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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young

Ed Young - Mountain of Unfulfillment

November 27, 2024 | S24:E4803

Ed Young - Mountain of Unfulfillment
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Mountain of Unfulfillment | November 27, 2024
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  • Dr. ed young: most of us have bucket lists,
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  • Maybe not consciously written down, but subconsciously.
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  • You know, "i'd like to go there.
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  • I'd like to have that experience."
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  • And we have all these things that we dream about that we plan
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  • To do, or want to see take place in our life, bucket lists.
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  • In 1926, a most unusual auction took place in washington, d.c.
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  • The patent office, the u.s. patent office, took over
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  • 150,000 patents, workable models of things people had
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  • Invented, and they were auctioning them off.
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  • In those days, if you gonna get a patent, you have to
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  • Have an example, an illustration of that which you want
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  • To patent, and they accumulated so many of them,
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  • They had to sell them.
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  • It was quite an auction.
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  • I mean, a lot of people came, 150,000
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  • Different workable things.
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  • They had a cat that would be illuminated,
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  • Would blink on and off, it would drive all the rats away.
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  • They had an automatic bedbug pincher.
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  • They had an apparatus there, you could put on your head with a
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  • Little microphone type thing, and when you would snore,
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  • You'd wake yourself up.
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  • They had in there an adjustable pulpit.
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  • In those days the pastor would actually stand in the pulpit.
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  • You could adjust it for tall and short pastors.
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  • And the auctioneer said once a pastor was speaking on,
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  • "where will you spend eternity?"
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  • And he hit the wrong button and down he went.
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  • And so it was quite an auction.
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  • A lot of laughs, a lot of humor, people buying
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  • Things, bidding on things.
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  • But one man was there, and he looked at all those different
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  • Items and he wrote a book entitled,
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  • "shattered dreams of a century."
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  • Shattered dreams of century because he saw behind every
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  • Little workable model, somebody who had been creative enough,
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  • And adventurism enough, and gave enough time to put that
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  • Together, thinking that, "this would be my road
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  • To becoming a millionaire.
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  • This would be my road to fame, this particular thing would make
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  • A tremendous difference, and be, really, a popular
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  • Thing on the market."
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  • "shattered dreams of a century."
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  • A bucket list, things we want to do,
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  • Things we want to accomplish.
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  • And i thought about that and i thought about our guy moses.
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  • Now, if you name the three most important people in the bible,
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  • Of course, excluding the son of god,
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  • It would probably be abraham, moses, and paul.
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  • Now, you can debate that, honestly so,
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  • But that's the general feeling.
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  • Those are the big three.
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  • And so, it was moses who had the dream,
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  • And god prepared him and built in him,
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  • "the purpose of your life is to take all these jews out of
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  • Slavery, they've been in egypt for hundreds of years,
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  • And bring them into the promised land that god had--it--sent a
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  • Deed to them to own and possess, the land flowing
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  • With milk and honey."
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  • That was his life purpose.
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  • And i've called moses the 40/40/40 guy, 40 years.
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  • You know the story if you've ever been
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  • To a bible study class.
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  • First born, the jewish males were being killed.
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  • They were thrown in the nile, and miriam,
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  • Moses's sister, took him and put him in a little cradle,
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  • A little ark, and float him down the nile river.
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  • And the daughter of pharaoh, who perhaps wanted children,
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  • Couldn't have them, saw the little jewish baby and took the
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  • Baby out of the river and brought moses up as her own son.
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  • Therefore, he was brought up as a prince
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  • Of egypt, a prince of egypt.
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  • So, the first 40 years of his life,
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  • He got the best education anybody could have.
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  • He was trained in military understanding of the world.
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  • He had a fabulous--he was a somebody for 40 years.
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  • Now, the second 40 years of his life, he was a nobody.
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  • You remember what happened.
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  • He watched his own people.
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  • He knew he had jewish lineage.
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  • He watched an egyptian exporting a hebrew,
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  • And he interceded and killed the egyptian,
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  • And he buried him in the sand, thought he'd
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  • Got away with it, he buried him.
