Ed Young - No Guarantees In Life

July 25, 2025 | S25 E178 | 29:0

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Dr. ed young: we're studying a book of sheer philosophy.
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Somebody would say, "well, i came here to study the bible and
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You mean to tell me we're going to study a book that contains
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Sheer philosophy?"
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Absolutely, there's nothing more confusing than to have a lot of
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Answers without any questions.
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The book of ecclesiastes asks the questions the rest of the
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Bible answers.
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The book of ecclesiastes, we need to remember,
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Is the only book in the canon that pictures life without god.
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Solomon, in his twilight years writes his autobiography and we
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See how far he has declined from his early
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Years as king of israel.
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You remember he built a temple.
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You remember in a dream he asks god for wisdom.
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You remember how he started off with humility,
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A worshiper, someone who obeyed and sought
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To please the living god.
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But something happened to him.
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So, he writes the end of life, this thing about philosophy.
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And he tell us the thesis of the book with two giant parenthesis.
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Chapter 1 of ecclesiastes verse 2 he says about life,
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"vanity of vanity, all is vanity."
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That's really a poor translation.
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It should say, "meaninglessness and
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Meaninglessnesses, all is meaningless."
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When you see a singular attached to a plural, you
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Have a superlative.
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In other words, lord of lords would say there's
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No lord above this lord.
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Servant of servants, you have no servant
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Superior to this servant.
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Holy of holies, there's no place more holy than this place.
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And see, we have meaninglessness and meaninglessnesses.
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In other words, life is a void.
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Life is smoke.
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Life has no rhyme, no reason, has no significance,
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No value and therefore solomon said,
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"you don't have any purpose in your life."
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He says this in chapter 1, verse 2 and all the way to end of
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Ecclesiastes chapter 12, verse 8 he repeats the very same phrase.
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So, there is a parenthesis saying life doesn't make sense
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And you can't make sense of life.
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Well, i'm sure that made your day.
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But we proceed how solomon developed this and we understand
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That in this book of sheer philosophy,
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He forces us to answer the big questions of life that the rest
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Of the bible clearly answers.
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I want you to pretend with me for a minute that you got a call
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From your banker say last thursday afternoon about 4
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O'clock and you pick up the phone and your banker says,
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"i've got good news for you.
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Someone who loves you very much is gonna to deposit in your
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Account 86,400 pennies every day.
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Quick math, $846 a day, and that's good.
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Quick math, about $315,000 a year,
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That's real good.
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"and that's gonna be the deposited in
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My account every day?"
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"yes."
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The banker says, "there's one catch to this,
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This person who loves you very much says you must spend all of
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That amount every day.
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Any that you do not spend, goes back to the bank."
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It didn't take you long to figure out,
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"i think i can spend $846 a day.
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I'll have no trouble doing that."
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Now, let's get serious. that was pretend.
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The truth is that someone who loves you and loves me very much
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Deposits every day in our
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Bank of time 86,400 seconds.
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Now, the interesting thing about this deposit of time in your
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Life and in my life is that we can't accumulate it.
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We can't say, "i'm not gonna use this time today.
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I'm gonna save it for another moment."
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Time is like a coin when you spend it, you can't recall it.
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You can't get it back.
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So, how we use that gift that god gives us who loves us very
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Much is exceedingly important.
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Time. by the way, what is time?
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You get a lot of squirrely definitions to that.
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A simple one, i think, it is a measurement of a period.
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That's time.
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Time is something that man has created.
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We create it where that great timepiece that we find in the
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Heavens, the planets, the sun, the moon,
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We want to check the true and accurate time we can look to
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That and see exactly what time it is.
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But when all the planet cease and the moon and the stars go
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Away, there is no more time and we move into timelessness.
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Some of us remember the gospel song it has a little phrase in
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It, "and time shall be no more."
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When we leave this planet and move into eternity,
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There's no more time.
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We move from the finite to the infinite.
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We move from this earth into the heavens.
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And therefore we, in this life, are interested in time and we
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Want to maximize the time that we have on this earth.
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And we use this element, this word "time" all the time.
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"do we have time to do that? it's time to go."
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Time and timing is very important.
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There's a time to buy stock and there's a time to sell stock,
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Not that i do either one.
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Years ago, i had a little bit of money,
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Couple of thousand dollars and i bought high and sold low.
