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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Parenting: Values | May 4, 2026
- I don't know
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- About you, but my moral compass is broken.
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- I will confess that to you.
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- My moral compass is broken.
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- I look to my mind.
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- I look to my feelings.
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- I look to my strength.
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- All of that and decided ethics.
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- What's right and wrong. my compass is broken.
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- And ladies and gentlemen, your compass is broken to.
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- And the compass of america is broken to.
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- And we are in a catastrophic mess.
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- You see the erosion
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- Of adopting portions of this kind of thinking that's
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- Taught in our colleges and universities,
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- In some high schools all across america.
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- It has come down to us today, and we see the rationale
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- Of where we are in our culture, in our america.
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- It comes right down to this,
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- So open your bibles, if you would, to jeremiah
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- Chapter 17.
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- Begin reading with verse nine.
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- Then i'll skip and read to verse 13.
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- Following
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- The heart is more deceitful than all else,
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- And is desperately sick.
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- Who can understand it?
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- King james version the heart is wicked, deceptively evil.
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- Who can know it?
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- I, the lord, search the heart.
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- I test the mind, evan.
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- To give to each man or woman according to his or her ways,
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- According to the results of his deeds.
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- Verse 13.
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- All who forsake you.
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- That's the lord will be put to shame.
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- Those who turn away
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- On earth will be written down,
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- Because they have forsaken the fountain of living water.
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- Even the lord.
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- Heal me, o lord, and i will be healed.
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- Save me, o lord, and i will be saved.
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- I'm going to ask
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- Everybody to lift your hands in the air, if you would.
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- Everybody hold your hand straight up.
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- Look up.
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- Repeat after me.
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- Heal me, o lord, and
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- I will be healed.
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- Save me, o lord,
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- And i will be saved.
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- Put your hands down.
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- Two families
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- Live side by side
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- For over 20 years.
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- They were as close as as
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- I am to that column.
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- Children about the same age,
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- Same economic condition.
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- Little gravel driveway
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- Between the two little houses.
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- Children went to the same church,
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- Same school lists, the same music, played together
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- Until they got to be in their teenagers were intimate
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- Friends, two families side by side.
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- Any sociologists would study this family and that family.
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- They would say, you know, they're almost identical.
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- But the outcome of one family,
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- And i know both of these families intimately
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- Was absolute disaster.
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- Child after
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- Child, son and daughter
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- Lives that would break
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- The heart of anyone.
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- Disaster, tragedy.
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- Poor choices,
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- Disease,
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- Violence,
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- Criminals, one family.
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- You read about that family, you would say,
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- I just never heard of anything quite as tragic as this.
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- The other family, their sons and daughters.
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- My goodness. magnificent.
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- Everyone.
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- Almost in a racial alger story, man.
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- How they made good choices, how they
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- Married the right person
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- And the grandchildren came up and all the legacy left
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- Behind of joy and fun and celebration and worship.
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- Just a fabulous mom and dad
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- And children and grandchildren and and that family.
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- You'd say, boy, that's a family.
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- I would like for my family to be like that family.
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- Boy, what a tremendous outcome.
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- Two families
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- Side by side,
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- Economically, socially, educationally,
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- Vocationally, any way you look at them all alike.
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- One outcome,
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- Chaos.
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- Another outcome.
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- Magnificent.
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- What's the difference?
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- Somewhere it boils down to
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- Family values.
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- Family values.
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- Somewhere it comes back to
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- Parenting.
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- Parenting.
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- Now you can talk to anybody
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- In the western world,
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- And you ask them what needs to take place
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- In our culture to change it
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- From the mess in which we find ourselves
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- Right now in history.
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- And they will tell you.
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- Well, we need a return to family values.
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- The left will say that.
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- The right will say that. the middle will say that.
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- Anthropologists will say that.
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- Sociologists will say that councils were say that
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- Everybody theologians will say we need to return to
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- Family values.
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- And some people even put in traditional family values.
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- Every politician, every person in public life,
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- Every person in every endeavor will tell you,
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- Oh yes, we need to return to traditional family values.
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- Now the problem becomes
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- And when you begin to ask
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- What values?
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- Where do you get those values?
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- Now let me do something
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- That is foolish and bold,
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- Exceedingly foolish and bold.
