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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Mountain of Decision | December 3, 2024

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Dr. ed young: something about being on top of
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A mountain, on top of a mountain, it's awe inspiring.
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On top of a mountain somehow we feel a sense of reverence
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And are closest to the almighty that we perhaps
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Feel no other place on the planet.
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All the way through history, it has been on mountaintops where
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Monasteries have been built, or fortresses have been built,
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Or palaces have been built, where altars
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Of worship have been built.
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There's something about getting above the hoi polloi, the the
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Normal things and getting a panorama perspective.
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And what's it like to see a sunrise on top of a mountain?
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And what about a sunset on top of a mountain?
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What about the mist, the clear air that you breathe?
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It's so clean up there.
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It's like what have we been breathing down here?
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You get up there there's ethereal feeling.
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It's almost the holy of holies as we climb the mountains.
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What does it take to climb a mountain, a sheer mountain?
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The bible says it takes hinds feet.
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Know what that is?
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Three times in the bible you find this verse.
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It's mentioned in different ways, but the essence is found
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In david speaking in samuel he says, "he makes my feet like
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Hinds feet, and sets me on," get this, "my high places."
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So, to climb these mountains, we've got to have hinds feet.
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What is that?
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A hind is a female deer, doe, a deer.
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And all deer have hinds--they have the feet that i hind does.
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They have these feet that they can go up sheer mountain cliffs,
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If necessary, or a sheer wall.
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And the antelope family, they all have this kind of feet.
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It's sort of a cloven foot.
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The footprint would be square but you'd have two toes that
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Would be there, and they can climb where other animals cannot
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Climb because those toes dig in.
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And they have a couple of dewclaws on the back, and they
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Also have little hooks on them.
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But when these lofty animals are skipping through the high
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Places, they can retract all of that and they can move,
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And dance, and go places that no animal can go.
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A mountain lion can climb.
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A bear can climb.
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A tiger can climb.
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But i'll tell you, they cannot climb up and keep up
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With those who have hinds feet.
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And all the way through the bible, you find hinds feet
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Connected with high places.
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Would you respond that way?
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Hinds feet.
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How do we get them?
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Have to be born again.
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We can't manufacture them.
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We can't work and carve them out.
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We have to have a brand-new birth in jesus christ.
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Other words, we can go and study on sinai all the commandments,
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And we'll be frustrated.
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We can read and study the beatitudes.
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In fact, it's better that you never read the beatitudes.
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By the way, the beatitudes, you will not discover one of them
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Through common sense.
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There's not a single beatitude.
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You say, "i figured this out through common sense."
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It is uncommon sense.
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It is divine sense.
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And to read the beatitude and not have hinds feet for?
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It's frustrating.
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Man, how in the world?
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Blessed are the poor in spirit.
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Blessed are they that mourn?
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What all does this mean?
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We have to be born again to be able and have the capacity to
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Live out the biblical principles we're gonna be taught on these
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Mountains.
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Now, the first mountain you climb is the mountain of
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Decision.
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We've got to decide whether we're gonna be in the mountain
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Climbing business.
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And we're going to mount carmel and it's one of those dramatic
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Stories, i believe, in all the bible, certainly in
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The old testament.
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And it's very simple, king ahab was the king of the land.
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The bible tells us as he was worse than all the other kings
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Of israel combined.
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Now, that's a pretty tough thing.
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To make matters worse, he became a pagan and he married an evil
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Demonic woman named jezebel, who was beautiful, but absolutely
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Deadly.
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And jezebel went to israel, can you believe this?
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And tore down all the altars to the almighty god, the god of
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Abraham, isaac, jacob, jehovah, yahweh, tore all the altar and
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Put altars to baal.
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Baal was the many headed god, the god of fertility, the god of
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Crops, the god of productivity, the god of the seasons, a god of
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Fire, and therefore now you have god's people to the influence of
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Ahab and jezebel worshiping on high places, a phony, false god
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That even entertained regularly the sacrifice of babies and
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Children.
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Now, so here we have elijah, who, following the leadership of
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God, god pronounced a famine on the land, no rain.
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And then god told elijah to go and appear before ahab, and i
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Want you to listen just one verse here at what happened.