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I never again went to the las vegas that's called the market.
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So, time is everything.
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When your company is in trouble, don't go to your boss and say,
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"i need a raise."
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Poor timing. there's a time that we invest.
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There's a time that we use and time involves timing.
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It means everything.
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We're sick and we don't go to the doctor.
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If we'd gone, we'd got a diagnosis,
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We'd got well a lot sooner.
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You see, time and timing and this whole section,
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Whole section of ecclesiastes about time, this third chapter.
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We've already looked at the first chapter,
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If you've missed that, ecclesiastes starts off with
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Great pessimism and he says, "everything repeats itself.
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Life is circular, thesis, antithesis,
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Synthesis, thesis, antithesis, synthesis,
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Everything just repeats itself.
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And in chapter 2 solomon says, "well,
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Time and life is meaninglessness.
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It has no meaning but," he says, "i've tried everything."
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How many people who've ever lived could stand up and say,
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"i've tried everything you could try to make sense out of life"?
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Not many people have the capacity or the ability to do
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That but solomon did and finally he comes to the same conclusion.
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He came to 35 different times in the book of ecclesiastes life
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Makes no sense.
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It is without meaning. it is without significance.
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It's without value.
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Chapter 1, chapter 2, now we come to chapter 3 and here he
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Begins with this interesting, interesting verse,
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Verse 1, he says, "there's an appointed time for everything.
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And there is a time for every event under the sun."
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He brings us back to time and timeliness and then through
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Verse 8, he gives us a philosophy of time, t-i-m-e.
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Now understand something, solomon is looking at this world
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From a fat land perspective.
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He's looking at this world only under the sun.
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He's looking at this world only to sense what you can see,
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And feel, and touch, and understand.
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He's looking at a flat world.
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In his survey, he doesn't look above the sun.
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Ladies and gentlemen, live out your life under the sun with no
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Sense of a transcendent god and i'll tell you,
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You'll come up, sooner or later according to capacity,
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To the same conclusion that solomon had,
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There's no meaning.
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There's no value. it doesn't last.
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You're just a pebble on the seashore of history.
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But then he gives us the verses that we all remember and he has
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These 14 couplets of contrast.
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Time to be born, a time to die, a time to speak,
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A time to be silent.
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Boy, i wish i knew when to speak, when to be silent.
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But there's all these seasons and he takes us through these
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14 different couplets.
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The first four if you look at them,
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They deal with a body.
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The next four deal with a soul. the last six deal with a spirit.
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Listen to them, it's a philosophy of time.
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He said there's, "a time to give birth,
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A time to die; a time to plant, a time to uproot
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What is planted.
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A time to kill, a time to heal; a time to tear down,
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A time to build up.
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A time to weep and a time to laugh;
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A time to mourn and a time to dance.
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A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones;
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A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.
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A time to search and a time to give up as lost;
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A time to keep and a time to throw away.
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A time to tear apart and a time to sew together;
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A time to be silent, a time to speak.
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A time to love and a time to hate;
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A time for war and a time for peace."
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We're familiar with those words, they're the most--that's the
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Most familiar passage in all of the book of ecclesiastes and
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He's saying how important it is time,
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And timing and even now solomon begins to get some sense.
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Look what he says in verse 11.
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He says, "he has made," he's talking about god now.
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"he has made everything beautiful in its time.
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He's also said eternity in their heart."
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Verse 12 he says, "i know that there's nothing better for to us
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Do than to rejoice."
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In verse 13 he says, "it is a gift of god."
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Verse 14 he says, "fear him," that means to worship him.
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So now, solomon, who's been so pessimistic,
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Sort of looks a little bit about god and is not a clear
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Understanding of god.
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Somehow he had compromised everything.
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He had sort of a god that was a hybrid god,
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Not jehovah, not yahweh, not elohim.
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He had lost that. how'd he lose it?
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I think all the woman he married,
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Oh yeah, because they brought their pagan
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Religions into the land.
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They built altars on top of all those hills and solomon,
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In order to keep them happy, would go up and worship them,
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All the gods and goddesses and therefore he gradually moved
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Away from generally worshiping the true and living god.
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That's when somebody says, "well,
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At least they worship allah god."
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No, allah is a million miles from the god we know in jesus
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Christ, make no mistake about it.
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And that's exactly what these gods are even with solomon.
