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Ed Young - How To Make Decisions

January 23, 2025 | S25:E20

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 23, 2025
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  • Ed young: noah was a man of faith, the bible tells us,
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  • And he had a wife.
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  • His sons married wives and they had a household, a family
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  • Of faith, which was countercultural, going
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  • In the opposite 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 120 years.
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  • Genesis 6:3, 120 years to turn back to god.
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  • Oh yeah, 'cause that's when god said to noah, "go build a boat."
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  • Now that's crazy.
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  • He was 100 miles from any body of 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 was with the flood
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  • Waters that came those 40 days and 40 nights.
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  • Here he is building a boat, this righteous man, this god-fearing
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  • Man, this worshiping man, and you can imagine
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  • The ridicule.
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  • Well, noah, what are you building there, man?
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  • Large proportions, isn't it?
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  • By the way, you remember the dimensions of the ark?
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  • A hundred and fifty feet long, a football and a half long, you
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  • Know, onto the super bowl.
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  • I'll give you that most measure.
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  • A football and a half long field long, 25 yards wide, 15 yards
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  • High.
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  • It wasn't for going anywhere.
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  • It was for existence.
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  • Now, people have studied the art for many years and some scholars
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  • And people who're supposed to know about boats said, you
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  • Know, "that boat wouldn't float.
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  • It couldn't possibly inhabit two of every kind and keep people
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  • Alive for all those 40 days, 40 nights, et cetera."
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  • But now, go to branson, missouri, you can see a replica
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  • Of the ark.
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  • Go to other places on the earth, you see the ark has been exactly
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  • Reconstructed.
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  • And now there is common belief that what is reported
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  • In the bible that many people just said, "oh it won't work,"
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  • Now they see exactly how it could have worked and it did
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  • Function.
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  • Amazing, isn't it?
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  • Noah built that big ol' ark by faith.
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  • He got in, the rains came, then he floated out there a million
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  • Miles from nowhere and his boat ended up on mount ararat.
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  • Remember, we climbed up ararat a few months ago?
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  • And i can imagine that noah walked out of that ark and he
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  • Looked around.
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  • There was nobody, no people, no inhabitants, no landmarks, no
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  • Nothing.
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  • He started over from zip.
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  • A lot of people think that noah exercised more faith
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  • After the flood than he did before the flood, because what's
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  • The first thing noah did when he got off the boat?
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  • The bible says he built an altar.
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  • He worshipped in thanksgiving.
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  • The ark was salvation, the altar was transformation.
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  • You can be saved and not be transformed.
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  • But that's the transformation that took place as noah had
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  • A new chance to begin life on this earth by faith.
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  • Noah.
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  • Noah.
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  • Let me ask 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 as lose your faith and then reclaiming
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  • Your faith?
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  • We have a lot of questions about faith.
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  • You go to hebrews chapter 11, there's a whole chapter
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  • On faith.
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  • It's the centerpiece in the bible on faith.
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  • It gives us in the opening verses sort of a general
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  • Definition of faith.
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  • Look at hebrews 11:1-3, "now faith is the substance of things
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  • Hoped for, 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, and then the rest
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  • Of the chapter tells us men and women in history who lived
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  • By faith in all kinds of circumstances.
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  • Then he says a key verse in verse 3, "by faith we
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  • Understand."
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  • "understand" there means something you come to believe
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  • By evidence, by proof.
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  • "by faith we come to believe we understand that the world--
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  • The worlds were framed by the word of god, so that
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  • The things which are seen were not made of things which are
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  • Visible."
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  • In other words--by the way, the scientists came
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  • Up with the big bang.
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  • Remember the big bang?
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  • Said bang, the world came into being.
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  • There it is right there in hebrews, is it not?
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  • The world was made by god out of things that were not
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  • Seen, and boom, there's an explosion and now there are
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  • 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, but let me tell you
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  • A basic understanding of faith.
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  • First of all, faith is reason.
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  • It's reason.
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  • 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 is reason, and then reason leads
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  • To belief, 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 from reason
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  • To certainty.
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  • I'm goin' to figure all this out.
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  • I'm going to work through it, then i'm going to be certain.
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  • 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, and then
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  • Hopefully it comes to certainty.
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  • Up 'til that point, it's all tentative.
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  • It's all, "i hope."
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  • It's perhaps.
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  • It's experimental.
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • Except in math, every decision you make, every decision i make,
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  • Comes by way of faith.
