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Ed Young - How To Win The Culture War

April 20, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - How To Win The Culture War
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 Win The Culture War | April 20, 2026
  • This little thing right here,
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  • You could put it in contaminated water,
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  • Whatever it is.
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  • And you can suck through it.
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  • And this purifies that water until it's safe to drink.
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  • Isn't that an amazing little thing?
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  • Amazing little thing.
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  • Now, in the culture in which we live
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  • That is so polluted.
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  • Disease filled.
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  • Wouldn't it be wonderful
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  • If you and i somehow could
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  • Purify
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  • Our lives and drink water like jesus
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  • Offered to the woman at the well?
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  • That's pure, where you wouldn't have to be thirsty again.
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  • Would it be wonderful if we could do that?
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  • How do we do that?
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  • We are in a cultural war.
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  • You might ask,
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  • What is culture?
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  • Culture is everything that's in you and in me,
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  • And everything that's around you and around me.
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  • It is our environment.
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  • It is the air we breathe.
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  • It's the people we associate with.
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  • It's our family.
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  • It's a multiplicity of worldviews.
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  • This is the atmosphere.
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  • This is the environment in which we live.
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  • It is our culture.
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  • And we are in a cultural war
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  • Right this moment
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  • Worldwide, but especially in
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  • The united states of america.
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  • Things are changing so rapidly.
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  • Who in the world can keep up?
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  • There's a word.
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  • Yesterday we used in our vocabulary.
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  • And now if you use that word, you're canceled.
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  • So we live in a rapidly moving culture.
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  • Now, some would say our culture is drifted.
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  • It's just drifting.
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  • No, our culture is not drifting.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, our culture is being driven.
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  • It's being driven by what forces?
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  • Silicon valley.
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  • Hollywood.
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  • Las vegas.
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  • Wall street.
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  • Washington.
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  • It is being driven by our educational world.
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  • It is being driven by our entertainment world.
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  • It's being driven by our corporate world.
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  • It's being driven by our digital world.
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  • These are many things that are driving us
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  • In our culture to move into a brand new culture.
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  • And what is the basic
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  • Premise behind all of this?
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  • You know, you read a news article
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  • And that's fine, but that may not be the primary article.
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  • The truth of that article may be what's called a shadow
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  • Article, a shadow reality behind that article.
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  • Behind that event, there's a shadow event.
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  • What is happening in our culture?
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  • What is the ultimate goal of our culture?
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  • The basic
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  • Thrust of the culture war we're in
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  • Is simply to eliminate
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  • God from every aspect of life.
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  • Keep god inside the stained glass and the steel.
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  • But by all means, don't let him get out.
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  • That is a shadow agenda,
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  • Which really is the primary thesis
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  • Of those who are humanists and secularists
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  • And those who would take god out
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  • Of the united states of america.
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  • If you don't see that.
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  • Take the blinders off.
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  • This is the basic background.
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  • The shadow of the culture war
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  • In which we're in now.
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  • If we're serious about this war,
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  • It's not going to be satisfied totally through elections.
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  • We are going to have to get in the battle.
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  • Those who are genuine followers of jesus christ,
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  • The cultural christians, they've already run away.
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  • They'll not be coming back.
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  • You just book it.
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  • So what are we to do?
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  • If we're serious
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  • In the war that we have,
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  • What are we to do?
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  • What is our role?
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  • What do we do?
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  • I think we have to do individually
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  • And therefore collectively.
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  • We're going to have to,
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  • First of all, speak
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  • Love.
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  • And then the second thing we have to do,
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  • We're going to have to teach truth.
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  • And the third thing
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  • We're going to have to live
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  • Pure.
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  • Speak love.
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  • The verse that everybody almost can quote,
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  • Everybody can quote, jesus wept.
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  • But also most of us
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  • Can quote john 316.
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  • Let's see what he says briefly.
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  • For god so loved the culture, the world.
