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  • It keeps us going.
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  • It sees us through.
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  • Chicago fire was in, i think, 1871.
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  • I'm not sure
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  • In that fire.
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  • Horatio spafford was a lawyer.
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  • Your own property in chicago, very wealthy.
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  • And everything you had was wiped out.
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  • He sent his wife and four little daughters to london
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  • To go to adl moody crusade to try
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  • To have a moment of getting over their tremendous loss
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  • On that
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  • Voyage from new york to london,
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  • Middle of the atlantic, the ship went down.
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  • All four daughters were lost,
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  • And i was saved.
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  • Somehow she was on a board.
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  • And when you regained consciousness,
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  • She looked around.
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  • All four of her daughters had drowned
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  • When she found safety there, was rescued.
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  • She sent a telegram back to her husband,
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  • Who was coming over later to be with them.
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  • And it said simply saved
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  • Alone.
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  • What am i to do?
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  • Horatio stafford
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  • Went over there and joined his wife,
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  • And they saw and were led to believe
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  • That god had a special calling for their life.
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  • And so they moved to jerusalem,
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  • And they bought this house, which is now a hotel.
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  • And they began to take in offerings.
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  • They began to take in street people.
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  • They began to feed and love and share with those people
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  • Jews and muslims, the lord jesus christ.
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  • And they did that for the rest of their life.
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  • And on the way over, horatio stafford
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  • As the ship he was on to stop over the spot
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  • Where his four little daughters had ground months before.
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  • And there he wrote,
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  • It is well with my soul.
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  • Peace like a river, i said, is my day.
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  • Good things, sorrow when like sea billows roll.
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  • Bad things said whatever, whatever,
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  • Whatever the cost.
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  • Thou hast told me to say
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  • It is well,
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  • It is well with my soul.
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  • That, ladies and gentlemen,
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  • Is faith
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  • In action.
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  • Have you ever tried to read
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  • A historical novel out of order?
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  • It would be hard, if not impossible, to understand.
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  • The plot would.
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  • And yet we read have studied the bible in much the same way.
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  • Like a novel, the bible tells a story
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  • With the beginning of middle and end.
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  • And when you read in chronological order,
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  • You will see history unfold in a new
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  • And understandable and memorable way.
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  • Listen, in this new year, i want to challenge you
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  • To read through the bible in 52 weeks.
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  • At the end of each of two weeks you will know and understand
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  • Like never before.
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