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Ed Young - Looking For "It"

March 16, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - Looking For "It"
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Looking For "It" | March 16, 2026
  • If i had five rings,
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  • You know i would wear them
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  • All the time.
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  • And i would wear them on,
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  • You know, both hands.
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  • In case those over here didn't know
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  • That.
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  • And i would go around
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  • And you'd say, well, ha ha ha.
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  • What?
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  • You've been to the super bowl.
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  • How did you know?
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  • I could you tell?
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  • I try to keep that.
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  • I try to think a very.
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  • Low profile here, of what
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  • I've accomplished.
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  • Narcissus
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  • Is one of the classic figures
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  • In mythology.
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  • He was going home
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  • From a successful hunt,
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  • And he happened to go
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  • By a little pool of water,
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  • Deep and crystal clear,
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  • And narcissus looked in that pool
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  • And he saw his own image.
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  • And immediately he fell in love with himself.
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  • He thought,
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  • I've never seen any figures so beautiful,
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  • So handsome as that figure in that pool.
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  • And he walked over the edge and he looked at himself,
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  • And he said, i'm more attractive than apollo.
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  • I have more appeal than back us.
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  • And he just couldn't take his eyes off
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  • His own reflected image.
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  • The only person who observed him was echo.
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  • Narcissus was there, son of a river god.
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  • Echo was a nymph, a tree nymph.
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  • And she watched him and observed him,
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, we live in a generation
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  • That is absolutely filled with narcissistic people,
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  • And many of us are caught up in it.
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  • The millennials, 18 to 38,
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  • Are generally thoroughgoing,
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  • Narcissistic young people.
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  • How do we know that?
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  • Facebook.
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  • Ipad iphone.
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  • Snapchat.
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  • Twitter.
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  • All these things in which
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  • They communicate with one another.
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  • And all of us are caught up in the same trap.
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  • We're becoming more and more narcissistic
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  • Than any other generation in history.
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  • I've been in a room with adults,
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  • Just casual talking, and everybody in their room
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  • Had out their phone or their ipad,
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  • And they were looking and talking all around the room.
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  • They were interested in somebody out there over there,
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  • But had very little interest in what was going on
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  • At that place.
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  • And it's a sad thing
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  • To observe that
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  • I may get my picture.
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  • Let me make sure that you follow me on facebook
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  • And all the exciting, wonderful things that happened to me.
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  • I'm going to put them
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  • Right out there in full view of the watching world
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  • That just waiting to see the people i've seen
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  • And the places i've been and the thoughts that i have
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  • Narcissistic.
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  • We see it clearly in the study
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  • Of ecclesiastes.
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  • Solomon, this same solomon who wrote
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  • Song of solomon, a beautiful love story.
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  • This same solomon who wrote the profound book of proverbs,
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  • Which tells us so much about relationships, life, marriage,
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  • Business, profound book.
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  • Solomon,
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  • Though he professed to be a searcher,
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  • Though he professed to be a philosopher,
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  • Though he professed to be someone who did not know about
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  • God and
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  • Really wasn't interested in god at this moment in his life.
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  • He was totally a narcissist.
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  • But my, what happened to him?
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  • If anybody had a fabulous
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  • Beginning in their life, it was solomon.
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  • He inherited a kingdom from david.
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  • He was brilliant.
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  • He had everything you own.
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  • He was tutored and mentored by a god fearing prophet
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  • In the beginning of his life.
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  • We read about it in turn with me, if you would.
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  • If you have your bibles to the book of first kings,
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  • Chapter number three.
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  • I'm sorry about the early early years
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  • Of king solomon.
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  • Chapter three, verse three.
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  • It says, now solomon loved the lord and that great.
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  • Somebody says your name.
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  • Oh, that's somebody who loves the lord.
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  • Then he says, he walked in the statutes
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  • Of his father david, god fearing man.
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  • He loved the lord.
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  • He walked under the statutes,
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  • The principles of the commandments.
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  • But then he has one little word there,
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  • Except
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  • He sacrificed and burned
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  • Incense on the high places.
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  • What happened to solomon?
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  • He married a lot of wives from other nations.
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  • In order to bring peace to israel, and to have alliance
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  • For military and for trade purposes.
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  • But as he brought these wives into the land, he said,
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  • Bring your own religion.
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  • We'll find a mountain.
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  • We'll build an altar on that mountain.
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  • We'll burn incense to your god.
