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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young

Ed Young - Lion Chasers

July 21, 2025 | S25 E174 | 29:0

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 | July 21, 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
  • 00:14:26.789 --> 00:14:30.726
  • 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
  • 00:14:36.365 --> 00:14:39.668
  • 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?
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  • We've all, we could call out witness after witness, this
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  • Tends to separate us.
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  • 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,
  • 00:15:13.836 --> 00:15:21.310
  • But the most dangerous city to live in america, for your
  • 00:15:21.310 --> 00:15:23.746
  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 00:15:45.467 --> 00:15:50.305
  • Justice will be done or the judge will be fair, so the sword
  • 00:15:50.305 --> 00:15:55.077
  • Tends to separate us, separate us from the love of christ.
  • 00:15:55.077 --> 00:16:00.916
  • 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.
  • 00:16:15.030 --> 00:16:17.566
  • What can separate us from the love of god?
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  • Balcony: nothing.
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  • 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?
  • 00:16:29.411 --> 00:16:32.114
  • And paul in 2 corinthians, he says, "this is what i
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  • Have experienced."
  • 00:16:35.551 --> 00:16:36.885
  • 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
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  • 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 have been constantly on the move.
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  • I've been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in
  • 00:17:04.580 --> 00:17:07.649
  • Danger from fellow jews, in danger from gentiles; in danger
  • 00:17:07.649 --> 00:17:11.186
  • In the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea, in
  • 00:17:11.186 --> 00:17:15.090
  • Danger from false believers.
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  • I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; i
  • 00:17:17.025 --> 00:17:20.796
  • Have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; i
  • 00:17:20.796 --> 00:17:25.701
  • Have been cold and naked.
  • 00:17:25.701 --> 00:17:27.269
  • Besides everything else, i face daily the pressure of my concern
  • 00:17:27.269 --> 00:17:32.141
  • For all the churches.
  • 00:17:32.141 --> 00:17:33.642
  • Who is weak, and i do not feel weak?
  • 00:17:33.642 --> 00:17:36.678
  • 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
  • 00:17:39.948 --> 00:17:43.485
  • Show my weakness.
  • 00:17:43.485 --> 00:17:45.487
  • The god and father of the lord jesus christ, who is to be
  • 00:17:45.487 --> 00:17:48.590
  • Praised forever, knows that i am not lying.
  • 00:17:48.590 --> 00:17:51.994
  • In damascus the governor under king aretas guarded in order to
  • 00:17:51.994 --> 00:17:56.098
  • Arrest me.
  • 00:17:56.098 --> 00:17:57.432
  • But i was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and
  • 00:17:57.432 --> 00:18:00.936
  • Slipped through their hands."
  • 00:18:00.936 --> 00:18:02.271
  • He was a basket case.
  • 00:18:02.271 --> 00:18:03.605
  • Finally he says, "therefore i will boast all the more gladly
  • 00:18:03.605 --> 00:18:06.775
  • With my weaknesses, so that christ's power may rest on me.
  • 00:18:06.775 --> 00:18:12.314
  • That is why, for christ's sake, i delight in weaknesses, in
  • 00:18:12.314 --> 00:18:16.084
  • Insults, in hardships, in persecution, in difficulties.
  • 00:18:16.084 --> 00:18:19.988
  • For when i am weak, then i am strong."
  • 00:18:19.988 --> 00:18:23.058
  • Paul would say, "i know all of these things and more that tend
  • 00:18:23.058 --> 00:18:27.963
  • To separate us from the love of christ."
  • 00:18:27.963 --> 00:18:30.666
  • And he said, "i have discovered, what can separate me from the
  • 00:18:30.666 --> 00:18:35.437
  • Love of christ?"
  • 00:18:35.437 --> 00:18:36.772
  • Paul would say.
  • 00:18:36.772 --> 00:18:38.140
  • Balcony: nothing.
  • 00:18:38.140 --> 00:18:40.809
  • Pastor ed: now, let's just get real practical here, okay?
  • 00:18:40.809 --> 00:18:44.146
  • Wanna get practical?
  • 00:18:44.146 --> 00:18:45.514
  • Very simple, very practical.
  • 00:18:45.514 --> 00:18:48.584
  • Why does god's people, paul, all
  • 00:18:48.584 --> 00:18:54.990
  • Of us, have to go through all
  • 00:18:54.990 --> 00:18:58.393
  • These things?
  • 00:18:58.393 --> 00:19:01.196
  • You know why?
  • 00:19:01.196 --> 00:19:03.799
  • It's so you and i will have a resume.
  • 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:08.470
  • What?
  • 00:19:08.470 --> 00:19:10.939
  • A few years back, i bumped into a verse in 2 samuel.
