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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - More Than Conquerors | July 22, 2025
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- Pastor ed young: how do you get to know god?
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- If i would tell you i have a personal relationship with jesus
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- Christ, would that be maybe?
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- I hope so.
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- Emotional experience?
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- A desire?
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- Oh, when you and i say, as christians, it means to have a
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- Personal relationship with jesus christ, how do we know
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- That's true?
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- How do we know it's real?
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- How do we know it's valid?
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- How do we know it's forever?
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- We've been studying romans chapter number 8 for 12 weeks.
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- Most biblical theologians and scholars who love the word of
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- God would tell you that, in all probability, it is the greatest
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- Chapter in all the bible.
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- It's the goat: the greatest of all time.
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- Therefore, we've gone through it word by word, phrase by phrase
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- For these 12 weeks, and now we come to the end of that study,
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- And it's been my prayer, and i hope the prayers of many, that
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- As we have walked through that word, it has caught fire in your
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- Life and in my life, and therefore, now we have built in
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- Us a reservoir of truth that will take us all the way through
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- Life so we can know, as paul has taught us, that you and i are in
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- The family of god.
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- No matter what, no matter how, we know that we know that we are
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- In god's family.
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- We are his children.
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- Romans chapter 7, paul ends up in a bad place.
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- He says, "i feel like my body is dead.
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- I'm lifeless.
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- I have no purpose.
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- I'm bored.
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- I'm cold," and he said, "the reason is that i've got things
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- Upside down.
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- My priorities are wrong."
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- That's the end of romans 7, but then paul says, "who in the
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- World will deliver me from this depression, from this emptiness,
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- From this despair, from this frustration?"
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- And he just almost shouts out in the scripture, "thanks be to god
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- Through jesus christ, my lord," and then he writes romans
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- Chapter 8, and he says, "there is no condemnation, no judgment,
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- For those who are in christ."
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- And as you read the epistles of paul, that's the theme of every
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- One of them: a man, a woman, a teenager, a boy, a girl, in
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- Christ, in christ, in christ, and he talks about what it means
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- To be in christ, and in this romans chapter 8, it is the
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- Message of the bible that tells us that we are secure.
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- We are safe throughout eternity in our relationship with god.
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- It is a-okay all the way through life and all the way
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- Through eternity.
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- To do this, he mentions the holy spirit 17 times, 17 times, and
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- He explains rather clearly that when you and i enter that
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- Relationship with christ, the trinity is involved: god the
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- Father, god the son, god the holy spirit.
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- God the father is god without skin.
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- God the son is god with skin.
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- God the holy spirit is god inside of skin.
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- Therefore, when we are convicted of sin, repent of sin, receive
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- Jesus christ, it is the holy spirit in us that is christ
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- In us.
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- So it's a clear teaching of the work of the holy spirit, the
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- Third person of the trinity.
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- It's just all the way through this 8th chapter.
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- Then he comes to that climactic moment that we dealt with
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- Recently, and that is romans chapter 8, verse number 14.
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- By the way, i hope you have your bibles with you.
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- Didn't bring them?
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- There's one in the pew disguised as a hymnal.
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- Get that out.
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- Turn to the book of romans.
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- Men, your wives will help you find it.
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- And go there to the 8th chapter, and you'll see a pivotal verse.
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- Paul has already said when you're in christ, you have a
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- Mind set not on flesh, but a mind set on the spirit, and it
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- Changes everything.
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- Then to that 14th verse, he said those who are led by the holy
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- Spirit, by the spirit of god, are children of god.
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- That is the line in the sand.
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- That is the watershed.
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- If you're on this side, you're led by the spirit.
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- If you're on the other side, you're not led by the spirit.
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- And that is the standard, the criteria, as to whether or not
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- We have that relationship with christ.
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- Then he goes on and elaborates what we have as christians, and
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- I love that 26th, 27th verse.
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- It says when we don't know how to pray--
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- You like that sometime?
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- "i don't know exactly how to pray and what to say and what to
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- Do, and i--" it says that the holy spirit comes, remember that
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- Long, old greek word sunantilambanomai?
