Ed Young - Mountain of Redemption

December 30, 2025 | 29:0

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Mountain of Redemption | December 30, 2025

Spend time with god each day.
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Get doctor young's 90 day devotional.
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Putting god first.
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It is my prayer that this devotion will help you
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To become all that god has designed you to become.
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Call or go online to get a copy for yourself
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Or someone you love.
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In biblical days, the rabbis
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Would walk around and teach,
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But when they sat down
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That indicated hold on,
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They were going to say something
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Really eternal and important,
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And therefore they were no longer walking around.
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But now they sat down and the people were standing.
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Have you noticed that
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When you come to church that,
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I've been doing the standing.
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Maybe
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We should know. no,
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You may be seated.
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Jesus sat down,
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And then we have five chapters in which he tells us.
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This is how you live.
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If you're in my kingdom.
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In other words,
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He gives us a spiritual examination.
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All of us have had physical examinations.
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I don't like them.
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You don't lie to anybody who likes a physical.
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Something's wrong with you.
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You wonder about the reports that will come in.
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But here jesus gives a spiritual examination
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And he says in these words, if you are a kingdom person,
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If you are in my kingdom, if you belong to me,
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If you're my son, you're my daughter.
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This is how you are to live.
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And you read the sermon on the mount.
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It is an
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A hard word.
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I'll be honest with you.
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I don't like it.
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Because remember what he did?
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He took the moral
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Understanding of that day,
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And he elevated it to a level of right
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And wrong that the world had never heard of before.
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He said
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It was said of him of old time.
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He's talking about the torah.
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This is what god spoke in the torah,
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The first five books, the old testament.
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He said, this is what you've been taught all of your life.
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And all of you believe the torah.
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It is the authoritative, final word of god.
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But jesus said, i say unto you,
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What of the noxious,
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Overpowering thing to say?
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And nothing he ever uttered
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Was more staggering than those words.
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This is what the torah says.
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But i say unto you,
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And he took right in wrong
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To a level that the world had never heard of before,
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And the world has never heard of since.
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Think about it.
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You've got your little private world.
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I do my mind,
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My imagination.
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That voice inside of me.
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That voice inside of you.
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And that's hidden.
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Nobody knows what's going on in there. and.
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And you don't know what's going on in here.
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And i don't know what's going on in there.
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And surely that's something we can own.
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We can possess. we can control.
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That has nothing to do with right and wrong.
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But jesus says, wait a minute.
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It certainly does.
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Because as you think,
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As your motives are,
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You're accountable to god for your thinking,
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Your imagination, for your motives.
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Of that part of you and that part of me
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That nobody can see.
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And that's where
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We get in trouble, isn't it?
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Yeah.
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That's where we get in trouble.
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I saw if i didn't do that
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And i did that, man, i'm okay.
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Jesus said, oh no, no no no,
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It's the inside of you.
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You mean i can hate somebody and not let anybody know about.
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No, no, no, jesus said you're i have to answer to murder.
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You mean i can have lust in my heart
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And nobody can know about that?
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No. you'll have to answer to adultery.
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Jesus, this is so high.
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This is.
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This is beyond anything i ever imagined.
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And then we stand up and he gives us this
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Spiritual examination
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To see how you're doing
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And see how i am doing.
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And so he starts off
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With what we call the beatitudes.
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And it's interesting.
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There are eight of them.
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The eighth one is mentioned twice,
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And they all begin with the word blessed.
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And i have taught this,
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And it's not a bad translation.
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You could say happy. are those happy?
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Are those happy?
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Are those are to be congratulated.
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Those are to be congratulated.
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That's not bad.
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But that's not really what the word blessed means.
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The word blessed means to be approved by god
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And jesus saying, if you're to be approved by god
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And i'm to be approved by god, here is the grid.
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Here's a standard that we have to put down.
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I don't like that standard.
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You don't like that
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Standard either.
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But it is the standard of
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The kingdom.
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The kingdom has come.
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The kingdom is here.
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It's god's standard for those
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Who are in his family.
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And he says blessed.
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It means approved by god.
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I wish we had time to stand up here.
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And i just say, hey, come up here and stand right here.
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Let's just give you a spiritual.
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Are you approved by god?
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And let's just
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Look at all the areas and as i have in my life.
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And by the way,
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It wasn't a great, wonderful moment when i put myself
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In the middle of this and turned the light of god's
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Truth on my life.
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I took the spiritual, and it was on the highlight
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Of my week.
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Let me assure you that.
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Because if there's any garbage
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In any part of your life and my life,
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I can tell you, we turn on the light,
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The penetrating light of god's word, god's truth.
