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Ed Young - Learning How To Pray

January 20, 2025 | S25:E17

Ed Young - Learning How To Pray
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 - Learning How To Pray | January 20, 2025
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  • Pastor ed young: we've been studying the book of romans, but
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  • We've really narrowed it down to the greatest chapter, perhaps in
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  • All the bible; we've called it the goat, the greatest of
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  • All time.
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  • And we said that if you and i get romans chapter 8, we sort of
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  • Got it, we've got the foundation of becoming a christian, living
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  • The christian life, and the promise of paradise with thee
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  • Forever and forever.
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  • It's all wrapped up in these 39 verses, and it is a thrilling
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  • Thing to understand and to comprehend, and to get some
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  • Things incorporated into our minds.
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  • Now, remember where we are: this is how he set us free in jesus
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  • Christ, here's the holy spirit, here's how we live that life,
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  • And then he goes back and he says a topical sentence that we
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  • Need to understand.
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  • That's verse 18.
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  • Listen to it, paul says, "for i consider that the sufferings of
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  • The present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory
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  • Which shall be revealed."
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  • So here we have groaning, suffering, and glory together.
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  • Now, think about it, remember the primary thing we're learning
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  • In romans chapter 8 is that we're in the family, right?
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  • We got it, we're there, we have been inherited, we're like a
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  • Brother or sister to jesus christ, and we can pray to god,
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  • "abba, father."
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  • I mean, if you want a entree to somebody that's really got all
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  • The stuff in the world, and man, you're really close to them and
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  • They have everything available, just think: now, because of
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  • Jesus christ, we can say, "dad," to our heavenly father.
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  • Just settle in on that, see how magnificent that is, how
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  • Supernatural that is, how powerful that is.
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  • But now, as he's given us this assurance, remember the theme of
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  • Romans 8?
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  • It shows us how the holy spirit works, but primarily
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  • Paul is saying you are safe, you have eternal safety; everything
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  • You have in christ, you can't lose it, it is there with you
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  • Now and forever and forever.
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  • So he's talking about eternal security.
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  • And now he does a bizarre thing, he talks about suffering.
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  • Paul is here, saying, "look, you're gonna have some groaning
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  • In this life."
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  • Anybody wanna debate with that?
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  • I could list all kind of groaning.
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  • The word groaning here means, man, it is a death cry, it is a
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  • Ferocious thing.
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  • It is pain that comes from health problems, from death in
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  • Members of your family, from situations in your vocation,
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  • From when you're broken hearted, when a friend betrays you.
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  • I mean, it is all built in there.
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  • We groan, sometime verbally, sometime inwardly, but in this
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  • Life there will be groaning.
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  • I take my life, just quickly in the relationship thing; my dad
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  • Has left this earth, my mother's left this earth, my younger
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  • Brother, my wife, my granddaughter.
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  • You think there's not groaning involved in that in a
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  • Human perspective?
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  • And by the way, you say, "well, i've never experienced all
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  • That," just live a little while, you will, guaranteed, write
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  • It down.
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  • And so therefore, there will be groaning, vocational--all
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  • Of it, all of it.
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  • And here he says, the groaning that we have today, and that's
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  • For christian and non-christian that's groaning, is nothing
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  • Compared with, follow me closely, with the glory that is
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  • To come.
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  • Here's groaning; here's glory.
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  • And paul talks about it in 2 corinthians, he says we have
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  • These little bitty, you know, peanut things in life; it sounds
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  • Big to me.
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  • He said these little peanut things, these little temporary
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  • Problems we have in all this vast scope of life, it's nothing
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  • Compared to the glory that's going to come.
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  • And the word glory is a fabulous word, it's mentioned all the way
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  • Through the bible.
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  • Remember we said it means weight?
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  • Compared to the weight, the significance, that we're going
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  • To have, all of this we go through, that we cry and we
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  • Lament and we have all kinds of challenging situations in every
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  • Area of life, paul says that's not anything, anything, it's
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  • Peanuts compared to the weight of glory.
