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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young

Ed Young - Lion Chasers

May 18, 2025 | S25:E119

Ed Young - Lion Chasers
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 - Lion Chasers | May 18, 2025
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  • Pastor ed young: we've been in romans chapter 8 for a while,
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  • And i don't want us just to go through this study and say, you
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  • Know, we looked at romans 8.
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  • I want romans 8 to be a watershed
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  • For the life of every one of us so we can go back to this
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  • Basic truth.
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  • And it will, for the rest of our lives, speak god's insights of
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  • How to live.
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  • Therefore, it must become very practical.
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  • It must become very personal.
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  • And i want us to understand how practical it is and how basic
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  • And simple it is.
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  • Now, i'm gonna give you a whirlwind brief tour of romans.
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  • Romans chapter 1 through chapter number 4, romans 1 tells us
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  • Nobody has an excuse for not knowing god.
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  • Wherever you are on the planet, there's a sparkle of revelation,
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  • Natural or special, that's available to everybody to turn
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  • To all the light that they have available to him.
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  • So, no one is not excused.
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  • And then paul lists a whole series of heinous life choices,
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  • And he says the answer for that is not trying harder.
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  • Get that out of your vocabulary.
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  • Get that out of your practicality.
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  • The answer is not just i'm gonna do my own thing.
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  • He gives us the answer as he gives us the diagnosis, and the
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  • Answer is found in romans chapter number 5.
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  • Nail that down, remember that.
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  • Romans 5 tells all of us the answer to life, here
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  • And forever.
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  • God has given us the answer clearly.
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  • We are justified by faith through jesus christ, therefore
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  • We are right with him, right with ourselves, and have the
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  • Capacity to be right with everybody else that touches
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  • Our life.
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  • You got that?
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  • Romans chapter 5.
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  • And then from romans chapter 5 we can look at
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  • Romans 6, 7, and romans 8 through verse 13.
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  • And what that is, follow me, is answering questions people have
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  • When they realize that god has justified us by faith in christ.
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  • This is the answering of questions,
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  • All those chapters, anticipated questions, logical questions.
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  • But then after romans 8:13, there is that pivotal verse,
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  • Romans number 8:14.
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  • And here paul--i wish i had some dirt here--draws a line, a
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  • Very clear line.
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  • And he says if you are on this side of the line, look at it,
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  • 14, it says, "if you are led by
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  • The spirit of god, you are
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  • Children of god."
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  • This has never been mentioned at this point.
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  • This is something new.
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  • Everything else in romans is a rehearsal of what has already
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  • Been taught, but right here in the 14th verse, he says, "if
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  • You're not led by the spirit of god, you're not a child of god.
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  • But if you're led by the spirit of god, you are a child of god."
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  • Very simple, isn't it?
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  • Proof text.
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  • Now, what does it mean to be led by the spirit of god?
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  • It's not spooky.
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  • Oh, holy spirit, lead me.
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  • Oh, i pray i'm being led by your spirit.
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  • That's not it, folks.
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  • When we become a christian, it is radical.
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  • Now, i became a christian at a young age.
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  • It was not that radical.
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  • But as i have understood what that early commitment made, i
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  • Realized living the christian life is a radical life.
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  • It's radical.
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  • Also, living the christian life is supernatural.
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  • God has to change us, dramatically sometimes, slowly,
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  • Different ways, different body, different personalities.
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  • It's also supernatural.
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  • And also, it's far reaching.
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  • It reaches all the way through this life, all the way
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  • Through eternity.
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  • And to be led by the spirit means exactly this.
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  • Your thoughts, your mind, your passions, your heart, and what
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  • You do, your body, your life.
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  • You got it?
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  • Therefore, we don't have to worry about being led by the
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  • Spirit of god if we are genuinely in christ and christ
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  • Is genuinely in us, because do you have to wake up in the
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  • Morning and say, "ears, i sure hope you hear today.
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  • Feet, i sure hope you step today.
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  • Eyes, i hope you see today"?
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  • We don't do that, do we?
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  • No, it's built into you and built into me.