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  • It's okay.
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  • We're a pluralistic kind of people.
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  • But they were not.
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  • They were a theocracy.
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  • But nevertheless, he used the means to find peace
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  • And purpose in israel, to meet the end that was there.
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  • He compromise.
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  • The bible says in another place is that all of these wives
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  • Turn him away from god.
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  • But what a wonderful beginning.
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  • And god visited him.
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  • And we see here in the fifth verse
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  • And beyond, the lord appeared to solomon in a dream at night,
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  • And god said, get this
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  • As what you wish me to give to you.
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  • Can you imagine, god?
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  • Say, what do you want?
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  • Blank check
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  • And you need you saying you have any dreams, aspirations.
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  • I'll give it to you. god.
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  • And look how solomon handle it.
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  • It's. it's magnificent what he did.
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  • Verse seven.
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  • Now, lord my god, you have made your servant
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  • King in place of my father david.
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  • Yet i am but a little child.
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  • See the humility.
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  • I do not know how to go out and to come in.
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  • Your servant is in the midst of your people,
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  • Which you have chosen a great people,
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  • That there are too many to be counted or numbered.
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  • So give your servant an understanding heart to judge
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  • Your people, to discern between good and evil.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, the most important
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  • Thing that we need in life
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  • Is the gift of discernment.
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  • If you don't have discernment,
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  • Your life is going to say messed up.
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  • From now to you.
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  • Leave this earth.
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  • Poor choices, poor decisions, poor relationships.
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  • Not knowing exactly what to do.
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  • God gave to solomon.
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  • Wisdom and wisdom is expressed through discernment
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  • And he was greatly gifted under the son living.
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  • Follow me carefully.
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  • Solomon was the most successful
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  • Man who's ever walked on this earth.
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  • Did you know that
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  • In terms of human success,
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  • No one who has ever lived
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  • Comes close to the success that solomon had?
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  • And we're going to see, by far, he was the wealthiest person
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  • Who ever lived,
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  • And in some ways perhaps the most
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  • Brilliant person and gifted person who had ever lived.
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  • Solomon is a philosopher.
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  • He is a seeker. he is a searcher.
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  • He forces those who read this book honestly
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  • And intelligently to face the big questions of life.
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  • For example, i could pick anybody out and say, stand up.
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  • I want you to tell me, who are you?
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  • How would you define your life?
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  • How would i define my life?
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  • A child takes their
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  • First step unsteady.
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  • Unsure.
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  • Reaching for a father's hand.
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  • No one is born knowing how to walk.
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  • It takes training, strength.
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  • Balance. time.
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  • Walking with god is no different.
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  • Like all journeys, walking the winning
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  • Walk requires the proper equipment and preparation.
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  • By outfitting our lives with the word of god,
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  • We will be able to follow where the master leads.
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  • Psalm 119 says, your word is a lamp
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  • Unto my feet and a light under my path.
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  • God doesn't rush the journey.
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  • He lights the next step
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  • In the winning walk.
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  • Doctor ed young shares practical, biblical guidance
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  • To help you develop the strength and spiritual
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  • Balance needed for a steady, daily walk with christ.
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  • If you're ready to grow stronger in your faith,
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  • Call the number on your screen
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  • And request your copy of the winning walk today
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  • And begin walking confidently with him.
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  • Solomon.
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  • Solomon forces us
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  • To ask those big questions.
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  • Solomon was looking for it. it?
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  • What is it?
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  • He was looking for meaning.
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  • He was looking for significance.
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  • He was asking the question.
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  • Well, what's life all about?
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  • What's valuable about life?
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  • What contribution can i make?
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  • What will give me happiness?
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  • What will give me meaning?
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  • And ladies and gentlemen, everybody here
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  • Is looking for the same thing that we may not realize.
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  • What's life all about?
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  • What's valuable about your life?
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  • What's significant about my life?
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  • Solomon forces the reader
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  • To deal with the big issues of life
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  • That most of us don't like to deal with.
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  • We want to be surrounded by racket or activities
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  • Or noise or hobbies or movement or people.
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  • But you read and study ecclesiastes that says,
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  • Hold everything
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  • And presents the gigantic questions
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  • That all of us not only need to ask,
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  • But need to find answers
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  • To nothing more profound than
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  • Who am i,
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  • Who am i?
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  • But solomon doesn't give up.
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  • He says life without meaning.
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  • It has no value.
