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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young

Ed Young - Real, Radical, and Authentic

November 18, 2025 | 29:0

Ed Young - Real, Radical, and Authentic
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 - Real, Radical, and Authentic | November 18, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Dr. young: thank you for being here!
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  • We're talking about maturity.
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  • Man, the last 5 weeks, anybody who would brave the tsunami
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  • Of rain, we certainly should be mature, wouldn't you think?
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  • I mean everybody else is sleeping in.
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  • Talking about going strong in christ.
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  • Let's begin with a fundamental truth: the christian life begins
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  • With an encounter with jesus.
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  • Who jesus is, what jesus did,
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  • What jesus is now doing,
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  • And what jesus is doing for you and for me now.
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  • We get that down, and we understand we have been saved,
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  • Salvaged, born again, regenerated.
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  • We've become men and women in christ,
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  • The apostle paul would say.
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  • We have a whole new outlook.
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  • We are absolutely new creations.
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  • We are, have a fresh beginning, and all the words we use for
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  • Someone who has a personal relationship with christ.
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  • Being a christian is not believing a set of doctrine;
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  • It is a personal relationship with god in jesus christ.
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  • Nothing more, nothing less.
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  • We know it from john 3:16.
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  • We all know that verse: "for god so loved the world,
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  • He gave his only begotten son, that whosoever--
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  • Anybody who believes in him will not perish,
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  • But will have life forever."
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  • Whoever believes in him-- believeth in him
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  • The kjv version says.
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  • Whoever believes, whoever puts their full weight down up him,
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  • Understand who he is and what he's done, and how you and i are
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  • Involved in that when we confess sin, repent of sin,
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  • Receive forgiveness, and invite jesus christ
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  • To take over our lives.
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  • Christianity! conversion!
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  • That's the word.
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  • Latin root, "con," meaning with, "vertere," meaning to turn.
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  • We turn with christ. we turn to christ.
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  • We are converted, brand-new, totally different, going in one
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  • Direction; now going in the opposite direction.
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  • But what happens to far too many people who walk an aisle,
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  • Baptized, come in the life of the church;
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  • So many of them just... disappear.
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  • What happens?
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  • They just move away sometimes rapidly; sometimes gradually.
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  • Before you know, they're--we can almost see them, and then
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  • They're out of sight, and then as far as we know,
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  • They're absorbed in their ionosphere.
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  • Phew!
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  • And when something happens, a mom, or dad, or brother
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  • Or sister said, "do you think billy was saved?"
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  • "i don't know! don't ask me that!
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  • I don't know. god only knows."
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  • "was it real?" "i don't know."
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  • "well, he was baptized. was that enough?"
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  • "i don't know." "he once said he loved jesus."
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  • "is he in heaven?" "i don't know!"
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  • And that happens.
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  • Others come to christ, and we charge back to god in christ in
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  • Praying and going to church, and then we run into the beauty of
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  • Sinful, secular living, and we back up and go back the other
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  • Direction for a while, but we're convicted and convinced,
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  • And we charge back into the church again and whoa!
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  • We run into the pleasures of life and new friends,
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  • And we go back in the other direction again.
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  • So it's charge, retreat, charge, retreat!
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  • Some fall in that category.
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  • Others, they don't charge and retreat.
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  • They stick around, you know?
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  • And they know the religious stuff.
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  • They've learned a few of the old hymns.
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  • They know the words to "how great thou art."
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  • Oh yeah, and "amazing grace."
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  • They sing it amazing, and they know a little bible,
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  • And they've got some biblical terminologies that they can use,
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  • And they know the language, and they play the game.
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  • But the reality, the reality and the genuineness of knowing jesus
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  • Personally somehow is not there.
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  • It's not real.
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  • And then there are others who received christ, come into the
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  • Life of the church, and it doesn't mean that boy, my growth
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  • Is just getting just like this!
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  • Zoop!
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  • I've just gone ehh!
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  • And i'm still going higher, and higher, and higher!
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  • No, no, no, no.
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  • There, there's a little chart there.
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  • We're up and we're down, but there is a trajectory there
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  • That truly now, we can sing more and more, every day with jesus
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  • Is sweeter than the day before, and we begin to experience
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  • A little bit of that.
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  • Now anybody who would stand up and say,
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  • "well, you know, i'm a mature christian."
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  • Be careful with that.
