Ed Young - Overcome Evil with Good

May 14, 2026 | 27:29

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Overcome Evil with Good | May 14, 2026

We go to the cross.
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We don't say, you know, i wonder how long the arms
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Crossed. you know, how many, how many feet.
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How long will the arms of the cross wouldn't do that?
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Because the cross won't say.
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You know, i wonder how much that cross ways i did
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Is pretty heavy, but would dare i wonder how much it ways
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We don't do that.
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We go to the cross.
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We just want to know, is that cross high enough
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To reach the heaven?
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During the second world war,
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Only one us general was captured.
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General jonathan wainwright
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Was captured by the japanese.
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He was placed into a prison camp
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In mongolia.
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When the war ended,
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Had one
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Peace treaty was signed
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The way in mongolia.
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They had no way of communication.
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So a period of time went by, and
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The general there in captivity knew nothing about it.
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The japanese there in that prison encampment knew
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Nothing about it, until finally an american plane
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Landed near by in an airfield.
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An officer walked over there to the prison camp,
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And there was general wainwright, now
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Crippled with a cane.
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The years of being
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There as a prisoner of war taking his toll.
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And this officer went outside
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The base and saluted the general.
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And he said, the japanese
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Have surrendered.
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Wainwright returned and began
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To hobble to the office of the commandant there.
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The prison camp.
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And he went in
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And he looked at the japanese officer,
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And he said, my commander in chief
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Has defeated your commander in chief.
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I am in control.
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I order you to surrender to me.
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And the officer did.
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Wainwright took over that
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Prison, and subsequently
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All the prisoners were set free.
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We've been studying evil,
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And i want to announce
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That there's still some mopping up operations to go.
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And the news hadn't been clearly broadcast.
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But jesus christ on the cross won
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The victory forever.
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Back in 1987,
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Some were not even born then.
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Some of you may remember
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That little barge
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Just full of garbage,
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Some 3,000 pounds of garbage
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That set sail from long island, remember,
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Was going to find a place to dump the garbage.
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Now the whole story has come out.
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Evidently some kind of mafia
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Don there in new york
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Had worked up a scheme with the
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His mafia equivalent in louisiana,
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And the plan was to take the garbage
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From that township, put in that little barge.
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It was to sail all the way down the east coast
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And go into louisiana, and dumped all the garbage
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Into the swamp there, into the marsh.
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I hear their swamps in louisiana,
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And the
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Deal was that that would produce methane gas,
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And they have a way of
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Capturing that gas and they would sell it.
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Half the profits would go to the crooks
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In louisiana, and half the profits
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Would go to the crooks in new york,
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And they would continue this process.
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But something happened.
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The louisiana connection
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Didn't come through, and the barge had already left.
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Long island was in route, and now the barge had to find
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Someplace to unload the garbage problem,
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And they tried to unload it in virginia.
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They tried to unload it in north carolina.
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And then the media got an odor of this scheme.
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Just the media began to smell something rotten.
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That's back when the media could smell.
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So they followed the saga of this barge.
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Remember?
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It went on for weeks
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And the barge tried to unload the garbage.
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And in georgia and florida went down
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In the caymans and and tried to go to different islands.
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And they came back into mississippi and alabama.
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And finally they sailed all the way back to new york.
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Cost them over $1 million in the trip,
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And they still were loaded with garbage.
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And they went right back where they came from.
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And they found a place that called the graveyard something,
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And dumped all the garbage there, right back on long
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Island where they began.
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What do you do with garbage?
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Now we're into waste management, right?
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Waste management is old testament stuff.
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In the old testament,
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They would bring their sacrifices.
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They confess their sin on different days of atonement,
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And their sin would be covered, remembered,
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Covered by the blood of animals and doves, etc..
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But that's old testament.
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That's waste management. garbage manual.
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In the new testament there is garbage elimination.
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The blood of jesus christ cleanses us,
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Eliminates the garbage, obliterates
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The trash, throws out the waste
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And destroys it until it is no more.
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That's what happened on the cross.
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Now, it's interesting
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To take the understanding of evil and sin and garbage
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And trash and waste and and sort of see
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How it operates in your life and in my life.
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It's also interesting. deserve that.
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You look at the major religion of the world
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In the abolition of man by lewis.
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Again, he takes
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All the ethical principles of the major religions,
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And he puts them alongside one another, and they
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Are a lot alike.
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No murder,
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No stealing,
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Property rights, etc.
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A lot of the ethical principles
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Of the major religions and minor
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Religions are basically alike.
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You can't live in society
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Without having these basic principles in operation.
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So there's great agreement, except what we do
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Personally about evil and their
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Christianity just breaks out of the pack and runs
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Way ahead of everybody, because the christians answer
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For evil in your life.
