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Ed Young - Mountain of Validation

December 26, 2025 | 29:0

Ed Young - Mountain of Validation
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Mountain of Validation | December 26, 2025
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  • Ed young: so, we're going to climb up the mount
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  • Of transfiguration.
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  • Now, people have asked the question,
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  • "well, where is the mount of transfiguration?"
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  • A lot of people think it's mount horeb and that's what jerome
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  • Said, and i've been on top of mount horeb,
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  • And i think it says mount horeb because it's nothing but
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  • About 1,800 feet high, and you can get up there rather easily.
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  • I think it was done for the tourists so they can show us
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  • Where the mount of transfiguration was.
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  • I don't believe it was there.
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  • I think it's on mount hermon.
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  • Mount hermon is, you know, way up there, 10,000 feet high, hard
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  • To get to, but geographically when you look at what was
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  • Happening prior to the transfiguration experience,
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  • It makes sense, because mount hermon is about 10 miles
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  • Southwest of the sea of galilee.
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  • And we know, as you read these three gospels--by the way,
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  • The story of the mount of transfiguration is told
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  • In three gospels, and you got three different stories.
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  • They're alike, but they're different.
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  • You say, "aha! that's an error in the bible."
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • If i told all of us to go home and write down what happened in
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  • Church today, you'd think we went to 40 different churches,
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  • But we have the insight led by the holy spirit of three
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  • Individuals who tells us what happened on the mountain.
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  • To me, this gives unusual validity
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  • To the truth of the story.
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  • They don't perfectly coincide, and so we see there on the mount
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  • Of transfiguration, mount hermon, and we have to, sort of,
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  • Walk into it by previous scripture, and i wanna read
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  • There what happened.
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  • This also, at the foot of the mountain there,
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  • This is caesarea philippi.
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  • It's the headwaters of the jordan river and that's where
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  • Jesus took his apostles on a retreat and he questioned them,
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  • As he was discipling them, and he said,
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  • "who do people say that i am?
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  • What is the news on the street?"
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  • He said, "well, some think you're elijah, some jeremiah,"
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  • Et cetera, et cetera.
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  • He said, "but what i wanna know as jesus,
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  • Who do you think i am?"
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  • Old simon peter, once in a while he got it right.
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  • He said, "thou art the christ, the son of the living god," and
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  • Then we see jesus lays on them some strong, strong words, and
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  • You have to read these in the gospel according to luke.
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  • He said, "if anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny
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  • Himself, and take up his cross daily and follow me.
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  • For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, whoever loses
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  • His life for my sake, he is the one who will save it.
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  • For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world,
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  • And he forfeits his soul?"
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  • I have a feeling about this time those apostles are saying,
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  • "what have we gotten into?"
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  • Jesus has already told them he's gonna die and be resurrected.
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  • They said, "we didn't know death was in this."
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  • And now he tells them, "you have to die daily
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  • In order to follow me."
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  • He said, "no, i didn't count on this."
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  • And he said, "if you wanna find your life,
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  • You gotta throw your life away."
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  • He said, "if you hoard your life, you're gonna lose it,"
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  • And then that devastating word.
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  • Listen carefully, ladies and gentlemen.
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  • You may have never heard it before.
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  • You may have heard it many times in church.
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  • He said, "let me tell you something.
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  • Let me tell you something very, very important.
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  • What will it profit you, how will you get ahead,
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  • If you gain the whole world, boy, you get the whole world,
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  • And you lose your soul?"
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  • Let me remind you what your soul is and what my soul is.
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  • The soul is everything about you that is not physical.
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  • Atoms, molecules, the body: physical.
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  • Everything about you and me that's not physical
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  • Would be our spirit, our mind.
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  • Not our brain. brain is physical.
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  • Our spirit, our choices, everything--the idea that
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  • We're built--the concept that we're built in the image of god.
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  • This is all a part of our soul, or you could take your body and
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  • My body and junk it, throw it away, it doesn't exist.