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  • God so loved the culture
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  • That he gave his only son.
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  • That divinity visited the world.
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  • The incarnation
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  • That whosoever.
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  • Anybody, anywhere.
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  • Any background, any understanding.
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  • Whosoever believes in him, they will not perish.
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  • They will live forever and forever and forever.
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  • That's what that teaches.
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  • And that is what this world needs.
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  • First and foremost.
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  • We are going to have to speak love.
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  • God is love.
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  • We've got to speak that love.
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  • So how do we introduce people
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  • To him?
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  • Who helps you and me make sense out of life?
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  • And that's the lord jesus christ.
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  • How do we do that?
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  • First of all, we have to understand
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  • That the leading symptom
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  • Of our spiritual sickness
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  • Is death.
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  • That's the first symptom that we're spiritually ill.
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  • It's death.
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  • Jesus came into the world
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  • To conquer death,
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  • And he's the only person
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  • Who ever conquered death.
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  • Now, therefore, what's the cause of death?
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  • The cause of death is sin.
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  • What is sin?
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  • It's violating the principles of god that's built
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  • In all of creation and is told in the book.
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  • Sin is a cause of death.
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  • Sin separates us.
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  • Sin is a great separator.
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  • Sin separates our.
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  • Soul. from god.
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  • Let me remind you, for the 523rd time
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  • Of what your soul is, your soul and my soul is
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  • Everything that is not flesh.
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  • Everything that is not of this body.
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  • About you and about me.
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  • That's your soul and that's my soul.
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  • It's everything that is not flesh.
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  • Your heart, your emotions, your will,
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  • Who you are, your personality.
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  • And that soul is made in the image of god as his body
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  • Is. and that soul is made and will live forever.
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  • Sin separates your soul
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  • And my soul from god.
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  • Death separates your body
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  • And my body from our soul.
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  • You follow me.
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  • So jesus came into the world to deal with
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  • Two problems that are very closely related.
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  • The problem of sin
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  • And the problem of death.
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  • How did he deal with sin?
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  • He lived a perfect life,
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  • And in that cosmic transaction,
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  • He took upon himself all of your sin and all
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  • Of my sin and all of my shame and all of my garbage.
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  • He took that upon himself.
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  • And when he
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  • Became sin, jesus, who was perfect, became sin.
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  • What happened?
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  • The father turned away from him.
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  • Divinity turned away from divinity.
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  • Can you think about that?
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  • Because jesus took
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  • All of our stuff on him, and the father turned away.
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  • And jesus said, my god, my god, why have you turned away?
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  • Why have you sold me out?
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  • Why have you forsaken me?
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  • What a big price.
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  • What a big price!
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  • But it's on that cross.
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  • The sin problem was taken care of.
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  • It was taking care for you and for me.
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  • Also, what about the problem of death?
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  • We know the story.
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  • We know easter.
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  • Jesus.
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  • Dead. three days, three nights.
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  • The father resurrected him.
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  • And now that perfect soul that he had
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  • Was reunited with a resurrection body.
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  • A body that is made for eternity and for heaven.
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  • And so
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  • Now the sin problem that we have, and the death
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  • Problem that we have, is taken care of by jesus christ.
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  • What a fabulous,
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  • Fabulous word we are to relate
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  • A word of love, a word of new life,
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  • And we call it being born again.
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  • We call it the process of propitiation.
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  • If you want a theological word,
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  • It means that we have on our heaven suit
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  • And our earthly suit is a fabulous thing.
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  • The twin problems of sin
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  • And death were satisfied by jesus christ on the cross
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  • And with the resurrection, and that covers all of us.
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  • Now, now
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  • This is speaking love.
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  • Now, how do we apprehend that?
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  • The bible says, believe
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  • On the lord jesus christ, and you shall be saved.
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  • What does it mean to believe exactly what i've said?
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  • Exactly what the bible teaches.
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  • We believe and what triggers that belief.
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  • That is our faith.