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- It means the holy spirit comes over where you are and comes
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- Over where i am and takes hold of you and takes hold of me, and
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- When we pray, though we don't know exactly how to pray, the
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- Holy spirit takes that prayer, interprets it, and it goes to
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- Jesus, who's at the right hand of god, making intercession for
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- Us, and he interprets our mumbling kind of prayer to our
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- Heavenly father.
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- And remember a basic principle there: the holy spirit, when we
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- Pray, through jesus christ, the holy spirit prays a prayer for
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- You and for me if we knew what god knows, see?
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- That's his will.
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- If we knew that, what god knows, we would know how to pray.
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- Verse 26, verse 27, then that great 28th verse, we just sat
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- Down on it for a long time.
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- We know that all things work together for good to those who
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- Love the lord and those who are the called according to his
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- Purpose, and that comforts up no end, doesn't it?
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- Whatever's going on-- good, bad, ugly, indifferent-- we know that
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- Somehow god, in his divine economy, through the holy
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- Spirit, is working everything out for our good as far as god
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- Sees our good, and god knows your good and my good more than
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- We know it, right?
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- We got that, and we're seeking for his purpose, for his unique
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- Will for your life and for my life.
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- God wants to get a message through everybody here, every
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- Single one of us, and the message he would get through
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- Your life is different from the message in my life or anybody
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- Else's life, and if he does not get that message through your
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- Life, there will be a hole in creation.
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- All things work together for good to those who love the lord
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- And those who are the called-- we answered his call-- called
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- To his purpose, and then we move on to the 31st verse
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- Of romans 8.
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- Now, it's very interesting to me that romans 8, verse 1, all
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- The way through verse 30, the holy spirit is mentioned all the
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- Time: holy spirit, holy spirit, the work, the function, the
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- Priority, the leadership, the blessings.
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- But you come to verse 31, all the way through the end of the
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- Chapter, verse 39, the holy spirit is not even mentioned
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- One time.
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- Isn't that something?
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- Holy spirit, holy spirit, holy spirit, and then you come to the
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- Climactic end, verse 31 through 39, holy spirit not
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- Even mentioned.
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- What's going on?
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- All the other verses, paul is teaching us and telling us what
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- We have when we receive christ, and the holy spirit is operating
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- In our life, then he tells us the results, how that is working
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- Out in your life and my life and what we have because we have
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- Christ, and the holy spirit is operating in your life.
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- He tells us what that means, and we dealt with that, and he has
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- That little verse there, which he says, "what can i say to all
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- These things?"
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- Verse 31-- in light of all that he has taught us, paul said,
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- "what can i say?"
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- And he has that powerful verse that every wise person here will
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- Claim and sit down on for the rest of your life.
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- "since god is for us."
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- Is that terrific?
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- We're on god's team.
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- We're in god's family.
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- God is for everybody here.
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- I don't know anything, anybody, any being that i'd rather have
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- On my team, or i'd rather be on his team, than almighty
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- God, right?
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- God is for us.
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- And then that question, and the choir has answered it.
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- The choir's answer, if they have forgotten, i doubt they
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- Have: nobody.
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- Then he asks, "since god is for us, who can be against us?"
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- Congregation: nobody!
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- Pastor ed: and that's absolutely true, and paul says, "nobody can
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- Charge us."
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- Jesus got that covered.
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- "nobody can condemn us."
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- He took our condemnation upon himself.
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- That's the cross, and therefore, if god is for us, who can be
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- Against us?
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- Congregation: nobody!
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- Pastor ed: and then he goes on and he talks about separation,
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- And then he says, "what can separate us from the love
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- Of christ?"
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- And then i'll let the balcony answer that, and the answer
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- Is: nothing.
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- They remembered.
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- "who can separate the love of christ?
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- What can separate us?"
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- Nothing.
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- Good.
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- Isn't it good we have the choir in the balcony, preaching to all
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- Of us today?
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- And then paul mentioned some separators.
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- What are some things that separate you, separate me from
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- Him, separate us?
