Ed Young - Never Satisfied

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Never Satisfied | November 12, 2025

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Ed young: we're studying the book of ecclesiastes,
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Ecclesiastes is the book of sheer philosophy.
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It's the only book in the bible that presents life without god.
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It's a book about meaninglessness,
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But it has a great deal of meaning.
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Say, "how can this be?"
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We've already discovered that it asks all the big questions of
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Life that all of us need to ask, we must ask,
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We should ask, but we sort of gloss them over and avoid them.
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And when we come head to head with
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Them, it gets a little hard.
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We have to think and therefore we sort of hide these,
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But it deals with all the big questions.
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"who am i? where did i come from?
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Where am i going? the real big one, why am i here?
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Why are you here? why am i here?"
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Really big questions.
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This is what solomon, writing his out biography kept asking
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Over and over again and he came to the same conclusion,
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We'll see it for 12 chapters.
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He said, "life does not any significance."
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He said, "everybody's life is like spitting in the wind.
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It's smoke, has no eternal value.
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It's empty.
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It's void, has no lasting significance.
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Now, we know that ancient man was most fearful of death.
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Medieval man was most fearful of hell.
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Modern man, we're most fearful of life that has no meaning,
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No significance.
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And therefore, solomon is the ultimate philosopher.
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You know the difference between philosophy and theology?
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I've tried to state this many times.
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The philosopher says, "i'm looking for god."
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The theologian says, "god is looking for you."
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Philosophy are words going up.
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Theology is the word of god coming down.
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Philosophy is looking for a life that has relevance.
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Theology gives us a life that gives relevance.
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So, we're in a book of philosophy.
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"boy, do i need that?" absolutely.
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Every searcher, every honest person,
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Every doubter, every skeptic, every believing christian needs
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To understand what solomon is doing to us
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In the book of ecclesiastes.
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He's waking us up saying, "ask this most basic question."
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And you say, "you mean ecclesiastes is
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Void of any reference to god?"
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No, i didn't say that.
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God is spoken of in ecclesiastes,
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But god is pictured almost in a deistic view.
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The deists believe that god created the world and then he
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Backed away from the world and said, "lots of
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Luck, i'm out of here," deists.
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Sometimes you think he's a pantheist.
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Pantheism is god is in everything.
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He's in the rocks. he's in the moon.
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He's in the stars.
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And sometimes you say, he's a pantheist.
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Sometimes solomon sounds like a hindu or a buddhist
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And to summarize all that he says, "the real genius of life
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Is to not have a life, is to nullify life, is to make life a
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Simple vacuum and not respond to vacuums, not
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Respond to mountaintops, or valleys and they would
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Say, life should be mmm, mmm, mmm.
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No motions, no right, no wrong, no up, no down, mmm.
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And when you get to a nirvana and you're mmm,
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Then when breath leaves your body it's no big deal because
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You're just absorbed up into the eternal mist."
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Sometimes solomon sounds like that so there's references to
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God, but it's not the god that we know and abraham,
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Isaac, jacob reveal to jesus christ.
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He's looking at the things under the sun.
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He's a philosopher.
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One school of philosophy said life is just a matter of chance.
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That's nihilism, roll the dice.
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"man, you sure were lucky, your last name's
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Rockefeller, man, boy."
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Life is just a thing of chance, nihilism.
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Sometimes we see solomon as a nihilist
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If you look at it closely.
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Sometimes life is a thing of choice.
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That's secularism, humanism. "i determine my own destiny.
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I am the master of my fate. i'm the captain of my soul.
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I run my life by what i do and the choices
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And decisions that i make."
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Some people look at life like that and once in a while you see
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Old soul, old man, that's where he's coming down.
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And sometimes you see life as chosen, that's determinism.
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We really don't decide your dna, your environment.
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Every decision, every choice you and i would
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Make is already predetermined.
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Now, they can't decide who the determiner is,
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But that's one philosophical view of life.
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So, we read through ecclesiastes we see all kinds
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Of things and that's healthy for us to understand, ladies
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And gentlemen, what life is like for those who consider
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Life only on the basis of what's under the sun without any real
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Relevance or understanding of transcendence of him
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Who is above the sun.
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What a difference.
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You see, god has set down two poles for us.
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There is good and there's evil. there we have it.
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As long as we're clear as biblical theologians,
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As christians, as to what is good and what is evil,
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We're in good shape, but what has happened to us?
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There's sort of a muddy, muddy, muddiness that's created between
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That which is good and that which is evil.
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I could take many things to illustrate
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That i think i'll use sex.