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  • And we are led by the spirit.
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  • It is a natural outflowing of when jesus christ is our savior
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  • And our lord.
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  • And as a result of that, we move right into romans 8:28, how we
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  • Love that verse, and it's logical.
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  • It's logical.
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  • "we're led by the spirit of god, therefore all things work
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  • Together for good to those who love the lord and those who are
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  • The called according to his purpose."
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  • Of course we're in the family of god.
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  • All things.
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  • Have you ever seen a watch that the back of the watch is glass
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  • Or plastic, and you can see all the works?
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  • How many of you have ever seen a watch like this?
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  • You ever seen a watch like this?
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  • Yeah, yeah, we've seen them.
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  • I remember the first time i saw one, and i've seen them
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  • Several times.
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  • Man, you look at all the little workings and the turnings and
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  • The wheels, and one's going this way, one's going that way, one's
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  • Going clockwise, one's going counterclockwise.
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  • My, my, my, i mean, how in the world--what is going on?
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  • What is going on?
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  • All those little wheels and pulleys and jumping up and down,
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  • And all the little small things, i'll tell you what's going on.
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  • It's causing you and i to know what time it is, right?
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  • All things in a watch work together to keep the right time,
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  • And therefore we know all things in our life, all things, good,
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  • Bad, ugly, up and down, doesn't matter, they're working together
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  • For your good and for god's glory as we seek to live out his
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  • Purpose for our lives.
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  • Now, as a result of that, we went over those big doctrines as
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  • To how we know this is true.
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  • We have been pre-known, we have been preordained, we have been
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  • Called, we have been justified, we've been glorified.
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  • We've gone over those $50 theological principles, and now
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  • We come to where we left off a few weeks ago, and we say,
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  • "well, what do you say to these things?"
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  • In light that we're now in the family of god, we're being led
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  • By the spirit of god by surrender and walking through
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  • Life, "well, what do you say to these things?"
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  • And then we had a little give and take.
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  • I said, "if god be for us," you said, "who can be against us?"
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  • All right, "if god be for us."
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  • Congregation: "who can be against "us?""
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  • Pastor ed: and the choir said, "nobody."
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  • Nobody.
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  • Let's do it again. "if god be for us."
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  • Congregation: "who can be against us?"
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  • Choir: nobody.
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  • Pastor ed: now, and then we pushed that a little further.
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  • See what paul is doing?
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  • See how logical this is when you understand it, when you see it?
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  • What paul is doing, he said, well then, who can be
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  • Against us?
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  • Obviously nobody can, because jesus has already given the best
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  • That he had to offer for you and me, and that was his son, so
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  • We're able to be right with god.
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  • He's already given his best.
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  • Therefore, "who can be against us?"
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  • Choir: nobody.
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  • Pastor ed: little slow, choir.
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  • "who can be against us?"
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  • Choir: nobody.
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  • Pastor ed: a+.
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  • And then he says, well, who in the world can charge us
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  • With anything?
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  • You feel like, well, i'm in christ, but i'm being charged.
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  • Who can charge us?
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  • The devil tries to, our conscience tries to, and nobody
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  • Can charge us, folks.
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  • We're in the family of god, and it says god has justified us.
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  • It's a court of law.
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  • We've been brought before the judge, the jury, and the judge
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  • Says, hey, you're slick, you're free, you've been justified.
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  • It's all over.
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  • Case closed. we've been justified.
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  • Nobody can charge us with anything in the past.
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  • No, no, can't be done.
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  • Then he says, who in the world can condemn us?
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  • Well, i'm gonna condemn--nobody can condemn us, why?
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  • Because, and by the way, we repeat these things so we'll get
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  • Them nailed down.
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  • You know, so don't tell me the old, old story.
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  • We've heard it before.
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  • We need to repeat these things to understand what happened.
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  • The cross, nobody can condemn us because of the cross.
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  • Jesus has took all of your condemnation, my condemnation
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  • On himself.
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  • And also because of the resurrection, because of easter,
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  • And remember, the resurrection verifies everything jesus did
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  • And said.
