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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Keeping Your Eyes On The Goal | July 20, 2026
- God's will
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- Is good.
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- So a lot of people say, well, god's will is good.
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- Let's see how this works.
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- Y'all think this is good for me?
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- I'll bring it back to you, keith.
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- Don't worry.
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- Y'all, i don't like this.
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- I said works for me.
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- That's that's not good.
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- If you've been around
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- And you think for a moment, everybody needs a life coach
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- The sake of the world, you can spend
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- A hunk of money
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- Bringing in someone to coach you into life.
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- Everybody needs a life coach.
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- We decided that and then we decided, well,
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- How do you pick a life coach?
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- And we
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- Came to the decision that
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- If you're a secular person or a god fearing person,
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- You can't find one superior to jesus of nazareth.
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- There's not another one.
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- You line them all up.
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- Nobody can meet the requirements.
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- He is the best life coach anybody could get.
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- All right.
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- So we pick a life coach, and then we pick him.
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- And we discovered something.
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- He'd already selected you and me.
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- He'd already asked us.
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- Invited us to be on his team.
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- And we didn't get involved in calvinism or arminian ism.
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- We just know that we need a life coach.
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- Jesus. we decided.
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- Boy, that's the life coach.
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- And then we discovered he'd already picked us.
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- And so we signed up to be on his team
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- To be coach, to live a life.
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- Then we dealt with the big question.
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- Are you coachable?
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- Am i coachable?
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- And i've talked to a lot of coaches
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- Since that time and various fields, tutors and education
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- People in athletics, those who train people
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- In a lot of different skills. and i asked them,
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- What do you look for in somebody?
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- You will coach somebody on your team,
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- Somebody in your classroom. what do you look for?
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- What's the characteristics?
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- And i summed it all up in two words.
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- Somebody who is humble
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- And somebody who's committed.
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- So here we are.
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- And now we ask the big, overwhelming question.
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- Well, i'm on this team.
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- What's the goal?
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- What is the goal?
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- What are what are we reaching for?
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- Jesus said,
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- Come, follow me and i will make you fishers of men.
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- And they thought that success was catching a lot of fish,
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- Being successful in the selling of the fish,
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- Having plenty of money because they were big fishermen.
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- But jesus taught them that, hey,
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- There's something bigger than that.
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- That is worldly success.
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- By the way. they caught a lot of fish as well.
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- But i'm going to move you and do a life of fulfillment.
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- And that's fishing for people,
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- Building the right stuff and people.
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- And so
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- We come and ask, well, what is the goal?
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- Well, what are we reaching for?
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- We're on the team of christ.
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- What should go out there?
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- And i submit to you and john 1010,
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- We have a series of verses i think will sum up
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- What every single person would like to see.
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- This is my life goal.
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- It's worthy.
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- It's worth it.
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- It's what i would love to have.
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- Now, in this chapter
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- Ten of the gospel of john, jesus is talking about
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- He was the shepherd of the sheep.
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- He says, i'm a shepherd.
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- I'm your coach.
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- And he talks about the kind of coach he was.
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- He is verse two, but he jesus
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- Who entered by the door is the shepherd,
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- The coach of the sheep.
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- We're the sheep.
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- He's our coach.
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- We're on the team.
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- To him, the door keeper opens and the sheep hear his voice.
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- And he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
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- When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them,
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- And the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
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- Years ago i was in jerusalem by the sheep gate,
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- And i happened to be there on the day
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- When all the shepherds were bringing their sheep in.
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- Some would be sheared,
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- Some would be sold, some would be traded.
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- And i'm telling you, wherever i looked, there were sheep
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- And there were shepherds here, there.
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- And i asked the guide and the world,
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- Do they know this is my sheep?
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- This is my sheep, this is yours.
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- Are they branded?
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- Said, oh, no, said all the sheep know the voice
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- Of the shepherd.
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- And the
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- Shepherd has a name for every one of his sheep.
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- So they never get confused.
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- That's what jesus say when you're on his team.
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- He is our shepherd.
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- He's our coach.
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- He knows everything about us.