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- Look at romans, if you would, open your bibles.
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- I've given you an overview of where we've been and where
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- We're going.
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- And so, let's look at some of these separators now.
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- There's a list there.
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- "who will separate us from the love of christ?"
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- And he names all these things.
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- Tribulation, we talked about that.
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- That's pressure.
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- Distress, that's when we're in a narrow place.
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- Persecution, it costs us something to stand for christ.
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- Famine may not just be hunger, but it's we're missing something
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- In life.
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- Nakedness, we're totally exposed and vulnerable.
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- Peril and sword would be perhaps the judicial system speaking out
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- Against us as a sword of justice.
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- So all of these things are separators, right?
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- By separating, "what, does christ really love me?
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- Man, look, look, you know, i'm under peril.
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- I'm persecuted.
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- Does christ--" so these are things that tend to separate us,
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- But another thing that all this incorporates is when you and i
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- Fumble and fail and strike out, make an error, mess up, and we
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- Have the idea that, "man, i'm separate.
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- I-- christ just can't love me.
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- I'm put to one side.
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- I'm put on probation.
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- I'm thrown out.
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- I've been disenfranchised.
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- I'm embarrassed."
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- Isn't it interesting?
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- The church, the church, we in the church are to be in the
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- Business of healing, bringing about reconciliation, reaching
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- Out to those who are broken.
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- Or is the church primarily a place for saints-- that's the
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- New testament word for christians-- to sort of huddle
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- Up together, and we're clean, and we smell good, and we like
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- The music, the fellowship, the good feelings, and "i just feel
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- Better when i went to church today."
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- You know, is that who we are, or are we a hospital for the least,
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- The last, the lost, those who are broken, those who are
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- Disturbed, those who are in big trouble, you know?
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- We come to church to serve, and we come to church to be served,
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- But is the church the place where we can really go when our
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- Life is bottomed out?
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- Fred smith is an executive, a businessman in dallas.
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- He's written a modern-day parable,
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- And the parable goes like this.
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- The title is "don't take me to the hospital, please."
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- "don't take me to the hospital, please."
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- And he writes these words:
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- There's a man crossing the street,
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- A car hits him, he's knocked down,
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- He's seriously injured, and the car speeds off.
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- He's been hit and run over and he's bleeding.
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- And people go out and say, "can i help you?"
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- And he says, "don't take me to the hospital, please."
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- They say, "what are you talking about?
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- You're seriously injured.
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- You don't know if you're gonna make it.
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- There's blood.
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- You're in pain."
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- He said, "please, don't take me to the hospital."
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- And they said, "why?"
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- He said, "you see, i'm on the staff at the hospital," and he
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- Says, "they've never seen me except i'm clean and neat and
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- Nice," and said, "if i went to the hospital now, it would be an
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- Embarrassment to me that here i am broken and dirty, and don't
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- Take me to the hospital, please.
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- They won't to understand."
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- And they said, "look, we're gonna call an ambulance."
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- "no, no, please, don't call an ambulance.
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- Don't take me to the hospital, please, because there's another
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- Factor here."
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- He said, "on the staff of the hospital, i have lectured all
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- The team there many, many times.
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- I have lectured them, and i have told them over and over again
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- How to be a responsible pedestrian."
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- He said, "i reminded them you never jaywalk."
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- He said, "that's what i did when i was hit by that car that
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- Ran off."
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- He said, "i reminded them that always in an accident, you gotta
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- See what the car was, and you gotta get a license number."
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- He said, "i don't know what kind of car hit me, and i certainly
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- Didn't see the license number."
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- He said, "i'm embarrassed.
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- I have taught all the staff not to do what i just did, and i was
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- Run over by a car."
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- He said, "boy, don't take me to the hospital, please."
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- And they said, "well, we'll call an ambulance."
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- He said, "no, it's worse than that."
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- He said, "you see, i'm a part of that hospital, and i know those
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- Who admit people in the hospital, and if i go up there
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- To be admitted, and they won't recognize me in this mess," and
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- He said, "i don't have my medical insurance card with me."
