Ed Young - Overcoming Loneliness

August 28, 2025 | S25 E207 | 29:0

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Dr. ed young: i heard someone say, in conversation,
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Loneliness is hell.
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Now, they didn't know that, but they made a very profound
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Theological statement.
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Because loneliness is, indeed, hell.
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We search for definitions of hell, we look at the bible.
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Fire and brimstone and judgment; annihilation, all kinds
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Of definition.
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But the most overwhelming definition of hell i know
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Anything about is: hell is a place where you can do
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Anything and everything you've ever wanted to do.
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But think about it.
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Hell, a place where you and i, if we went there, could do
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Anything and everything we've ever wanted to do?
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You wanna make money, live in big houses, whatever you
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Wanted to do, you can do it, that's hell.
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There's only one little catch to it.
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You can do anything and everything you've ever
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Wanted to do, alone.
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Alone.
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Separated, away from any living being, forever and forever
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And forever.
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Loneliness is an overpowering word, it's an overwhelming word,
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To be alone, to be destitute, would be without any kind
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Of relationship.
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Way back, if you study the english language, you'll
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Find out that loneliness was not "used" very much.
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Until about the 16th century, you find the first definition.
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And it's very terse.
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It says, "loneliness: a condition of being in solitude."
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And that's it.
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And it's not used very much.
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In fact, in the latter part of the 17th century, a guy named
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John rudd put together a glossary of words that were
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Rarely used.
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And in that glossary of words happened to be the
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Word loneliness.
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Because during the early years of civilization, and the early
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Years of history in the western world, nobody had time to
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Be lonely.
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But then it evolved until finally--i remember
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In high school most of us studied john milton.
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And we read that little book, "paradise lost," his poem there.
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And in that poem, is a very interesting little statement
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There, not verbatim, but it has satan saying, "that when i walk
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The road from hell, all the way into the garden of eden, that
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Road was never traveled before, and it was indeed a
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Lonely road."
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Satan has always been connected with loneliness; in fact, satan
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Is a primary merchant of loneliness.
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He has sold loneliness, he has peddled loneliness,
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And the tragedy is, now in our twenty-first century world,
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We're buying into loneliness.
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And a lot of people, when they've been separated
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In and of themselves, with their immediate family, they feel that
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Loneliness, is indeed, hell.
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Interesting about loneliness.
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Many people believe it's the number one health problem
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In the world today.
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It's an international problem of being alone,
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Of feeling estranged, of loneliness.
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Many people believe that loneliness kills more people
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Than the epidemic that we're now a part of
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And the plague that's sweeping our world.
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Loneliness.
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It has with it a cold rain, does it not?
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Loneliness.
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Cigna did an international survey and talked
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With over 20,000 people, a lot of folks.
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And the result of that survey, and they asked them
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About loneliness, about being alone, and over half
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Of the 20,000 said, "we feel lonely some of the times,"
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And many of them said, "we feel lonely all of the time."
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A survey of general practitioners said one
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Out of every five patients who come in their office will,
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In one way or another, talk about depression, or talk
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About loneliness.
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Loneliness, what a word.
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San diego state university, they took all of 20 different surveys
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That had been taken, and they put them all together,
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And the question was, "where do you find the loneliest
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Demographic, in all the world, where is it?"
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Maybe our senior citizens, some loneliness there, of course.
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But they studied all the demographics and they came
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Up with an amazing, amazing story.
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We know that baby boomers, for example, they never knew
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A world without television.
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And then we see the other generations come down, they
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Never knew the world without a computer.
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And now we have this generation z--generation z has never known
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The world without being connected to the web.
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And this survey by san diego state, as they looked at a lot
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Of the survey, said that 98%, listen to this, of all z
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Generation young people, stay connected to the web every day
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Of the week.
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And the staggering finding is, guess what generation is
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The loneliest, that talks more about loneliness, that feels
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More estrangement, than any other generation?
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It's generation z you say; well, what is that?
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Adolescence is from 10 to 17, generation z is from 18 to 23,
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And the millennials are from 24 all the way to 37.
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And the baby boomers are beyond.
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And so we see that the adolescents today, they're
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Lonelier than any other group, we understand, but no group is
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As lonely as the group that is the most connected!
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Generation z is connected all the time to all the world.
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They can almost hear anything, get anything, anytime, anywhere
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In which they find themselves, they get on that web.
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But they are very, very lonely.
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A lot of people have studied this and they decided that
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Generation z has a lot of friends.
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A lot of quantity, but no quality.
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Generation z has trouble looking you in the eye, carrying
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On a conversation, sharing with people that they really
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Care about, getting to know people when they're hurting
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Or when they're on top of the world.