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- Every hair on our head.
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- He has counted.
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- He's not counting his eye on my head as he used to.
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- But that's how he knows
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- Us intimately.
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- He's our shepherd.
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- And then what does he say?
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- He says in verse ten, the thief comes only to steal and kill
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- And destroy other, other shepherds, other competitors.
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- I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
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- Jesus says, i came.
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- I solicited you on my team.
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- You join my team.
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- I am your coach.
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- So you can have. here's the goal.
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- Abundant life.
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- Life is so.
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- It is life in infinity.
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- It is a completed life.
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- It is a full life.
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- And the word abundantly.
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- There is a word person.
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- It is a word.
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- It means in excess.
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- It means more than excess.
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- Abounding in success, abounding in excess,
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- In your success.
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- Paul says in one corinthians two nine, eye
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- Has not seen and ear has not heard.
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- Neither has it entered the heart of man.
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- The things that god has prepared for those
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- Who love him,
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- For those who are on his team and function
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- And are humble enough and committed enough.
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- He promises life
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- Overflowing, and we can't even imagine that
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- It's beyond anybody's ability to comprehend.
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- So that's our goal.
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- Would everybody be satisfied with abundant life?
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- Anybody want to add to that?
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- Can you extrapolate from that?
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- Well. no, no no no i think that's the top.
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- That's assume a bottom.
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- That's the ultimate is it not?
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- Abundant life.
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- Now, how do you get that?
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- Well, we're on the team.
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- Let's go back to the operative passages
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- We've revolved around for several weeks.
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- And that is romans 12, verse one and two.
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- You're familiar with it.
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- Therefore, i beseech you, brethren.
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- Now paul has summed up all the doctrine
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- Which we're all phi beta kappa.
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- And right we went through all that
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- And all the doctrine, he says.
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- Now i get the practicality.
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- This is how you put it together.
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- Therefore, i urge you, brethren, by the mercies
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- Of god, you present your body a living sacrifice.
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- Remember a living killing, holy, acceptable to god.
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- No words.
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- We die to ourself and our goals.
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- We present our bodies.
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- That's the first step on being on the team of christ.
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- That is humility and lord, i just.
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- Here it is i i'm living, but i'm i'm dead a living killing.
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- I've killed all of my self in my desires.
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- A living sacrifice that's wholly acceptable to him,
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- Which is your reasonable service.
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- That's a humility it takes.
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- And out of him the coaches a
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- And then the next thing, not only humility.
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- Would you be committed
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- And said, when we present our body a living sacrifice,
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- And then what's the next part that we have in there?
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- It said, we're not conform to the world.
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- We're transformed by the renewing of our mind.
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- And that is a commitment.
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- Our minds are renewed.
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- And then he says, why?
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- We have this renewed mind
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- So that we can prove
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- What the will of god.
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- Now, the will of god for most
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- People is far too spooky,
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- Where the idea god has hidden his will.
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- Ooh, where is it?
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- Maybe it's under that chair.
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- Ooh. and sometimes you play like remember, like as kids
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- Game, i spy, i spy, i, we're looking for god's will.
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- It is so mysterious. should i go there?
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- Should i do this?
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- Listen, ladies and gentlemen, god's will is about decisions
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- We make.
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- But if you want to begin to find out
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- God's plan and purpose for your life, guess where you start.
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- The bible.
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- The bible says it's god's will.
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- We be saved.
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- We know christ.
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- We're on his team.
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- As we approach our fiscal
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- Year end on july the 31st.
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- We're also approaching a historic milestone.
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- Think about it.
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- America's 250th anniversary.
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- And as we reflect on what built this nation
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- Faith, family and freedom,
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- Fellowship, joy, meaning, significance, a family
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- Of god living together under the red, white and blue.
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- As we live under the banner of america,
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- We also recognize something deeply wrong.
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- Biblical truth is being challenged.
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- Families are under pressure and faith is no longer
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- At the center of our culture.
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- Now it's our turn.
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- Our turn to stand for what matters most.
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- Listen, when you request this much resource,
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- You're helping us proclaim the truth of god's word,
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- Strengthen families,
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- And advance faith across this great nation.