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- I'm going to try to trace
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- Through western civilization
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- The transmission of values from the first century
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- All the way till today.
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- Now, i don't want someone to say, well, you left out well.
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- Hello.
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- How long would you like to be here today?
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- To trace
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- The transmission of values from the first century
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- All the way to today.
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- Here we go.
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- From the first century,
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- For hundreds of years.
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- No one doubted of any significance.
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- Where you get values, where you get ethics, where you get
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- What is right or wrong, you look up.
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- That's where you get it.
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- You look up to god.
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- You look up to transcendence.
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- Because values were absolute.
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- Now. people did not follow them perfectly.
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- There were some little minor debate,
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- But nobody of significance really doubted worth.
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- The source of values were what was right
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- And what was wrong.
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- That was not in the discussion.
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- The jews looked
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- To the old testament, the torah, theirs values.
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- Christians look to the new testament
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- And the early church taught by jesus and paul and peter, etc.
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- There is values, even the philosophers,
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- The greek or roman world.
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- They looked at natural law and said,
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- By the giving of creation and nature,
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- You can see transcendent values that come from the almighty.
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- So you have hundreds of years from the first century
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- Forward, that it was built in the western civilization.
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- What was right and what was wrong?
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- You look up and that's where you got values, ultimate
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- Meaning and principles of life.
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- And that is what you would teach and transfer
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- From generation to generation, with enthusiasm
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- And with confidence
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- That if these values were lived out,
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- That life would make a difference
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- And the whole society
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- Would move in the right and proper and godly direction
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- For hundreds of years, we came up with that.
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- So many of us, all the myths
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- That we would read, they had a hero and a heroine.
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- All the folklore had heroes and heroines,
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- And we were familiar with all the bible stories
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- A couple of generations ago.
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- The parable of the prodigal son,
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- The greatest story ever told, by the way, the good samaritan.
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- Oh, we that was a part of the culture,
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- Part of the vocabulary, the perils of jesus.
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- Those little pithy stories that had a bam, a punch
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- Right in the middle of morality and what was right in
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- What was wrong.
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- That was a part what we read.
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- Our parents would read nursery rhymes to us.
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- They had moral principles, we had heroes and we had heroines.
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- And a lot of
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- Them were biblical in moses and joseph
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- And same we would read these and that was a part.
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- It was inculcated, it was taught, it was passed
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- On. that was the culture of 100 and hundreds of years
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- In western civilization until the 18th century,
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- The so-called enlightenment,
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- When there were a group of scholars
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- Who said, you do not get values by looking up.
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- That's not where you get values.
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- You get values by looking within.
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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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- Let me present three of these scholars.
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- Listen carefully.
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- Immanuel kant
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- Immanuel kant said, you don't look up,
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- You look within, and you decide what is right
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- And what is wrong, what your ethics are,
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- What you do and what you do not do.
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- By looking to your mind, you can figure it out.
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- You're a human being.
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- Just think it through.
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- Look all the premises down.
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- You can decide and you'll come out
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- Right every single time.
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- If you simply use your mind, look to your mind.
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- And so that was proposed
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- That was written about there in the 18th century said, well,
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- What does all this have to do with us?
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- Let me tell you some ladies and gentlemen,
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- If you hadn't figured out yet what is in the classroom today
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- Would be on the streets in just a few years.
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- Don't forget that.
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- So these are just ancient philosophy.
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- Oh, no. oh, no. stay with me.
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- That was the beginning of rationalism.
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- Look to your mind.
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- That's where you find values and ethics
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- And what's right and what's wrong.
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- Then another guy came along.
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- Rousseau.
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- Rousseau came to the picture, and rousseau said, you know,
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- Con is right.
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- You don't look up
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- To transcendent values from the almighty
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- Or or biblical values that are written down.
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- He said, you don't look up, man.
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- That's that's old fashioned.
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- We are enlightened.
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- But he said, don't really look to your mind
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- To figure out what's right now.
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- He said, look to your heart, your passions.
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- If it feels good, it must be okay.
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- You're that.
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- It must be all right.
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- Look at your heart.
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- And. and rousseau taught that a child was born.
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- A baby was born with a pure heart,
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- A beautiful heart, a clean heart.
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- And parents and others that try to influence
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- That child, corrupt that child.
