Ed Young - Mountain of Validation

June 4, 2025 | S25:E134

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Mountain of Validation | June 4, 2025

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Dr. 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,
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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
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Had been built and rebuilt--had gone in the temple,
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And they had put altars, idols named after them.
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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
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In that passage shekinah goes around the temple,
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Then the shekinah goes out the door.
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Shekinah glory, the presence of god, hovers over the mount of
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Olives and then shekinah is gone.
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The glory of god is gone, and the word is "ichabod,"
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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,
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And then those shepherds outside of bethlehem, the heavenly host
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Praising god and saying, "glory to god in the highest and on
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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
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Living god.
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And then what was the result of this?
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Read it there in the scripture.
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Very, very interesting.
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As elijah and moses were departing, peter, the bible
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Says, he didn't know what to say, but he spoke anyway.
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My version.
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That's what he said.
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Boy, i've done that.
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I don't have anything to say but i wanna say, and he said,
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"let's build three tabernacles," three lean-tos, three huts:
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One for moses, one for elijah, and jesus.
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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.
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What was peter saying?
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He was saying, "it's so great up here, this mountaintop
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Experience with jesus and moses and elijah.
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Let's stay up here.
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Let's live up here.
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I love the emotion, the mountain,
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The shekinah, the presence of god.
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Boy, this is the end of end all.
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Let's stay on top of the mountain."
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But then, you know what happened?
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The cloud, the shekinah, came closer and closer, and moses and
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Elijah was gone, and then they looked up and jesus stood alone.
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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?
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There was a lot of people there, a mob, and there was a father
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There with a boy that--and he runs to jesus.
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He falls before jesus.
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He said, "jesus, here is my boy,"
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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
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Throw himself in the water.
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He'd throw himself in the fire, he was suicidal, and he was so
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Sick, and he was so demon-possessed, and the father
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Went to jesus and said, "jesus, heal my boy.
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I brought him here for you to heal him.
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And your apostles had tried."
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Remember nine of them were left at the foot of the mountain.
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Three went up with jesus, and they tried to heal him,
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And they couldn't do it.
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In other words, your press went out and said you were going
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Around and your people were healing people
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And that was true.
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The two by two had went out.
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They'd began to heal people all over the area.
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They heard jesus was there.
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They ran there, this father, in desperation.
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Can you imagine the life that he and his family lived
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With this kind of ailment?
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Unbelievable.
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We know people who go through that,
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With special kind of challenges.
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Unbelievable, and the father was desperate.
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He said, "your pr said that, man, your apostles
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And you heal people, and they've tried to heal him,
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And they've been unsuccessful."
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And jesus asked the usual questions,
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"how long has he been like this?" et cetera.
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And then jesus looked at the father and said,
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"if you can believe, all things are possible."
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You know, if i'd been that dad--i thought about that--i'd
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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."
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I think i would have said that probably,
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But that would not have been totally true.
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What did that father say to jesus?
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He said, "lord, i believe, i have faith,
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But i want you to help my unbelief.
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Your apostles couldn't heal him.
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I believe you can, but i have faith, but i'm just not sure.
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I have doubts."
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Do you have any doubts? don't worry about your doubts.
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Doubt your doubts. be honest with your doubt.
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That is a wonderful asset we have, because it challenges us
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To doubt our doubts and go through to faith.
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The father was honest.
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"lord, i believe, but help my unbelief," and jesus honored
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That and healed the boy.
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And what a celebration it was and then later on,
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If you read all the text, the apostles ask jesus,
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"why couldn't we heal him?
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We'd healed other people.
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We'd been out all over the country.
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Why couldn't we do it?"
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And jesus says, i think in matthew's account, "this kind,"
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K-i-n-d, "cannot be healed except by prayer and fasting."
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Prayer and fasting.
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Oh, it was a deeper kind of healing that was necessary.
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You see, what is our challenge on this?
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A lot of us love the top of the mountain: worship, praise,
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Church, read the bible.
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We like the mountain, but we go down in the valley,