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  • And glory has about it a beauty, a joy, a radiance, the
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  • Shekinah there.
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  • All of this is nothing compared to the glory that's going
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  • To come.
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  • Paul is saying whatever we're going through now, this
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  • Groaning, you can't even compare it to the glory that he gives us
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  • And the glory that will come.
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  • That's the introduction, now we get down to business; that's the
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  • Thesis sentence.
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  • Look at verse number 19, we'll go all the way through, if we
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  • Can, to verse 27.
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  • We're going to see here groaning, groaning that comes to
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  • Creation in hope.
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  • By the way, let me define the word hope biblically for you.
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  • I don't like the word hope, i don't use the word hope much if
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  • You listen to me because you have to explain it.
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  • Because you and i think hope is maybe wishful thinking, "it
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  • Would be nice, i hope, i imagine, i don't know."
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  • The biblical word for hope is not that word, it's used as
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  • Hope, but hope biblically means an anticipated,
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  • Exciting reality.
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  • Does that change the meaning?
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  • Hope in the bible means, man, i am thrilled about what is going
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  • To happen and i am confident it will happen, and i'm telling
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  • You, you can count on it happening.
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  • That's what the word hope in the bible means, not all this,
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  • "well, it would be nice."
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  • You got it?
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  • So here we see groaning of creation in hope, and look at it
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  • In verse number 19.
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  • "for the earnest expectation of creation."
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  • By the way, that means tiptoe, creation is on tiptoe, this
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  • Kosmos, "eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of god."
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  • Creation is groaning, but creation is eagerly awaiting for
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  • The sons of god.
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  • What in the world does that mean?
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  • It means when adam and eve sinned in the garden, a part of
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  • The penalty for that was the fall, but human beings did not
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  • Fall, all of creation came under the curse.
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  • Remember that, now, adam had to make a living by working in the
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  • Ground, and the ground had been cursed?
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  • That was the curse upon creation.
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  • And therefore, it's saying creation is on tiptoe, looking
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  • Forward to the sons of god.
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  • What is that moment?
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  • That is when christ comes and brings down the curtains of
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  • History, and we all who are in christ will receive our
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  • Resurrection bodies.
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  • Remember?
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  • This body's not gonna make it, and then we'll live forever on a
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  • New heaven and a new earth, a whole new creation.
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  • Revelation 21, "i saw a new heaven and a new earth,
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  • The first heaven, the first earth had passed away.
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  • And i saw the holy city, the new jerusalem, coming down
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  • From god, like a bride adorned for her husband."
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  • This is the creation that will come, "a bride adorned for
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  • Her husband."
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  • Let me tell you something, i have never seen a bride that was
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  • Not beautiful; a couple of them barely made it.
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  • But i'm telling you, that is what we're seeing, a new heaven,
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  • A new earth, and creation is groaning right now in the fallen
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  • State in which we find it.
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  • And look at the rest of the verses here about the groaning
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  • Of creation, but it's groaning in, there's our word, hope.
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  • "for the creation was subjected to futility," that's the curse,
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  • "not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope."
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  • Who put the curse on the world?
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  • God did, when adam and eve rebelled and took over their
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  • Own lives.
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  • And therefore, there is a futility in creation today.
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  • See the rest of it.
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  • "because the creation itself also will be delivered from the
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  • Bondage of corruption in the glorious liberty," there's our
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  • Word freedom, "of the children of god.
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  • For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with
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  • Birth pangs together until now."
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  • The world in which we live is a fallen world, and the whole
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  • Creation is groaning, it's crying out of the earth for
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  • Redemption, for a new birth.
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  • And that's what happens when christ comes, we will live here
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  • With our resurrection body in a new heaven and a new earth that
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  • God's gonna bring down for us at that time, just like he created
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  • This earth.
