Ed Young - The Miracle of Grace

April 21, 2026 | 27:29

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Miracle of Grace | April 21, 2026

Before you get to.
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Pious out there.
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Everybody
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Here in different times, a different state,
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We too have been on the wrong side of the cross.
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Don't misunderstand me.
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We've been over here.
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Different regions, different thing.
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We've been over here.
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For the flesh controls us.
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What do we do here?
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The same thing he did.
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When he came to christ.
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He goes back on the right.
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Side of the cross.
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A family had a barbecue in their backyard.
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Invite all their neighbors to come.
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Children, dogs.
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The man who was barbecuing looked over in a bush
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And saw a rattlesnake coiled.
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Maybe you read about it
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And he wanted to get the rattlesnake out of the way.
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And so he took the the tongs he was barbecuing with,
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And he went
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And grabbed the rattlesnake trying to take him away.
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And the snake struck him in the arm.
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They called 911.
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And also they call
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The catch and release
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Protection agency
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For the environment and for animals
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That existed in that city.
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And they came
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Interestingly, a bigger crowd
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Was around the captor of the snake,
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Then was watching the man who had been struck
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By the snake put in the ambulance.
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We're always attracted to snakes.
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More. you're after the victim.
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Have you noticed that?
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It started in the garden of eden.
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The snake evil came.
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Asked eve a question or two.
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She decided to eat the fruit.
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So as the evil snake had told her,
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She would be like god.
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She was bitten by the snake.
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Adam was bitten by the snake.
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We call that in theological terms, the fall of man.
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It is the fall,
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And in the
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Process, the poisonous venom
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Went into the bloodstream of the first man
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And the first woman. and guess what?
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That venom has been carried down
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All through the ages until all of us were born
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With snake venom within us.
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That will kill us.
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What was god's answer?
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The cross.
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Because god came into this world
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And we read he died for our sins.
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He died for that venom that is flowing
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In your veins and in my veins.
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And by the way, do you know what anti-venom is?
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What does it consist of?
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Anti-venom is blood mixed
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With venom from snakes.
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And they took this man to the hospital.
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And i assure you,
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They took some anti-venom and put it in his bloodstream
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So he would be.
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How about this word saved?
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And so jesus christ,
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In a supernatural transaction that no one
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Completely understands, god put on him
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All the snake bites
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That you and i have ever had,
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And therefore his perfect blood that was shed
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Becomes an anti venom
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That when we receive him as lord and savior,
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That antivenom works in you and in me.
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And that's the background of the word salvation.
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Now, if someone would doubt
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That we're born bitten by the snake.
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This is a brief
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Theological, biblical background,
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But i can prove it to you experimentally.
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I can prove it to you by how we live.
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For example,
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Did anybody have to teach anybody here how to lie?
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You know how to deceive,
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How to lust,
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How to be prideful,
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How to have those humble brags that we do
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Well, i've done all this, but oh, it's of god.
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You know, we were so skilled, but humble brags.
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Are we not?
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You who taught us to defend ourselves?
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Who taught us to get involved?
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And oh, how did we learn that we are born bitten
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By the snake?
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And the entire venom
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That comes in us from the blood of jesus christ.
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That is what saves us.
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I like the word salvaged.
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Us, as you know, restores us to the purpose
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For which we were made. so.
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We come to this side of the cross,
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And god begins to work
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A miracle in our lives.
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And then we grow up in our faith.
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We call that sanctification.
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We total that maturity.
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We call that all of a sudden helping god
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To build his mind, his heart, and his way in you and me.
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And we have what we call character.
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Character is not something we have.
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It's something we become.
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Oh, he has character.
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Have you and i become with genuine character in god?
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That's the process of growing in maturity.
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So we come to this moment in our study of
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Corinth.
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These are christians now.
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These are part of the church
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Introduces immorality.
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And i want you to open your bibles with me.
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It's good to bring them to church.
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Over your bibles
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To first corinthians,
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Chapter number five.
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And let's read.
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Listen together.
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These first verses.
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He says it is actually reported
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That there is.
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Sexual immorality
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Among you christians.