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  • Bury it.
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  • Our soul, the essence of who you are,
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  • The essence of who i am, is still valid.
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  • It's still there.
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  • We don't wanna lose that.
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  • That's precious, because we one day, because of christ, we'll be
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  • United with a whole lot better body than this old body, and
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  • That's the resurrection body that we'll have in eternity.
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  • So, all this was laid on those apostles.
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  • That's heavy traffic, isn't it?
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  • You gotta die every day.
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  • All the things you've been looking for on this life doesn't
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  • Mean poof if you lose the essence of who you are.
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  • Now, after this challenge six or eight days went by.
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  • One of the gospel accounts said six.
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  • One says eight.
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  • You can read it, the account of the mount of transfiguration
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  • In luke 9, mark 9, in matthew 12.
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  • It's right there for you and then you put it all together,
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  • And i'm gonna, sort of, walk through it with us
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  • And ask three questions.
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  • First of all, who was on the mountain?
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  • Jesus took with him peter, james, and john, and they walked
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  • Up a mountain about 10,000 feet high.
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  • That's a pretty good jaunt, if you know anything about walking
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  • Up a mountain or climbing a mountain, 10,000 feet.
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  • When they get up there, by the way, peter, james,
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  • And john went to sleep.
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  • Every time it seemed like the lord needed them, they were
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  • Asleep, in the garden, et cetera, but he took his three
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  • Superheroes with him, his super apostles with him.
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  • I wonder why.
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  • We know that james died first, john died last,
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  • Peter was in the middle,
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  • And we know they were strategic people,
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  • And we see they woke up at the top of the mountain,
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  • And they give out, exhausted.
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  • I understand that physically, don't you?
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  • And they went to sleep and then who was on the mountain?
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  • Those three, plus jesus.
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  • And when they awakened, two people had joined them,
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  • Because transfigured there was elijah and moses.
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  • Moses and elijah.
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  • Moses had been dead, you know, 13, 1,400 years, elijah
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  • 7 or 800 years, and there they were on the mountain.
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  • That's something, isn't it?
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  • I wonder why moses and elijah were there on the mount
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  • Of transfiguration with jesus and his group.
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  • Why those two?
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  • Why couldn't have been old jeremiah, daniel?
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  • I think joseph could have been choice up there.
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  • Why these two on the mountain?
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  • First of all, they were there to be a witness, perhaps.
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  • Somebody say, "boy, here is a supernatural experience.
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  • I mean, who was up there can verify it?"
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  • You got three witnesses.
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  • They took that in a court of law in that day to verify something.
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  • Three witnesses and, perhaps,
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  • I think most of all it's because of who they were.
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  • Who was moses?
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  • Author of the pentateuch: genesis, exodus, leviticus,
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  • Numbers, deuteronomy.
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  • Moses was the law giver.
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  • And what about elijah?
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  • He was the supreme prophet.
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  • We've already seen him in action on mount carmel,
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  • So you have the law giver and the prophet.
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  • And who was jesus?
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  • We know jesus fulfilled all the principles of the law and
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  • Amplified them in his teaching, especially on the beatitudes,
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  • So we see jesus was there fulfilling the law, living the
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  • Law, and fulfilling all the prophecy.
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  • Here is these predictions written down thousands of years
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  • And here is jesus.
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  • He filled all of them up.
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  • Two strategic individuals.
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  • So, we see who was up there.
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  • Now, we ask what happened, and you need to read it
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  • When you get home.
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  • I'll tell you what happened.
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  • When these three guys awakened, whoosh, the whole mountain
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  • Was full of the shekinah, the glory of god.
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  • One of the writers tells us that jesus looked like the sun,
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  • The brilliance of the sun.
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  • It was like his whole body was like lightning,
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  • And so was elijah and moses, and this was the shekinah
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  • Which was come down in a cloud.
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  • It indicates a very actual reality: living presence of god.
