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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Marriage Myths | February 11, 2026
- Let me tell you something, folks.
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- We've all in different ways.
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- Everybody here messed up sexually.
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- Everybody, if you're different.
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- I've already told you.
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- I want to meet with you, spend time with you,
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- Ask you a few questions.
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- So we're all messed up.
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- We're.
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- None of us lived
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- Up to the standard
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- Because the image of god in us was broken.
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- We were born, and some of us, because of our choices.
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- And by the way, only human beings hate make real choices.
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- Only human beings can change.
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- You can't change human nature.
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- That is the dumbest statement ever uttered.
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- The only thing that can change in this world is human nature.
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- Welcome to the winning walk.
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- I'm ed yong.
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- Love is one of god's greatest gifts.
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- In fact, i think you could say it is god's greatest gift.
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- Yet is often misunderstood.
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- Biblical love is more than a feeling.
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- It's a commitment.
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- It's rooted in truth and grace and faithfulness.
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- God's word teaches us how to love well with patience,
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- Kindness, and humility
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- In a way that reflects his character.
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- We study the bible today.
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- My prayers
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- That god will deepen your understanding of his love
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- And how it transforms every area of life.
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- Our scripture
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- Is found with a clear word.
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- In genesis chapter number one,
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- Writing the bank bear
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- The beginning of everything.
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- In verse number 26.
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- And the operative word in
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- These scriptures is the word image.
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- Image.
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- In verse 26,
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- Then god said, let us make mankind, that's
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- All of us in our image,
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- In our likeness.
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- Verse 27.
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- So god created
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- Mankind in his own image,
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- In the image of god he created them,
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- Male and female.
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- He created
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- Them.
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- What does it mean
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- That you and i, all humanity,
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- Have been created in some way
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- With the likeness of god
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- Imprinted in your life and in my life?
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- In other words, in some way
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- We have
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- Within us, outside of us,
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- We're something like god.
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- Now we
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- Ask the question, what is god like?
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- Well, we talk about his attributes,
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- His characteristics,
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- The personality of god and their whole libraries
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- Spent talking about all the attributes of god.
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- Some of the attributes of god cannot be transferred to us.
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- Now we're made an image of god,
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- But we can't pick up all of his attributes.
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- God is immutable.
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- He doesn't change.
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- That attribute is not available to you and to me.
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- God is omnipotent.
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- He is all powerful. zip.
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- He can do anything
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- With that attribute is not available to us.
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- He is omniscient.
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- He knows everything.
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- Past, present, future.
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- He is all knowing.
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- We can't have that attribute.
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- It's not available to us.
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- I'm not present.
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- Not available to us.
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- But what attribute?
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- Can come to you and
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- Kind come to me as the image that god gave to you
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- And to me has been so scarred, bruised,
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- And now is blurry
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- And not clear.
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- We can have the gift
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- That god gave the spirit love, joy, peace,
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- Patience, gentleness, longsuffering, kindness, love,
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- Understanding about all of that
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- Will help us to restore that image.
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- But what happened to the image in the first place?
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- We all know
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- It's the fall of man.
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- Adam and eve.
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- God said, you've got the whole garden.
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- And they perfectly reflected the image of god.
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- And they kept that reflection because god walked with them
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- Every afternoon.
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- And that pristine, pristine creation.
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- But god said,
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- I've got one thing, one thing you need to know.
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- There's one truth, one law.
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- There are only two trees in the garden.
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- Did you get that?
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- The tree of life.
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- You can eat of that.
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- And the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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- Don't eat of that tree.
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- That was a no.
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- And therefore their image was scarred
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- And we were all born with our image scarred.
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- To say it clearly, everybody was here already
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- Bitten by the snake.
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- Every one of us,
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- Every one of us.
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- That image was scarred.
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- And in the scarring of your image, in my image,
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- In this 21st century,
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- Nothing has more
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- Partially decimated that
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- Which makes you and me like god
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- Than our whole misuse of the gift
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- Of sexuality.
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- We've all messed up in that area.
