Ed Young - Living Up To Your Potential

November 9, 2025 | 29:0

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Living Up To Your Potential | November 9, 2025

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Dr. ed young: from native american lore,
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There is a story that i just can't forget.
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An indian brave was walking under a large, high cliff,
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And he looked down and saw an eagle's egg,
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And he picked up that eagle egg,
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And he couldn't climb the cliff to put it back in the nest,
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So he went and found some prairie chickens,
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Some prairie chicken eggs, and the hen was hatching them,
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And he took that large eagle egg
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And put it among all the little prairie chicken eggs,
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And the mother prairie chicken never knew the difference.
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So all the prairie chickens hatched, and the eagle hatched,
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And the eagle just assumed he was a prairie chicken!
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And he would cluck, and scratch, and grub for worms,
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And once in a while fly about,
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You know, a foot or two off the ground,
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About 10 or 12 yards, and he lived his life an eagle,
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But yet thinking he was a prairie chicken.
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And then about the middle of his life,
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He looked up one day in the heavens,
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And he saw this bird
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Soaring through the sky with golden wings,
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Catching a wind, and (exhales quickly) and boy,
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He looked at his buddy and the eagle said, "look at that!
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"what is that"?
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He said, "that's an eagle, a changeling eagle.
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"that's the king, the chief of all birds."
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Said, "don't you pay any attention
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"you'll never be able to fly like that!"
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So the eagle just looked up and admired the power,
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The majesty, and the magnificence
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Of that flying eagle,
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Thinking all the time he was just a prairie chicken,
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Never realizing that he had all the capacity
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To be the eagle that god had designed.
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He lived a long time and died.
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An eagle died.
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His whole life, he thought he was a prairie chicken.
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There's a lot of prairie chickens in here today!
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Lot of us!
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Prairie chickens.
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God had plans, a design for your life, for my life.
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And we can't do anything about our environment.
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We can't do anything about our dna,
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But we can do a whole lot about the choices we made,
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And a lot of times, we've made choices
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That lead us into a prairie chicken kind of lifestyle,
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Rather than a lifestyle of an eagle.
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And by an eagle, doesn't mean that we're wealthy,
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Or successful, or popular, or have a whole lot of pleasure,
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A whole of toys, that's not success.
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That's not what i mean by an eagle.
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An eagle is someone who becomes
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Everything god designed that person to become.
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But still, a lot of us are content
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To being prairie chickens!
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And god must look down and say,
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"you know, when is she going to wake up?
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"when is he going to come to his senses
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"and begin to make wise choices"?
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Solomon is talking about the fool,
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And he's talking about the wise.
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He's talking about folly, and he's talking about good sense,
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And that's what he's dealing with in this chapter.
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Look at the later part of verse 18:
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But one sinner destroys much good.
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Anybody want to debate with that?
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You go to a group,
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And one idiot there can ruin the whole party,
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The whole gathering, the whole family reunion.
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A whole high school reunion.
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Man, and so my point is,
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One sin can destroy somebody's life.
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I had a friend in atlanta.
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He was an outstanding young man, great wife, kids.
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His wife one day told him that she'd had a brief affair
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With someone that they knew,
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And he just got up out of bed and got his shotgun.
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Said, "i'm gonna go kill him..."
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And his wife grabbed him and said,
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"no, no, no, no, we can work it out."
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And he put the shotgun down.
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But the next morning, his wife called the police.
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Said she was frightened, and she was.
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Told the kids.
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Make a long story short, they were divorced, totally ruined.
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His employer fired him.
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He could not get a job, and years ago,
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His wife married the man she'd had a little affair with,
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And now they're divorced,
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And the whole family is messed up from top to bottom,
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And this guy has had a tough time
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Having any kind of employment, because of what?
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Five minutes of acting like a prairie chicken
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In a crisis situation.
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It doesn't take long to mess up your life
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Or to mess up my life, does it?
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Little things, a little sin.
