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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Lion Chasers | April 26, 2026
- If god be for us.
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- Now and then we push 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.
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- When you see it.
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- What paul is doing,
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- He said, well, then who can be against us?
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- Obviously nobody can, because jesus has already given
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- The best that he had to offer
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- For you and me, and that was his son.
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- So we're able to be right with god.
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- He's already given his best.
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- We've been in romans
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- Chapter eight for a while,
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- And i don't want us just to go through this study
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- And say,
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- You know, when you looked at romans eight, i want romans
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- Eight to be a watershed for the life of every one of us
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- So we
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- Can go back to this basic truth,
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- And it will, for the rest of our lives,
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- Speak god's insights
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- Of how to live.
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- Therefore,
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- It must become very practical.
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- It must become very personal.
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- And i want us to understand
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- How practical it is
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- And how basic and simple it is.
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- Now i'm going to give you a whirlwind, brief tour
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- Of romans.
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- Romans chapter one
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- Through chapter number four.
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- Romans one tells us
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- Nobody has any excuse for not doing god.
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- Wherever you are on the planet, there's a
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- Sparkle of revelation, natural or special,
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- That's available to everybody to turn to all the light
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- That they have available to him.
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- So no one is that excuse.
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- And then paul list a whole series
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- Of heinous life choices,
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- And he says, the answer for
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- 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 going
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- To do my own thing.
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- He gives us the answer as he gives us a diagnosis,
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- And the answer is found in romans chapter number five.
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- Nail that down.
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- Remember that.
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- Romans five tells all of us
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- The answer to life here 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.
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- Therefore, we are right with him,
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- Right with ourselves, and have the capacity
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- To be right with everybody else that touches our life.
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- You got that?
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- Romans chapter five.
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- And then from romans chapter five,
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- We can look at romans six
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- Seven and romans eight
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- Through verse 30.
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- And what that is,
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- Follow me, is answering questions people have
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- When they realize
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- 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,
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- Anticipated questions, logical questions.
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- But then after romans
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- 813, there is that pivotal verse, romans
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- Number 814.
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- And here paul,
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- Wish i had some dirt here
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- Draws a line, a very clear line.
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- And he says,
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- If you are on this side of the line, look at it. 14
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- It says, if you are led by the
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- Spirit of god,
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- You are 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
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- What has already been taught.
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- But right here in the 14th verse he says,
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- If you're not led by the spirit of god,
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- You're not a child of god.
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- But if you're led by the spirit of god,
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- You are a child of god.
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- Very simple and a
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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.
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- Being led by your spirit.
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- That's not it, folks.
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- When we become a christian,
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- 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,
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- I 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
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- 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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- It also it's for reaching.
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- It reaches all
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- The way through this life, all the way through eternity.
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- And to be led by the spirit means exactly this.
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- Your thoughts, your mind,
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- Your passions,
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- Your heart
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- And what you do.
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- Your body. your life.
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- You got it.
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- Therefore, we don't have to worry
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- About being led by the spirit of god
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- If we are genuinely in christ, and christ
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- Is genuinely in us.
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- Because do you have to wake up in the morning and say ears?
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- I sure hope you hear today.
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- Feet.
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- 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.
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- Do we know 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
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- Christ is our savior and our lord.
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- And as a result of that, we move right into romans 828.
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- How we love that verse.
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- And it's logical.
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- It's logical.
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- We're led by the spirit of god.
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- Therefore, all things work together for good
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- To those who love the lord
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- And those who are the called according to his purpose.
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- Of course, when the family of god.
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- All things.
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- As a result of that, we went over those big
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- Doctrines as to how we know this is true.
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- We have been praying, knowing we have been preordained.
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- We have been called.
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- We have been justified. we've been glorified.
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- We've gone over those $50 theological principles.
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- And now we come to where
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- We left off a few weeks ago
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- And we say, well, what do you say to these things
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- In light
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- That we're not in the family of god, we're being led by
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- The spirit of god, by surrender and walking through life.
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- Well, what do you say to these things?
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- And then we
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- Had a little give and take.
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- I said, if god be for us.
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- You said, who can be against us?
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- All right.
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- If god be for us.
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- And the choir said, nobody,
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- Nobody.
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- Let's do it again.
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- If god be for us.
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- Now and then we push 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.
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- When you see it.
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- What paul is doing,
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- He said, well, then who can be against us?
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- Obviously nobody can, because jesus has already given
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- The best that he had to offer
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- For you and me, and that was his son.
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- So 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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- Little slow.
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- Quiet.
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- Who can be against us?
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- Eight plus.
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- And then he says,
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- Well, who in the world can charge us with anything?
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- You you feel like, well, i'm in christ,
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- But i'm being you who can charge us.