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- As i thank you, i would love to send you a signed
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- Copy of my book, healing broken america,
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- A book that i have written to help us understand
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- And to navigate our way through all the challenges
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- Of the 21st century in our land as we come to our fiscal
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- Year end.
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- I'm asking you to step forward in a meaningful way.
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- Consider a gift of $250,
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- Or really ten others, to give $25 a dollar
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- For every year of our nation's existence.
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- We give that to the winning walk so that it can continue
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- To be broadcast around the world.
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- Your support helps us bring biblical truth,
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- Encouragement, and meaning across america.
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- So let's stand together and believe god for renewal
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- And revival in our great nation.
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- For if america would catch far for christ,
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- It would touch the entire world.
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- Thank you.
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- Making this possible with your participation
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- In prayer and gifts to the winning walk.
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- And then you have three little words there
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- In the second verse of romans 12 says, god's will is good.
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- It's acceptable,
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- And it's perfect.
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- God's will is.
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- Like this quote i have on
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- This quote was given to me by a man who may be here today.
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- He was traveling.
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- He saw it.
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- He bought it.
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- It does not have a label.
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- It really does.
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- It's not tailor made.
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- I think it, you know, does.
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- All right.
- 00:13:00.803 --> 00:13:03.405
- And god's will
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- Is good.
- 00:13:07.076 --> 00:13:08.944
- So a lot of people say, well, god's will is good.
- 00:13:08.944 --> 00:13:12.348
- Let's see how this works.
- 00:13:12.915 --> 00:13:19.054
- Y'all think this is good for me?
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- I'll bring it back to you, keith.
- 00:13:26.395 --> 00:13:27.930
- Don't worry.
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- Y'all, i don't like this.
- 00:13:31.333 --> 00:13:32.468
- I said works for me.
- 00:13:32.468 --> 00:13:34.470
- That's that's not good.
- 00:13:34.470 --> 00:13:36.472
- But god's will is as well.
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- It's,
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- It's good.
- 00:13:43.312 --> 00:13:44.947
- And it said it's acceptable.
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- Oh, yeah.
- 00:13:49.084 --> 00:13:53.222
- Goodness.
- 00:13:53.522 --> 00:13:55.157
- Can you find the arms of this son? you.
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- I don't see how you wear this, bob.
- 00:14:07.303 --> 00:14:09.271
- I really don't.
- 00:14:09.271 --> 00:14:12.107
- Y'all think this is acceptable?
- 00:14:12.741 --> 00:14:15.844
- No, no no no. oh.
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- I'm. god's will.
- 00:14:21.483 --> 00:14:26.855
- It's perfect.
- 00:14:27.222 --> 00:14:30.025
- A lot of people think god's world is just like this coat.
- 00:14:31.193 --> 00:14:33.462
- Oh, it's so narrow.
- 00:14:33.462 --> 00:14:35.097
- It's so binding.
- 00:14:35.097 --> 00:14:37.166
- Oh, if i'm in god's will, i'll miss out on everything.
- 00:14:37.166 --> 00:14:41.804
- Oh, what a horrible thing is.
- 00:14:41.804 --> 00:14:44.106
- God's will.
- 00:14:44.106 --> 00:14:46.241
- No no no no no.
- 00:14:46.241 --> 00:14:49.111
- God's will.
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- How are we doing?
- 00:15:05.527 --> 00:15:08.297
- Thank you.
- 00:15:08.597 --> 00:15:08.964
- Reuben.
- 00:15:08.964 --> 00:15:11.934
- It's perfect.
- 00:15:11.934 --> 00:15:16.105
- And that's why we realize our goal
- 00:15:14.003 --> 00:15:19.408
- Is abundant living.
- 00:15:19.408 --> 00:15:22.544
- And we discover god's will.
- 00:15:22.544 --> 00:15:25.114
- And it's
- 00:15:25.114 --> 00:15:27.316
- Good.
- 00:15:27.316 --> 00:15:28.751
- It's accessible.