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He just went away.
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He moved away, not consciously or rationally.
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When i was a freshman, university of alabama,
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My first sunday i went to sunday school in church as a freshman.
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I'd done it all my life, that's what i did.
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The next sunday, you know, i was tired,
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I had a hard week and i just went to church.
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The next sunday, you know, i went to church but i got there
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Late just in time for them singing the invitational hymn,
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"just as i am."
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Next sunday i didn't go. next sunday i didn't go.
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The third sunday i felt guilty and i went just to church,
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And then i just quit going to church.
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That's what happens, isn't it?
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Just sort of gradually we move out,
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We move away and that's what happened to solomon.
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He picked up all these other gods and goddesses,
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Began to worship, trying to please all these wives to keep
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International relations intact.
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All of a sudden, he'd wondered away from the true and living
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God but now he sees life is without meaning,
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But there is little hope because a semblance of the true god just
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Kind of reaches down from heaven and he said,
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"i want you to know even though life's without meaning,
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Boy, there's beauty in life.
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And i want you to know that life is a gift of god.
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And i want you to know we are to fear him,
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And that means we are to worship him."
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Remember human beings are the only animals that worship god.
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I love my dog winston but food, affection,
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And play, that's as far as he goes.
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He has no semblance of worship. he has no semblance of death.
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He just food, play, affection, that's it.
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You see, we are distinctive as human beings.
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We're made in the image of god and somehow solomon had lost and
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Blurred that image out but he has little glimpses here of a
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Life that has meaning and he shares all this with us.
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You can look at it.
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He talks about, "i know, i know."
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You see in verse 13, i know, verse 14, "i know."
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Verse 10 he says, "i have seen."
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He says in verse 16, "i have seen."
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In 17 he says, "i said to myself."
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Eighteen he said, "i said to myself."
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Twenty-two he says, "i have seen."
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What's he doing?
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He is saying, "here's all of the philosophy of time,
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A time for this, a time for that," and he says,
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"that's the sovereignty of god."
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In other words, this is how god operates life in this world
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Under the sun but then he has little glimpses
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That god's a part of this.
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Everything's beautiful in its own way.
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And then that tremendous verse, "god has planted
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Eternity in our hearts."
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Everybody here, whoever you are, god has planted eternity in your
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Heart, and solomon sees that until finally he comes to the
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End of the chapter and he asks a question and it's such
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An important question.
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He says the last phrase, he said,
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"i have seen that nothing is better than that man should be
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Happy in his activities, for that is his lot."
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Here's the question, "for who will bring him to see
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What will occur after him?"
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In other words, after all is said and done and we leave this
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Life, who knows what will happen after that?
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Big question, is it not, ladies and gentlemen?
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Big, big question.
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Zack parrish, brought up in our church,
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Tremendous teenager, parents sold out to christ,
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Finished school, went to college,
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Got married, had two little girls,
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Was a banker in denver, colorado.
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Didn't like banking.
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He felt he was called to make a difference in law enforcement.
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He went and trained and became a policeman on the staff of the
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Police department there in denver, colorado.
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And it was on december the 31 i got a call early in the morning
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That broke my heart.
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Zack had been killed while investigating what was
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Supposedly a domestic violence call with his team of policemen,
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But it was a setup.
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They were ambushed.
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The call came there through tears,
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My tears were added to it, that zack had been killed.
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I talked to mother and dad as they were driving up there.
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They were devastated.
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They had his funeral, which was put online all across america.
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You probably read it in the newspaper about it.
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It went online around the world.
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In that funeral, they gave a clear witness of what a
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Tremendous christian this young police officer was,
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What a dynamic life, and they explained how the gospel says to
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Be absent from the body here is to be present with
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The lord there.
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And it came through tears, and celebration,
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And a presentation to the gospel.
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Present in that funeral service was an atheist who had a room
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Above the little apartment where zack had been killed and he
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Said, "as an atheist, i went just sort of out of respect."
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And he said, "but in that service,
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I understood," he said, "for the first time,
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That there is a god, that he loves us,
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That his son died so i may be forgiven and have new life."
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And he became a glorious born-again christian in a
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Memorial service for zack.
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More than that, his mother, who is on my team,
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His mother and dad said they received hundreds of all kind,
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Emails, correspondence from people all over america and all
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Around the world that observed that funeral and said they
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Understood what it means to really live with jesus christ.