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- The devil tries to.
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- Our conscience tries to.
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- And nobody can charge us.
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- Folks, we're in the family of god.
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- 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,
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- The jury, and the judge says, hey, you're slick, you're free.
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- 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 can charge us for 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 going to tell you, nobody can condemn us.
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- Why? because.
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- And by the way, we repeat these things.
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- So we'll get them nailed down.
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- You know.
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- 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.
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- Nobody can condemn us because the cross.
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- Jesus. it took all of your condemnation.
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- My condemnation. roussel.
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- And also because the resurrection.
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- Because of easter.
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- And remember the resurrection
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- Verifies everything jesus did and said to myself,
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- Well, you know, jesus said, he's going to die
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- So i can get right with god.
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- I don't know if that's true or not.
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- It sounds mystical to me.
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- The resurrection is that hey, that nails it down.
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- That's evidence and 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.
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- Seated. interesting.
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- In the temple.
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- There are no seats.
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- You know, they're in the temple where they offered
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- All those sacrifices for those hundreds of years.
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- And there's no place for anybody to sit down. why?
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- Because the priest had to keep
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- On offering sacrifices for sin over and over.
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- Sheep, goat, lambs, whatever, over and over for sin.
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- But now we see jesus as at the right hand of god.
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- He is seated while
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- The sacrifice
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- Forever has been fully paid.
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- So therefore.
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- We get to this point.
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- And we turn around.
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- And we have another question that we ask.
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- You see it there in the scriptures.
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- Have your bibles open.
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- It says,
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- Who shall separate us from the love of christ?
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- And by the way, that who needs to be.
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- What.
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- Balcony awaken.
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- You've got an assignment.
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- What can separate us?
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- The love of christ.
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- I want you to shout.
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- Nothing, boy.
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- Hey there. you by the hustle choir?
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- We've got a choir up there.
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- What can separate us?
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- For the love of christ.
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- Who can separate the love of christ?
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- Now we gotta nail this down, folks,
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- Everybody wants a happy home.
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- But let's be honest.
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- A happy home doesn't just happen.
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- It's built.
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- It's shaped.
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- Day by day by day.
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- That's why i want to encourage you to read
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- This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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- This 90 day devotional is from
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- Decades of real life pastoring,
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- Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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- In the page of this
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- Book each day you will find a simple rhythm
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- As of scripture,
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- Practical, down to earth navigation,
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- And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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- Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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- Your life.
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- Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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- Everything else changes.
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- Conversations change.
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- Different kinds of persecution.
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- Now the heat is going to pick up
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- Because the world is going in the wrong direction.
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- And before long now it cost a little bit to be a christian.
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- It's going to 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, famine, not just for that food.
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- We may experience some of that too, but famine means.
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- 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.
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- Nakedness is vulnerability.
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- I mean, it's shameful.
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- It's i have no place to hide.
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- Have you ever felt some of these?
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- We've all we could call out.
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- What witness i have to witness.
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- This tends to separate us
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- In danger.
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- 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,
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- New orleans, houston.
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- But the most dangerous city to live in america,
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- For your information, is saint 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
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- In which we say, well, lord, we're separated from you.
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- Then the sword, the sword here stands not only
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- For a physical thought.
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- It stands for in the judicial area, in the courts.
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- No one wants to walk in court. today
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- Because you don't know if
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- Justice will be done or the judge will be fair.
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- So the sword tends to separate us.
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- Separate us for the love of christ.
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- Now, you might ask.
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- What does paul know about all of this?
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- Why could he write so authoritatively
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- That what can separate us
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- From the love of god?
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- Whoa!
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- The choirs ahead. balcony.
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- What can separate us?
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- The love of god
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- Who can separate us
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- Now we say, paul,
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- You're writing so dogmatically and so authoritatively,
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- What do you know?
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- And paul in second corinthians he says,
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- This is what i have experienced.
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- Listen to this.
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- I have worked much harder and been in prison
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- More frequently and been flogged more severely
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- And been exposed to death again and again.
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- Five times i've received from the jews 40 lashes minus one.
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- Three times i was beaten, was robbed
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- Once i was pelted with stones, three times i was shipwrecked.
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- I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
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- I mean constantly on the move.
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- I've been in danger from rivers
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- And dangerous from bandits, and dangerous from fellow jews,
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- And danger from gentiles, and danger in the city,
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- And danger in the country,
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- And danger at sea, in danger from false believers.
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- I have labored and toil, and if often gone without sleep,
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- I have known hunger and thirst, and have often gone
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- Without food.
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- I have been cold and naked.
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- Besides everything else i face daily,
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- The pressure of my concern for all the churches
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- Who is weak and i do not feel weak,
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- Who is led into sin and i do not inwardly burn.