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  • Somebody said, well, you know, "jesus said he's gonna die so i
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  • Could get right with god.
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  • I don't know if that's true or not.
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  • It sounds kind of mystical to me."
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  • The resurrection said, "hey, that nails it down.
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  • That's evidence in time and place in history."
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  • And then we see where is jesus now?
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  • He's at the right hand of god seated.
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  • Interesting, in the temple there are no seats.
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  • Do you know that?
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  • In the temple where they offered all those sacrifices for those
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  • Hundreds of years, there's no place for anybody to sit
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  • Down, why?
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  • Because the priests have to keep on offering sacrifices for sin
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  • Over and over, sheep, goat, lambs, whatever, over and over
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  • For sin.
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  • But now we see jesus is at the right hand of god.
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  • He is seated, why?
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  • The sacrifice forever has been fully paid.
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  • So, therefore, we get to this point, and we turn around, and
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  • We have another question that we ask.
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  • You see it there in the scripture if you have your
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  • Bibles open.
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  • It says, "who shall separate us from the love of christ?"
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  • And by the way, that who needs to be what.
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  • Balcony, awaken.
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  • You've got an assignment.
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  • What can separate us from love of christ?
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  • I want you to shout, nothing.
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  • Balcony: nothing.
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  • Pastor ed: boy, you better hustle, choir.
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  • We've got a choir up there.
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  • What can separate us from the love of christ?
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  • Balcony: nothing.
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  • Pastor ed: who can separate us from the love of christ?
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  • Balcony: nothing.
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  • Pastor ed: now, we've got to nail this down, folks, and
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  • Understand this.
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  • And therefore, then paul mentions some things that would
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  • Separate us from the love of christ.
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  • Look at it, it's a horrible list.
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  • Look at this list.
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  • Trouble, it's right there in your scripture.
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  • Trouble tends to separate us, and trouble here is a picture
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  • Of pressure.
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  • A lot of us live lives that are pressure packed, and we live
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  • Under pressure.
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  • Trouble is exaggerated, trouble gets out of proportion, and that
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  • Tends to--does jesus christ really love me?
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  • All this pressure i'm under, will that separate me from him?
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  • And then we have hardship.
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  • This is a picture in the etymology of the word of
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  • A narrow place.
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  • God, sometimes by our choices, sometimes not by our choices,
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  • Sometimes by our decisions, sometimes by the circumstances
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  • That--we find ourselves in a very narrow, tight place.
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  • There's no room to maneuver, and we feel like, boy, somehow we're
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  • Separated from the love of god.
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  • And we don't want to be separated from the love
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  • Of christ.
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  • No, no, we don't want to be separated from that.
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  • And then look at the other word, persecution.
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  • That's prominent today if you're a christian.
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  • Persecution.
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  • About 600,000 christians are martyred every year around the
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  • World for standing up for christ.
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  • You say, well, that's not happening in america.
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  • Just live for a while, folks. it's on the way.
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  • You can book it and write it down.
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  • Different kinds of persecution now, the heat is going to pick
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  • Up because the world is going in the wrong direction, and before
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  • Long now it costs a little bit to be a christian, it's going to
  • 00:14:27.779 --> 00:14:31.716
  • Be a heavy cost to be a christian.
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  • You can write that down.
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  • There will be persecution.
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  • Famine, not just without food, we may experience some of that
  • 00:14:37.355 --> 00:14:40.658
  • Too, but famine means we don't have enough to get along.
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  • We don't have enough to stand firm.
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  • Famine tends to separate us.
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  • And then nakedness, nakedness is vulnerability.
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  • I mean, it's shameful.
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  • I have no place to hide.
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  • Have you ever felt some of these?
  • 00:15:00.011 --> 00:15:01.412
  • We've all, we could call out witness after witness, this
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  • Tends to separate us.
  • 00:15:06.017 --> 00:15:08.786
  • And danger, a lot of danger in the world.
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  • I just saw a listing of most dangerous cities to live in.