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- If you have not come to see me quickly
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- Because i want to sit down and visit with you,
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- Because i think you are one of a kind.
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- In this 21st century,
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- A totally misuse.
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- Of the gift
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- Of sexuality.
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- Many cultures
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- Have been as decadent as twisted
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- And confused about sex before.
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- Gender confusion.
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- All kinds of perverted activity.
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- We're not unique in that we didn't invent all this.
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- Many cultures have been
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- Where we are, but never in all of history as a culture
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- Got here as fast as we have gotten here
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- And our understanding of human sexuality,
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- Nobody just got here in a twinkling of an eye.
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- And then, wow.
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- Away we go.
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- Now, there are certain myths about sex
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- That we in the church, and everybody needs to understand.
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- Myths.
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- A myth is something a lot of people believe,
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- But it's simply not true.
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- The first myth is
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- God is and tie sex
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- God to get sex.
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- And if you're a christian,
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- You just shut down your sex life
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- Because they don't have
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- Up in the church those who follow jesus christ.
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- My goodness.
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- That god is anti-sex.
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- And there's two extremities here.
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- There's a whole group of people who believe that
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- Sex is dirty.
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- Whoo! whoo hoo!
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- It's a dirty thing.
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- There's another group of people believe that sex is deity.
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- It's god like.
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- And therefore we come and read the bible
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- And we see the hebrew terms for sexual intimacy.
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- What are they?
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- One is to know adam.
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- You, eve. to know.
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- To know sexual intimacy.
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- Another is to lie.
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- To lie with.
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- Another is to go into
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- Adam, new eve.
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- And anytime you see the word no
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- Dealing with sexual intimacy, it is of god.
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- It is in marriage. it is appropriate.
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- But when you see the other usage of the word.
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- David did lie with bathsheba.
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- This is part of
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- Her said to joseph, come and lay with me.
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- Come and live with me.
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- Abraham went in to hagar.
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- So you got went in two.
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- You got lie, you've got laid.
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- But you got the wonderful picture of to know
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- Which is intimacy.
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- What does the bible say about sexual intimacy?
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- Interesting.
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- Hebrews chapter 13
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- Says clearly that the marriage bed
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- Is holy.
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- Sex is holy.
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- Sex is sacred.
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- Sex was invented by god.
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- He gave this tremendous gift to us.
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- It is magnificent.
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- It is beautiful. it is.
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- And we read on in proverbs.
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- It says it's exhilarating and it's intoxicating.
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- And what proverbs is saying, sex is erotic.
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- Oh, you heard that in church because the bible teaches it.
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- But it is to be practiced within marriage exclusively.
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- That's the difference.
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- So we see the idea
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- That and god is fantastically, very upset.
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- God is pro sex in marriage.
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- Now that's a myth.
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- We need to throw out the window.
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- Because i can tell you something.
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- Christians
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- Have sex in a way that those outside of christ
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- Will never experience.
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- Christians have sex, body
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- To body and soul to soul.
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- Non-christians have body to body.
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- And i'll tell you.
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- Body, the body, the body, the body over and over again
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- Gets sort of old and monotonous, has no meaning, but
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- Body to body and soul to soul is explosive and beautiful
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- And gross
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- Comes more magnificent
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- As the years go by.
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- I stand as a testimony to that.
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- That's the way god designed it.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, that's the way it is.
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- God is not.
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- And sex.
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- God is pro sex.
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- And every way you can read
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- And study the holy word of god.
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- Myth number one.
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- Kick it out the window.
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- It's not true.
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- Myth number two is well,
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- If you're going to get married, you'd better.
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- So you're wild sexual oats before you get married,
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- Because it really help you in your marriage.
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- You know, i've talked to a lot of people before.
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- They were married, many, many after they were married.
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- Men married a short time, a brief time, a long time.
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- You know, i can't find anybody.
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- Never found anybody that says, i'm sure glad my husband
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- Slept with all those gals before we were married.
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- It really has helped our marriage beautifully.
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- Life doesn't always unfold the way we expect.
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- There are moments filled with uncertainty.
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- Challenges that test our strength.
