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Ed Young - How To Win The Culture War

March 26, 2025 | S25:E73

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 | March 26, 2025
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  • Ed young: we are in a cultural war.
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  • You might ask, "what is culture?"
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  • Culture is everything that's in you and in me and everything
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  • 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 world views.
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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 right this moment worldwide, but
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  • Especially in the united states of america.
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  • In 1970s, i read a book by alvin toffler, entitled
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  • "future shock."
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  • He was responding to the radical changes that took place in the
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  • 1960s, so therefore in the '70s, toffler's thesis was that the
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  • Culture is changing so rapidly that human beings can't keep up.
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  • It was moving, he would say, at the speed of sound.
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  • If that were true in the 1970s, what's happening to our
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  • Culture today?
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  • It's moving at the speed of light.
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  • Man, things are changing so rapidly.
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  • Who in the world can keep up?
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  • There's a word yesterday we used in our vocabulary, and now if
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  • 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 drifting.
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  • It's just drifting.
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  • No, our culture is not drifting, ladies and gentlemen.
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  • Our culture is being driven.
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  • It's being driven by what forces?
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  • Silicone valley, hollywood, las vegas, wall street, washington.
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  • It is being driven by our educational world.
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  • It is be 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 in our culture to
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  • Move into a brand new culture.
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  • And what is the basic premise behind all of this?
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  • You know, you read a news article and that's fine, but
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  • That may not be the primary article.
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  • The truth of that article may be what's called a shadow article,
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  • A shadow reality.
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  • Behind that article, 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 thrusts of the culture war we're in is simply to
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  • Eliminate god from every aspect of life, keep god inside the
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  • Stained glass and the steel, but by all means, don't let him
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  • Get out.
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  • That is a shadow agenda which really is the primary thesis of
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  • Those who are humanists and secularists and those who would
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  • Take god out of the united states of america.
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  • If you don't see that, take the blinders off.
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  • This is the basic background, the shadow of the cultural war
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  • In which we're in.
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  • Now, if we're serious about this war, it's not gonna be satisfied
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  • Totally through elections.
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  • We are going to have to get in the battle, those who are
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  • 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 are serious in the war that we have, 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 and therefore
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  • Collectively, we're gonna have to first of all speak love.
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  • And then the second thing we have to do, we're going to have
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  • To teach truth.
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  • And the third thing, we're gonna have to live pure.
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  • Speak love.
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  • The verse that everybody almost can quote--everybody can quote,
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  • "jesus wept," but also most of us can quote john 3:16.
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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 that he gave his only son," that
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  • Divinity visited the world, the incarnation, "that whosoever,"
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  • Anybody, anywhere, any background, any understanding,
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  • "whosoever believes in him, they'll not perish.
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  • They will live forever, and forever, and forever."
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  • That's what that teaches 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 to him who helps you and me make
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  • 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 that the leading
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  • Symptom of our spiritual sickness 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 to conquer death and he's the only
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  • Person 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 in all of
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  • Creation and is taught 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 the great separator.
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  • Sin separates our soul from god.
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  • Let me remind you for the 523rd time of what your soul is.
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  • Your soul and my soul is everything that's not flesh.
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  • Everything that is not of this body 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's not flesh.
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  • It's your heart, your emotions, your will, who you are,
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  • Your personality.
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  • And that soul is made in the image of god, as this body is,
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  • And that soul is made and will live forever.
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  • Sin separates your soul and my soul from god.
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  • Death separates your body 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 two problems that are
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  • Very closely related: the problem of sin and the problem
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  • 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, he took upon himself all of your
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  • Sin, and all of my sin, and all of my shame, and all of
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  • My garbage.
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  • He took that upon himself.
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  • And when he 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 all of our stuff on him and the father
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  • 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. what a big price.
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  • But it was on that cross the sin problem was taken care of.
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  • It was taken care of for you and for me.
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  • Also, what about the problem of death?
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  • We know the story. we know easter.
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  • Jesus, 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 was united with a
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  • Resurrection body, a body that is made for eternity and
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  • For heaven.
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  • And so now, the sin problem that we have and the death problem
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  • That we have is taken care of by jesus christ.
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  • What a fabulous, fabulous word we are to relate.
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  • A word of love, a word of new life, and we called it being
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  • Born again.
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  • We call it the process of propitiation, if you want a
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  • Theological word.
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  • It means that we have on our heaven suit and our
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  • Earthly suit.
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  • It is a fabulous thing.
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  • The twin problems of sin and death were satisfied by jesus
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  • Christ on the cross and with the resurrection, and that covers
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  • All of us.
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  • Now, now, this is speaking love.