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  • But young's translation says the wind was blowing,
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  • And the dead egyptian's toes stuck up.
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  • So, they caught him and he became a
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  • Fugitive so he could live.
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  • Now you see, he left egypt and went out into midian.
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  • And to get to midian, by the way, you've got
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  • To go through sinai.
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  • It adjoins sinai there, and he's at the backside of nowhere.
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  • Now he has 40 years.
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  • He's a nobody.
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  • He's a shepherd, sheep, goats, unknown, working in this desert
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  • Wilderness type land, 40 years a nobody; 40 years
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  • A somebody, 40 years a nobody.
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  • And then you know about the burning bush.
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  • Man, god spoke to him through that burning bush and says,
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  • "moses, i want you to go back to egypt and lead my people into
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  • Freedom and into the promised land."
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  • And m-m-m-moses s-s-s-said, "i-i-i-i
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  • Can't-can't-can't do it 'cause-'cause i-i can't--
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  • I stu-stu-stu-stu- said, "i stutter," remember?
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  • And god says, "i'm gonna work through that handicap.
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  • You got your brother aaron, he'll take care
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  • Of the big speeches.
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  • You're god's man to go back and lead your people
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  • Who are slaves into freedom."
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  • So, you know the story, the staff, the miracles, and he
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  • Struck the sea and the people went over into the wilderness
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  • Prepared, got the commandments, went over there and they were
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  • Supposed to go in the land, but their lack of faith--
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  • They had the fact that god had given the land,
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  • They didn't have enough faith to follow through on the facts; so
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  • Therefore, they never, at that moment, had the wonderful
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  • Feeling of being in the will and the purpose of god.
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  • And so, moses, for 40 years, lead over a million people in
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  • One of the toughest terrains you could ever imagine.
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  • I've been there.
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  • I mean, there are just miles of rock and nothingness,
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  • Freezing at night, burning up during the day.
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  • God used moses, a wonderful, wonderful story, until finally,
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  • After a whole generation had died,
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  • Generation who did not believe, who did not follow.
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  • There's a new generation, and moses is ready to lead them
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  • Across jordan to have and claim the promise of god.
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  • Said, "climb mount nebo," and boy, he climbed up that
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  • Mountain, and perhaps he went to pisgah, the highest peak.
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  • And what could he see there?
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  • Well, he could see the dead sea was right there.
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  • Jericho, it was right there.
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  • He could, perhaps on a clear day, see the mediterranean.
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  • Perhaps he could even see the temple.
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  • He could maybe see the sea of galilee,
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  • Lake hula, he could certainly see mount hermon.
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  • What a view.
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  • And what god was saying, "moses, this is the land you're
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  • Claiming it, you can see it."
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  • But he said, "p.s. moses, you'll never enter that land.
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  • Climb mount nebo and die."
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  • Phew, man, that was his life purpose.
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  • Man, that's what he was all about.
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  • He got on nebo and, "you can't go in moses, you can't go in."
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, mount nebos are a
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  • Universal experience for all of us.
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  • It starts early in life.
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  • We have a dream, a desire, an expectation,
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  • And it simply doesn't work out.
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  • What happened?
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  • How did we lose that? how did we get in that mess?
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  • Well, i remember the first girl i ever kissed.
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  • Her name was judy white and it was love at first sight.
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  • I was 15, slow developer.
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  • And it was wonderful. this is the girl i'll marry.
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  • She has everything.
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  • And oh, it was so great for a few months there.
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  • And i remember the day she said, "you know,
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  • I don't like you anymore.
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  • I like kerry howenstein."
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  • And i said, "all right," you know, i didn't
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  • Debate, i didn't make a scene.
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  • I just turned and walked out of her house.
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  • She went back inside.
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  • And i remember to this day, the steps,
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  • Her little porch steps going down.
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  • It was about one more step in these steps, and i stood there
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  • And i said, "i'm gonna jump down and when i hit the ground,
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  • There's no more judy in my life.
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  • And i got up and i jumped, and bam, didn't get hurt.