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  • But he takes us through 12 chapters.
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  • And in the second chapter, look at what he says.
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  • He said, i said to myself,
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  • It's good to talk to yourself, isn't it?
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  • He says, come now, i will test you with pleasure
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  • To enjoy yourself and behold it.
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  • There's that little word it and behold it.
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  • Two was futility.
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  • See, he's looking for it.
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  • What is it?
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  • Significance.
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  • What is it? happiness.
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  • What is it? meaning?
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  • Meaning and life.
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  • And then he says, i'm going to go through some
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  • Situations here.
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  • I'm going to test everything
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  • That i can deceive in any one of these endeavors.
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  • I will find significance, happiness and life.
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  • And he walks us through them. why?
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  • As he walks through these, i hope you and i
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  • Will walk with him,
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  • Because we get caught up in these same kind of pursuits.
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  • You know what?
  • 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:16.374
  • What's it all about?
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  • You know, who am i? where am i going?
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  • Where did i come from? what is my purpose?
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  • Will i make any difference that i live two or 3 or 4?
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  • Score on this earth.
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  • And look what he says.
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  • He starts off and says.
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  • Come now, i will test you with pleasure.
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  • So enjoy yourself.
  • 00:13:34.092 --> 00:13:36.261
  • And he already tells us in the beginning he tried pleasure.
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  • It was utility.
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  • But look at the pleasure, he said, verse two,
  • 00:13:41.432 --> 00:13:43.768
  • I said of laughter.
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  • It is madness and of pleasure.
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  • What does it accomplish?
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  • I explain with my mind how to stimulate
  • 00:13:50.942 --> 00:13:53.378
  • My body was wine, while my mind was guiding me wisely.
  • 00:13:53.378 --> 00:13:59.317
  • And how to take hold of folly until i could see what good
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  • There is for the son of man to do under heaven
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  • And the few years of our lives.
  • 00:14:07.292 --> 00:14:09.060
  • He starts off with pleasure,
  • 00:14:09.060 --> 00:14:11.729
  • Logical place in order to find meaning in life.
  • 00:14:11.729 --> 00:14:15.233
  • Happiness in life.
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  • Let's just try pleasure.
  • 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:18.136
  • He started off with humor.
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  • Laughter.
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  • Some people like to fill their life
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  • Constantly with laughter and humor.
  • 00:14:23.741 --> 00:14:26.577
  • And you can't get serious a minute.
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  • It's almost a protective kind of layer.
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  • I like laughter, man.
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  • I like having fun.
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  • I love pleasure.
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  • All of us do.
  • 00:14:36.321 --> 00:14:37.322
  • But when we get so caught up in our own humor
  • 00:14:37.322 --> 00:14:41.259
  • And our own cutting remarks and our own lifestyle,
  • 00:14:41.259 --> 00:14:45.163
  • We're covering up for something.
  • 00:14:45.163 --> 00:14:46.798
  • Solomon says there's no pleasure in constant laughter.
  • 00:14:46.798 --> 00:14:50.401
  • There's no pleasure in pursuing these, in wine,
  • 00:14:50.401 --> 00:14:53.972
  • In his day, and whatever the addictive things would be.
  • 00:14:53.972 --> 00:14:56.941
  • And i would say that's true today.
  • 00:14:56.941 --> 00:14:59.377
  • When there is emptiness, it has to be filled with something.
  • 00:14:59.377 --> 00:15:03.147
  • And tragically,
  • 00:15:03.147 --> 00:15:04.482
  • The younger generation and many of us are filling our lives
  • 00:15:04.482 --> 00:15:08.386
  • With things that take away our happiness now
  • 00:15:08.386 --> 00:15:11.789
  • And will shorten your life radically.
  • 00:15:11.789 --> 00:15:14.726
  • That is absolutely true.
  • 00:15:15.259 --> 00:15:18.396
  • So we look at solomon and we learn from him.
  • 00:15:19.297 --> 00:15:21.899
  • He said, i'm going to try. pleasure.
  • 00:15:21.899 --> 00:15:23.801
  • He said, i didn't find any meaning and pleasure.
  • 00:15:23.801 --> 00:15:27.271
  • And then he says, i'm going to try projects.
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  • Surely i'll find meaning there.
  • 00:15:30.108 --> 00:15:32.110
  • Look at verse four.
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  • He said, i enlarge my works.
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  • I will build houses for myself.
