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Ed Young - Led By The Spirit

May 20, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - Led By The Spirit
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 - Led By The Spirit | May 20, 2026
  • If those who fly an airplane
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  • And many of you know about that, the big planes
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  • Now they can take off and fly and land on autopilot.
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  • They generally do not do that unless it's rough weather,
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  • And then they know
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  • That autopilot will see turbulence
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  • And see all the problems that are there.
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  • When we come to god in jesus christ, the holy spirit
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  • Comes in your life, in my life, and we're on autopilot now.
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  • The pilot is still there.
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  • He can still override the autopilot
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  • And most of the flight.
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  • He does some of that.
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  • It's not usually from takeoff to flight to landing.
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  • Everything's autopilot.
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  • But that's a wonderful thing to know that the holy spirit
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  • In your life, in my life, will guide us and bring us
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  • Safely, now and safely forever.
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  • Does
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  • Anybody here.
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  • Awaken to the.
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  • Fact that you might.
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  • I might be going in the wrong direction right now,
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  • And we decide to turn around.
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  • That's what happens
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  • When we wake up one day and ask the question when
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  • We get where we're going.
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  • Where will we be?
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  • Have you ever asked yourself that question?
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  • What is the direction of your life?
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  • You say, you know, i'd better turn around.
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  • The bible calls that repentance.
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  • I'm going in the wrong direction.
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  • I realize when i get where i'm going, i'm
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  • Not going to be the place i want to be.
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  • So i am convicted of that.
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  • I turn around
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  • And it's not just all at once i'm bringing to you.
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  • I turn around and i begin to go in the right direction.
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  • And that's growing
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  • Up in our faith and walk with jesus christ.
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  • And then zip.
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  • We go all the way in the right direction.
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  • We've been talking about that.
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  • That's what we've been looking at.
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  • As we studied romans
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  • Chapter number eight.
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  • And we realize in the process, if you've read romans eight,
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  • What god is doing for us in the inspired word,
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  • He is love bombing us b o m b.
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  • Does anybody here know that phrase to be love bombed?
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  • Anybody know that phrase?
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  • A few on the internet, right.
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  • And what's happened?
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  • God and jesus christ has been love
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  • Bombing all the world there in romans eight.
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  • We've looked at all of it from the latter part of seven,
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  • All the way through to this point.
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  • At eight he is saying, i love you,
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  • I forgive you, i want you in my family.
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  • You're going to have to repent.
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  • Turn around.
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  • And once we turn, we begin to walk with christ
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  • And go with christ.
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  • We have a new life in the lord jesus christ.
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  • Love.
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  • But a lot of people don't like to be love.
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  • Bombed on the internet.
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  • You have people that someone's tracked into someone else
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  • Of the opposite sex,
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  • And they're just love bombing and they resent it.
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  • Others, they like it.
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  • The praise, adoration, the comments, the build up.
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  • And i can tell you, most of us, when we think about it,
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  • We study romans eight.
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  • We see that god is love,
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  • Bombing all of us to bring us, to
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  • Turn us around, to get us in the right direction.
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  • And we ran into one little common
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  • Phrase.
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  • Christ became what we are
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  • So we can become what he is.
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  • Remember that christ became what we are.
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  • That covers 3 or 4 major doctrines the incarnation.
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  • He became what we are.
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  • Justification. he died for us.
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  • He became where we are.
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  • He took our sins upon himself.
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  • Propitiation the weight he shed his blood on the cross.
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  • So our sins are totally
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  • Obliterated so we can become what he is.
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  • And that's when we turn around and we begin to walk and grow
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  • In the power of god in jesus christ.
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  • And we
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  • Find that really, in one verse, summarize it all.
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  • That's a secular phrasing of it, but look at it
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  • In one verse.
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  • Singer indians, chapter
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  • Eight, verse nine.
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  • For you know the grace of our lord
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  • Jesus christ, that though he was rich.
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  • Yet for your sakes
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  • He became poor, he became what we are.
