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Ed Young - The Real God

March 1, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - The Real God
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Real God | March 1, 2026
  • They didn't have everything they wanted,
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  • But they had everything they needed.
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  • Isn't that great?
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  • We don't have all we want,
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  • But most of us have everything we need.
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  • And so you can imagine this woman is seeing a miracle.
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  • Miracle every morning.
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  • But she looked at the oil we ran out yesterday.
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  • There's some more. just enough.
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  • There's some flour.
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  • We use it all and there's some more.
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  • And day after day.
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  • So you can imagine that
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  • When elijah
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  • Would wake up and go down from he slept on the roof,
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  • That would be the prophet's chamber.
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  • He would go down.
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  • He would hear her singing.
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  • Praise god, from whom all biscuits
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  • Flow.
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  • God is not distant.
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  • He is faithful.
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  • He is here and he has given us everything we need for a life.
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  • A life of victory and success.
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  • Today you're going to look at how
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  • Personal spirituality is about religion.
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  • It's about that relationship.
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  • It's about discovering the strength that comes
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  • From walking closely
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  • With the lord every single day.
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  • And thank you for being a part of the winning walk,
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  • This family.
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  • Mr. gallup and his latest poll
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  • Revealed that 94% of people who live in america
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  • Believe in some kind of god.
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  • On any given sunday, there are more people
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  • Gathered in places of worship than they are
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  • In all the sporting events in america
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  • Put together.
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  • So faith and religion and worship
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  • And seeking to know and understand and follow
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  • God is at an all time high
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  • In our culture,
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  • And therefore
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  • We find a lot of people who come up to me
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  • And they may come up to you and say,
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  • The silliest thing.
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  • That they could possibly say.
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  • All religions
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  • Are basically the same.
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  • We're climbing many different roads, wanting to go to heaven.
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  • It doesn't matter which trail.
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  • You take.
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  • As long as. you're sincere.
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  • Anybody who says that.
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  • And believe that
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  • Has exposed himself to one simple fact.
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  • They have never seriously looked
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  • At any faith or any religion.
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  • They've never had that experience.
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  • Because you take the major questions of life,
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  • The big questions of life.
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  • Who am i?
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  • Question of identity.
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  • Where did i come from?
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  • A question of origin.
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  • Why am i here?
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  • A question of purpose.
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  • Where am i going?
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  • A question of.
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  • Destiny.
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  • Those are the big four.
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  • And you can take the calls.
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  • The religions, the denominations,
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  • And you can put them all down and ask
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  • Those big four questions.
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  • And you get radically different answers.
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  • All religions are not the same.
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  • All denominations are not the same.
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  • Or like the the country.
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  • Preacher back in mississippi said all abominations
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  • Are not the same.
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  • Because the basic
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  • Understanding of authority
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  • And ultimate meaning.
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  • And the big question of epistemology,
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  • You say, well, what is that?
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  • It means how do you know that?
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  • You know.
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  • That's epistemology.
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  • How do you know that? you know.
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  • They answer these questions totally different.
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  • And therefore,
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  • We need today, with all the proliferation
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  • Of religious activity and faith and cults and everything
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  • We read and hear and see around us and on television.
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  • We need people who will stand up and be spiritual guides,
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  • Men and women who will say that is true,
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  • That is false.
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  • And we need somebody who will shout and say, look,
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  • This is the real god,
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  • And this is how you can tell the difference between that is
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  • That which is valid and worship and that which is invalid.
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  • And worship.
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  • Spiritual guides.
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  • The eighth
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  • Century was much like today.
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  • You see in israel
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  • For a long, long time there was the worship
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  • Of the one and true god, the god of israel,
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  • The god of abraham and isaac and jacob.
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  • That was the true god.
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  • And though there was idolatry, and though
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  • There was many other expressions
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  • For the nation as a whole was a theocracy,
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  • And they worship the living god,
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  • Jehovah god,
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  • Until the eighth century b.c.,
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  • Ahab, jezebel became king and queen of israel,
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  • And then very intentionally,
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  • They took pagan worship into israel
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  • And sought to make israel into a pluralistic nation
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  • For all kind of gods and goddesses.