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  • Of course, we know chicago, baltimore, new orleans, houston,
  • 00:15:14.826 --> 00:15:22.300
  • But the most dangerous city to live in america, for your
  • 00:15:22.300 --> 00:15:24.736
  • Information, is st. louis, missouri.
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  • Most dangerous city in america.
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  • More dangerous than new york per capita.
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  • It was all worked out.
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  • It is a dangerous time in which we--well, lord, we're separated
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  • From you.
  • 00:15:38.216 --> 00:15:39.550
  • Then the sword, the sword here stands not only for a physical
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  • Sword, it stands for in the judicial area, in the courts.
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  • No one wants to walk in a court today, because you don't know if
  • 00:15:46.457 --> 00:15:51.295
  • Justice will be done or the judge will be fair, so the sword
  • 00:15:51.295 --> 00:15:56.067
  • Tends to separate us, separate us from the love of christ.
  • 00:15:56.067 --> 00:16:01.906
  • Now, you might ask, what does paul know about all of this?
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  • Why could he write so authoritatively?
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  • Then what can separate us from love of god?
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  • Choir: nothing.
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  • Pastor ed: whoa, the choir's ahead, balcony.
  • 00:16:16.020 --> 00:16:18.556
  • What can separate us from the love of god?
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  • Balcony: nothing.
  • 00:16:20.792 --> 00:16:22.126
  • Pastor ed: who can separate us?
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  • Balcony: nothing.
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  • Pastor ed: now, we say, paul, you're writing so dogmatically
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  • And so authoritatively, what do you know?
  • 00:16:30.401 --> 00:16:33.104
  • And paul in 2 corinthians, he says, "this is what i
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  • Have experienced."
  • 00:16:36.541 --> 00:16:37.875
  • Listen to this.
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  • "i have worked much harder and been in prison more frequently,
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  • And been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again
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  • And again.
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  • Five times i've received from the jews forty lashes,
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  • Minus one.
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  • Three times i was beaten with rods, once i was pelted with
  • 00:16:55.026 --> 00:16:58.429
  • Stones, three times i was shipwrecked.
  • 00:16:58.429 --> 00:17:00.998
  • I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
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  • I have been constantly on the move.
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  • I've been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in
  • 00:17:05.570 --> 00:17:08.639
  • Danger from fellow jews, in danger from gentiles; in danger
  • 00:17:08.639 --> 00:17:12.176
  • In the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea, in
  • 00:17:12.176 --> 00:17:16.080
  • Danger from false believers.
  • 00:17:16.080 --> 00:17:18.015
  • I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; i
  • 00:17:18.015 --> 00:17:21.786
  • Have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; i
  • 00:17:21.786 --> 00:17:26.691
  • Have been cold and naked.
  • 00:17:26.691 --> 00:17:28.259
  • Besides everything else, i face daily the pressure of my concern
  • 00:17:28.259 --> 00:17:33.131
  • For all the churches.
  • 00:17:33.131 --> 00:17:34.632
  • Who is weak, and i do not feel weak?
  • 00:17:34.632 --> 00:17:37.668
  • Who is led into sin, and i do not inwardly burn?
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  • If i may boast," said paul, "i will boast of the things that
  • 00:17:40.938 --> 00:17:44.475
  • Show my weakness.
  • 00:17:44.475 --> 00:17:46.477
  • The god and father of the lord jesus christ, who is to be
  • 00:17:46.477 --> 00:17:49.580
  • Praised forever, knows that i am not lying.
  • 00:17:49.580 --> 00:17:52.984
  • In damascus the governor under king aretas guarded in order to
  • 00:17:52.984 --> 00:17:57.088
  • Arrest me.
  • 00:17:57.088 --> 00:17:58.422
  • But i was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and
  • 00:17:58.422 --> 00:18:01.926
  • Slipped through their hands."
  • 00:18:01.926 --> 00:18:03.261
  • He was a basket case.
  • 00:18:03.261 --> 00:18:04.595
  • Finally he says, "therefore i will boast all the more gladly
  • 00:18:04.595 --> 00:18:07.765
  • With my weaknesses, so that christ's power may rest on me.