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In this magnificent sermon.
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It's not very pleasant.
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We take this kind of spiritual
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Because i believe everybody here.
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If you say, what do you want more than anything else?
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I want god's approval.
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I want god's applause.
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I want god's okay.
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I want god to say, yeah, you're all right.
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You're you're in the kingdom. you're doing a good job.
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Or you could improve here. but man, basically,
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Man, you're on my team.
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That's what we want to hear.
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God's approval.
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Nothing should be
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More important to you and more important to me
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Than in your life. in my life.
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Guess what? god approves of it.
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But we look at his standards.
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They are so high
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That on the outside.
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But the inside.
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So we look at what god approves of and the beatitudes.
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I want us to look at that.
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First of all, he said, god approves of the merciful.
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What's that?
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A synonym for being merciful.
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What is that?
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What's the synonym?
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What's the word?
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What else means? merciful to you.
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It's all right.
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What?
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Forgiving. what else?
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You merciful.
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Compassion.
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There you go.
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That's probably the best.
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But you know, to be merciful, to have mercy is different.
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Having compassion totally different.
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I love the story i read a long, long time ago.
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Andrew.
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Achilles and the lion.
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It's sort of a children's story.
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George bernard shaw and andrew cleves
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Was a slave, and he was horribly treated.
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He ran away. he was a fugitive.
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There was a price on his head.
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Andrew was hiding in a cave.
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And this lion came by limping
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And had a deep thorn in one of its paws.
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And andrew clay's boldly went out and approached the lion,
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And took the lion in the cave, and began
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To pull that thorn out with great pains.
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The lion.
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Finally he got it out, and andrew
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Looked at that line, and it's paul.
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And until the lion left, years went by.
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Andrew cleves was still a slave,
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And he was captured and caught and caught.
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They put him in the coliseum, and the penalty was death.
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And so they let loose this lion to go and consume him
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As they did others.
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And there's line came running out, and all the people
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Are applauding, and the line goes and jumps on.
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Andrew clay's not to attack him, but just to embrace him.
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And he begins to lick him.
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And andrew
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Gleeson begins to rub his back and they sort of playfully
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Wrestle and love together, and the people are astounded.
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Here's a wild iron
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Man just starving, ready to consume him.
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And here
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Andrew was playing with
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And they were having a great time together.
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Of course, it was a lion that he took the pole
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Out years before.
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Oh, i like that story.
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It's a good story.
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But if modern novelists would tell the story,
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They would take it right after this point
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And the lion would go out,
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He would be forgotten and he would consumed.
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And that's the way we tell it today.
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But see that,
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Though a beautiful picture of mercy,
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The slave at great risk showed mercy to the lion,
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And the lion years later returned that mercy.
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Blessed are the merciful.
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They shall receive mercy.
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And you say, boy, that's really a compassionate thing.
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But mercy is more than compassion.
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Spending time with god each day.
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Get doctor young's 90 day devotional, putting god first.
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It is my prayer that this devotion will help you
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To become all that god has designed you to become.
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Call or go online to get a copy for yourself
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Or someone you love.
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14 year old boy
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Broke into three stores in a small town.
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Took things from all three they called him.
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Stood before the judge, juvenile court
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And the first merchant said, you know, this boy is 14.
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And your honor, i'm not going to press charges.
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I think maybe he's learned his lesson.
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I'm not going to press charges.
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I'm not worried about that.
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What he had stolen from my store.
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So that's compassion, isn't it?
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And the second guy showed up, he said, look,
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I'm not like this other owner.
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I'm going to press charges.
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I want the full extent of the law to be displayed
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In this 14 year old.
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He needs to go to juvenile prison.
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He needs discipline.
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And i want to press everything.
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He gets the full power of the law
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For the crime he's committed.
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That's justice.
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Edlin.
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But the third store owner was a woman,
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And he had taken more from her than the other two combined.
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And and when she stood up, she didn't even look at the judge.
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She looked at that young boy
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And said, son,
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God doesn't want you to be a thief.
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He wants better
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Things that come to your life.
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And he says, for that reason she says, i'm going to
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Press charges,
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And i want you to be found guilty because you are guilty.
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But she said, i want the judge to turn you over to me,
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And i want you to come and live in my home with my kids,
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And i want you to work in that store
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That you have stolen for, because i believe in you.
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And i say i can help god build the right stuff in your life.
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See, that's mercy.
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Compassion isn't.
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And we're so guilty of this.
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Well, somebody tells us terrific problem to a reason.