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  • Yet for your sakes he became poor, that you
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  • Through his poverty might become
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  • Rich.
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  • Jesus, god,
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  • Jesus in his riches was rich.
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  • He came all the way here and became poor.
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  • Died on the cross for us,
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  • Took all of our garbage upon himself.
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  • So we in our life now and forever
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  • Might become rich.
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  • That's what we've been studying.
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  • And in the process we're going to look at verse
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  • First corinthians eight, verse 12 through 17
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  • And three things we're going to bump right into.
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  • First of all, hope you have your bibles opened
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  • And bring your bibles with you.
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  • Look in the pew in front and get a bible.
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  • You gotta have a bible to follow
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  • Romans eight verse 12.
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  • It says, therefore,
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  • In light of all that has gone before
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  • Now christ,
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  • The resurrection of christ, the spirit that raised christ
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  • From the dead, because we are in christ.
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  • Remember, that's the central teaching all the way
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  • Through the letters of paul.
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  • We are in christ.
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  • Therefore, brethren, we're christians.
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  • We are debtors, not to the flesh to live
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  • According to the flesh.
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  • For if you live according to the flesh, you will die.
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  • Brethren, we are debtors.
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  • In other words, now
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  • We have been bought and paid for by jesus christ.
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  • And guess what?
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  • We are on a new team.
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  • You're on a new team.
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  • I'm on a new team.
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  • We've received jesus christ.
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  • We're going in a new direction, and we're walk in newness
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  • And freshness of life with clean transparency.
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  • And all of a sudden we say, you know,
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  • I want to go back to that team, that fleshly
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  • Team, this spiritual team somehow isn't working for me.
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  • And we go back to the old team.
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  • Is that crazy?
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  • And we talked about that.
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  • And then we talked about the mindset.
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  • You have your mind set on the world, the flesh,
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  • Pride, achievement, recognition.
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  • And now we have a new mindset.
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  • You'd have to be out of your mind,
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  • Have a concussion to go back on the other team.
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  • Most of you know the name of johnny baker.
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  • He's on the committee
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  • That brought me here to this church a hundred years ago,
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  • And johnny
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  • Baker played for then the houston oilers.
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  • You may not remember that.
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  • In fact, we have another person here today, mack height.
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  • You know, he sells cars, but also mack height
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  • Scored for the oldest, the first touchdown.
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  • And guess what.
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  • The astrodome for the alders.
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  • He's right here today
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  • Johnny baker was playing for the orders.
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  • And they were playing against denver there at denver.
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  • And there was a pass this third down,
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  • A pass over the middle and a tight end caught it.
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  • Johnny hit him head to head back to him.
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  • The pass was dropped and johnny was concussed.
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  • And so it was third down.
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  • He was going off the field because the punting
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  • Team was coming on, and johnny
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  • Ran off the field with the denver broncos,
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  • Not with a team in which he was playing for and
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  • Got a 15 yard penalty.
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  • Therefore
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  • Now denver had a first down
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  • And he goes back out there and plays a couple of days.
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  • And a guy named bobby maples, they sent him in for johnny
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  • Because they could tell he was victim of a concussion.
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  • Maples, i think, played for baylor, if i'm not mistaken.
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  • And so johnny now runs off the field, not back to his team.
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  • He runs in the end zone.
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  • He gets another penalty flag.
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  • What am i saying?
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  • You'd have to be out of your mind
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  • To change teams.
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  • But we so many
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  • Who are in christ, we do that here.
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  • We have a liberated life, a clean life, a super life,
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  • And we somehow change teams.
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  • You have to be out of your head.
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  • My mind was set here and somehow
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  • It goes back where it used to be set, before i repented
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  • And decided to live and go in the right direction.
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  • And then we see we have a new team.
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  • But look what else is a part of this team?
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  • Here in our scripture it says, for if you live
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  • According to the flesh, you will die.
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  • But if by the spirit
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  • You put to death the deeds of the flesh,
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  • You will live, you
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  • Put to death, you crucify
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  • The deeds of the flesh you will live.
