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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Justice and Injustice | March 30, 2026
- We do an
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- Injustice in this country
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- When we provide all the means
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- Of staying alive to someone who is healthy and strong.
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- We take away their dignity.
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- We take away their life.
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- And i don't think
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- We ought to help anybody who is healthy and strong.
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- As long as there's an unmanned mop or broom
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- Anywhere in this area, we do an injustice.
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- That's not right.
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- We're
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- Tired of the book of ecclesiastes.
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- Ecclesiastes is a book of sheer
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- Philosophy.
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- It's the only book in the bible
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- That presents life
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- Without god.
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- It's a book about
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- Meaninglessness,
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- But it has a great deal of meaning.
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- So how can this be?
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- We've already discovered that it asks
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- All the big questions of life that all of us need to ask.
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- We must ask.
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- We should ask.
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- But we sort of gloss them over and avoid them,
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- And we come head to head with them.
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- They get a little hard.
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- We have to think.
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- And, and therefore we sort of hide these, but
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- It deals with all the big questions.
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- Who am i?
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- Where did i come from?
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- Where am i going?
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- The real big one.
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- Why am i here?
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- Why are you here?
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- Why am i here?
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- Pretty big questions.
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- This is what solomon, writing his autobiography,
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- Kept asking over and over again.
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- And he came to the same conclusion.
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- We'll see it for 12 chapters.
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- He said life does not any significance.
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- He said everybody's life is like
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- Spitting in the wind.
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- It's smoke
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- Has no eternal value,
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- Is empty.
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- It's void, has no lasting
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- Significance.
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- Now we know that ancient man
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- Was most fearful of death.
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- Medieval man was most
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- Fearful of hell.
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- Modern man where most fearful of
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- A life that has no meaning,
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- No significance.
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- And therefore, solomon
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- Is the ultimate philosopher.
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- You know the difference between philosophy and theology.
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- I've tried to state this many times.
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- The philosopher says i'm looking for god.
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- A theologian says, god is looking for you.
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- Philosophy or words going up?
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- Theology is the word of god coming down.
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- Philosophy is looking
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- For a life that has relevance.
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- Theology gives us a life that gives relevance.
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- So we're in a book of philosophy.
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- And boy, do i need that.
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- Absolutely.
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- Every searcher, every honest person, every doubter,
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- Every skeptic, every believing christian needs to understand
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- What solomon is doing to us in the book
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- Of ecclesiastes.
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- He's waking us up saying,
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- As this most basic question,
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- And you say, you mean
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- Ecclesiastes is void of any reference to god?
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- No, i didn't say that.
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- God has spoken up in ecclesiastes,
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- But god is pictured almost in a deistic view.
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- The deist believe that god
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- Created the world, and then he backed away
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- From the world and said, lots of luck.
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- I'm out of here.
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- This sometimes you think he's a pantheist.
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- Pantheism is god is in everything.
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- He's in the rocks.
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- He's in the moon.
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- He's in the stars.
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- And sometime you say he's a pantheist.
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- Sometimes.
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- Solomon sounds like a
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- A hindu or a buddhist.
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- And to summarize all that he says,
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- The real genius of life is to
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- Not have a life is to nullify our life is to
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- Make life of simple vacuum and not respond
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- To vacuums, not respond to mountaintops or valleys.
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- And they would say life should be.
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- No motions.
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- No. right.
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- No. wrong.
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- No. up no. down.
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- And when you get to nirvana and you're.
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- Then when breath leaves your body it's no big deal
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- Because you're just absorbed up into the
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- Eternal mist.
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- Sometimes
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- Solomon sounds like that.
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- So there's references to god but it's not the god
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- That we know.
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- And abraham, isaac, jacob revealed to jesus christ.
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- He's looking at things under the sun.
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- He's a philosopher,
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- Once guru to philosophy said life is just
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- A matter of chance.
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- That's nihilism.
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- Roll the dice.
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- Man, you sure were lucky.
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- Your last name is rockefeller.