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I'm all praying for you.
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Oh, yeah.
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I'm going to pray for you.
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When you could have helped
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And did something about that situation.
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I believe in prayer, don't misunderstand me.
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But prayer without legs and generosity
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And walking into someone's life if you can,
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Is a legitimate
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You show compassion.
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You don't show mercy.
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That's the difference.
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Jesus says, you're on my team.
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You're in my family.
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If you show mercy because you receive mercy.
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And ladies and gentlemen, we all need a lot of mercy.
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Look at the next thing
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That we see here.
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It says,
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Blessed are the pure in heart,
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For they shall see god.
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A heart that is pure
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Enables us to see god.
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What do we see?
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You see what you're trying to see?
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I see what i'm trying to say.
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You see what you're interested in.
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I see what i'm interested in.
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I drive around, you can't take me by church.
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I don't notice in church.
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Nobody has even notice it.
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I notice a church
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Go out to the woods with a botanist man.
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We see trees and weeds and a few flowers.
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Go through the botanists and they will see
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All the beauty of the flower.
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They may see something that's rare, something that's unique.
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And you walk to a botanist.
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They see things in flowers and foliage and woods
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That we never see because they're trained to see that
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Blessed are the pure in heart,
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Unadulterated, unmixed.
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No other alloy they're for they alone see god.
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Psalm 24.
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Who shall i send in this holy place?
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Oh, only those that have
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Clean hands
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And a pure heart.
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A pure heart.
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Then look at the next one that we see there.
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He said, you have the fruits of god also.
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If you are a peace maker,
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It's blessed are the peace.
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What makers
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Lord's?
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I don't just celebrate peace in my own life.
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In my heart,
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I'm in the business of making peace.
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Where i go now to be a peace makers, highly, highly risky.
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You know that. you take a chance.
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You become a peacemaker.
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Don't do it capriciously.
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I can tell you i've sought to be a peacemaker
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Between a man and a woman trying to get them
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Back together.
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And when i got through, they liked each other,
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But they hated me.
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A peacemaker is an is
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An active is an activist.
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How do you make peace in the world?
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One historian said, the only way it'll ever come
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Is we get invaded from outer space
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And all the aliens attack the earth,
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And we see that the earth is about to be destroyed, he said.
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Then all the people will come together
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And fight those aliens in order to save the earth.
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He said.
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That's the only way we'll ever have peace.
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I can tell you
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That historian will durant did not know jesus christ,
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But in jesus christ
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You have peace with god regardless of background,
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Culture or geography or anything else.
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You see that you can go around the world.
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I've been a lot of places.
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I've met a lot of people in every walks of life,
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And if they're a christian, it cuts across every
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Other single thing in life.
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Peace.
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Blessed are those.
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We're active in peace.
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We're active in bringing about reconciliation.
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We are peacemakers.
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That's the kind of person that god approves.
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And what's the result?
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He says, you're in my family.
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I don't know what family you're in.
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The youngs have a mixed bag.
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I will tell you that.
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But born to be in the family of god,
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Boy, you're in my family.
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If you are a peace maker
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That says blessed are the persecuted.
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Persecuted for righteousness, for advocating goodness,
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For taking a stand for jesus christ.
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And the result is the same result we have
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In the first beatitude you get the kingdom of heaven.
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If you're
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Persecuted for righteousness, let me tell you something.
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Unless a church today
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Experiences persecution,
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I doubt that's a church
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That's really a church.
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You understand that?
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Jesus said, look at it.
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And in john 15
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He says very clearly what this is all about.
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He says, this is jesus.
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If the world hates you,
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You know that it hated me before.
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It hated you.
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If you were of the world, the world would love its own.
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But because you are not of the world.
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But i chose you out of the world because of this.
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The world hates you.
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That's from the lips of the lord jesus christ.
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Now, persecution isn't what we think it is.
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Many times you may be familiar
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With the story of the gospel blimp.
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It's the story of a small town that wanted to tell
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Everybody about jesus.
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And so they bought a blimp
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And they rode on the side of the blimp.
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Jesus saves,
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And they put banners behind that blimp telling people
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To go to church, telling people they're going to
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Hell without christ.
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And they flew over little town.
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They dropped tracts, leaflets out telling people
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How to know christ.
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Then, fine as that wasn't enough, they got a loudspeaker
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And they went around preaching eight hours a day,
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This little town shouting from the gospel blimp overhead
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Fire to the people. it had enough.
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And so they
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Passed an ordinance, a law that they could not infringe
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On the privacy of people the way they were doing it.
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In a very obnoxious way.