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And then look what else
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A prairie chicken doesn't understand:
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Dead flies make a perfumer of oil stink,
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And a little foolishness is weightier than wisdom and honor.
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A fly in the ointment. ever heard of that phrase?
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Boy, there's a fly in the ointment?
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Man, a little fly can make you question
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The whole thing you're eating.
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I remember the story of the guy who ordered soup,
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And there was a fly in his soup.
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He called the waiter over and says,
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"what is that fly doing in my soup"?
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And the waiter looked in and says,
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"well, i think he's doing the backstroke."
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The bottom line is, a little fly in the ointment,
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One little sin, little thing.
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Prairie chickens, they don't get it!
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They don't realize the importance of little things.
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And then, solomon continues with the same line of thinking.
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Look at it.
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He says, "a wise man's heart directs him toward the right,
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"but the foolish heart directs him toward the left."
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There you have the democratic, republican party, right here!
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I didn't write it!
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It's right in the bible!
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(congregation applauds)
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And he says, "even when the fool walks along the road,
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"his sense is lacking and he demonstrates to everyone
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"that he is a fool."
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What is he saying?
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He's saying a little sin gets you in trouble!
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He said a little fly in anything destroys the whole,
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And he says one step in the wrong direction,
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Your destination will be a disaster.
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If you are standing here
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And you want to walk a straight line for 100 yards,
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And you start off one degree,
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Just one degree off that straight line,
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You will miss your goal by 5.2 feet.
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Okay?
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If you're standing right here
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And you decide to go to the moon,
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And you're just one degree off on your trip to the moon,
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You will miss the moon by 4,196 miles.
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If you're standing here
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And you decide you want to go to the sun
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And you're one degree off,
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You'll miss the sun by 1.6 million miles.
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A little thing means a lot,
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And the whole purpose of solomon
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Is saying let's just look at your life,
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And i would say, or you and i, we have some birds in us,
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Some prairie chicken in us, and therefore,
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We've got to look at these little things
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That we'd explained away and realize as life goes on,
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As it pushes out,
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It can end a million miles from a way we wanted to end up.
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When you get where you're going right now,
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Where will you be?
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You see, if god doesn't work a change in our lives,
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If you're jealous now,
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You're 94 years old in a rest home,
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You're gonna be more jealous then than you are now!
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The meanest people in the world are in rest homes!
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And the sweetest people in the world are in rest homes,
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Because what we are now, we're becoming more,
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And more, and more of that.
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Unless we meet christ,
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We're living like a prairie chicken,
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We're gonna end up more prairie chicken
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Than when we began because we started a wrong direction.
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A little sin, a little misstep destination.
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Now, then, then solomon starts.
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He tells us and shows us
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What a prairie chicken's lifestyle is.
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And i'm gonna move so fast, you'd better hold on,
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Because these are all silly little things
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That prairie chickens do, you and i,
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And it's the mark of a prairie chicken
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And the mark of a fool.
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Look what he says: "if the ruler's temper
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Rises against you, "do not abandon your position
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"because composure allays great offenses."
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Here's a prairie chicken who has a job,
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And the boss comes in and reprimands him.
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Maybe the boss is wrong; maybe the boss is right;
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The boss is violent.
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Then the prairie chicken resigns!
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"i've got my pride!"
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What did solomon say? he said, you know, back up.
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Take a time out.
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Consider the whole situation,
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And it may be the beginning of wisdom.
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If you are young, you may not know this.
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If you're old, you know this:
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It's easier to get a job when you have a job.
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When you don't have a job and you had a job,
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It's real tough to get a job!
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Mark that down.
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That is not prairie chicken wisdom,
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That's intelligent wisdom.
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So he's saying, here's somebody,
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Oh somebody-- - "oh, i resign!
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"i'm out, i'm not gonna..." no, no.
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He says use some composure cool down.
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Good advice.
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Then he talks about leadership
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And it doesn't mean you're a ceo or you're a foreman,
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Or you're a captain.
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It may mean you're the head of a home, a father.
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Maybe you have responsibility for children, a mother,
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And he says all of this is prairie chicken leadership.