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There's no deep generations there, no deep
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Relationships there.
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Therefore, they're goin' through life separated,
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Estranged and lonely, and they have a tough time relating
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In this moment in history.
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When theresa may was prime minister of great britain, she
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Saw the problem in the british isles.
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And evidently it's even far beyond the problem we have here.
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But theresa may, when she was prime minister, established
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A governmental position called the minister to loneliness.
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And i looked up and studied it, i said, "what does this
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Minister do?"
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This minister is charged with the responsibility
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Of connecting people.
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Of starting small groups.
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Getting people involved in serving other people.
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And therefore, this minister and his staff, or her staff,
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Worked all day endlessly, since 2008, to try to heal
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The problem of loneliness with groups and activities.
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You know, if i didn't know better, i would think that is
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The function of the social ministry of a
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New testament church.
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But it's not there in britain.
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And therefore their whole society is in trouble today.
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It is in serious trouble today.
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As is the family and society in the united states, as we have
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Become more and more a people who are godless, who are moving
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Away from the body of christ and a personal relationship
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With him.
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This is what we have, folks.
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So many in our educational system have the idea:
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This is what we're doing.
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We have the power through intellect--
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Parents, love and nourish and care for
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And listen to.
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And the fabulous thing about this moment
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Is i've heard parent after parent
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Saying, as their kids are being taught online,
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Oh it's been great to go to school with our kids.
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So many parents have come away thrilled with their teachers.
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Other parents have come away saying, oh there's a problem
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In the classroom with my kids.
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This has been a fabulous time for us.
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But a lot of people in isolation, even with their
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Family, still have this malady of loneliness.
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Loneliness.
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Being alone.
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Not communicating.
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Estranged.
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Not with other people except those we love the most.
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What a moment in history.
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Now: there are many kinds of loneliness.
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You can find category after category of loneliness,
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One thing after another.
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But i turned to the scripture, and i talk about loneliness,
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And i thought about situational loneliness, we understand that.
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There are situations in which we get in, many times, because we
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Have sinned and gone against the principles of god,
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And in that situation we are lonely.
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Immediately, i thought about judas, in the upper room.
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Jesus said to those apostles, "one of you is going to betray
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Me," and i thought it was so interesting, every one
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Of them according to the scripture, said,
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"is it i?
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I am i the one?"
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They all saw the possibility.
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I'm not falling, lord. isn't that interesting?
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And judas says, "certainly, i'm not the one."
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And jesus said, "it's the one i eat with, the one i put my bread
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Down in the same bowl with, that is the one who will betray me."
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And it was judas.
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Judas said, "you mean, you're talking about me?"
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And jesus said, "you have said that."
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And the bible says something very profound in one
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Of the gospels.
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It says that judas went out and it was night.
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It was dark.
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When we move away from jesus christ, in that situation, we
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Always go from light into darkness.
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Situational loneliness.
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Sin always pulls us away from god.
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Sin always pulls us away from the crowd.
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Sin always individualizes and sin always puts scars
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And notches in your life, and in my life, that sometimes
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We carry those scars there forever, forever, and forever.
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Lonely.
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Situational loneliness.
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And sometimes we have situations, where we're lonely,
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We couldn't help it.
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Maybe there's a health problem.
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Maybe someone that we love has left this earth.
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Sometimes we lose our job.
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Sometimes we have to move to another city, sometimes we
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Changed schools and we're in a different organization,
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We're in a different environment and often a different culture.
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And we sometimes walk into a crowd and there are
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People everywhere, but we're lonely, we don't relate.
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Nobody reaches out, and we reach out; they stiff arm us
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On the way.
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Certainly there is situational loneliness that all of us know
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Something about.
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A friend that we believed in, we loved, and we thought they loved
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Us, but in a certain situation they turned and walked away.
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Situational loneliness.
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Sometimes from sin, sometimes there's nothing we can do
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About it, it's a part of the challenges,
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The temptations, of life.
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The progress of life.
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Situation loneliness.
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But there's another kind of loneliness there.
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And it is aloneness, we find with jesus, he's there
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In the upper room, the same passages of scripture.
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And when he gets through he goes out, after wonderful teaching,
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We read there, especially in john.
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And he goes out in the garden of gethsemane.
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And we see now in jesus, another kind of loneliness, which is
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Emotional loneliness.
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And look what jesus did.
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When he felt lonely, what did he do?
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Two things.
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He went and saw his friends, peter, james, and john,
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The intimate circle.
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To come and go with him and to stay up with him.
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And to comfort him and to pray with him, because he had told
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Them exactly what he was going to face, which was the cross.