  • 00:19:10.939 --> 00:19:18.847
  • You read through the bible, you bump into verses, and i want to
  • 00:19:18.847 --> 00:19:22.484
  • Read to you 2 samuel, the latter part of verse 23.
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  • It's talking about somebody named benaiah.
  • 00:19:28.323 --> 00:19:31.660
  • Verse 20, the son of jehoiada, "a valiant fighter from kabzeel,
  • 00:19:31.660 --> 00:19:37.499
  • Performed great exploits.
  • 00:19:37.499 --> 00:19:39.901
  • He struck down moab's two mightiest warriors."
  • 00:19:39.901 --> 00:19:42.904
  • Now listen to this, listen to this.
  • 00:19:42.904 --> 00:19:46.141
  • This benaiah also, "went down into a pit on a snowy day and
  • 00:19:46.141 --> 00:19:54.016
  • Killed a lion."
  • 00:19:54.016 --> 00:19:58.854
  • Did everybody get that?
  • 00:19:58.854 --> 00:20:02.291
  • Now, there's a lot of great victors in the bible, but this
  • 00:20:02.291 --> 00:20:07.062
  • Guy, benaiah, take what he did.
  • 00:20:07.062 --> 00:20:11.566
  • Evidently, there was a man killer lion killing people and
  • 00:20:11.566 --> 00:20:15.871
  • Animals, and benaiah was a lion hunter, a lion chaser, and it
  • 00:20:15.871 --> 00:20:22.577
  • Was a snowy day.
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  • I'm sure he had a club, i'm sure he had a knife, and you can see
  • 00:20:24.880 --> 00:20:28.784
  • Him trying to find this killer lion, and suddenly he locks eyes
  • 00:20:28.784 --> 00:20:33.689
  • With the beast.
  • 00:20:33.689 --> 00:20:36.591
  • And the amazing thing, he runs toward the lion, and the
  • 00:20:36.591 --> 00:20:42.898
  • Lion runs.
  • 00:20:42.898 --> 00:20:45.334
  • A lion runs about 35 miles an hour, in a single bound can
  • 00:20:45.334 --> 00:20:49.905
  • Bound over 30 feet, weighs about 500 pounds, and here benaiah
  • 00:20:49.905 --> 00:20:56.978
  • Begins to pursue the lion.
  • 00:20:56.978 --> 00:20:58.814
  • The snow is falling, the lion's getting ahead of him, but the
  • 00:20:58.814 --> 00:21:02.784
  • Lion evidently didn't know and stumbled into a pit and went
  • 00:21:02.784 --> 00:21:06.788
  • Down into a pit.
  • 00:21:06.788 --> 00:21:09.324
  • We could see benaiah going over there, looking down at that
  • 00:21:09.324 --> 00:21:11.827
  • Lion, and benaiah thought about
  • 00:21:11.827 --> 00:21:17.899
  • What he was doing, i'm sure.
  • 00:21:17.899 --> 00:21:22.204
  • He thought about it, and he said, "you know, it's the wrong
  • 00:21:22.204 --> 00:21:26.875
  • Place to kill that lion in a pit.
  • 00:21:26.875 --> 00:21:30.312
  • And it's the wrong time.
  • 00:21:30.312 --> 00:21:31.646
  • It's snowing, it's slick, can't see."
  • 00:21:31.646 --> 00:21:34.850
  • So, we see benaiah, perhaps he would turn away, but then he did
  • 00:21:34.850 --> 00:21:38.653
  • An amazing thing.
  • 00:21:38.653 --> 00:21:39.988
  • He turned and charged and leaped into that pit on a snowy day.
  • 00:21:39.988 --> 00:21:46.962
  • Amazingly, benaiah came crawling out.
  • 00:21:46.962 --> 00:21:51.199
  • You can be sure he was bloody, he was scratched, the lion took
  • 00:21:51.199 --> 00:21:54.169
  • A hunk out of him, but he killed
  • 00:21:54.169 --> 00:21:57.906
  • A lion in a pit on a snowy day.
  • 00:21:57.906 --> 00:22:04.045
  • Now, what's that all about?
  • 00:22:04.045 --> 00:22:07.215
  • What's about all these hardships we go through?
  • 00:22:07.215 --> 00:22:10.519
  • It's about building a resume, ladies and gentlemen.
  • 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:15.157
  • Later on, we see that david was looking for somebody to be in
  • 00:22:15.157 --> 00:22:19.294
  • Charge of his bodyguards, the most important position the king
  • 00:22:19.294 --> 00:22:23.432
  • Could appoint to protect him from all the threats that came
  • 00:22:23.432 --> 00:22:29.037
  • From every side, and he was looking for a resume to be in
  • 00:22:29.037 --> 00:22:32.774
  • Charge of his bodyguard.
  • 00:22:32.774 --> 00:22:34.109
  • He looked down, here's a guy.