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This is 1 kings 18, verse 17, "when ahab saw elijah, ahab said
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To him, 'is this you, you troubler of israel?'"
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Take a time out here.
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I would hope that when people sometimes look at you and look
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At me, they say, "you know, there's that lady, there's that
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Teenager, there's that guy who is the troubler in america.
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They cause trouble everywhere they go."
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I'm afraid we've lost the art of being troublers in the moment in
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Which we live.
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I had a long time to be alone and spend time with god, and i
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Kept saying, what is the number-one problem in america?
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What is the greatest evil that besets our land?
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And without question, the answer was clear,
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Abortion on demand,
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The taking the life of an unborn child.
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You see, we're the land of the free,
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Except for 60 million.
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We can achieve anything in our life.
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We want to in this america, except for 60 million.
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We have an opportunity to grow and be educated and make
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A difference in society in every area of your life, except for
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60 million because 60 million babies have been murdered
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In their mother's womb since roe v. wade.
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And there's no individuals who are stronger for pro life than
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Those women who tragically have endured an abortion and they
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Look back and they've been forgiven and they know how wrong
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That is.
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And therefore, they are strong for life and they're strong for
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The elimination of roe v. wade.
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Now, let me say something.
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Somebody said, "well, roe v. wade is established law.
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It is been settled by the constitution."
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So where's the dred scott case in which it was ruled by the
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Vote of seven to two, the supreme court, that a slave was
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Not a human being, but a piece of property.
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Therefore, it's a sealed thing that it is a settled issue here.
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Slave is nothing but a piece of property, not a human being,
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Settled law just like abortion is settled law but the
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Difference is, we rose up and repealed and threw that deadly
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Ruling by the supreme court away and now we're all free under
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God, regardless of race, or color, or any other criteria.
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It is deadly to harm our children.
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And when people of the clergy harm our children, teach them
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A deviant lifestyle that is deadly, and degrading, and
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Horrific, and when we participate and legalize the
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Murder of children in the mother's womb, you know what the
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Bible says about this?
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The bible says someone who would do this, it's better you took a
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Millstone, a heavy rock, and put it around their neck and threw
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Them in the bottom of the ocean to harm one of these
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Little ones.
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You say, "well, that must be the old testament."
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No, that is jesus.
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I'd rather have lunch with a mafia hitman who's paid to kill
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People than to have lunch with an abortionist doctor who's
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Supposedly a healer who's also paid to kill people.
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A baby should be the safest place in the world, a mother's
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Womb.
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It's the most dangerous place in the united states of america.
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Over 600,000 abortions last year alone, life taken.
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We hear a lot about, "oh, let's make america great again."
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Greatness does not come to prosperity, military might, all
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Of us being healthy, and wealthy, and sound, and
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Entertained with every kind of entertainment you can imagine
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And be protected from all other people.
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The world, boy, america will be great.
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Ladies and gentlemen, america will not be great, and god
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Cannot honor us as long as we treat children as if they were
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Nothing and they didn't count in life.
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You judge a nation by how it treats its children.
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Just a little aside before we climb the mountain of carmel.
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So, here's the situation.
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Here is baal.
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And by the way, we are more worshipers of baal than the
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Pagans ever did in israel in our sacrifice of children on the
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Altar to baal, and we far surpassed that evil.
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So, here we have the prophets of baal that ate at the king's
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Table, 400 of them, 450 prophets of groves ate at the king' table
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And now elijah goes and challenge ahab and said, "let's
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Have a showdown, let's have a contest."
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And so, ahab called all the children of israel on
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Mount carmel.
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I've been on top of carmel, david, many of us have been
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There.
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It's a magnificent mountain.
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And here comes the king with all of his royal entourage, all
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Their cloaks, all their colors, all their hats, and here comes
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All of these false prophets that ate at the king's table.
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And then elijah stands and he says, as he addresses the
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People, "how long do you halt, hesitate, between two opinions?"
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He says, "if the lord is god, follow him.
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If baal is god, then follow him."
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And one of the most tragic verses in scripture is the one
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That follows.
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The people did not say a word.
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"make your choice, baal or the living god?"
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People were silent.