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And then somebody sabotaged the blimp
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And they met in church and they said, oh,
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We're being persecuted
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For righteousness sake.
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No, they weren't.
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To be righteous
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Means that we live is christ.
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We put light in dark places.
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And he says, blessed are those who are persecuted
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For righteousness sake.
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And then this last verse and i sort of a staggering
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Thing happens. i missed it for many years.
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And when i saw it, i said, look at this.
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The 11th verse said, blessed are you
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When people insult you and persecute you and falsely
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Say all kinds of evil against you because of me,
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Rejoice and be glad for your reward in heaven is great.
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But in the same way they persecuted the prophets
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Who are before you up to this time
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They said, blessed are those
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All the other beatitudes, those those third person.
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Now he underscores this kind of persecuted.
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He said, blessed are you.
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He brings it home.
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He's saying, i have a responsibility.
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You have a responsibility that when persecution comes,
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It comes right to us because we are seeking
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To live a life that is righteous.
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Now we take this spiritual
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And all of a sudden i say,
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That's beyond me.
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Ha! who can live up to this?
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Who can live?
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How do we live this kingdom
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Life, this heavenly life on this earth?
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That's what jesus is asking us to do.
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How do we always make those
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Righteous, good, moral choices?
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Plato, the philosopher, said the answer is education.
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He said, if you educate everybody
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And really teach them how to use their mind,
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Their reason and make choices, he said they, when they are
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Well educated, will see that when i do something that
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That is wrong, the end results will be pain and misery.
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But i do something right.
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I make a right choice.
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The end result will be joy and happiness, he said.
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If we can educate people and let them see that,
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And that's the reason
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You got a lot of people around the world
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To say the answer to all the world problems is
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Education, education, education, education.
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He puts in you
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And he puts in me his nature.
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And then all of a sudden, we have his divine power in us
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That enables us to
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Have our reason
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Redeemed, our emotions redeemed.
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And i will redeem because the bottom line
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In this kingdom of god, business,
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We all are in rehearsal
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This whole life is rehearsal.
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Did you know that
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Our earthly life is simply a rehearsal
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For our heavenly life?
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A baby in the mother's womb
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Is preparation for that baby
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To live in the world right outside the womb,
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Right?
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We in the world
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Seeking to be a part and living in god's kingdom.
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The world is a womb in which we live.
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Is preparation for us to pop out into heaven.
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It's a rehearsal.
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We'll
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Be born from this earth into heaven as we are
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Born from our mother's womb on this earth.
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And that's what
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The kingdom business is all about.
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Oh, we summarize all these wonderful things
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By which god
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Puts his approval on your life and approval on my life.
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But the beatitude that i like best of all is god approves
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The pure in heart, for they shall see god.
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There's a broadway play i've mentioned so many times
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I didn't see it, but boy,
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I love the title.
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On a clear day
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You could see forever.
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That's
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That's what we need.
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That's what christ offers.
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Blessed.
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Yeah. the approval of god.
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When you have a pure heart.
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Because you will see god
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Every where and every when.
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Every time and every place
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That you go.
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There's never been a better time than right now
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To make god a priority in your life.
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That's why we've created this 90 day devotional,
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Putting god first, number one.
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And when you and i do that, he is faithful
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To give the direction and guidance
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You and i need every day to walk through life.
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It is my prayer that this devotion will help you
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To become all that god has designed you to become.
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Call today or go online at winning walk.org
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To get your copy of doctor young's 90 day devotional,
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Putting god first.
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We have so much to be thankful for,
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And i want to thank you
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For your faithfulness, your generosity, your prayers
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As part of the winning world family.
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I'm reminded of a story of a young american soldier
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In world war two.
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He was on the eve, and when he was a ship out
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For what would later become known as d-day,
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The british allies held a dance at the uso.
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The soldier was just 18 years old.
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He asked an english girl to dance,
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And when the music stopped, he spontaneously kissed her.
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She drew back. shocked.
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She asked him, what in the world was he doing?
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He answered honestly, i ship out in the morning
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And i don't know what lies ahead.
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I live or die and i've never kissed a girl before,
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So i thought this was a time for boldness.
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We live in an embattled culture.
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Now is the time for boldness.
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I believe that together we can finish the year strong
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And be ready to start in 2026 with strength and boldness
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In sharing the truth of jesus christ
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To a dark and hungry world.
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Thank you again for boldly giving
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And standing with the winning.
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Walk with me through your prayers and support.
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God bless you.
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Ed Young - Mountain of Redemption

December 30, 2025 | 29:0

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