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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Lost and Found | June 17, 2026
- Some people are right here
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- Hearing my voice
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- Are lost right now
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- Through foolishness.
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- Let me expand this a little bit.
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- The united states of america right now
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- Is lost through foolishness.
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- Lost.
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- You can be lost.
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- I can be lost.
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- Our nation is lost.
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- Right now, in this moment in history.
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- And i will debate with any living person that point.
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- We know it.
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- We see it. we understand it.
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- Lost to foolishness.
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- Uber made a list
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- Of everything that was left
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- In their automobiles.
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- This past year.
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- Listen.
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- An eight week old puppy,
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- Full set of 18 karat gold teeth.
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- Birth certificate, social security card.
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- A babe ruth signed baseball,
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- A bird, a mannequin,
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- Full fish tank with fish and water,
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- One gucci flip flop,
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- 10 pounds of pulled pork and
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- 10 pounds of pool chicken and deer antlers.
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- This is what was left last year
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- In the uber automobiles
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- That people had rented and left
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- All over the world.
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- There are lost and found departments,
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- Businesses, schools, churches.
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- Anytime you have a group of people coming together,
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- Always things are left behind that are put in the lost
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- And found area of that particular entity.
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- And all of them have three classifications.
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- Valuable,
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- None.
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- Valuable and perishable.
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- Lost and found.
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- It is a giant business in atlanta.
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- They have a warehouse that is tremendously large
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- And packed with baggage that people have lost
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- On all of our airlines, and you can go in there and buy
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- Some very interesting and some very valuable things.
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- Relatively cheap.
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- Lost and found.
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- We're going to study lost
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- And found in the next 2 or 3 weeks.
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- Luke, chapter 15
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- Is a whole study of lost
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- And found.
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- Jesus didn't talk as much about sin.
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- Is it about losses?
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- I could stand anybody up here and say, you're a sinner and
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- We're all sinners.
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- No problem with that.
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- But if i stood you up and said, you're lost,
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- The word lost has a ring to it
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- And a feeling and an emotion to it that
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- We don't like to apprehend.
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- We don't like to think that.
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- Could i be lost?
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- Could you be lost?
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- So we have this tremendous chapter in luke chapter 15
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- That jesus tells us how people get lost
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- And what god does about it.
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- Over your bibles to luke 15, verse
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- Number one, then all the tax collectors
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- And the sinners drew near to jesus to hear him.
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- And the pharisees scribes complained, saying,
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- This man receives sinners and eats with them.
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- Now that's the context.
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- Here are the pharisees
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- Who are religious people, the scribes, the head
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- Of the religious entourage of that day.
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- And here they were listening to jesus, and they noticed that
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- All the riff raff, all the untouchables,
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- All of those who were not religious,
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- All the pagans, all the heathens,
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- All those who did not go to the synagogue,
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- Did not go to the temple.
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- They were the tax collectors,
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- The bad element of society, the underbelly.
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- And they were hearing jesus and gathering around jesus.
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- And these political, religious leaders said
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- He not only accepts them and befriends them,
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- But he even sits down to eat with them.
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- Have you ever seen somebody just down
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- Eat with people like this?
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- And the word there in the greek is there was murmuring,
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- Murmuring, complaining.
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- I've heard some of that
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- Murmuring, murmuring.
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- How did jesus defend himself?
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- He gave three parables.
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- Remember, we're studying parables.
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- And a parable is a earthly principle
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- With heavenly ramifications.
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- But more than that, parable means you throw something down.
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- It means you throw it out in.
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- Jesus answered this, murmuring about him running around
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- With the wrong crowd, and he just threw down on them.
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- But he did it by telling three stories.
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- And in those three stories he talks
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- About the whole theme of luke.
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- Chapter number 15
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- Is lost and found.
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- Verse four he says, what man of you
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- Talking to the crowd, having 100 sheep, if he loses
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- One of them, does not leave the 99 in the wilderness
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- And go after the one that's lost until he finds it.
