Ed Young - RaIsing Lambs Among Wolves

January 7, 2025 | S25:E6

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - RaIsing Lambs Among Wolves | January 7, 2025

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Pastor ed young: my mom and dad, they didn't know probably the
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Term "worldview," but they had a worldview that god was
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The creator.
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They had a worldview he created man and woman in his image.
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They had a worldview of marriage and adam and eve, and he
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Performed that first ceremony.
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Leave, cleave one flesh, no shame.
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And the worldview is that god progressively revealed himself
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All the way through the old testament until god's peculiar
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People got so far away from him, at the end of the book of
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Judges, you read a devastating verse.
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Everybody did what was right in their own eyes, because there
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Was no king, no principles, no valid worldview, and the results
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Was hundreds of years of "might make rights" and rebellion
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And decadence.
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And the scripture was silent until, in the fullness of time,
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God visited this earth in human flesh and came jesus, who died
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So that you and i may have an entree to god when we repent and
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Confess sin and ask him to run our life as the
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Commander-in-chief of you and me.
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And we live in that expectancy that the day will come that, as
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God brought history into being, he will bring down history, and
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All who are in christ will graduate to heaven.
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And there will be a new heaven and a new earth on this pristine
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World in which we now live.
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That, in broad summary, is a judeo-christian worldview.
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And when you depart from that, you have left a valid life that
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God has given to every person, a life that is worth living.
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In matthew 18, they asked jesus a very important question.
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Verse 1, "at that time the disciples came to jesus and
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Asked, 'who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom
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Of heaven?'"
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In other words, who is number one?
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Who is the most important entity on this earth, right?
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Who's the greatest?
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Who's the most important?
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Who's the most valuable?
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Who is--has the highest priority of any living thing in
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This world?
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That's what they asked jesus.
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He answered, "bring a child to me.
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And he sat a child down before him, and jesus said," looking at
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The little child, i believe, "truly i say to you, unless you
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Are converted and become like children, you will never enter
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The kingdom of heaven."
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And then he adds, "whoever then humbles himself as this child,
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He is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
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And whoever receives one such child in my name receives me;
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And whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to
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Stumble," and the word stumble there is "skandalon," anyone who
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Deceives, anyone who confuses, anyone who lies to, anyone who
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Takes advantage of a child, says jesus, "it would be better for
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Him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be
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Drowned in the depth of the sea."
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And then jesus says, "woe to the world because of its
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Stumbling blocks!"
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In other words, the world has stumbling blocks especially
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Situated so children will stumble over them.
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"for it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe
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To that man or that woman through whom the stumbling
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Block comes!"
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Did you listen and get that, what jesus said about children?
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And we live, ladies and gentlemen, in a culture, in a
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World, where children have stumbling blocks everywhere
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They turn.
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A good friend of mine, erwin lutzer, who was pastor at moody,
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Who i think is the best biblical authority on understanding our
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Woke culture and putting it in a biblical context.
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He said a woman came up to him after church and said, "pastor,
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I gave my 13-year-old daughter a cell phone when she was 13," and
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She said, "i didn't know it was like giving her her first dose
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Of heroin."
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That cell phone, those tablets, those computers that our
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Children have, that is the instrument in this world that
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Primarily educates them, gives them understanding of their
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Emotions, of their heart, and the agenda for life.
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Now, you can debate that, but you will be 100% wrong.
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That's this generation.
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Our children get their entertainment there, they get
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Their information there, and at very early ages, most of them
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Have seen, heard, experienced sexuality in how many countless
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Forms, and they were not ready for this.
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They were not ready.
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Dr. ben carson, close friend and brother of mine as most of you
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Know, one of the finest brain surgeons who ever lived, he
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Operated primarily on children.
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Johns hopkins.
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He explained to me about the brain.
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He talked about the legalization of marijuana.
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It sounds so great.
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He says what happens with the legalization of marijuana to
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Children and young peoples' brain is absolutely tragic.
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Iq, sexual prowess, creativity, all of it gets dimmer and dimmer
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And dimmer, because we need to know that the white gray matter
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And the gray gray matter, this white and gray matter that goes
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Into the brain, it develops slowly through children from
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Birth, slowly through children.
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And god, in his great wisdom of creation, sees that we do not
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Develop into purity--into puberty, rather, until it comes
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Time of transition, when all of these hormones come upon you and
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Come upon our children at the same time they're viewing all of
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This that will scar them sexually for the rest of
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Their lives.
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The new york post just a couple of months ago wrote an article,
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A 16-year-old girl.
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She tells her story.
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She said, "when i was 12, i thought, you know, everything's
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Messed up in me.
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I'm--i shouldn't be a girl, i should be a boy."
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And she said she told her parents.
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Her parents said, "oh, we love you and we want to make sure
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That you do whatever you want to do and become whatever you want
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To become," 'cause everybody told her that gender is fluid.
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And in the article, she said, "i'm now 16," and she said she's
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Now going through a process of trying to reverse what had been
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Medically accomplished.
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And she said, "my life is in shambles."
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Now, interesting enough, in two european countries where this