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- And days
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- When encouragement feels hard to find in those moments.
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- Young eagle who was hatched with a bunch of chickens
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- And the eagles audience and chicken,
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- And he tried to cluck and poke around.
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- He'd see eagles fly over the boy.
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- Look at those birds. i wish we could do that.
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- He could.
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- He didn't know it because he'd been programed.
- 00:13:51.377 --> 00:13:54.680
- Stamp branded an early age as if he were a chicken.
- 00:13:54.680 --> 00:13:58.884
- When he was an eagle, we'd seen as many times.
- 00:13:58.884 --> 00:14:02.488
- Ducks are bored and mother duck is killed.
- 00:14:02.488 --> 00:14:05.658
- And the ducks just gravitate at that strategic moment.
- 00:14:05.658 --> 00:14:09.962
- We don't know exactly when it is with humans or animals.
- 00:14:09.962 --> 00:14:13.599
- And the ducks now follow along a dog
- 00:14:13.599 --> 00:14:16.669
- And that dog becomes
- 00:14:17.136 --> 00:14:18.837
- The character, and they learn how to bark
- 00:14:18.837 --> 00:14:20.940
- And they can't quite go waggle like they should,
- 00:14:20.940 --> 00:14:23.609
- But they follow a dog.
- 00:14:23.609 --> 00:14:24.843
- There's that moment of implanting.
- 00:14:24.843 --> 00:14:30.549
- The tragedy is we read that
- 00:14:31.150 --> 00:14:32.918
- One out of every four females have been abused
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- In this sexualized
- 00:14:37.556 --> 00:14:40.659
- Really in many areas in the sexual area,
- 00:14:40.659 --> 00:14:43.262
- Demonic culture in which we find ourselves.
- 00:14:43.262 --> 00:14:47.499
- So it's a difficult world, but the idea that someone
- 00:14:48.567 --> 00:14:52.137
- Should have sex before marriage.
- 00:14:52.137 --> 00:14:56.175
- And these days i've heard many that, well, you know,
- 00:14:56.175 --> 00:14:58.811
- Would you buy a car before you driven it?
- 00:14:58.811 --> 00:15:01.847
- Would you buy a car that been driven over 10,000
- 00:15:01.847 --> 00:15:05.417
- Muddy roads and had two engines blown out
- 00:15:05.417 --> 00:15:09.021
- Before you bought it?
- 00:15:09.021 --> 00:15:12.224
- It makes no difference.
- 00:15:12.725 --> 00:15:15.361
- Intimacy is not like buying a car.
- 00:15:15.361 --> 00:15:18.630
- Sex is not like purchasing a car.
- 00:15:18.630 --> 00:15:22.334
- The analogy is spurious and erroneous
- 00:15:22.334 --> 00:15:25.304
- And invalid.
- 00:15:25.304 --> 00:15:28.107
- God advocates
- 00:15:28.107 --> 00:15:30.209
- Purity, purity, purity, purity.
- 00:15:30.209 --> 00:15:35.280
- By the way it works.
- 00:15:35.748 --> 00:15:39.318
- A survey was taken
- 00:15:39.752 --> 00:15:40.953
- That almost 70% listen to me.
- 00:15:40.953 --> 00:15:43.822
- 70% of those who were virgins
- 00:15:44.456 --> 00:15:47.593
- Before they married, when they got married.
- 00:15:47.593 --> 00:15:51.330
- 70%. 69, to be exact,
- 00:15:51.830 --> 00:15:56.235
- Did not get divorce.
- 00:15:56.702 --> 00:15:58.837
- And when they were polled, they talked
- 00:15:58.837 --> 00:16:00.939
- About their sexual life becoming increasingly
- 00:16:00.939 --> 00:16:04.243
- Dynamic and beautiful every day.
- 00:16:04.243 --> 00:16:07.346
- They danced together in marriage.
- 00:16:07.346 --> 00:16:10.282
- Ladies and gentlemen, you are.
- 00:16:10.883 --> 00:16:12.317
- You're your band.