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- And when he has found it,
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- He lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
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- And when he comes home, he calls together his friends
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- And neighbors, saying to them, rejoice with me,
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- For i have found my sheep which was lost.
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- I say to you that likewise there will be more
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- Joy in heaven over one sinner
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- Who repents.
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- Big word then
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- Over the 99 persons who need no repentance.
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- So what is god doing here?
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- What is jesus saying
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- To these pharisees, religious and political leaders?
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- Because it was all combined in that day.
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- Remember, israel was a theocracy.
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- And what does he say?
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- How did those sheep get lost?
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- Through what?
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- Think about it. sheep don't mind.
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- Well, basically, with a big herd of 100 sheep.
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- By the way, if you had 100 sheep, you were a rich person.
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- I mean, sheep were very bad, but you had 100 sheep.
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- You were a rich man in that day.
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- And now just 1% one gets lost.
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- How did that sheep get lost
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- Through foolishness?
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
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- Fools get lost all the time.
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- Have you noticed that? but jesus
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- Was a good shepherd.
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- I don't think there's any title that was given to
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- Jesus that's more prominent than the idea of being
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- A good shepherd.
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- Because a good shepherd had to defend those sheep,
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- Had to be willing to die, to keep those sheep
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- From being consumed by wolves and lions and bears
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- Who are all over israel in that day,
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- Lost through foolishness.
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- Some people are right here
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- Hearing my voice
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- Are lost right now
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- Through foolishness.
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- Let me expand this a little bit.
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- The united states of america right now
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- Is lost through foolishness.
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- Lost.
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- You can be lost.
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- I can be lost.
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- Our nation is lost.
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- Right now, in this moment in history.
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- And i will debate with any living person that point.
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- We know it.
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- We see it. we understand it.
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- Lost to foolishness
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- Led by fools who are incompetent.
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- It's unbelievable.
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- You can cure everything else
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- But godlessness by passing laws and regulations.
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- And now we see how many far countries
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- Are there around.
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- You drank a glass of wine every night
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- With your wife and husband.
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- You're in a far country.
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- Want to beat that?
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- You spend time in the back
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- Room of the club you belong to day after day.
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- You're in a foreign country.
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- Or debate that
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- You go to las vegas or a convention
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- And you put down all your sexual morals and you
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- Wake up in a foreign country.
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- How many husbands have i said, come back and said, you know,
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- I've never done this before, but i have a
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- Sexually transmitted disease that i've given.
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- My wife
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- Went to the far country.
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- Oh, i pad my expense account, but everybody does it.
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- They expected you're at a far country.
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- And when we step into far country, i'm a fool
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- And you're a fool.
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- And we're guilty of foolishness.
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- That's what luke 15 tells us.
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- Loves those sheep
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- Through foolishness.
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- But there's more lostness here.
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- Or what
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- Woman having ten silver coins, if he loses one
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- Coin, does not light a lamp, sweep
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- The house and search carefully until she finds it.
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- And when she found it, she calls her friends
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- And neighbors together, saying, we're joyce with me,
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- For i have found the peace which i lost.
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- Likewise, i say to you.
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- There is joy in the presence of the angel of god
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- Over one sinner who returned.
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- How did the woman lose that coin?
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- Through carelessness?
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- Sheep lost through foolishness.
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- They just wandered off gradually.
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- That's happened to us now.
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- This woman lost two.
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- What were those ten coins that she would wear?
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- A woman would wear ten coins on her head.
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- It would be like a wedding ring.
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- And they were prized.
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- Not the value of the coins worth like $0.20.
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- But now she was busy doing other things,
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- And evidently she forgot her marriage.
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- That's a symbol there.
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- Anybody like that?
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- Marriages are breaking up, but told the husband
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- Does not truly cherish
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- The wife, and the wife does not cheer for the husband.
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- And because they are not humble enough
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- To realize this is the sacred human relationship
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- That god himself has established.