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- He said, "they won't take me in, because they realize the
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- Liability and the hospital's responsible if they take
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- Anybody in."
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- He said, "please, don't take me to the hospital."
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- So he just crawled out of the road and went over in the
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- Gutter, bleeding.
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- Now, in the parable, we don't know whether he bled to death or
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- He somehow got the bleeding stopped.
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- That's the end of the story.
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- See, that's a strange story.
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- This week, i asked different people: if you were caught and
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- Hit and run over by a very shameful sin that people knew
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- About, would you go to the church in the morning on sunday?
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- These are christian people.
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- Every one of them said, "oh no, i wouldn't go to church.
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- Man, if everybody knew and i did some despicable, heinous,
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- Shameful," he said, "i wouldn't go to church.
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- I'd be ashamed to go to church."
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- But the same person, they'd go to a pool hall and people
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- Understand there, wouldn't they?
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- Go to a bar, well, there'd be people that'd understand.
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- Go to some who are living under a bridge.
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- Yeah, yeah, they'd understand somebody been hit and run over
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- By a shameful sin or addiction or a problem.
- 00:18:46.415 --> 00:18:49.051
- They'd understand that, but to go to church, where all those
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- Beautiful people are, clean, well-dressed.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, we have to realize that the body of christ
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- Needs to be a place where we take those who are hit and run
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- Over by life or by sin, and we welcome them.
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- We do not condemn them.
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- We love them.
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- We may not condone what they have done, but this needs a
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- Place for healing.
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- That is the body of christ.
- 00:19:20.315 --> 00:19:27.623
- But sometime we get broken.
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- We get run over by sin, hit-and-run.
- 00:19:31.093 --> 00:19:34.363
- The church is the last place we need to go.
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- If that happened to you and me, i hope we'd say, "take me to the
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- Church, please.
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- Take me to church, please.
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- There are folks up there who will love me and accept me and
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- Pray for me and put their arms around me no matter what.
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- Take me to church."
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- In the early church, they looked at those christians and they
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- Said one thing: "look how they love one another."
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- That's what we are to become, and don't let-- we're up and out
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- Empty, down and out empty, up and out sick, confused, down and
- 00:20:15.370 --> 00:20:20.409
- Out sick and confused.
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- It doesn't make any difference to god in christ.
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- The church is to be the place where there is healing and
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- There's love, there's anointing, and there's new life in
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- Jesus christ.
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- What can separate us?
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- The love of christ.
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- And then paul takes it another notch.
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- Now he moves in the supernatural area of this business
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- Of separation.
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- Look at it in your bibles.
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- "just as it's written, 'for your sake we are being put to death
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- All day long; we're considered as sheep to be slaughtered.'"
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- Sounds right, doesn't it?
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- Go through some of this?
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- We're being slaughtered like sheep.
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- You know about sheep?
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- You ever seen a group of trained sheep?
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- No.
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- Watch this sheep bleat?
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- No.
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- Watch this sheep run up there and run right back?
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- No.
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- Sheep are generally dirty, smelly, helpless, dumb animals.
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- Check me out on it.
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- The bible says-- guess what?
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- We're like sheep.
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- It's like we're being given to be slaughtered day after day
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- Because we step out of the line.
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- We get hit and run over by so many things, but then paul says,
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- Because we're in christ, he said, we are more
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- Than conquerors.
- 00:21:57.139 --> 00:22:00.842
- "i am convinced," he said, "we're more than conquerors
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- Through him who loved us."
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- Big, isn't it?
- 00:22:07.983 --> 00:22:09.718
- And then he goes on and lists other things that separate.
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- Remember, we're talking about being separated from the love of
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- God, love of christ, and this other thing.
- 00:22:14.623 --> 00:22:16.691
- And he moves into supernatural here.
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- In case i've forgotten anything else, this list of seven, he now
- 00:22:18.693 --> 00:22:21.496
- Gives us a list of ten.
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- He said, "i'm convinced--" by the way, he said we are more
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- Than conquerors.