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So, they said, you know, this is their words,
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"jesus christ gave his only son.
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Everybody thought the devil had won,
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Evil had conquered on the cross, but he took the cross and evil
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And turned it into the power for salvation for the world,
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But it cost him his only son."
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And they said, "this has cost us our only son zack,
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And it was done absolutely by evil
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People with evil intentions."
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But he said, "if that's what it takes for these dozens,
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Hundreds that come to know jesus christ,
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I understand it." that's from his parents.
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Now, i want you to notice something,
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The 11th verse in this chapter it talks about
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What has will be again.
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It says simply, god does not leave anything unfinished.
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If a life is shortened, there'll be a time in which that time
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Will be fulfilled in heaven.
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Anything that's broken here, he will heal there.
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The garden of eden will come back into existence,
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There'll be a new heaven and a new earth.
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And by the way, what is science?
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Science is simply memories of the past,
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Write that down.
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Science is memories of the past.
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You say, "well, i don't understand that."
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Geology is simply a memory of the earth.
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Astronomy is simply a memory of the universe.
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History is simply a memory of the human race.
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Everything ever that has taken place is written down on heaven,
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On earth, in the mind and heart of god,
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And it will all be restored fully and completely in that way
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When god comes and revisits earth in the second coming of
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Jesus christ.
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God doesn't have any unfinished symphonies.
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He doesn't have anything that started and didn't seek it all
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The way into completion.
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He completes all this and i'll tell you the brevity of zack's
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Life will be totally completed and it will all go.
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And the moral here is we use our platform because whatever
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Happens, let's answer this question,
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"well, who knows," asks solomon," what's gonna
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Happen in all of this?"
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I'm gonna give you the answer to that the apostle paul gave and
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God gives us in the latter part of romans chapter 8,
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And romans 8 undoubtedly is one of the greatest books in
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All the bible.
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Let me give you an answer to that.
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He says, "what then shall we say to these things?
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If god is with us, who or what can be against us?
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He who did not spare his own son,
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But delivered him over for us all,
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How will he not also with him freely give us all things?
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Who will separate us from the love of christ?"
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That's the question he asks.
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"will tribulation, distress, persecution,
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Famine, nakedness, peril, or sword?
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Just as it is written, for your sake we are being put to death
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All day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
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But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through
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Him who loved us.
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For i am convinced that neither death,
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Nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
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Nor things present, nor things to come,
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Nor powers, nor height, nor depth,
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Nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from
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The love of god, which is in christ jesus our lord."
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Pastor ed: everybody in the world is hungry for something
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That gives them assurance about the future and comfort about
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What we are facing right today.
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What all of us are looking for can only be found in god's word.
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That's why now's the time to do all we can to share the proven
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Truth of scripture with as many people as possible.
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And so, with a gift today which will be worth double
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Thanks to a special matching grant, we can help millions
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Through the broadcast and resources of "the winning walk"
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And it's a winning walk, as you know, with jesus christ.
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I'm excited about today, i'm excited about tomorrow,
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And thank you for your contribution, for your prayers.
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We scatter seeds of god's truth everywhere
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And lives are changed.
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Congratulations, thank you for being a part
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Of "the winning walk" family.
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Dr. young: how long is your shadow?
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The closer you get to jesus, the longer and wider your
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Shadow will become.
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As we learned in today's study, our lives gained significance
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When we use our influence to be a blessing to others.
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In other words, we use the platform god has given us to
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Stand for him and make him known in your family,
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In your business, among your friends,
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While you're doing recreation or recreation.
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That's when our shadow begins to express itself.
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While we cannot know how long our time will be on this earth,
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We can use each day wisely.
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When you and i live each day for him,
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Our shadow grows wider and longer and as we influence
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People in ways that glorify him.
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Do you need prayer today? call the number on your screen.
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We're willing to prayer with you and share with you how you can
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Have a life that counts for god and when you do that in ways you
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Can't even imagine, your shadow will go in directions,
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"boy, i didn't know i touched that life,
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I influenced that person.
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I made a difference there."
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With christ in you and christ in me,
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That shadow just has power now and power forever.
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Be sure to join me again next week right here on "the winning
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Walk" as we discover our walk casts a very influential shadow.
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - No Guarantees In Life

July 25, 2025 | S25 E178 | 29:0

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