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  • When we are
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  • Aware of our sin, we confess our sin, we repent.
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  • We turn away from our sin.
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  • And then faith.
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  • We receive him into our life.
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  • We unzip our heart and our life, and we put jesus in,
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  • And he comes in with his spirit and your life and my life.
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  • There is a garden there in which we grow up to be
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  • Men and women who walk with the lord jesus christ.
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  • In this broken culture.
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  • Man, that's a message.
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  • That's how we speak love.
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  • Everybody wants a happy home.
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  • But let's be honest.
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  • A happy home doesn't just happen.
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  • It's built.
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  • It's shaped.
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  • Day by day by day.
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  • That's why i want to encourage you to read
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  • This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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  • This 90 day devotional is from
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  • Decades of real life pastoring,
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  • Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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  • In the page of this
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  • Book each day you will find a simple rhythm
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  • As of scripture,
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  • Practical, down to earth navigation,
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  • And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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  • We're not talking about something complicated here.
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  • We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
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  • 15 minutes.
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  • Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
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  • Your home on what matters the most in christ
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  • Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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  • Your life.
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  • Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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  • Everything else changes.
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  • Conversations change.
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  • Priorities change.
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  • Hearts begin to change.
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  • Take that first step today.
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  • Call the number or visit the website below
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  • And begin your 90 day journey
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  • Right now.
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  • What's the next thing we do?
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  • Now let's speak love.
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  • We have to teach truth.
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  • How do you teach truth?
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  • First of all, we'd better
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  • Try to embody truth in our own life.
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  • Jesus says, i am the way he says i am truth.
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  • So we already are embodying him.
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  • How do we teach that truth?
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  • What's our problem?
  • 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:01.920
  • Why are we not teaching truth in our culture?
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  • It's because of self
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  • Love.
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  • Paul. that surprises me.
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  • I don't slack off with being lazy.
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  • Now, one thing you can say about us in america,
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  • They're not. many people are lazy boy.
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  • We are going, we are born.
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  • We're doing slop.
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  • There's seven deadly classic sins and one of them is sloth.
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  • And the classic definition of sloth is
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  • The loss of an appetite for god.
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  • You got that?
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  • And we're slothful with our own busyness.
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  • Well, let's go.
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  • Let's get up.
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  • Because we know there's that god shaped vacuum in our heart.
  • 00:14:46.164 --> 00:14:49.934
  • You can put anything in that god shaped
  • 00:14:49.934 --> 00:14:52.704
  • Vacuum of this world, and it will never satisfy.
  • 00:14:52.704 --> 00:14:56.407
  • You can't satisfy that vacuum with anything else.
  • 00:14:56.407 --> 00:14:59.410
  • So we put a little,
  • 00:14:59.410 --> 00:15:00.979
  • Little thin shear over that god shaped vacuum,
  • 00:15:00.979 --> 00:15:04.983
  • And we don't get too close to it because we're busy,
  • 00:15:04.983 --> 00:15:09.654
  • Because we're filled up
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  • With recreation and fun
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  • Or whatever it is.
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  • We read, we study, we go, we watch, we move, we travel.
  • 00:15:15.560 --> 00:15:19.163
  • See, we're trying to fill up this lawfulness in our heart
  • 00:15:19.163 --> 00:15:23.434
  • Because we're not living and we're not teaching truth.
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  • We ought to teach
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  • Truth.
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  • Truth especially.
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  • We'd better learn how to do it in our families
  • 00:15:36.314 --> 00:15:41.586
  • And our families,
  • 00:15:42.020 --> 00:15:43.688
  • Our sons and our daughters.
  • 00:15:43.688 --> 00:15:46.758
  • We'd better learn how to teach truth.
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  • There.
  • 00:15:50.228 --> 00:15:53.331
  • In a seattle newspaper
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  • In the last couple of weeks,
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  • An english professor who teaches at northwestern
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  • University, i think it's in evanston, illinois,
  • 00:16:02.640 --> 00:16:06.077
  • Wrote an op ed article.