  • 00:15:36.614 --> 00:15:38.683
  • Notice the plural in all of these.
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  • And i planted one vineyard for myself.
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  • I made gardens
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  • And parks for myself.
  • 00:15:46.991 --> 00:15:49.694
  • I planted in them the kind of fruit trees.
  • 00:15:49.694 --> 00:15:52.263
  • I made ponds of water for myself from which
  • 00:15:52.263 --> 00:15:56.434
  • To irrigate the forest or growing tree myself.
  • 00:15:56.434 --> 00:16:00.905
  • In fact, in the first 11 verses,
  • 00:16:00.905 --> 00:16:03.307
  • In the first 11 verses of chapter two of ecclesiastes,
  • 00:16:03.307 --> 00:16:06.878
  • He mentions i 21 times.
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  • You think he was a narcissistic
  • 00:16:11.883 --> 00:16:15.086
  • Looking for it, meaning
  • 00:16:15.086 --> 00:16:18.322
  • He tried pleasure, didn't find it there.
  • 00:16:18.322 --> 00:16:21.559
  • Boy, he tried projects.
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  • All of these things he did.
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  • He was a heart of cultures.
  • 00:16:25.563 --> 00:16:27.899
  • A gifted someone in agriculture.
  • 00:16:27.899 --> 00:16:31.069
  • And certainly he builds a temple.
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  • How long did it take for him to build a temple in jerusalem?
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  • Magnificent edifice, taking seven years.
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  • He also built his own palace.
  • 00:16:39.744 --> 00:16:42.080
  • You know how long it took him to build that?
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  • 13 years.
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  • Oh, wait.
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  • 30,000 workmen.
  • 00:16:46.684 --> 00:16:49.987
  • You see, he did it for my self.
  • 00:16:50.621 --> 00:16:53.558
  • I'm going to build projects, put my name on it,
  • 00:16:53.558 --> 00:16:56.127
  • Get bigger and better and more,
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  • And maybe in this i'll have meaning.
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  • I'll have significance.
  • 00:16:59.864 --> 00:17:01.599
  • My life will count for something.
  • 00:17:01.599 --> 00:17:03.601
  • But he got through.
  • 00:17:03.601 --> 00:17:04.368
  • He said that's all vanity.
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  • Pleasure.
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  • You don't find meaning there.
  • 00:17:07.772 --> 00:17:09.540
  • Projects.
  • 00:17:09.540 --> 00:17:10.241
  • You don't find meaning there.
  • 00:17:10.241 --> 00:17:12.009
  • And then he moved on.
  • 00:17:12.009 --> 00:17:13.144
  • He said, i'm going to try something else here.
  • 00:17:13.144 --> 00:17:15.646
  • I'm going to try wealth and possessions.
  • 00:17:15.646 --> 00:17:18.516
  • Verse seven i bought male
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  • And female slaves and i had home born slave.
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  • He was the first ruler in israel ever
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  • To make slaves of their of his own people.
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  • The first one,
  • 00:17:30.595 --> 00:17:31.762
  • He said, and i possess flocks
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  • And herds larger than all who preceded me in jerusalem.
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  • You read about the number of animals that he had
  • 00:17:39.670 --> 00:17:43.307
  • Under his power, in his and his ranches.
  • 00:17:43.307 --> 00:17:46.577
  • It's unbelievable. they're listed there.
  • 00:17:46.577 --> 00:17:48.579
  • A lot of it in first kings.
  • 00:17:48.579 --> 00:17:50.915
  • And he said, i collected for myself silver and gold
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  • And the treasure of kings and provinces.
  • 00:17:54.485 --> 00:17:57.455
  • He collected one year, 666
  • 00:17:58.022 --> 00:18:02.260
  • Shekels of taxes.
  • 00:18:02.260 --> 00:18:05.096
  • Do you know how much that is?
  • 00:18:05.730 --> 00:18:08.332
  • 25 tons of gold.
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  • You can take all the mule type
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  • Billionaires in the world and put them together.
  • 00:18:16.741 --> 00:18:19.677
  • They can't even touch the wealth of solomon,
  • 00:18:19.677 --> 00:18:24.081
  • The most successful man, the wealthiest man
  • 00:18:24.982 --> 00:18:27.919
  • Who's ever lived under the sun.
  • 00:18:27.919 --> 00:18:31.122
  • And now he's trying to find meaning in life.