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  • Maybe you're like the pastor, 20th anniversary, the church
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  • Gave him a gold chain with a big medal on it that said, "our
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  • Beloved pastor, the humblest man in the world."
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  • And he wore it everywhere he went!
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • Dr. young: little boy, billy, came home from trying out
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  • For the school play.
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  • Went home and says, "mother, i got a part in the play!"
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  • She said, "what are you going to play?"
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  • And said, "well, the director told me to sit in the stands
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  • And cheer and applaud for everybody!"
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  • Are you able to do that?
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  • "well, i used to teach a bible study class.
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  • I used to direct, and now--"
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  • Hey!
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  • We need to sit in the stands and cheer and applaud sometime.
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  • We don't have to be up front.
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  • Humility. christian growth.
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  • It's subtle, but it's required.
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  • But some of us, we come into the life of faith,
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  • And we sort of stay right there.
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  • It's like the story of the guy who fell out of bed,
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  • And they asked him why he fell out of bed.
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  • He said, "i went to sleep too close to where i got in bed."
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  • And that's when we come to christ, we go to sleep with
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  • Complacency and stagnation right where we came to christ.
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  • We stay right there, and we stay immature.
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  • We don't grow. we don't develop.
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  • Paul said having the form of godliness
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  • But denying the power of it.
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  • Form without reality; christian without that personal
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  • Relationship with the lord jesus christ.
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  • So we're called to grow.
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  • We're called to develop.
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  • In this call, i want to present you with two things.
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  • First of all, a little bit of theology, okay?
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  • And then a whole hunk of practicality.
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  • First, there's a little bit of theology.
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  • In other words, if we're going to grow, there are some things
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  • We have to understand about the christian life, the christian
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  • Faith, and a little bit of theology you're going to find
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  • There following our scripture about immaturity.
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  • I corinthians 3: "and i, brethren, could not speak to you
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  • As spiritual men and women, but as men and women of flesh,
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  • As to infants in christ."
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  • Is that you?
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  • "i give, i gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you
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  • Were not yet able to receive it, indeed; even you are not now yet
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  • To be fed, to be nourished; for you are still fleshly.
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  • For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not
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  • Fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?"
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  • That was the problem with edward.
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  • He was fleshly.
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  • He didn't want the responsibility they called,
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  • And he stayed all of his life, he lived the life of a playboy,
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  • Of a child.
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  • Never assumed any responsibility; never felt any
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  • Accountability; never had a sense of morality.
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  • But we need a bit of theology here.
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  • I think you can get it in 2 corinthians
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  • Chapter number 3.
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  • Listen, verse number 7: "but if the ministry of death
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  • In letter--is letters engraved on stones
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  • Came from glory so that the sons
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  • Of israel could not look intently at the face of moses,
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  • Because the glory of his face, fading as it was."
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  • Then flip over if you would, the same 3rd chapter of col,
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  • Of 2 corinthians.
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  • By the way, 2 corinthians chapter 2 verse 12,
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  • Through 2 corinthians chapter 6 verse 13
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  • Is a way you can see whether someone is real or phony.
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  • Someone who is genuine, or someone who is
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  • Artificial in their faith.
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  • That's the theology.
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  • You can just read that and say,
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  • "you know, this is where i fit in.
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  • I'm fleshly."
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  • No.
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  • "this is where i fit in. i am spiritually."
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  • You see that there, and it's talked about here in forms
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  • Of the old covenant and the new covenant.
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  • This is the old covenant which is the face of moses.
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  • "but to this day, wherever moses is read, a veil lies over their
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  • Heart; for whenever a person turns to the lord,
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  • The veil is taken away.
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  • Now the lord is the spirit, and where the spirit of the lord is,
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  • There is liberty; but we all with unveiled face beholding as
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  • In a mirror the glory of the lord, are being transformed,"
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  • There's our word, "into the same image from glory to glory, just
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  • As from the lord the spirit."
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  • Then look over in chapter 4, we see the new covenant:
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  • "for god, who said, 'light shall shine out of darkness,'
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  • Is the one who has shown in our hearts
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  • To give the light of the knowledge of the glory of god
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  • In the face of jesus."
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  • See, we have the face of moses, old covenant; the face of jesus,
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  • The new covenant.
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  • "for we have this treasure in earthen vessels so that the
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  • Surpassing greatness of the power will be of god,
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  • And not from ourselves."
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  • What are we saying here?
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  • A little bit of theology?
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  • Some people are still under the old covenant.
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  • What was the old covenant?