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Awakened two men back here, i'm sorry.
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There was a day 50, 60, years ago when there was a general
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Consensus in the culture of the united states that sex
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Was exclusive to marriage.
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No one much debated that 50, 60 years ago.
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But then finally we moved into another kind of vein and sex was
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Okay if you're engaged, if you have a ring, you
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Stated yourself.
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Sex is all right if you're engaged.
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And then it moved down, "well, sex is okay if you really love
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Each other, i love you, you love me.
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That makes this intimate relationship okay."
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And then it moved down a little further and said,
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"well, if they're two consenting adults, it's fine."
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And then it moved down, "it's simply a recreational thing.
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It's a natural instinct that is fulfilled.
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It has no eternal, or relevant, or sacred meaning."
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And that's what's happened to us.
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You have good and you have evil and now it's all muddy in
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Here in so many areas of ethics.
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You say, how did it happen? we've looked at this before.
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When our high schools, and colleges, and
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Universities have, for decades,
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Said there's no right, there's no wrong, what is true for
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You and true for me may be two different things and
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There are no absolutes.
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This is where you end up and you have a whole score of harvey
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Weinsteins appearing on the scene and you wonder, whoa,
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Where did this come from?
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When there's no absolutes in our culture, this is the results.
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And some of those who are a part of the sort of functional
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Agnosticism, they say, "oh man, this is
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A terrible, terrible thing."
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This is what has been advocating situational
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Ethics for generations.
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We've been teaching, we've been teaching over and over again.
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And that is life lived without any reference to god above the
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Sun, and this is exactly what solomon is talking about in his
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Autobiography, the latter years of his life.
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We call it the book of ecclesiastes.
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Look at chapter 4, solomon says, "then i looked again at all the
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Acts of oppression," i'm using injustice,
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"which were being done under the sun.
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And behold i saw the tears of the oppressed," those who were
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Caught in injustice, "and that they had no one to comfort them;
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And on the side of their oppressors was no one,"
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It says, "comfort but to confront them."
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He talks about injustice.
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There's sort of a built-inness of all of us
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To recognize injustice.
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Injustice it's all around us. we learned it as children.
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Remember the story of cinderella?
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Yeah, cinderella, you remember she was brought up
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By an evil stepmother, had terrible stepsisters.
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They hated her.
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They abused her, but they had the ball and she went, and she
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Had on that glass slipper,
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And the prince saw her and fell in love with her.
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And she had to leave early because the chariot
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Was turning into a pumpkin.
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If you hadn't read it, you ought to read it.
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Keith reads it every night before he goes to sleep.
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But it's a wonderful story and all the prince has is that glass
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Slipper and he's trying to find who it was that wore
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That glass slipper.
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He goes around trying it on all the young maidens and he tried
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It on there was the evil stepsisters, and they tried
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To get in that glass--
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It really wouldn't fit them, but he slipped it on cinderella and
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She became his princess.
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That's injustice that was counted by justice, right?
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Beautiful story.
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Now, what if one of those evil stepsisters had somehow
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Squeezed in that glass slipper?
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That would be wrong, wouldn't it?
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That would be injustice.
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See, we're taught early on the difference between
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Justice and injustice.
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We see it today.
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We see so much injustice in our society.
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You know what solomon says?
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He said it doesn't matter if there's justice or injustice.
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He said--"it doesn't make any difference any way,
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We're all gonna die, doesn't matter.
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That's what life is like under the sun, a lack of
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A cry for justice, injustice, makes no difference.
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And then solomon moves from injustice, he moves to success.
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He deals with success.
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He said, "well, maybe success will give meaning."
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Verse 4, he said, "i have seen that every labor and every skill
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Which is done is the result of rivalry between a man
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And his neighbor."
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He said, "this too is meaningless,
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This too is vanity."
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He talks about competitive man, how we compete today.
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I know a man who came to this area many, many, years ago.
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He could speak very poor english.
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He applied to be a dishwasher and the owner of the restaurant
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Said, "you don't speak english well enough."
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He said, "i'll work hard. i'll improve my english."
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He said, "no, i can't hire you."
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And the young teenager looked at him and he said, "sir, one
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Day i'll come and buy this restaurant from you."
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And the owner just shrugged his shoulders and six years went by.
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He got a job washing dishes in another restaurant.
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He saved, he worked. he saved and he worked.
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And finally when things were sort of down in the market and
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Restaurants business was not blooming,
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He walked in a coat, and a suit and tie,
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And talked to the owner, and made him an offer,
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And bought the restaurant.