  • 00:18:31.122 --> 00:18:33.591
  • And he's running down all these traps and all these trails.
  • 00:18:33.591 --> 00:18:37.828
  • He said i didn't find any pleasure.
  • 00:18:38.596 --> 00:18:40.998
  • I exhausted myself there.
  • 00:18:40.998 --> 00:18:43.601
  • I didn't find it and projects all the things i built
  • 00:18:43.601 --> 00:18:46.370
  • And constructed eye candy for myself.
  • 00:18:46.370 --> 00:18:50.741
  • And then he moves on.
  • 00:18:51.242 --> 00:18:52.977
  • He said i just hoarded things.
  • 00:18:52.977 --> 00:18:54.912
  • Things of value, property, gold, silver for myself.
  • 00:18:54.912 --> 00:18:58.316
  • He said i didn't find meaning in my great wealth.
  • 00:18:58.316 --> 00:19:01.652
  • But then he said, oh,
  • 00:19:02.153 --> 00:19:04.855
  • This is where i'm going to find significance.
  • 00:19:04.855 --> 00:19:07.925
  • And look at this latter part of verse eight.
  • 00:19:08.826 --> 00:19:11.996
  • I provided for myself male and female singers
  • 00:19:11.996 --> 00:19:17.168
  • And the pleasures of men, many concubines.
  • 00:19:17.168 --> 00:19:22.406
  • Now he's going to fulfill all of his passions.
  • 00:19:23.374 --> 00:19:27.111
  • He's going to find meaning there.
  • 00:19:27.111 --> 00:19:29.580
  • And i'll tell you.
  • 00:19:29.580 --> 00:19:30.381
  • Do you know solomon had 700 wives,
  • 00:19:30.381 --> 00:19:35.419
  • 300 concubines.
  • 00:19:35.786 --> 00:19:38.923
  • He perhaps had the largest casting couch in history.
  • 00:19:38.923 --> 00:19:47.632
  • Exalt himself in sensuality.
  • 00:19:48.232 --> 00:19:51.102
  • And he said, it's empty.
  • 00:19:51.636 --> 00:19:53.070
  • You find no meaning,
  • 00:19:53.070 --> 00:19:56.040
  • No significant.
  • 00:19:56.040 --> 00:19:57.241
  • He said, that's not it.
  • 00:19:57.241 --> 00:20:01.345
  • That's not it.
  • 00:20:01.679 --> 00:20:05.182
  • I saw it as i looked
  • 00:20:05.650 --> 00:20:06.851
  • At this in the latter parts of of these 11 verses.
  • 00:20:06.851 --> 00:20:10.421
  • Solomon solomon says, i was a great man,
  • 00:20:10.421 --> 00:20:14.191
  • And he was my goodness, he was.
  • 00:20:14.191 --> 00:20:17.328
  • He said, i was filled with pride.
  • 00:20:18.062 --> 00:20:20.498
  • He said, look what all i did, man.
  • 00:20:20.498 --> 00:20:23.200
  • Trace his life.
  • 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:25.036
  • Nobody's close.
  • 00:20:25.036 --> 00:20:26.203
  • There's nobody in second place, ladies and gentlemen.
  • 00:20:26.203 --> 00:20:28.472
  • You can't name them.
  • 00:20:28.472 --> 00:20:31.642
  • He said i was great.
  • 00:20:32.109 --> 00:20:33.044
  • I had it all.
  • 00:20:33.044 --> 00:20:34.445
  • And he expressed all of this pride.
  • 00:20:34.445 --> 00:20:37.348
  • But he said as i marched
  • 00:20:37.348 --> 00:20:39.884
  • Down every stream, tried everything, went through
  • 00:20:39.884 --> 00:20:43.254
  • All the avenues, faced all the big questions.
  • 00:20:43.254 --> 00:20:46.657
  • He said i came out empty, void.
  • 00:20:46.657 --> 00:20:49.560
  • He said all of it has no meaning, has
  • 00:20:49.560 --> 00:20:51.729
  • No significance, did not lead to happiness.
  • 00:20:51.729 --> 00:20:56.600
  • Quite a testimony, isn't it?
  • 00:20:57.201 --> 00:20:59.870
  • Maybe it'll awaken some of us who are going down
  • 00:20:59.870 --> 00:21:02.273
  • Some of those dead end trails
  • 00:21:02.273 --> 00:21:04.141
  • That'll take the life and the joy out of you.