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  • Moses went up on mount sinai seven times,
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  • And he came down seven times.
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  • Read it in exodus.
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  • And finally, he came down with the ten commandments, those two
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  • Stones, and there were the principles of living: this is
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  • What you do, and this is what you do not do.
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  • And therefore, when moses came down with the commandments
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  • With that old covenant, as we call it;
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  • The bible says his face shone.
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  • Shekinah glory.
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  • He'd been in the presence of god.
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  • His face shone.
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  • And the sinning israelites who'd made that golden calf,
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  • They couldn't look on the glory of god shining
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  • In the face of moses.
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  • So they said, "moses, put on a veil."
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  • So he veiled his face.
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  • Also, you read a little farther.
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  • You see that time went by, and the glory, the shekinah of god
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  • Faded on the face of moses until his face no longer shone, but
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  • Moses still put on the veil where everybody would think he
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  • Still had the glory on him.
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  • Yeah, you ever do something like that?
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  • "oh, i'm still walking with god!
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  • You can see the shekinah in my life!"
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  • But we really have veil face.
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  • Veil face.
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  • That's the old covenant.
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  • We please god by not doing this.
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  • And we please god by doing this.
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  • That's old covenant talk.
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  • And we're like moses.
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  • We look at the face of moses; boy, when he's with it,
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  • There's a glow.
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  • When he's not with it, we cover it up, and a lot of churches
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  • Really go by the name of christian, but they're basically
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  • Living and teaching on the basis of the old covenant.
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  • Do this, don't do this, do this, don't do this.
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  • And they got a whole string of legalistic stuff.
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  • And when you don't do, and do, do enough,
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  • You'll be a christian!
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  • Old covenant.
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  • Then there's the new covenant, and that's the face of jesus.
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  • The new covenant is not written on stone; it's written on your
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  • Heart and my heart.
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  • And when christ comes in your life and my life, he makes us
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  • Brand-new inside out.
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  • And therefore, we don't do certain things, and we do
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  • Certain things, not by some legalistic regimen, but because
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  • That's who we are.
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  • We are a new person. we have a new agenda.
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  • We have a new heart.
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  • And the principles are written in our heart.
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  • And therefore, you begin to see some of those things we talked
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  • About in character, remember?
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  • Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
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  • Faithfulness, gentleness, self-discipline.
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  • Remember that?
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  • You see, that just flows out.
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  • We don't have to, "ugh!
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  • I'm gonna put you some fruit, me, i gotta work!"
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  • No, no, no, because we're under the new covenant.
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  • We have the form. now we have the power.
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  • So the new covenant, it is the face of christ.
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  • It's reflected in us, and before you know it, we begin to have
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  • Some kind of glow.
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  • I can look at most people, in just a second, i can almost
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  • Sense, not by their words, that they're with christ.
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  • You can just sort of--it, it's an affirmation of spirit,
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  • Is it not?
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  • The old covenant, the new covenant.
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  • Let's break this down.
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  • A glow worm glows, and it's a-- puts out a little light
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  • That comes from within, and that light is there to protect
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  • The glow worm from predators, from enemies.
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  • That's why the light is there.
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  • It's a light, and there's a poison that accompanies it,
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  • And it keeps the enemies away from the glow worm.
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  • But that glow worm, you may not know it, becomes a firefly.
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  • We call 'em what? lightning bugs, right?
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  • And that firefly came the glow worm--also has a illumination
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  • Within, but that illumination is not to protect; that
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  • Illumination is to attract, attract other fireflies
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  • For mating; attract other things,
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  • Other insects that it will eat to stay alive.
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  • And the longer the firefly lives, the bigger it gets, and
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  • The brighter the light comes.
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  • The old covenant is, excuse the analogy,
  • 00:16:25.397 --> 00:16:28.467
  • A glow worm that is there for protection.
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  • Don't do these things; do these things.
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  • It has a glow light.
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  • But now when the new covenant comes in jesus christ, now it's
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  • Not the face of moses that is veiled; now it's the face
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  • Of jesus that is unveiled, and there is a light there
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  • That attracts and gets brighter and brighter.
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  • The old, the new.
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  • Or, put it another way. you buy an automobile.
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  • Boy, it's got everything on it.
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  • Boy, beautiful car!
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  • My goodness, just a, just a fabulous car that you bought
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  • And so, you get through.
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  • You pay for it, and you push it out of the show room, out in the
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  • Street, and you push the car all the way home.