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- If i may boast, said paul, i will boast
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- Of the things that show my weakness,
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- The god and father in the lord jesus christ,
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- Who is to be praised forever, knows that i am not lying.
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- In damascus, the governor under king
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- Artigas guarded in under to arrest me.
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- But i was lord in a basket from a window in the wall,
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- And slipped through their hands.
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- He was a basket case found, he says, therefore
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- I will boast all the more gladly with my weaknesses,
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- So that
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- Christ power may rest on me.
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- That is why, for christ's sake, i delight in weaknesses
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- And insults and hardships, in persecution and difficulties.
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- For when i am weak, then i am strong.
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- Paul would say, i know all of these things and more
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- That tend to separate us from the love of christ.
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- And he said, i have discovered
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- What can separate me the love of christ.
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- Paul would say.
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- Now let's just get real practical here, okay?
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- I want to get practical.
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- Very simple, very practical.
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- Why? does god's people,
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- Paul, all of us
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- Had to go through all these things.
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- You know why?
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- It's so you and
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- I will have a resumé.
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- What?
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- Few years back, i bumped into
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- A verse.
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- In second samuel,
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- You know, you read through the bible,
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- You bump into verses.
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- And i want to read the second samuel.
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- The latter part of verse 23.
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- It's talking about somebody named ben.
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- And i'll
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- Verse 20 is the son of jihad.
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- The a valiant fighter from zeal
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- Perform great exploits.
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- He struck down moab to mind his warriors.
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- Now listen to this, listen to this.
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- There's been.
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- And i also went down
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- And two appeared on a snowy day.
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- And killed a lion.
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- Did everybody get that?
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- Now there's a lot of great victors in the bible.
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- But this guy ben and i
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- Tell you what he did.
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- Evidently there was a man killer lion
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- Killing people and animals.
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- And ben on fire was a lion hunter, a lion chaser.
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- And it was a snowy day.
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- I'm sure he had a club.
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- I'm sure he had a knife.
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- And you can see him trying to find this killer lion.
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- And suddenly he locks eyes with the beast.
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- And the amazing thing
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- He runs toward the lion.
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- And the lion runs.
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- A lion runs about 35 miles an hour,
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- And the single bound can bound over 30ft,
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- Weighs about 500 pounds.
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- And here ben and i begins to pursue the line.
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- The snow is falling, the lions getting ahead of him.
- 00:20:50.828 --> 00:20:54.598
- But the lion evidently didn't know and stumble into a pit
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- And went down into a bit.
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- We can see ben and i going over.
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- Look at down that lion.
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- And ben and i.
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- Thought about what he was doing.
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- I'm sure
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- He thought about. it and
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- He said, you know, it's
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- It's the wrong place to kill that line in a pit,
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- And it's the wrong time.
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- It's snowing.
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- You slick, can't see.
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- So we see ben and i.
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- Perhaps he would turn away.
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- But then he did an amazing thing.
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- He turned
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- And charged and leaped into that
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- Pit on a snowy day.
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- Amazingly, ben and i came crawling out.
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- You can be sure he was bloody.
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- He was scratched.
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- A lion took a hunk.
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- I'd have been,
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- But he killed a lion in a pit
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- On a snowy day.
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- Now, what is that all about?
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- What's about all these hardships we go through?
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- It's about building a résumé.
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- Ladies and gentlemen.
- 00:22:06.937 --> 00:22:09.840
- Later on, we see that david was looking for
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- Somebody to be in charge of his bodyguards.
- 00:22:12.343 --> 00:22:15.980
- The most important position the king could appoint
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- To protect him.
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- All the threats that came from every side.
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- And he was looking for a résumé to to be in charge
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- Of his bodyguards.
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- He looked down.
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- Here's a guy.
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- Well, he has his phd in martial arts
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- From the university of jerusalem. that's good.
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- All right.
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- Next guy, the next guy here.
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- Oh, look, he is the.
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- Undisputed cage champion of israel.
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- Oh. that's good.
- 00:22:44.408 --> 00:22:45.443
- Here's a guy who who holds the record
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- For lifting the most weight in the history of the country.
- 00:22:47.611 --> 00:22:50.548
- That would be good. and here's a guy.
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- Oh, here's a guy who owned a snowy day,
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- Went down in the pit and killed a lion.
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- David said, i don't have to look at anymore.
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- I found my guy. it's been a near.
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- Beat, and i went down in that period
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- And killed that line that built his résumé.
- 00:23:10.601 --> 00:23:13.537
- And he got a very important position in the land
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- Because of that amazing moment
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- Of heroism.
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- What's the point of all of this?