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And in my life is radically different from any other
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Answer.
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Radically, radically different.
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And so we look at evil with a different perspective,
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And we go to the book of romans.
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And paul in chapter number 12 here
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Tells us how we are to operate in a evil, broken world,
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Even though the victory has already been accomplished.
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In this mopping up phrase, when old slew foot
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Is still trying to destroy
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God's purpose for your life and for my life.
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So romans 12 tells us,
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Beginning in verse nine.
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Love without hypocrisy.
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There's not a whole lot of that running around.
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By the way.
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Love totally, sincerely, without wax.
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That's the meaning of the word.
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Just genuinely love no matter what, no matter how we think.
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Love is a feeling and an emotion.
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Love is something you do.
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Love.
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Agape love is something that god empowers
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His sons and daughters to do in christ jesus.
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We are to love without hypocrisy,
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With a pure love.
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And then he tells us two things we have to do.
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The first, do you see it?
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There is to abhor evil, and the second is to cling to good.
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Abhor evil.
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The word abhor
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There may be translated your bible hate, right?
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Got a bible?
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How many have a bible says hey, thanks.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Says hey, the word abhor and hate their.
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It means to be horrified of
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Other words.
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We are to be horrified. of evil.
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Evil should frighten us.
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We're. it's a horrible thing.
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Literally.
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We know jesus hated a lot of things.
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Do you remember that?
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I thought it was bad. oh, no.
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Why was jesus such a hater of so many things? it's
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Because jesus was a genuine lover of so many things.
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And when you love something, you know god loves the world.
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God loves all inhabitants of the world.
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Therefore he hates things that destroys the world.
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He hates things that destroy those who were created
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His image.
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Therefore, his hatred is stronger than i.
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Hatred because his love is infinite
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And his love is so much stronger.
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And then paul tells us what is good.
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Be devoted to one another and brotherly love.
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Give preference to one another in honor, not lagging
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Behind in diligence and diligence.
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Firm and fervent in spirit.
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Serving the lord.
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Rejoicing in hope.
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Persevering in tribulation.
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Troubled sickness.
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Devoted to prayer.
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Contributing to the needs of the saints.
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Practicing hospitality.
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That's that's a test.
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When you look at that, they say, oh,
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That's nice, that's fine, that's good.
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No, lord, do i measure.
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Do i really have a loving heart?
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That's what a loving heart looks like.
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You can figure it out.
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The spirit will tell you as it's told me.
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You pray that in.
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And then finally he talks about.
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Do we have a blessing? heart.
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Bless those who persecute you.
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Bless and do not curse.
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That's not profanity, by the way.
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Rejoice with those who are joys.
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Weep for those who weep.
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In other words, a lot of people,
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We're with them, and we don't feel like
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They're a blessing to us. we we hear a.
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They suck the life out of you.
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You can't have too many of those
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In your repertoire of friends, by the way.
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God help
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If you're married to one.
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But we are to be in the blessing business.
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I'd love to take time and put my hand on everybody's heads.
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And lord, lead them.
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I love for you to put your hand in mine.
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We're to bless.
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We're to lift up, we're to encourage,
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We're to rejoice with.
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Cry with those who cry. laugh with those who laugh.
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Would it be a blessing?
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We'd have a heart that blesses.
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Don't you love to be around people that are a blessing?
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You genuinely, genuinely?
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By the way, this is without hypocrisy.
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This is the bottom line of love.
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And then finally, we're to have a humble heart beginning
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Verse 16, be of the same mind toward one another.
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Do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly.
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Do not be wise in your own estimation.
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So this
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Is talk about how we abhor evil,
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How we cling to that which is good.
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These are the kind of hearts that we have,
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A heart that we develop.
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It's not natural heart.
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It's a supernatural heart we have in christ.
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When i was a boy, there was a popular
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Little song called mother.
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Derived from the acrostic motif.
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Though the lyrics are not christian.
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They are certainly universal in their application
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Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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I had to
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Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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Would you believe that?
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And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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For mother's day only.
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So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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To get you a copy.
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Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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Or give one to your mother.
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And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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Defame, slander.
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By the way, slander
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Can be telling the truth in order to hurt somebody.
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Do you know that?
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It's not just lying about slander
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Can tell the truth in order to hurt somebody?
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When that would happen, what i would do, i'd pretend
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Like they died.
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I say bill died.
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He doesn't bother me anymore.
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Say, we didn't know he died.
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Oh, yeah.
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I'm sorry.
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He's dying. i speak to him.
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He's not there.
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That's not the way to do it.
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That's not god's way, folks.
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A little confession in other ways.
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Respond with violence. i'll get you back.
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I'm smiling, but my day will come.