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  • By the way, the bible says you can't see god and live.
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  • For you and me, you know what that means?
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  • I think if we see god or have an experience of god,
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  • We can't live as we live before we saw god, before we met god,
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  • And so we see this experience of the shekinah has come.
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  • The shekinah, the presence of god,
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  • We can trace it quickly as we walk through the scripture.
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  • Not every little event, but the moment of the shekinah,
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  • God coming, god in reality.
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  • We go back to moses there as he led the children of israel in
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  • The wilderness during those 40 years.
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  • And what happened?
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  • The shekinah was there in the fire that warmed them,
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  • Because it's cold in sinai at night.
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  • I've been there.
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  • The fire warmed them and the fire guided them.
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  • That was the presence of god, the fire of god.
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  • The shekinah was there and then you move on in and you see moses
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  • Went up on the mountain and got the law, remember?
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  • The first time and the second time when he came back,
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  • His face was alive with the reflected shekinah glory
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  • Of god, and the people said, "man, veil your face.
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  • We can't face you.
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  • It's too much to see and feel the power of god,"
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  • And his face was veiled.
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  • Remember that?
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  • Moses didn't know it at that time.
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  • Shekinah.
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  • Then there was a tabernacle that was built--specific, detailed
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  • Descriptions in the bible--and they would pick it up and move
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  • It when the children of israel, perhaps a million-plus, would be
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  • Moved around in that wilderness area of sinai, those 40 years in
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  • God's preparation for going in the holy land.
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  • And then as they move that tabernacle, we know the shekinah
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  • Was there, the place, the house of meeting was there.
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  • And then you see the shekinah was once again placed
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  • In the temple.
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  • Solomon built the temple in the holy of holies.
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  • The shekinah, the living presence of god was there
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  • And then all of a sudden the presence of god is there,
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  • But through the years, the worship of the people,
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  • The fear of god began to be--withdraw from the people.
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  • Let me ask you something.
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  • Is god fearful to you?
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  • There should be an element of the fear of god.
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  • If shekinah came here, if jesus walked in this room,
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  • We wouldn't stand and shout and give him a standing ovation,
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  • Ladies and gentlemen.
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  • I can promise you that we would fall on our faces and most of us
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  • Would crawl out of his presence.
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  • The presence of the living god reveals everything.
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  • The shekinah was there, but in the temple the worship became
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  • Confused and distorted and all of a sudden solomon--remember he
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  • Took the queen of sheba there, and she said,
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  • "oh, what a magnificent place."
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  • You see, solomon now was getting his ego fed through the temple
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  • Of the living god and then 400 years went by.
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  • Ezekiel chapter number 10.
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  • Zeke writes there inspired by god, saying what was happening
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  • In the temple, and he talks about wheels and wheels,
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  • And he talks about the shekinah glory was there,
  • 00:13:32.258 --> 00:13:35.160
  • And the shekinah glory went in one part of the temple
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  • And the other part of the temple.
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  • In other words, you kinda could not remain at the temple.
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  • Why?
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  • Seventy elders of israel had gone into solomon's temple--it
  • 00:13:44.703 --> 00:13:51.043
  • Had been built and rebuilt--had gone in the temple,
  • 00:13:51.043 --> 00:13:54.146
  • And they had put altars, idols named after them.
  • 00:13:54.146 --> 00:14:00.085
  • It's like they took stained-glass windows with their
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  • Picture and put a offering area under it and all around the
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  • Temple, the walls, there were the pictures of the elders
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  • Where they're offering for them, under it, all around the temple
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  • Of the lord, all around it.
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  • And the shekinah, the presence of god, could not dwell in a
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  • Place that become a pagan place, and it pictures there
  • 00:14:27.446 --> 00:14:32.117
  • In that passage shekinah goes around the temple,
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  • Then the shekinah goes out the door.
  • 00:14:35.721 --> 00:14:38.424
  • Shekinah glory, the presence of god, hovers over the mount of
  • 00:14:38.424 --> 00:14:42.661
  • Olives and then shekinah is gone.