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  • Now, how do we apprehend that?
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  • The bible says, "believe on the lord jesus christ and you shall
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  • Be saved."
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  • What does it mean to believe?
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  • 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're aware of our sin, we confess our sin, we repent, we
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  • Turn away from our sin, and then faith, we receive him into
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  • Our life.
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  • We unzip our heart and our life and we put jesus in, and he
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  • Comes in with his spirit.
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  • And in your life and my life, there is a garden there in which
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  • We grow up to be men and women who walk with the lord jesus
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  • Christ 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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  • It's a fabulous thing and that's the first thing we need to do in
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  • This broken world.
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  • We have to learn how to speak that language of the love of god
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  • For all humanity.
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  • That's the first step.
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  • What's the next thing we do?
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  • Not only to speak love, we have to teach truth.
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  • How do you teach truth?
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  • First of all, we'd better try to embody truth in our own life.
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  • Jesus says, "i am the way."
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  • He said, "i am truth," so we already are embodying him.
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  • How do we teach that truth?
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  • What's our problem?
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  • Why are we not teaching truth in our culture?
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  • It's because of sloth.
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  • Sloth?
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  • Boy, that surprises me.
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  • I thought sloth was being lazy.
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  • Now, one thing you can say about us in america, there's not many
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  • People that are lazy.
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  • Boy, we are going, we are going, we are doing.
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  • Sloth?
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  • There are seven deadly classic sins and one of them is sloth.
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  • And the classic definition of sloth is the loss of an appetite
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  • 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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  • Come on, let's go. let's get up.
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  • Because we know there's that god-shaped vacuum in our heart.
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  • You can put anything in that god-shaped vacuum of this world
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  • And it'll never satisfy.
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  • You can't satisfy that vacuum with anything else.
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  • So we put a little thin sheer over that god-shaped vacuum and
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  • We don't get too close to it because we're busy, because we
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  • Are filled up with recreation and fun, or whatever it is.
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  • We read, we study, we go, we watch, we move, we travel.
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  • See, we're tryin' to fill up this slothfulness in our heart
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  • Because we're not living and we're not teaching truth.
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  • Pascal said there are three kinds of people in the world.
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  • He said there are those who seek and find.
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  • He said they're reasonable and happy people.
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  • He said those who seek and do not find, they are reasonable,
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  • But they're still unhappy.
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  • He said those who do not seek and do not find, that's the
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  • Slothful group.
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  • They're not hot, they're not cold, they're just apathetic.
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  • He says they're unreasonable and they're unhappy.
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  • But pascal says the second group will become the first group one
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  • Day, because jesus says, "if you seek, you'll find."
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  • Now, it's interesting that a lot of people think they're seeking
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  • God, but they're not finding god.
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  • You know the problem usually is we seek him with some
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  • Fine print.
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  • We're tryin' to make a deal with god.
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  • How 'bout that?
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  • I've worked out this thing.
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  • I have people say, "oh, i've worked out my own deal
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  • With god."
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  • How foolish and stupid can you get?
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  • Dealing with the almighty, "well, god--" listen, we seek
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  • When we open up, when we're transparent, when we're
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  • Truthful, when we can be seen through.
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  • That's what a true seeker does.
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  • And those who seek like that, they always find and
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  • They're reasonable.
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  • They always get to be happy because we discover when we seek
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  • And when we find god, we discover all the time he'd been
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  • Really seeking you and seeking me.
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  • Seeking you and seeking me.
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  • We are to teach truth.
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  • Truth.
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  • Especially we'd better learn how to do it in our families, in our
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  • Families, our sons and our daughters.
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  • We'd better learn how to teach truth there.
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  • In a seattle newspaper in the last couple of weeks, an english
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  • Professor who teaches at northwestern university, i think
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  • It's in evanston, illinois, wrote an op-ed article.
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  • And this professor said, "i'm a humanist.
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  • I'm a secularist."
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  • Basically he was saying, i'm godless.
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  • But he says, "we see it all the time up here."
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  • He said, "parents will take their children and they'll
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  • Unpack their children, get to them in their dorms.
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  • They'll hug and they'll cry, and they'll get in their vehicle and
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  • They'll drive off."
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  • And then this is what he said, "then those kids are mine."
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  • He said, "then we've got them," in the article, "four years."
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  • And what happens in that four years?
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  • A breakdown of any understanding of god, of conservatism, of
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  • Morality, as they are invaded with all kind of wild
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  • Pluralistic ideologies.
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  • And so many times, our children come back after we've paid
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  • $40,000-$50,000 a year for their education, they come back empty
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  • And godless.
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  • He said, "then they're mine."
