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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Leaving A Legacy | June 21, 2026
- Parents, fathers,
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- We need to make sure our kids understand
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- That god has a plan for their life.
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- He has a design for their life.
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- He has a purpose for their life.
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- And when they need to hear that from us all the time
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- As they are growing up in our homes, god
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- Has something special for you because you are special to god.
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- See, that's that mantle, that's that call that's upon
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- All of our children.
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- What will be.
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- Your legacy, dad?
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- What will be your legacy?
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- Everybody has a legacy.
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- So the question is that what will be
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- Your legacy?
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- It's frightening to think about a legacy.
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- We all have one.
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- And as we look at god's man elijah,
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- We see what a legacy he had.
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- And we have to understand, you say that's far out of range
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- For me.
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- Not so, because james has already told us
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- Elijah was human like everybody else.
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- We looked at elijah
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- As he came out of the cave on sinai.
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- He was trying to get a word from the lord,
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- And he thought surely god would be in the wind.
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- God didn't say a word in the wind.
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- Surely god would be in the earthquake.
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- I mean, if god
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- Doesn't speak in an earthquake, when is he going to speak?
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- Or surely god would be in fire.
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- Elijah had seen that time and time again in his life,
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- But god did not speak through
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- Those supernatural events.
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- He spoke in a still small voice.
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- He whispered,
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- It's almost like god was saying to elijah.
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- Sometimes i speak in the dramatic,
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- But most of the time i speak quietly
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- In your heart, in your mind, in your perception.
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- And what did god say to elijah?
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- He said, i'm not finished with you yet.
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- Get up.
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- Elijah.
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- You thought this was the end.
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- You went through despair and despondency and depression.
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- But get up, elijah.
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- And he sent elijah to the wilderness of damascus,
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- Where he commissioned some individuals who would
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- Become king.
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- But primarily he sent him to set aside
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- To call a man by the name of elisha.
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- And he found elisha plowing some oxen in the field.
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- And elijah went over to him and took off his mantle,
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- His cloak, and put it on young
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- Elisha, sweating there in the fields.
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- And elijah looked at the mantle.
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- Understood.
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- That was a call of god to be elijah's protégé,
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- Successor, son.
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- And he went and slaughtered some of the oxen
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- As a sacrifice.
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- And for the next ten years, elijah and elisha
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- Were like father, like son.
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- And all of the ministry.
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- And now we
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- Come to the last 24 hours in the life of elijah.
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- And it's interesting how he spent his time.
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- Evidently he was vibrant.
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- He was healthy.
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- And look what he did.
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- Second kings chapter two.
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- And it came about when the lord was about to take up
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- Elijah by a whirlwind to heaven,
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- That elijah went with elijah from gilgal.
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- And then look at verse three.
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- They go to bethel.
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- Look at verse four.
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- They go to jericho and then look over in verse six.
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- They go to the jordan.
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- What is that all about?
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- I called it elijah's legacy tour.
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- He's got 24 hours to live.
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- These are four areas that are right down at
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- The bottom of the jordan river.
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- If you can see a map of israel.
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- You see the dead sea right now in the bottom of the jordan,
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- Close to where jesus was baptized, incidentally.
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- And you have these little communities.
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- You have gilgal.
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- There was a school of prophets there, perhaps
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- Established by samuel, but sort of rekindled by elijah.
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- And so, first of all, they went to gilgal.
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- And in gilgal we can imagine elijah spoke
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- To those young men who were there
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- Who would be learning about the things of god.
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- And in the process there, he says, god has called me
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- To leave gilgal and go on to bethel.
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- Now gilgal.
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- Why do you think he went there?
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- If you know your bible, gilgal pops in your mind.
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- That was the place of beginning when the israelites
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- Came out of the wilderness and they crossed the jordan.
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- They were at gilgal.
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- That's where the men were circumcised
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- As a reinstitute of the covenant with god.
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- That's where joshua took the troops and develop them.
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- And perhaps that was a central headquarters
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- Of the army of israel for about four years.
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- And they went out from gilgal,
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- And they conquered canaan.