- 00:16:12.317 --> 00:16:13.285
- Oh, listen, i'm just putting out god's program
- 00:16:13.285 --> 00:16:16.655
- Because it always works
- 00:16:16.655 --> 00:16:20.359
- In every area of life.
- 00:16:20.826 --> 00:16:24.596
- So it's a myth.
- 00:16:24.963 --> 00:16:26.899
- Bull.
- 00:16:26.899 --> 00:16:27.900
- It's good to have sex before you get married.
- 00:16:27.900 --> 00:16:29.701
- So you all know that's a myth.
- 00:16:29.701 --> 00:16:33.672
- The third myth is,
- 00:16:34.106 --> 00:16:36.241
- Well, i messed up sexually,
- 00:16:36.241 --> 00:16:38.077
- And there's no hope for me.
- 00:16:38.077 --> 00:16:41.013
- Man, you.
- 00:16:41.313 --> 00:16:41.980
- You've prescribed all of this.
- 00:16:41.980 --> 00:16:43.482
- And man, i did this. didn't do this.
- 00:16:43.482 --> 00:16:46.085
- Let me tell you something, folks.
- 00:16:46.085 --> 00:16:48.153
- We've all in different ways.
- 00:16:48.153 --> 00:16:50.456
- Everybody here messed up sexually.
- 00:16:50.456 --> 00:16:54.093
- Everybody, if you're different.
- 00:16:54.726 --> 00:16:57.229
- I've already told you.
- 00:16:57.229 --> 00:16:58.230
- I want to meet with you, spend time with you,
- 00:16:58.230 --> 00:17:01.200
- Ask you a few questions.
- 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:04.169
- So we're all messed up.
- 00:17:04.670 --> 00:17:07.239
- We're.
- 00:17:07.239 --> 00:17:07.706
- None of us lived
- 00:17:07.706 --> 00:17:08.307
- Up to the standard
- 00:17:08.307 --> 00:17:09.208
- Because the image of god in us was broken.
- 00:17:09.208 --> 00:17:11.743
- We were born, and some of us, because of our choices.
- 00:17:11.743 --> 00:17:15.848
- And by the way, only human beings hate make real choices.
- 00:17:15.848 --> 00:17:19.718
- Only human beings can change.
- 00:17:20.352 --> 00:17:22.020
- You can't change human nature.
- 00:17:22.020 --> 00:17:24.556
- That is the dumbest statement ever uttered.
- 00:17:24.556 --> 00:17:26.959
- The only thing that can change in this world is human nature.
- 00:17:26.959 --> 00:17:30.395
- Everything else is programed.
- 00:17:31.029 --> 00:17:32.564
- Everything else works on the basis of instinct.
- 00:17:32.564 --> 00:17:35.367
- But we can make choices and we can change.
- 00:17:35.367 --> 00:17:38.937
- And that's the miracle.
- 00:17:38.937 --> 00:17:40.005
- The grace of god.
- 00:17:40.005 --> 00:17:42.107
- I can tell you that whatever
- 00:17:42.107 --> 00:17:43.876
- You've done, whatever i've done
- 00:17:43.876 --> 00:17:46.712
- In all the areas of life,
- 00:17:46.712 --> 00:17:48.413
- But in the area of sexuality, listen,
- 00:17:48.413 --> 00:17:52.751
- We can be restored to purity
- 00:17:52.751 --> 00:17:55.621
- And to innocence.
- 00:17:56.054 --> 00:17:58.090
- Well, that's why i know it's not.
- 00:17:58.090 --> 00:18:00.125
- It's the truth of the bible.
- 00:18:00.125 --> 00:18:02.227
- Anyone who is in christ,
- 00:18:02.761 --> 00:18:05.664
- They become a new creation.
- 00:18:05.664 --> 00:18:07.399
- And all things are new in ewr.
- 00:18:07.399 --> 00:18:11.036
- Let me say it for the hundredth time.
- 00:18:11.036 --> 00:18:13.105
- The word new means new.
- 00:18:13.105 --> 00:18:17.943
- Brand new.
- 00:18:18.243 --> 00:18:19.711
- New creation.