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  • That is the groaning that we hear, all the earth is groaning,
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  • In hope.
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  • What does that hope mean?
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  • An assured future that will be beautiful, and here we see
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  • Groaning and glory working together again.
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  • So we see the creation is groaning in hope for that day,
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  • In the resurrection day.
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  • As we are resurrected, so this world will be resurrected.
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  • That is a fabulous promise that the bible and god gives to us.
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  • Look at the next thing, that not only does the creation groan,
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  • But we groan, you and i groan.
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  • And look, by the way, the latter part, look at verse 22, it says,
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  • "with birth pangs."
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  • In other words, the groaning of creation is like birth pangs.
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  • When your wife was having a baby, you didn't say, "i wanna
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  • Take a picture to show how she looked when she was having
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  • A baby."
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  • No, no, no, no, no, no, that's just the groaning, the pangs of
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  • Birth that paul is talking about here.
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  • We take a picture when that baby is born, in the mother's arm,
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  • And there's a radiance and a glory there that we can't even
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  • Describe, there's not adjectives enough to explain it.
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  • You see, that's the pang that we go through now in creation,
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  • Anticipating for the birth of that new creation, that
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  • Pristine world.
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  • Also, we groan as christians.
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  • "but we also who have the firstfruits of the spirit, even
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  • We ourselves groan within ourselves."
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  • What does that mean?
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  • It means that we have a sample, we have just a sample of the
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  • Glory right now in christ.
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  • We don't have all of it, we have a sample of it, it's just the
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  • Beginning of it, it's just a taste of it.
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  • I like to say it's hors d'oeuvres before the glory that
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  • Is on the way; firstfruits.
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  • And by the way, all the jews would understand that, because
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  • When they had a harvest, the firstfruits they would grow,
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  • They would take it, they would wave it in the air.
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  • That's a wave offering, they'd wave it in the air and that
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  • Would say, "this belongs to god, therefore the whole harvest
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  • Which will yet come belongs to god."
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  • You got it?
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  • Oh, it's a beautiful, beautiful passage there.
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  • "firstfruits of the spirit," all in the holy spirit, "even we
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  • Ourselves groan within, eagerly awaiting," there again that
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  • Tiptoe, "for the adoption."
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  • Wait a minute, we thought we'd already been adopted, hadn't we
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  • Gone through that?
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  • Is paul confused?
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  • He just said we were adopted in the family of god, if you were
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  • Here last week, and we have full right of children, more rights,
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  • Really, than a natural-born son or daughter.
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  • And now he said we are adopted, but look at the rest of the
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  • Phrase, "and the redemption of the body,"
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  • Waiting for the redemption of.
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  • We're already adopted.
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  • In other words, in the bible, there is that, "already," and
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  • There's that, "not yet."
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  • Already we're adopted in the family and we have all the
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  • Privileges here, limited on this earth, but there will be a day
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  • When there will be a resurrection of the body and we
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  • Will be fully adopted.
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  • We will, as paul says in corinthians, we will know as we
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  • Have been known.
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  • Isn't that fabulous?
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  • Know as we have been known.
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  • But in the meantime, we're gonna have some affliction.
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  • Now, also, it tells us, follow me, we know that creation
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  • Groans in hope, for it's gonna happen, sure.
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  • We know that we as christians groan in hope, and the word
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  • Hope is in both those sections.
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  • Now we come, it says the holy spirit groans, wow.
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  • Look at verse 26.
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  • "likewise the spirit also helps in our weaknesses.
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  • For we do not know what we ought to pray,
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  • But the spirit himself makes an intercession for us
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  • With groanings which cannot be endured."
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  • And by the way, the holy spirit groans and rolls up his sleeves.
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  • Did you get that?
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  • Creation groans, hoping for what will come out, new creation; we
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  • Groan, knowing, hoping, confident what's gonna come out,
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  • Our resurrected body; but the holy spirit groans and rolls up
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  • His sleeves.