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Has been going on, believe it or not, longer than even the united
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States, in great numbers of kids, two european countries
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Have had wide surveys with literally thousands of people
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Who have gone through sex-altering procedures, and the
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Results is overwhelming that most of them, overwhelming
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Majority of them, regret it ever happened at all.
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And we know that most people who go through this state of
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Confusion and dysphoria, in about four years, they come out
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And began to get their life together.
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And understand that when god put a soul of a man in a man's body,
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That person's is a man, and a soul in a female body, that
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Person a female.
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Most of them in the long run, if radical things haven't happened,
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Do figure it out.
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That's the good news.
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We live in a crazy, crazy world.
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And that's who we are.
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That's what's about.
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And it's a part of the deadly evil that we have here.
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I want you to listen to one of my favorite, favorite authors.
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I could tell you this, but i'm going to read it.
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Dr. peter kreeft, roman catholic, teaches at
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Boston college.
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One of the greatest apologists for the christian faith alive.
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Prolific author.
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I could tell you this, but i'm gonna read you exactly what he
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Said in this area.
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He asks the profound question that we need to have an
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Answer to.
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Why do people want to change their gender?
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Think about it.
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His answer, a biblical answer.
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He says, "because the devil hates them and hates their
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Happiness, so he confuses them by making them hate something
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Good, something god designed and made, and something natural:
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Their bodies.
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The devil hates everything natural because god created it,
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So the devil always loves to pervert natural things.
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The devil loves that for the same reason he wants men to hate
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Their masculinity and pretend to be women, and women to hate
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Their femininity and pretend to be men.
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The devil loves all lies."
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John 8, he's a liar, he's a killer.
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He creates stumbling blocks.
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"he especially loves to corrupt innocent and childhood.
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Therefore, he loves abuse, especially by people children
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Look up to, these who rape children's souls as well as
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Their bodies instead of saving them, even by doctors, who
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Surgically mutilate a child's sex organs instead of
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Psychologically asking for the healing of their minds."
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Dr. kreeft writes, "we should be compassionate toward people who
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Want to change their gender.
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We cannot help them if we do not listen to them and understand
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Them and feel that their souls are in the wrong bodies, that
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God made a mistake, that they know who they really are more
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Than god knows.
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They need, those struggling in these areas, to find peace and
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Unity in their identity.
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Our attitude towards transgender people should be the same as our
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Attitude toward wounded soldiers.
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The church is indeed a field hospital on a battlefield.
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The church exists for the wounded.
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The church has only one qualification, and that is to
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Be wounded."
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And ladies and gentlemen, in different sexual areas, we
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All qualify.
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Is that clear enough? is that clear enough?
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Now, there are many stumbling blocks that our kids have to
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Face and stumble over, to tear down, jump over, go round,
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That's in our culture.
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They're especially found in our school system.
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You know that if you hear what has happened in california or
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New york, illinois, so many states in the curriculum, and
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Even--i said, well, those are those left-wing progressives
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Over there, and they're doing crazy things to corrupt the
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Children in the agenda, what they're teaching in school,
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Thank goodness i live in texas.
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But then i remember austin, california--austin, texas.
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Freudian slip.
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And i just bumped into something, that in 220, the
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Austin independent school district established a
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Curriculum change, listen.
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Grades three through eight, you are to distinguish biological
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Sex, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation,
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And romantic attractions.
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Three through eight.
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Central to the curriculum is what i've already said.
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Sex assigned to your birth doesn't necessarily mean the sex
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You are to live with the rest of your life.
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Vance packard, one of our greatest sociologists, in a
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Book, he penned, "we are in the
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Middle of a sexual wilderness."
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Some of his scholarly friends said, "why didn't you use the
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Word revolution?"
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And this sociologist said, "i'll tell you exactly why."
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In a revolution, their goals, their aims, their desires, their
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Ambition, there's a reason.
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But he said in a wilderness, like a sexual wilderness,
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You're lost.
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You have no sense of direction.
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Things are changing all around you, and you don't know where
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You're going and where the end will be.
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Therefore, he said, accurately so, we are in a
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Sexual wilderness.
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And all of us have been caught up in it, every single person
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Here in different stages of life.
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So let me say, if i ask anyone to stand up who has been
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Absolutely pure in their thoughts--jesus said if you
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Commit porneia, adultery, in your heart, it is if you had
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Committed--if anybody here is absolutely perfectly pure all
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The way through your life, and all your sexual questions,
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You've had all of them answered, i'm not gonna ask you to stand,
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Because if there is such an individual on this planet, if
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They stood, they would just--whew!
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Go right straight into heaven.
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So let's start right there and understand that all of us have
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Had, and continue to have, conflicting views, lifestyles,
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Actions in the whole area of sex.
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So don't get too pious.
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There's no room for piosity in the whole area of sexuality, in
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Your life or in my life.
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The bottom line is, how do you raise lambs
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In a culture of wolves?
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Did you get that?
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How do we raise lambs in a culture, everywhere you look,