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- Man, boy.
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- Life is just a thing of chance.
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- Nihilism.
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- Sometime we see solomon as an this nihilist.
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- If you look at it closely.
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- Sometimes life is a thing of choice.
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- That's secularism.
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- Humanism.
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- I determine my own destiny.
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- I am the master of my fate.
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- I'm the captain of my soul.
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- I run my life by what i do.
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- And the choices, the decisions that i make.
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- Some people look at life like that.
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- And once in a while you see old soul, old man.
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- That's where he's coming down.
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- And sometimes he
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- See life as chosen.
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- That's determinism.
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- We really don't decide your dna, your environment.
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- Every decision, every choice
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- You and i would make is already predetermined.
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- Now they can't decide who the determiner is.
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- But that's one philosophical view of life.
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- So we read through ecclesiastes.
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- We see all kinds of things, and that's healthy
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- For us to understand.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, what life is like for those who
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- Consider life only on the basis
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- Of what's under the sun,
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- Without any real
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- Relevance or understanding
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- Of transcendence, of him who is above the sun.
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- What a difference.
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- You see, god has set down
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- Two poles for us.
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- There is good
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- And there's evil.
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- There we have it.
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- As long as we're clear as biblical
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- Theologians, as christians, as to what is good
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- And what is
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- Evil, we're in good shape.
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- But what has happened to us?
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- There's sort of a muddy, muddy muddiness that's created
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- Between that which is good and that which is evil.
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- I can take many things to illustrate that.
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- I think god use sex.
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- What awakened two men back here?
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- I'm sorry.
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- There was a day, 56 years ago,
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- When there was a general consensus
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- In the culture in the united states
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- That sex was exclusive to marriage.
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- No one much debated that 50, 60 years ago.
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- But then finally, we moved into another kind of vein.
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- And sex was okay if you're engaged,
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- If you have a ring, you stated your sex is all right.
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- If you're engaged, and then it moved down.
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- Well, sex is okay if you really love each other, i love you.
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- You love me.
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- That that makes this intimate relationship okay.
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- And then it moved down a little further and said,
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- Well, if they're two consenting adults, it's fine.
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- And then it moved down.
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- It's simply a recreational thing.
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- It's a natural instinct that is fulfilled.
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- It has no eternal or irrelevant our sacred meaning,
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- And that's what's happened to it.
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- You have good and you have evil.
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- And now it's all muddy in here.
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- And so many areas of ethics.
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- You say, how did it happen?
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- We've looked at this before,
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- When our high schools and colleges and universities
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- Have for decades said, there's no right, there's no wrong.
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- What is true for you and true for me
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- May be two different things, and they're no absolutes.
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- This is where you end up and you have a whole score
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- Of harvey weinstein's appearing on the scene.
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- And you wonder, well, where did this come from?
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- When there's no absolutes
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- In our culture,
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- This is the results.
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- And some of those who are part of the sort
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- Of functional agnosticism, they say,
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- Oh, man, this is a terrible, terrible thing.
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- This is what has been advocating
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- Situational ethics
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- For generations.
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- We've been teaching.
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- We've been teaching over and over again,
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- And that is life lived
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- Without any reference to god above the sun.
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- And this is exactly what solomon is talking about.
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- And his autobiography,
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- The latter years of his life.
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- We call the book of ecclesiastes.
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- Look at chapter four, solomon says, then i looked again
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- At all the acts of oppression.
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- I'm using injustice.
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- Words were being done under the sun.
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- And behold, i saw the tears of the oppressed.
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- Those who were caught in injustice,
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- And that they had no one to comfort them and own
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- The side of their oppressors was no one.
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- It says comfort, but to confront them.
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- He talks about in justice.
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- There's sort of a build in this of all of us
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- To recognize injustice,
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- A child takes
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- Their first step unsteady.
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- Unsure.
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- Reaching for a father's hand.
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- No one is born knowing how to walk.
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- It takes training, strength.
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- Balance. time.
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- Walking with god is no different.