- 00:15:28.751 --> 00:15:29.852
- Some translations say pleasurable, and it's perfect.
- 00:15:29.852 --> 00:15:33.389
- It just fits.
- 00:15:33.756 --> 00:15:35.391
- It's just designed for you and for me
- 00:15:35.391 --> 00:15:38.093
- To have this excessive life of over.
- 00:15:38.093 --> 00:15:42.131
- Oh, we.
- 00:15:42.364 --> 00:15:44.767
- There's a story that i
- 00:15:45.234 --> 00:15:47.703
- Read years and years ago, and i just can't forget it.
- 00:15:47.703 --> 00:15:50.706
- It's just a it's a super story.
- 00:15:50.706 --> 00:15:53.776
- It's about a man who got on a bus.
- 00:15:53.776 --> 00:15:59.181
- He wanted to go to detroit.
- 00:15:59.782 --> 00:16:02.785
- He bought a ticket to detroit,
- 00:16:02.785 --> 00:16:04.420
- And he got on the bus, and he took a long trip.
- 00:16:04.420 --> 00:16:08.123
- And when he arrived and got off the bus,
- 00:16:08.991 --> 00:16:12.227
- He discovered that he was in kansas city.
- 00:16:13.095 --> 00:16:16.865
- Yeah.
- 00:16:17.099 --> 00:16:18.700
- And he started asking people about different things.
- 00:16:18.700 --> 00:16:21.203
- They tried, he said.
- 00:16:21.203 --> 00:16:22.204
- Where is woodward avenue?
- 00:16:22.204 --> 00:16:23.605
- And they said, we never we don't know the woodward avenue.
- 00:16:23.605 --> 00:16:25.908
- What he said.
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- What about cobo hall? no, no, no.
- 00:16:27.176 --> 00:16:30.446
- And finally they convinced him he wasn't in detroit.
- 00:16:30.446 --> 00:16:33.549
- He was in kansas city.
- 00:16:33.549 --> 00:16:36.585
- What happened?
- 00:16:36.585 --> 00:16:38.487
- He got on the wrong bus.
- 00:16:38.487 --> 00:16:41.723
- When you get where you're going.
- 00:16:42.424 --> 00:16:46.462
- Where would you end up?
- 00:16:46.962 --> 00:16:49.331
- Where would you be?
- 00:16:49.331 --> 00:16:51.166
- There's a lot of busses running in our town.
- 00:16:51.166 --> 00:16:53.836
- Is it not a lot of destinations,
- 00:16:53.836 --> 00:16:57.072
- A lot of roads, a lot of calls,
- 00:16:57.072 --> 00:16:59.875
- A lot of things we can get on and follow and be a part.
- 00:16:59.875 --> 00:17:03.112
- A lot of pads.
- 00:17:03.112 --> 00:17:05.848
- And the question is when
- 00:17:06.381 --> 00:17:08.050
- You get where you're going, where will you be?
- 00:17:08.050 --> 00:17:11.653
- Where will i be?
- 00:17:11.653 --> 00:17:14.656
- It's a matter of destination.
- 00:17:15.290 --> 00:17:18.293
- It's not well, i intend to get there.
- 00:17:19.027 --> 00:17:21.396
- The prodigal son didn't think he'd end up
- 00:17:21.396 --> 00:17:23.866
- Feeding pigs of all things.
- 00:17:23.866 --> 00:17:25.734
- He was jewish and never that.
- 00:17:25.734 --> 00:17:28.637
- That was not his goal.
- 00:17:29.104 --> 00:17:31.073
- But he took improper means to reach his goal.
- 00:17:31.073 --> 00:17:35.144
- A lot of people get married in the church.
- 00:17:36.011 --> 00:17:37.813
- Beautiful young couples.
- 00:17:37.813 --> 00:17:40.015
- Oh, they're in love.
- 00:17:40.015 --> 00:17:41.650
- They are part of the covenant making with god
- 00:17:41.650 --> 00:17:44.987
- And with each other.