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And we don't like to get in the demon-filled valley, do we?
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The apostles failed in the valley because they hadn't been
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Up on the mountain and those are the mountains jesus,
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And i believe the other apostles, too,
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They were successful because they'd been on the mountain.
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It's a difference between worship and work.
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Some of us, we wanna do work.
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I mean, if we had a crisis, we can go in there, and we're ready
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To do something for god, but we try to work without being on the
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Mountain and our work in the valley doesn't work very well
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Because we haven't spent time on the mountain.
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We spend all of our time on the mountain in praise and prayer
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And worship and say, "boy, i have this great feeling," and we
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Don't go down in the valley to do business with the demons
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That are all a part of our culture and our world,
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So there has to be balance between worship and work.
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There has to be balance.
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We need to go to the mountain so we'll be able to be effective
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In the valley, and we're effective in the valley
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Because we've been to the mountain.
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Do you get it? it's a balanced christian life.
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How important that is, the mountain and the valley.
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We can do business in the valley when we spend time with god on
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The mountain, and our work in the valley becomes very weak
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Unless we spend time in the mountain.
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And we can spend our whole time in the mountain and spend our
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Whole time in the mountain and never really take the courage to
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Go down in the valley and make a difference for god and christ
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Where he's placed us, so it's a matter of faith,
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Having the right object, and then the feelings come.
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People run around saying, "boy, i've got so much faith, pastor."
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Faith in what?
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"well, i've got faith in life, and i got faith in god,
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And i got--"
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Faith in a generalized sense,
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Ladies and gentlemen, doesn't mean zip.
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Poof. faith has to have an object.
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That object needs to be truth and fact and reality
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Of experience and relationships.
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Here is a little boy.
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Got out of school, has his backpack on.
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He walks out to the street.
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He gets in the middle of the street.
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Not on the corner, standing on the curb with his backpack,
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Standing there.
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Businessman comes out of the building.
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He walks by, and he said, "sonny, what are you doing?"
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He said, "i'm gonna catch the bus."
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He said, "no, no, no," he said, "you can't catch the bus there."
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He said, "the bus doesn't stop in the middle of a block."
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He said, "you gotta walk up there and turn right,
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Cross the street, and go to the bus stop.
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That's where the bus stops."
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He said, "no, sir.
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I've got faith the bus is gonna stop here."
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The businessman said, "sonny, listen to me.
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I'm telling you the bus is not gonna stop there."
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He said, "i think it will.
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I got faith it will."
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The businessman said, "all righted.
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Arrogant little kid. what does he know?"
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In a few minutes here comes the bus chugging down the road.
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It comes over there and stops at the bus stop, it picks up,
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And it stops right there in front of the kid.
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The businessman is stunned.
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He can't believe it, and the kid puts his pack on.
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He steps off the curb, he walks up, the bus door opens, he walks
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Up the steps, he turns around, and he said, "mister, i had
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Faith because--see, the bus driver, he's my daddy."
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Faith had an object.
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Therefore faith was confident of what was going to happen.
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On the mountain our faith is kindled.
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It's not just faith in faith, but it's faith and the object
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Of the reality of the power of god we find
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As we walk in jesus christ.
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Therefore the bus is gonna stop.
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Get on the bus, because the driver of those of us who get on
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The bus of life is jesus christ himself, and he'll give you
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The ride of a lifetime.
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Ed: do you know what our home in heaven will be like?
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The truth is, most christians don't really know much about the
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Place we'll call home for all eternity.
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As a result, they miss out on the joy and encouragement that
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An understanding of heaven can give us.
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I want to help you know your future home better by sending
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You a booklet entitled, "heaven."
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In these pages you'll find an empowering new perspective of
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The heaven that awaits you and me as children of god.
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And my prayer is that this future assurance will give us
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Confidence to live boldly in the 21st century.
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I'll send you a copy of "heaven" as a thanks for your gift of
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Support for this ministry.
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When you give to "the winning walk," you become a part of this
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Family, and nothing is more exciting to know that those who
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Are in christ understand that in heaven we'll feel more at home
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There than we do at any time and any place as we live on this
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Earth.
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So, thank you for standing with us, for making this broadcast
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Possible as it goes around the world, telling people how to
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Know christ and have confidence of the future which can be
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Understood by understanding heaven.
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - Mountain of Validation

June 4, 2025 | S25:E134

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