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- Just let that child express themselves all the way
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- Through the years, all the way through,
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- And just let them go the way they want to go,
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- Using their emotions and their feelings and their heart.
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- It will be a pure rose that will be formed,
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- A beautiful life.
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- That's what rousseau taught
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- Modern education.
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- Somebody said rousseau did heavenly children.
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- Oh, yeah.
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- He had four.
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- He had four
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- By a peasant girl who was illiterate.
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- And he systematically
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- Disinherited all four of them
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- Because of their lives.
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- Follow your heart.
- 00:14:52.648 --> 00:14:53.682
- Don't look up. look within.
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- Don't look at your mind. but look at your heart.
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- Look at your feelings.
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- And this is romanticism.
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- There.
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- The third guy came along beginning of the 20th century.
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- He came along there and said,
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- No, no,
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- Nietzsche.
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- Frederick nietzsche came along.
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- He said, i'll tell you here by the 17th century is not right.
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- In the 18th century in egypt, he came along
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- And pushed us to another area.
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- He said, look to your will to decide what's right and wrong.
- 00:15:28.684 --> 00:15:32.488
- And he talked about the superman
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- Or the german, said the overman, the superman,
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- The superwoman. to decide what's right and wrong.
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- You just assert yourself.
- 00:15:39.928 --> 00:15:41.797
- You just show your muscles.
- 00:15:41.797 --> 00:15:44.466
- That's how you decide and might makes right.
- 00:15:44.466 --> 00:15:49.104
- This is the philosophy of the adult hitler.
- 00:15:49.104 --> 00:15:51.040
- He was a nietzsche follower down to the core.
- 00:15:51.040 --> 00:15:54.209
- And hitler adopted the
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- The saying that you'll see on your screen of nietzsche.
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- Look at it.
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- The strong have the right to rule
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- Any way they see fit.
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- It is might makes right,
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- And it is the doctrine of perfectionism.
- 00:16:11.293 --> 00:16:14.463
- If you assert yourself, you decide what you want.
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- If you're strong enough to get your way and to do it,
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- That makes it all right.
- 00:16:20.636 --> 00:16:23.405
- See, i didn't break any law.
- 00:16:23.405 --> 00:16:25.841
- That's what the german criminals and you're.
- 00:16:26.742 --> 00:16:28.444
- And berg said, i didn't break any german law.
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- I just used the might of the third reich.
- 00:16:32.081 --> 00:16:36.552
- So you have these
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- Three guys saying, hey, don't look up,
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- Look within, look at your mind, rationalism.
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- Look at your heart. romanticism.
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- Look at your will.
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- Perfectionism, the superman, the superwoman.
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- And you decide.
- 00:16:54.937 --> 00:16:57.906
- And you see nietzsche.
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- You see all of these philosophers.
- 00:17:02.678 --> 00:17:06.315
- Their seeds have been spread all the way
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- Through our culture.
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- Talk to somebody who's a humanist.
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- Talk to somebody who's away
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- From god and away from the church.
- 00:17:14.656 --> 00:17:16.125
- They ask them how to determine what is right or wrong.
- 00:17:16.125 --> 00:17:18.560
- They say, well, i just i just use my mind
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- And, you know, i just follow my emotions,
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- You know,
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- If i can get away with it and do it and nobody finds out,
- 00:17:24.333 --> 00:17:26.735
- Man, i'll just assert my will.
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- Right.
- 00:17:28.737 --> 00:17:31.473
- What is the results of this?
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- I don't know about you, but my moral compass is broken.
- 00:17:34.776 --> 00:17:38.247
- I will confess that to you.
- 00:17:38.247 --> 00:17:40.582
- My moral compass is broken.
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- I look to my mind.
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- I look to my feelings.
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- I look to my strength.
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- All of that and decided ethics.
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- What's right and wrong. my compass is broken.
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- And ladies and gentlemen, your compass is broken to.
- 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:55.664
- And the compass of america is broken to.
- 00:17:55.664 --> 00:17:59.034
- And we are in a catastrophic mess.
- 00:17:59.801 --> 00:18:03.739
- You see the erosion
- 00:18:03.739 --> 00:18:05.207
- Of adopting portions of this kind of thinking that's
- 00:18:05.207 --> 00:18:08.977
- Taught in our colleges and universities,
- 00:18:08.977 --> 00:18:11.180
- In some high schools all across america.