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  • What am i talking about?
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  • That's the little word helps, the holy spirit groans on our
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  • Behalf and helps us.
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  • Helps is a little bitty word.
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  • Now, don't get blown away; there's a big old greek word,
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  • The greek word is sunantilambanotai, ooh, helps,
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  • It would be sunantilambanotai.
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  • It's a big word, but man, it is one of those, remember i talked
  • 00:15:19.241 --> 00:15:22.945
  • About, pregnant words, we look for it to understand the bible?
  • 00:15:22.945 --> 00:15:26.648
  • You find those big words.
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  • Sun means with, anti means on the other side, lambanotai means
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  • To take hold of.
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  • What's this all about?
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  • It says we don't know how to pray, we're not good prayers, we
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  • Don't know what to say, we're not sure it's gonna get through.
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  • But the holy spirit comes, and goes on the other side where we
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  • Are, and with us, he takes hold
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  • Of, sun, when we pray, that which we're praying about.
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  • I don't want to confuse you.
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  • Sun, with.
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  • Now, goes on the other side, the holy spirit goes right where we
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  • Are, right where we're praying about, right where we're
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  • Concerned about, right where we're jonesing about, right
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  • Where we want leadership about, and it takes hold of us, and the
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  • Holy spirit prays when we don't know how to pray.
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  • You say, "well, i know how to pray."
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  • No, we don't.
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  • Man, if god had answered my prayer, i would be married when
  • 00:16:23.405 --> 00:16:26.775
  • I was a teenager to a totally different girl.
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  • Thank god he didn't answer that prayer.
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  • I can tell you a lot of stupid, foolish, cursory prayers i've
  • 00:16:34.149 --> 00:16:39.354
  • Uttered, and they were absolutely ridiculous in the
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  • Light of what i know now.
  • 00:16:42.691 --> 00:16:45.461
  • So when we're praying, and a lot of times, in a crisis time, in a
  • 00:16:45.461 --> 00:16:48.664
  • Time of indecision, we just don't know how to pray and we're
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  • Afraid we'll say it wrong.
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  • Don't worry about it, because if we're in christ, the holy spirit
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  • Comes over on the other side where we are, with our mumbling
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  • And our groaning and our not knowing how to pray, and he
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  • Takes hold of us and he makes the right intercession to
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  • The father.
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  • The holy spirit takes our word, and with groanings, our
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  • Groanings, he takes our groanings and they go up to
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  • Jesus christ, who's at the right hand of god, and jesus christ
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  • Interprets them to the father.
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  • What does the holy spirit do when you and i pray?
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  • The holy spirit prays for you and i the prayer that, follow me
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  • Carefully, we would pray if we knew everything god knows.
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  • Did you get that?
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  • That's so big you ought to jump up and down and say, "i get it,
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  • I get it."
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  • If we knew everything god knows, man, how we'd know how to pray,
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  • Wouldn't we?
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  • That's what the holy spirit does for us, that's that big old
  • 00:17:53.529 --> 00:17:56.598
  • Pregnant word, sunantilambanotai, takes hold of
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  • Us, the holy spirit prays for us.
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  • And that is so thrilling to me, that is so magnificent to me.
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  • We don't know how to pray, but the holy spirit groans, and he
  • 00:18:09.611 --> 00:18:13.315
  • Rolls up his sleeve and said, "don't worry about it, i've got
  • 00:18:13.315 --> 00:18:16.752
  • It, you're in my family," and he takes that petition to god.
  • 00:18:16.752 --> 00:18:21.623
  • You say, "does prayer change god?"
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  • No, prayer changes circumstances, yes, and we are
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  • To pray with importunity, that means we pray and we pray and
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  • We pray.
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  • We say, "well, i don't believe god is paying attention."
  • 00:18:37.739 --> 00:18:39.741
  • No, we pray and we pray, and 1 thessalonians 4 tells us to pray
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  • Without ceasing.