- 00:18:19.711 --> 00:18:21.380
- The old is gone.
- 00:18:21.380 --> 00:18:24.816
- Doesn't tell god about it anymore.
- 00:18:24.816 --> 00:18:26.818
- He's forgotten it.
- 00:18:26.818 --> 00:18:28.020
- Isn't that amazing? god. did you.
- 00:18:28.020 --> 00:18:29.821
- I want to make sure i know.
- 00:18:29.821 --> 00:18:31.690
- I know that when?
- 00:18:31.690 --> 00:18:32.791
- Good night.
- 00:18:32.791 --> 00:18:33.425
- We been there. done that.
- 00:18:33.425 --> 00:18:35.594
- He's forgotten.
- 00:18:35.594 --> 00:18:37.596
- We're new.
- 00:18:37.596 --> 00:18:39.231
- We're one in christ.
- 00:18:39.231 --> 00:18:42.034
- And therefore, we need to understand
- 00:18:42.034 --> 00:18:44.336
- And draw from two of these attributes of god.
- 00:18:44.336 --> 00:18:47.239
- I did not mention
- 00:18:47.239 --> 00:18:49.975
- Two attributes.
- 00:18:49.975 --> 00:18:50.842
- First of all, we need grace.
- 00:18:50.842 --> 00:18:54.413
- We need grace.
- 00:18:54.746 --> 00:18:56.682
- Forgiveness.
- 00:18:56.682 --> 00:18:58.083
- It's available.
- 00:18:58.083 --> 00:18:58.917
- You can't earn it.
- 00:18:58.917 --> 00:19:00.385
- It's saying, let's say here two churches.
- 00:19:00.385 --> 00:19:03.055
- One church is all about grace.
- 00:19:03.055 --> 00:19:05.457
- Man, in this church, you can come and live any way.
- 00:19:05.457 --> 00:19:08.594
- Do anything. have any past.
- 00:19:08.594 --> 00:19:10.696
- We forgave you.
- 00:19:10.696 --> 00:19:11.697
- In the name of christ. go.
- 00:19:11.697 --> 00:19:13.332
- And you're okay.
- 00:19:13.332 --> 00:19:14.967
- Grace. grace, grace.
- 00:19:14.967 --> 00:19:16.702
- A church that emphasizes grace.
- 00:19:16.702 --> 00:19:19.204
- Grace.
- 00:19:19.204 --> 00:19:20.172
- Grace becomes a church filled with libertines.
- 00:19:20.172 --> 00:19:23.842
- What is that?
- 00:19:23.842 --> 00:19:25.177
- I can do anything.
- 00:19:25.177 --> 00:19:26.245
- Say anything by any way.
- 00:19:26.245 --> 00:19:28.947
- Cheat. steal.
- 00:19:28.947 --> 00:19:30.215
- Commit adultery. it doesn't matter.
- 00:19:30.215 --> 00:19:32.451
- I'm forgiven.
- 00:19:32.451 --> 00:19:33.852
- Can you?
- 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:35.153
- I'd be forgiven when i went and committed it.
- 00:19:35.153 --> 00:19:36.488
- Okay. i'm forgiven. a charge of grace. grace?
- 00:19:36.488 --> 00:19:39.124
- Grace.
- 00:19:39.124 --> 00:19:40.058
- Grace is a church that ends up a swamp.
- 00:19:40.058 --> 00:19:45.097
- There's no fiber back
- 00:19:45.597 --> 00:19:48.133
- There. no boundaries there.
- 00:19:48.133 --> 00:19:49.768
- It ends up a swamp.
- 00:19:49.768 --> 00:19:51.503
- Now, no other church talks about truth.
- 00:19:51.503 --> 00:19:54.473
- Truth. truth.
- 00:19:54.473 --> 00:19:56.074
- Man. we live on the basis of truth.
- 00:19:56.074 --> 00:19:58.010
- We've got god's principles.
- 00:19:58.010 --> 00:19:59.444
- We've got god's boundaries.
- 00:19:59.444 --> 00:20:00.912
- Thou shalt not, thou shalt not, thou shalt not.