  • 00:14:42.661 --> 00:14:45.931
  • The glory of god is gone, and the word is "ichabod,"
  • 00:14:45.931 --> 00:14:50.035
  • The glory has departed.
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  • Ichabod.
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  • The presence of god has departed.
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  • Six hundred years go by.
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  • As far as the bible tells us, no cloud, no presence, no shekinah,
  • 00:15:00.546 --> 00:15:05.784
  • And then those shepherds outside of bethlehem, the heavenly host
  • 00:15:05.784 --> 00:15:15.461
  • Praising god and saying, "glory to god in the highest and on
  • 00:15:15.461 --> 00:15:19.898
  • Earth good will toward men."
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  • The shekinah returned after 600 years.
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  • The next appearance: the mount of transfiguration
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  • That we're looking at.
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  • Here are these guys up there with jesus,
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  • Including moses, elijah.
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  • Now the shekinah comes and falls on them, the presence of the
  • 00:15:46.992 --> 00:15:50.696
  • Living god.
  • 00:15:50.696 --> 00:15:54.066
  • And then what was the result of this?
  • 00:15:54.066 --> 00:15:55.934
  • Read it there in the scripture.
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  • Very, very interesting.
  • 00:15:58.303 --> 00:15:59.772
  • As elijah and moses were departing, peter, the bible
  • 00:15:59.772 --> 00:16:05.210
  • Says, he didn't know what to say, but he spoke anyway.
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  • My version.
  • 00:16:09.348 --> 00:16:10.749
  • That's what he said.
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  • Boy, i've done that.
  • 00:16:12.451 --> 00:16:13.786
  • I don't have anything to say but i wanna say, and he said,
  • 00:16:13.786 --> 00:16:19.258
  • "let's build three tabernacles," three lean-tos, three huts:
  • 00:16:19.258 --> 00:16:26.198
  • One for moses, one for elijah, and jesus.
  • 00:16:26.198 --> 00:16:30.803
  • We could build one for you, too.
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  • I mean, you're right there with them.
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  • You're glowing.
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  • The shekinah has fallen on you, as well.
  • 00:16:35.908 --> 00:16:37.476
  • What was peter saying?
  • 00:16:37.476 --> 00:16:38.844
  • He was saying, "it's so great up here, this mountaintop
  • 00:16:38.844 --> 00:16:41.480
  • Experience with jesus and moses and elijah.
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  • Let's stay up here.
  • 00:16:45.184 --> 00:16:46.518
  • Let's live up here.
  • 00:16:46.518 --> 00:16:47.853
  • I love the emotion, the mountain,
  • 00:16:47.853 --> 00:16:50.522
  • The shekinah, the presence of god.
  • 00:16:50.522 --> 00:16:52.958
  • Boy, this is the end of end all.
  • 00:16:52.958 --> 00:16:54.960
  • Let's stay on top of the mountain."
  • 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:58.197
  • But then, you know what happened?
  • 00:16:58.197 --> 00:17:00.299
  • The cloud, the shekinah, came closer and closer, and moses and
  • 00:17:00.299 --> 00:17:05.237
  • Elijah was gone, and then they looked up and jesus stood alone.
  • 00:17:05.237 --> 00:17:10.943
  • Jesus stood alone.
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  • That's it, ladies and gentlemen.
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  • Jesus stands alone as the son of the living god.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Ed: then they spent the night.
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  • The bible says now they went down the mountain.
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  • When he got down the mountain, guess what was happening?
  • 00:17:39.905 --> 00:17:42.808
  • There was a lot of people there, a mob, and there was a father
  • 00:17:42.808 --> 00:17:47.779
  • There with a boy that--and he runs to jesus.
  • 00:17:47.779 --> 00:17:51.750
  • He falls before jesus.