  • 00:16:06.577 --> 00:16:09.480
  • And this professor said,
  • 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:12.417
  • I'm a humanist, i'm a cyclist,
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  • Basically saying i'm godless.
  • 00:16:15.186 --> 00:16:18.222
  • But he says, we see it all the time up here.
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  • He said parents will take their children
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  • And they'll unpack their children
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  • And get them in their dorms,
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  • And they'll hug and they'll cry,
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  • And they're getting their vehicle and they'll drive off.
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  • And then this is what he said.
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  • Then those kids are my.
  • 00:16:35.807 --> 00:16:39.844
  • He said, then we've got them
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  • In the article for years.
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  • And what happens.
  • 00:16:46.717 --> 00:16:47.452
  • In that four years?
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  • A breakdown of an understanding
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  • Of god, of conservatism, of.
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  • Morality as they are invaded
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  • With all kind of, wow.
  • 00:16:59.997 --> 00:17:03.201
  • Pluralistic ideologies
  • 00:17:03.668 --> 00:17:06.838
  • And so many times our children come back after we paid
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  • 40, $50,000 a year for their education.
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  • They come back empty and godless.
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  • He said then there might.
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  • We had better
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  • Teach
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  • Truths, speak love, teach truth.
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  • The third thing we need to do.
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  • We have to live pure.
  • 00:17:35.199 --> 00:17:37.969
  • Well, that's a good one.
  • 00:17:37.969 --> 00:17:40.538
  • Anybody here want to see god?
  • 00:17:40.538 --> 00:17:43.341
  • Would you like to really see god?
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  • See him in the flesh?
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  • See him literally.
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  • How do you do it?
  • 00:17:48.980 --> 00:17:51.415
  • I have in my hands
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  • Something called a life.
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  • Lifestraw.
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  • If anybody ever seen one of these
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  • Before, lift your hand a lifestraw.
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  • 2 or 3 people.
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  • Okay, but more than that.
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  • I've never seen one.
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  • Alive strokes.
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  • An amazing thing.
  • 00:18:11.135 --> 00:18:13.437
  • Every year,
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  • Between 5 and 6 million people
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  • On this earth die
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  • Because they have drunk water that was not pure
  • 00:18:20.444 --> 00:18:23.881
  • Contaminated water.
  • 00:18:23.881 --> 00:18:24.815
  • All kinds of kind of between 5 and 6 million
  • 00:18:24.815 --> 00:18:26.984
  • To two and a half to 3 million children die every year
  • 00:18:26.984 --> 00:18:30.621
  • From drinking contaminated water.
  • 00:18:30.621 --> 00:18:33.491
  • This little thing right here,
  • 00:18:33.491 --> 00:18:37.061
  • You could put it in contaminated water,
  • 00:18:37.061 --> 00:18:40.131
  • Whatever it is.
  • 00:18:40.498 --> 00:18:41.332
  • And you can suck through it.
  • 00:18:41.332 --> 00:18:44.435
  • And this purifies that water until it's safe to drink.
  • 00:18:44.435 --> 00:18:48.906
  • Isn't that an amazing little thing?
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  • Amazing little thing.
  • 00:18:51.442 --> 00:18:54.579
  • Now, in the culture in which we live
  • 00:18:54.579 --> 00:18:57.982
  • That is so polluted.
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  • Disease filled.
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  • Wouldn't it be wonderful
  • 00:19:06.057 --> 00:19:07.325
  • If you and i somehow could
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  • Purify
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  • Our lives and drink water like jesus
  • 00:19:12.630 --> 00:19:15.166
  • Offered to the woman at the well?
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  • That's pure, where you wouldn't have to be thirsty again.
  • 00:19:16.801 --> 00:19:19.237
  • Would it be wonderful if we could do that?
  • 00:19:19.237 --> 00:19:20.938
  • How do we do that?