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So, elijah says, "let's have a little contest here.
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Let all the prophets of baal come and build their altar over
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Their sacrifice, and the god that answers by fire,
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Fire from heaven, will be the true and living god."
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And the people said, "sounds fair to us."
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And so the prophets of baal led off.
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They already had their pagan alter there.
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God's altar had been torn down, and they take and they put the
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Bullock there and the wood, and they began to dance, and to
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Shout, asking baal, who was a god of fire remember, to answer
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By fire and to vindicate the truth of what they believe.
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And they danced, and they danced, and they chanted, and
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They cried, and they shouted out 4-, or 800 of them all before
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The people of israel.
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Then they begin to cut themselves to bleed and say, "we
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Want to make it right with you and make our own atonement.
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Oh god, answer by fire.
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You are our fire god."
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And they went on and on until elijah began to hassle them,
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Heckle them.
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He said, "you know, maybe your god's on a vacation."
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Shout louder.
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He said, "well, maybe your god--" and literally in the
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Hebrew it says, "is making a pit stop, you know, he can't hear
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Ya."
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Literally, that's what it says.
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He said, "maybe he's busy."
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And so, they went on and on until about the hour of normal
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Prayer for god's people.
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They were totally exhausted.
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They'd cut themselves, they'd shouted, they dance.
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They moved around, they waved their hands.
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They'd done gymnastics and now they were all out of bullets.
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They were just exhausted.
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And then elijah steps forward.
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Man, what a contrast.
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God's man.
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Elijah steps forward and he goes and he has to rebuild the altar
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To the living god that had been torn down.
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And he takes 12 stones, bang, reminding the people they were
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Part of the 12 tribes of israel that god had uniquely selected.
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And he puts the wood, and he takes the sacrifice, a book, and
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Cuts it up and puts it on the altar.
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And then he prays a very simple, beautiful prayer.
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He said, "may the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob the
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Living god, affirm your prophet today.
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We bring this sacrifice to you.
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Will you answer, will you answer at this time?
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And...
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A lightning flash from heaven.
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The bible says the bricks, the sacrifice, the altar was all
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Consumed even after elijah had poured water on it right before
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The event.
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And then the people fell on their face and they said,
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"the lord, he is god.
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The lord, he is god."
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When fire fell, the same solid bunch, "the lord, he is god."
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And elijah said, "kill every one of those demonic prophets."
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And they did.
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And god told elijah now to go, a rain was going to come.
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He took ahab and said, "get off the mountain."
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Three years of drought, there's gonna be a flood and god is
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Going to now do something in his land again.
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And elijah ran and said ahead of the chariot of ahab as they made
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Their way down mount carmel.
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What a moment of victory and triumph for god's man, for god's
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Kingdom.
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But then we have one of the most amazing things, astounding, and
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When you read it, you say, "what?
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This can't be."
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And that's beginning of the very next chapter.
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On the last verse of chapter 18 of 1 kings it says, "then the
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Hand of the lord was on elijah and he girded up his loins and
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Out ran ahab to jezreel."
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Man, what a victory for god and for his people.
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And then the very next verse.
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Now, remember, jezebel was not there for this showdown on mount
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Carmel.
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So, elijah goes back to the palace--i mean ahab goes back to
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The palace and it says, "now ahab told jezebel all that
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Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with a
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Sword," all those eating at their table.
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"then jezebel sent a message to elijah saying, "so may the gods
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Do to me even more if i do not make--do not take your life by
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This time tomorrow."
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And then verse 3, we see what elijah did.
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What do you think elijah would do?
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Man, here's a man who had addressed all the people.
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Here's a man who had stood for god alone.
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Here's a man who saw god send fire from heaven and consume an
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Altar.
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Here's a man whom god had used to have the drought so the
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People would repent and proclaim, "the lord, he is god.
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The lord, he is god."
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And now this despotic queen evil says, "i'm gonna kill ya before
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The sun goes down tomorrow."
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What do you think elijah's gonna do now?
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Just watch god's--you know what he did?
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He ran, he ran.
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He just kept on running, and he ran way, way, way, away
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And he went into deep, dark depression.
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You read the classic symptoms of depression, they're all right
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Here with god's prophet elijah.