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  • And they brought in
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  • 400 prophets of baal and 450 prophets of ashcroft,
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  • The prophets of sensuality and sexuality,
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  • And the prophets of groves,
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  • That esther and the prophets of baal
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  • And baal was the god of the harvest,
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  • The god of the seasons, the god of fire.
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  • And so
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  • Everywhere you went in israel, there was an altar
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  • In the valley.
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  • There was a a shelter, a monument
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  • On top of the mountain.
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  • There was all kind of worship going on everywhere.
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  • And the only god that was not forbidden
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  • Was the god of israel
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  • Was yahova.
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  • In fact, those who worship jehovah,
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  • The prophets and those who followed him,
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  • Who remained as a remnant,
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  • They were either killed or in hiding,
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  • Because we know that about 6 or 7000 of them were in.
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  • Caves.
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  • When ahab and jezebel sat on the throne.
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  • Like our nation today.
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  • All kinds of religious stuff.
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  • Bizarre, wild.
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  • It used to just be in california,
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  • But it is swept all the way
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  • Through texas, through florida, across our land
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  • And california.
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  • They have a cult
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  • In which they believe that jesus was a mushroom.
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  • True.
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  • They got a good group.
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  • Jesus was a mushroom.
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  • So we have all of this.
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  • How can you tell that which is true
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  • And that which is false?
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  • And in the days of.
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  • Elijah, they had the same.
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  • Problem.
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  • They need spiritual guides.
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  • They need truth tellers.
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  • They need designers
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  • Who could stand up and say, hey, that's not it.
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  • Hey, this is it.
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  • And they were shouting was the real god.
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  • Stand up.
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  • And many of us feel the same way in this day and age.
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  • Elijah was that god.
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  • We've seen god preparing elijah for something
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  • That was oh so important.
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  • What in the world is god doing?
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  • Elijah being obedient to him and confronting the king.
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  • And now elijah being obedient and concealment.
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  • And of all things. the brook dries up.
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  • And then in.
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  • Our scripture, if you listen carefully.
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  • God speaks to elijah
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  • And says, go to zero faith.
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  • What's the words there for me?
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  • It made smelter to be embedded
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  • In zarephath, that there was a smelting plant.
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  • They would take gold and metals and they would
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  • Put them in the under heat, and they would melt them down
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  • And the dross would come out.
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  • It would be pure gold, the bottom,
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  • But the dross would come and they would skim all that
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  • That was extraneous off the top until only purity was left.
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  • And so now elijah lee's chariot, for he's been cut off
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  • And cut down and cut out, and he goes to zero fast,
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  • And now he's going to be melted.
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  • Have you noticed that
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  • Trouble follows trouble and follows trouble?
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  • You say, well, boy, i got all that. boom.
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  • And then i'm in.
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  • I mean.
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  • Is that what happens to him?
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  • What in the world is god doing with elijah?
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  • He goes to is there a path
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  • And not some rich merchant is going to look after him,
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  • But some widow who is poor as dirt?
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  • When he arrives at the gate, he simply asks for water.
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  • Then he says, just make me a little cake that i might eat.
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  • He had traveled from careth to zarephath.
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  • If we had a map of israel,
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  • You would see that's about 100 miles.
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  • He was a man with a price on his head.
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  • All the people were looking for
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  • Elijah, who had been blamed for the rain stopping.
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  • And there was an all points reward out for him.
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  • Wanted dead or dead.
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  • And he traveled 100 miles to that territory.
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  • And he leaves israel of all things.
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  • He goes into gentile country.
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  • Go to sidon, way up on the coast
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  • Outside of israel.
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  • And guess who was the king of sidon?
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  • Jezebel's dad.
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  • The citadel of paganism.
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  • Of godlessness, hope and morality.
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  • And here's this widows going to look at you.
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  • And she's so poor.
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  • And she's making sticks to prepare the last meal for
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  • Her son and her family.
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  • And elijah must have thought, welcome to their faith.
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  • Oh. from a dried up brook
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  • To being melted down to being smelted.
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  • And then amazing thing happened.
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  • The woman
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  • Recognized the difference between the god of israel
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  • And the pagan gods.
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  • See it in the scripture.
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  • She made the bread cake
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  • And elijah told her, every day you can prepare a meal
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  • And the oil will not run out and the flour will not run out.