  • 00:18:07.765 --> 00:18:13.304
  • That is why, for christ's sake, i delight in weaknesses, in
  • 00:18:13.304 --> 00:18:17.074
  • Insults, in hardships, in persecution, in difficulties.
  • 00:18:17.074 --> 00:18:20.978
  • For when i am weak, then i am strong."
  • 00:18:20.978 --> 00:18:24.048
  • Paul would say, "i know all of these things and more that tend
  • 00:18:24.048 --> 00:18:28.953
  • To separate us from the love of christ."
  • 00:18:28.953 --> 00:18:31.656
  • And he said, "i have discovered, what can separate me from the
  • 00:18:31.656 --> 00:18:36.427
  • Love of christ?"
  • 00:18:36.427 --> 00:18:37.762
  • Paul would say.
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  • Balcony: nothing.
  • 00:18:39.130 --> 00:18:41.799
  • Pastor ed: now, let's just get real practical here, okay?
  • 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:45.136
  • Wanna get practical?
  • 00:18:45.136 --> 00:18:46.504
  • Very simple, very practical.
  • 00:18:46.504 --> 00:18:49.574
  • Why does god's people, paul, all
  • 00:18:49.574 --> 00:18:55.980
  • Of us, have to go through all
  • 00:18:55.980 --> 00:18:59.383
  • These things?
  • 00:18:59.383 --> 00:19:02.186
  • You know why?
  • 00:19:02.186 --> 00:19:04.789
  • It's so you and i will have a resume.
  • 00:19:04.789 --> 00:19:09.460
  • What?
  • 00:19:09.460 --> 00:19:11.929
  • A few years back, i bumped into a verse in 2 samuel.
  • 00:19:11.929 --> 00:19:19.837
  • You read through the bible, you bump into verses, and i want to
  • 00:19:19.837 --> 00:19:23.474
  • Read to you 2 samuel, the latter part of verse 23.
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  • It's talking about somebody named benaiah.
  • 00:19:29.313 --> 00:19:32.650
  • Verse 20, the son of jehoiada, "a valiant fighter from kabzeel,
  • 00:19:32.650 --> 00:19:38.489
  • Performed great exploits.
  • 00:19:38.489 --> 00:19:40.891
  • He struck down moab's two mightiest warriors."
  • 00:19:40.891 --> 00:19:43.894
  • Now listen to this, listen to this.
  • 00:19:43.894 --> 00:19:47.131
  • This benaiah also, "went down into a pit on a snowy day and
  • 00:19:47.131 --> 00:19:55.006
  • Killed a lion."
  • 00:19:55.006 --> 00:19:59.844
  • Did everybody get that?
  • 00:19:59.844 --> 00:20:03.281
  • Now, there's a lot of great victors in the bible, but this
  • 00:20:03.281 --> 00:20:08.052
  • Guy, benaiah, take what he did.
  • 00:20:08.052 --> 00:20:12.556
  • Evidently, there was a man killer lion killing people and
  • 00:20:12.556 --> 00:20:16.861
  • Animals, and benaiah was a lion hunter, a lion chaser, and it
  • 00:20:16.861 --> 00:20:23.567
  • Was a snowy day.
  • 00:20:23.567 --> 00:20:25.870
  • I'm sure he had a club, i'm sure he had a knife, and you can see
  • 00:20:25.870 --> 00:20:29.774
  • Him trying to find this killer lion, and suddenly he locks eyes
  • 00:20:29.774 --> 00:20:34.679
  • With the beast.
  • 00:20:34.679 --> 00:20:37.581
  • And the amazing thing, he runs toward the lion, and the
  • 00:20:37.581 --> 00:20:43.888
  • Lion runs.
  • 00:20:43.888 --> 00:20:46.324
  • A lion runs about 35 miles an hour, in a single bound can
  • 00:20:46.324 --> 00:20:50.895
  • Bound over 30 feet, weighs about 500 pounds, and here benaiah
  • 00:20:50.895 --> 00:20:57.968
  • Begins to pursue the lion.