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- Marriage is one of god's greatest gifts.
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- You might say, next to the gift of our salvation, christ.
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- It's number one.
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- But let's be honest, it also brings real challenges.
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- Every couple of face disagreements, miscommunication
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- Or financial pressure, family tensions, and seasons
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- Of frustration in the whole area of marriage.
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- You know, saying that if you're married, left unchecked,
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- Those struggles can slowly erode into
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- Even a marriage that should be great.
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- Into a marriage, that's just okay.
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- But that does not have to be your story.
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- In the ten commandments of marriage,
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- I share biblical truth, practical wisdom,
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- And a little humor drawn from more than 50
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- Years of ministry and marriage experience.
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- These ten timeless principles are designed to help husbands
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- And wives protect what matters most and strengthen
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- That relationship, and build a marriage
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- Based on love and joy, and a lasting commitment
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- That's filled with laughter and pleasure and excitement.
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- Listen, god never intended marriage to be.
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- Let's just survive and hang on.
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- He attended it to sing and to thrive.
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- Listen, if you really want a healthier,
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- Christ centered marriage that still has warmth, passion,
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- And purpose, these ten commandments of marriage
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- Is just for you.
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- Call them on your screen or visit the website below
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- To regress your copy of the ten commandments of marriage.
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- Do it today.
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- Oh, yeah.
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- That's what that woman was.
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- But she searched
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- The good shepherd search.
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- And then you have another kind of lostness here.
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- And when he said, a certain man, verse 11,
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- A certain man had two sons, and the younger of them
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- Said, the father, father,
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- Give me the portion of goods that falls to me.
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- So he divided them his livelihood.
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- And not many days after the younger son gathered
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- All together and journeyed to a far country.
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- Those far countries are not far away, are they, folks?
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- No, no, no, they're right here.
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- But look at the end of that thing.
- 00:14:47.332 --> 00:14:49.434
- But the father said to his servants, the son came back.
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- Bring out the best robe, put it on him,
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- And a ring in his hand, and sandals for his feet,
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- And bring the fatted calf
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- And kill it, and let us eat and be merry.
- 00:15:00.478 --> 00:15:02.613
- For my son was dead as alive again he is lost
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- And found, and they begin to have a party.
- 00:15:05.783 --> 00:15:08.519
- Tell you something,
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- God doesn't work the same way at everybody's life.
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- Have you noticed that
- 00:15:13.358 --> 00:15:14.959
- He doesn't work the same way in all the lostness here?
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- In the first example of lostness,
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- We dealt with it there with a shepherd
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- Who just got lost, the shepherd who went out to
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- That lost sheep.
- 00:15:28.473 --> 00:15:29.374
- The sheep got lost through foolishness,
- 00:15:29.374 --> 00:15:32.276
- Was a fool, led the protection of the herd protection.
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- Shepherd was the food.
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- What happened?
- 00:15:37.849 --> 00:15:38.583
- That shepherd looked and looked
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- And looked and didn't give up.
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- Oh, just 1% lost. he had 100 sheep.
- 00:15:41.819 --> 00:15:44.088
- No, didn't give up until he found that lost sheep
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- And picked him up and put him on his shoulders
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- And carried him all the way back.
- 00:15:49.293 --> 00:15:51.896
- That is god seeking you
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- And seeking me wherever you are and whatever i am.
- 00:15:54.932 --> 00:15:58.403
- He's saying, man, i want to take you home.
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- I want to pick you up.
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- I want to carry you.
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- I want to turn you around.
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- I want you to be back in the flock.
- 00:16:06.544 --> 00:16:08.980
- God is a shepherd who goes out and looks for all of us
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- When we get lost. and he's tenacious.
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- The woman
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- Lost that coin evidently represented her
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- Marriage, her marriage ring.
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- And she wanted to go back.
- 00:16:22.660 --> 00:16:24.262
- And the woman looked and looked.