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  • And that happened day.
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  • After day after day for two plus years, when she had only.
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  • Enough for one last meal.
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  • Suddenly there was a daily miracle.
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  • Suddenly, i believe this woman began
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  • To believe in the true and living god of israel.
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  • I can imagine elijah teaching the scripture
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  • And then praying together.
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  • And one commentator said that as she saw
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  • They would have oil and flour to eat.
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  • They didn't have everything they wanted,
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  • But they had everything they needed.
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  • Isn't that great?
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  • We don't have all we want,
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  • But most of us have everything we need.
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  • And so you can imagine this woman is seeing a miracle.
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  • Miracle every morning.
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  • But she looked at the oil we ran out yesterday.
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  • There's some more. just enough.
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  • There's some flour.
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  • We use it all and there's some more.
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  • And day after day.
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  • So you can imagine that
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  • When elijah
  • 00:12:25.167 --> 00:12:26.268
  • Would wake up and go down from he slept on the roof,
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  • That would be the prophet's chamber.
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  • He would go down.
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  • He would hear her singing.
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  • Praise god, from whom all biscuits flow.
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  • A child takes their
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  • First step unsteady.
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  • Unsure.
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  • Reaching for a father's hand.
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  • No one is born knowing how to walk.
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  • It takes training, strength.
  • 00:12:51.827 --> 00:12:54.230
  • Balance. time.
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  • Walking with god is no different.
  • 00:12:56.665 --> 00:12:59.568
  • Like all journeys, walking the winning
  • 00:12:59.568 --> 00:13:01.503
  • Walk requires the proper equipment and preparation.
  • 00:13:01.503 --> 00:13:05.174
  • By outfitting our lives with the word of god,
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  • We will be able to follow where the master leads.
  • 00:13:07.776 --> 00:13:11.480
  • Psalm 119 says, your word is a lamp
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  • Unto my feet and a light under my path.
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  • God doesn't rush the journey.
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  • He lights the next step in the winning walk.
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  • To help you develop the strength and spiritual
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  • Balance needed for a steady, daily walk with christ.
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  • Winning walk today and begin walking confidently with him.
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  • How? you
  • 00:13:53.889 --> 00:13:58.494
  • See, god was teaching elijah.
  • 00:13:58.494 --> 00:14:01.797
  • That he's going to be saved through this poor woman.
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  • And also that woman was going to be saved through him.
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  • They hmhmm
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  • Powerful stuff.
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  • Powerful man.
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  • God is teaching elijah what he's teaching
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  • Elijah obedience.
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  • He's teaching elijah to live
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  • One day at a time.
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  • He teaching elijah.
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  • To be dependent upon him.
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  • Don't tell anybody.
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  • Keep it a secret.
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  • That's exactly what god wants all of us to learn.
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  • Obey.
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  • Live one day at a time.
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  • Be dependent on him.
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  • Well, but my brook dried up, man.
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  • Now i'm being melted in this
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  • This impoverished area by this widow.
  • 00:14:52.247 --> 00:14:55.250
  • You see, god is able to do amazing things
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  • To those who are willing to move from being instruments.
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  • That's something god uses.
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  • To becoming servants, to being just elijah, the back
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  • To being elijah.
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  • At the end of the chapter, a man of god or
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  • Or a woman of god.
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  • God puts us through cherished
  • 00:15:16.438 --> 00:15:20.142
  • And zero fast.
  • 00:15:20.476 --> 00:15:23.846
  • So we'll know the real god.
  • 00:15:24.446 --> 00:15:26.115
  • Elijah was able to determine that's the real god
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  • In our society and our world.
  • 00:15:29.385 --> 00:15:31.020
  • There's so many people who claim to have visions
  • 00:15:31.020 --> 00:15:34.156
  • And dreams, and god spoke and god acted and and god moved.
  • 00:15:34.156 --> 00:15:38.660
  • How do you determine the real god
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  • From those gods and goddesses that are not real?
  • 00:15:41.663 --> 00:15:44.767
  • That was a problem in the eighth century b.c.
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  • And that's our problem today.
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  • Let me tell you three things.
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  • First of all, the real god is a god
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  • Of the outsiders.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • When elijah showed up in zero faith,
  • 00:16:03.952 --> 00:16:07.756
  • He worked and realized that god gives grace to outsiders
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  • Because there was a widow woman there.