- 00:20:00.912 --> 00:20:03.982
- And there are strong truths.
- 00:20:03.982 --> 00:20:05.784
- And go to church like that.
- 00:20:05.784 --> 00:20:07.185
- They dangle you over a hill every time you go.
- 00:20:07.185 --> 00:20:10.255
- The fires are licking up at your feet.
- 00:20:11.089 --> 00:20:14.026
- You have violated the truth of god.
- 00:20:14.026 --> 00:20:17.329
- That kind of church is a desert the church.
- 00:20:17.329 --> 00:20:20.299
- It just talks about truth. truth.
- 00:20:20.299 --> 00:20:22.401
- Truth is filled with judgment.
- 00:20:22.401 --> 00:20:26.738
- Judgment.
- 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:28.106
- Condemnation.
- 00:20:28.106 --> 00:20:30.942
- Therefore,
- 00:20:30.942 --> 00:20:32.811
- That church is a desert.
- 00:20:32.811 --> 00:20:35.180
- You got a grace.
- 00:20:35.180 --> 00:20:36.048
- Grace, grace.
- 00:20:36.048 --> 00:20:37.949
- You got it. truth.
- 00:20:37.949 --> 00:20:38.850
- Truth. truth.
- 00:20:38.850 --> 00:20:41.820
- Which is it?
- 00:20:41.820 --> 00:20:43.955
- John one says
- 00:20:43.955 --> 00:20:46.758
- The word. the logos.
- 00:20:47.225 --> 00:20:48.794
- God became flesh
- 00:20:48.794 --> 00:20:51.530
- And dwelt among us, full of
- 00:20:51.530 --> 00:20:55.934
- Grace
- 00:20:56.168 --> 00:20:58.537
- And truth.
- 00:20:58.537 --> 00:21:00.505
- How? that's the body of christ.
- 00:21:00.505 --> 00:21:03.842
- Grace forgives, forgets, cleanses.
- 00:21:04.609 --> 00:21:07.679
- Puts us back to purity.
- 00:21:07.679 --> 00:21:09.348
- And truth becomes the the bounds of which we live.
- 00:21:09.348 --> 00:21:13.151
- As we grow and grow and mature and mature
- 00:21:13.151 --> 00:21:16.521
- And that image of god begins to be replaced,
- 00:21:16.521 --> 00:21:19.491
- We begin to reflect him more and more.
- 00:21:20.258 --> 00:21:22.561
- So we have to have grace and we have to have truth.
- 00:21:22.561 --> 00:21:24.963
- Where is that in the bible?
- 00:21:24.963 --> 00:21:26.965
- A woman caught in the act of adultery brought before jesus.
- 00:21:26.965 --> 00:21:30.268
- The lawyers of pharisees said,
- 00:21:30.869 --> 00:21:32.571
- Hey, this woman, we have witnesses.
- 00:21:32.571 --> 00:21:35.907
- We saw her committing adultery.
- 00:21:35.907 --> 00:21:38.677
- What do you want to do with her?
- 00:21:38.677 --> 00:21:41.813
- Moses says
- 00:21:42.114 --> 00:21:43.849
- The jewish law stoned her to death.
- 00:21:43.849 --> 00:21:48.053
- What do you say?
- 00:21:48.453 --> 00:21:49.121
- Jesus?
- 00:21:49.121 --> 00:21:51.022
- See? he's trapped.
- 00:21:51.022 --> 00:21:53.091
- If you as well.
- 00:21:53.091 --> 00:21:54.059
- I agree with moses. the biblical principle.
- 00:21:54.059 --> 00:21:56.395
- There stoned her to death. stone.
- 00:21:56.395 --> 00:21:58.997
- Someone to death is guilty of adultery.
- 00:21:58.997 --> 00:22:01.366
- All of a sudden, he's advocating
- 00:22:01.366 --> 00:22:03.402
- The breaking of roman law because
- 00:22:03.402 --> 00:22:06.605
- The church could not kill someone
- 00:22:06.605 --> 00:22:09.641
- Against the roman law.