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- And by the way, in those little houses
- 00:16:25.596 --> 00:16:28.332
- It would be dark in in a israeli house at that time.
- 00:16:28.332 --> 00:16:32.336
- In the daytime they had only one door,
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- Probably no windows, and they had dirt for a floor.
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- And they put different kinds of straw,
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- Different kinds of reeds.
- 00:16:41.779 --> 00:16:43.047
- And easily she could have been working.
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- And that ring, that symbol of marriage, could have get lost.
- 00:16:45.049 --> 00:16:48.419
- And she looked and looked and swept and swept.
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- She went out and found that lost coin.
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- That's the way god is.
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- Like a shepherd.
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- Look like that woman knowing
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- I want my marriage to be strong.
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- I want to put my flag up, that i've been
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- In a covenant relationship with a man.
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- Look. then look, until she found it.
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- And they were celebration.
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- Celebration.
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- Oh, well, what about that prodigal son?
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- Whoa.
- 00:17:14.479 --> 00:17:15.646
- He went to his daddy and said, i want all the inheritance
- 00:17:15.646 --> 00:17:20.718
- I have coming to me and saying, i'm sick of this place.
- 00:17:20.718 --> 00:17:24.689
- I'm sick of you.
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- I'm sick of my older brother, and i want to get out of here
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- And live my life of pleasure and hedonism
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- And run everything.
- 00:17:33.164 --> 00:17:34.465
- And so the father gave him one third of his inheritance.
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- The older son would get two thirds in that day.
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- The younger son would get one third.
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- And this wealthy, wealthy father gave that boy one third.
- 00:17:44.175 --> 00:17:48.179
- And that boy took off and said, i'm free.
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- I can do what i want to do.
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- I can see who i want to see.
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- I can live the way i want to live, man.
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- I'm out of here.
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- And he went to the far country.
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- But notice something?
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- The father never went after him to bring him back.
- 00:18:02.860 --> 00:18:08.399
- Notice that the shepherd
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- Went back to bring him back.
- 00:18:12.803 --> 00:18:15.139
- Right back to that motion.
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- The woman went out and sweep and sweep to find that coin.
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- But the father didn't.
- 00:18:20.945 --> 00:18:24.382
- God calls us to come back different ways.
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- We have different personalities.
- 00:18:27.518 --> 00:18:29.420
- Some like a good shepherd, some like that woman.
- 00:18:29.420 --> 00:18:32.056
- God seeks us and brings things in your life.
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- In my life and a thought in my mind,
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- A thought in your mind and adventure in our life
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- To bring us back.
- 00:18:39.163 --> 00:18:40.665
- He seeks us.
- 00:18:40.665 --> 00:18:41.599
- He calls us. he loves us.
- 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:43.334
- He encourages us. he convicts us.
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- He tells us we're lost.
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- Come on back.
- 00:18:47.338 --> 00:18:48.773
- But other times, like the father,
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- The prodigal, god doesn't do that.
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- What did he let the prodigal do?
- 00:18:54.679 --> 00:18:57.081
- He let the prodigal go out.
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- And so all his wild sees
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- Deal with all of
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- His prostitutes, fleece so many people in business.
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- Whatever he did in the foreign country,
- 00:19:06.891 --> 00:19:08.359
- He just let them go and do it, knowing that in his lostness
- 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:12.863
- He will go back to garbage and hedonism and total
- 00:19:12.863 --> 00:19:17.034
- Pleasure, that his sin will deal with him.
- 00:19:17.034 --> 00:19:22.206
- And he would have to wake up and discover
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- Who he was on his own.
- 00:19:26.344 --> 00:19:28.679
- Because let me tell you something, when you do wrong
- 00:19:28.679 --> 00:19:31.482
- And i do wrong and i sin, and you said sin
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- Pay has a payday itself, doesn't it?
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- Yeah, we pay for that.
- 00:19:37.922 --> 00:19:40.157
- And that's how god works there.
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- He works every ways to bring us home, doesn't he?