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And then when you see god taking some vengeance
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As we're going to take
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In their life, we say the way god get them, get them.
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Yeah, that's right.
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I know that god hurt me too.
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But we let we be overcome evil.
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But we are to be overcomers.
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We're overcome evil with good.
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And we say, well, what does that look like?
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Tells us right here in the scripture, if possible.
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So far is it depends on you, be it peace with all people.
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Let me tell you something.
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The bible is full of nuance.
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There's some people you will not be at peace with
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No matter how you operate on principles.
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We're going to look at.
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They just they're just not going to be right with you.
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They're not going to forgive.
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There are a lot of people that are so narcissistic.
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They're so schizophrenic.
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They're so broken. they're so hurt themselves.
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They just have to be in the constant slashing business.
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And it says as far as possible, see how nuanced the
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The bible is.
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See it as far as possible. do it.
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Do everything you can.
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So what does it look like when you overcome evil with good?
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A great illustration of this
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Is first samuel chapter number 24.
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It's a great story if you're not familiar with it.
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David was in hiding.
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They were in a cave.
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They're abdullah hiding from saul.
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And saul was paranoid.
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Said david was going to take over his throne.
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He was jealous of david.
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And so he had 3000 his troops out looking for david to
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Kill him.
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David was hiding and in
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The marching around saul had to make a pit stop.
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So when this cave,
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He didn't know david was hiding in the cave
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And david was hiding them in shadows.
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And and paul didn't observe him.
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He came and took saul's coat,
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King saul, and just cut a little bit of it off the coat,
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His cloak, and kept it.
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And saul put his cloak back on, walk back out, and went out.
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And a little while later david without a high mountain,
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And he said, oh, my
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Father, great king saul,
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This is your son, i honor you,
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Why are you pursuing me, etc., etc.
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He treated saul with great deference
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And great reverence and great respect.
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He said, why you pursue me?
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And david held up the bit of his his gown
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And said, in other words, i could have killed you.
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I was right there and you didn't even know it.
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He was part of uganda and so much looks like, oh,
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I didn't notice i was missing, would you imagine?
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And then saul was repentant.
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He said, you're a better man than i.
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I, i'm ashamed and and come on back home, david.
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You're like a son to me now, by the way,
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This happened 2 or 3 times in other situations.
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See, saul was, you know, he had a problem.
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Schizophrenic, paranoid, i don't know, had a problem.
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He was a sick man.
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He he couldn't.
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But look how david did everything he could, did he,
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Not? to show that he honored and respected god's anointed.
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He didn't attack.
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And so that's how we are to respond.
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We're to do everything we can.
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Sometimes you can't do enough to bring things back
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Together in harmony and do that in your family,
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Jesus says twice recorded a new testament.
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If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn the other cheek
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And let him slap that one as well.
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Now, by the way,
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When you slap somebody, that's not a physical attack.
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It's not.
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You want to attack somebody in the nose and eyes, mouth,
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Other places where you were to want to hurt somebody.
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But what is a slap?
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It shames you.
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It's humiliating.
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It's embarrassing, it's condescending.
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And therefore, when someone
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Slaps us on one cheek, how do we respond to that?
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Do we respond passively to respond with anger?
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Jesus says we're to turn the other cheek
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When we don't turn the other cheek.
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You know, we're doing we're saving face.
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Say, why did you slap me on one side?
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But i still got this side.
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But we turn the other cheek.
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We're no longer saving face, are we?
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And that's the issue with a slap.
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It's not the bodily harm.
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It's worth saving face.
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And if we turn the other cheek,
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We're saying it doesn't matter about my ego.
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It doesn't matter how embarrassing this is.
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But what's important is that you have harmed me.
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You have attacked me in this way to shame me.
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And i'm not trying to save face.
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I'm putting my ego to one side.
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Therefore we separate.
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Listen carefully.
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Our enemy from
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What the enemy has done are said to us.
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Very important.
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Here's what the enemy has done or said.
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We separate that from enemy and self,
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And we ask god with the power to forgive the enemy.
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And don't worry about saving your face.
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Then you,
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The bible says you heap coals a fire on their head
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And this means you illumine them.
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You warn them, you.
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You deal with this and
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Maybe in your forgiving
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You not only build a relationship again,
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But you're heaping coals of fire on their head
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And all of a sudden you've defuzed the whole situation.
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If you do not turn the other cheek, what happens?
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You are a part of the evil that has been done.
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They're they're controlling you.
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They still have their hooks in you.
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They're dominating my thinking.
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And we have the idea when we sit down, whether they
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Remember what you did wrong, wrong, man. man.
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We arang them if we can or we go to somebody else.
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Let me tell you what.