- 00:18:11.180 --> 00:18:13.882
- It has come down to us today, and we see the rationale
- 00:18:13.882 --> 00:18:18.620
- Of where we are in our culture, in our america.
- 00:18:18.620 --> 00:18:22.090
- It comes right down to this,
- 00:18:22.090 --> 00:18:25.494
- Right down to this moment.
- 00:18:26.061 --> 00:18:29.865
- Where are the heroes?
- 00:18:30.365 --> 00:18:31.600
- Where are the heroines?
- 00:18:31.600 --> 00:18:34.937
- Oh, it just continues to slide.
- 00:18:34.937 --> 00:18:37.773
- Look at a study recently by ucla.
- 00:18:38.507 --> 00:18:41.109
- No citadel of conservatism.
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- They they they surveyed
- 00:18:45.514 --> 00:18:47.416
- Teenagers from 1997 to 2007 and 1997 teenagers,
- 00:18:47.416 --> 00:18:54.056
- And they serve 8000 of them and said
- 00:18:54.056 --> 00:18:56.325
- This was the order of values, priorities in their life,
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- Community, feeling,
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- Benevolence, image, tradition, self-acceptance.
- 00:19:01.230 --> 00:19:05.067
- Ten years later,
- 00:19:05.067 --> 00:19:07.536
- Look at our teenagers.
- 00:19:07.536 --> 00:19:09.238
- What's their order? fame?
- 00:19:09.238 --> 00:19:11.073
- Oh, achievement, popularity, image?
- 00:19:11.073 --> 00:19:13.976
- Financial success.
- 00:19:13.976 --> 00:19:16.311
- What happened in ten years
- 00:19:16.311 --> 00:19:19.281
- To our teenagers?
- 00:19:19.281 --> 00:19:22.150
- Youtube.
- 00:19:22.417 --> 00:19:23.585
- Twitter, facebook, social media.
- 00:19:23.585 --> 00:19:28.523
- All of a sudden all the values of our kids
- 00:19:28.523 --> 00:19:31.526
- Were turned right side up because mom and dad
- 00:19:31.526 --> 00:19:34.463
- Basically were asleep.
- 00:19:34.463 --> 00:19:36.064
- Because dad says, man, i want to be a corporate man,
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- A company man, and he strives and he works,
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- And he likes the wife and children
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- And give them the leftover their time.
- 00:19:45.040 --> 00:19:46.775
- And then when he reaches some kind of area of success
- 00:19:46.775 --> 00:19:50.479
- In his chosen field, when he's 40 or 50,
- 00:19:50.479 --> 00:19:52.981
- He looks back and said, oh, i would give everything i have
- 00:19:52.981 --> 00:19:57.586
- If i could go back
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- And have time with my kids and not neglect them as i did.
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- We don't need more company men.
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- We need more family men.
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- Let me introduce you
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- To two fathers.
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- Some of you know them.
- 00:20:20.442 --> 00:20:22.878
- Let's look at them at a different light than maybe
- 00:20:22.878 --> 00:20:25.480
- You have ever seen them before.
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- First. samuel.
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- We have a father by the name of eli.
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- Eli was a prophet, was a priest.
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- He's an old man.
- 00:20:36.258 --> 00:20:37.559
- He has two sons, hoffner and phineas.
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- And someone came to eli in this passage and says, eli,
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- Your sons are sleeping with women
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- In the house of worship.
- 00:20:48.503 --> 00:20:51.907
- Somebody had to tell eli
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- That these sons are grown men.
- 00:20:54.142 --> 00:20:56.878
- Eli goes to his sons.
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- And look what this says in verse 25 led a part,
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- But they would not listen to the voice of their father.
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- His old man
- 00:21:11.526 --> 00:21:12.561
- Didn't know the condition of his own sons.
- 00:21:12.561 --> 00:21:15.230
- He'd been so busy doing good, fine, wonderful things
- 00:21:15.230 --> 00:21:18.934
- In his calling, in his vocation.
- 00:21:18.934 --> 00:21:20.869
- And now he spoke to them, and they did not listen
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- To the words of their father.
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- Is it any wonder
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- I don't need you to another father
- 00:21:28.076 --> 00:21:29.845
- In scripture, man by the name of mordechai.