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- Like all journeys, walking the winning
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- Walk requires the proper equipment and preparation.
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- By outfitting our lives with the word of god,
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- We will be able to follow where the master leads.
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- Psalm 119 says, your word is a lamp
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- Unto my feet and a light under my path.
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- God doesn't rush the journey.
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- He lights the next step
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- In the winning walk.
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- Doctor ed young shares practical, biblical guidance
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- To help you develop the strength and spiritual
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- Balance needed for a steady, daily walk with christ.
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- Call the number on your screen
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- And request your copy of the winning walk today
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- And begin walking confidently with him.
- 00:12:54.797 --> 00:13:02.638
- And then solomon moves some injustice.
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- He moves to success.
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- He deals with success.
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- He said, well, maybe success will give meaning.
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- Verse four he said, i have seen that every labor
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- And every skill which is done
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- Is a result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor.
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- He said this too, is meaninglessness to his vanity.
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- He talks about competitive man, how we compete today.
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- I know a man who came to this area many, many years ago.
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- He could speak very poor english.
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- He applied to be a dishwasher,
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- And the owner of the restaurant said,
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- You don't speak english well enough.
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- He said, i'll work hard. i'll improve my english.
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- He said, no, i can't hire you.
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- And the young teenager looked at him.
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- He said, sir, one day i'll come and buy this restaurant from
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- You and the owner just sort of shrugged his shoulders.
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- And six years went by.
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- He got a job washing dishes, another restaurant he saved.
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- He worked.
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- He saved any work.
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- And finally,
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- When things were sort of down in the market and restaurant
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- Business was not booming, he walked in in a coat,
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- A suit and tie and talked to the owner
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- And made him an offer in both the restaurant.
- 00:14:14.877 --> 00:14:17.846
- And he looked and he said, you remember me?
- 00:14:17.846 --> 00:14:20.249
- He said, no, i don't, we've never met.
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- He said, oh yes, i was a young man
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- That you wouldn't hire me as a dishwasher.
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- And i told you one day i'd come back and buy
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- This restaurant.
- 00:14:30.059 --> 00:14:31.093
- He said, i just bought it from you.
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- True story.
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- I like competitiveness.
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- He's talking about somebody's work, and they're competitive.
- 00:14:37.366 --> 00:14:40.235
- That's their whole life.
- 00:14:40.235 --> 00:14:41.837
- And then he comes and talks.
- 00:14:41.837 --> 00:14:42.972
- Another kind of man on the road to success.
- 00:14:42.972 --> 00:14:45.774
- He said the food follows his hands
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- And and consumes his own flesh.
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- We do an
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- Injustice in this country
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- When we provide all the means
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- Of staying alive to someone who is healthy and strong.
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- We take away their dignity.
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- We take away their life.
- 00:15:06.462 --> 00:15:08.330
- And i don't think
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- We ought to help anybody who is healthy and strong.
- 00:15:09.431 --> 00:15:13.435
- As long as there's an unmanned mop or broom
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- Anywhere in this area, we do an injustice.
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- That's not right.
- 00:15:21.110 --> 00:15:23.512
- And that's what solomon is saying.
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- He said, you, you eat your own flesh at this.
- 00:15:24.980 --> 00:15:29.752
- So he is a competitive man.
- 00:15:29.752 --> 00:15:31.387
- Here is a person who becomes a lazy man.
- 00:15:31.387 --> 00:15:34.456
- And that's what's happened with the idea of entitlement.
- 00:15:34.456 --> 00:15:37.459
- And then he moves.
- 00:15:37.893 --> 00:15:38.794
- He says,
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- Verse six, one hand full of rest
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- Is better than two fist full of labor.
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- Lord, he's saying,
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- There has to be balance in our vocational endeavor.
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- There has to be hard work over here,
- 00:15:52.274 --> 00:15:54.276
- But there has to be rest over here. see?
- 00:15:54.276 --> 00:15:56.512
- That's balance.
- 00:15:56.512 --> 00:15:57.880
- Somebody just works, works, works, works.