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  • Hit the ground and walked off.
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  • And, you know, i just jumped off nebo.
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  • I didn't, you know, that was not the one for me.
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  • I didn't date for over two years,
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  • Two-and-a-half years.
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  • Didn't care, i just wiped that girl right out of my hair.
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  • Anyway, but we, you know, we have disappointments,
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  • Those first love, right?
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  • I mean, if nobody else is ever gonna be like this first love.
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  • And then this go up a little long.
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  • I go through my whole life and point out a lot of nebos when
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  • The the dream didn't meet the reality.
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  • I was a senior in high school, we had
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  • A average basketball team.
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  • We were playing in the state championship,
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  • The big a tournament.
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  • We led the defending state champions the whole
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  • Game, the whole game.
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  • We got to the end, and they went one point ahead with
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  • About five or six seconds.
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  • And somehow, i got the ball in the corner, and so
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  • I did my little jab step, and i drove the baseline,
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  • And there's the basket.
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  • And you have a choice, you could either go through and hook back,
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  • Or stop and jump back and make a little semi-layup.
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  • And boy, i'd stop and jump back and,
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  • Boy, the ball was spinning on the rim.
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  • If it goes in, we win.
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  • And it spins out.
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  • Man, my team, my coach, the school,
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  • Everybody, whoo, mount nebo.
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  • I mean, i didn't get to do it up there.
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  • Mount nebo, we've had those experiences.
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  • A dream, an idea, i'd worked so hard at basketball.
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  • I'd practiced. i had dribbled.
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  • I had everything, but athleticism.
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  • You might need that in sports.
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  • And so, this is what happens.
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  • All of us can tell these stories, unfulfilled dreams,
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  • Ideas, expectations, where we thought we'd be in our
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  • Vocation, where we thought we'd be in our marriage.
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  • And so many marriages today end in suicide.
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  • Have you noticed that?
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  • The marriage is a suicide when there's a divorce,
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  • And it happens because we make bad choices.
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  • I know that personally in my close family.
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  • And so, my bottom line is what we
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  • Thought, what we envision.
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  • "boy, by now in my profession, i should be here or over there.
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  • I should have that or i thought this would fulfill my dreams."
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  • And we have all these expectations that may be fine
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  • And noble and beautiful, but somehow it doesn't all work out.
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  • Or sometimes we read those pinnacles we've
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  • Been climbing a long time.
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  • When we get up there, it doesn't give us that, phew, wonderful
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  • Feeling that, boy, i've really arrived.
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  • We seem never to arrive in this life, have you noticed that?
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  • We get on mount nebo, and the dream
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  • And the reality, different.
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  • Moses, of all people, that was his whole life,
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  • The 40/40/40 man.
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  • God had prepared him to take those people out of slavery,
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  • But in the process, you know what he discovered,
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  • Ladies and gentlemen?
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  • It's easy to take people out of slavery
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  • Than to get slavery out of people.
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  • You get that slave mentality, someone who's been in prison,
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  • And all of a sudden there's the activity of prison,
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  • And someone can get out of prison,
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  • But still there is that, that weight, that habit.
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  • I can take any man here, and we could go to happy hour
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  • In a bar for three months.
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  • Three months, maybe we drink, maybe we don't drink,
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  • Just be in the atmosphere, and then we come out, and after
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  • Three months, you'll be amazed how our thinking,
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  • How our reaction, and what will be going on in your
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  • Life and in my life.
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  • You see, you can take somebody out of slavery,
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  • But it's hard to get the slavery out of that person.
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  • And here, these jews had been taken out of slavery in egypt,
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  • But now they were acting like slaves.
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  • But moses was prepared, not only to lead them into freedom,
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  • But to take them in the promised land.
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  • What preparation, he was a man of prayer.
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  • I want you to see how he prayed.
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  • Man, if you have your bibles, you can open there with me.
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  • It's just a beautiful, beautiful passage of prayer that he says.
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  • In exodus chapter number 33, "then moses said to the lord,
  • 00:14:11.140 --> 00:14:15.077
  • 'see, you say to me, "bring up this people."