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  • And here we are.
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  • Just a lot of statistics may help quickly.
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  • One that came across my preview recently.
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  • Did you know that increase in death
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  • Among those from 18 to 62 as
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  • Increased 40% this past year,
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  • Should be the prime of your life.
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  • If a 10% increase, you know something is desperately wrong.
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  • A 40% increase in death of those
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  • Who are 18 to 62.
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  • Why is that?
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  • It's because the flesh is
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  • Winning out folks among this whole generation.
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  • It's because so many of us have not taught our children,
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  • Loved our children.
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  • The children have not had any semblance of a home
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  • That speaks of christ or christianity.
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  • America has turned away from god in christ,
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  • And therefore we're seeing the results of those
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  • Who change teams and begin to go back in the flesh.
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  • And results always
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  • Is catastrophic to any individual,
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  • And it's always catastrophic to a nation.
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  • So what do we do as christians?
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  • Individually, we are to kill the flesh.
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  • Did you read it?
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  • The deeds of the flesh, the body will live.
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  • But we are to take the holy spirit, and it is to kill
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  • The deeds of the flesh.
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  • When did that happen?
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  • It has to happen every day for you and for me.
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  • And remember whose team were on.
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  • It happened on calvary.
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  • It happened on the cross.
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  • Jesus christ on the cross.
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  • He took our sin.
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  • He was executed on your behalf
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  • And my behalf because our sins were executed there.
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  • So the bible says we are to take up our cross.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • Every day you and i and die.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • It means we to recognize that we are indeed
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  • On the cross and we're on the cross.
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  • What? what does it mean to be on the cross?
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  • It means, first of all,
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  • You're facing in only one direction.
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  • Secondly, it
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  • Means you can't climb down and go back.
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  • Third thing, it means you and i have
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  • No future plans that are our own.
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  • We sold out to him.
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  • When i was a boy, there was a popular
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  • Little song called mother.
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  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
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  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
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  • They are certainly universal in their application
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  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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  • I had to
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  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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  • Would you believe that?
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  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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  • For mother's day only.
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  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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  • It says verse number 13
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  • For as many as our lead.
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  • That's where the coach does.
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  • He leads by the spirit of god.
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  • These are sons of god.
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  • For they did not
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  • Receive the spirit of bondage again to fear of.
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  • We came out of slavery myself, running my own life.
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  • We were bound there to it our habits and our egos and
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  • Our pride.
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  • And now all of a sudden, we are led
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  • By the holy spirit and the holy spirit is on you.
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  • Coach, if those who fly an airplane
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  • And many of you know about that, the big planes
  • 00:14:50.435 --> 00:14:54.339
  • Now they can take off and fly and land on autopilot.
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  • They generally do not do that unless it's rough weather,
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  • And then they know
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  • That autopilot will see turbulence
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  • And see all the problems that are there.
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  • When we come to god in jesus christ, the holy spirit
  • 00:15:07.819 --> 00:15:10.955
  • Comes in your life, in my life, and we're on autopilot now.
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  • The pilot is still there.
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  • He can still override the autopilot
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  • And most of the flight.
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  • He does some of that.
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  • It's not usually from takeoff to flight to landing.
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  • Everything's autopilot.
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  • But that's a wonderful thing to know that the holy spirit
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  • In your life, in my life, will guide us and bring us
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  • Safely, now and safely forever.
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  • So we have a new coach.
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  • It's the holy spirit.
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  • We can put your life in neutral.
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  • He takes over, he runs.
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  • He gives us insight.
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  • Trust the lord with all your heart.
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  • Lean not on your own understanding the way
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  • You want to go in all your ways and zip.
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  • He, the holy spirit
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  • Will direct your life and that holy spirit
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  • Will coach you all the way now and all the way into eternity,
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  • Because you receive christ
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  • On you team.
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  • Have a new coach and also we have
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  • A new position on the team and i love this.
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  • The position. what position do we play?
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  • The best thing i could say,
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  • You and i are quarterbacks for our own team.