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  • Therefore if somebody might say, "well, you know, i don't need
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  • Faith.
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  • I don't--i don't think about those things," every
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  • Decision, every choice we make about everything on the planet
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  • 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 anything, make any
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  • Decision without faith, that's pretty practical, isn't it?
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  • So let's seek to understand faith from the very, very
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  • Beginning.
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  • When you decide who you want your plumber to be, it's a faith
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  • Decision.
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  • You decide who you want to marry, faith decision.
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  • You decide, if you need surgery, who your surgeon is going to be,
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  • A faith decision.
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  • Pretty important, wouldn't you say?
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  • Well, how's this work?
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  • Let's take a plumber.
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  • Alright, you got pipes that are rusted all over your house.
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  • Need to get a plumber.
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  • So you go and use what?
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  • Reason. reason.
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  • Try to find a plumber who can do this.
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  • You use your mind, you use understanding, reason, and then
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  • You move to belief.
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  • Then you say, "you know, i believe enough, i've
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  • Investigated enough, and i have reason that this would be my
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  • 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, all those process is sorta
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  • Tentative.
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  • It's sort of, you know, i don't know, but when it's completed
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  • And it works, you have certainty.
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  • Picking a mate.
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  • A lot of people are not married.
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  • You know why?
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  • They think they moved 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.
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  • He's the right one.
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  • Bang, bang, i'm certain now.
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  • No, no, no, it started with reason, then you go
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  • Through a belief.
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  • 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, "i
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  • 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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  • You use reason.
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  • And then reasonably you think, "this is a person that can
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  • Do it."
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  • Then you have a certain belief about methodology and how it
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  • Will be done.
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  • And then you make a commitment.
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  • In that commitment, you lie on the 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, isn't it?
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  • Huh? huh?
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  • Commitment.
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  • And then following the surgery, things go well, and then you
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  • Have what?
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  • Certainty. certainty.
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  • So faith isn't just something, well, pie in the sky over there.
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  • Faith isn't something that we say, "well, christians have
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  • Faith and non-christians 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 your faith in, what i put my
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  • Faith in.
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  • For example, let's look at--go back through and talked
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  • About reason, understanding.
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  • That's where we start.
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  • Scientists normally operate by faith.
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  • Scientists do not discover a whole lot of things
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  • Through inductive reasoning.
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  • What is that?
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  • They don't say, "well, i see this over here and i see that
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  • Over there, and i understand that molecule over there,
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  • And this works over here," and they put all this together
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  • Inductively and they come to a conclusion, something that
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  • Works, something that's accurate.
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  • Normally that's not the way science works.
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  • Science works with a faith assumption, with a thesis,
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  • With an idea and a concept, and then this is deductive
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  • Reasoning.
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  • They begin to deduce from that evidence as to whether or not
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  • That faith assumption is accurate.
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  • Science operates by faith primarily.
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  • And so we look at the universe.
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  • Godless people say, boy, the universe came together
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  • By chance.
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  • It just all came by accident, by atoms coming together,
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  • Like in some primeval moment billions of years ago.
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  • It just evolved.
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • To say this universe came together by chance is
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  • Like saying there was an explosion in a print shop
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  • And out produced the webster's unabridged dictionary.
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  • Man, what are the odds of that?
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  • Explosion in a print shop and you have a dictionary
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  • Perfectly put together, what are the odds in that?
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, the odds of that happening are less than
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  • The odds that this universe would come together
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  • Without a designer.
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  • Abraham lincoln--i said it recently.
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  • Abraham lincoln says, "you go to outer space, you look back
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  • On the earth, you may be an atheist."
  • 00:12:38.937 --> 00:12:41.105
  • He said, "you stand on the earth and look at outer space," he
  • 00:12:41.105 --> 00:12:44.576
  • Said, "you can't be an atheist."
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  • So the idea that all of this came--for example, decisions
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  • In your life, faith choices that we make, what if you think that
  • 00:12:51.149 --> 00:12:55.119
  • You came into being by chance, that all human beings are here
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  • By chance?
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  • We came from some primeval mud puddle there.
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  • We came here by chance.
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  • By chance something that was inorganic became organic
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  • By chance.
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  • If you believe that you're here by chance or if you are here
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  • Because you have been designed by a designer, what
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  • A difference.
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  • By design or chance?
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  • That makes all the difference in the world on how we make
  • 00:13:22.647 --> 00:13:24.682
  • Decisions every day of our life.