  • 00:19:20.938 --> 00:19:22.006
  • I'll tell you how you do it.
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  • You wake up in the morning with the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:19:23.741 --> 00:19:26.744
  • You go to bed at night with the lord jesus christ.
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  • The little chorus said, in the morning i see his face
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  • In the
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  • Evening is full of my trace in the darkness.
  • 00:19:35.286 --> 00:19:38.289
  • O his voice, i know i see
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  • Jesus everywhere i go.
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  • Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see god.
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  • That's the kind of life we need to live.
  • 00:19:51.736 --> 00:19:54.805
  • Now, i got to this point in my preparation
  • 00:19:54.805 --> 00:19:59.310
  • And i said, you know
  • 00:19:59.777 --> 00:20:02.713
  • Anybody who speaks love?
  • 00:20:02.713 --> 00:20:07.718
  • Teaches truth and lives pure man.
  • 00:20:08.452 --> 00:20:13.658
  • That's the kind of person
  • 00:20:13.658 --> 00:20:14.558
  • We want our sons and daughters to marry.
  • 00:20:14.558 --> 00:20:16.294
  • That's the kind of person we want to work for.
  • 00:20:16.294 --> 00:20:18.996
  • That's the kind of person we'd like to work for.
  • 00:20:18.996 --> 00:20:21.198
  • That's the kind of person we think would make
  • 00:20:21.198 --> 00:20:23.167
  • A tremendous difference in our culture.
  • 00:20:23.167 --> 00:20:25.069
  • We're going to seek out people.
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  • We want to be with people.
  • 00:20:26.671 --> 00:20:28.172
  • We want to have friends with people who in the world
  • 00:20:28.172 --> 00:20:30.775
  • Could find anything
  • 00:20:30.775 --> 00:20:31.909
  • Wrong with somebody who genuinely man speaks love
  • 00:20:31.909 --> 00:20:36.280
  • And teaches truth and
  • 00:20:36.781 --> 00:20:38.249
  • Lives a pure, clean, moral life?
  • 00:20:38.249 --> 00:20:40.951
  • Boy, wouldn't that be something?
  • 00:20:40.951 --> 00:20:43.254
  • Boy, that would really change everything.
  • 00:20:43.254 --> 00:20:45.289
  • The whole culture would applaud us.
  • 00:20:45.289 --> 00:20:48.459
  • Wrong.
  • 00:20:48.659 --> 00:20:54.165
  • That kind of life is swimming
  • 00:20:51.529 --> 00:20:56.867
  • Counter stream of the culture in which we find ourselves.
  • 00:20:56.867 --> 00:21:01.105
  • Because america is not just post-christian.
  • 00:21:01.105 --> 00:21:04.809
  • America now is an entire christian.
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  • If you haven't picked that up,
  • 00:21:08.846 --> 00:21:10.981
  • Welcome back from mars.
  • 00:21:10.981 --> 00:21:14.952
  • You say, well,
  • 00:21:15.286 --> 00:21:15.886
  • How do you know that?
  • 00:21:15.886 --> 00:21:19.890
  • Did jesus speak love?
  • 00:21:20.391 --> 00:21:25.296
  • Did jesus teach truth?
  • 00:21:25.763 --> 00:21:29.567
  • Did jesus live pure?
  • 00:21:30.034 --> 00:21:33.671
  • What in the world
  • 00:21:34.105 --> 00:21:34.805
  • Happened to him?
  • 00:21:34.805 --> 00:21:38.876
  • You see,
  • 00:21:39.143 --> 00:21:40.311
  • On that passover experience,
  • 00:21:40.311 --> 00:21:43.314
  • The sanhedrin, the supreme court of israel.
  • 00:21:43.314 --> 00:21:45.850
  • And by the way, israel by far was the most godly nation
  • 00:21:45.850 --> 00:21:50.154
  • On the earth in the days of jesus.