- 00:17:44.987 --> 00:17:46.555
- And they have dreams of
- 00:17:46.555 --> 00:17:48.624
- Wonderful life together, love making together, children
- 00:17:48.624 --> 00:17:52.261
- Together a good vocation, a life that's filled
- 00:17:52.261 --> 00:17:55.898
- With significance.
- 00:17:55.898 --> 00:17:57.099
- They want a christian home.
- 00:17:57.099 --> 00:17:59.902
- But somehow that
- 00:18:00.302 --> 00:18:01.503
- Picture of utopia
- 00:18:01.503 --> 00:18:04.606
- Ends up in reno.
- 00:18:04.606 --> 00:18:07.543
- What happened?
- 00:18:07.543 --> 00:18:09.645
- They got on the wrong bus.
- 00:18:09.645 --> 00:18:12.548
- They wanted this christian home
- 00:18:12.548 --> 00:18:14.883
- With christian kids, but they made improper choices.
- 00:18:14.883 --> 00:18:18.987
- They had their priorities right.
- 00:18:18.987 --> 00:18:21.190
- But somehow their commitments didn't match their priorities.
- 00:18:21.190 --> 00:18:26.228
- And how many people,
- 00:18:26.695 --> 00:18:27.729
- How many of us are here?
- 00:18:27.729 --> 00:18:30.666
- When we stop and look around,
- 00:18:30.666 --> 00:18:32.067
- We may realize that we want to end up there.
- 00:18:32.067 --> 00:18:34.937
- But winning up over here, you say the guy on the bus
- 00:18:34.937 --> 00:18:38.507
- Going to
- 00:18:38.507 --> 00:18:40.509
- Detroit, he's out, ended up in kansas city.
- 00:18:40.509 --> 00:18:43.145
- What was he thinking on a long trip?
- 00:18:43.145 --> 00:18:45.214
- Didn't he say he signed by the side of the road?
- 00:18:45.214 --> 00:18:48.250
- Didn't they stop and and eat some meals?
- 00:18:48.250 --> 00:18:50.752
- Wasn't there other people on the bus?
- 00:18:50.752 --> 00:18:53.555
- I mean, what what's what's the matter with him?
- 00:18:53.555 --> 00:18:56.091
- He didn't figure out before he got all the way
- 00:18:57.059 --> 00:18:59.695
- To saint louis that he wasn't headed for detroit.
- 00:18:59.695 --> 00:19:03.832
- What happened?
- 00:19:04.166 --> 00:19:06.301
- That happened to us.
- 00:19:06.301 --> 00:19:09.137
- So we need to take a timeout.
- 00:19:09.137 --> 00:19:10.973
- Coaches take timeouts.
- 00:19:10.973 --> 00:19:12.274
- You know that
- 00:19:12.274 --> 00:19:13.408
- When you take a timeout, everybody here needs a timeout
- 00:19:13.408 --> 00:19:16.478
- And say, all right at the end as i move along.
- 00:19:16.478 --> 00:19:20.382
- Am i experiencing this abundance, this joy, this life?
- 00:19:20.382 --> 00:19:24.152
- Let's take a timeout.
- 00:19:24.152 --> 00:19:26.855
- And maybe we need a socrates to run around
- 00:19:26.855 --> 00:19:29.625
- In the congregation and come up to us
- 00:19:29.625 --> 00:19:31.994
- And ask you and me some questions.
- 00:19:31.994 --> 00:19:33.829
- That's what socrates did.
- 00:19:33.829 --> 00:19:35.063
- Remember, he asked everybody questions they didn't like.
- 00:19:35.063 --> 00:19:38.000
- They hated him.
- 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:39.468
- He'd ask questions like, who are you?
- 00:19:39.468 --> 00:19:42.337
- No, no, no. who are you?
- 00:19:42.871 --> 00:19:44.940
- Who? he'd ask questions like, why are you here?
- 00:19:44.940 --> 00:19:49.878
- What is your purpose in life?
- 00:19:50.512 --> 00:19:53.482
- He'd ask these big, simple, gigantic questions.
- 00:19:53.482 --> 00:19:57.386
- And people got mad at him.