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  • But you have not let me know whom you will send with me.'"
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  • This is moses praying.
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  • "moreover, he said, i have known you by name,
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  • And have also found favor in your sight."
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  • Here's his prayer, "now, therefore," moses, praying,
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  • "i pray you, o lord, if i have found favor in your sight,
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  • Let me know your ways."
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  • He's saying, "if you know what you want
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  • Me to do, i'll obey you."
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  • And then he says, "and then i know you."
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  • We obey the lord, then we know him,
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  • And then he knows us.
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  • "and then i might find favor in your sight."
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  • He's praying, he said, "lord, i want to obey you,
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  • Just tell me what i have to do, what i have to stop doing.
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  • And lord, then i know when i obey you,
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  • I know you, and then i know i'll be on your team.
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  • I'll find favor in your sight, you'll give me your uniform,
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  • And man, i'll put the--"
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  • You see, this was god preparing moses a long,
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  • Long time before he gets there into the
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  • Wilderness with all these people.
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  • A million people he's trying to lead in the promised land.
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  • And then also we know, moses was called a
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  • Servant leader for the first time.
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  • You are a servant of the lord.
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  • This first time, i think, in the bible this phrase was used.
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  • What does it mean to be a servant of the lord?
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  • I want you to look on your screen.
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  • His will, not our rights.
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  • His pleasure, not opposition.
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  • His glory, not our success.
  • 00:15:46.502 --> 00:15:49.805
  • Some people say, "well, up there at the second family,
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  • Y'all have done this, y'all do that, you're running that
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  • Thing like a corporation."
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  • Nonsense, this is the way we seek to operate,
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  • His will, not our right, his pleasure,
  • 00:16:00.482 --> 00:16:03.318
  • Not our position, his glory, and not what we decide.
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  • You see, that's how the body of christ
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  • Works, ladies and gentlemen.
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  • Any other--so this is what moses had,
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  • Prayer, servant leader, and also how he was prepared.
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  • Who wrote the pentateuch? what's the pentateuch?
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  • Genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers,
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  • Deuteronomy, moses wrote it.
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  • How many people use this, 1,000 years ago, had the ability
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  • To write like this, inspired word of god to be sure, but
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  • There was moses prepared in the best educational system in
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  • The world when he was somebody in pharaoh's palace.
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  • And now he is writing and recording all of this.
  • 00:16:44.393 --> 00:16:47.496
  • You see, that was preparation for writing the word of god.
  • 00:16:47.496 --> 00:16:52.234
  • And then what about the years when he was a nobody,
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  • Way back up there in midian?
  • 00:16:54.770 --> 00:16:56.138
  • He was learning how to find bread and food and
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  • Nourishment for flocks and flocks of animals and
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  • Therefore, he had people in there.
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  • He had a preparation of living in that land,
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  • God, getting him ready to be his leader to lead these people out
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  • Of slavery, and see, all of us in place.
  • 00:17:10.919 --> 00:17:14.756
  • All of it was in place.
  • 00:17:14.756 --> 00:17:17.659
  • He was prepared, but moses, moses did not go
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  • In the land of promise, why?
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  • I should read it, but i'm gonna tell you what happened.
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  • The people got in a situation in the wilderness when they were
  • 00:17:33.842 --> 00:17:38.013
  • Thirsty and hungry, and they started to complain.
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  • The jews were a proud and stiff-necked people,
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  • Moses said in the book, and they complained,
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  • "we're thirsty, there's no pomegranates here.
  • 00:17:49.057 --> 00:17:51.760
  • There's no grapes here.
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  • We're brought here to die."
  • 00:17:53.362 --> 00:17:54.696
  • And they kept saying, "we want to go back to egypt.
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  • It was better being a slave and dying and starving to death here
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  • In the wilderness with you.
  • 00:18:00.936 --> 00:18:02.471
  • You see how quickly they forget, how quickly we forget?