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- It was there they prayed.
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- It was there. they prepared. it's there.
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- There they had strategy.
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- It was a place of beginning.
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- Why would elijah go to jail?
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- Got to speak to the school of the prophets, to be sure,
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- But also to remind elisha
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- Of the first steps of his people, saying,
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- Remember the history of god's people and
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- How god has worked in your life and in my life.
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- And then they went from gilgal.
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- They went to bethel.
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- Second stop bethel.
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- Bethel means house of god.
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- What happened? bethel.
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- That's where abraham builds an altar, by the way.
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- Study abraham and lot.
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- You'll notice that abraham built an altar and pitched
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- His tent lot, built his tent, and just pitched his altar.
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- By the way, is that what you do?
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- Boy, i'm building my tent.
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- My business, my life, my house, my stuff, my thing.
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- I just pitch my altar.
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- Look what happened a lot.
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- Look what happened.
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- Abraham, you need to build your altar
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- And just fit your tent.
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- And so he took him there, and he.
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- Imagine. he explained to him.
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- He said, elijah, you know, i've built an altar.
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- Their career.
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- Remember the bubbling brook? remember?
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- And i built altar there.
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- And i learned how to depend on god.
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- And he said, i built an altered path.
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- And i learned how to be obedient to god.
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- And so miracles take place.
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- He built an altar.
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- He was reminding elijah to build
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- An altar every step of the way.
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- And then he went to jericho.
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- What is jericho? that's the place of battle.
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- I met you said.
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- You know, i've known some battles, elijah.
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- He was reminding him, recalling working through his mind.
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- He said,
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- I had a battle on mount carmel with all those pagan priest.
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- He said i had a bigger battle in my own heart
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- And life in bear sheba.
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- When i went through the valley of deep, deep depression.
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- I understand conflict,
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- And he took him, that is, reminding him of the victory
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- Of god's people when the walls came down.
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- There will be battles in your life.
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- There'll be battles there.
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- Then you took him to jordan.
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- That's where he was going to be taken up into heaven.
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- He would say, you're going to learn to die to yourself.
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- There has to be a self death before you're ready to live.
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- The calling of god isn't boy.
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- What can i do? what can i get out of it?
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- How can i be important? what will this come?
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- What will happen to me?
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- But a selfless kind of service.
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- That was the call that he was laying on him.
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- Now, this was a little heritage tour.
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- You see it?
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- This is where we started.
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- First steps.
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- This is you learn how to talk to god.
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- Bethel to pray.
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- You're that battles in your life, elijah.
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- And certainly, as we have time of death
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- In your life, so you can truly serve
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- And be free to serve and live for the lord.
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- Now, interesting thing here in this little
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- Heritage tour, you have
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- Ilija saying something to elijah three different times.
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- Listen to this.
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- Elijah said to elijah.
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- Verse two
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- Stay here, please, for the lord has sent me as far as bethel.
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- But elisha said, as the lord lives,
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- And as you yourself live, i will not leave you.
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- So they went down to bethel.
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- That happened every time
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- They were at gilgal.
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- They were bethel.
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- They were jericho.
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- Every time elijah said,
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- You don't have to go any further than this, elijah.
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- You stay right here.
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- Elijah said, let me tell you something.
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- I'm going to stick with you.
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- He told elijah, elijah, you don't have to go anywhere.
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- What was he doing?
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- He was testing elijah.
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- He said, elijah, you'd stop here at gilgal,
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- Take the first steps of faith.
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- Remember, that's all you need.
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- Take care of this school of prophets.
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- He said, no, i'm going with you.
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- Well, you you go to bethel, learn how to pray.
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- Oh, no, i'm going on.
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- Well, we go to jericho.
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- There can be a battle. oh, no, i'm going on.
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- You're going with me all the way across jordan?
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- Yes, i'm going the full way with you.
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- You see, elisha was picking up
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- Upon his heritage upon that which was his.
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- Then we have the wonderful picture of crossing jordan.
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- A powerful, powerful story.