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Which was the crucifixion.
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And he says, "watch with me, pray with me, peter, james,
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And john."
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That's what we do.
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We find ourselves lonely, we need to turn to our friends
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And ask them to be with us, to stand by us, to pray with us.
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And the next thing jesus did, he went to the lord.
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And the scripture says he fell flat on his face.
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But you know the story if you're familiar with this
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Biblical account.
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Three times jesus went back to his friends after he had--
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Sweat had come to his body, which was like blood.
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He was so overwhelmed with emotion.
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He went back and said, "found 'em asleep."
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Friends asleep!
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First time, second time, third time.
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So the friends made him lonelier than before.
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But the father was with jesus there in the garden.
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And we hear that passionate prayer.
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As jesus looked into that cup.
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That cup.
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That cup was full of what?
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Iniquity.
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It was full of the sin of the world.
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Can you imagine it?
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He who was sinless now looked on the sin of the world
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And realized that god was asking him to drink the sins
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Of the world.
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To drink the sin of the world as he would die on calvary.
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And jesus said in his humanity, he said it dramatically
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And powerfully, perhaps that was when he was lying on his face,
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He said, "lord, you can do anything if possible.
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Let this cup pass from me."
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But he said, "lord, nevertheless, it's not what my
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Will is, my will in the flesh is," he said, "thy will
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Be done."
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Oh, what a moment.
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We learned there, in emotional loneliness, what to do.
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Hopefully friends will be with us; if not, the lord god
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Almighty is there.
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So we see different kinds of loneliness.
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And another kind i wanna put in as sort of a little footnote
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On the side, sometimes we feel in our loneliness, well, we've
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Been forsaken by our friends, we can register that; our family,
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We can understand that; but sometimes we feel that we
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Are forsaken by god.
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Let me tell you something.
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We, you and i, have never been abandoned or forsaken by god.
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No person who has ever lived has ever been abandoned or forsaken
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By god.
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If right now i were up the street and i had all
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The dynamite, all the explosives about, whatever it took, i was
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Gonna blow the front off a vault of a safe and steal all
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The money that was there, god would love me.
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He would love me just as much as i was doing that crime as he
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Does right now when i'm trying to understand god's word
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And apply it to my life and your life.
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God's love is consistent.
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He will never forsake us.
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But sometimes we think, "oh god has forsaken me."
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The horizontal may forsake you, as it did with jesus there
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In the garden, but the vertical jesus will never forsake you
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And never forsake me.
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That is an answer to loneliness.
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And, we move on to the one human being in all of history that was
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Ever god forsaken: not in the garden, but there
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On the cross.
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The seven words he uttered.
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Jesus, from the cross, seven of the last words in the account
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In the gospel.
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Three of them begin with a reference to god; two
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Of the words talk of god as father, but in this cry, in this
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Cry, he used--he does not call god, "father," he says,
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"my god."
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It's almost like saying, "mr."
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Instead of saying, "dad," now he refers to his dad as "mr."
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And he hears his cry of loneliness, "eli, eli, lema
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Sabachthani."
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It is in aramaic, that's the language that he spoke.
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Eli, eli, sabachthani.
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Strong words: "my god, my god, why has thou forsaken me?"
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Jesus, totally abandoned, forsaken by god, god turned his
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Back on him, and he didn't say, "dad, dad!"
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He said, like, "mr."
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Jesus even almost couldn't comprehend it there, in the
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Flesh, he, who had always had a relationship
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With the father, now the father, in his moment of great need,
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Turned his back on his son.
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Forsaken. alone.
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Loneliness. nothing.
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And the question is: why would god do that?
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Why would god turn his back on his son?
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We see the answer right here, in 2 corinthians.
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2 corinthians, the last verse in chapter number 5.
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It says, "he, god, made him jesus, who knew no sin to be sin
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On our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness
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Of god."
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By the way, the little word "to be" there's in italics,
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It's not in the original.
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It would read, "he, god, made him, jesus, who knew no sin, sin
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On our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness
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Of god."
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Now go back to psalm 22.
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You say, well, why did jesus have to take all of this
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Righteousness, all of this sin upon himself, so we might
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Be righteous?
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Go back to psalm 22, and that's what jesus was quoting
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From the cross.
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It begins, "my god, my god, why has thou forsaken me?
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For from my deliverance are the words of my groaning."
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Verse two: "o my god, i cry by day, but you do not answer,
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And by night, but i have no answer."
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Loneliness.
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And then he says, "yet you are holy."
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That's what this is all about.
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We have a holy god.
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And on that holy god, somehow the great mystery, he poured all
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The iniquity, so that we might have a relationship with that
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Holy god.