- 00:22:09.641 --> 00:22:10.709
- You're breaking the roman law.
- 00:22:10.709 --> 00:22:11.777
- If his head stone her,
- 00:22:11.777 --> 00:22:14.446
- At the same time, if you went and said,
- 00:22:14.446 --> 00:22:17.149
- Well, it's it's no big deal about it.
- 00:22:17.149 --> 00:22:20.986
- You know,
- 00:22:20.986 --> 00:22:22.120
- You don't don't have to have the stone her here. but,
- 00:22:22.120 --> 00:22:25.090
- You know, just let her go when all of a sudden
- 00:22:26.057 --> 00:22:28.693
- He's broken the mosaic law.
- 00:22:28.693 --> 00:22:30.529
- He he slapped the jews or he slapped the romans.
- 00:22:30.529 --> 00:22:33.832
- He's caught. what are the words are going to say?
- 00:22:33.832 --> 00:22:36.468
- You know i did.
- 00:22:36.835 --> 00:22:37.869
- I love this.
- 00:22:37.869 --> 00:22:39.738
- Jesus just stooped down.
- 00:22:39.738 --> 00:22:42.140
- All of them had stones in their hand.
- 00:22:42.140 --> 00:22:44.843
- And he knelt down and he began to write
- 00:22:44.843 --> 00:22:47.212
- On the ground.
- 00:22:47.212 --> 00:22:49.981
- People have speculated
- 00:22:49.981 --> 00:22:51.216
- Their books written on what he was writing on the ground.
- 00:22:51.216 --> 00:22:54.619
- I think i know exactly what he wrote.
- 00:22:54.619 --> 00:22:57.189
- I think he wrote the name of the big old pharisee.
- 00:22:57.189 --> 00:22:59.991
- There was the stone and wrote his name.
- 00:22:59.991 --> 00:23:03.061
- And then he mentioned
- 00:23:03.562 --> 00:23:05.497
- Another name who
- 00:23:05.497 --> 00:23:09.167
- That he was involved with sometime in the past.
- 00:23:10.135 --> 00:23:14.272
- And he and that big guy, sort of the,
- 00:23:14.272 --> 00:23:17.175
- The bible says they he sort of backed away.
- 00:23:17.175 --> 00:23:19.511
- And then somebody else came and he wrote his name down
- 00:23:19.511 --> 00:23:23.348
- And mentioned another situation there,
- 00:23:23.348 --> 00:23:26.551
- And he said,
- 00:23:26.551 --> 00:23:29.821
- And so they all begin
- 00:23:30.322 --> 00:23:31.923
- To come forward and jesus began to write in the soil
- 00:23:31.923 --> 00:23:37.362
- What these
- 00:23:37.662 --> 00:23:39.197
- Pietistic super religious people advocated.
- 00:23:39.197 --> 00:23:44.202
- He wrote their names by that which they had done,
- 00:23:44.202 --> 00:23:47.539
- And they all just sort of disappeared.
- 00:23:47.539 --> 00:23:50.308
- And all you could hear was, don't
- 00:23:50.308 --> 00:23:53.211
- Do the the
- 00:23:53.211 --> 00:23:56.081
- Dropping of the stone,
- 00:23:56.081 --> 00:23:57.949
- Dropping of those stone.
- 00:23:57.949 --> 00:24:00.552
- And then there was nobody there but the woman
- 00:24:00.552 --> 00:24:04.556
- And jesus.
- 00:24:04.856 --> 00:24:06.791
- And jesus said, sir, there's nobody here
- 00:24:06.791 --> 00:24:08.894
- To judge you.
- 00:24:08.894 --> 00:24:12.097
- I said, do you see the magnificence of this thing?
- 00:24:12.097 --> 00:24:14.933
- Is nobody here to judge you?
- 00:24:14.933 --> 00:24:16.401
- She says, no man, lord.
- 00:24:16.401 --> 00:24:19.704
- He said, neither do i judge you.
- 00:24:19.704 --> 00:24:22.541
- That's grace.
- 00:24:22.541 --> 00:24:28.613
- Then he said, go and sin no more.