  • 00:17:51.750 --> 00:17:53.752
  • He said, "jesus, here is my boy,"
  • 00:17:53.752 --> 00:17:55.487
  • And the boy was demon-possessed.
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  • He has a seizure.
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  • The father tells him, "he's had this for years," and said he'd
  • 00:17:58.657 --> 00:18:01.927
  • Throw himself in the water.
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  • He'd throw himself in the fire, he was suicidal, and he was so
  • 00:18:03.829 --> 00:18:07.366
  • Sick, and he was so demon-possessed, and the father
  • 00:18:07.366 --> 00:18:13.405
  • Went to jesus and said, "jesus, heal my boy.
  • 00:18:13.405 --> 00:18:19.244
  • I brought him here for you to heal him.
  • 00:18:19.244 --> 00:18:22.981
  • And your apostles had tried."
  • 00:18:22.981 --> 00:18:25.083
  • Remember nine of them were left at the foot of the mountain.
  • 00:18:25.083 --> 00:18:27.653
  • Three went up with jesus, and they tried to heal him,
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  • And they couldn't do it.
  • 00:18:30.522 --> 00:18:33.959
  • In other words, your press went out and said you were going
  • 00:18:33.959 --> 00:18:37.296
  • Around and your people were healing people
  • 00:18:37.296 --> 00:18:39.097
  • And that was true.
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  • The two by two had went out.
  • 00:18:40.766 --> 00:18:42.434
  • They'd began to heal people all over the area.
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  • They heard jesus was there.
  • 00:18:44.937 --> 00:18:46.271
  • They ran there, this father, in desperation.
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  • Can you imagine the life that he and his family lived
  • 00:18:49.141 --> 00:18:52.311
  • With this kind of ailment?
  • 00:18:52.311 --> 00:18:54.379
  • Unbelievable.
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  • We know people who go through that,
  • 00:18:56.582 --> 00:18:58.183
  • With special kind of challenges.
  • 00:18:58.183 --> 00:19:00.319
  • Unbelievable, and the father was desperate.
  • 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:02.454
  • He said, "your pr said that, man, your apostles
  • 00:19:02.454 --> 00:19:06.091
  • And you heal people, and they've tried to heal him,
  • 00:19:06.091 --> 00:19:08.260
  • And they've been unsuccessful."
  • 00:19:08.260 --> 00:19:11.763
  • And jesus asked the usual questions,
  • 00:19:11.763 --> 00:19:14.233
  • "how long has he been like this?" et cetera.
  • 00:19:14.233 --> 00:19:16.368
  • And then jesus looked at the father and said,
  • 00:19:16.368 --> 00:19:19.104
  • "if you can believe, all things are possible."
  • 00:19:19.104 --> 00:19:25.410
  • You know, if i'd been that dad--i thought about that--i'd
  • 00:19:25.410 --> 00:19:28.413
  • Say, "lord, i believe you can do it.
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  • Oh, yeah, if all things are possible,
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  • All i have to do is have faith.
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  • Man, i have faith. i believe."
  • 00:19:36.154 --> 00:19:38.156
  • I think i would have said that probably,
  • 00:19:38.156 --> 00:19:41.193
  • But that would not have been totally true.
  • 00:19:41.193 --> 00:19:43.962
  • What did that father say to jesus?
  • 00:19:43.962 --> 00:19:47.199
  • He said, "lord, i believe, i have faith,
  • 00:19:47.199 --> 00:19:52.337
  • But i want you to help my unbelief.
  • 00:19:52.337 --> 00:19:55.173
  • Your apostles couldn't heal him.
  • 00:19:55.173 --> 00:19:57.643
  • I believe you can, but i have faith, but i'm just not sure.
  • 00:19:57.643 --> 00:20:02.447
  • I have doubts."
  • 00:20:02.447 --> 00:20:05.517
  • Do you have any doubts? don't worry about your doubts.
  • 00:20:05.517 --> 00:20:08.687
  • Doubt your doubts. be honest with your doubt.