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  • How do you do that?
  • 00:18:46.848 --> 00:18:48.283
  • It means all the time, and i don't wanna be super pious with
  • 00:18:48.283 --> 00:18:52.854
  • You, i can be laughing or doing a lot of things and there's just
  • 00:18:52.854 --> 00:18:56.124
  • A sense of prayer.
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  • You know, "lord, be with me."
  • 00:18:58.493 --> 00:19:00.128
  • I don't utter it always, just, "help, god, this man, this
  • 00:19:00.128 --> 00:19:03.932
  • Situation, this woman, this couple, this life, help me right
  • 00:19:03.932 --> 00:19:06.969
  • Now to get through this."
  • 00:19:06.969 --> 00:19:08.337
  • I mean, we just breathe these little prayers constantly, not
  • 00:19:08.337 --> 00:19:12.241
  • With a pious whine, but we just pray confidently, and it's sort
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  • Of an unceasing.
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  • This is a part of him being the center of your life and my life.
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  • And sometimes, someday, it'll become so natural, you won't
  • 00:19:24.419 --> 00:19:27.389
  • Even think about it.
  • 00:19:27.389 --> 00:19:29.224
  • I was looking at this passage, i say, "you know what?
  • 00:19:29.224 --> 00:19:31.360
  • Well, that's what i'm doing, that's that spirit that's
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  • Within us."
  • 00:19:33.395 --> 00:19:35.197
  • And so we know that we pray, and we remember to whom we
  • 00:19:35.197 --> 00:19:39.468
  • Are praying.
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  • All these people, "oh god, i command you, in the name
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  • Of jesus."
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  • That is so blasphemous, it's just hard to me to handle.
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  • Man, who are we talking to?
  • 00:19:53.348 --> 00:19:56.718
  • Man, who are we listening for?
  • 00:19:56.718 --> 00:20:00.422
  • We lose the awe and the fear of god, ladies and gentlemen,
  • 00:20:00.422 --> 00:20:05.027
  • You've lost everything.
  • 00:20:05.027 --> 00:20:07.462
  • So we are to pray without ceasing, and we're to listen
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  • When we pray.
  • 00:20:10.999 --> 00:20:12.367
  • And then we know that god will come and take all of our
  • 00:20:12.367 --> 00:20:16.872
  • Mumblings, and with the groaning of the holy spirit, to the
  • 00:20:16.872 --> 00:20:20.075
  • Heavenly father, our prayers will have, if we are
  • 00:20:20.075 --> 00:20:24.046
  • Righteous folks.
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  • You know, i'll say, the effective prayer of a fervent,
  • 00:20:25.914 --> 00:20:29.184
  • Righteous man or woman is powerful.
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  • If somebody is just slopping through this life, their prayers
  • 00:20:32.521 --> 00:20:36.992
  • Doesn't mean a hill of beans.
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  • We want people who are praying and living a righteous life; not
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  • Perfect, somebody who is living that kind of life, knowing
  • 00:20:43.532 --> 00:20:48.303
  • They're filled with the spirit, knowing they're not perfect, but
  • 00:20:48.303 --> 00:20:51.239
  • Living that kind of life.
  • 00:20:51.239 --> 00:20:52.607
  • That's the kind of people i want praying for me and praying for
  • 00:20:52.607 --> 00:20:55.310
  • You and praying for our world.
  • 00:20:55.310 --> 00:20:58.880
  • So prayer is a powerful thing, it is a thrilling thing.
  • 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:04.653
  • And by the way, you don't have to pray all day with, "oh dear
  • 00:21:04.653 --> 00:21:08.323
  • Heavenly father, all-righteous, omnipotent one who dwells."
  • 00:21:08.323 --> 00:21:12.227
  • No, no, no, don't quote scripture to god, he already
  • 00:21:12.227 --> 00:21:15.597
  • Knows all of it, did you know that?