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  • What's right, what's wrong, what will work, what will not work,
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  • And these are faith decisions.
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  • So faith is reason.
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  • Reason.
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  • The idea to say, "well, you know, i don't have faith that
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  • You have in the church."
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  • People here who are not christians, somebody stand
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  • Up and tell how jesus christ came in their life and changed
  • 00:13:48.106 --> 00:13:51.509
  • Everything, gave them a fresh new beginning, a new outlook
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  • On life, and there's a freshness there they'd never had.
  • 00:13:54.946 --> 00:13:58.116
  • Somebody who's not a christian say, "boy, you know i wish i
  • 00:13:58.116 --> 00:14:00.218
  • Could believe that, but i don't have enough faith."
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  • If somebody from mars came down to this earth and we
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  • Explain to them about procreation, how we
  • 00:14:10.128 --> 00:14:12.964
  • Cooperate with god and produce life, and the martian would say,
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  • "i can't even imagine that.
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  • We procreate by the exchanging of earwax."
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  • They have no frame of reference.
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  • You see, we think people who see someone who comes to christ have
  • 00:14:27.979 --> 00:14:32.450
  • A new life, they back up and say, "i have no frame
  • 00:14:32.450 --> 00:14:35.119
  • 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, ladies and gentlemen.
  • 00:14:38.923 --> 00:14:42.327
  • It's just what we put our faith in.
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  • And when someone puts their faith into something other than
  • 00:14:44.762 --> 00:14:47.732
  • Jesus christ, and that occupies the core and the center of their
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  • Life, therefore it's no wonder that they have trouble
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  • Believing.
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  • We all have the same amount of faith.
  • 00:14:58.409 --> 00:15:00.345
  • All, we have the same progressiveness.
  • 00:15:00.345 --> 00:15:04.115
  • This is development from reason, to belief, to commitment,
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  • And then to certainty.
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  • That's how it works.
  • 00:15:10.488 --> 00:15:11.823
  • Someone who says, "i just--i just need more faith," let me
  • 00:15:11.823 --> 00:15:16.394
  • Tell you something.
  • 00:15:16.394 --> 00:15:17.762
  • Let's talk about security of believers, for example.
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  • Once saved, always saved.
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  • Oh, we baptists love that one.
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  • Why do we believe that?
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  • It's taught in the bible.
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  • But let's say it another way.
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  • Let's say, for example, how are we saved?
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  • If we're saved by doing good and not doing evil, we can lose
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  • Our salvation, couldn't we?
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  • If that's how we're saved, it's because when we begin to do evil
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  • And not good, we'd be lost.
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  • We were saved by doing good and not evil.
  • 00:15:44.856 --> 00:15:47.258
  • Now we can be lost by doing evil, not good, right?
  • 00:15:47.258 --> 00:15:50.895
  • 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.
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  • Therefore, we are eternally secure.
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  • And we--when we wander away from god in christ and we slide
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  • Back, because we are in christ, we know that, and our faith
  • 00:16:03.775 --> 00:16:08.312
  • Begins to operate, and we feel like someone who is no longer
  • 00:16:08.312 --> 00:16:11.783
  • At home in this life.
  • 00:16:11.783 --> 00:16:14.886
  • We become a bomb.
  • 00:16:14.886 --> 00:16:16.988
  • You know what a bomb is?
  • 00:16:16.988 --> 00:16:18.356
  • A bomb is something that, in the center, in the core,
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  • There is a compound that is unstable.
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  • That's the reason it's a bomb.
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  • And if your life and my life there's a compound that is
  • 00:16:29.100 --> 00:16:31.803
  • Unstable, 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 and my life, when there's god
  • 00:16:39.410 --> 00:16:42.246
  • And jesus christ, he gives us stability.
  • 00:16:42.246 --> 00:16:45.750
  • Stability.
  • 00:16:45.750 --> 00:16:47.118
  • And we understand this through reason
  • 00:16:47.118 --> 00:16:48.920
  • And through belief.
  • 00:16:48.920 --> 00:16:51.289
  • You see, as christians, we look back on the facts of history.
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  • You and i can believe that christmas is real.
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  • God visited this earth in human flesh, incarnation.
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  • You can believe that.
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  • We can believe that jesus died on the cross for all your
  • 00:17:05.169 --> 00:17:08.272
  • Garbage and my garbage.
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  • We can believe that, our substitute.
  • 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:12.276
  • We can believe that god raised him from the dead.
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  • We can believe that, the resurrection, easter.