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  • She was an economic outsider.
  • 00:16:15.764 --> 00:16:18.000
  • She was poor as dirt.
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  • She was a religious outsider.
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  • She worship all the pagan gods.
  • 00:16:23.172 --> 00:16:26.175
  • She was a moral outsider.
  • 00:16:26.175 --> 00:16:28.610
  • She didn't have any understanding
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  • Of the ten commandments or right and wrong in her life.
  • 00:16:30.345 --> 00:16:33.415
  • She was a racial outsider.
  • 00:16:33.415 --> 00:16:35.784
  • She was a hated gentile.
  • 00:16:35.784 --> 00:16:39.088
  • She was a political outsider.
  • 00:16:39.088 --> 00:16:41.523
  • She lived in sidon, tire and sidon,
  • 00:16:41.523 --> 00:16:44.393
  • The nation most hated by the jews at this moment.
  • 00:16:44.393 --> 00:16:47.362
  • She was an outsider in every way.
  • 00:16:47.362 --> 00:16:49.798
  • And here is the real god in speaking to her,
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  • Who was a total outsider as far as the jews were concerned.
  • 00:16:53.836 --> 00:16:59.208
  • So when you get home,
  • 00:16:59.708 --> 00:17:00.843
  • Take your bible, open up to luke chapter number four.
  • 00:17:00.843 --> 00:17:04.513
  • Luke chapter number four is when jesus went back
  • 00:17:04.513 --> 00:17:08.083
  • To his hometown of nazareth.
  • 00:17:08.083 --> 00:17:11.019
  • What?
  • 00:17:11.019 --> 00:17:12.221
  • He had some fame as a healer, particularly in capernaum.
  • 00:17:12.221 --> 00:17:15.023
  • And he goes back
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  • And he's
  • 00:17:16.425 --> 00:17:17.593
  • Asked to preach a sermon in the synagogue in nazareth.
  • 00:17:17.593 --> 00:17:21.363
  • And he stands up and
  • 00:17:21.830 --> 00:17:23.165
  • Guess what scripture he reads
  • 00:17:23.165 --> 00:17:26.535
  • Ours.
  • 00:17:26.768 --> 00:17:28.871
  • Our scripture,
  • 00:17:28.871 --> 00:17:30.939
  • He simply reads this passage
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  • About elijah going there
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  • To zarephath and being received by an outsider.
  • 00:17:36.145 --> 00:17:40.382
  • And he said in his homily there that there were plenty
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  • Of widows in israel that could have helped this prophet.
  • 00:17:44.786 --> 00:17:49.591
  • But god sent him outside of israel.
  • 00:17:49.591 --> 00:17:55.998
  • And when he said this,
  • 00:17:56.465 --> 00:17:59.168
  • He threw in the story of naaman.
  • 00:17:59.168 --> 00:18:02.437
  • And suddenly those jews there
  • 00:18:02.437 --> 00:18:04.439
  • In nazareth realized that the real god
  • 00:18:04.439 --> 00:18:07.543
  • Was a god of outsiders who offered grace to outsiders.
  • 00:18:07.543 --> 00:18:12.314
  • What did they do with jesus and his first sermon?
  • 00:18:12.314 --> 00:18:15.050
  • They took him to a cliff and were they pushed him over?
  • 00:18:15.050 --> 00:18:19.621
  • Had he not sort of walked in the middle of them?
  • 00:18:20.622 --> 00:18:23.926
  • You see what brought wrath to those jews
  • 00:18:23.926 --> 00:18:27.496
  • There in the first century when he talked about elijah
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  • And god showing grace and.
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  • Using outsiders to minister to.
  • 00:18:33.001 --> 00:18:35.571
  • This great prophet in their history,
  • 00:18:35.571 --> 00:18:38.507
  • And infuriated them and still infuriates some of us.
  • 00:18:38.507 --> 00:18:42.110
  • We are church folks,
  • 00:18:42.110 --> 00:18:44.813
  • You know, and we don't have much in common with those.
  • 00:18:44.813 --> 00:18:48.517
  • Who don't think as we think,
  • 00:18:48.517 --> 00:18:51.353
  • Don't live as we live, don't.