  • 00:18:02.471 --> 00:18:08.710
  • And then god gave moses specific instruction, and it's
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  • Interesting that moses fell on his face in the house of
  • 00:18:11.813 --> 00:18:16.785
  • Meeting and prayed for guidance from god that he would deliver
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  • Them and then go--he goes right out and look what he does.
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  • Look what he does.
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  • This happened to us: well, i just what i just went to
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  • Church this morning, and god spoke to me, and i was singing,
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  • Now i'm crying, and look what i've done.
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  • How in the world can that happen?
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  • In the same person, your life and in my life.
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  • My word, my goodness, i was at church.
  • 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:41.243
  • I was with god, and he touched--see moses felt his face
  • 00:18:41.243 --> 00:18:47.716
  • And then god gave him very specific instructions.
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  • They exactly what god said?
  • 00:18:51.753 --> 00:18:54.556
  • God said, "moses, go and speak to the rock and water will come
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  • Out, and all the people will drink."
  • 00:19:00.062 --> 00:19:05.267
  • Moses went out there and he complained.
  • 00:19:05.267 --> 00:19:08.704
  • He said, "you are a bunch of bellyaching,
  • 00:19:08.704 --> 00:19:12.474
  • Rebellious, ungrateful, sorry, scum of people.
  • 00:19:12.474 --> 00:19:16.478
  • You don't realize what's happened here."
  • 00:19:16.478 --> 00:19:18.814
  • And he went out and he struck the rock twice, bang, bang.
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  • Water came out, and he did what a lot of us do:
  • 00:19:25.387 --> 00:19:31.026
  • The right thing the wrong way.
  • 00:19:31.026 --> 00:19:37.366
  • I don't want a show of hands.
  • 00:19:37.366 --> 00:19:41.003
  • The right thing, the wrong way.
  • 00:19:41.003 --> 00:19:44.139
  • And therefore, now he's on mount nebo.
  • 00:19:44.139 --> 00:19:47.709
  • And god had already told him twice before, he tells him
  • 00:19:47.709 --> 00:19:50.212
  • Again, "you can't go in the promised land."
  • 00:19:50.212 --> 00:19:53.815
  • Moses must have said, "this is the whole purpose of my life.
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  • I am prepared.
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  • I have prayed these 40/40 segments.
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  • I am ready to be a leader here at this time."
  • 00:20:02.324 --> 00:20:05.260
  • He said, "no, you can't go in because,"
  • 00:20:05.260 --> 00:20:08.730
  • And he gives some reasons.
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  • One reason we see was because his anger, right?
  • 00:20:10.432 --> 00:20:14.603
  • He got angry, he killed the egyptian.
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  • He got angry at the people.
  • 00:20:16.238 --> 00:20:18.140
  • He was expressing anger when he struck that rock twice with that
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  • Staff that god had told him to strike the lake,
  • 00:20:21.910 --> 00:20:27.349
  • The river with when they crossed in the ocean,
  • 00:20:27.349 --> 00:20:29.584
  • And now he struck it twice with the same staff.
  • 00:20:29.584 --> 00:20:32.621
  • And the word "strike" there is the same word in hebrew when he
  • 00:20:32.621 --> 00:20:36.992
  • Had anger, struck the egyptian and killed him.
  • 00:20:36.992 --> 00:20:40.462
  • What did god say? "speak."
  • 00:20:40.462 --> 00:20:42.030
  • What'd he do? he struck the rock.
  • 00:20:42.030 --> 00:20:44.066
  • He was disobedient.
  • 00:20:44.066 --> 00:20:45.967
  • And also we see he was arrogant because you
  • 00:20:45.967 --> 00:20:49.438
  • Read in the bible closely, i'll not read it to you,
  • 00:20:49.438 --> 00:20:52.341
  • He says to the people, "how long will we have
  • 00:20:52.341 --> 00:20:57.946
  • To provide water and food?
  • 00:20:57.946 --> 00:20:59.514
  • How long will we do this?"
  • 00:20:59.514 --> 00:21:03.485
  • Who provided the water?
  • 00:21:03.485 --> 00:21:05.420
  • God. you see, moses had a chance.