  • 00:20:08.687 --> 00:20:11.623
  • That is a wonderful asset we have, because it challenges us
  • 00:20:11.623 --> 00:20:15.560
  • To doubt our doubts and go through to faith.
  • 00:20:15.560 --> 00:20:18.063
  • The father was honest.
  • 00:20:18.063 --> 00:20:19.398
  • "lord, i believe, but help my unbelief," and jesus honored
  • 00:20:19.398 --> 00:20:24.870
  • That and healed the boy.
  • 00:20:24.870 --> 00:20:28.340
  • And what a celebration it was and then later on,
  • 00:20:28.340 --> 00:20:33.078
  • If you read all the text, the apostles ask jesus,
  • 00:20:33.078 --> 00:20:41.353
  • "why couldn't we heal him?
  • 00:20:41.353 --> 00:20:43.388
  • We'd healed other people.
  • 00:20:43.388 --> 00:20:44.856
  • We'd been out all over the country.
  • 00:20:44.856 --> 00:20:46.625
  • Why couldn't we do it?"
  • 00:20:46.625 --> 00:20:49.428
  • And jesus says, i think in matthew's account, "this kind,"
  • 00:20:49.428 --> 00:20:54.166
  • K-i-n-d, "cannot be healed except by prayer and fasting."
  • 00:20:54.166 --> 00:21:01.440
  • Prayer and fasting.
  • 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:04.009
  • Oh, it was a deeper kind of healing that was necessary.
  • 00:21:04.009 --> 00:21:11.049
  • You see, what is our challenge on this?
  • 00:21:11.049 --> 00:21:14.519
  • A lot of us love the top of the mountain: worship, praise,
  • 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:19.491
  • Church, read the bible.
  • 00:21:19.491 --> 00:21:21.960
  • We like the mountain, but we go down in the valley,
  • 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:26.198
  • And we don't like to get in the demon-filled valley, do we?
  • 00:21:26.198 --> 00:21:30.736
  • The apostles failed in the valley because they hadn't been
  • 00:21:30.736 --> 00:21:34.272
  • Up on the mountain and those are the mountains jesus,
  • 00:21:34.272 --> 00:21:38.076
  • And i believe the other apostles, too,
  • 00:21:38.076 --> 00:21:40.445
  • They were successful because they'd been on the mountain.
  • 00:21:40.445 --> 00:21:43.014
  • It's a difference between worship and work.
  • 00:21:43.014 --> 00:21:47.719
  • Some of us, we wanna do work.
  • 00:21:47.719 --> 00:21:49.521
  • I mean, if we had a crisis, we can go in there, and we're ready
  • 00:21:49.521 --> 00:21:52.190
  • To do something for god, but we try to work without being on the
  • 00:21:52.190 --> 00:21:55.861
  • Mountain and our work in the valley doesn't work very well
  • 00:21:55.861 --> 00:22:00.298
  • Because we haven't spent time on the mountain.
  • 00:22:00.298 --> 00:22:03.535
  • We spend all of our time on the mountain in praise and prayer
  • 00:22:03.535 --> 00:22:07.339
  • And worship and say, "boy, i have this great feeling," and we
  • 00:22:07.339 --> 00:22:11.176
  • Don't go down in the valley to do business with the demons
  • 00:22:11.176 --> 00:22:15.213
  • That are all a part of our culture and our world,
  • 00:22:15.213 --> 00:22:18.917
  • So there has to be balance between worship and work.
  • 00:22:18.917 --> 00:22:22.554
  • There has to be balance.
  • 00:22:22.554 --> 00:22:24.122
  • We need to go to the mountain so we'll be able to be effective
  • 00:22:24.122 --> 00:22:26.725
  • In the valley, and we're effective in the valley
  • 00:22:26.725 --> 00:22:29.728
  • Because we've been to the mountain.
  • 00:22:29.728 --> 00:22:32.164
  • Do you get it? it's a balanced christian life.