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Boy, we got a lot of it around, as we all know.
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Look at it, verse 8: "folly is set in many exalted places
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While rich men sit in humble places.
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I've seen slaves riding on horses and princes
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Walking like slaves on land.
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He's not talking about slaves or princes.
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What he's really saying, he said i've seen people
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Who have great ability,
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And they're working for people who have less ability,
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And he says, that's things upside down.
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He said that's what happens to prairie chickens.
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You get a prairie chicken in a place of authority,
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You got a problem, ladies and gentleman.
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I don't care what it is.
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A prairie chicken, man, they're exacting,
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They, they're overbearing.
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They don't understand anything about love, and graciousness,
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And compatibility, or how to reprimand,
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Or deal with a situation through intelligence,
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And love, and graciousness.
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Boy, that will ruin anything.
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A prairie chicken in leadership
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Is a disaster every single time,
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And you see so many people
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Making crazy statements in this world,
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Taking unbelievable positions in this world.
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Prairie chickens unfortunately have been
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Elected to high office and hold important positions
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In almost every corporation, company,
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Organization on the planet,
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And boy, when they show themselves,
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It is an ugly sight indeed to behold!
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We're talking about prairie chicken leadership here!
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And look at all the things that happen, quickly!
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He digs a pit, may fall into it.
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You dig a pit to capture somebody else;
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You fall in your own trap!
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And a serpent may bite him who breaks through a wall.
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Here is somebody
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Breaking through a wall to steal something,
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And they get bitten by a serpent
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As they're trying to break in and steal something.
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I thought about the guy
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Who was holding up the convenience store,
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And he went in there and he told the guy,
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He said, "you have change for a 50?"
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And he put a 50 dollar bill on the counter,
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And the man went over there
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And opened the cash register to get him change,
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And the robber went over there and pulled a gun and said,
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"give me all the money in the cash register, all of it."
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So he dumped out all the money in the cash register,
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Put it in a bag, and ran out.
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And the police came and said, "well, what happened"?
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He said, "well, he left his 50 bill here."
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He said, "how much was in the cash register"?
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Oh, said, "a little over $30."
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(congregation laughs)
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If i'd run the convenience store,
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I'd say, i hope he comes back tomorrow!
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So we have here stupidity involved.
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And then he talks about
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He who quarries stone may be hurt by them.
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You're mining stone and rock, you better be careful.
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You can hurt by it...
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Then he says, who splits logs may be in danger by them
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How many here have ever split logs?
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You split logs? if you're not careful, bang!
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You'll hit your foot, cut your toe off.
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Man, prairie chickens do that all the time, don't they?
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He's giving us a warning of simple, silly things.
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And then he says, if the ax is dull,
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It does not sharpen the edge,
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Then he must exert more strength.
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Hello!
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You're just hammering away, trying to cut a log,
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Or cut a tree with an ax that's dull.
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Wouldn't it be good advice to sharpen the ax a little bit?
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It'd be a lot easier and quicker and better?
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No, no, no! prairie chickens don't get that!
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We just hammer on through! oh me.
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Sounds like things i've done.
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If a serpent bites before being charmed,
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There is no profit to the charmer.
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Here's somebody who, who charmed snakes in that day.
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By the way, snakes do not have ears.
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They have little slits.
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They respond only to vibrations.
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If the charmer has a snake in a bag
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And he forgets about him,
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The snake comes out and bites him, prairie chicken.
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I mean, a prairie chicken, every single time.
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Words from the mouth of a wise man are gracious,
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While the lips of a prairie chicken consume him.
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At the beginning of his talking is folly,
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And the end of it is wicked madness;
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Yet, the fool multiplies words.
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No man knows what will happen,
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And who can tell him what will come after him?
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Words, words, words, words!
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Like the wife who said, "all my husband do
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"is he talks, talks, talks, talks."
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I said, what is he talking about?
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And she said, "he never does say."
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Ladies and gentlemen, when i am talking,
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Or when you are talking, we're not learning a thing!