  • 00:21:05.420 --> 00:21:08.090
  • Boy, what a moment to really lead the people to worship and
  • 00:21:08.090 --> 00:21:12.861
  • To recognize of the very holiness of the almighty.
  • 00:21:12.861 --> 00:21:16.098
  • But moses, in his arrogance, he says,
  • 00:21:16.098 --> 00:21:20.635
  • "we provided the water for you.
  • 00:21:20.635 --> 00:21:22.871
  • How long will you complain when we?"
  • 00:21:22.871 --> 00:21:26.708
  • And god says, "i'm not gonna let you fulfill those dreams of your
  • 00:21:26.708 --> 00:21:30.746
  • Life, the dream of your life, because of your arrogance,
  • 00:21:30.746 --> 00:21:34.449
  • Because you did not teach the people my holiness."
  • 00:21:34.449 --> 00:21:40.889
  • Let me tell you something, folks.
  • 00:21:40.889 --> 00:21:44.326
  • When we take the name of the lord in vain,
  • 00:21:44.326 --> 00:21:48.430
  • When i hear our so-called elected political leaders and
  • 00:21:48.430 --> 00:21:51.900
  • Others in public forum take the lord's name in vain,
  • 00:21:51.900 --> 00:21:55.804
  • I'm telling you that has deadly seriousness to it,
  • 00:21:55.804 --> 00:22:00.876
  • Deadly seriousness to it.
  • 00:22:00.876 --> 00:22:03.578
  • And we take, "oh, jesus christ," and use that as
  • 00:22:03.578 --> 00:22:06.681
  • A expression of profanity.
  • 00:22:06.681 --> 00:22:10.552
  • Listen, when you and i lose the fear of god,
  • 00:22:10.552 --> 00:22:15.090
  • When you and i are no longer reverence the lord god almighty,
  • 00:22:15.090 --> 00:22:20.629
  • Don't expect any dreams, any expectation to take place.
  • 00:22:20.629 --> 00:22:23.965
  • He just moves away from us, and we're thrown to the wind like
  • 00:22:23.965 --> 00:22:27.502
  • Anyone else who is capricious away from the lord.
  • 00:22:27.502 --> 00:22:32.307
  • "you can't do it, moses, you can't go in.
  • 00:22:32.307 --> 00:22:35.210
  • You had a chance to say, god has brought us to water, a moment
  • 00:22:35.210 --> 00:22:39.147
  • Of wholeness to bring the people to repentance,
  • 00:22:39.147 --> 00:22:41.750
  • And back to follow me, but you didn't.
  • 00:22:41.750 --> 00:22:43.452
  • You said, 'we, i, have provided the water.
  • 00:22:43.452 --> 00:22:46.988
  • How long do i have to--' because it's arrogance,
  • 00:22:46.988 --> 00:22:51.726
  • Because it's irreverence, you can't go in the promised land."
  • 00:22:51.726 --> 00:22:58.333
  • But wait a minute, wait, just remember just for a minute,
  • 00:22:58.333 --> 00:23:07.709
  • We were just on mount hermon, the mount of transfiguration,
  • 00:23:07.709 --> 00:23:12.514
  • Who was that up there with elijah, peter, james and john?
  • 00:23:12.514 --> 00:23:16.918
  • Who was talking with jesus thousands of years later?
  • 00:23:16.918 --> 00:23:22.691
  • It was moses.
  • 00:23:22.691 --> 00:23:25.060
  • Moses now in the promised land, now on mount
  • 00:23:25.060 --> 00:23:31.466
  • Hermon, 10,000 feet above.
  • 00:23:31.466 --> 00:23:35.604
  • What does this say to us?
  • 00:23:35.604 --> 00:23:38.139
  • God doesn't leave any business unfinished.
  • 00:23:38.139 --> 00:23:43.211
  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Dr. young: you lose a child, "lord, what in the world, how?"
  • 00:23:47.015 --> 00:23:52.787
  • You're unemployed, "what in the world?
  • 00:23:52.787 --> 00:23:55.524
  • I tried my best."