  • 00:17:16.080 --> 00:17:18.950
  • But you can believe that, but it really doesn't become yours
  • 00:17:18.950 --> 00:17:23.287
  • Until that which happens in the past affects how we live
  • 00:17:23.287 --> 00:17:26.991
  • In the present.
  • 00:17:26.991 --> 00:17:29.494
  • In other words, we have to live on the basis of our--
  • 00:17:29.494 --> 00:17:32.029
  • Of the gospel, on the basis of what jesus has done.
  • 00:17:32.029 --> 00:17:36.667
  • Now, peter and paul were brought up as jews, right?
  • 00:17:36.667 --> 00:17:43.074
  • And they were taught that a gentile--and a gentile is
  • 00:17:43.074 --> 00:17:46.344
  • Anybody who's not a jew in the bible.
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  • If you--you're either a jew or a non-jew.
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  • If you're a non-jew, you're a gentile.
  • 00:17:50.414 --> 00:17:52.617
  • And peter and paul were taught that gentiles could never know
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  • God.
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  • Why?
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  • Because their pedigree and because of their practice.
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  • Their pedigree, a gentile is not from abraham.
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  • A jew's pedigree is from abraham.
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  • A gentile's practice is not keeping the law, a jew's
  • 00:18:11.435 --> 00:18:15.606
  • Practice is keeping the law.
  • 00:18:15.606 --> 00:18:17.375
  • Therefore, gentile could never know god.
  • 00:18:17.375 --> 00:18:19.443
  • But you read the book of acts, there is peter over there and he
  • 00:18:19.443 --> 00:18:23.781
  • Gets with cornelius who was a gentile, a centurion.
  • 00:18:23.781 --> 00:18:27.652
  • And he tells cornelius about god in christ, and zip, cornelius,
  • 00:18:27.652 --> 00:18:32.590
  • A gentile, accepts jesus christ and becomes a christian.
  • 00:18:32.590 --> 00:18:36.561
  • There's a problem.
  • 00:18:36.561 --> 00:18:39.030
  • Peter had no problem.
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  • He saw that this gentile had become a christian.
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  • He saw that the performance of jesus was put in his life,
  • 00:18:44.235 --> 00:18:49.640
  • The pedigree of jesus was put in his life, so he was
  • 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:52.577
  • A christian.
  • 00:18:52.577 --> 00:18:53.945
  • So peter went over there and loved eating breakfast
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  • With him, and he fell in love with bacon.
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  • He lies to jesus.
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  • And peter just loved the way the gentiles ate, but some big
  • 00:19:03.321 --> 00:19:06.891
  • Shots from jerusalem came.
  • 00:19:06.891 --> 00:19:09.393
  • Some of the family of james there in the strict judaism, who
  • 00:19:09.393 --> 00:19:12.163
  • Believe you had to take all the practices of jew after you
  • 00:19:12.163 --> 00:19:15.499
  • Receive christ as messiah, and they saw that peter was
  • 00:19:15.499 --> 00:19:18.803
  • Eating with the gentiles.
  • 00:19:18.803 --> 00:19:20.538
  • They heard about it, so while they were there, peter didn't
  • 00:19:20.538 --> 00:19:23.274
  • Eat with cornelius anymore.
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  • He did without bacon.
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  • Paul, in galatians chapter 2, he faced peter with this hypocrisy.
  • 00:19:28.679 --> 00:19:35.553
  • He said, "pete, if these gentiles are really christians
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  • And you've been told that everything is clean, don't
  • 00:19:40.658 --> 00:19:44.161
  • Change how you live, because those who come who haven't
  • 00:19:44.161 --> 00:19:47.832
  • Yet caught up with what it means to be born again and a child
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  • Of god."
  • 00:19:51.469 --> 00:19:52.803
  • He looked in peter's face and pointed it out to him.
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  • This is what happens to us, ladies and gentlemen.
  • 00:19:56.574 --> 00:19:59.210
  • We know all these facts historically, but we have
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  • To take them and incorporate that into our lives and discover
  • 00:20:02.146 --> 00:20:05.416
  • This is how we then live.
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  • Oh, i'm burdened with my sin.
  • 00:20:08.619 --> 00:20:10.288
  • I can't handle this.
  • 00:20:10.288 --> 00:20:12.757
  • We have to live on the basis our sin has been covered
  • 00:20:12.757 --> 00:20:15.126
  • By the blood of christ.
  • 00:20:15.126 --> 00:20:16.460
  • We are forgiven.