  • 00:20:57.968 --> 00:20:59.804
  • The snow is falling, the lion's getting ahead of him, but the
  • 00:20:59.804 --> 00:21:03.774
  • Lion evidently didn't know and stumbled into a pit and went
  • 00:21:03.774 --> 00:21:07.778
  • Down into a pit.
  • 00:21:07.778 --> 00:21:10.314
  • We could see benaiah going over there, looking down at that
  • 00:21:10.314 --> 00:21:12.817
  • Lion, and benaiah thought about
  • 00:21:12.817 --> 00:21:18.889
  • What he was doing, i'm sure.
  • 00:21:18.889 --> 00:21:23.194
  • He thought about it, and he said, "you know, it's the wrong
  • 00:21:23.194 --> 00:21:27.865
  • Place to kill that lion in a pit.
  • 00:21:27.865 --> 00:21:31.302
  • And it's the wrong time.
  • 00:21:31.302 --> 00:21:32.636
  • It's snowing, it's slick, can't see."
  • 00:21:32.636 --> 00:21:35.840
  • So, we see benaiah, perhaps he would turn away, but then he did
  • 00:21:35.840 --> 00:21:39.643
  • An amazing thing.
  • 00:21:39.643 --> 00:21:40.978
  • He turned and charged and leaped into that pit on a snowy day.
  • 00:21:40.978 --> 00:21:47.952
  • Amazingly, benaiah came crawling out.
  • 00:21:47.952 --> 00:21:52.189
  • You can be sure he was bloody, he was scratched, the lion took
  • 00:21:52.189 --> 00:21:55.159
  • A hunk out of him, but he killed
  • 00:21:55.159 --> 00:21:58.896
  • A lion in a pit on a snowy day.
  • 00:21:58.896 --> 00:22:05.035
  • Now, what's that all about?
  • 00:22:05.035 --> 00:22:08.205
  • What's about all these hardships we go through?
  • 00:22:08.205 --> 00:22:11.509
  • It's about building a resume, ladies and gentlemen.
  • 00:22:11.509 --> 00:22:16.147
  • Later on, we see that david was looking for somebody to be in
  • 00:22:16.147 --> 00:22:20.284
  • Charge of his bodyguards, the most important position the king
  • 00:22:20.284 --> 00:22:24.422
  • Could appoint to protect him from all the threats that came
  • 00:22:24.422 --> 00:22:30.027
  • From every side, and he was looking for a resume to be in
  • 00:22:30.027 --> 00:22:33.764
  • Charge of his bodyguard.
  • 00:22:33.764 --> 00:22:35.099
  • He looked down, here's a guy.
  • 00:22:35.099 --> 00:22:36.934
  • Well, he has his phd in martial arts from the university
  • 00:22:36.934 --> 00:22:40.371
  • Of jerusalem.
  • 00:22:40.371 --> 00:22:41.705
  • Hmm, that's good, right? next guy.
  • 00:22:41.705 --> 00:22:44.275
  • Oh, the next guy here, oh look, he is the undisputed cage
  • 00:22:44.275 --> 00:22:48.012
  • Champion of israel.
  • 00:22:48.012 --> 00:22:49.480
  • Oh, that's good.
  • 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:50.815
  • Here's a guy who holds a record for lifting the most weights in
  • 00:22:50.815 --> 00:22:54.118
  • The history of the country.
  • 00:22:54.118 --> 00:22:55.453
  • That would be good.
  • 00:22:55.453 --> 00:22:56.787
  • And here's a guy, oh, here's a guy who on a snowy day went down
  • 00:22:56.787 --> 00:23:00.491
  • In the pit and killed a lion.
  • 00:23:00.491 --> 00:23:04.295
  • David said, "i don't have to look at it anymore.
  • 00:23:04.295 --> 00:23:07.031
  • I found my guy.
  • 00:23:07.031 --> 00:23:08.432
  • It's benaiah."
  • 00:23:08.432 --> 00:23:12.770
  • Benaiah went down in that pit and killed that lion, that built
  • 00:23:12.770 --> 00:23:16.540
  • His resume, and he got a very important position in the land
  • 00:23:16.540 --> 00:23:21.545
  • Because of that amazing moment of heroism.