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That god did what he said he owes me, that i that
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We go to somebody else and we we take care of that.
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The bible says, god take care of it.
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Vengeance is mine.
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He'll take care of it.
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But we do that or we keep playing it to ourselves,
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Reminding ourselves, let me tell you what, even
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If you don't do any of that, you turn the other cheek.
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You get your ego out of it, and then you're very aggressive
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When you turn the other cheek,
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Because you take all the venom out of it,
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All the hatred out of it.
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And they say, you know, and you do good.
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It's so tough, folks.
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This is where the christian
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Ethic is so radically different from all other ethics.
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All the other
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Ethics, say vengeance, stay away or whatever we say.
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Go there and be a part of the healing and love them.
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Figure out ways you can honor them.
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Figure out ways you can do something for them.
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Let me tell you something.
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The next
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Funeral in your family, when all the family shows up,
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Or the next wedding in your family,
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When all of us had to have our picture body together,
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Or the next holiday in your family and you go, boy,
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I sure hate to find my brother and my brother's wife,
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Or my sister and my cousin, or that,
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You know, we go there with all this anger.
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Go there.
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The idea, man, i'm going to love.
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I'm going to be redemptive.
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I'm going to build up whatever they've said,
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Whatever they've done, my mom, my dad, whatever, man.
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It'll change the whole atmosphere.
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But the holy spirit
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Has to give you and me the power to be redemptive.
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And we have to be.
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Here's the phrase passionately,
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Aggressively forgiving.
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Passionately,
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Aggressively forgiving and redemptive.
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And i'll tell you
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What he'll do to the person that you don't like,
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The person that doesn't like you.
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It'll just knock them off balance.
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They won't have a way to
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Deal with that, because you have actively
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Turn the other cheek, and you've actively begun
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To defeat the evil that you know is there.
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Say that's easy.
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No, no, no. it's impossible.
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No, no, no, jesus can do it, but i can't.
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No, no, no.
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It's the power of god in you and me.
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As we overcome evil with good.
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That's what it is.
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What is the cross?
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It's god overcoming the garbage
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Of the world with good.
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You see, god is a not way up there.
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Somewhere off and away.
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Up there.
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God is a garbage
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Collector who gets right down in the middle of your garbage.
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And my garbage.
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That's what the cross is.
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You see a lot of people.
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Justice.
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Oh, i want justice.
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I'm telling you, a lot of people.
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No, no, i won't love.
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I want to love everybody.
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Say, you can't have justice without love.
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You can't have love without justice.
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We say, you know, i want to be just.
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I want to be right with god.
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You can't be declared just before god unless
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Jesus christ, who is just and he is a justifier.
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That's what happened to cross.
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Justice was established between you and me and god on
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The cross. justice was established.
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God's justice, god's purity, god's holiness
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Was established by jesus in his death on the cross.
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Justice was there also.
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Love was demonstrated.
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You see, that's that's the the miracle.
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Love was demonstrated how much god loved us.
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He sent jesus, the garbage collector.
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By the way, you say this doesn't get god off the hook.
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What is god on the hook about?
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Remember way back.
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God is on the hook by a lot of people
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Say, well, if god is all powerful,
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He can't be all good or he to evil.
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Remember that a lot of people could.
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God on the hook about that.
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The cross really is the answer for that.
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Jesus is the answer of that.
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I've said it before and i'll say it again
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When you and i go to the foot of the cross,
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We don't look up there and say, i wonder how,
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How, how, how tall is that cross?
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We don't do that.
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We go to the cross.
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We don't say, you know, i wonder how long the arms
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Crossed. you know, how many, how many feet.
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How long will the arms of the cross wouldn't do that?
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Because the cross won't say.
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You know, i wonder how much that cross ways i did
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Is pretty heavy, but would dare i wonder how much it ways
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We don't do that.
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We go to the cross.
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We just want to know,
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Is that cross high enough to reach the heaven?
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Is that cross the arms or that cross?
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Are they long enough to include somebody that's has
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Some much garbage in their life now and in the past?
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There's the arms long enough to include somebody like me
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Who's been in waste management and instead of garbage
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Elimination, can somebody like me
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Full of garbage, those arms long enough to include me?
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And we ask, does that cross way enough
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To tip the scales of grace and forgiveness
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On my behalf?
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See, that's personal, isn't it?
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At the cross.
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When i was a boy,
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There was a popular little song called mother.
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Derived from the acrostic motif.
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Though the lyrics are not christian.
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They are certainly universal in their application
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Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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I had to
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Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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Would you believe that?
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And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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For mother's day only.
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So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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To get you a copy.
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Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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Or give one to your mother.
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And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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Ed Young - Overcome Evil with Good

May 14, 2026 | 27:29

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