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- Listen to it. verse seven,
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- Now 50 men
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- Of the sons of the prophets witness to it
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- Opposite them at a distance, while the two of them stood
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- By jordan, and elijah took his mantle,
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- Folded together, struck the waters,
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- And they were divided here and there,
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- So that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
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- And when they crossed over, elijah said to elisha,
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- Ask what i shall do for you before i am taken from you.
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- And elisha said,
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- Please give me a double portion of your spirit upon me.
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- Let me see. let me get you to see this.
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- They're crossing jordan.
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- He takes his mantle.
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- Bang pops the water they walk through on the other side.
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- Out, out of god's land.
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- This is a picture we get by the way of death.
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- We talk about crossing jordan.
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- That's it.
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- Crossing jordan.
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- And they walk over on the other side.
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- And when they're there, elijah looks at
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- Elisha and says, what can i do for you?
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- I'm about to be taken up to heaven.
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- What can i do for you?
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- And elijah, i think, shocks elijah.
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- He said, i want twice
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- Of the power of god that you've had in your life.
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- I want to be a double portion guy.
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- Marriage is one of god's greatest gifts.
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- You might say, next to the gift of our salvation, christ.
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- It's number one.
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- But let's be honest, it also brings real challenges.
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- Every couple of face disagreements, miscommunication
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- Or financial pressure, family tensions, and seasons
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- Of frustration in the whole area of marriage.
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- You know, saying that if you're married, left unchecked,
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- Those struggles can slowly erode into
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- Even a marriage that should be great.
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- Into a marriage, that's just okay.
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- But that does not have to be your story.
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- In the ten commandments of marriage,
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- I share biblical truth, practical wisdom,
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- And a little humor drawn from more than 50
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- Years of ministry and marriage experience.
- 00:12:41.372 --> 00:12:44.309
- These ten timeless principles are designed to help husbands
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- And wives protect what matters most and strengthen
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- That relationship, and build a marriage
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- Based on love and joy, and a lasting commitment
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- That's filled with laughter and pleasure and excitement.
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- Listen, god never intended marriage to be.
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- Let's just survive and hang on.
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- He attended it to sing and to thrive.
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- Listen, if you really want a healthier,
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- Christ centered marriage that still has warmth, passion,
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- And purpose, these ten commandments of marriage
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- Is just for you.
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- Call them on your screen or visit the website below
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- To regress your copy of the ten commandments of marriage.
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- Do it today.
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- Let me tell you something.
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- I like elisha's request.
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- I like that as this young protege,
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- He knew that his god
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- Was a big god.
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- I want you to see the answer to this, the response
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- To this.
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- It's interesting.
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- Elijah said, you have asked a hard thing.
- 00:14:04.589 --> 00:14:07.125
- Well, that's
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- Elijah has had a pretty dramatic career, has he not?
- 00:14:08.226 --> 00:14:11.429
- He said, you've asked a hard thing.
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- Nevertheless, if you see me
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- When i am taken from you, it shall be so for you.
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- But if not, it shall not be so.
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- In other words,
- 00:14:22.540 --> 00:14:23.708
- Elijah saying,
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- Elijah, i can't give you this double portion of everything
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- I've had that's not mine to give.
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- God can do it.
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- But i tell you what, if you see me
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- When i take it up into heaven, then you're going to be a
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- Double portion man.
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- Now, i want you to
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- Listen to the scripture
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- Now, when this happens, because they on
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- The other side of the jordan, i love the little phrase here.
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- It says verse 11.
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- And they were going along and talking, just walking
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- Elijah and elijah.
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- Behold, there
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- Appear to chariot of fire and horses
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- Of fire, which separated the two of them.
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- And elijah went up by a whirlwind to heaven.
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- Verse 12, elijah's sword and cried out, my father,
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- My father, the chariots of israel and its horsemen.
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- And he saw elijah no more.
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- Then he took
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- Hold of his own clothes and tore them into pieces.
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- What was happening?
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- They were walking along, and elisha did see elijah
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- When the chariots of fire and the horses of fire
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- Took him all the way up into heaven.
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- In that whirlwind,
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- Wonderful, dramatic moment.
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- You thought kamal was dramatic.