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And he looked at him said, "do you remember me?"
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He said, "no, we've never met."
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He said, "oh yes, i was the young man that you wouldn't hire
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Me a dishwasher and i told you one day i'd come back
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And buy this restaurant."
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He said, "i just bought it from ya," true story.
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I like competitiveness.
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He's talking about some people work and they're competitive.
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That's their whole life.
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And then he comes and talks to another kind of
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Man on the road to success.
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He said, "the fool folds his hands and consumes
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His own flesh."
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We do an injustice in this country when we provide all
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The means of staying alive to someone who
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Is healthy and strong.
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We take away their dignity, we take away their life,
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And i don't think we ought to help anybody who is healthy and
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Strong as long as there's an unmanned
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Mop or broom anywhere in this area.
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We do it injustice.
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That's not right and that's what solomon's saying.
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He said, "you eat your own flesh at this."
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So, here's a competitive man.
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Here is a person who becomes a lazy man, and
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That's what happened with the idea of entitlement.
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And then he moves he says, verse 6, "one hand
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Full of rest is better than two fists full of labor."
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In other words, he's saying there has to be balance in
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Our vocational endeavor.
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There has to be hard work over here, but there has
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To be rest over here.
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See, that's balance.
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Somebody just works, works, works, works.
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"oh, i'm doing it for the family.
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I'm doing it so we'll have."
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And they wake up one day and say, "oh what's wrong
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With my kids?
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They're so rotten."
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I'll tell you what was wrong, mom or dad weren't there
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When they needed to be there, that's what's wrong.
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They lost balance, work, recreation, recreation, rest
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Work, rest, work, rest.
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He's pointing out the balanced kind of person
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Who moves through life.
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Then he moves and talks about another kind of person,
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Someone who is a soloist, someone who just lives in
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And of himself.
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It's a picture really of the christmas personality scrooge.
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He said, "there was a certain man without a dependent,
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Having neither a son nor a brother, yet there was no end
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To all his labor.
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Indeed, his eyes were not satisfied with riches, he never
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Asked, 'and for whom am i laboring and depriving myself
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Of pleasure?'"
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He just worked all the time,
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Worked all the time, and he accumulated more and more.
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He said, "look i what i've done."
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No reason for it.
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Let me tell you something, ladies and gentlemen,
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Success in the world's eye and failure in the world's
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Eye, they both lie to you.
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And i'll try to say it now.
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I should save it for later but i cannot.
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Success is simply being as best you can where god would have you
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In his plan and his purpose and using his gifts to make
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A difference in this world.
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That is success.
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You can't measure in any kind of tangible way.
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That's what solomon's telling us.
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He talks about injustice. he talks about justice.
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He compares them.
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He said, "well, it really doesn't make
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Any difference in the long run."
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He talks about success, he talks about faith.
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"well, it really doesn't make any difference in the long run.
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Doesn't have any meaning. we're all gonna die."
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And then he moves down, he talks about loneliness.
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Verse 9, "two are better than one because they have
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A good return for their labor.
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For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion.
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But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to
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Lift them up," talking about loneliness.
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It's a difference in being lonely and being alone.
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I spent a long time every week for many,
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Many, many years alone.
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It's a part of my vocation.
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It is what i must do, i have to do.
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Being alone is good, fine, it's healthy, it's
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Invigorating if you know how to handle it.
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Being alone, but it's another thing to be lonely.
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He said, "well, it doesn't matter whether you're lonely or
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Not ultimately because life makes no sense if like is like
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Spitting in the wind."
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Oh solomon, oh solo man.
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Then he comes and talks about popularity
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And he talks about a king.
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He said, "here's an old king who got old and wouldn't
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Listen to anybody else."
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And then he says, "a young king comes along and he listened to
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People, and the old king popularity failed."
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He says, "i've seen all the living under the sun throng to
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The side of the second lad who replaces him."
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He said, "there's no end to all the people,
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To all who were before them, even the ones who will come
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Later will not be happy for him."
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What's he saying?
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Here's somebody in a position of leadership and all of a sudden,
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People turn against him.
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He's not popular.
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Here comes some young person in the leadership,
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Everybody's applauding them but solomon says there'll come a day
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He'll make some wrong decision and they'll boo
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The person they've applauded.
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He said that's the way it is with popularity.
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A hero today, a goat tomorrow. ever played quarterback?
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How many of you've ever played quarterback on a football team,
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Little league, whatever kind?
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You know how it works, doesn't it, folks?