  • 00:22:32.164 --> 00:22:40.639
  • How important that is, the mountain and the valley.
  • 00:22:40.639 --> 00:22:47.813
  • We can do business in the valley when we spend time with god on
  • 00:22:47.813 --> 00:22:51.450
  • The mountain, and our work in the valley becomes very weak
  • 00:22:51.450 --> 00:22:55.454
  • Unless we spend time in the mountain.
  • 00:22:55.454 --> 00:22:57.722
  • And we can spend our whole time in the mountain and spend our
  • 00:22:57.722 --> 00:23:00.692
  • Whole time in the mountain and never really take the courage to
  • 00:23:00.692 --> 00:23:05.430
  • Go down in the valley and make a difference for god and christ
  • 00:23:05.430 --> 00:23:09.534
  • Where he's placed us, so it's a matter of faith,
  • 00:23:09.534 --> 00:23:14.406
  • Having the right object, and then the feelings come.
  • 00:23:14.406 --> 00:23:19.411
  • People run around saying, "boy, i've got so much faith, pastor."
  • 00:23:19.411 --> 00:23:22.714
  • Faith in what?
  • 00:23:22.714 --> 00:23:24.449
  • "well, i've got faith in life, and i got faith in god,
  • 00:23:24.449 --> 00:23:28.720
  • And i got--"
  • 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:30.055
  • Faith in a generalized sense,
  • 00:23:30.055 --> 00:23:32.657
  • Ladies and gentlemen, doesn't mean zip.
  • 00:23:32.657 --> 00:23:37.095
  • Poof. faith has to have an object.
  • 00:23:37.095 --> 00:23:42.400
  • That object needs to be truth and fact and reality
  • 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:45.403
  • Of experience and relationships.
  • 00:23:45.403 --> 00:23:48.573
  • Here is a little boy.
  • 00:23:48.573 --> 00:23:51.676
  • Got out of school, has his backpack on.
  • 00:23:51.676 --> 00:23:55.080
  • He walks out to the street.
  • 00:23:55.080 --> 00:23:57.082
  • He gets in the middle of the street.
  • 00:23:57.082 --> 00:23:58.783
  • Not on the corner, standing on the curb with his backpack,
  • 00:23:58.783 --> 00:24:02.120
  • Standing there.
  • 00:24:02.120 --> 00:24:04.089
  • Businessman comes out of the building.
  • 00:24:04.089 --> 00:24:05.891
  • He walks by, and he said, "sonny, what are you doing?"
  • 00:24:05.891 --> 00:24:08.059
  • He said, "i'm gonna catch the bus."
  • 00:24:08.059 --> 00:24:09.961
  • He said, "no, no, no," he said, "you can't catch the bus there."
  • 00:24:09.961 --> 00:24:12.864
  • He said, "the bus doesn't stop in the middle of a block."
  • 00:24:12.864 --> 00:24:15.367
  • He said, "you gotta walk up there and turn right,
  • 00:24:15.367 --> 00:24:17.469
  • Cross the street, and go to the bus stop.
  • 00:24:17.469 --> 00:24:18.904
  • That's where the bus stops."
  • 00:24:18.904 --> 00:24:21.239
  • He said, "no, sir.
  • 00:24:21.239 --> 00:24:22.607
  • I've got faith the bus is gonna stop here."
  • 00:24:22.607 --> 00:24:25.010
  • The businessman said, "sonny, listen to me.
  • 00:24:25.010 --> 00:24:26.811
  • I'm telling you the bus is not gonna stop there."
  • 00:24:26.811 --> 00:24:29.014
  • He said, "i think it will.
  • 00:24:29.014 --> 00:24:31.283
  • I got faith it will."
  • 00:24:31.283 --> 00:24:33.518
  • The businessman said, "all righted.
  • 00:24:33.518 --> 00:24:35.287
  • Arrogant little kid. what does he know?"