- 00:19:41.926 --> 00:19:44.528
- Sometimes he seeks us, man.
- 00:19:44.528 --> 00:19:46.797
- God seeks me.
- 00:19:46.797 --> 00:19:47.798
- He seeks you because he's a good shepherd.
- 00:19:47.798 --> 00:19:50.768
- But sometimes god just says, have at it.
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- Go ahead.
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- This just so all your wild old you want to sell,
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- Go to las vegas. it's alright.
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- Do all those things that would describe
- 00:20:03.981 --> 00:20:07.018
- You and me as lost, and in the deeds
- 00:20:07.018 --> 00:20:10.955
- That we don't do, and the deeds that we do
- 00:20:10.955 --> 00:20:13.658
- When we're away from god, there is a turning around
- 00:20:13.658 --> 00:20:18.663
- And a repentance that we have to come to ourselves
- 00:20:18.663 --> 00:20:21.866
- As a prodigal did
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- As a nation.
- 00:20:24.602 --> 00:20:27.605
- There's only one thing that can save
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- Us, only one thing that can save peter.
- 00:20:29.774 --> 00:20:33.611
- Well, you got to come together. listen.
- 00:20:33.611 --> 00:20:36.013
- Darkness and light can never come together.
- 00:20:36.013 --> 00:20:38.783
- Good and evil can never come together.
- 00:20:38.783 --> 00:20:41.118
- Compromise is not there.
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- If you think it is.
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- You are a part
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- Of the foolishness and part of the carelessness
- 00:20:49.060 --> 00:20:51.729
- Of this world.
- 00:20:51.729 --> 00:20:52.730
- There is not compromise there not not between
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- Darkness and light.
- 00:20:55.499 --> 00:20:56.834
- Light eliminates darkness.
- 00:20:56.834 --> 00:20:58.336
- And that woman lit that candle.
- 00:20:58.336 --> 00:21:00.805
- That's a similar
- 00:21:00.805 --> 00:21:01.806
- Light of jesus christ
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- That we have
- 00:21:03.140 --> 00:21:04.275
- In our life, in our world, and a little glimmer of it
- 00:21:04.275 --> 00:21:06.777
- In our society.
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- What's the answer?
- 00:21:07.745 --> 00:21:09.613
- A pastor was speaking in haiti and he gave this parable.
- 00:21:09.613 --> 00:21:13.284
- He said there was a man and a woman who had a house
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- That was worth $4,000.
- 00:21:17.154 --> 00:21:18.923
- He put in the market for $4,000.
- 00:21:18.923 --> 00:21:21.092
- A poor man came
- 00:21:21.092 --> 00:21:22.259
- And said he wanted to buy it, but he couldn't afford it.
- 00:21:22.259 --> 00:21:24.862
- Finally they negotiated and the man who owned the house
- 00:21:24.862 --> 00:21:28.466
- Said, i will sell it for this price,
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- But i want to keep one nail in that house for myself.
- 00:21:30.768 --> 00:21:35.573
- And he drove a nail over the front door of the house.
- 00:21:35.573 --> 00:21:39.977
- Just one nail, he said.
- 00:21:39.977 --> 00:21:42.813
- He sold the house to the man.
- 00:21:42.813 --> 00:21:44.982
- He said, i'll keep ownership of that one nail.
- 00:21:44.982 --> 00:21:48.219
- Years went by and the man who did own
- 00:21:48.219 --> 00:21:51.088
- The house wanted to buy it back.
- 00:21:51.088 --> 00:21:53.057
- The man said, no, i bought it from you.
- 00:21:53.057 --> 00:21:55.059
- It's mine.
- 00:21:55.059 --> 00:21:55.826
- I'm not going to sell it to you.
- 00:21:55.826 --> 00:21:57.561
- So the man who still owned that one nail
- 00:21:57.561 --> 00:22:01.565
- Went and killed an animal and hung it on that nail
- 00:22:01.565 --> 00:22:05.302
- Over the front door.