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We've got two ears, one mouth.
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Does that tell you anything?
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The prairie chicken talks, talks, talks, talks, talks.
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The toil of a fool, verse 15, so wearies him
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That he does not even know how to go to a city.
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You just work, work, work, why?
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I don't know, i just work, work, work.
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How foolish can it be?
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Blessed are you, o' land,
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Whose king, whose leader is of nobility
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And princes who sit at the appropriate time,
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Who eat at the appropriate time
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For strength and not for drunkenness.
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Here is someone who's incompetent
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Because they're living a dissipated life.
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That happens all the time in the world.
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Prairie chicken.
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And then look at verse 18.
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Through, indolence, laziness, the rafters sag,
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And through slackness, the house leaks.
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Men prepare a meal for enjoyment and wine
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And make them merry, and money's the answer.
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The house is falling in,
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But we're gonna eat, drink, and be merry, you know.
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Wouldn't bet on a hurricane!
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Let's have a hurricane party, and i'll get drunk
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And hope it comes and kills us.
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Happens all the time, doesn't it?
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Prairie chicken thinking.
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Then verse 22.
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Furthermore, in your bedchamber, do not curse the king,
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Somebody in leadership.
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In your sleeping rooms, do not curse a rich man,
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Somebody who is in authority
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For a bird of heaven may carry the sound
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And the winged creature will make the matter known.
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This is we get our expression, a little bird told me.
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That's where it comes from, right there that verse.
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How does that happen?
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I've got a friend.
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He had a three year old, and he had a boss, and he said,
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His boss came and, and the three year old, he said,
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"mikey, this is" he gave the name of his boss,
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And three year old said,
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"oh yes, you're the one they call stupid!"
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(congregation laughs)
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A little bird told me!
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You know, when we're negative in our family
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And our kids hear us castigate this person,
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Talk about this, be upset about this, complain about this,
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And you wonder why they grow up
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To be complainers and negatives?
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You go to church, you say,
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Boy, in church today, did you hear what was said?
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I didn't like that.
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Boy, in church, what they did
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And they grow up not wanting to worship the house of
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I wonder how that happened, dad, mom?
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You see, there's a lot of.
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(phone rings)
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Let me answer that phone.
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(congregation laughs)
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(chuckles)
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Other day, i was in a meeting, and my phone rang!
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It's the most embarrassing thing i've ever seen in my life!
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Prairie chickens, prairie chickens.
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(congregation laughs and applauds)
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Now!
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Let's land this plane briefly!
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Let's find a prairie chicken
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And just stretch him out and look at him.
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You know one of the biggest prairie chickens
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In the bible was jacob?
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Oh yeah, abraham, man, he was a slick--
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He passed his wife off as his sister twice to save his hide.
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Isaac means laughter, and he was a joke.
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He was a passive father, and nothing is more deadly
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To a family than a passive dad.
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Write that down. and then you have jacob.
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His name means flimflam man, con-artist, slick.
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Exactly what his name means.
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He lived up to it just like his grandfather and his father.
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And then jacob conned his brother, esau,
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Out of the main inheritance in the family
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In conjunction with his mother,
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Who was a slick operator in and of herself.
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And then esau comes and says, "i'm going to kill ya"
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And jacob runs to the other side of the fertile crescent,
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The tigris and euphrates river,
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And he's in hiding in order to save his hide
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From his brother, esau, who was gonna kill him
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Because he stole all of his inheritance.
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Man, some kind of guy, isn't he?
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And he gets there, and he goes up to his uncle laban
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In his mother's side of the family,
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And he hires him to look after the flocks.
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He is a very successful shepherd, and finally, laban,
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Laban comes to him and says,
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"look, we want you to stay here
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"and be in charge of my flocks.
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"what will i have to pay you?"
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You know what his answer was?
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Rachel. oh yeah!
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Rachel, the younger, beautiful daughter of laban.
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"i want rachel."
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Laban says, "okay, we'll cut a deal
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"where you can have rachel."