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- What about this moment?
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- And elijah's tang is closing, saying, my father,
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- My father, and he's grieving the
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- The graduation of elijah.
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- Let me tell you something.
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- When a man or woman of god leaves this earth,
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- Nothing of god is lost.
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- Nothing of god is lost.
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- There are those in the wings there, those ready there,
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- Those prepared to stand up and be there.
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- How important it is.
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- We understand that.
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- I'm privileged to have some elijah's in my life, jim below,
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- And others.
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- I'm privileged to have elijah's in my life.
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- We all need an elegy.
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- We all need elisha's, who will stand with us and encourage us
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- And speak
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- The truth to us in love and be with us at those moments.
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- And now we know that elijah was there
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- For elijah, and he's grieving the graduation.
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- But then we see a dramatic thing happens.
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- We see the heritage, the inheritance
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- Of what elijah leads elisha.
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- What was
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- Ilias inheritance from elijah?
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- We see it in the following verses.
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- Look at it first.
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- 13 he also took the mantle of elijah
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- That fell from him, and returned and stood
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- By the bank of the jordan.
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- He took the mantle of elijah that fell from him
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- And struck the waters and said,
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- Where is the lord, the god of elijah?
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- And when he had struck the waters,
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- They were divided here and there, and elisha crossed over.
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- Verse 15.
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- Now when the sons of the prophets who were at jericho,
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- Out to him, saw him, they said, the spirit of elijah
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- Rest on elijah.
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- What happened here?
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- It is the legacy.
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- It is what elijah leads. elijah.
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- What is it? he leaves him his mantle.
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- Who? whirlwind.
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- Elijah is caught up fire.
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- Horses, chariots.
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- He's gone and everything is blowing around.
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- And elijah is mourning the graduation of elijah.
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- But he looks over there in a bush.
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- He says, what is that?
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- What is that?
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- Well, that's his mantle.
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- His mantle, the mantle that he put over me
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- When i was called there
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- Ten years ago.
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- The mantle of his office indicated that
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- He was a prophet.
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- Now, elijah had a choice.
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- He could have looked at the mantle
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- And said, man, that old thing.
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- I don't want any of that.
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- He could have gone over and got the mantle,
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- The cloak, out of the bush and looked at it and says,
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- You know, i'm going to be my own man.
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- I'm not going to just be what elijah was.
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- I'm my own man. but he didn't.
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- He got that mantle.
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- He picked it up and he put it on.
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- In other
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- Words, he understood what elijah was telling him.
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- He had the call of god upon him.
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- Parents, fathers, we need to make sure our kids understand
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- That god has a plan for their life.
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- He has a design for their life.
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- He has a purpose for their life.
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- And when they need to hear that from us all the time
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- As they are growing up in our homes, god
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- Has something special for you because you are special to god.
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- See, that's that mantle, that's that call that's upon
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- All of our children.
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- And we see the mantle was picked up
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- And put on the back of elisha, and he went over to the river,
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- And he struck the river, and the river divided.
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- He said, where is the god of elijah
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- And all the prophets were looking at
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- Is that he's right there with elisha?
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- It's not the power is not in the mantle.
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- It's the god that elijah worship is
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- The god that elijah will serve and follow.
- 00:19:45.363 --> 00:19:48.366
- What? what did he leave him?
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- He left his mantle and he left him his god.
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- And he built that relationship with him.
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- Now, what did elisha ask for?
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- A double portion study the life of elisha.
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- And you know what? you'll find out.
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- He served the lord twice the amount of years
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- That elijah served him. did you know that?
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- How many miracles did elijah perform?
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- Eight. eight miracles.
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- How many miracles do you think elisha perform?
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- Anybody want to guess?
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- 16 and you study elisha.
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- You see that he was had more compassion than elijah.
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- His miracles were compassionate.
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- Miracles not dramatic.
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- So much like elijah.
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- You see, he had more wisdom than elijah.
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- You study elijah's life.
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- He's not his famous and well known as elijah
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- In biblical circles, but he was a double portion
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- Man, doubly blessed, doubly used by god.
