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Ed Young - Once Was Lost

December 22, 2025 | 29:0

Ed Young - Once Was Lost
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Once Was Lost | December 22, 2025
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  • Ed young: uber made a list of everything that was left
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  • In their automobiles this past year.
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  • Listen: an 8-week-old chihuahua puppy, full set of 18-karat gold
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  • Teeth, birth certificate, social security card, a babe ruth
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  • Signed baseball, a bird, a mannequin, full fish tank with
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  • Fish and water, one gucci flip-flop, 10 pounds of pulled
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  • Pork and 10 pounds of pulled chicken, and deer antlers.
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  • This is what was left last year in the uber automobiles that
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  • People had rented and left.
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  • All over the world, there are lost-and-found departments.
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  • Businesses, schools, churches, any time you have a group of
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  • People coming together, always things are left behind that are
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  • Put in the lost-and-found area of that particular entity.
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  • And all of them have three classifications: valuable,
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  • Non-valuable, and perishable.
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  • Lost and found.
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  • It is a giant business in atlanta.
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  • They have a warehouse that is tremendously large and packed
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  • With baggage that people have lost on all of our airlines.
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  • And you can go in there and buy some very interesting and some
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  • Very valuable things, relatively cheap.
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  • Lost and found.
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  • We're going to study "lost and found" in the next 2 or 3 weeks.
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  • Luke chapter 15 is a whole study of lost and found.
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  • People get lost, things get lost.
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  • It's a whole part of the world in which we live.
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  • And jesus addressed that very clearly in this most powerful
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  • Chapter in the bible.
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  • In fact, if i had to list the biggest chapters in the bible,
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  • Luke 15 would be one of them.
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  • Genesis 1, romans 8, different psalms, revelation 20, okay, but
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  • This chapter belongs there because it speaks right to where
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  • You and i are.
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  • We know about lostness.
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  • When my son, ed, was a toddler, we went to visit a family in our
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  • Church that had a farm and out on that farm there were
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  • Kids playing.
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  • Ed was a part of that, but he kept wandering off in the woods
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  • And i'd go over and bring him back and then he would go off in
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  • The woods and i would go and bring him back.
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  • There's a wooded area close to where the kids were playing
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  • Outside and finally he wandered off in the woods and i just let
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  • Him go.
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  • I went out with him.
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  • He didn't see me.
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  • I stayed behind trees.
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  • He just wandered off, wandered off, wander around behind
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  • This tree.
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  • Went over here, picked up something, just wandered around.
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  • I just said, "i'm gonna let him wander."
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  • And he wandered around for a long period of time until
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  • He turned around and i'd see him run this way and run that way
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  • And finally he began to whimper and i went over to him and i
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  • Looked at him and he said, "ed's lost."
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  • And i picked him up, as a father.
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  • We get lost, we get lost.
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  • Interesting thing in the bible.
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  • Jesus didn't talk as much about sin as he did about losses.
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  • I could stand anybody up here and say, "you're a sinner,"
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  • And we'd go, "we're all sinners.
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  • No problem with that."
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  • But if i stood you up and said, "you're lost," the word "lost"
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  • Has a ring to it and a feeling and an emotion to it that we
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  • Don't like to apprehend.
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  • We don't like to think that could i be lost?
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  • Could you be lost?
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  • So, we have this tremendous chapter in luke chapter 15 that
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  • Jesus tells us how people get lost and what god does about it.
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  • Open your bibles to luke 15, verse number 1: "then all the
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  • Tax collectors and the sinners drew near to jesus to hear him.
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  • And the pharisees and scribes complained, saying, 'this man
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  • Receives sinners and eats with them.'"
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  • Now, that's the context.
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  • Here are the pharisees who are religious people, the scribes,
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  • The head of religious entourage of that day, and here they were
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  • Listening to jesus and they noticed that all the riff-raff,
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  • All the untouchables, all of those who were not religious,
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  • All the pagans, all the heathens, all those who did not
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  • Go to the synagogue, did not go to the temple, they were the tax
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  • Collectors, the bad element of society, the underbelly, and
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  • They were hearing jesus and gathering around jesus and these
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  • Political religious leaders said, "he not only accepts them
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  • And befriends them, but he even sits down to eat with them.
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  • Have you ever seen somebody sits down to eat with
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  • People like this?"
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  • And the word there in the greek is there was murmuring,
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  • Murmuring, complaining.
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  • I've heard some of that.
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  • Murmuring, murmuring.
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  • How did jesus defend himself?
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  • He gave three parables.