  • 00:20:16.460 --> 00:20:17.828
  • Don't let that beat you down and keep you down.
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  • Live on the basis of that.
  • 00:20:20.498 --> 00:20:21.899
  • That's a part of the belief system that we have.
  • 00:20:21.899 --> 00:20:25.102
  • And then finally, look at the last thing we see here.
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  • Yeah, we're talking about faith, reason, belief, doctrine, what
  • 00:20:28.939 --> 00:20:34.045
  • We have.
  • 00:20:34.045 --> 00:20:35.146
  • Then there comes commitment.
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  • Commitment.
  • 00:20:37.315 --> 00:20:40.451
  • You walk on the edge of a cliff, slippery rocks, and you slide,
  • 00:20:38.683 --> 00:20:45.489
  • And you start falling down that cliff hundreds of feet below.
  • 00:20:45.489 --> 00:20:49.960
  • And as you're sliding down, you see ahead a branch sticking
  • 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:54.131
  • Up out of the cliff.
  • 00:20:54.131 --> 00:20:55.766
  • You're going to slide right by that branch.
  • 00:20:55.766 --> 00:20:59.637
  • How much faith is going to take for you to grab hold of that
  • 00:20:59.637 --> 00:21:02.173
  • Branch?
  • 00:21:02.173 --> 00:21:03.908
  • Huh?
  • 00:21:03.908 --> 00:21:05.443
  • "oh, it's got--" no, it's gonna take--no, it's not gonna take
  • 00:21:05.443 --> 00:21:11.315
  • Hardly any faith, is it, when you're sliding down that cliff,
  • 00:21:11.315 --> 00:21:15.052
  • To grab that branch.
  • 00:21:15.052 --> 00:21:16.754
  • But once you grab that branch, that's a little faith that you
  • 00:21:16.754 --> 00:21:21.592
  • Have, but that branch, in its strength, will hold you
  • 00:21:21.592 --> 00:21:25.563
  • Up and save you.
  • 00:21:25.563 --> 00:21:28.699
  • When we extend our hand to jesus christ, we extend our hand
  • 00:21:28.699 --> 00:21:32.536
  • To him, he grabs us and he puts in you and me his pedigree.
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  • He's the son of god.
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  • Is that a pretty good family to be in?
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  • He puts in you and me his practice, a life of perfection.
  • 00:21:40.745 --> 00:21:44.115
  • Is that enough for you and me?
  • 00:21:44.115 --> 00:21:45.950
  • And therefore that gives us salvation.
  • 00:21:45.950 --> 00:21:50.755
  • Faith. faith.
  • 00:21:50.755 --> 00:21:54.625
  • Faith.
  • 00:21:54.625 --> 00:21:57.161
  • It works everywhere, when we're on top of our game, when we're
  • 00:21:57.161 --> 00:22:00.831
  • In the bottom of our game.
  • 00:22:00.831 --> 00:22:02.533
  • Faith.
  • 00:22:02.533 --> 00:22:03.968
  • What is it?
  • 00:22:03.968 --> 00:22:05.936
  • Faith.
  • 00:22:05.936 --> 00:22:07.705
  • How do we get it?
  • 00:22:07.705 --> 00:22:09.373
  • Faith.
  • 00:22:09.373 --> 00:22:10.975
  • We can't lose it.
  • 00:22:10.975 --> 00:22:12.943
  • Once we're in christ and christ is within us, and then we can
  • 00:22:12.943 --> 00:22:16.781
  • Handle whatever life puts in for of us on our plate.
  • 00:22:16.781 --> 00:22:20.818
  • 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.
  • 00:22:32.696 --> 00:22:36.200
  • I'm not sure.
  • 00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:38.335
  • In that fire, horatio spafford was a lawyer, owned property
  • 00:22:38.335 --> 00:22:42.907
  • In chicago, very wealthy, and everything he had was
  • 00:22:42.907 --> 00:22:45.810
  • Wiped out.
  • 00:22:45.810 --> 00:22:47.178
  • He sent his wife and four little daughters to london to go
  • 00:22:47.178 --> 00:22:52.550
  • To a d. l. moody crusade,
  • 00:22:52.550 --> 00:22:55.252
  • To try to have a moment of getting over their
  • 00:22:55.252 --> 00:22:58.489
  • Tremendous loss.
  • 00:22:58.489 --> 00:23:00.958
  • On that voyage from new york to london, middle
  • 00:23:00.958 --> 00:23:04.929
  • Of the atlantic, the ship went down.