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- If anybody here thinks
- 00:23:26.650 --> 00:23:29.553
- We're going to turn america around,
- 00:23:29.553 --> 00:23:32.256
- We're going to have the family come alive for god in christ.
- 00:23:32.256 --> 00:23:36.227
- We're going to change our educational system.
- 00:23:36.227 --> 00:23:38.929
- We're going to heal our government.
- 00:23:38.929 --> 00:23:41.165
- We're going to go
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- On the corporate world and bring us and full of integrity.
- 00:23:42.366 --> 00:23:45.402
- We're going to bring up children 21st century.
- 00:23:45.402 --> 00:23:47.872
- If anybody thinks that all this is going to happen,
- 00:23:47.872 --> 00:23:52.009
- Let me tell you, it's not going to happen with christians.
- 00:23:52.009 --> 00:23:54.745
- Like most of us
- 00:23:54.745 --> 00:23:57.548
- Who are.
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- Calm,
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- Reflective,
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- Thoughtful,
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- Defensive,
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- Retroactive,
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- You said, well,
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- I want to be like jesus.
- 00:24:14.131 --> 00:24:17.268
- Do you know what jesus was like.
- 00:24:17.268 --> 00:24:20.070
- Other than what you learned in the first and second grade?
- 00:24:20.070 --> 00:24:22.907
- A bible study?
- 00:24:22.907 --> 00:24:24.241
- Jesus was a lion chaser.
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- That's who he was.
- 00:24:27.244 --> 00:24:31.582
- And ladies and gentlemen,
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- We are going to have to become lion chasers
- 00:24:33.684 --> 00:24:37.421
- In order to use our calling,
- 00:24:37.421 --> 00:24:40.157
- Our bills, and our influence at this time in history.
- 00:24:40.157 --> 00:24:43.794
- If there is to be a revival,
- 00:24:43.794 --> 00:24:46.330
- A turning to god in every area of life.
- 00:24:46.330 --> 00:24:49.967
- Let me tell you something.
- 00:24:49.967 --> 00:24:51.402
- We need to become lion chasers, and i am for bringing up
- 00:24:51.402 --> 00:24:55.639
- A whole generation of lion chasers.
- 00:24:55.639 --> 00:24:59.577
- That's the only hope we have in jesus christ.
- 00:24:59.577 --> 00:25:07.217
- Everybody wants a happy home.
- 00:25:07.851 --> 00:25:10.854
- But let's be honest.
- 00:25:10.854 --> 00:25:12.356
- A happy home doesn't just happen.
- 00:25:12.356 --> 00:25:15.259
- It's built.
- 00:25:15.259 --> 00:25:16.527
- It's shaped.
- 00:25:16.527 --> 00:25:17.962
- Day by day by day.
- 00:25:17.962 --> 00:25:20.097
- That's why i want to encourage you to read
- 00:25:20.097 --> 00:25:22.666
- This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
- 00:25:22.666 --> 00:25:25.903
- This 90 day devotional is from
- 00:25:25.903 --> 00:25:28.405
- Decades of real life pastoring,
- 00:25:28.405 --> 00:25:31.675
- Counseling, and building my own home and family.
- 00:25:31.675 --> 00:25:35.045
- In the page of this
- 00:25:35.512 --> 00:25:36.513
- Book each day you will find a simple rhythm
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- As of scripture,
- 00:25:40.250 --> 00:25:42.086
- Practical, down to earth navigation,
- 00:25:42.086 --> 00:25:45.022
- And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
- 00:25:45.022 --> 00:25:49.526
- We're not talking about something complicated here.
- 00:25:49.526 --> 00:25:52.162
- We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
- 00:25:52.162 --> 00:25:55.165
- 15 minutes.
- 00:25:55.165 --> 00:25:56.867
- Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
- 00:25:56.867 --> 00:25:59.570
- Your home on what matters the most in christ
- 00:25:59.570 --> 00:26:03.974
- Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
- 00:26:03.974 --> 00:26:07.244
- Your life.
- 00:26:07.544 --> 00:26:08.679
- Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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- Everything else changes.
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- Conversations change.
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- Priorities change.
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- Hearts begin to change.
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- Take that first step today.
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- Call the number or visit the website below
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- And get cardinal rules for a happy home
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- And begin your 90 day journey
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- Right now.
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- As we close
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- Today, let me encourage you.
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- Stay in god's word in the bible.
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- It's not a simply a book.
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- And we read.
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- It is truth that reads us.
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- It guides us when we're uncertain.
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- Strengthens us when we're weak and steadies us
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- When life feels unsteady.
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- Let his promises shape your perspective.
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- Faith grows when it's nourished.
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- Till next time.
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- Let's continue on the winning walk with jesus christ.
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- And he'll take us in this life and in the next life.
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- All the way to victory.
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