  • 00:21:15.597 --> 00:21:19.801
  • The desert fathers, you need to read them.
  • 00:21:19.801 --> 00:21:23.004
  • Man, these godly men and women of another age locked themselves
  • 00:21:23.004 --> 00:21:27.275
  • Up in the desert of egypt, and they lived there for decade
  • 00:21:27.275 --> 00:21:31.179
  • After decade, and they prayed.
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  • And you read their writings and they said they learned how to
  • 00:21:33.448 --> 00:21:36.385
  • Pray short little prayers, short little sincere prayers.
  • 00:21:36.385 --> 00:21:42.858
  • Don't worry about all the verbiage, all the piousity, just
  • 00:21:42.858 --> 00:21:48.563
  • Wait and talk.
  • 00:21:48.563 --> 00:21:51.133
  • Those prayers, reveal your heart, your emptiness.
  • 00:21:51.133 --> 00:21:54.703
  • Prayer is getting naked before god, and the holy spirit takes
  • 00:21:54.703 --> 00:22:00.542
  • That, and boy, he just lets it takes wings, and takes our
  • 00:22:00.542 --> 00:22:05.080
  • Little mumbling groaning prayers, that's what the holy
  • 00:22:05.080 --> 00:22:07.649
  • Spirit does.
  • 00:22:07.649 --> 00:22:08.984
  • And then, look at the end of this, it says that leads us to
  • 00:22:08.984 --> 00:22:11.920
  • God's will, and next week i'm gonna talk about god's will.
  • 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:16.258
  • That's our subject, how do you know god's will, god's plan for
  • 00:22:16.258 --> 00:22:18.860
  • Your life, my life, now and whatever stage of life we're in?
  • 00:22:18.860 --> 00:22:24.266
  • And see how fabulous this is for us.
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  • Groanings, a prelude to glory, and there's no comparison.
  • 00:22:28.236 --> 00:22:33.608
  • And we know that the creation groans, boy, but in hope of
  • 00:22:33.608 --> 00:22:38.780
  • There's going to be a new heaven and a new earth, hope meaning
  • 00:22:38.780 --> 00:22:41.850
  • The confidence that that will be.
  • 00:22:41.850 --> 00:22:44.419
  • And we know, also, that we groan as christians, but we know the
  • 00:22:44.419 --> 00:22:48.256
  • Groaning is just a foretaste of the glory that we'll have
  • 00:22:48.256 --> 00:22:53.595
  • Somewhat here on this earth and we'll have the full expanse of
  • 00:22:53.595 --> 00:22:57.532
  • It in heaven when he comes.
  • 00:22:57.532 --> 00:23:00.602
  • And then the holy spirit groans, the holy spirit groans on our
  • 00:23:00.602 --> 00:23:05.774
  • Behalf and causes you and me to pray the prayer that we would
  • 00:23:05.774 --> 00:23:11.480
  • Pray if we knew everything god knows.
  • 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:17.018
  • In the dutch section of indiana, there's a man named billy brown.
  • 00:23:17.018 --> 00:23:24.860
  • He was a giant of a man; humble, successful, beloved, middle of
  • 00:23:24.860 --> 00:23:33.768
  • The church, powerful, everybody loved billy.
  • 00:23:33.768 --> 00:23:39.708
  • I mean, everybody loved him; generous.
  • 00:23:39.708 --> 00:23:42.777
  • He was a personal witness for jesus christ, he just lived it
  • 00:23:42.777 --> 00:23:47.282
  • And he explained it and he called people to faith in the
  • 00:23:47.282 --> 00:23:51.152
  • Best kind of way.
  • 00:23:51.152 --> 00:23:52.888
  • And everybody loved billy.
  • 00:23:52.888 --> 00:23:55.590
  • When he died, he left specific instructions for what his wife
  • 00:23:55.590 --> 00:24:02.631
  • And family was to do.