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- Amazing isn't it?
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- The legacy that he was left.
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- How important is today?
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- People trying to enhance bill change their legacy?
- 00:21:00.771 --> 00:21:04.642
- But dad, the time to start is now.
- 00:21:04.642 --> 00:21:07.178
- You say, well, it's too late. no it's not.
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- Start where you and are now and say, i'm
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- Going to be a man of god.
- 00:21:12.483 --> 00:21:13.884
- I want my kids, my grandkids.
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- I know they have
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- The call of god on their life, and i want them to know
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- The lord as i am seeking now to know and serve the lord.
- 00:21:20.391 --> 00:21:24.895
- What will your legacy be, dad?
- 00:21:24.895 --> 00:21:28.265
- You say, well, i'm going to leave some money.
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- I'm going to give this to my kids.
- 00:21:30.167 --> 00:21:32.002
- The important thing is not what we give to our kids.
- 00:21:32.002 --> 00:21:35.172
- It's what we pour into our kids of time,
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- Of love, of listening, of encouragement,
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- Of being there, of embracing,
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- Of mentoring and modeling.
- 00:21:48.619 --> 00:21:52.156
- That's your legacy.
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- Not what you give to them.
- 00:21:54.625 --> 00:21:55.993
- Not what you leave to them is what you pour into them
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- From yourself and from your heart of hearts.
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- Some of you will remember
- 00:22:05.269 --> 00:22:07.538
- A movie that has come and gone, mr.
- 00:22:07.538 --> 00:22:10.307
- Holland's opus.
- 00:22:10.307 --> 00:22:13.244
- How many of you remember have seen it or heard of it?
- 00:22:13.244 --> 00:22:15.746
- Yeah yeah yeah.
- 00:22:15.746 --> 00:22:17.014
- Have a long time. i don't
- 00:22:17.014 --> 00:22:18.416
- Agree with a lot of stuff that was in the movie.
- 00:22:18.416 --> 00:22:21.352
- Richard dreyfuss was the star, but the theme was fabulous.
- 00:22:21.352 --> 00:22:25.556
- You remember that mr.
- 00:22:26.056 --> 00:22:27.892
- Holland had in his mind and ability.
- 00:22:27.892 --> 00:22:31.128
- He wanted to write an opus, a musical.
- 00:22:31.128 --> 00:22:34.231
- He wanted to write
- 00:22:34.231 --> 00:22:35.299
- A piece of music as a musician that would be powerful,
- 00:22:35.299 --> 00:22:39.136
- That would express all the music he felt
- 00:22:39.136 --> 00:22:42.173
- In his heart and mind and soul.
- 00:22:42.173 --> 00:22:45.443
- But he was having trouble getting it down.
- 00:22:45.443 --> 00:22:48.179
- So he thought in the interim he would take a job as a public
- 00:22:48.179 --> 00:22:52.149
- School music teacher
- 00:22:52.149 --> 00:22:53.751
- In a little underprivileged section of a city, he said,
- 00:22:53.751 --> 00:22:57.488
- I'll just sign up for a year while i'm writing my opus.
- 00:22:57.488 --> 00:23:01.258
- And he signed up for one year, two years,
- 00:23:01.258 --> 00:23:03.861
- And finally ten, 15, 20 years go by
- 00:23:03.861 --> 00:23:06.564
- And they defund the arts and the music in this school.
- 00:23:06.564 --> 00:23:11.902
- And now mr. holland is an old man
- 00:23:11.902 --> 00:23:15.606
- And he has to retire.
- 00:23:16.106 --> 00:23:19.210
- And he goes, he's picking up his stuff and his
- 00:23:19.210 --> 00:23:21.645
- Little classroom thinking, my life has been a failure.
- 00:23:21.645 --> 00:23:25.516
- I want to write this wonderful opus,
- 00:23:26.283 --> 00:23:28.486
- This musical piece that would just go on and on.
- 00:23:28.486 --> 00:23:31.589
- But man, i, i've just taught kids all these years.