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  • How about that?
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  • It says but you receive
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  • The spirit of adoption by whom?
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  • We cry out, abba, father.
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  • And the spirit itself bears
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  • Witness with our spirit that we are children of god.
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  • And if children, then heirs,
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  • Then heirs of god, and joint heirs with christ,
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  • If indeed we suffer with him, we may also be glorified
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  • With him. what is this saying?
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  • It's saying that we have a position
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  • And we are quarterback of your life.
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  • And in my life and the holy spirit.
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  • The coach has a game plan for us
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  • And we get it on that game plan as we daily, daily
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  • See what what the requirements are as we
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  • Daily, daily die to self and are crucified with him.
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  • And all of a sudden we realize an amazing thing.
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  • We are children
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  • Of god.
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  • Children
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  • Of god.
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  • Think about that.
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  • Well, i've heard that before,
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  • But just let it sort of i let it sort of seep into me.
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  • You're you're a child of god.
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  • That that's an intimate thing.
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  • God the creator seems way back there.
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  • Even god in jesus christ i redeemer.
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  • Seems, you know, that's thousands 2000 years ago.
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  • But the idea that right now that you and i
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  • Are a child of god
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  • And we can say to god, abba,
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  • Which the arabic word father
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  • Used there in the greek, it is saying that all people
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  • Arabs, greeks, jews, whatever your classification,
  • 00:18:04.996 --> 00:18:08.299
  • We're all in the family of god because we're in christ.
  • 00:18:08.299 --> 00:18:12.069
  • And if we're in the family of god, we can say and talk to god
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  • As our dad.
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  • There's no way for you and i to understand
  • 00:18:20.144 --> 00:18:23.181
  • How radical that was,
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  • Particularly to the jewish world,
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  • As well as all the rest of the world, to refer to
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  • He who was omnipotent and omniscient,
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  • And i'm not present and holy
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  • Other as
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  • Above.
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  • A jew, when reading
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  • The scripture, would not even pronounce the name of god.
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  • We we look at it.
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  • We tried to pronounce it as yahweh, but that's not.
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  • We do not really know how it could be pronounced.
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  • They would not say jehovah or yahweh.
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  • They might say adonai as a substitute,
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  • Because the name of god was so reverent, so holy,
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  • And therefore they would never think about
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  • Any time being so godless and
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  • Sacrilegious as to say, dad,
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  • Harbor.
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  • That's what jesus did.
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  • Jesus always referred to the father as abba,
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  • Except on the cross, the cry of dereliction.
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  • Only one time he said,
  • 00:19:30.748 --> 00:19:31.916
  • My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?
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  • Every other time he talked of him as dead as abba,
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  • An intimate thing.
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  • And when the apostles first heard that, they were amazed.
  • 00:19:40.191 --> 00:19:44.028
  • The audience would hear that they were amazed.
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  • Who is this guy who can talk
  • 00:19:47.231 --> 00:19:49.667
  • About dad abba
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  • Hopper in busy there?
  • 00:19:53.004 --> 00:19:55.673
  • And therefore,
  • 00:19:55.673 --> 00:19:56.874
  • Because now all of a sudden we have a new assignment
  • 00:19:56.874 --> 00:19:59.810
  • In our life, we have new provisions
  • 00:19:59.810 --> 00:20:02.947
  • To live out our life in jesus christ.
  • 00:20:02.947 --> 00:20:05.750
  • All of a sudden, i realize that you and
  • 00:20:05.750 --> 00:20:08.786
  • I are children of god because we're in christ.
  • 00:20:08.786 --> 00:20:12.023
  • Then he goes on to say, we are heirs, o heirs,
  • 00:20:12.023 --> 00:20:17.662
  • And air
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  • Is someone who hasn't yet possessed something.
  • 00:20:18.929 --> 00:20:22.199
  • We are an heir to a fortune or an heir to an object.
  • 00:20:22.199 --> 00:20:25.836
  • But in this usage it means that we have
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  • Partially possessed that which we will have,
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  • And one day we'll possess all of it.