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  • Remember we're studying parables?
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  • And a parable is a earthly principle with
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  • Heavenly ramifications.
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  • But more than that, parable means you throw something down,
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  • It means you throw it out.
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  • And jesus answered this murmuring about him running
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  • Around with the wrong crowd and he just threw down on them.
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  • But he did it by telling three stories.
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  • And in those three stories, he talks about the whole theme of
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  • Luke chapter number 15, is lost and found.
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  • Verse 4, he says: "what man of you," talking to the crowd,
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  • "having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not
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  • Leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one
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  • That's lost until he finds it?
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  • And when he has found it, he lays it on his
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  • Shoulders, rejoicing.
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  • And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and
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  • Neighbors, saying to them, 'rejoice with me, for i have
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  • Found my sheep which was lost!'
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  • I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over
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  • One sinner who repents," big word, "than over the ninety-nine
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  • Persons who need no repentance."
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  • So what is god doing here?
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  • What is jesus saying to these pharisees, religious and
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  • Political leaders because it was all combined in that day.
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  • Remember israel was a theocracy, and what does he say?
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  • How did those sheep get lost?
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  • Through, what? think about it.
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  • Sheep, dumb animal, basically, with a big herd of 100 sheep.
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  • By the way, if you had 100 sheep, you were a rich person.
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  • I mean, sheep were very valuable.
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  • If you had 100 sheep, you were a rich man in that day.
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  • And now just 1%, 1 gets lost.
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  • How did that sheep get lost?
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  • Through foolishness.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, fools get lost all the time.
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  • Have you noticed that?
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  • But jesus was a good shepherd.
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  • I don't think there's any title that was given to jesus that's
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  • More prominent than the idea of being a good shepherd, because
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  • A good shepherd had to defend those sheep, had to be willing
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  • To die to keep those sheep from being consumed by wolves and
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  • Lions and bears who were all over israel in that day.
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  • Lost through foolishness.
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  • Some people right here, hearing my voice, are lost right now
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  • Through foolishness.
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  • Let me expand this a little bit.
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  • The united states of america right now is lost
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  • Through foolishness.
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  • Lost.
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  • You can be lost, i can be lost.
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  • Our nation is lost right now in this moment in history.
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  • And i will debate with any living person that point.
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  • We know it, we see it, we understand it.
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  • Lost to foolishness, led by fools who are incompetent.
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  • It's unbelievable.
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  • You can cure everything else but godlessness by passing laws
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  • And regulations.
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  • And now we see how many far countries are there around,
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  • You drink a glass of wine every night with your wife and
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  • Husband, you're in a far country.
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  • You wanna debate that?
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  • You spend time in the back room of the club you belong to,
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  • Day after day, you're in a far country.
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  • Wanna debate that?
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  • You go to las vegas or a convention and you put down all
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  • Your sexual morals and you wake up in a far country.
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  • How many husbands have i said-- come back and said, "you know,
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  • I've never done this before, but i have a sexually transmitted
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  • Disease that i've given my wife.
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  • We're in a far country."
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  • "oh, i pad my expense account, but everybody does it.
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  • They expect it."
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  • You're in a far country.
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  • And when we step into far country, i'm a fool and you're
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  • A fool and we're guilty of foolishness.
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  • That's what luke 15 tells us.
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  • Lost, those sheep, to foolishness.
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  • But there's more loss that's here.
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  • "or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin,
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  • Does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully
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  • Until she finds it?
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  • And when she found it, she calls her friends and neighbors
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  • Together, saying, 'rejoice with me, for i have found the piece
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  • Which i lost!'
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  • Likewise, i say to you, there is joy in the presence of the
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  • Angels of god over one sinner who returned."
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  • How did the woman lose that coin?
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  • Through carelessness.
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  • Sheep lost through foolishness.
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  • They just wandered off gradually.
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  • That's happened to us.
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  • Now, this woman lost through-- what were those ten coins that
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  • She would wear?
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  • A woman would wear ten coins on her head.
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  • It would be like a wedding ring and they were prized.
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  • Not the value of the coins worth, like, 20 cents.
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  • But now she was busy doing other things and evidently she forgot
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  • Her marriage.
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  • That's the symbol there.
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  • Anybody like that?
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  • Marriages are breaking up because the husband does not
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  • Truly cherish the wife, and the wife does not cheer for
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  • The husband, and because they are not humble enough to realize
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  • This is the sacred human relationship that god himself
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  • Has established.
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  • Let me tell you something, marriages are getting lost
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  • Because inattentiveness, because of carelessness, because the
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  • Wife doesn't get first place, the husband is put down the
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  • Line, we're just bored with one another.