- 00:23:31.589 --> 00:23:36.293
- And as he's walking out the door,
- 00:23:36.293 --> 00:23:39.029
- Defeated, broken,
- 00:23:39.463 --> 00:23:41.699
- Feel like he'd thrown his life away, the principal comes over
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- And says, mr.
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- Holland, would you step into the
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- Auditorium with me for a moment?
- 00:23:47.905 --> 00:23:49.473
- He said, no. oh, yeah.
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- So he walks in
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- And the auditorium is filled.
- 00:23:53.911 --> 00:23:57.014
- Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of his former
- 00:23:57.014 --> 00:23:59.416
- Students, now grown, now with families.
- 00:23:59.416 --> 00:24:02.620
- And he walks in and they cheer and they applaud
- 00:24:02.620 --> 00:24:05.523
- And they stand up and they cry, and
- 00:24:05.523 --> 00:24:08.092
- And the governor of the state
- 00:24:08.092 --> 00:24:09.460
- And all kinds of people in different vocation,
- 00:24:09.460 --> 00:24:11.929
- They stand up and give witness to what mr.
- 00:24:11.929 --> 00:24:14.832
- Holland had meant to him, and teaching them to love music,
- 00:24:14.832 --> 00:24:18.536
- Appreciate music, to sing and to know something about music.
- 00:24:18.536 --> 00:24:21.805
- There was an emotional time, a fabulous time.
- 00:24:21.805 --> 00:24:26.277
- What is a thesis?
- 00:24:26.710 --> 00:24:28.746
- Mr. holland looked around that packed, packed auditorium
- 00:24:28.746 --> 00:24:32.683
- And he thought, here he is, my opus.
- 00:24:32.683 --> 00:24:37.755
- It's all these students.
- 00:24:38.289 --> 00:24:40.691
- That's my legacy.
- 00:24:40.691 --> 00:24:42.860
- How powerful, how meaningful,
- 00:24:42.860 --> 00:24:45.296
- How significant. dad!
- 00:24:45.296 --> 00:24:50.801
- Look at your kids tonight before you tuck them in
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- And pray with them and tell them a story.
- 00:24:56.206 --> 00:25:01.712
- Because i can tell you,
- 00:25:02.212 --> 00:25:05.015
- Your sons and your daughters and your grandsons
- 00:25:05.015 --> 00:25:08.252
- And your granddaughters, that is your
- 00:25:08.252 --> 00:25:13.190
- Opus.
- 00:25:13.190 --> 00:25:17.995
- Marriages today face more pressures than ever.
- 00:25:18.896 --> 00:25:22.032
- Many couples live
- 00:25:22.032 --> 00:25:23.500
- With stress, disappointment, distance and discouragement,
- 00:25:23.500 --> 00:25:27.338
- Wondering if the joy they want shared can ever return.
- 00:25:27.338 --> 00:25:31.275
- But god's design for marriage has not changed.
- 00:25:31.275 --> 00:25:34.878
- In doctor young's the ten commandments of marriage,
- 00:25:34.878 --> 00:25:38.449
- You'll find practical biblical principles that can help
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- Transform your relationship from the inside out.
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- Whether you've been married for months or decades,
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- These truths can help you communicate better, grow closer
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- Spiritually, resolve conflict in a healthy way,
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- And to rediscover the love that first brought you together.
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- A strong marriage doesn't happen by accident.
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- It grows when a husband and wife choose
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- To build their relationship god's way with christ.
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- At the center of your home,
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- There is always hope, healing, and a path forward.
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- If you want to strengthen your marriage and build
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- A relationship that honors god and blesses your family.
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- The ten commandments of marriage is for you.
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- Call the number on your screen or visit the website below to
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- Request your copy today.
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- Parents, fathers, dads
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- Have the power to influence lives in ways
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- That we may never understand, that we never fully comprehend.
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- Through encouragement, discipline, example, and love,
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- A dad help shape the next generation.
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- So today we honor our dads, our fathers
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- And father figures everywhere.
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- Thank you for every sacrifice, every prayer, every lesson,
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- Your influence matters more than you know.
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- Be real and genuine.
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- Be that dad that god has called
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- You and called me to become.
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