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  • We had better teach truth.
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  • Speak love, teach truth.
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  • The third thing we need to do, we have to live pure.
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  • Well, that's a good one.
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  • Anybody here want to see god?
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  • Would you like to really see god, see him in the flesh, see
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  • Him literally?
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  • How do you do it?
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  • I have in my hands something called a life straw.
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  • Has anybody ever seen one of these before?
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  • Lift your hand. a life straw.
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  • Two or three people, okay.
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  • More than that.
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  • I'd never seen one.
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  • A life straw is an amazing thing.
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  • Every year, between 5 and 6 million people on this earth die
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  • Because they have drunk water that was not pure, contaminated
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  • Water, all kind of it kind of-- between 5 and 6 million die.
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  • Two and a half to three million children die every year from
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  • Drinking contaminated water.
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  • This little thing right here, you could put it in contaminated
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  • Water, whatever it is, and you can suck through it and this
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  • 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 that is so polluted,
  • 00:18:33.335 --> 00:18:41.043
  • Disease-filled, wouldn't it be wonderful if you and i somehow
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  • Could purify our lives and drink water like jesus offered to the
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  • Woman at the well that's pure, where you won't have to be
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  • Thirsty again?
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  • Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could do that?
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  • How do we do that?
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  • I'll tell you how you do it.
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  • You wake up in the morning with the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:19:01.430 --> 00:19:04.366
  • You go to bed at night with the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:19:04.366 --> 00:19:07.069
  • The little chorus said, "in the morning i see his face.
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  • In the evening is for my trace.
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  • In the darkness, oh his voice i know.
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  • I see jesus everywhere i go."
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  • Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall seek god.
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  • That's the kind of life we need to live.
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  • Now, i got to this point in my preparation and i said, "you
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  • Know, anybody who speaks love, mmm,
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  • Teaches truth, and lives pure,
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  • Man, that's the kinda person we want our sons and daughters
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  • To marry.
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  • That's the kind of person we want to work for.
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  • That's the kind of person we'd like to work for.
  • 00:19:54.716 --> 00:19:56.852
  • That's the kind of person we think will make a tremendous
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  • Difference in our culture."
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  • We're going to seek out people, we want to be with people, we
  • 00:20:00.722 --> 00:20:03.859
  • Want to have friends with people.
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  • Who in the world could find anything wrong with somebody who
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  • Genuinely, man, speaks love, and teaches truth, and lives a
  • 00:20:08.363 --> 00:20:13.802
  • Pure, clean, moral life?
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  • Boy, wouldn't that be something?
  • 00:20:15.971 --> 00:20:18.206
  • Boy, that would really change everything.
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  • The whole culture would applaud us.
  • 00:20:20.075 --> 00:20:23.412
  • Wrong. wrong.
  • 00:20:23.412 --> 00:20:28.717
  • That kind of life is swimming counter-stream of the culture in
  • 00:20:28.717 --> 00:20:33.789
  • Which we find ourselves because america is not
  • 00:20:33.789 --> 00:20:37.492
  • Just post-christian.
  • 00:20:37.492 --> 00:20:38.960
  • America now is anti-christian.
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  • If you haven't picked that up, welcome back from mars.
  • 00:20:42.831 --> 00:20:49.071
  • You say, "well, how do you know that?"
  • 00:20:49.071 --> 00:20:54.009
  • Did jesus speak love?
  • 00:20:54.009 --> 00:20:57.012
  • Hmm.
  • 00:20:57.012 --> 00:20:59.214
  • Did jesus teach truth?
  • 00:20:59.214 --> 00:21:03.285
  • Did jesus live pure?
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  • What in the world happened to him?
  • 00:21:07.255 --> 00:21:10.392
  • Huh.
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  • You see, on that passover experience, the sanhedrin, the
  • 00:21:12.060 --> 00:21:17.299
  • Supreme court of israel-- and by the way, israel by far was the
  • 00:21:17.299 --> 00:21:20.635
  • Most godly nation on the earth in the days of jesus, period.
  • 00:21:20.635 --> 00:21:25.407
  • No nation was more godly.
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  • They knew about sin.
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  • They had the sacrificial system.
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  • They knew about the miraculous leadership in their life.
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  • They knew they were called by god.
  • 00:21:32.547 --> 00:21:34.316
  • They were the most godly people on earth and they lived in their
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  • Theocracy by the principles of the old testament, interpreted
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  • With the--et cetera.
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  • That's how they lived.
  • 00:21:44.826 --> 00:21:46.161
  • That's how the supreme court, the sanhedrin operated.