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We can't barge into god. he is a holy god.
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He is the other.
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But because jesus took all of our garbage, all of our
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Iniquity, upon himself, he was our substitute.
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So now we can have a relationship with almighty
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God, who is holy, and jesus had to be forsaken because god, who
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Is holy, cannot look on anything that is unholy.
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Jesus was god-forsaken, the only person who was ever
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God-forsaken, because all of your sin, and my sin, was
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Poured upon jesus.
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And also listen to this: all the success that satan had had
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With people down through the ages was poured
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Upon jesus.
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Well, we sin, and we disobey, and we fail god.
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When we sin, we get on satan's team, and that's the victory
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That he has had over humanity.
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All of that was poured on jesus, sinless, so that we might have
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A relationship with almighty god.
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Jesus became totally lonely, experienced complete loneliness,
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Horizontally as well as vertically, so you and i could
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Vertically have business with god and receive christ,
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And horizontally have a life that has meaning and
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Has significance.
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Let me tell you something.
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Loneliness is usually 99% at times sin.
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I know you can get a situation with health, extreme moments
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And loneliness will not be sin, but let's face it: your
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Loneliness and my loneliness usually is sin.
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We spend so much time looking at our navel.
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We spend so much time, what that person said to me, what that
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Person didn't do for me, and we whine and complain, and whine
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And complain, and we have pity parties every single day, and we
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Get increasingly, increasingly lonely.
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Listen: jesus was crucified for your loneliness and
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My loneliness.
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He became the ultimate personification of loneliness,
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So that you and i would never be alone.
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God in christ is there with us, every moment of every day.
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So people run around now, saying.
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"boy, i'm lonely as hell, and i don't have friends
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And relationships, and you know i just feel i'm by myself
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In this world."
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Let me tell you something.
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If you have a relationship with jesus christ, you will
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Never never be alone.
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Old gospel song, old one.
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It's an interesting song, it said,
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♪ jesus walked this lonesome valley, he had to walk ♪
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♪ it by himself, oh, nobody else could walk it for him, he had ♪
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♪ to walk it by himself. ♪
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Now, that's true.
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Jesus walked that lonesome valley.
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He had to walk it by himself, he did; he had to be god forsaken,
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When all the iniquity was poured in him, and that's so accurate.
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But the second stanza of that old gospel hymn is not accurate!
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It says, "we must go and stand our trial, we'll have to stand
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It by ourselves, oh, nobody"-- no, that's not right!
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We don't have to go and stand that trial, because jesus took
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All of that emptiness and loneliness on himself,
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And walked that path for you and me all the way to the cross,
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So we'll never, never be alone.
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Genesis says, "it's not good for man to be alone."
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That's not just in marriage, that's in every relationship
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Of life.
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He died on that cross, where we would never be alone.
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If you haven't received him into your life, let me tell you
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Something: you will be lonely, and you are lonely, but if you
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Received him in your life, he is in you, and you're
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In him, and you have fellowship with the father, and i can tell
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You your life, whatever happens, whatever takes place, you will
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Never, never, be alone.
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So quit whining and complaining and, man, awaken: go to christ,
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Go to his church, the body, and you'll find fellowship
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And meaning, and i guarantee ya, you'll not be alone.
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Ed: there's never been a better time than right
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Now to make god a priority in your life.
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That's why we've created this 90 day devotional, "putting god
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First," number one.
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And when you and i do that, he is faithful to give the
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Direction and guidance you and i need every day to walk
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Through life.
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It is my prayer that this devotional will help you to
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Become all that god has designed you to become.
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Male announcer: call today or go online at winningwalk.org to get
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Your copy of dr. young's 90 day devotional "putting god first."
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♪♪♪
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Ed young: if you have ever felt alone, and all
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Of us have, through either a choice you made, or a crisis,
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Or a significant loss you've experienced, you understand
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The pain of loneliness.
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Now listen: jesus is the only person in history that has been
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God-forsaken.
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He alone experienced ultimate loneliness so that you and i,
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Listen, will never have to be alone.
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The good news is, his sacrifice means that you and i will never
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Be lonely.
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If you're grappling with loneliness today, we would
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Like to encourage you and pray for you right now.
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Please call the number on your screen.
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He experienced our loneliness on the cross, so that we will
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Never, never, never be by ourselves, we will never
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Be alone.
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Now i want to thank you personally for being a part
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Of this ministry.
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Join me again next time as we study god's word together: not
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On a winning stroll, but on a winning walk,
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A winning walk with jesus christ.
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Ed Young - Overcoming Loneliness

August 28, 2025 | S25 E207 | 29:0

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