  • 00:24:35.287 --> 00:24:38.523
  • In a few minutes here comes the bus chugging down the road.
  • 00:24:38.523 --> 00:24:41.693
  • It comes over there and stops at the bus stop, it picks up,
  • 00:24:41.693 --> 00:24:44.329
  • And it stops right there in front of the kid.
  • 00:24:44.329 --> 00:24:47.365
  • The businessman is stunned.
  • 00:24:47.365 --> 00:24:50.769
  • He can't believe it, and the kid puts his pack on.
  • 00:24:50.769 --> 00:24:54.739
  • He steps off the curb, he walks up, the bus door opens, he walks
  • 00:24:54.739 --> 00:24:59.044
  • Up the steps, he turns around, and he said, "mister, i had
  • 00:24:59.044 --> 00:25:01.479
  • Faith because--see, the bus driver, he's my daddy."
  • 00:25:01.479 --> 00:25:10.589
  • Faith had an object.
  • 00:25:10.589 --> 00:25:15.026
  • Therefore faith was confident of what was going to happen.
  • 00:25:15.026 --> 00:25:21.032
  • On the mountain our faith is kindled.
  • 00:25:21.032 --> 00:25:24.636
  • It's not just faith in faith, but it's faith and the object
  • 00:25:24.636 --> 00:25:27.772
  • Of the reality of the power of god we find
  • 00:25:27.772 --> 00:25:31.476
  • As we walk in jesus christ.
  • 00:25:31.476 --> 00:25:34.980
  • Therefore the bus is gonna stop.
  • 00:25:34.980 --> 00:25:39.050
  • Get on the bus, because the driver of those of us who get on
  • 00:25:39.050 --> 00:25:45.390
  • The bus of life is jesus christ himself, and he'll give you
  • 00:25:45.390 --> 00:25:50.629
  • The ride of a lifetime.
  • 00:25:50.629 --> 00:25:53.531
  • Ed: we have so much to be thankful for.
  • 00:25:54.966 --> 00:25:58.503
  • And i wanna thank you for your faithfulness, your generosity,
  • 00:25:58.503 --> 00:26:01.773
  • Your prayers as part of the "winning walk" family.
  • 00:26:01.773 --> 00:26:04.676
  • I'm reminded of a story of a young american soldier
  • 00:26:04.676 --> 00:26:07.979
  • In world war ii.
  • 00:26:07.979 --> 00:26:10.015
  • It was on the eve of when he was to ship out for what would later
  • 00:26:10.015 --> 00:26:13.118
  • Become known as d-day.
  • 00:26:13.118 --> 00:26:15.520
  • The british allies held a dance at the uso.
  • 00:26:15.520 --> 00:26:19.190
  • The soldier was just 18 years old.
  • 00:26:19.190 --> 00:26:21.526
  • He asked an english girl to dance, and when the music
  • 00:26:21.526 --> 00:26:24.996
  • Stopped, he spontaneously kissed her.
  • 00:26:24.996 --> 00:26:28.667
  • She drew back, shocked.
  • 00:26:28.667 --> 00:26:31.302
  • She asked him what in the world was he doing.
  • 00:26:31.302 --> 00:26:35.040
  • He answered honestly, "i ship out in the morning.
  • 00:26:35.040 --> 00:26:38.610
  • And i don't know what lies ahead, i'll live or die,
  • 00:26:38.610 --> 00:26:41.713
  • And i've never kissed a girl before, so i thought
  • 00:26:41.713 --> 00:26:45.850
  • This was a time for boldness."
  • 00:26:45.850 --> 00:26:48.720
  • We live in an embattled culture.
  • 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:51.589
  • Now is the time for boldness.
  • 00:26:51.589 --> 00:26:53.124
  • I believe that together we can finish the year strong and be
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  • 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 and
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  • Standing with "the winning walk," with me through
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  • Your prayers and support.
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  • God bless you, and your end of the year gift will be used
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  • To maintain and expand god's family around the world.
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