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  • When we graduate from this life, we are heirs.
  • 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:38.549
  • And then one little phrase i want to pick up on it says,
  • 00:20:38.549 --> 00:20:43.020
  • Verse 16, the spirit himself bears witness
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  • With our spirit that we're children of god.
  • 00:20:46.123 --> 00:20:49.260
  • In other words,
  • 00:20:49.260 --> 00:20:50.294
  • The holy spirit witnesses to us, and my spirit
  • 00:20:50.294 --> 00:20:54.899
  • And your spirit witnesses also that we are of god.
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  • There's no doubt about it.
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  • There's no question about it.
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  • There is a mutual witness.
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  • And for something to be affirmed
  • 00:21:03.908 --> 00:21:05.910
  • In a court of law in that day, that had to be at least
  • 00:21:05.910 --> 00:21:08.946
  • Two witnesses for an adoption to take place.
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  • It was a big deal in the greco-roman world.
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  • It was a whole litany of procedure.
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  • It took seven witnesses, and one father had to
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  • Give the child
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  • To be adopted to the other father
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  • And pay what it would be offered,
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  • And the other father would give it back,
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  • And they would do it again, and they would do it again.
  • 00:21:33.270 --> 00:21:35.873
  • Only the third time did it become real and valid
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  • And official.
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  • The state in which in every way that adopted air
  • 00:21:39.744 --> 00:21:43.514
  • Was an air just like a son or daughter of the family
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  • Would be.
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  • Every one of the privilege was there.
  • 00:21:49.320 --> 00:21:51.322
  • So we are an air.
  • 00:21:51.322 --> 00:21:54.091
  • And then it says, did you hear it?
  • 00:21:54.091 --> 00:21:56.627
  • We are a co-heir
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  • With jesus christ.
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  • Can can you get a hold of that?
  • 00:22:02.066 --> 00:22:05.002
  • In other words, we have such a high lofted
  • 00:22:05.002 --> 00:22:08.072
  • Position, it sounds like out of this world.
  • 00:22:08.072 --> 00:22:12.143
  • It's absurd.
  • 00:22:12.143 --> 00:22:13.077
  • It's impossible to believe that you and i,
  • 00:22:13.077 --> 00:22:16.547
  • Who are in christ, will one day be a co-heir with the lord
  • 00:22:16.547 --> 00:22:20.451
  • Jesus christ, with our abba father who is in heaven.
  • 00:22:20.451 --> 00:22:24.555
  • So this gives us the equipment now
  • 00:22:24.555 --> 00:22:27.224
  • Because our coach is the holy spirit,
  • 00:22:28.025 --> 00:22:30.428
  • To live this life victoriously.
  • 00:22:30.428 --> 00:22:36.267
  • One you team
  • 00:22:36.600 --> 00:22:39.270
  • Have a new coach, the holy spirit.
  • 00:22:39.270 --> 00:22:42.072
  • We're in christ, we have new
  • 00:22:42.072 --> 00:22:44.842
  • Position, and god has given us
  • 00:22:44.842 --> 00:22:47.778
  • The holy spirit and the ability to play that position.
  • 00:22:47.778 --> 00:22:51.282
  • So when we decide to turn around
  • 00:22:51.282 --> 00:22:54.018
  • And most of us have, we'll turn all the way around and begin
  • 00:22:54.018 --> 00:22:58.022
  • To walk in the fullness of life with the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:22:58.022 --> 00:23:01.892
  • And the end result?
  • 00:23:01.892 --> 00:23:03.661
  • We'll have some suffering in this world, but in result
  • 00:23:03.661 --> 00:23:07.598
  • We'll have glory in the world to come.
  • 00:23:07.598 --> 00:23:10.568
  • And a touch of it, even right now, right here.
  • 00:23:11.535 --> 00:23:15.439
  • Because guess what?
  • 00:23:15.439 --> 00:23:18.476
  • I'm a child of god.
  • 00:23:18.476 --> 00:23:20.010
  • Guess what?