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- He was a stepfather, incidentally,
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- And esther, his stepdaughter, whom he nurtured
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- And loved and modeled and taught the ways of god.
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- She is now queen of the land.
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- Beautiful,
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- Wonderful, reigning queen of the land.
- 00:21:49.831 --> 00:21:52.801
- And now she has a chance to do something
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- For god and for god's people.
- 00:21:55.103 --> 00:21:57.873
- And mordecai went to her and look at the latter
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- Part of esther, chapter
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- Two, verse number 24.
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- Esther did what mordecai bid her as she had come,
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- As she had done when under his care.
- 00:22:12.788 --> 00:22:15.457
- Esther listened to mordecai,
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- Though she was a grown woman
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- In a high position, eli
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- Sons didn't pay any attention to him.
- 00:22:25.600 --> 00:22:28.270
- He hadn't built the right stuff in those boys.
- 00:22:28.270 --> 00:22:30.939
- He turned his back on them.
- 00:22:30.939 --> 00:22:32.741
- He must have looked within and let them look within
- 00:22:32.741 --> 00:22:37.145
- And determine their own destiny.
- 00:22:37.145 --> 00:22:40.148
- Mordecai had built the right stuff in esther,
- 00:22:40.148 --> 00:22:43.118
- And mordecai gave counsel, and she listened to mordecai
- 00:22:43.118 --> 00:22:46.755
- Just like she had when she was brought up in that home
- 00:22:46.755 --> 00:22:50.425
- As a stepfather, he disciplined her and loved her.
- 00:22:50.425 --> 00:22:54.029
- What a difference.
- 00:22:54.029 --> 00:22:57.365
- Now i want to show you something that i didn't
- 00:22:56.164 --> 00:23:00.402
- Pick up on until saturday
- 00:23:00.402 --> 00:23:04.005
- Yesterday.
- 00:23:04.306 --> 00:23:06.074
- Look back at our scripture.
- 00:23:06.074 --> 00:23:07.509
- This will stagger you.
- 00:23:07.509 --> 00:23:10.579
- Our scripture jeremiah chapter 17.
- 00:23:10.579 --> 00:23:13.715
- Look at verse 20.
- 00:23:13.715 --> 00:23:14.950
- It says, i, the lord searched
- 00:23:14.950 --> 00:23:17.919
- The heart.
- 00:23:17.919 --> 00:23:20.889
- He's already
- 00:23:21.223 --> 00:23:22.324
- Said, the heart is deceitful, deceptively wicked.
- 00:23:22.324 --> 00:23:24.626
- Who can know it? we agree with that. your heart.
- 00:23:24.626 --> 00:23:26.595
- My heart.
- 00:23:26.595 --> 00:23:27.429
- Then he says, i searched the heart.
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- The heart.
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- I mean people who make decisions
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- With their heart and their feelings.
- 00:23:32.100 --> 00:23:34.002
- Jeremiah is talking about the same thing
- 00:23:34.002 --> 00:23:37.506
- That, oh, we've already looked at him.
- 00:23:37.506 --> 00:23:41.042
- That's what rousseau was talking about, wouldn't it?
- 00:23:42.077 --> 00:23:44.746
- You get your morals and your ethics by your heart.
- 00:23:44.746 --> 00:23:48.316
- Oh, jeremiah predated rousseau.
- 00:23:48.316 --> 00:23:50.552
- Oh, look at that verse.
- 00:23:50.552 --> 00:23:52.654
- I test the mind, says the lord.
- 00:23:52.654 --> 00:23:54.823
- Oh, me.
- 00:23:54.823 --> 00:23:55.924
- It seemed like jeremiah has
- 00:23:55.924 --> 00:23:59.694
- Predated kant, who said, the way you get
- 00:23:59.694 --> 00:24:03.698
- Your ethics is look at your mind. rationalism.
- 00:24:03.698 --> 00:24:06.268
- Oh, he'd already anticipated that.
- 00:24:06.268 --> 00:24:09.437
- Oh, and look at the rest of the verse.
- 00:24:09.437 --> 00:24:11.306
- It says even to give to each man according to his ways,
- 00:24:11.306 --> 00:24:15.510
- According to the results of his deeds.
- 00:24:15.510 --> 00:24:18.280
- Well, that sounds like nietzsche.