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- Oh, i'm doing it for the family.
- 00:16:00.949 --> 00:16:02.718
- I'm doing it so well. have.
- 00:16:02.718 --> 00:16:04.420
- And they wake up one day and say, oh,
- 00:16:04.420 --> 00:16:06.989
- What's wrong with my kids?
- 00:16:06.989 --> 00:16:08.424
- They're so rotten. i'll tell you what was wrong.
- 00:16:08.424 --> 00:16:10.993
- Mom or dad weren't there when they needed to be there.
- 00:16:10.993 --> 00:16:14.229
- That's what's wrong.
- 00:16:14.229 --> 00:16:15.097
- They lost balance.
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- Work.
- 00:16:18.133 --> 00:16:19.802
- Recreation. recreation. rest.
- 00:16:19.802 --> 00:16:21.970
- Work rest. work rest.
- 00:16:21.970 --> 00:16:24.306
- He's pointing out the balance kind of person
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- Who moves through life.
- 00:16:27.109 --> 00:16:29.411
- Then he moves and talks about another kind of person.
- 00:16:29.411 --> 00:16:32.681
- Someone who is a soloist.
- 00:16:32.681 --> 00:16:35.384
- Someone who just lives in and of itself.
- 00:16:35.384 --> 00:16:37.619
- It's a picture, really, of the christmas personality.
- 00:16:37.619 --> 00:16:40.556
- Scrooge.
- 00:16:40.556 --> 00:16:42.157
- He said, there's a certain man without a dependent
- 00:16:42.157 --> 00:16:45.160
- Having neither a son
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- Or brother, yet there was no end to all his labor.
- 00:16:46.395 --> 00:16:50.132
- Indeed, his eyes were not satisfied with riches.
- 00:16:50.132 --> 00:16:53.368
- He never asked, and for whom am i laboring,
- 00:16:53.368 --> 00:16:56.438
- Depriving myself of pleasure.
- 00:16:56.438 --> 00:16:59.174
- He just worked all the time.
- 00:16:59.174 --> 00:17:01.243
- Worked all the time.
- 00:17:01.243 --> 00:17:02.744
- And he accumulated more and more.
- 00:17:02.744 --> 00:17:04.813
- He said, look what i've done.
- 00:17:04.813 --> 00:17:07.783
- No reason for it.
- 00:17:07.783 --> 00:17:10.018
- Let me tell you something, ladies and gentlemen.
- 00:17:10.018 --> 00:17:12.387
- Success and the world's eye.
- 00:17:12.387 --> 00:17:14.356
- And failure in the world's eye.
- 00:17:14.356 --> 00:17:16.325
- They both lie to you.
- 00:17:16.325 --> 00:17:18.760
- And i'll try to say it now.
- 00:17:19.361 --> 00:17:21.029
- I should save it for later, but i cannot.
- 00:17:21.029 --> 00:17:23.699
- Success is simply
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- Being as best you can.
- 00:17:26.235 --> 00:17:28.637
- Where god would have you in his plan and his purpose,
- 00:17:28.637 --> 00:17:31.740
- And using his gifts to make a difference in this world
- 00:17:31.740 --> 00:17:35.210
- That is success.
- 00:17:35.210 --> 00:17:36.545
- You can't measured in any kind of tangible way.
- 00:17:36.545 --> 00:17:42.050
- That's what solomon's telling us.
- 00:17:42.818 --> 00:17:46.021
- He talks about justice.
- 00:17:46.522 --> 00:17:50.626
- He compares them. he say, well, i tried to make you.
- 00:17:49.358 --> 00:17:52.861
- There's a long run.
- 00:17:52.861 --> 00:17:54.263
- He all about success. it's all about failure.
- 00:17:54.263 --> 00:17:56.365
- And it really doesn't make any difference in the long run.
- 00:17:56.365 --> 00:17:58.367
- Is there any meaning? we're all going to die.
- 00:17:58.367 --> 00:18:00.569
- And then he moves down.