  • 00:23:20.010 --> 00:23:20.911
  • In christ, you're a child of god.
  • 00:23:20.911 --> 00:23:23.814
  • How beautiful that is.
  • 00:23:23.814 --> 00:23:26.617
  • Texas children's hospital
  • 00:23:27.184 --> 00:23:29.753
  • A little girl went in and was being checked out,
  • 00:23:29.753 --> 00:23:33.157
  • And the doctor said, you know, we're going to send you in
  • 00:23:33.157 --> 00:23:37.061
  • And we're going to get
  • 00:23:37.061 --> 00:23:38.796
  • What we call an ultrasound, a cardiac ultrasound.
  • 00:23:38.796 --> 00:23:42.533
  • It won't hurt, but they're going to see
  • 00:23:42.533 --> 00:23:45.135
  • What's in your heart.
  • 00:23:45.135 --> 00:23:47.338
  • This little girl had come to christ a month or so before,
  • 00:23:47.338 --> 00:23:52.443
  • When the doctor told her that they're going to see
  • 00:23:52.443 --> 00:23:54.979
  • What's in your heart, she said, they're going to see jesus.
  • 00:23:54.979 --> 00:23:59.683
  • I won't tell your name.
  • 00:24:00.184 --> 00:24:01.418
  • Is there going to see jesus?
  • 00:24:01.418 --> 00:24:04.455
  • How do you know?
  • 00:24:04.455 --> 00:24:07.157
  • How do i know that
  • 00:24:07.157 --> 00:24:10.995
  • I'm on a new team?
  • 00:24:11.428 --> 00:24:13.664
  • How do i know that
  • 00:24:13.664 --> 00:24:15.599
  • The holy spirit is really coaching my life?
  • 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:18.636
  • In your life, how do we know that?
  • 00:24:18.636 --> 00:24:21.372
  • How do we know that we're children of god?
  • 00:24:21.372 --> 00:24:24.241
  • We have all these provisions given to us
  • 00:24:24.241 --> 00:24:27.411
  • In that lofty, lofty, exalted title,
  • 00:24:27.411 --> 00:24:32.349
  • Lofty family.
  • 00:24:32.716 --> 00:24:34.585
  • How do we know that?
  • 00:24:34.585 --> 00:24:37.788
  • There's a scripture in matthew
  • 00:24:37.788 --> 00:24:40.891
  • Six chapter it says.
  • 00:24:41.358 --> 00:24:45.429
  • By your, my, my grace,
  • 00:24:45.896 --> 00:24:51.035
  • You will know
  • 00:24:51.402 --> 00:24:52.703
  • As whether or not you're in my family,
  • 00:24:52.703 --> 00:24:56.640
  • Because
  • 00:24:56.874 --> 00:24:59.677
  • You'll lay not up
  • 00:24:59.677 --> 00:25:00.811
  • Treasures on earth.
  • 00:25:00.811 --> 00:25:04.081
  • Where moth and rust corrupt.
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  • Isn't that true treasures on this earth?
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  • Moth and rust.
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  • Corrupt thieves
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  • Breakthrough and steal,
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  • He said, but we're
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  • To lay up treasure in heaven
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  • Where nothing can touch it.
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  • And then the scripture says, where your heart
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  • Is, that's where your treasure is.
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  • No, no, no, it says something different.
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  • It says where your
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  • Treasure is my treasure and your treasure is.
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  • That's where your heart is.
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  • So they're really the only thing tangibly.
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  • Oh, one of the few things, tangibly,
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  • We can measure about whether or not
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  • We're in the family of god and where our heart is,
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  • Is where our treasure is,
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  • Because the treasure
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  • Indicates the real position of our heart.
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  • When i was a boy,
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  • There was a popular little song called mother.
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  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
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  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
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  • They are certainly universal in their application
  • 00:26:22.159 --> 00:26:25.462
  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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  • I had to
  • 00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:29.900
  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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  • Would you believe that?
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  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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  • For mother's day only.
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  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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