  • 00:23:55.524 --> 00:23:56.992
  • And we got so many, "what if, if only, i don't understand,
  • 00:23:56.992 --> 00:24:02.330
  • That doesn't seem right, that's not just."
  • 00:24:02.330 --> 00:24:04.866
  • We can go through that over and over again,
  • 00:24:04.866 --> 00:24:07.235
  • But there will come a day, ladies and gentlemen,
  • 00:24:07.235 --> 00:24:09.838
  • As we're in christ, when we'll discover that all things in this
  • 00:24:09.838 --> 00:24:15.143
  • Life work together for good to those who love the lord,
  • 00:24:15.143 --> 00:24:19.080
  • And those who are the called according to his purpose.
  • 00:24:19.080 --> 00:24:23.318
  • And there will come a day in heaven which it'll all fit
  • 00:24:23.318 --> 00:24:27.789
  • Together, the broken pieces will come together, the confusion,
  • 00:24:27.789 --> 00:24:32.694
  • The envy, the shame, the time we were on nebo, and we didn't
  • 00:24:32.694 --> 00:24:36.898
  • Work out the way we thought it would, we'll look back and
  • 00:24:36.898 --> 00:24:39.935
  • God will say, "i was in your life.
  • 00:24:39.935 --> 00:24:43.605
  • I was doing a special work," and he would say
  • 00:24:43.605 --> 00:24:46.641
  • To all of us, "don't miss it.
  • 00:24:46.641 --> 00:24:50.612
  • Don't miss it."
  • 00:24:50.612 --> 00:24:52.380
  • And the glory of heaven will be wholeness,
  • 00:24:52.380 --> 00:24:57.619
  • Completeness, and joy that we can't even fathom.
  • 00:24:57.619 --> 00:25:05.694
  • That's the message from mount nebo.
  • 00:25:05.694 --> 00:25:11.099
  • Dr. young: there's something about being
  • 00:25:11.967 --> 00:25:13.301
  • On top of a mountain.
  • 00:25:13.301 --> 00:25:15.570
  • On top of a mountain, it's awe inspiring.
  • 00:25:15.570 --> 00:25:19.708
  • On top of a mountain, somehow we feel a sense of reverence,
  • 00:25:19.708 --> 00:25:24.746
  • And a closeness to the almighty that we perhaps feel no other
  • 00:25:24.746 --> 00:25:29.384
  • Place on the planet.
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  • Announcer: in his series "made to climb," dr. young leads
  • 00:25:31.653 --> 00:25:34.422
  • Us up the most essential mountains of the bible.
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  • We'll discover that we're not made to sit in the valley,
  • 00:25:37.258 --> 00:25:40.061
  • But to ascend to the mountaintops where god can
  • 00:25:40.061 --> 00:25:42.998
  • Show us how to truly live.
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  • Dr. young: we're made to climb, we're supposed to climb.
  • 00:25:56.978 --> 00:26:01.883
  • We, as human beings, are called to climb the mountains.
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  • Dr. young: if you had a bucket list,
  • 00:26:09.190 --> 00:26:11.159
  • And by the way, i don't have one.
  • 00:26:11.159 --> 00:26:13.261
  • But if you have one, what would you put on it?
  • 00:26:13.261 --> 00:26:16.364
  • Some want to visit all 50 states.
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  • Others want to skydive or run a marathon.
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  • Bucket lists like these are fairly harmless, but what about
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  • The dreams and expectations you have for your life?
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  • When we try to run our own lives, make our own decisions
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  • From god, we get in trouble every time, i always have.
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  • Instead, give him control.
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  • He will replace our broken dreams with something better
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  • Than we could ever imagine.
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  • God never leaves unfinished business.
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  • Don't forget that.
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  • I find that encouraging and comforting, don't you?
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  • Call the number on your screen, we want to help you discover the
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  • Plans god has for you through a relationship with him.
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  • Call now and please meet me here again next week as we take
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  • Another exciting step on "the winning walk" with jesus christ.
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  • ♪♪♪
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