- 00:19:57.386 --> 00:19:59.288
- And socrates said, and unexamined
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- Life is not worth living.
- 00:20:02.190 --> 00:20:05.227
- And it's not.
- 00:20:05.594 --> 00:20:07.629
- Our unexamined life is not worth living.
- 00:20:07.629 --> 00:20:12.234
- And sometimes we need to take a time out
- 00:20:13.101 --> 00:20:15.137
- And see if we are indeed on the right bus.
- 00:20:15.137 --> 00:20:19.474
- Well, what are our choices here?
- 00:20:20.208 --> 00:20:21.677
- They're really just two.
- 00:20:21.677 --> 00:20:23.245
- Jesus tells about them and the gospel according to matthew.
- 00:20:23.245 --> 00:20:27.916
- He just sits down.
- 00:20:28.350 --> 00:20:29.351
- He says matthew seven,
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- 13 and 14
- 00:20:33.221 --> 00:20:35.757
- Entered through the narrow gate.
- 00:20:35.757 --> 00:20:39.428
- You know, the right bus
- 00:20:39.928 --> 00:20:42.898
- For the gate is wide and the way is broad
- 00:20:42.898 --> 00:20:45.500
- That leads to destruction.
- 00:20:45.500 --> 00:20:47.035
- And there are many who entered there in.
- 00:20:47.035 --> 00:20:50.572
- That's the wrong bus, for the gate is small,
- 00:20:50.572 --> 00:20:54.009
- And the way is narrow that leads to life.
- 00:20:54.009 --> 00:20:56.311
- There's our words, okay, that's where you want to go.
- 00:20:56.311 --> 00:20:58.947
- And that that's the abundance we're talking about.
- 00:20:58.947 --> 00:21:01.416
- It said it's a narrow way and few there be that go that way.
- 00:21:01.416 --> 00:21:05.721
- Not many get on that bus,
- 00:21:06.288 --> 00:21:09.057
- But a lot of people get on the broad.
- 00:21:09.858 --> 00:21:12.594
- So they just two choices.
- 00:21:12.594 --> 00:21:13.995
- There's there's the broadway
- 00:21:13.995 --> 00:21:16.398
- Man on everybody's fall around that way, the
- 00:21:16.398 --> 00:21:19.134
- The flow of culture, the flow of influence,
- 00:21:19.134 --> 00:21:22.337
- The flow of pleasure, man.
- 00:21:22.337 --> 00:21:24.339
- Everybody wants to be healthy, wealthy, wise
- 00:21:24.339 --> 00:21:26.842
- And have a good time in the process.
- 00:21:26.842 --> 00:21:28.744
- Right in there.
- 00:21:28.744 --> 00:21:30.312
- We just get caught up.
- 00:21:30.312 --> 00:21:31.313
- That's the broad, broad
- 00:21:31.313 --> 00:21:32.981
- Way to a lot of people are on the broadway, man.
- 00:21:32.981 --> 00:21:36.017
- It's inhabited and they're moving down their broadway.
- 00:21:36.017 --> 00:21:40.088
- But jesus says the broadway
- 00:21:40.088 --> 00:21:43.392
- Leads to destruction, to emptiness.
- 00:21:43.392 --> 00:21:46.661
- It leads not to detroit.
- 00:21:47.195 --> 00:21:49.731
- It leads to kansas city.
- 00:21:49.731 --> 00:21:51.900
- And who in the world wants to go to kansas city?
- 00:21:51.900 --> 00:21:54.035
- When you're trying to get to detroit?
- 00:21:54.035 --> 00:21:57.606
- They're broadway.
- 00:21:58.039 --> 00:21:59.708
- You're on the wrong bus.
- 00:21:59.708 --> 00:22:00.976
- And this is a matter of means and ends.
- 00:22:01.777 --> 00:22:04.079
- Ends and means.
- 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:06.581
- Sometimes we have big means
- 00:22:06.581 --> 00:22:09.551
- To small goals to small.
- 00:22:10.085 --> 00:22:12.487
- In other words, we just spend a lot of time and money
- 00:22:12.487 --> 00:22:16.191
- And effort and blood and sweat and tears to reach this goal.