- 00:18:00.569 --> 00:18:01.737
- He talks about loneliness.
- 00:18:01.737 --> 00:18:05.140
- Verse nine two are better to than one
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- Because they have good return for their labor.
- 00:18:08.143 --> 00:18:10.779
- For if either of them falls, the one will lift
- 00:18:10.779 --> 00:18:13.582
- Up his companion.
- 00:18:13.582 --> 00:18:14.950
- But woe to the one who falls when there is not another
- 00:18:14.950 --> 00:18:18.787
- To lift them up.
- 00:18:18.787 --> 00:18:22.558
- Talking about loneliness, it's a difference
- 00:18:22.558 --> 00:18:24.593
- In being lonely and being alone.
- 00:18:24.593 --> 00:18:28.397
- I spent a long time every
- 00:18:28.964 --> 00:18:32.034
- Week for many, many, many years
- 00:18:32.034 --> 00:18:35.737
- Alone.
- 00:18:35.938 --> 00:18:37.873
- It's a part of my vocation.
- 00:18:37.873 --> 00:18:40.776
- It is what i must do.
- 00:18:40.776 --> 00:18:42.244
- I have to do.
- 00:18:42.244 --> 00:18:44.846
- The being alone is good.
- 00:18:44.846 --> 00:18:46.548
- Find is healthy. it.
- 00:18:46.548 --> 00:18:47.849
- It's invigorating if you know how to handle it.
- 00:18:47.849 --> 00:18:50.619
- Being alone.
- 00:18:50.953 --> 00:18:52.154
- But it's another thing to be lonely.
- 00:18:52.154 --> 00:18:56.358
- He said, well,
- 00:18:56.692 --> 00:18:58.327
- It doesn't matter where you're lonely and idaho's
- 00:18:58.327 --> 00:19:00.462
- Maybe it goes live. makes no sense.
- 00:19:00.462 --> 00:19:02.297
- Is life is like spitting in the wind.
- 00:19:02.297 --> 00:19:05.834
- Oh, solomon.
- 00:19:06.168 --> 00:19:07.236
- Oh so old man.
- 00:19:07.236 --> 00:19:09.338
- Then he comes and talks about popularity.
- 00:19:09.338 --> 00:19:12.975
- And he talks about a king.
- 00:19:13.542 --> 00:19:15.310
- He said, here's an old king who got old
- 00:19:15.310 --> 00:19:18.313
- And wouldn't listen to anybody else.
- 00:19:18.313 --> 00:19:21.383
- And then he says, a young king comes along
- 00:19:21.383 --> 00:19:23.852
- And he listens to people.
- 00:19:23.852 --> 00:19:25.153
- And the old king popularity failed.
- 00:19:25.153 --> 00:19:27.856
- He says,
- 00:19:27.856 --> 00:19:29.057
- I've seen all the living on the sun thronged to the side
- 00:19:29.057 --> 00:19:32.261
- Of the second lad who replaces him.
- 00:19:32.261 --> 00:19:35.097
- He said, there's no end.
- 00:19:35.097 --> 00:19:36.465
- All the people to all who were before them, even
- 00:19:36.465 --> 00:19:39.835
- The ones who will come later, will not be happy for him.
- 00:19:39.835 --> 00:19:43.071
- What do you say?
- 00:19:43.071 --> 00:19:44.273
- Here's somebody in a position of leadership,
- 00:19:44.273 --> 00:19:46.975
- And all of a sudden people turn against him.
- 00:19:46.975 --> 00:19:49.011
- He's not popular.
- 00:19:49.011 --> 00:19:50.212
- Here comes some young person in the leadership.
- 00:19:50.212 --> 00:19:52.881
- Everybody is applauding them.
- 00:19:52.881 --> 00:19:54.750
- But solomon says they'll come a day.
- 00:19:54.750 --> 00:19:56.885
- He'll make some wrong decision and they'll boo the person
- 00:19:56.885 --> 00:20:00.155
- They've applauded.