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Of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate
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For this much really be something.
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A man is sleeping
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With his father's wife.
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And you're proud.
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Shouldn't you rather have gone into
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Mourning
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Incest?
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And he says
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For a man.
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To sleep with their stepmother.
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Even the roman law would forbid that,
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Let alone the principle of christ.
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The roman law said this is outside the realm.
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Now remember where they live.
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They lived in corinth and the church was an island
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Of people who had received christ,
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And they were living around perhaps one of the most.
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Sensual.
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Societies that this world has ever known.
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Las vegas, sin city.
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What happens in las vegas stays in las vegas.
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I know you've never heard that.
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That's exactly what they would say in biblical day.
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The corinthians.
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What happens in card stays in card.
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It's in city.
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And a lot of these christians.
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Had been living decadent
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Lives of total immorality.
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There was there was a freedom of sex
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And sexual expression man, that was widespread in corinth.
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And it they even had a temple to aphrodite
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In which sex was worshiped.
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It's the highest form of pleasure.
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And so they worshiped sex.
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So many of these christians had come out of that environment
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And they'd come into the church.
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But now there's one person
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Paul is talking about.
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Evidently he was a prominent member of the church,
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And evidently everybody knew about it in the church.
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And all those. outside.
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The church knew about it.
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Perhaps he was a deacon or
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Teacher.
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We don't know what his role work, but
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He was very prominent, very important.
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And it says the church was proud.
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And crazy
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Of his incestuous life he was living.
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I guess the church would say to all those immoral, crazy,
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Our church is so progressive and we're so tolerant
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And we're so up to speed in the first century,
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We've got, you know, who it is.
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And our church living in incestuous life,
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And he's still teaching, he's still functioning,
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And we just sort of turn away from it.
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And we're we're kind.
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You'd fit at our church too.
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You tried to change your lifestyle very much.
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We we sort of accept all of this.
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We don't question all of that.
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And they were proud of it.
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And then.
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Paul says, but shouldn't you be mourning.
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And the word mourning there means there has been a death
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And it's mourning deeply.
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Someone has been taken away and paul is saying
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Instead of being proud of this person,
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We have this, you see, was the kind of person
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That they would say, guess who's member of our church?
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The mayor, the governor, whoever.
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Oh, we're so proud to have them.
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And now they said, instead of being proud,
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You should be mourning over the.
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Incest.
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That this man common knowledge.
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Is participating in him.
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Christian.
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And then paul said, this is what you do about it.
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This is strong medicine, folks.
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He says, put out of your fellowship
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The man who has been doing this
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For in my part, says paul, even though
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I am not physically present, i am with you in spirit,
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As one who is present with you in this way.
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I have already passed judgment in the name of jesus.
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Paul is saying, god has already said in
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Jesus christ that incest is a deadly,
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Deadly moral sin.
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Jesus pronounced that john
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Paul did not have to do it,
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And then look at what he says.
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He says, what do you do?
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He says, hand this man over to satan
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For the destruction
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Of the flesh, the latter part
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So that his spirit may be saved on the day of the lord.
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Now keep that in your mind.
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This very prominent person.
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In the church, in the city.
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Is going to be called before the christians
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In his immoral lifestyle, and look at the purpose of it.
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See the purpose.
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So that he might be salvaged,
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Everybody wants a happy home.
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But let's be honest.
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A happy home doesn't just happen.
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It's built.
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It's shaped.
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Day by day by day.
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That's why i want to encourage you to read
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You will find a simple rhythm
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How do you deal with somebody, you know, he's
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Going down a dead end street
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And you can see without being too smart,
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They're about to fall off a cliff.
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How do we deal with that?
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Matthew 18 and by the way,
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This has been done in this church
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Many, many, many times.
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If there's a moral problem,
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We should pray and fast and go
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And sit down with that person and don't tell anybody else.
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Well, i'm going to talk with bill
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Because he's caught up in an adulterous relationship.
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I want you to pray for me.
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No, no, no.
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I see a lot of prayer
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Meetings are more ungodly than those who don't even pray.