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I'll tell you, "boy, you were great, and what happened
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To you today?
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That was yesterday."
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Ever preach a sermon, "boy, pastor, that was some sermon
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But, boy, this week, the wheels came off."
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You see, we can go from mountaintop to valleys and let
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The world control our destiny and our feeling.
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And solomon says, "you know, it doesn't make any difference
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Whether you're on top or bottom, whether you're a
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Hero or you're being booed."
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He said, "it's all without meaning."
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Boy, solomon is right, except he leaves out the
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Most important thing.
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You can't reckon with life on a flatland, humanistic,
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Secular basis.
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You end up right where solomon is,
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Life is spitting in the wind.
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But when the understanding that the s-o-n from above the s-u-n
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Entered into time and space and gave us the ability to know
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Jesus christ, and we look at those areas of philosophies in
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Life we talk about, we discover that we are chosen and also
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We have to make a choice.
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In jesus christ, we were chosen for god's so loved the world
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That whosoever, that's anybody regardless of circumstances.
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We were chosen and now we have to choose, and
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We choose to receive christ to run my life and i'll not run
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My life, to run your life and you'll not run your life.
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And then all of a sudden, we're in the family of god and all of
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A sudden, all of these things we encounter begin to take on new
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Life and eternal meaning.
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After the beatitudes, matthew 5, all the happy,
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Happy, happy, happy, happy, blessed, blessed, blessed,
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Blessed, blessed, you get there and you know what jesus says?
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He said, "those now who have been chosen
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And they have chosen me to come into their life,"
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He says, "guess what?
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Guess who you are."
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He said, "you are the salt of the earth."
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He says, "you are the light of the world."
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Boy, that is gigantic.
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He said a salt that's lost its flavor--by the way,
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Salt never loses its flavor.
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It uses its flavor when they put a little pinch of salt in a bowl
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Of soup that big, you won't taste the salt, will you?
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So, we are salty as we're in christ, but we lose our
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Tang, our flavor,
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Our thrust of our christian life when it's so watered down with
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So much stuff that we do and we're involved in this world.
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It gets watered down.
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That's what--how salt loses its flavor.
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And what about light? you're the light of the world.
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Take these four things that we're dealing with just in this
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One chapter, and you take someone who is in christ jesus
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And their life is salty and their life turns on the lights.
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Take a salty christian and someone who turns the light
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On in justice, watch injustice run.
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Watch the power brokers who are pushing all the exploitation of
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People get out of the way when we simply turn on the light of
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Our lives and we pour salt in that situation.
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That'll take care of injustice in the name
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Of the lord jesus christ.
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And then you come and you take the next thing that we have.
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Not only was there injustice, there was success.
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"well, i'm not as successful."
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You take success and define it as discovering the will and
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Purpose of god as to where you are and where
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I am, all of a sudden, there is a salty life.
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There is a life that turns lights on, wherever you
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Go illuminates every dark place,
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All of a sudden, that is success that will last here and forever.
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See, the difference when you bring jesus christ in these
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Situations, changes everything, revolutionizes everything,
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Takes things that are passing in transit and makes them permanent
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And eternal because it's a part of the kingdom of god
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Almighty on this earth.
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See, the difference we have?
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And loneliness, can anybody be really lonely when you know
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There's the salt of jesus in your life?
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There's the light of christ lighting up all
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The dark places in your life.
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There's no room for loneliness.
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There's only room for ministry, and meaning, and significance
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As you touch the lives of others.
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Boy, it's such a powerful thing when you take all of this that's
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Solomon is whining about, and doesn't understand,
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And thinks, "i can't make rhyme or reason out of it," and you
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Plug in a salty christian that life
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Is lighted up by jesus christ.
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Let me tell ya something, it's a whole new world there.
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Popularity doesn't make any difference.
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They can boo or cheer, but you're on the team of god
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Almighty and you are salty and you're lighting up everything.
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You know god's a part of your life.
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See what happens when you take him who is above the sun and
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Invite him to come into your life while we're under the sun.
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It takes care of everything and it makes a life that seemingly
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Does not have significance be eternally meaningful.
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You become salty and there's a new flavor and zest to your life
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That absolutely changes everything.
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One important characteristic
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Of salt is that it makes you thirsty.
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When we are living for jesus, we should make
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Other people thirst for him.
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So, let me challenge you to be salty as you influence the
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People in your life.
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And i want to personally thank you for watching today and
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Please join us again next week as we take another exciting,
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Salty step together on "the winning walk."
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - Never Satisfied

November 12, 2025 | 29:0

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