  • 00:18:51.353 --> 00:18:54.089
  • And we we have all of these outsiders
  • 00:18:54.089 --> 00:18:56.992
  • Who are not a part of our.
  • 00:18:56.992 --> 00:18:58.093
  • Little.
  • 00:18:58.093 --> 00:18:59.228
  • Click and our little club and our sweet little group
  • 00:18:59.228 --> 00:19:02.864
  • That they can sing.
  • 00:19:02.864 --> 00:19:04.032
  • The hymn is and know all the anthems, and we realize
  • 00:19:04.032 --> 00:19:08.437
  • That god loves and has grace toward
  • 00:19:08.437 --> 00:19:11.740
  • The outsiders. oh,
  • 00:19:11.740 --> 00:19:15.744
  • That's the real god.
  • 00:19:16.211 --> 00:19:18.780
  • But god so loved the w o r l the.
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  • One with no exceptions.
  • 00:19:23.552 --> 00:19:28.323
  • The real god is a god who.
  • 00:19:28.890 --> 00:19:31.793
  • Reaches is a god of outsiders.
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  • Also we see.
  • 00:19:34.763 --> 00:19:35.631
  • The real god is a living god.
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  • This would a woman you.
  • 00:19:38.166 --> 00:19:39.268
  • The difference between
  • 00:19:39.268 --> 00:19:40.836
  • The living god of israel and the idols that were made.
  • 00:19:40.836 --> 00:19:44.973
  • When we worship something we made ourselves, or something
  • 00:19:44.973 --> 00:19:47.809
  • We say, well, this is this is god for me.
  • 00:19:47.809 --> 00:19:50.512
  • You're not going to worship the sun, the moon, the stars.
  • 00:19:50.512 --> 00:19:52.881
  • I'm going to worship feeling good.
  • 00:19:52.881 --> 00:19:54.449
  • We have all these idols that we create.
  • 00:19:54.449 --> 00:20:00.822
  • And so the living god is different from a dead god.
  • 00:20:01.890 --> 00:20:05.661
  • See, the living god is wild.
  • 00:20:06.261 --> 00:20:08.697
  • The living god is capricious.
  • 00:20:08.697 --> 00:20:10.499
  • The living god is sovereign.
  • 00:20:10.499 --> 00:20:12.834
  • And that is the reason.
  • 00:20:12.834 --> 00:20:14.236
  • When the boy died, what did this wood of their father?
  • 00:20:14.236 --> 00:20:18.006
  • What did she say to elijah?
  • 00:20:18.006 --> 00:20:19.574
  • She said, did you come.
  • 00:20:19.574 --> 00:20:21.710
  • Into my home.
  • 00:20:21.710 --> 00:20:22.844
  • Old man of god, to make me aware of my sin?
  • 00:20:22.844 --> 00:20:26.915
  • And did my sin kill my boy?
  • 00:20:26.915 --> 00:20:30.519
  • Isn't that what you ask him?
  • 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:32.054
  • Did not my sin kill my boy?
  • 00:20:32.054 --> 00:20:39.494
  • Then elijah.
  • 00:20:39.828 --> 00:20:41.563
  • When he prayed to god, he asked god the same thing
  • 00:20:41.563 --> 00:20:44.733
  • Another way. did sin?
  • 00:20:44.733 --> 00:20:46.702
  • Did her sin killed his son.
  • 00:20:46.702 --> 00:20:48.904
  • This boy.
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  • First thing you
  • 00:20:49.571 --> 00:20:52.307
  • Innately
  • 00:20:52.307 --> 00:20:54.376
  • That the living god sometimes
  • 00:20:54.376 --> 00:20:56.678
  • Comes and could indeed judge sin.
  • 00:20:56.678 --> 00:20:59.381
  • They knew that sin needs to be judged.
  • 00:20:59.381 --> 00:21:02.351
  • Has to be judged.
  • 00:21:02.351 --> 00:21:03.585
  • But wait a minute.
  • 00:21:03.585 --> 00:21:05.220
  • Here's a god of grace on one hand.
  • 00:21:05.220 --> 00:21:07.656
  • And here's a god of truth on the other hand.
  • 00:21:07.656 --> 00:21:10.359
  • Here's a god of love.