- 00:22:16.191 --> 00:22:20.929
- And the goal is not worthy of all the effort
- 00:22:20.929 --> 00:22:24.933
- We put into it in order to get there.
- 00:22:24.933 --> 00:22:28.537
- You know, we have big means
- 00:22:29.137 --> 00:22:32.607
- Little goal out there, not worthy of all that
- 00:22:33.475 --> 00:22:36.945
- We put into it.
- 00:22:36.945 --> 00:22:39.514
- And let's flip that over.
- 00:22:39.514 --> 00:22:40.682
- Sometimes we have a worthy goal,
- 00:22:40.682 --> 00:22:44.052
- High goal worthy goal.
- 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:46.555
- We use shabby,
- 00:22:46.555 --> 00:22:49.090
- Immoral means to get there.
- 00:22:49.090 --> 00:22:51.293
- You see it all the time.
- 00:22:51.293 --> 00:22:54.095
- There's a revolution in this nation
- 00:22:54.095 --> 00:22:57.265
- And in this nation, this revolution takes place.
- 00:22:57.265 --> 00:23:00.802
- And there are people who say,
- 00:23:00.802 --> 00:23:01.937
- We're going to get the
- 00:23:01.937 --> 00:23:03.038
- Bad guys out and we're going to let the people roll,
- 00:23:03.038 --> 00:23:06.408
- And they go down there.
- 00:23:06.408 --> 00:23:07.442
- They throw out the bad guys, and they begin to rule
- 00:23:07.442 --> 00:23:10.645
- And give them five, six, ten years, maybe less.
- 00:23:10.645 --> 00:23:13.782
- All of a sudden they have the same problem
- 00:23:13.782 --> 00:23:16.885
- That the bad guys got.
- 00:23:16.885 --> 00:23:18.220
- I got the bad guys out.
- 00:23:18.220 --> 00:23:19.654
- The good guys and the good guys become bad guys.
- 00:23:19.654 --> 00:23:22.691
- In other words, what is happening?
- 00:23:22.691 --> 00:23:24.326
- They had a worthy goal, but they got corrupted with
- 00:23:24.326 --> 00:23:27.095
- The means they used to get their.
- 00:23:27.095 --> 00:23:29.664
- We can have high goals and we
- 00:23:30.298 --> 00:23:34.436
- Can have shabby, immoral means to reach those goals.
- 00:23:34.436 --> 00:23:39.708
- Oh, it's justified that i did that because i wanted to
- 00:23:39.708 --> 00:23:44.179
- Fill in the blanks.
- 00:23:44.179 --> 00:23:45.747
- I wanted our company to succeed.
- 00:23:45.747 --> 00:23:47.849
- Oh, i cheated a lot.
- 00:23:47.849 --> 00:23:49.217
- But the main thing was, i passed that test
- 00:23:49.217 --> 00:23:51.720
- And i graduate.
- 00:23:51.720 --> 00:23:52.988
- Oh, and that justifies all the cheating i did.
- 00:23:52.988 --> 00:23:55.790
- You know, you're mayor
- 00:23:55.790 --> 00:23:58.260
- Shabby means where they go.
- 00:23:58.260 --> 00:24:02.297
- The other end is elaborate
- 00:24:02.864 --> 00:24:04.499
- Means to reach a flimsy goal.
- 00:24:04.499 --> 00:24:08.003
- That's the broad way that leads to destruction.
- 00:24:08.003 --> 00:24:11.239
- Ladies and gentlemen.
- 00:24:11.239 --> 00:24:12.474
- And you're not going to find abundant life on that broadway.
- 00:24:12.474 --> 00:24:16.011
- You find abundant life on what?
- 00:24:16.011 --> 00:24:18.346
- The narrow way to broadway is the wrong bus.
- 00:24:18.346 --> 00:24:21.783
- Our bus is the narrow way is the right bus.
- 00:24:21.783 --> 00:24:25.320
- And the amazing
- 00:24:25.687 --> 00:24:26.521
- Thing how god has built this world.