- 00:22:05.302 --> 00:22:07.238
- Flies came and came.
- 00:22:07.705 --> 00:22:12.076
- Buzzards would hover around a tree, rats would crawl up,
- 00:22:12.076 --> 00:22:16.981
- And suddenly they'd open the door and stench would go.
- 00:22:16.981 --> 00:22:19.850
- And finally, with all those varmints
- 00:22:19.850 --> 00:22:22.920
- Invented around those dead, rotting animals
- 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:26.457
- On the front door.
- 00:22:26.457 --> 00:22:27.591
- The house was not livable because that man used that
- 00:22:27.591 --> 00:22:31.595
- One nail
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- To make it inhabitable.
- 00:22:34.265 --> 00:22:37.535
- You keep one nail or attitude in your life
- 00:22:38.436 --> 00:22:41.372
- Or in my life, and the evil one will hang
- 00:22:41.372 --> 00:22:45.342
- Enough garbage on that in time that jesus christ cannot live
- 00:22:45.342 --> 00:22:50.314
- In the habitation of your life, which is his house.
- 00:22:50.314 --> 00:22:55.386
- We've gotta start here and figure out
- 00:22:56.120 --> 00:22:58.956
- In any way are we lost and deal with that before god.
- 00:22:58.956 --> 00:23:02.359
- That's where you start.
- 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:04.562
- What's the ad for america a great awakening?
- 00:23:04.562 --> 00:23:09.099
- You know what that was in history
- 00:23:09.099 --> 00:23:11.969
- 1730 1740.
- 00:23:11.969 --> 00:23:14.138
- George whitefield came over here, a methodist,
- 00:23:14.138 --> 00:23:16.674
- And he called things the way they were.
- 00:23:16.674 --> 00:23:19.343
- He said, the colonies
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- With your humanism, with your godlessness,
- 00:23:20.845 --> 00:23:23.714
- With your immorality, with your competition.
- 00:23:23.714 --> 00:23:26.717
- You're not going to survive unless you confess your sin
- 00:23:26.717 --> 00:23:30.254
- And turn from sin and let jesus christ run your life.
- 00:23:30.254 --> 00:23:33.924
- And he preached that to people everywhere.
- 00:23:33.924 --> 00:23:36.527
- Even benjamin franklin,
- 00:23:36.527 --> 00:23:38.362
- Who is a diaz when it heard whitfield every time he could.
- 00:23:38.362 --> 00:23:41.499
- And there was a great awakening in the churches and revival,
- 00:23:41.499 --> 00:23:45.035
- And people were crying and coming to christ.
- 00:23:45.035 --> 00:23:47.571
- And that is the basic foundation upon which
- 00:23:47.571 --> 00:23:51.208
- The revolution took place.
- 00:23:51.208 --> 00:23:52.877
- And we found our freedom.
- 00:23:52.877 --> 00:23:54.545
- It came on the heels of the great
- 00:23:54.545 --> 00:23:57.248
- Awakening in the colonies of the united states.
- 00:23:57.248 --> 00:24:01.118
- Unless we have an awakening like that.
- 00:24:01.886 --> 00:24:04.622
- Ladies and gentlemen, i hate to be pessimistic.
- 00:24:04.622 --> 00:24:07.892
- I hate to be negative.
- 00:24:07.892 --> 00:24:09.360
- I don't think america will stand any more than israel
- 00:24:09.360 --> 00:24:13.998
- Stood as they rejected every authentic
- 00:24:13.998 --> 00:24:18.002
- Voice of god.
- 00:24:18.002 --> 00:24:27.344
- I love this land,
- 00:24:27.778 --> 00:24:30.548
- I love america, oh do i?
- 00:24:31.081 --> 00:24:34.785
- God has blessed america as we've sung and prayed
- 00:24:35.753 --> 00:24:38.355
- So many times, but we haven't used our blessings
- 00:24:38.355 --> 00:24:42.726
- To deal with the lossless in our society.