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  • How insane and unbiblical and godless that is.
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  • This is the sacred institution.
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  • And i've talked to hundreds of people who have gone through
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  • Divorces and, almost without exception, they say if i'd only
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  • Not done this, if i'd only been humble enough, i would not go
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  • Through this terrible, terrible moment in my life.
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  • Loss, through carelessness, inattentiveness.
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  • Oh, yeah, that's what that woman was.
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  • But she searched, the good shepherd searched.
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  • And then you have another kind of lostness here.
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  • "and when he said: 'a certain man,'" verse 11.
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  • "'a certain man had two sons, and the younger of them said
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  • To the father, "father, give me the portion of goods that
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  • Falls to me."
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  • So he divided them his livelihood.
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  • And not many days after, the younger son gathered all
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  • Together, and journeyed to a far country.'"
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  • Those far countries are not far away, are they, folks?
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  • No, no, no, they're right here.
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  • But look at the end of that thing.
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  • "'but the father said to his servants,'" his son came back,
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  • "'"bring out the best robe, put it on him, and a ring in his
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  • Hand and sandals for his feet.
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  • And bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and be
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  • Merry; for my son was dead and is alive again; he is lost and
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  • Found," and they began to have a party.'"
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  • I tell you something.
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  • God doesn't work the same way in everybody's life.
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  • Have you noticed that?
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  • He doesn't work the same way in all the lostness here.
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  • In the first example of lostness, we dealt with it there
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  • With a shepherd who just got lost, the shepherd who went
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  • After that lost sheep.
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  • The sheep got lost through foolishness, was a fool.
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  • Led the protection of the herd, protection of the shepherd,
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  • Was a fool.
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  • What happened?
  • 00:15:04.883 --> 00:15:06.218
  • That shepherd looked and looked and looked and didn't give up.
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  • Oh, just 1% lost.
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  • He had 100 sheep.
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  • Though, didn't give up until he found that lost sheep and picked
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  • Him up and put him on his shoulders and carried him
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  • All the way back.
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  • That is god seeking you and seeking me, wherever you are,
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  • And whatever i am.
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  • He said, "man, i wanna take you home.
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  • I wanna pick you up.
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  • I wanna carry you.
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  • I wanna turn you around.
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  • I want you to be back in the flock."
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  • God is a shepherd who goes out and looks for all of us when we
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  • Get lost, and he's tenacious.
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  • The woman lost that coin, evidently represented her
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  • Marriage, her marriage ring, and she wanted to go back and the
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  • Woman looked and looked and by the way, in those little houses,
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  • It would be dark in a-- in a israeli house at that time.
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  • In the daytime, they had only one door, probably no windows,
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  • And they did dirt for a floor and they put different kinds of
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  • Straw, different kinds of reeds and easily, she could have been
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  • Working, and that ring, that symbol of marriage, could have
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  • Get lost.
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  • And she looked and looked and swept and swept.
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  • She went out and found that lost coin.
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  • That's the way god is.
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  • Like a shepherd looked, like that woman knowing, i want my
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  • Marriage to be strong.
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  • I wanna put my flag up that i've been in a covenant relationship
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  • With a man, looked and looked until she found it.
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  • And there were celebration, celebration.
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  • Oh, well, what about that prodigal son?
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  • Whoa, he went to his daddy and said, "i want all the
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  • Inheritance i have coming to me," and saying, "i'm sick
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  • Of this place.
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  • I'm sick of you.
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  • I'm sick of my older brother and i want to get out of here and
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  • Live my life of pleasure and hedonism and run everything."
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  • And so the father gave him one-third of his inheritance.
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  • The older son would get two-thirds, in that day; the
  • 00:17:01.767 --> 00:17:05.537
  • Younger son would get one-third.
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  • And this wealthy, wealthy father gave that boy one-third
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  • And that boy took off and said, "i'm free.
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  • I can do what i wanna do.
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  • I can see who i wanna see, i can live the way i wanna live.
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  • Man, i'm out of here," and he went to the far country.
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  • But notice something.
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  • The father never went after him to bring him back.
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  • Notice that.
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  • The shepherd went back to bring him back, bring back that
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  • Lost sheep.
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  • The woman went out and sweeped and sweeped to find that coin.
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  • But the father didn't.
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  • God calls us to come back different ways, doesn't he?
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  • We have different personalities.
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  • Some like a good shepherd, some like that woman.