- 00:24:24.509 --> 00:24:31.917
- That's truth.
- 00:24:31.917 --> 00:24:33.952
- That's what he comes.
- 00:24:33.952 --> 00:24:35.086
- He gives us grace and he gives us truth.
- 00:24:35.086 --> 00:24:37.989
- That's the fullness of christ.
- 00:24:37.989 --> 00:24:39.391
- But there's one thing missing.
- 00:24:39.391 --> 00:24:41.826
- I need his grace.
- 00:24:42.260 --> 00:24:43.295
- I need to live on the basis of his truth.
- 00:24:43.295 --> 00:24:45.196
- I need to mature, have this image of god
- 00:24:45.196 --> 00:24:47.766
- Growing in you and growing in me.
- 00:24:47.766 --> 00:24:49.301
- But what does it take time to?
- 00:24:49.301 --> 00:24:51.836
- I me doesn't happen, just i am
- 00:24:51.836 --> 00:24:56.241
- Takes time.
- 00:24:56.575 --> 00:24:59.144
- Tree not bearing fruit.
- 00:24:59.144 --> 00:25:02.080
- Jesus walks by.
- 00:25:02.447 --> 00:25:04.282
- The owner of the garden tells the gardener,
- 00:25:04.282 --> 00:25:06.418
- Cut down that tree.
- 00:25:06.418 --> 00:25:07.686
- It's not being productive.
- 00:25:07.686 --> 00:25:09.254
- The gardener says, would you give me a year?
- 00:25:09.254 --> 00:25:12.524
- Let me prune to tree and dixon dirt about it
- 00:25:12.524 --> 00:25:16.661
- And fertilize
- 00:25:16.661 --> 00:25:17.762
- Would maybe in a year or so, it'll produce fruit.
- 00:25:17.762 --> 00:25:20.599
- Takes time.
- 00:25:20.932 --> 00:25:23.001
- And that's time god gives to all of us
- 00:25:23.001 --> 00:25:25.870
- By his grace on the basis of truth.
- 00:25:25.870 --> 00:25:28.440
- So that image of god can become more and more
- 00:25:28.440 --> 00:25:31.509
- Apparent in everything you're about and everything i'm about.
- 00:25:31.509 --> 00:25:35.647
- Grace. truth. plus time.
- 00:25:35.647 --> 00:25:38.416
- The image begins to recreated
- 00:25:38.416 --> 00:25:40.986
- And begins to show more in you and more in me.
- 00:25:40.986 --> 00:25:46.291
- I wrote standing on the promises
- 00:25:46.992 --> 00:25:48.994
- This little book, years ago, because life has a way
- 00:25:48.994 --> 00:25:52.564
- Of shaking us right to our very foundations.
- 00:25:52.564 --> 00:25:57.602
- We all face days when circumstances
- 00:25:57.602 --> 00:26:00.372
- Feel bigger than our faith, and the very ground
- 00:26:00.372 --> 00:26:03.508
- On which we stand seems to be shaking.
- 00:26:03.508 --> 00:26:06.344
- But over the years, i found there's
- 00:26:07.112 --> 00:26:09.180
- Something that never changes.
- 00:26:09.180 --> 00:26:12.317
- God keeps his promises.
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- This book is designed to help you hold on to that truth
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- Every single day, 24/7.
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- Standing on the promises is a 365 day
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- Devotional short, practical, rooted in scripture,
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- Created to meet you right where you are.
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- Whether you're starting your day or ending your day, or
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- Or just needing encouragement in the middle of your day,
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- Each reading reminds you
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- That god's word is reliable.
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- His presence is real.
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- His promises are working even when you can't see
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- The results yet, and you don't know which promise to claim.
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- My prayer
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- Is that this book becomes a daily companion.
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- Strengthen your faith.
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- Restore your confidence, and helping you stand firm
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- No matter what comes your way.
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- I invite you to call the number on the screen and order
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- Standing on the promises today, and discover
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- The peace that surpasses all human understanding
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- That comes from building your life
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- On god's un.
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- Changing word.
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