- 00:24:43.594 --> 00:24:47.498
- We're lost
- 00:24:47.498 --> 00:24:50.234
- Through foolishness, fools.
- 00:24:50.234 --> 00:24:53.437
- We get lost through carelessness.
- 00:24:53.437 --> 00:24:56.640
- We just don't pay attention.
- 00:24:56.640 --> 00:24:58.042
- Like the woman who lost the coin.
- 00:24:58.042 --> 00:25:02.279
- And we're lost through selfishness.
- 00:25:02.279 --> 00:25:05.749
- Like the prodigal son
- 00:25:06.250 --> 00:25:08.485
- Who said, oh, my prayer is your
- 00:25:08.485 --> 00:25:10.888
- I don't care about dad or country or anything else.
- 00:25:10.888 --> 00:25:14.091
- I just want my pleasure.
- 00:25:14.091 --> 00:25:17.094
- That has
- 00:25:17.361 --> 00:25:18.062
- Been for a long time, folks.
- 00:25:18.062 --> 00:25:20.998
- The basic, broad agenda
- 00:25:20.998 --> 00:25:23.901
- Of the united states.
- 00:25:24.401 --> 00:25:27.004
- Unless we repent,
- 00:25:27.004 --> 00:25:30.140
- Take those nails, those little things out of your life.
- 00:25:30.140 --> 00:25:34.078
- In my life where the evil one hangs
- 00:25:34.078 --> 00:25:36.914
- So much garbage on.
- 00:25:36.914 --> 00:25:39.783
- And then we pray and get on our knees
- 00:25:39.783 --> 00:25:42.319
- And our face and say, oh god, awaken us.
- 00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:47.758
- Send your revival a great awakening.
- 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:52.396
- And that, ladies and gentlemen, my brothers and my sister,
- 00:25:52.396 --> 00:25:56.033
- Is the only formula for america to be revived
- 00:25:56.033 --> 00:26:00.371
- And turn their hearts and lives over to god
- 00:26:00.371 --> 00:26:03.407
- In jesus christ.
- 00:26:03.407 --> 00:26:06.210
- Marriages today face more pressures than ever.
- 00:26:07.111 --> 00:26:10.247
- Many couples live
- 00:26:10.247 --> 00:26:11.715
- With stress, disappointment, distance and discouragement,
- 00:26:11.715 --> 00:26:15.552
- Wondering if the joy they want shared can ever return.
- 00:26:15.552 --> 00:26:19.490
- But god's design for marriage has not changed.
- 00:26:19.490 --> 00:26:23.093
- In doctor young's the ten commandments of marriage,
- 00:26:23.093 --> 00:26:26.664
- You'll find practical biblical principles that can help
- 00:26:26.664 --> 00:26:29.733
- Transform your relationship from the inside out.
- 00:26:29.733 --> 00:26:33.570
- Whether you've been married for months or decades,
- 00:26:33.570 --> 00:26:36.940
- These truths can help you communicate better, grow closer
- 00:26:36.940 --> 00:26:40.678
- Spiritually, resolve conflict in a healthy way,
- 00:26:40.678 --> 00:26:44.014
- And to rediscover the love that first brought you together.
- 00:26:44.014 --> 00:26:48.519
- A strong marriage doesn't happen by accident.
- 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:51.555
- It grows when a husband and wife choose
- 00:26:51.555 --> 00:26:54.591
- To build their relationship god's way with christ.
- 00:26:54.591 --> 00:26:58.429
- At the center of your home,
- 00:26:58.429 --> 00:27:00.030
- There is always hope, healing, and a path forward.
- 00:27:00.030 --> 00:27:04.134
- If you want to strengthen your marriage and build
- 00:27:04.134 --> 00:27:07.071
- A relationship that honors god and blesses your family.
- 00:27:07.071 --> 00:27:10.574
- The ten commandments of marriage is for you.
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- Call the number on your screen or visit the website below to
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