  • 00:21:04.141 --> 00:21:07.545
  • That will guarantee you'll never find meaning
  • 00:21:07.545 --> 00:21:09.980
  • And significance in this life.
  • 00:21:09.980 --> 00:21:13.017
  • And i thought about
  • 00:21:13.484 --> 00:21:16.153
  • All the any modern day
  • 00:21:16.153 --> 00:21:17.321
  • Solomon's running around.
  • 00:21:17.321 --> 00:21:20.791
  • I wonder.
  • 00:21:21.092 --> 00:21:23.828
  • Who that would be.
  • 00:21:23.828 --> 00:21:26.897
  • These are replicas
  • 00:21:27.331 --> 00:21:30.401
  • Of the super bowl rings
  • 00:21:30.901 --> 00:21:33.938
  • That tom brady has
  • 00:21:34.372 --> 00:21:37.441
  • Absolute replicas.
  • 00:21:37.441 --> 00:21:40.144
  • There they are.
  • 00:21:40.144 --> 00:21:40.811
  • He has five super bowl rings.
  • 00:21:40.811 --> 00:21:44.648
  • Tom brady is handsome.
  • 00:21:45.116 --> 00:21:48.052
  • Narcissus couldn't have been any more handsome.
  • 00:21:48.052 --> 00:21:50.187
  • And tom brady, if you've ever seen him right.
  • 00:21:50.187 --> 00:21:53.057
  • He is articulate.
  • 00:21:53.057 --> 00:21:54.024
  • He's intelligent.
  • 00:21:54.024 --> 00:21:55.993
  • He's a great athlete.
  • 00:21:55.993 --> 00:21:58.295
  • Probably the best quarterback who's ever played the game.
  • 00:21:58.295 --> 00:22:00.831
  • You can debate that.
  • 00:22:00.831 --> 00:22:03.234
  • He's been married to two beautiful women models.
  • 00:22:03.234 --> 00:22:08.105
  • He's been everywhere doing everything.
  • 00:22:08.939 --> 00:22:10.741
  • He has more money that he could spend probably in
  • 00:22:10.741 --> 00:22:13.644
  • Several lifetimes.
  • 00:22:13.644 --> 00:22:16.514
  • You can't find a figure more like solomon.
  • 00:22:16.514 --> 00:22:19.617
  • I think of the top of my head.
  • 00:22:20.217 --> 00:22:22.953
  • I could name 1 or 2, but i'll rest
  • 00:22:22.953 --> 00:22:24.955
  • That.
  • 00:22:24.955 --> 00:22:27.725
  • Then tom brady
  • 00:22:27.725 --> 00:22:30.294
  • Five super bowl rings.
  • 00:22:30.294 --> 00:22:31.395
  • If i had five rings,
  • 00:22:31.395 --> 00:22:34.198
  • You know i would wear them
  • 00:22:34.765 --> 00:22:36.100
  • All the time.
  • 00:22:36.100 --> 00:22:39.103
  • And i would wear them on,
  • 00:22:39.670 --> 00:22:42.239
  • You know, both hands.
  • 00:22:42.239 --> 00:22:43.541
  • In case those over here didn't know
  • 00:22:43.541 --> 00:22:46.410
  • That.
  • 00:22:46.410 --> 00:22:50.347
  • And i would go around
  • 00:22:50.848 --> 00:22:52.049
  • And you'd say, well, ha ha ha.
  • 00:22:52.049 --> 00:22:54.985
  • What?
  • 00:22:55.219 --> 00:22:55.886
  • You've been to the super bowl.
  • 00:22:55.886 --> 00:22:57.354
  • How did you know?
  • 00:22:57.354 --> 00:23:01.392
  • I could you tell?
  • 00:23:01.826 --> 00:23:03.160
  • I try to keep that.
  • 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:04.395
  • I try to think a very.
  • 00:23:04.395 --> 00:23:05.463
  • Low profile here, of what
  • 00:23:05.463 --> 00:23:08.466
  • I've accomplished.
  • 00:23:08.466 --> 00:23:11.936
  • When tom had won
  • 00:23:12.336 --> 00:23:13.704
  • Only three super bowl rings a few years ago.
  • 00:23:13.704 --> 00:23:18.509
  • He was interviewed on 60 minutes.
  • 00:23:19.210 --> 00:23:25.716
  • Very profound interview.