- 00:20:00.155 --> 00:20:03.959
- Played quarterback.
- 00:20:04.426 --> 00:20:07.195
- How many of you have played quarterback on a football team,
- 00:20:07.195 --> 00:20:09.164
- Little league, whatever.
- 00:20:09.164 --> 00:20:10.198
- A lot of you know what works, doesn't it, folks?
- 00:20:10.198 --> 00:20:12.434
- I'll tell you
- 00:20:12.434 --> 00:20:13.502
- Why you were great and what happened to you today.
- 00:20:13.502 --> 00:20:15.937
- That was yesterday.
- 00:20:15.937 --> 00:20:18.607
- Ever preach a sermon, boy pastor?
- 00:20:18.607 --> 00:20:20.976
- That was some sermon.
- 00:20:20.976 --> 00:20:23.345
- But, boy, this week. what?
- 00:20:23.345 --> 00:20:24.713
- The wheels came off for you.
- 00:20:24.713 --> 00:20:27.749
- You see, we can go from mountaintop, the valleys,
- 00:20:27.749 --> 00:20:30.485
- And let the world control our destiny and our feeling.
- 00:20:30.485 --> 00:20:33.822
- And solomon says, you know, it doesn't make any difference
- 00:20:33.822 --> 00:20:36.325
- Whether you're on top or bottom
- 00:20:36.325 --> 00:20:37.659
- Or you're a hero or you're being booed.
- 00:20:37.659 --> 00:20:40.095
- He said it's all without meaning.
- 00:20:40.095 --> 00:20:43.498
- Boy, solomon is right.
- 00:20:43.965 --> 00:20:48.136
- Except he leaves out the most important thing.
- 00:20:49.104 --> 00:20:53.508
- You can't reckon with life
- 00:20:54.076 --> 00:20:58.013
- On a flat
- 00:20:58.313 --> 00:20:59.114
- Land, humanistic, secular basis.
- 00:20:59.114 --> 00:21:01.750
- You end up right where solomon is.
- 00:21:01.750 --> 00:21:03.952
- Life is spinning in the wind.
- 00:21:03.952 --> 00:21:06.088
- But when the understanding that the s
- 00:21:06.088 --> 00:21:09.691
- In from above the issue
- 00:21:09.691 --> 00:21:12.294
- In in into time and space
- 00:21:12.294 --> 00:21:15.297
- And gave us the ability to know jesus christ,
- 00:21:15.297 --> 00:21:18.633
- And we look at those areas of philosophy in life,
- 00:21:19.601 --> 00:21:22.771
- We talk about we discover that we are chosen.
- 00:21:22.771 --> 00:21:28.710
- And also
- 00:21:28.977 --> 00:21:29.811
- We have to make a choice.
- 00:21:29.811 --> 00:21:32.714
- In jesus christ, we were chosen for god.
- 00:21:32.714 --> 00:21:36.251
- So loved the world that whosoever that's
- 00:21:36.251 --> 00:21:39.054
- Anybody, regardless of the circumstances, we were chosen.
- 00:21:39.054 --> 00:21:43.325
- And now we have to choose
- 00:21:43.325 --> 00:21:44.960
- And we choose to receive christ, to run my life.
- 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:47.796
- And i will not
- 00:21:47.796 --> 00:21:49.064
- Run my life to run your life, and you will not run your life.
- 00:21:49.064 --> 00:21:51.867
- And then all of a sudden, we're in the family of god
- 00:21:51.867 --> 00:21:54.603
- And all of a sudden, all of these things
- 00:21:54.603 --> 00:21:57.472
- We encounter begin to take on new life and eternal meaning.
- 00:21:57.472 --> 00:22:02.944
- As to the beatitudes.
- 00:22:03.445 --> 00:22:05.113
- Matthew five.
- 00:22:05.113 --> 00:22:06.181
- Oh the happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, blessed,
- 00:22:06.181 --> 00:22:08.817
- Blessed, blessed, blessed, blessed
- 00:22:08.817 --> 00:22:10.752
- You get there in your jesus says.