  • 00:21:46.161 --> 00:21:49.297
  • But did you know jesus who lived the kind of life we're talking
  • 00:21:49.297 --> 00:21:52.501
  • About, the supreme court somehow-- i guess it was
  • 00:21:52.501 --> 00:21:57.773
  • Postmodernism way back there in the 1st century-- found him
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  • Guilty, right?
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  • You know the bible a little bit.
  • 00:22:04.980 --> 00:22:06.782
  • Found him guilty, supreme court.
  • 00:22:06.782 --> 00:22:09.217
  • Reinterpreted the law.
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  • Well, on top of that, the president would be pilate, who
  • 00:22:14.022 --> 00:22:17.993
  • Was the commander in chief, represented rome.
  • 00:22:17.993 --> 00:22:20.095
  • Pilate found no problem with him.
  • 00:22:20.095 --> 00:22:22.297
  • He said, "this is an innocent man."
  • 00:22:22.297 --> 00:22:24.566
  • But pilate had pressure from rome and pressure from the
  • 00:22:24.566 --> 00:22:27.602
  • Jewish leadership.
  • 00:22:27.602 --> 00:22:28.970
  • And pilate said, "well, you know, i hand him over."
  • 00:22:28.970 --> 00:22:33.275
  • Pressure.
  • 00:22:33.275 --> 00:22:34.843
  • What about the people?
  • 00:22:34.843 --> 00:22:36.311
  • Well, on sunday when jesus came in riding on the donkey on palm
  • 00:22:36.311 --> 00:22:40.515
  • Sunday, man, they waved palm branches and they said,
  • 00:22:40.515 --> 00:22:43.351
  • "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.
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  • Hosanna!"
  • 00:22:49.825 --> 00:22:51.159
  • That was on sunday.
  • 00:22:51.159 --> 00:22:52.894
  • To show how divided the people were in israel, on thursday they
  • 00:22:52.894 --> 00:22:57.432
  • Said, "crucify him!
  • 00:22:57.432 --> 00:22:59.000
  • Crucify!"
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  • Sunday, "hosanna!"
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  • Thursday, "crucify!"
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  • The division we see of the people represented today by our
  • 00:23:05.106 --> 00:23:08.877
  • Own house and senate.
  • 00:23:08.877 --> 00:23:11.146
  • They get divided.
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  • Not a perfect parallel, but i think we see it.
  • 00:23:14.916 --> 00:23:20.121
  • I think we see it.
  • 00:23:20.121 --> 00:23:23.258
  • Speak love, mmm, teach truth, live pure.
  • 00:23:23.258 --> 00:23:32.334
  • And ladies and gentlemen, blood, sweat, and tears will begin to
  • 00:23:32.334 --> 00:23:37.272
  • Battle in our cultural war.
  • 00:23:37.272 --> 00:23:42.677
  • And guess what?
  • 00:23:42.677 --> 00:23:47.415
  • Jesus told us ever, ever so clearly.
  • 00:23:47.415 --> 00:23:56.791
  • John chapter 15, jesus is speaking.
  • 00:23:56.791 --> 00:24:00.462
  • Listen to this.
  • 00:24:00.462 --> 00:24:02.497
  • Jesus says, "if the world," the culture, "hates you, you know
  • 00:24:02.497 --> 00:24:09.271
  • That it hated me before it hated you," huh.
  • 00:24:09.271 --> 00:24:13.208
  • "if you were of the culture, the culture would
  • 00:24:13.208 --> 00:24:18.046
  • Love its own," hmm.
  • 00:24:18.046 --> 00:24:20.649
  • Yet because you are not of the culture," countercultural
  • 00:24:20.649 --> 00:24:25.186
  • Lifestyle, "but i chose you out of the culture, therefore the
  • 00:24:25.186 --> 00:24:31.793
  • Culture hates you.
  • 00:24:31.793 --> 00:24:35.630
  • Remember the word that i said to you: 'a servant is not greater
  • 00:24:35.630 --> 00:24:40.268
  • Than his master.'
  • 00:24:40.268 --> 00:24:42.537
  • If they," the culture of the world, "persecuted me," said
  • 00:24:42.537 --> 00:24:48.543
  • Jesus, "they will also persecute you."
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  • Want to sign up for the battle we're in?
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  • Get ready, blood, sweat, tears, to be persecuted.
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  • We learned today that we are to speak love, teach truth,
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  • Live pure.
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  • You may be saying to yourself, "these instructions and beyond
  • 00:26:28.143 --> 00:26:31.312
  • Anything i can live up to," and i wholeheartedly agree with you.
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  • But as children of god, we have the capacity to live this kind
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  • Of countercultural lifestyle.
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  • He will restore in us that kind of passion we need.
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