  • 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:12.027
  • On one hand,
  • 00:21:12.027 --> 00:21:12.894
  • We love to hear about the god of grace,
  • 00:21:12.894 --> 00:21:14.563
  • The god of truth, the god of love.
  • 00:21:14.563 --> 00:21:16.365
  • I can live anywhere i want to live.
  • 00:21:16.365 --> 00:21:18.033
  • Do anything i want to do.
  • 00:21:18.033 --> 00:21:19.534
  • God forgives me.
  • 00:21:19.534 --> 00:21:20.569
  • God takes me back.
  • 00:21:20.569 --> 00:21:22.070
  • He gives me new life.
  • 00:21:22.070 --> 00:21:23.405
  • He gives me a fresh start, a new beginning.
  • 00:21:23.405 --> 00:21:25.574
  • We like all that.
  • 00:21:25.574 --> 00:21:27.008
  • But this same god who is a living god
  • 00:21:27.008 --> 00:21:29.911
  • Who was a real god, knows that there has to be justice
  • 00:21:29.911 --> 00:21:33.882
  • And there has to be truth.
  • 00:21:33.882 --> 00:21:36.351
  • I can't say, well, that's
  • 00:21:36.918 --> 00:21:38.220
  • True for you, and this is true for me.
  • 00:21:38.220 --> 00:21:41.990
  • True truth doesn't
  • 00:21:42.424 --> 00:21:44.126
  • Allow for that.
  • 00:21:44.126 --> 00:21:47.596
  • You see.
  • 00:21:47.863 --> 00:21:50.399
  • And then we see something.
  • 00:21:50.399 --> 00:21:51.900
  • Else about this real god.
  • 00:21:51.900 --> 00:21:55.704
  • The boy.
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  • Dies.
  • 00:21:56.471 --> 00:21:59.374
  • The way the woman says.
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  • The day my son died because of my sins.
  • 00:22:01.209 --> 00:22:05.013
  • And elijah takes that boy's body and goes up to his room
  • 00:22:05.013 --> 00:22:08.750
  • And puts on his bed, and he puts his body.
  • 00:22:08.750 --> 00:22:11.353
  • He stretches out over that boy, did you read it three times.
  • 00:22:11.353 --> 00:22:15.590
  • He stretches out all that boy, and he prays
  • 00:22:15.590 --> 00:22:18.860
  • And he says, god, did this boy die because of my sin?
  • 00:22:19.928 --> 00:22:23.732
  • And he stretches out and he prays, what do you think?
  • 00:22:23.732 --> 00:22:26.001
  • He prayed.
  • 00:22:26.001 --> 00:22:26.668
  • I think he prayed what?
  • 00:22:26.668 --> 00:22:27.903
  • Maybe some of us have prayed to have a lost a baby, a child.
  • 00:22:27.903 --> 00:22:31.406
  • You stretched out and said,
  • 00:22:31.406 --> 00:22:32.307
  • Oh god, this sickness, take it upon me.
  • 00:22:32.307 --> 00:22:35.110
  • And spare this child. that's what elijah was praying.
  • 00:22:35.110 --> 00:22:38.613
  • He was stretched out.
  • 00:22:39.114 --> 00:22:41.583
  • He understood that god there is punishment for sin.
  • 00:22:41.583 --> 00:22:44.786
  • He understood that.
  • 00:22:44.786 --> 00:22:46.087
  • You know how this worked.
  • 00:22:46.087 --> 00:22:47.022
  • But he prayed to a sovereign god.
  • 00:22:47.022 --> 00:22:48.790
  • And guess what?
  • 00:22:48.790 --> 00:22:49.958
  • The boy was resurrected.
  • 00:22:49.958 --> 00:22:53.295
  • The first account of resurrection in the bible.
  • 00:22:53.295 --> 00:22:56.832
  • And elijah took that boy back to the widow,
  • 00:22:56.832 --> 00:22:59.768
  • Handed it to the widow, and she said, now
  • 00:22:59.768 --> 00:23:02.270
  • I know you represent the true god,
  • 00:23:02.270 --> 00:23:05.307
  • And your word is based on god's word.
  • 00:23:05.307 --> 00:23:08.143
  • And it is.