  • 00:23:26.250 --> 00:23:29.420
  • I want you to look verbatim
  • 00:23:30.020 --> 00:23:31.589
  • Of something that what was said.
  • 00:23:31.589 --> 00:23:34.758
  • He said, this is tom brady.
  • 00:23:34.758 --> 00:23:38.028
  • I don't know where he is today.
  • 00:23:38.662 --> 00:23:39.830
  • By the way, this was after only three super bowl rings.
  • 00:23:39.830 --> 00:23:43.767
  • He says, i mean, i'm making more money
  • 00:23:44.602 --> 00:23:46.470
  • Now than i thought i'd ever make playing football.
  • 00:23:46.470 --> 00:23:49.540
  • Kind of an understatement.
  • 00:23:49.540 --> 00:23:52.042
  • He said, why do i have three
  • 00:23:52.042 --> 00:23:53.511
  • Super bowl rings and still listen?
  • 00:23:53.511 --> 00:23:57.047
  • Think there's something greater out there
  • 00:23:57.047 --> 00:23:59.517
  • For me?
  • 00:23:59.517 --> 00:24:02.353
  • I mean, maybe a lot of people
  • 00:24:02.353 --> 00:24:04.121
  • Would say, hey, man,
  • 00:24:04.121 --> 00:24:07.024
  • This is what.
  • 00:24:07.024 --> 00:24:08.926
  • There's our word.
  • 00:24:08.926 --> 00:24:09.927
  • It is.
  • 00:24:09.927 --> 00:24:13.430
  • Surely you've reached a life that is meaningful.
  • 00:24:14.431 --> 00:24:17.768
  • This is what it is.
  • 00:24:17.768 --> 00:24:19.270
  • A lot of people say that.
  • 00:24:19.270 --> 00:24:20.905
  • He said, i reach my goal, my dream.
  • 00:24:20.905 --> 00:24:23.240
  • My life is tom brady.
  • 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:28.178
  • But then there's the rest of the interview there.
  • 00:24:29.179 --> 00:24:31.916
  • 60 minutes.
  • 00:24:31.916 --> 00:24:33.684
  • Brady says me,
  • 00:24:33.684 --> 00:24:35.553
  • I think, by the way, there's almost like a prayer.
  • 00:24:35.553 --> 00:24:39.390
  • God. there's got to be more than this.
  • 00:24:39.390 --> 00:24:43.928
  • And the
  • 00:24:44.161 --> 00:24:45.930
  • Narrator said, what's the answer?
  • 00:24:45.930 --> 00:24:47.765
  • What's the answer? tom?
  • 00:24:47.765 --> 00:24:50.568
  • That i wish i knew.
  • 00:24:50.568 --> 00:24:53.737
  • I wish i knew.
  • 00:24:54.071 --> 00:24:59.009
  • I would say to this.
  • 00:24:59.476 --> 00:25:02.580
  • Solomon like personality.
  • 00:25:02.580 --> 00:25:09.420
  • It is not
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  • An it.
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  • It is.
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • Your word is a lamp to my feet,
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  • A light into my path.
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  • Notice the promise in that verse.
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  • A lamp for my feet i can see right here.
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  • A light for your path.
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  • We can see out there.
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  • Not just inspiration.
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  • For a moment, but guidance for a lifetime.
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  • The christian life
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  • Was never meant to be lived casually,
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  • But it is a walk, a daily, intentional,
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  • Fateful walk with the lord jesus christ.
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  • That's the heartbeat of this book.
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  • The winning walk in his pages, i share practical,
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  • Biblical principles that will help you cultivate
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  • A consistent devotional life, applying god's truth
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  • In the practical realities of everyday living.
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  • This isn't about religion.
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  • It's about relationship.
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  • It's about learning to trust god step by step
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  • And stay in step with our lord.
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  • The christ.
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  • So i encourage you to call the number on your screen
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  • And request your copy of the winning walk.
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  • Do it today.
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  • And then we begin walking victoriously,
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  • One step at a time.
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  • Thank you
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  • For joining me today on the winning walk
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  • To be a part of the winning walk family.
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  • I'm delighted you're a part.
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  • It's a privilege to open god's word together
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  • And go through this.
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  • Remember, spiritual growth happens
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  • One fateful step at a time.
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  • Until next time, keep walking with our lord.
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  • Keep trusting his promises.
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  • We must keep our eyes fixed on christ.
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  • See tomorrow as we grow in our winning
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  • Walk with the lord jesus christ.
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