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If how you handle matthew 18, you go 101 it
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With tears and with prayer, and with your own understanding
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That you're not going
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As somebody who's perfect and you deal with that
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In love and in pairs, and try to help them
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Come out of the immoral trap.
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If that doesn't work,
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Jesus says, then you take 2 or 3 others
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And they go with you, and they sit down
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With this person and they try to deal with him.
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You see, you don't take something and expand it.
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And then if that doesn't work, you take them
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Before the body of christ, the church.
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Evidently, this is what had happened with this man.
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The church was so prideful and he was so prideful, saying,
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Well, this is not a big deal or whatever.
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And now they go before the church
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And the church pronounce the judgment.
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I have never got to that point in my personal relationship
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And dealing and using matthew 18.
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I'm never got to that point.
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And we say they've been church.
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It doesn't mean they cannot attend worship, certainly.
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And evidently
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This man will see evidently continue to go to church.
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He just did not have a prominent position.
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So then we see
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What was the problem here.
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The problem was the man
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Didn't kill the snake.
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He didn't kill the snake.
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Look at verse five.
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You're boasting is not good.
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Don't you know that a little yeast
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Leavens a whole batch of dough?
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Get rid of the old yeast.
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In the old testament, yeast leaven
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Is always connected with sin.
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In the passover, they took any yeast,
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Any leaven out of the house
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Before they went to the passover feast. why?
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Because you put a little yeast and a whole hunk of dough.
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I don't know about your body, but i understand that
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That yeast just goes through all that dough
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And it rises and gets larger and larger.
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You think, well,
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You're saying that my sin doesn't affect the church?
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It does.
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Immorality affects all
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The church, all the body of christ,
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Everybody. it's like yeast.
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It goes everywhere.
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He says, kill the snake.
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Get the yeast out.
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And then the next thing he says.
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You can't be tolerant.
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He's already introduced that
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To the very first verse of this chapter.
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He says, i wanted to i wrote to you a letter
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Not to associate with sexually immoral people.
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Now he explains that.
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Let me tell you briefly.
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He says, it's not that we don't associate
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With immoral people in the world.
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You couldn't live if we didn't do that.
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Now you don't just become
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Intimate friends with them and do a lot of them.
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I think that's deadly.
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Every single time it happens.
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But see, god is going to judge the world.
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Folks don't get in the. business of.
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Being judging. we're not to judge the world.
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God's going to take care of that.
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Those who are outside of the family of god,
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Those who've never been this side of the cross,
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God's going to handle it.
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But we are in the church.
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Matthew 18 to go and try to call those back
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Who are running over the cliff,
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God did not put these thou shalt not down
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To keep us from having a good time
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Or fulfilling everything in life.
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He put those thou shalt not down
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As a protection for us to have a full and glorious life.
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Now. what
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Has happened to so many people?
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Is that in our sensual culture,
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Our sensual culture,
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We have a tremendous problem
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In the whole area of sex.
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One of the biggest business
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In the world now is pornography.
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We've all been exposed to it.
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When children are exposed to it,
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It is so very deadly because there is that
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Prefrontal cortex
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Right in the middle here.
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Cortex covers that part of our brain, that lobe in our brain.
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And when children see pornography,
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That part of their brain is not developed.
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What does that brain do?
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That brain
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Helps us make decisions,
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Helps us to relate to people,
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Help us to run our lives properly.
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And when children are exposed to that,
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It is stunted, it is dwarfed, it is confused.
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And when adults are repeatedly exposed to this,
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The pornographers say we're getting more and more vivid.
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The reason they're
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Doing that is because there's a jade in this,
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And they have to continually become more and more perverted.
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I looked at this and i thought,
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Maybe this explains
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I'm not speaking ex cathedra here
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Or being overly dogmatic.
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I'm speculating and it's my speculation.
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Maybe this explains how a lot of people
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In positions of power in the corporate world,
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In our political world,
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In our educational world, seem to many of us
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To be doing everything they can to destroy america.
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Maybe that prefrontal cortex
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Has been so. damaged.
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They can't discern darkness from light
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And right from wrong.
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It is wild and hard to believe and to see
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Right before our very eyes.