- 00:22:10.752 --> 00:22:12.888
- He said, those thou who have been chosen
- 00:22:12.888 --> 00:22:15.357
- And they have chosen me to come into their life.
- 00:22:15.357 --> 00:22:18.260
- He says, guess what?
- 00:22:18.260 --> 00:22:19.294
- Guess who you are.
- 00:22:19.294 --> 00:22:21.329
- He said, you are the salt
- 00:22:21.329 --> 00:22:24.299
- Of the earth.
- 00:22:24.666 --> 00:22:27.102
- He says, you are the light of the world.
- 00:22:27.102 --> 00:22:31.973
- Boy, that is gigantic.
- 00:22:32.441 --> 00:22:35.710
- He said, a salt that's lost its flavor.
- 00:22:35.710 --> 00:22:38.413
- By the way, salt never loses its flavor.
- 00:22:38.413 --> 00:22:41.483
- It uses its flavor
- 00:22:41.483 --> 00:22:43.084
- When they put a little pinch of salt in a bowl of soup
- 00:22:43.084 --> 00:22:46.221
- That big, you won't taste the salt, will you?
- 00:22:46.221 --> 00:22:49.257
- So we are salty as we're in christ,
- 00:22:49.257 --> 00:22:52.527
- But we lose our our tang, our flavor, our thrust
- 00:22:52.527 --> 00:22:56.731
- Of our christian life
- 00:22:56.731 --> 00:22:57.966
- When it's so watered down with so much stuff that we do
- 00:22:57.966 --> 00:23:01.369
- And we're involved in this world, it gets watered down.
- 00:23:01.369 --> 00:23:04.206
- That's what how salt loses its flavor.
- 00:23:04.206 --> 00:23:07.309
- And what about light?
- 00:23:07.309 --> 00:23:08.510
- You are the light of the world.
- 00:23:08.510 --> 00:23:10.946
- Take these four
- 00:23:11.313 --> 00:23:12.681
- Things that we're dealing with just in this one chapter.
- 00:23:12.681 --> 00:23:15.750
- And you take someone who is in
- 00:23:16.351 --> 00:23:18.687
- Christ jesus and their life is salty
- 00:23:18.687 --> 00:23:21.723
- And their life turns on the lights.
- 00:23:22.457 --> 00:23:25.260
- Take a salty christian
- 00:23:25.727 --> 00:23:28.129
- And someone who turns a light on injustice.
- 00:23:28.129 --> 00:23:31.766
- Watch injustice run.
- 00:23:32.234 --> 00:23:35.737
- Watch the power brokers
- 00:23:36.238 --> 00:23:38.273
- Who are pushing all the exploitation of people.
- 00:23:38.273 --> 00:23:41.343
- Get out of the way!
- 00:23:41.343 --> 00:23:42.711
- When we simply turn on the light of our lives
- 00:23:42.711 --> 00:23:45.580
- And we put our soul
- 00:23:45.580 --> 00:23:47.249
- In that situation, that'll take care injustice
- 00:23:47.249 --> 00:23:50.418
- In the name of the lord jesus christ.
- 00:23:50.418 --> 00:23:54.022
- And then you come and you take the next thing that we have.
- 00:23:54.022 --> 00:23:57.926
- Not only was there injustice, there was success.
- 00:23:57.926 --> 00:24:02.097
- Well, i'm not as successful.
- 00:24:02.697 --> 00:24:04.599
- You take success and define it as discovering
- 00:24:04.599 --> 00:24:08.303
- The will and purpose of god as to where you are
- 00:24:08.303 --> 00:24:11.106
- And where i am.
- 00:24:11.106 --> 00:24:12.307
- All of a sudden there is a salty life.
- 00:24:12.307 --> 00:24:15.010
- There is a life that turns lights on wherever you go.
- 00:24:15.010 --> 00:24:18.547
- Illuminates every dark place.