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Of wolves?
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I looked up how does a lamb defend itself, how do sheep
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Defend themselves?
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They seem to be helpless to me.
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There aren't any claws, they can't run, they won't even drink
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Moving water.
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How do we keep the wolves of the culture shearing our lambs
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Before they're old enough to know what's goin' on in the
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Whole confusing area of human sexuality?
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How do we raise lambs in a culture of wolves?
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I said, you know, lambs can't defend themselves, but i looked
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It up and i found i was sorta wrong.
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They're slow, they don't have any claws or they don't bite.
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But they do have some defense mechanism that god has given
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To them.
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They have a keen sense of smell, ooh, way, way, out there.
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They have a keen sense of hearing, they can hear the
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Crumple of a leaf way out there.
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And an unbelievable sense of sight do these lambs.
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They can see for over 1,500 yards.
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That's 15 football fields in distance.
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And i thought about that, how do we raise lambs in a culture of
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Wolves, but they have this kind of ability.
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I'll tell you what, we parents, those who are surrounded with
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Children, let me tell you what.
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We need to develop [sniffing] our sense of smell, that gut
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Feeling you have that something's not right with billy
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Or with alice.
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You better exercise a keen sense of smell from your gut.
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We do around here, because we see kids when--we say the light
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Has gone out, and we notice it.
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All those in the business of bringing up lambs, you'd better
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Develop a sense of smell.
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Also, you'd better learn how to listen.
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Don't talk so much, listen, listen, listen, and ask god to
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Help you to listen to those lambs.
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And then you have to see, have to see who they're with, the
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Families of their friends, where they go.
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And that head down in that cell phone all the time, you'd better
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Be sure what's on that cell phone, in that computer, and in
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That laptop, or i'll tell ya, the wolves will destroy
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Your lamb.
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The lambs have one other defense mechanism: it's the shepherd.
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It's the good shepherd christ.
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It's a shepherd of mom and dad.
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It's a shepherd of godly, loving friends.
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It's the shepherd you find in the body of christ, the church.
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If you're trying to bring up your kids without them being
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Faithful in training and nurture and right relationships
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In the body of christ, let me tell ya, there will be shepherds
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That'll help you build the right stuff in their lives to get them
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Through this world and not be sheared by the wolves that
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Are everywhere.
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The shepherd.
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Also, shepherds have with them-- really many times they have with
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Them something else.
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They have a sheep dog, or sheep dogs, don't they, huh?
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To help keep the flock together.
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And when one of these lambs--or the ewe or the ram in a herd of
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Sheep, they are alerted by anything, you know the first
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Thing the lambs do?
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They all run together in a congregation.
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They all run together.
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With a male, with a female, with a ewe and the lamb.
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And then there're sheep dogs there who herd them, who will
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Protect them, who will fight for them.
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But you know what happens so many times in our culture?
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What happened in the book of isaiah.
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Listen to this.
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Sheep dogs, the watchmen.
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It says, isaiah chapter 56, "his watchmen, his sheep dogs,
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Are blind.
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All of them know nothing.
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All of them are mute dogs unable to bark, dreamers lying down,
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Who love to slumber; and the dogs are greedy, they
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Are satisfied.
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And there are some shepherds who have no understanding; they have
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Turned to their own way."
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Let me tell you something.
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In all the institutions that god created, the family, government,
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The church, we are the watchdogs to assist the shepherds, and we
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Can't be silent.
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We have to bark, bark, bark.
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Pastor ed: for far too long, the church has been asleep.
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It's time we wake up.
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While we've been silent, a godless culture has begun
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Dismantling our country and our world.
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The foundations of the body of christ have been eroded.
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We're being divided by gender, race, and social class.
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Our families are under attack and our children are being
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Corrupted and confused.
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It's time for god's family to stand up against this
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Woke culture.
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In "the church awake," we will discover biblical solutions as
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We battle the forces that are ripping our country apart.
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It's my prayer that through biblical truth will find the
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Strength and courage we need to awaken the united states
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Of america.
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Male announcer: to get the series, "the church awake," call
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The number on your screen or go online at winningwalk.org.
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Pastor ed: most parents today are not raising their children,
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The culture is.
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Nowhere do we see the work of satan more clearly than in the
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Sexualization of our kids.
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Destroying their identity, confusing their gender, causing
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Unresolved guilt and self-hatred.
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Jesus is not neutral when it comes to children, and as christ
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Followers, we are not to be neutral either.
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We must protect our children.
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The church's role is to be a hospital on the battlefield.
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The church exists for the wounded.
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We must love, accept, listen to, and help parents and young
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People alike.
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We need to permeate this culture with light into the darkness.
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That's your calling, that's your destiny, that's my destiny,
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That's your calling, my calling, all of us.
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The challenge to you this week is become that light that is so
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Desperately needed.
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That's the only answer for you and for me and for america in
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The 21st century.
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Thank you for watching today, and make plans to join us next
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Time on "the winning walk" as we keep walking into the light and
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The light of the truth of god given to us in the bible.
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - RaIsing Lambs Among Wolves

January 7, 2025 | S25:E6

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