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Maybe
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In all the sensuality
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That we've been a part of for so many generations
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Now, we're seeing the deadly payoff
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At this moment in history.
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I pray that that is not right,
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But i think that's something to.
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Think about.
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So here we are.
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What are we doing here?
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The end of this chapter
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Is so strong,
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He says. what business is it?
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A mind to judge those who are outside the church.
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Are you not to judge those inside the church?
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God will judge those outside.
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Expel the wicked person from among you.
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Think about this corinthian man, so prominent,
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So well-known, proud of in the church.
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No one outside the church, living ancestors life.
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Look what he went through and all the humiliation
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And shame before that body of christ.
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But paul says
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He was a christian.
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How can this be?
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You see what happened.
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He came to christ.
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He understood the shed blood of the christ.
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Paul has already talked about the cross, and here
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The blood of christ was cleansing him of sin.
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But what happened?
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We've already talked about corinthians.
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There's a natural person who's outside of the christ.
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There's a spiritual person who is in christ,
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And there is the carnal person, fleshly person.
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So what happens?
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This man ends up on the backside of the cross.
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Now he is a christian,
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But he's lost the protection of the church.
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He's lost the authority that christ gives his sons
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And daughters.
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And now he is living a carnal, fleshly life.
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Just like he.
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Lived before he ever came to christ and begin
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A part of the body of christ.
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He's gone back there, and now he's back to the cross,
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And he is carnal.
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He is carnal.
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He is sensual.
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He is living an immoral sexual life.
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Before you get to.
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Pious out there.
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Everybody
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Here in different times, a different state,
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We too have been on the wrong side of the cross.
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Don't misunderstand me.
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We've been over here.
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Different regions, different thing.
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We've been over here.
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For the flesh controls us.
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What do we do here?
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The same thing he did.
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When he came to christ.
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He goes back on the right.
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Side of the cross.
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And he goes, and he confessed sin.
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And turned from sin.
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And as that blood of jesus.
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Christ.
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To come into our life and to be that and venom
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That sets us back on our feet and sets us free,
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That's what we have to do.
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Let me show you.
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This is one of the most thrilling verses
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In all the bible.
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You say, well, i wonder what happens.
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This guy can can't.
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I mean, did he do that?
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Receive christ?
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Wrong side of the cross.
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Did he go back on the right side of the cross?
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All that he went through?
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Listen to what happens in second corinthians.
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Same guy.
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If anyone has caused grief, this man did.
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He is not so much grieved me, said paul, as he is
00:24:40.024 --> 00:24:43.060
Grieved all of you to some extent
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Not to put it severely.
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The punishment inflicted on him
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By the majority is sufficient
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Now. instead, you ought to forgive
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And comfort him so that he will not
00:25:02.212 --> 00:25:04.782
Be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
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I urge you to therefore
00:25:08.819 --> 00:25:11.322
To affirm your love for him.
00:25:11.322 --> 00:25:14.191
This man was completely restored
00:25:14.191 --> 00:25:17.261
And the fellowship of the body of christ,
00:25:17.261 --> 00:25:20.230
And that is the miracle of his grace.
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Everybody wants a happy home.
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But let's be honest.
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A happy home doesn't just happen.
00:25:29.373 --> 00:25:32.276
It's built.
00:25:32.276 --> 00:25:33.544
It's shaped.
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Day by day by day.
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That's why i want to encourage you to read
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This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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This 90 day devotional is from
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Decades of real life pastoring,
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Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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In the page of this
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Book each day you will find a simple rhythm
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As of scripture,
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Practical, down to earth navigation,
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We're not talking about something complicated here.
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We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
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15 minutes.
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Your home on what matters the most in christ
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Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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Your life.
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Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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Everything else changes.
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Conversations change.
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Priorities change.
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Take that first step today.
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Life is a journey of faith.
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One step at a time.
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There'll be moments of clarity and moments
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When you simply have to trust god for the next step.
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Keep your eyes on
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Him and keep moving forward in faith.
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This will give you a winning walk every single day.
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Ed Young - The Miracle of Grace

April 21, 2026 | 27:29

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