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  • God seeks us and brings things in your life, in my life, and
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  • A thought in my mind, a thought in your mind, and adventure
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  • In our life, to bring us back.
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  • He seeks us, he calls us, he loves us.
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  • He encourages us.
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  • He convicts us.
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  • He tells us we're lost, come on back.
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  • But other times, like the father of the prodigal, god doesn't
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  • Do that.
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  • What did he let the prodigal do?
  • 00:18:14.873 --> 00:18:17.176
  • He let the prodigal go out and sow all his wild seeds, deal
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  • With all of his prostitutes, fleece so many people in
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  • Business, whatever he did in the far country, he just lets him go
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  • And do it, knowing that in his losses, he will go back to
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  • Garbage and hedonism and total pleasure, that his sin would
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  • Deal with him.
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  • And he would have to wake up and discover who he was, on his own.
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  • Because, let me tell you something.
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  • When you do wrong and i do wrong, and i sin, and you sin,
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  • Sin pain has a payday itself, doesn't it?
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  • Yeah, we pay for that.
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  • And that's how god works there.
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  • He works different ways to bring us home, doesn't he?
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  • Sometime he seeks us.
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  • Man, god seeks me, he seeks you, because he's a good shepherd.
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  • But sometimes god just says, "have at it.
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  • Go ahead.
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  • Just sow all your wild oats you want to sow.
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  • Go to las vegas, it's all right."
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  • Do all those things that would describe you and me as lost.
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  • And in the deeds that we don't do and the deeds that we do when
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  • We're away from god, there is a turning around and a repentance
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  • That we have to come to ourselves, as the prodigal did.
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  • As a nation, there's only one thing that can save us.
  • 00:19:41.627 --> 00:19:47.933
  • Only one thing they can say: "peter, well, you gotta
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  • Come together."
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  • Listen, darkness and light can never come together.
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  • Good and evil can never come together.
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  • Compromise is not there.
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  • Compromise is not there.
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  • If you think it is, you are a part of the foolishness and part
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  • Of the carelessness of this world.
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  • There is not compromise there.
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  • Not between darkness and light.
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  • Light eliminates darkness.
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  • And that woman lit that candle.
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  • That's a symbol of the light of jesus christ that we have in our
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  • Life, in our world, and a little glimmer of it in our society.
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  • What's the answer?
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  • A pastor was speaking in haiti and he gave this parable.
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  • He said there was a man and a woman who had a house that
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  • Was worth $4000.
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  • He put it in the market for $4000.
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  • A poor man came and said he wanted to buy it, but he
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  • Couldn't afford it.
  • 00:20:38.750 --> 00:20:40.085
  • Finally, they negotiated.
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  • And the man who owned the house said, "i will sell it
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  • For this price.
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  • But i want to keep one nail in that house for myself."
  • 00:20:45.724 --> 00:20:50.095
  • And he drove a nail over the front door of the house.
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  • Just one nail.
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  • He said, he sold the house to the man.
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  • He said, "i'll keep ownership of that one nail."
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  • Years went by and the man who did own the house wanted
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  • To buy it back.
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  • The man said, "oh no, i bought it from you.
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  • It's mine. i'm not gonna sell it to you."
  • 00:21:08.814 --> 00:21:11.450
  • So the man who still owned that one nail went and killed
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  • An animal and hung it on that nail over the front door.
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  • Flies came, ants came, buzzards would hover around a tree.
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  • Rats would crawl up and suddenly they'd open the door
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  • And stench would go.
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  • And finally with all those varmints and then all around
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  • Those dead rotting animals over the front door, the house was
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  • Not livable because that man used that one nail
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  • To make it inhabitable.
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  • You keep one nail or attitude in your life or in my life and the
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  • Evil one will hang enough garbage on that in time that
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  • Jesus christ cannot live in the habitation of your life,
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  • Which is his house.
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  • We've got to start here and figure out in any way are we
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  • Lost and deal with that before god.
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  • That's where you start.
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  • What's the ad for america?
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  • A great awakening.
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  • You know what that was in history?
  • 00:22:20.285 --> 00:22:23.021
  • 1730, 1740, george whitefield came over here, a methodist,
  • 00:22:23.021 --> 00:22:28.326
  • And he called things the way they were.
  • 00:22:28.326 --> 00:22:30.195
  • He said, "the colonies with your humanism, with your godlessness,
  • 00:22:30.195 --> 00:22:34.433
  • With your immorality, with your competition.
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  • You're not gonna survive unless you confess your sin and turn
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  • From sin and let jesus christ run your life."