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Fatigued, empty spiritually, physically, emotionally,
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Paranoid.
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"i'm the only one, lord," he says.
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Did not think clearly.
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"man, you know, i--i don't think there are other people here."
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When we've already been told there's 7,000 who then bowed
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Their knee to baal. he wasn't the only one.
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And then he says, "lord, take my life," suicidal,
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By himself, negative, pitting himself,
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Paranoid, suicidal.
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I mean read every classic symptom of depression.
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I felt wonderful experience on the mountaintop, now he's in the
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Valley.
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You see, when you get to the top of a mountain, you always where
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There are mountains, there are valleys.
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He was them mountain of decision, fire fell from heaven.
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My, my, now is in the valley of despondence and depression.
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And god says, "go to mount horeb," and he goes in a cave
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And god says, "elijah," it's a great little verse, "what are
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You doing here?
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What are you doing here, elijah?"
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And so, elijah goes out for god to speak to him and a tornado
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Comes, wind is blowing.
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And elijah said, "oh, god is gonna speak to me in this
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Tornado."
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God didn't say a word.
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And then all of a sudden, there's an earthquake.
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"man, god's gonna speak to me in the earthquakes.
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Surely, he's gonna speak here."
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God didn't speak in the earthquake.
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Then a fire came all around the area and elijah said, "oh, yes,
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You are god who sent fire on top of carmel, now you're sending
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Fire to speak to me in the valley of depression."
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But god was not in the fire either.
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Remember pentecost, what do you have then?
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The same three things.
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Acts 3, you have an earthquake there trembling, sound of the
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Holy spirit.
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You have the tongues as fire.
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You have the wind, and god used those as symbols of his spirit.
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In the bible, you also see god use oil as a symbol of his
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Spirit.
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And also, he used something else as a symbol, something else.
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You remember what it was?
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It was a dove, a dove.
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And then it says elijah there in that valley, a still, small
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Voice, a quiet word of god spoke to him in his depression.
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The fire we need on the mountaintop will not be adequate
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For us when we're in the valley of depression.
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That's when god speaks in a different way because we can't
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Program the almighty.
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Where are you?
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"oh, let's go to mount carmel.
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Where are you?
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We've been there, and god answered powerfully with fire."
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But what about in the valley?
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God answers just as powerfully through the still, small voice
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As we know the fact, we absolute demonstrate our faith, and we
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Know the emotions will follow.
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And here god gives elijah a brand-new assignment out of the
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Valley of depression.
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It's time we stand up.
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To stay seated and be silent, or to stand up and speak takes
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Courage.
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Sometimes we need to be silent, sometimes we need to speak.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's time that i believe we stood up and
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Declared our faith.
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How long do we hold between two opinions?
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Well, i want the world, i want myself, but i want god, i want
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Christ.
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It's time we stood up and sometimes became troublemakers
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In a broken world, and we know the lord he is god.
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Would you make that profession of faith with me?
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"the lord is god."
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Again, "the lord is god."
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And god sometimes will answer by fire dramatically, emotionally,
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And deal with us.
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Other times and most the time, he'll answer with that still,
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Small voice like a dove to know that he is real and to follow
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Through on the profession we've all just made, that the lord god
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Almighty through jesus christ is indeed god.
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- i remember a bible study group
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That consisted of doctors, and attorneys, and ceos,
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And vice presidents, and presidents of corporations,
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Entrepreneurial geniuses and a street sweeper.
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In the initial meeting
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The group leader asked each to identify himself.
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First one said, "i'm a physician."
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Another, i'm an attorney.
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I'm vice president of operations, answered the third.
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And finally, it was the street sweeper's turn.
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I was a little apprehension what he would say.
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He said, "i am a son of the king."
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He had no identity the world in which he could boast,
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But he knew his core identity.
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The others were clouded by their earthly titles, position,
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But the street sweeper knew he was chosen
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By the king of kings to be a son
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With all the privileges and honors,
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Man of that high position.
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Remember, as sons and daughters of god,
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Who you are in jesus christ right now, today,
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There's not a higher position in anybody's kingdom.
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - Mountain of Decision

December 3, 2024 | S

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