- 00:24:26.521 --> 00:24:29.224
- God has built this world.
- 00:24:29.224 --> 00:24:30.792
- If you and i get on the wrong bus,
- 00:24:30.792 --> 00:24:33.895
- We'll never end up in the right place.
- 00:24:33.895 --> 00:24:37.599
- No matter how much we pray or how much magic we want,
- 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:41.236
- Or we want forgiveness for all the wasted choices in years,
- 00:24:41.236 --> 00:24:45.340
- You get on the wrong bus.
- 00:24:45.340 --> 00:24:46.508
- You don't end up in the right place.
- 00:24:46.508 --> 00:24:47.909
- God's built this world like that
- 00:24:47.909 --> 00:24:50.378
- Every single time.
- 00:24:50.378 --> 00:24:53.381
- So when you get where are you going?
- 00:24:53.381 --> 00:24:55.450
- Where will you be?
- 00:24:55.450 --> 00:24:57.919
- Oh, we i go abundant life.
- 00:24:57.919 --> 00:25:00.255
- How do we get there?
- 00:25:00.255 --> 00:25:02.591
- We see it through humility.
- 00:25:02.591 --> 00:25:04.659
- That is worship.
- 00:25:04.659 --> 00:25:06.528
- We see it.
- 00:25:06.528 --> 00:25:07.662
- We find the will of god and it fits us.
- 00:25:07.662 --> 00:25:09.664
- And it's beautiful.
- 00:25:09.664 --> 00:25:10.532
- It's magnificent.
- 00:25:10.532 --> 00:25:12.767
- And then we see it.
- 00:25:12.767 --> 00:25:13.868
- The abundance takes place when we get our means
- 00:25:13.868 --> 00:25:16.738
- And ends together.
- 00:25:16.738 --> 00:25:18.039
- We use the right means to reach the lofty goals.
- 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:23.712
- Christian home
- 00:25:24.045 --> 00:25:25.513
- Had to say no to a lot of things
- 00:25:25.513 --> 00:25:28.283
- In order to say yes to christ, a moral life.
- 00:25:28.283 --> 00:25:32.120
- You have to say no to a lot of things
- 00:25:32.120 --> 00:25:34.856
- In order to say yes to christ.
- 00:25:34.856 --> 00:25:37.726
- A good night's sleep
- 00:25:37.726 --> 00:25:40.996
- Had to say no to a lot of things
- 00:25:40.996 --> 00:25:43.698
- In order to say yes to christ.
- 00:25:43.698 --> 00:25:46.601
- I weigh 400 pounds.
- 00:25:46.601 --> 00:25:48.203
- It's a good goal.
- 00:25:48.203 --> 00:25:49.137
- I don't want to lose weight,
- 00:25:49.137 --> 00:25:52.040
- But you say you have to take steps in order to do it.
- 00:25:52.040 --> 00:25:55.710
- In order to get there, have to use the means
- 00:25:55.710 --> 00:25:59.047
- To get to the desired end.
- 00:25:59.047 --> 00:26:02.050
- The abundant life.
- 00:26:02.050 --> 00:26:05.787
- America the beautiful, our country
- 00:26:06.521 --> 00:26:09.758
- After home sweet home.
- 00:26:09.758 --> 00:26:11.793
- But our america is hurting.
- 00:26:11.793 --> 00:26:14.396
- We see it in our fractured, divided communities
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- And in our struggling families.
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- God's answer for a broken nation has never been found
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- In politics, power, or human effort alone.
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- God says, if my people who are called by
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- My name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and
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- Turn from their wicked ways, then i will hear from heaven,
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- Forgive their sin, and heal their land.
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- Healing begins when god's people return to him.
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- In his powerful book, healing broken america.
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- Doctor jung explores the spiritual path toward
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- Healing and restoration through faith, family,
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- And the values that have shaped generations of americans.
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- Because when
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- Hearts are transformed by god, lives are changed,
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- Families are restored, and the nation can begin to heal.
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- To get your copy of healing broken america.
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- Please call the number on your screen or visit
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- The website below.
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- And may god bless america.
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