- 00:22:26.701 --> 00:22:28.170
- Then he gives his own personal testimony.
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- He changes tense.
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- He said, verse 38, "for i am convinced that neither death,
- 00:22:31.106 --> 00:22:34.776
- Nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things
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- Present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, or depth, or
- 00:22:36.745 --> 00:22:40.215
- Any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the
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- Love of god, which is in christ jesus."
- 00:22:43.051 --> 00:22:46.288
- Man, that's ten things that separate us, and it's almost in
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- The supernatural area: the principalities, the powers,
- 00:22:50.625 --> 00:22:54.830
- The demonic element.
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- Let me tell you something.
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- You talk about insidiousness of the devil.
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- By the way, the word diabolus is a word for the devil, and it
- 00:23:02.103 --> 00:23:06.608
- Means the separator.
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- The devil is that which separates us.
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- He's a separator.
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- And here we see these supernatural things that are
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- Separators, and the first on the list-- i'll just touch on them--
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- Is death, d-e-a-t-h, death.
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- You say, "death is a great separator, isn't it?
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- We quit living on this earth, we're dead, we're buried, we're
- 00:23:24.726 --> 00:23:27.329
- Separated, everybody, everything.
- 00:23:27.329 --> 00:23:29.130
- Isn't it the ultimate separator, we think?"
- 00:23:29.130 --> 00:23:32.467
- Paul says, "not so if you're in christ jesus."
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- Death is not the separator.
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- Death is the ultimate uniter.
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- Death is not a separator.
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- It's a uniter because we'll be all united in him in
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- Heaven forever and forever, and this little three score or ten,
- 00:23:44.446 --> 00:23:47.582
- Or whatever we live, it is not anything compared to eternity.
- 00:23:47.582 --> 00:23:51.653
- So death is not a separator.
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- It's a uniter because we're in christ.
- 00:23:53.688 --> 00:23:56.525
- Life can't separate us.
- 00:23:56.525 --> 00:23:58.126
- He lists all these things that separateth, and the bottom line
- 00:23:58.126 --> 00:24:02.430
- Is because we're in god's family, that god is for us, who
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- Can be against us?
- 00:24:11.573 --> 00:24:15.243
- What can separate us?
- 00:24:15.243 --> 00:24:18.079
- And all these separators, all these bodies that would separate
- 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:21.349
- Us, they are non-functional because we are in christ jesus,
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- Our lord.
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- This is what paul is telling us in this fabulous 8th chapter,
- 00:24:29.591 --> 00:24:34.763
- Fabulous 8th chapter.
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- No separation from the love of christ.
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- Pastor ed: everybody in the world is hungry for something
- 00:24:44.606 --> 00:24:47.175
- That gives them assurance about the future and comfort about
- 00:24:47.175 --> 00:24:51.179
- What we are facing right today.
- 00:24:51.179 --> 00:24:54.683
- What all of us are looking for can only be found in god's word.
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- That's why now's the time to do all we can to share the proven
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- Truth of scripture with as many people as possible.
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- Pastor ed: ladies and gentlemen, god is no respecter of persons.
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- He does not play favorites.
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- He says that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of god.
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- Let me tell you something.
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- Before we can become a christian, before we receive the
- 00:26:10.158 --> 00:26:12.661
- Good news of the gospel, of salvation and new life and
- 00:26:12.661 --> 00:26:15.664
- Forgiveness, there has to be bad news.
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- We have to realize that we are lost without god, and our sin
- 00:26:18.700 --> 00:26:22.570
- And our garbage will tear us down and beat us up now and
- 00:26:22.570 --> 00:26:26.074
- Forever, and that's why the gospel is amazing good news.
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- We see who we are and we see what we're not, and then god
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- Comes and says, john 3:16, for that whosoever believes in jesus
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- And receives him not only as savior, but as lord,
- 00:26:41.656 --> 00:26:45.794
- Commander-in-chief of your life, of my life, then we have eternal
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- Life now and forever.
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- Together next week on another exciting journey, an exciting
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- Step on "the winning walk."
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