- 00:24:18.280 --> 00:24:20.415
- Oh, i just have certain myself.
- 00:24:20.415 --> 00:24:21.883
- I decide what is right by my own power.
- 00:24:21.883 --> 00:24:26.321
- Isn't it
- 00:24:26.588 --> 00:24:27.455
- Something right there in our verse?
- 00:24:27.455 --> 00:24:31.526
- God has already dealt with the rationalism,
- 00:24:31.526 --> 00:24:36.097
- The romanticism, and with the absolutely demonic
- 00:24:36.097 --> 00:24:40.535
- Idea
- 00:24:40.535 --> 00:24:41.736
- Of asserting your own life and living it out your own way.
- 00:24:41.736 --> 00:24:44.472
- He's already dealt with it in our scripture.
- 00:24:44.472 --> 00:24:47.576
- And look at the answer.
- 00:24:48.076 --> 00:24:49.344
- Now the verse comes alive that we read in our scripture.
- 00:24:49.344 --> 00:24:52.080
- Look what he says.
- 00:24:52.080 --> 00:24:53.882
- Verse 13, all who forsake you will be put to shame.
- 00:24:53.882 --> 00:24:59.154
- All who look within and do not look up will be put to shame.
- 00:24:59.154 --> 00:25:04.593
- Those who turn away on earth will be written down.
- 00:25:04.593 --> 00:25:08.296
- Now you get it, because they have forsaken
- 00:25:08.296 --> 00:25:11.099
- The fountain of living water, even the lord.
- 00:25:11.099 --> 00:25:14.202
- And then we have the climactic verse.
- 00:25:14.202 --> 00:25:17.806
- And it is.
- 00:25:17.806 --> 00:25:23.111
- Heal me,
- 00:25:23.378 --> 00:25:24.312
- O lord, that i might be healed.
- 00:25:24.312 --> 00:25:27.882
- Save me, o lord, that i might be saved.
- 00:25:27.882 --> 00:25:30.952
- Prayed again.
- 00:25:30.952 --> 00:25:31.886
- Look up.
- 00:25:31.886 --> 00:25:32.954
- Heal me, o lord, that i might be healed.
- 00:25:32.954 --> 00:25:36.591
- Save me, o lord, that i might be saved.
- 00:25:36.591 --> 00:25:39.894
- Our heavenly father,
- 00:25:39.894 --> 00:25:41.663
- This is our prayer for america.
- 00:25:42.297 --> 00:25:45.934
- This is our prayer for our lives.
- 00:25:46.635 --> 00:25:49.838
- This is our prayer for our homes.
- 00:25:49.838 --> 00:25:52.040
- This is our prayer for our families.
- 00:25:52.040 --> 00:25:54.709
- Forgive us when we have been gobbled up
- 00:25:54.709 --> 00:25:58.113
- And swallowed whole
- 00:25:58.113 --> 00:26:00.949
- In a broken culture.
- 00:26:00.949 --> 00:26:04.919
- When i was a boy,
- 00:26:05.353 --> 00:26:06.621
- There was a popular little song called mother.
- 00:26:06.621 --> 00:26:10.392
- Derived from the acrostic motif.
- 00:26:10.392 --> 00:26:14.696
- Though the lyrics are not christian.
- 00:26:15.463 --> 00:26:17.599
- They are certainly universal in their application
- 00:26:17.599 --> 00:26:20.902
- Of mothers everywhere as a child.
- 00:26:20.902 --> 00:26:24.239
- I had to
- 00:26:24.239 --> 00:26:25.340
- Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
- 00:26:25.340 --> 00:26:28.677
- Would you believe that?
- 00:26:28.677 --> 00:26:29.944
- And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
- 00:26:29.944 --> 00:26:34.616
- Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
- 00:26:34.616 --> 00:26:37.118
- With this little acrostic for mother's day.
- 00:26:37.118 --> 00:26:40.522
- For mother's day only.
- 00:26:40.522 --> 00:26:42.657
- So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
- 00:26:42.657 --> 00:26:46.561
- Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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- Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
- 00:26:50.098 --> 00:26:53.835
- To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
- 00:26:53.835 --> 00:26:57.906
- To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
- 00:26:57.906 --> 00:27:02.811
- 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,
- 00:27:07.282 --> 00:27:11.653
- Or give one to your mother.
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- And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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