  • 00:24:02.631 --> 00:24:03.965
  • He said, "i want to be placed in the church in the casket, i want
  • 00:24:03.965 --> 00:24:07.335
  • The casket to be open," and he told the suit that he wanted to
  • 00:24:07.335 --> 00:24:10.005
  • Have on.
  • 00:24:10.005 --> 00:24:11.506
  • And he said, also, "i want you to put a fork in my hand,"
  • 00:24:11.506 --> 00:24:14.376
  • A fork.
  • 00:24:14.376 --> 00:24:17.712
  • And so his wife and family knew what that meant, but billy knew
  • 00:24:17.712 --> 00:24:22.717
  • That people would come by, all the city, and a lot of them he
  • 00:24:22.717 --> 00:24:25.854
  • Hadn't shared christ with, he said when they saw that fork in
  • 00:24:25.854 --> 00:24:28.957
  • His hands, they would ask, "what is that?"
  • 00:24:28.957 --> 00:24:34.195
  • And he said, "this will be a chance for me to witness when
  • 00:24:34.195 --> 00:24:38.767
  • I've already graduated, because," he said, "that fork
  • 00:24:38.767 --> 00:24:44.539
  • Will point them to what my life has been all about."
  • 00:24:44.539 --> 00:24:51.012
  • And so, sure enough, countless hundreds of people came by,
  • 00:24:51.012 --> 00:24:54.883
  • Because billy was a big, giant, powerful man, and they all asked
  • 00:24:54.883 --> 00:24:58.720
  • About the fork, and they had a chance to tell everybody who
  • 00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:02.591
  • Asked, "billy just wanted you to know that he's
  • 00:25:02.591 --> 00:25:09.397
  • Having dessert."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor ed: have you ever tried to read a historical novel out
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  • Of order?
  • 00:25:19.941 --> 00:25:21.276
  • It would be hard if not impossible to understand the
  • 00:25:21.276 --> 00:25:23.878
  • Plot, wouldn't it?
  • 00:25:23.878 --> 00:25:25.513
  • And yet we read and study the bible in much the same way.
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  • Like a novel, the bible tells a story with a beginning,
  • 00:25:28.516 --> 00:25:31.987
  • A middle, and end, and when you read in chronological order, you
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  • Will see history unfold in a new and understandable and
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  • Memorable way.
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  • Listen, in this new year, i want to challenge you to read through
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  • The bible in 52 weeks.
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  • When you give "the winning walk," this month, we want to
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  • To read each day, at the end of 52 weeks, you will know and
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  • Understand like never before the full story of the bible.
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  • Pastor ed: what is the greatest chapter in the bible?
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  • When you consider that there are 66 books in the bible, selecting
  • 00:26:20.268 --> 00:26:24.706
  • A single chapter, one to designate as the greatest is a
  • 00:26:24.706 --> 00:26:29.377
  • Difficult task.
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  • A lot of people have different opinions, but romans 8, in my
  • 00:26:31.513 --> 00:26:34.449
  • Opinion, is the goat chapter, the greatest of all time.
  • 00:26:34.449 --> 00:26:38.987
  • It covers just 39 verses, but it's the abcs of christianity.
  • 00:26:38.987 --> 00:26:44.192
  • Where romans 7 shows us what happens when we try to live the
  • 00:26:44.192 --> 00:26:47.862
  • Christian life by our own power, romans 8 gives us the divine
  • 00:26:47.862 --> 00:26:52.967
  • Formula for living life as god plans, as god intends.
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  • It tells us what it means to receive christ, to be in christ,
  • 00:26:58.540 --> 00:27:02.610
  • And it explains what it looks like to live a successful,
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  • Victorious life walking with the lord.
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  • Now, as we study this great chapter together, i trust that
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  • These messages will encourage you and strengthen you in your
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  • Daily walk with the lord.
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  • ♪♪♪
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