  • 00:21:50.154 --> 00:21:52.156
  • Period. no nation was more godly.
  • 00:21:52.156 --> 00:21:54.859
  • They knew about sin.
  • 00:21:54.859 --> 00:21:55.893
  • They had the sacrificial system.
  • 00:21:55.893 --> 00:21:57.728
  • They knew about the miraculous leadership in their life.
  • 00:21:57.728 --> 00:22:00.364
  • They knew they were called by god.
  • 00:22:00.364 --> 00:22:02.199
  • They were the most godly people on earth,
  • 00:22:02.199 --> 00:22:04.268
  • And they lived in their theocracy by the principles of
  • 00:22:04.268 --> 00:22:07.838
  • The old testament.
  • 00:22:07.838 --> 00:22:10.174
  • Interpreted with the mission, etc..
  • 00:22:10.941 --> 00:22:13.110
  • That's how they lived.
  • 00:22:13.110 --> 00:22:14.278
  • That's how the supreme court, the sanhedrin, operated.
  • 00:22:14.278 --> 00:22:17.648
  • But did you.
  • 00:22:17.648 --> 00:22:18.883
  • Know jesus who lived the kind of life we're talking about?
  • 00:22:18.883 --> 00:22:21.852
  • The supreme court somehow?
  • 00:22:22.420 --> 00:22:25.055
  • I guess it was.
  • 00:22:25.055 --> 00:22:26.424
  • Post-modernism.
  • 00:22:26.424 --> 00:22:27.691
  • Way back there in the first century.
  • 00:22:27.691 --> 00:22:29.960
  • Found him guilty,
  • 00:22:29.960 --> 00:22:32.763
  • Right?
  • 00:22:32.763 --> 00:22:33.931
  • You know the bible a little bit.
  • 00:22:33.931 --> 00:22:35.199
  • I mean, give. record
  • 00:22:35.199 --> 00:22:37.968
  • Reinterpreted
  • 00:22:38.335 --> 00:22:41.005
  • The law.
  • 00:22:41.005 --> 00:22:43.340
  • Well, on top of that, the president would be pilot.
  • 00:22:43.340 --> 00:22:47.044
  • Who? the commander in chief represented rome.
  • 00:22:47.044 --> 00:22:49.613
  • Pilot found no problem with him.
  • 00:22:49.613 --> 00:22:51.882
  • He said this is an innocent man.
  • 00:22:51.882 --> 00:22:54.218
  • But pilot had pressure from rome and pressure
  • 00:22:54.218 --> 00:22:57.054
  • From the jewish leadership.
  • 00:22:57.054 --> 00:22:58.789
  • And pilot said, well, you know,
  • 00:22:58.789 --> 00:23:01.492
  • I hand him over.
  • 00:23:01.492 --> 00:23:03.260
  • Pressure.
  • 00:23:03.260 --> 00:23:04.895
  • What about the people?
  • 00:23:04.895 --> 00:23:06.397
  • Well, on sunday, when jesus came in riding on the donkey
  • 00:23:06.397 --> 00:23:10.167
  • On palm sunday, man, they waved palm branches.
  • 00:23:10.167 --> 00:23:13.204
  • They said, hosanna, hosanna!
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  • Blessed is he that comes in the name of the lord.
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  • This may be the messiah.
  • 00:23:18.709 --> 00:23:20.444
  • Hosanna! that was on sunday
  • 00:23:20.444 --> 00:23:23.280
  • To show how
  • 00:23:23.614 --> 00:23:24.415
  • Divided the people were in israel.
  • 00:23:24.415 --> 00:23:27.117
  • On thursday they said, crucify him!
  • 00:23:27.117 --> 00:23:29.954
  • Crucify sunday, hosanna.
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  • Thursday, crucify
  • 00:23:33.891 --> 00:23:36.293
  • The division we see of the people
  • 00:23:36.293 --> 00:23:38.729
  • Represented today by our own house and senate,
  • 00:23:38.729 --> 00:23:42.399
  • Divided.