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And i want you to listen to these verses.
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They are so descriptive.
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Stay with me!
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We see a prairie chicken in action in jacob.
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Genesis 29:16 following.
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Now laban had two daughters.
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The name of the older was leah.
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The name of the younger was rachel,
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And leah's eyes were weak.
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Don't know exactly what that means,
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But rachel was beautiful of form and face.
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She was a knock-out, miss america.
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Now jacob loved rachel, so he said,
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"i will serve you seven years
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"for your younger daughter, rachel"
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Laban said, "it is better that i give her to you
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"than to just another man.
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Stay with me.
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"so jacob served seven years for rachel
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And they seemed to him but for a few days
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Because of his love for her.
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And then we see, verse 21, then jacob said to laban,
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"give me my wife, for my time is completed"
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And literally it says here in the translation,
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"that i may go into her" it says,
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"that i might have sex with her."
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That's literally in the hebrew. now what happened?
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The bible story, it's two con art artists.
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Laban was slick, jacob was slick.
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Who was the slickest?
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And so, what laban did, they had a big wedding.
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Everybody got drunk, and so it came time for the father,
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As was tradition, to take the daughter out to her husband,
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Who was waiting in the tent.
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He took leah and covered her up
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In all kinds of beautiful gowns,
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And took her and gave her to jacob.
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He thought it was rachel.
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He was so drunk, he didn't know.
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It was dark; and so the marriage was consummated there.
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And then you have this terrific little verse here
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That you might overlook in verse 25, genesis 29.
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It says, so it came about in the morning that behold,
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It was leah!
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"well, i thought i married rachel.
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"i went to bed, oh, and it is leah."
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What's the point?
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Jacob was never loved by his dad.
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Jacob lost the love of his mother.
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Jacob was hated by his brother, who put a contract on him.
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He knew nothing about the love of god,
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But when he saw beautiful rachel, he said,
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"ah!
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"if i could have that love,
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"i would have everything worked out in my life.
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"if i could have her, i would be complete.
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"i would be whole.
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"i would be somebody.
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"i would have purpose."
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Follow me, ladies and gentlemen!
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Nobody and nothing under the sun
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Will satisfy any human being.
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You say, oh, if i could have that rachel,
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For some would be that particular job.
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The rachel for some would be, 'if i could have that house.
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If i could have those kind of children.
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If i could take that trip.
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If i could have those kind of resources.
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If i could have this, this.
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There are a lot of things in this world
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We think are rachels, and they'd satisfy us.
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But if we ever get them, you'll discover every single time
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That you thought you went to bed with a rachel,
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And you had rachel, and every time,
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You'll wake up with a leah that will not satisfy.
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There's only one thing that'll satisfy.
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Nothing under the sun will satisfy,
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But him who came from above the sun,
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Who is our bridegroom, and all of us are his bride.
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He alone in this life
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Will begin for us to find satisfaction in this life,
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And in the life to come, and when he comes into a life,
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He wants to come and give us that which we most need
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As christians, godly wisdom.
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Because we're sick, most of us,
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Of acting and living like prairie chickens!
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♪♪♪
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Ed: are you living up to your potential?
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What a tragic story!
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An eagle that was meant to soar in the heavens
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Lived out his whole life
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Thinking he was a prairie chicken.
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Sadly, tragically, many of us are living out our lives
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Exactly like that eagle.
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We're supposed to soar and we're down in the dirt,
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We're prairie chickens!
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The good news for you and me today is that we have a choice.
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Do you want to soar?
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Allow god to transform you
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Into all that he has designed for you to become.
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Take a moment, give us a call.
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We want to show you that this life-changing relationship with
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Jesus, what its all about.
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And don't forget to tune in next week right here
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As we continue to learn how to fulfill everything
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God has put in us for this moment in our lives,
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We learn that together as we open the bible and study it
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Right here on "the winning walk" with the lord jesus christ.
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Ed Young - Living Up To Your Potential

November 9, 2025 | 29:0

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