  • 00:22:34.109 --> 00:22:35.944
  • Well, he has his phd in martial arts from the university
  • 00:22:35.944 --> 00:22:39.381
  • Of jerusalem.
  • 00:22:39.381 --> 00:22:40.715
  • Hmm, that's good, right? next guy.
  • 00:22:40.715 --> 00:22:43.285
  • Oh, the next guy here, oh look, he is the undisputed cage
  • 00:22:43.285 --> 00:22:47.022
  • Champion of israel.
  • 00:22:47.022 --> 00:22:48.490
  • Oh, that's good.
  • 00:22:48.490 --> 00:22:49.825
  • Here's a guy who holds a record for lifting the most weights in
  • 00:22:49.825 --> 00:22:53.128
  • The history of the country.
  • 00:22:53.128 --> 00:22:54.463
  • That would be good.
  • 00:22:54.463 --> 00:22:55.797
  • And here's a guy, oh, here's a guy who on a snowy day went down
  • 00:22:55.797 --> 00:22:59.501
  • In the pit and killed a lion.
  • 00:22:59.501 --> 00:23:03.305
  • David said, "i don't have to look at it anymore.
  • 00:23:03.305 --> 00:23:06.041
  • I found my guy.
  • 00:23:06.041 --> 00:23:07.442
  • It's benaiah."
  • 00:23:07.442 --> 00:23:11.780
  • Benaiah went down in that pit and killed that lion, that built
  • 00:23:11.780 --> 00:23:15.550
  • His resume, and he got a very important position in the land
  • 00:23:15.550 --> 00:23:20.555
  • Because of that amazing moment of heroism.
  • 00:23:20.555 --> 00:23:25.961
  • What's the point of all this?
  • 00:23:25.961 --> 00:23:29.331
  • If anybody here thinks we're gonna turn america around, we're
  • 00:23:29.331 --> 00:23:34.870
  • Gonna have the family come alive for god and christ, we're gonna
  • 00:23:34.870 --> 00:23:38.974
  • Change our educational system, we're gonna heal our government,
  • 00:23:38.974 --> 00:23:43.211
  • We're gonna go in the corporate world and bring us and fill with
  • 00:23:43.211 --> 00:23:46.114
  • Integrity, we're gonna bring up children in 21st century, if
  • 00:23:46.114 --> 00:23:50.418
  • Anybody thinks that all this is gonna happen, let me tell you,
  • 00:23:50.418 --> 00:23:54.890
  • It's not gonna happen with christians like most of us who
  • 00:23:54.890 --> 00:23:59.895
  • Are calm, reflective, thoughtful,
  • 00:23:59.895 --> 00:24:07.802
  • Defensive, retroactive.
  • 00:24:07.802 --> 00:24:12.574
  • Uh-uh.
  • 00:24:12.574 --> 00:24:14.242
  • You said, well, i want to be like jesus.
  • 00:24:14.242 --> 00:24:18.213
  • Do you know what jesus was like other than what you learned in
  • 00:24:18.213 --> 00:24:22.217
  • The first and second grade of bible study?
  • 00:24:22.217 --> 00:24:24.953
  • Jesus was a lion chaser, that's who he was.
  • 00:24:24.953 --> 00:24:32.594
  • And ladies and gentlemen, we are going to have to become lion
  • 00:24:32.594 --> 00:24:36.865
  • Chasers in order to use our calling, our ability, and our
  • 00:24:36.865 --> 00:24:41.603
  • Influence at this time in history.
  • 00:24:41.603 --> 00:24:43.872
  • If there is to be a revival, a turning to god in every area of
  • 00:24:43.872 --> 00:24:49.077
  • Life, let me tell you something, we need to become lion chasers,
  • 00:24:49.077 --> 00:24:53.481
  • And i am for bringing up a whole generation of lion chasers.
  • 00:24:53.481 --> 00:24:59.120
  • That's the only hope we have in jesus christ.
  • 00:24:59.120 --> 00:25:02.857
  • Pastor ed: everybody in the world is hungry for something
  • 00:25:06.127 --> 00:25:08.697
  • That gives them assurance about the future and comfort about
  • 00:25:08.697 --> 00:25:12.701
  • What we are facing right today.
  • 00:25:12.701 --> 00:25:16.204
  • What all of us are looking for can only be found in god's word.
  • 00:25:16.204 --> 00:25:21.710
  • That's why now's the time to do all we can to share the proven
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  • Truth of scripture with as many people as possible.
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  • I'm excited about today, i'm excited about tomorrow,
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  • And thank you, through your contributions, through your
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  • Prayers, we scatter seeds of god's truth everywhere
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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
  • 00:26:13.094 --> 00:26:16.698
  • 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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  • Those who have embraced the teachings of the woke culture
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  • Believe they're free and enlightened, but they are
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  • Walking in darkness and need to step into the light of god.
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