  • 00:22:41.273 --> 00:22:44.476
  • And he preached that to people everywhere.
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  • Even benjamin franklin, who is a deist, went and heard whitefield
  • 00:22:46.678 --> 00:22:50.515
  • Every time he could.
  • 00:22:50.515 --> 00:22:51.850
  • And there was a great awakening in the churches and revival and
  • 00:22:51.850 --> 00:22:55.320
  • People were crying and coming to christ.
  • 00:22:55.320 --> 00:22:57.656
  • And that is the basic foundation upon which the revolution took
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  • Place and we found our freedom.
  • 00:23:02.060 --> 00:23:04.196
  • It came on the heels of the great awakening in the colonies
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  • Of the united states.
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  • Unless we have an awakening like that, ladies and gentlemen, i
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  • Hate to be pessimistic, i hate to be negative, i don't think
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  • America will stand any more than israel stood as they rejected
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  • Every authentic voice of god.
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  • I love this land.
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  • I love america. oh, do i.
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  • God has blessed america as we've sung and prayed
  • 00:23:44.369 --> 00:23:46.471
  • So many times, but we haven't used our blessings to deal with
  • 00:23:46.471 --> 00:23:52.410
  • The lostness in our society.
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  • We're lost through foolishness, fools.
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  • We get lost through carelessness.
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  • We just don't pay attention, like the woman who lost
  • 00:24:04.055 --> 00:24:08.293
  • The coin.
  • 00:24:08.293 --> 00:24:10.061
  • And we're lost through selfishness, like the prodigal
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  • Son who said, "i want my pleasure.
  • 00:24:14.266 --> 00:24:17.836
  • I don't care about dad or country or anything else.
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  • I just want my pleasure."
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  • That has been for a long time, folks, the basic broad agenda
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  • Of the united states.
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  • Unless we repent, take those nails, those little things out
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  • Of your life and my life where the evil one hangs so much
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  • Garbage on.
  • 00:24:43.395 --> 00:24:46.064
  • And then we pray and get on our knees and our face and say,
  • 00:24:46.064 --> 00:24:50.235
  • "oh god, awaken us.
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  • Send your revival, a great awakening."
  • 00:24:54.139 --> 00:24:58.043
  • And that, ladies and gentlemen, my brothers and my sister, is
  • 00:24:58.043 --> 00:25:01.680
  • The only formula for america to be revived and turn their hearts
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  • And lives over to god in jesus christ.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Ed: we have so much to be thankful for.
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  • And i wanna thank you for your faithfulness, your generosity,
  • 00:25:21.399 --> 00:25:24.469
  • Your prayers as part of the "winning walk" family.
  • 00:25:24.469 --> 00:25:27.939
  • And we want to enter 2026 strong, ready to reach even more
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  • People with the life-changing good news of jesus christ.
  • 00:25:32.677 --> 00:25:36.948
  • We live in an embattled culture.
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  • Now is the time for boldness.
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  • I believe that together we can finish the year strong and be
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  • Ready to start in 2026 with strength and boldness
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  • In sharing the truth of jesus christ
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  • To a dark and hungry world.
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  • Thank you again for boldly giving and
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  • Standing with "the winning walk," with me through
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  • Your prayers and support.
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  • God bless you, and your end of the year gift will be used
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  • To maintain and expand god's family around the world.
  • 00:26:07.712 --> 00:26:13.585
  • Ed: you and i have a problem. it's a sin problem.
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  • When adam sinned in the garden of eden, his spirit became
  • 00:26:18.890 --> 00:26:21.760
  • Filled with the poison of sin and it continues to operate in
  • 00:26:21.760 --> 00:26:26.197
  • Your life and my life today.
  • 00:26:26.197 --> 00:26:28.333
  • You see, we are natural born sinners, but when we confess our
  • 00:26:28.333 --> 00:26:32.904
  • Sin and turn from it and receive jesus christ, what happens?
  • 00:26:32.904 --> 00:26:37.742
  • The holy spirit lives in us and we begin to mature in our faith.
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  • We grow up.
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  • This is the process of sanctification: maturing,
  • 00:26:43.615 --> 00:26:47.485
  • Growing up in christ, and seeing our lives bear fruit for god and
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  • For his kingdom.
  • 00:26:51.823 --> 00:26:53.958
  • We want to help you experience this kind of victorious living
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  • In your own life.
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  • Listen, call the number on your screen.
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  • We have godly men and women just waiting to take your call.
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  • And thank you for joining us today.
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  • And i look forward to our time together next time on
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  • "the winning walk."
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  • ♪♪♪
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