  • 00:23:08.143 --> 00:23:09.277
  • Remember the last word, truth.
  • 00:23:09.277 --> 00:23:12.380
  • Truth.
  • 00:23:12.581 --> 00:23:14.983
  • You see, the real.
  • 00:23:14.983 --> 00:23:16.051
  • God is a god of outsiders.
  • 00:23:16.051 --> 00:23:18.286
  • The real kind of god of grace.
  • 00:23:18.286 --> 00:23:19.821
  • But the real god also is a god.
  • 00:23:19.821 --> 00:23:22.290
  • Of love and truth,
  • 00:23:22.290 --> 00:23:25.427
  • A god of grace and a god of judgment.
  • 00:23:26.161 --> 00:23:29.498
  • How can. this be?
  • 00:23:29.498 --> 00:23:31.132
  • It's because the real god is a stretched out god.
  • 00:23:31.132 --> 00:23:36.571
  • That's it.
  • 00:23:36.872 --> 00:23:38.306
  • The real god is a stretched out god.
  • 00:23:38.306 --> 00:23:41.710
  • Remember what.
  • 00:23:42.043 --> 00:23:42.644
  • Jesus said to peter.
  • 00:23:42.644 --> 00:23:44.145
  • In the gospel of john?
  • 00:23:44.145 --> 00:23:46.281
  • The resurrected lord said, your hands.
  • 00:23:46.281 --> 00:23:49.618
  • Will be stretched out
  • 00:23:49.618 --> 00:23:51.219
  • And people will take you where you do not want.
  • 00:23:51.219 --> 00:23:54.256
  • To go.
  • 00:23:54.256 --> 00:23:54.990
  • It was a. prediction of.
  • 00:23:54.990 --> 00:23:56.758
  • The crucifixion of the apostle peter, which took place in.
  • 00:23:56.758 --> 00:24:00.195
  • History.
  • 00:24:00.195 --> 00:24:03.265
  • It's like the widow said.
  • 00:24:03.832 --> 00:24:06.835
  • To god, god did my
  • 00:24:06.835 --> 00:24:10.939
  • Son die because of my sin?
  • 00:24:11.506 --> 00:24:15.143
  • And god said to her, no, he is resurrected.
  • 00:24:15.143 --> 00:24:19.948
  • But my son said, god to the widow.
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  • Will die for your sin.
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  • It is a stretched out god who brings.
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  • Love and truth
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  • And grace and justice.
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  • Together, and pays the price in himself
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  • As a stretched out god on calvary.
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  • And this is a pre shadowing
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  • Of the stretched out god when jesus died on the cross.
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  • For you and me. oh.
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  • God preparing elijah,
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  • Teaching him obedience to him, teaching him to live one day
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  • At a time and teaching him to be totally dependent on him.
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  • So elijah could be the god in this day
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  • To point out the real god.
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  • Let the real god stand up, because the real god
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  • Is a god of outsiders, a god of grace.
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  • The real god is the living god who
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  • Demands holiness and purity,
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  • Which cannot be paid for by you and me in and of ourselves.
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  • But the real god is a stretched out god.
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  • A stretched out god,
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  • Who died for you and me, so
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  • That our sins might be forgiven and we might have.
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  • Life a resurrected life.
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  • That's the real god.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen.
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  • Your word is a lamp to my feet,
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  • A light into my path.
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  • Notice the promise in that verse.
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  • A lamp for my feet i can see right here.
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  • A light for your path.
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  • We can see out there.
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  • Not just inspiration.
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  • For a moment, but guidance for a lifetime.
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  • The christian life
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  • Was never meant to be lived casually,
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  • But it is a walk, a daily, intentional,
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  • Fateful walk with the lord jesus christ.
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  • That's the heartbeat of this book.
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  • The winning walk in his pages, i share practical,
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  • Biblical principles that will help you cultivate
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  • A consistent devotional life, applying god's truth
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  • In the practical realities of everyday living.
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  • This isn't about religion.
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  • It's about relationship.
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  • It's about learning to trust god step by step
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  • And stay in step with our lord.
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  • The christ.
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  • So i encourage you to call the number on your screen
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  • And request your copy of the winning walk.
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  • Do it today.
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  • And then we begin walking victoriously,
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  • One step at a time.
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