  • 00:23:42.666 --> 00:23:45.936
  • Not a perfect parallel.
  • 00:23:46.437 --> 00:23:49.340
  • But i think we see it.
  • 00:23:49.340 --> 00:23:51.842
  • I think we see it.
  • 00:23:51.842 --> 00:23:54.745
  • Speak, love.
  • 00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:56.881
  • Teach truth.
  • 00:23:56.881 --> 00:24:01.785
  • Live pure.
  • 00:24:02.086 --> 00:24:04.455
  • And ladies and gentlemen, blood, sweat and tears
  • 00:24:04.455 --> 00:24:08.526
  • Will begin to battle in our cultural war.
  • 00:24:08.526 --> 00:24:14.865
  • And guess what?
  • 00:24:15.232 --> 00:24:19.770
  • Jesus told us.
  • 00:24:20.104 --> 00:24:23.307
  • Ever, ever so clearly.
  • 00:24:23.774 --> 00:24:29.380
  • John, chapter 15.
  • 00:24:29.813 --> 00:24:31.582
  • Jesus is. speaking.
  • 00:24:31.582 --> 00:24:33.651
  • Listen to this.
  • 00:24:33.651 --> 00:24:35.753
  • Jesus says,
  • 00:24:35.753 --> 00:24:37.388
  • If the world, the culture
  • 00:24:37.388 --> 00:24:40.524
  • Hates you, you know that it hated me before.
  • 00:24:40.524 --> 00:24:44.094
  • It hated you.
  • 00:24:44.094 --> 00:24:45.596
  • If you were of the culture,
  • 00:24:45.596 --> 00:24:50.100
  • The culture would love its own.
  • 00:24:50.734 --> 00:24:54.038
  • Yet, because you are not
  • 00:24:54.572 --> 00:24:56.674
  • Of the culture, countercultural lifestyle.
  • 00:24:56.674 --> 00:25:00.945
  • But i chose
  • 00:25:01.278 --> 00:25:02.379
  • You out of the culture.
  • 00:25:02.379 --> 00:25:05.215
  • Therefore, the culture hates you.
  • 00:25:05.215 --> 00:25:09.253
  • Remember, the word that i said to you,
  • 00:25:10.087 --> 00:25:12.790
  • Or servant is not greater than his master.
  • 00:25:12.790 --> 00:25:16.994
  • If they
  • 00:25:17.227 --> 00:25:19.263
  • The culture of the world
  • 00:25:19.263 --> 00:25:21.498
  • Persecuted me, said jesus,
  • 00:25:21.498 --> 00:25:24.668
  • They will also persecute you.
  • 00:25:25.302 --> 00:25:35.879
  • Well, the sign up
  • 00:25:36.313 --> 00:25:37.081
  • For the battle weary in.
  • 00:25:37.081 --> 00:25:42.519
  • Get ready.
  • 00:25:42.820 --> 00:25:47.691
  • Blood.
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  • Sweat. tears.
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  • To be persecuted.
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  • Everybody wants a happy home.
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  • But let's be honest.
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  • A happy home doesn't just happen.
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  • It's built.
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  • It's shaped.
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  • Day by day by day.
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  • That's why i want to encourage you to read
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  • This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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  • This 90 day devotional is from
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  • Decades of real life pastoring,
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  • Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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  • In the page of this book each day
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  • You will find a simple rhythm
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  • As of scripture,
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  • Practical, down to earth navigation,
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  • And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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  • We're not talking about something complicated here.
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  • We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
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  • 15 minutes.
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  • Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
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  • Your home on what matters the most in christ
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  • Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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  • Your life.
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  • Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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  • Everything else changes.
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  • Conversations change.
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  • Priorities change.
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  • Hearts begin to change.
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  • Take that first step today.
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  • Call the number or visit the website below
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  • And get cardinal rules for a happy home
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  • And begin your 90 day journey right now.
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