  • 00:23:21.545 --> 00:23:26.951
  • What's the point of all this?
  • 00:23:26.951 --> 00:23:30.321
  • If anybody here thinks we're gonna turn america around, we're
  • 00:23:30.321 --> 00:23:35.860
  • Gonna have the family come alive for god and christ, we're gonna
  • 00:23:35.860 --> 00:23:39.964
  • Change our educational system, we're gonna heal our government,
  • 00:23:39.964 --> 00:23:44.201
  • We're gonna go in the corporate world and bring us and fill with
  • 00:23:44.201 --> 00:23:47.104
  • Integrity, we're gonna bring up children in 21st century, if
  • 00:23:47.104 --> 00:23:51.408
  • Anybody thinks that all this is gonna happen, let me tell you,
  • 00:23:51.408 --> 00:23:55.880
  • It's not gonna happen with christians like most of us who
  • 00:23:55.880 --> 00:24:00.885
  • Are calm, reflective, thoughtful,
  • 00:24:00.885 --> 00:24:08.792
  • Defensive, retroactive.
  • 00:24:08.792 --> 00:24:13.564
  • Uh-uh.
  • 00:24:13.564 --> 00:24:15.232
  • You said, well, i want to be like jesus.
  • 00:24:15.232 --> 00:24:19.203
  • Do you know what jesus was like other than what you learned in
  • 00:24:19.203 --> 00:24:23.207
  • The first and second grade of bible study?
  • 00:24:23.207 --> 00:24:25.943
  • Jesus was a lion chaser, that's who he was.
  • 00:24:25.943 --> 00:24:33.584
  • And ladies and gentlemen, we are going to have to become lion
  • 00:24:33.584 --> 00:24:37.855
  • Chasers in order to use our calling, our ability, and our
  • 00:24:37.855 --> 00:24:42.593
  • Influence at this time in history.
  • 00:24:42.593 --> 00:24:44.862
  • If there is to be a revival, a turning to god in every area of
  • 00:24:44.862 --> 00:24:50.067
  • Life, let me tell you something, we need to become lion chasers,
  • 00:24:50.067 --> 00:24:54.471
  • And i am for bringing up a whole generation of lion chasers.
  • 00:24:54.471 --> 00:25:00.110
  • That's the only hope we have in jesus christ.
  • 00:25:00.110 --> 00:25:03.847
  • Ed: at some point, every marriage will run into
  • 00:25:07.217 --> 00:25:10.120
  • Tough times.
  • 00:25:10.120 --> 00:25:11.789
  • Whether it's miscommunication, money, sex, or in-laws, every
  • 00:25:11.789 --> 00:25:15.292
  • Marriage goes through a rocky patch.
  • 00:25:15.292 --> 00:25:18.128
  • Far too often, those rocky patches end up ruining otherwise
  • 00:25:18.128 --> 00:25:22.032
  • Great, potentially super marriages.
  • 00:25:22.032 --> 00:25:25.402
  • But it does not have to be that way.
  • 00:25:25.402 --> 00:25:28.806
  • God designed marriage, and he gave us the keys to have
  • 00:25:28.806 --> 00:25:32.710
  • A marriage that works, a marriage that sizzles.
  • 00:25:32.710 --> 00:25:36.013
  • In my book, "the ten commandments of marriage", i lay
  • 00:25:36.013 --> 00:25:38.582
  • Out ten practical principles to make your marriage super.
  • 00:25:38.582 --> 00:25:44.154
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  • Pastor ed: hardly a day goes by that we don't hear or see that
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  • America is broken.
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  • Today as never before we are surrounded by those who are
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  • Determined to undermine every basic fundamental truth of
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  • God's word.
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  • I am confident that you share my desire to see our america return
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  • To god.
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  • We know that only he can soften hard hearts and heal our land.
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  • Believe they're free and enlightened, but they are
  • 00:26:40.878 --> 00:26:44.114
  • Walking in darkness and need to step into the light of god.
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