- 00:24:18.547 --> 00:24:20.549
- All of a sudden that is success
- 00:24:20.549 --> 00:24:23.318
- That will last here and forever sees a difference.
- 00:24:23.318 --> 00:24:26.688
- When you bring jesus christ in these situations, changes
- 00:24:26.688 --> 00:24:30.659
- Everything, revolutionizes everything, takes things
- 00:24:30.659 --> 00:24:34.796
- That are passing in transit and makes them permanent
- 00:24:34.796 --> 00:24:38.333
- And eternal because it's a part of the kingdom
- 00:24:38.333 --> 00:24:41.536
- Of god almighty on this earth.
- 00:24:41.536 --> 00:24:44.606
- See, the difference we have and lone is
- 00:24:44.606 --> 00:24:47.342
- Can anybody be really lonely
- 00:24:47.342 --> 00:24:49.945
- When you know there's a sort of jesus in your life?
- 00:24:49.945 --> 00:24:53.114
- There's a light of christ lighting up all the dark places
- 00:24:53.114 --> 00:24:56.718
- In your life.
- 00:24:56.718 --> 00:24:57.619
- There's no room for loneliness.
- 00:24:57.619 --> 00:24:59.454
- There's only room
- 00:24:59.454 --> 00:25:00.589
- For a ministry and meaning and significance.
- 00:25:00.589 --> 00:25:03.491
- As you touch the lives of others.
- 00:25:03.491 --> 00:25:05.994
- Boy, it's such a powerful thing when you take
- 00:25:06.928 --> 00:25:09.831
- All of this that solomon is whining about
- 00:25:09.831 --> 00:25:13.201
- And doesn't understand and thinks i can't make rhyme
- 00:25:13.201 --> 00:25:16.838
- Or reason out of it, and you just plug in a salty christian
- 00:25:16.838 --> 00:25:20.942
- That life is lighted up by jesus christ.
- 00:25:20.942 --> 00:25:25.080
- Let me tell you something.
- 00:25:25.080 --> 00:25:27.015
- It's a whole new world.
- 00:25:27.015 --> 00:25:30.051
- Their popularity can make any difference.
- 00:25:30.051 --> 00:25:34.089
- They can boo or cheer.
- 00:25:34.089 --> 00:25:36.291
- But you're on the team of god almighty and you are salt.
- 00:25:36.291 --> 00:25:40.328
- And you're lighting up everything.
- 00:25:40.328 --> 00:25:42.330
- You know, god's a part of you.
- 00:25:42.330 --> 00:25:44.132
- See what happens
- 00:25:44.132 --> 00:25:45.233
- When you take him who is above the son and invited him
- 00:25:45.233 --> 00:25:48.970
- To come into your life while we're under the sun.
- 00:25:48.970 --> 00:25:51.573
- It takes care of everything,
- 00:25:51.573 --> 00:25:53.408
- And it makes a life that seemingly does not have
- 00:25:53.408 --> 00:25:56.344
- Significance be eternally meaningful.
- 00:25:56.344 --> 00:26:01.516
- Your word is a lamp to my
- 00:26:02.083 --> 00:26:04.386
- Feet, a light into my path.
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- Notice the promise in that verse.
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- A lamp for my feet i can see right here.
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- A light for your path.
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- We can see out there.
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- Not just inspiration.
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- For a moment, but guidance for a lifetime.
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- The christian life
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- Was never meant to be lived casually,
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- But it is a walk, a daily, intentional,
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- Fateful walk with the lord jesus christ.
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- That's the heartbeat of this book.
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- The winning walk in his pages, i share practical,
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- Biblical principles that will help you cultivate
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- A consistent devotional life, applying god's truth
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- In the practical realities of everyday living.
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- This isn't about religion.
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- It's about relationship.
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- It's about learning to trust god step by step
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- And stay in step with our lord.
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- The christ.
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- So i encourage you to call the number on your screen
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- And request your copy of the winning walk.
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- Do it today.
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- And then we begin walking victoriously,
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- One step at a time.
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