  • 00:23:04.929 --> 00:23:08.265
  • All four daughters were lost.
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  • Anna was saved.
  • 00:23:11.302 --> 00:23:13.637
  • Somehow she was on a board, and when she regained
  • 00:23:13.637 --> 00:23:16.774
  • Consciousness, she looked around, all four of her
  • 00:23:16.774 --> 00:23:19.543
  • Daughters had drowned.
  • 00:23:19.543 --> 00:23:21.779
  • When she found safety there, was rescued, she sent a telegram
  • 00:23:21.779 --> 00:23:25.983
  • Back to her husband who was coming over later to be
  • 00:23:25.983 --> 00:23:29.186
  • With them.
  • 00:23:29.186 --> 00:23:30.921
  • And it said simply, "saved, alone.
  • 00:23:30.921 --> 00:23:37.661
  • What am i to do?"
  • 00:23:37.661 --> 00:23:40.397
  • Horatio spafford went over there, joined his wife,
  • 00:23:40.397 --> 00:23:44.635
  • And they saw and were led to believe that god had
  • 00:23:44.635 --> 00:23:47.538
  • A special calling for their life.
  • 00:23:47.538 --> 00:23:50.040
  • And so they moved to jerusalem, and they bought this house,
  • 00:23:50.040 --> 00:23:54.678
  • Which is now a hotel, and they began to take in orphans.
  • 00:23:54.678 --> 00:23:58.916
  • They began to take in street people.
  • 00:23:58.916 --> 00:24:00.951
  • They began to feed, and love, and share with those people,
  • 00:24:00.951 --> 00:24:04.321
  • Jews and muslims, the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:24:04.321 --> 00:24:07.024
  • And they did that for the rest of their life.
  • 00:24:07.024 --> 00:24:12.963
  • And on the way over, horatio spafford asks the ship he was
  • 00:24:12.963 --> 00:24:17.101
  • On to stop over the spot where his four little daughters had
  • 00:24:17.101 --> 00:24:22.606
  • Drowned months before.
  • 00:24:22.606 --> 00:24:25.042
  • And there he wrote, "it is well with my soul."
  • 00:24:25.042 --> 00:24:31.715
  • "peace like a river, attendeth my day."
  • 00:24:31.715 --> 00:24:34.451
  • Good things.
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  • "sorrow when like sea, billows roll."
  • 00:24:35.986 --> 00:24:38.856
  • Bad things.
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  • Said, "whatever, whatever, whatever the cost, thou has
  • 00:24:40.724 --> 00:24:46.830
  • Taught me to say, it is well, it is well with my soul."
  • 00:24:46.830 --> 00:24:55.039
  • That, ladies and gentlemen, is faith in action.
  • 00:24:55.039 --> 00:25:00.578
  • Ed: have you ever tried to read a historical novel out of order?
  • 00:25:01.812 --> 00:25:06.517
  • It would be hard, if not impossible, to understand the
  • 00:25:06.517 --> 00:25:09.320
  • Plot, wouldn't it?
  • 00:25:09.320 --> 00:25:10.955
  • And yet, we read and study the bible in much the same way.
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  • Like a novel, the bible tells a story
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  • With a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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  • And when you read it in chronological order,
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  • You will see history unfold in a new and understandable
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  • 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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  • When you give to the winning walk this month,
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  • We want to 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.
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  • At the end of 52 weeks, you will know and understand
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  • Like never before the full story of the bible.
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  • Male vo: to get your copy of the one year chronological bible,
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  • Call the number on your screen or go online at winningwalk.org.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Ed young: the story of noah reminds us that the time to obey
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  • God's instructions and genuinely walk with him is before the rain
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  • Begins to fall.
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  • Noah obeyed everything god commanded him to do.
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  • He was consistent in his walk with the lord and he trusted
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  • God's timing.
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  • Listen, walking with god is a daily thing.
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  • When you apply his timeless principles to your marriage,
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  • Your family, and your everyday life, you will discover
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  • The favor that comes to those who walk with god.
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  • Are you experiencing this daily walk with the lord?
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  • If not, we would like to help.
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  • Call the number on your screen right now and men and women are
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  • Standing by to talk with you and help you have a deeper walk
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  • With the lord jesus christ.
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  • Let me personally thank you for watching today.
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  • Please join us again next time as we take another step together
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  • On "the winning walk."
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  • ♪♪♪
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