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  • And you push, and you push, and you push, and boy, that little
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  • Hill it's really hard to get it up, but you get it up.
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  • Finally, you get there.
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  • You call your wife out, your kids, "look at our car!"
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  • Boy, they love it.
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  • "get in! we're going for a ride!"
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  • And you get in, and you start pushing.
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  • Your wife is driving. whew!
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  • You stop and let her get out and help, and let one of the kids--
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  • I mean, but we love our new car!
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  • And then some people have the idea of living the christian
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  • Life is like that, you know?
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  • You go to churches like that.
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  • Man, how do you get through life?
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  • "well, i'm under the old covenant."
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  • They don't tell you that.
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  • But they, "well, you gotta try harder, work more,
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  • And come on monday night to church, and we're gonna
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  • Teach you how to push your life with your left shoulder!
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  • We're gonna give you a okay!"
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  • We work! "okay!
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  • I've got it! i'm pushin!"
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  • And tuesday night, you go, you push the car
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  • With your right shoulder!
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  • "okay!
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  • We're pushing with--"
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  • And then wednesday night, they teach you how to push it with
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  • Both hands and your-- boy, it gets easier.
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  • You're getting stronger.
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  • You're figuring this thing out.
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  • And thursday night, they say, "look, put your legs
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  • And your feet in it.
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  • You can really push that car!"
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  • That's the old covenant.
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  • "try harder! do more!
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  • Give more! work harder!
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  • That's the way you really grow as a christian!
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  • You push and push!"
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  • And on friday night, they say, "put it all together,
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  • And you're gonna have a super life, a super car!
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  • You'll all be pushing!"
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  • That's how a lot of churches think, folks!
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  • You know it!
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  • But, that's old covenant!
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  • That's moses with a veiled face.
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  • The new covenant, we unveil our face.
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  • We can look into the glory of god and receive the reflection,
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  • That glory in a mirror, paul tells us.
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  • And we go back, and the dealer says, "look under the hood,
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  • What you've got there.
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  • That piece of steel, that piece of iron there with all
  • 00:19:12.397 --> 00:19:15.133
  • The gadgets to it, that's called a motor!"
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  • And that's christ in you, and christ in me.
  • 00:19:19.338 --> 00:19:22.407
  • Then he says, "look back here!
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  • You put gasoline in it!"
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  • "oh!"
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  • And how easy it is to move and flow,
  • 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:32.718
  • And that gasoline is the holy spirit.
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  • When i got up this morning, i said,
  • 00:19:35.420 --> 00:19:37.522
  • "fill me with thy spirit."
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  • I can't do it.
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  • I surrender to the leadership of the spirit.
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  • That is the power that gives--
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  • That's new covenant living, ladies and gentlemen!
  • 00:19:45.864 --> 00:19:50.302
  • And that's a new kind of light. the old covenant, it's dark.
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  • Moses came and lit a candle.
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  • Well, a candle's good in the darkness, isn't it?
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  • That was the old covenant.
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  • It has some merit.
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  • It diagnosis our sin.
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  • But now in the new testament when jesus christ came,
  • 00:20:05.684 --> 00:20:07.819
  • The sun came up!
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  • What are you gonna do with a candle when the sun
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  • Is shining brightly.
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  • Would you tell me?
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  • You don't need a candle any more.
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  • That's the new covenant.
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  • That's grace, that's faith in jesus christ.
  • 00:20:18.297 --> 00:20:20.065
  • So, a little bit of theology.
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  • Then a whole lot of practicality!
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  • How does this growing in christ?
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  • How do we become real, instead of being artificial?
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  • What, what is it all about?
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  • How does it function?
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  • How does it operate?
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  • First of all, we see something about a growing christian,
  • 00:20:35.781 --> 00:20:39.418
  • A maturing christian.
  • 00:20:39.418 --> 00:20:43.088
  • A maturing christian does not happen automatically.
  • 00:20:43.088 --> 00:20:50.195
  • Doesn't just pop up, "i'm a maturing christian."
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  • Doesn't happen that way. people think it does.
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  • It doesn't. it takes effort.
  • 00:20:58.370 --> 00:21:01.573
  • A maturing christian doesn't just--somebody says,
  • 00:21:01.573 --> 00:21:05.677
  • "well, i'm just gonna try harder."
  • 00:21:05.677 --> 00:21:07.979
  • But it does take effort to become a maturing christian.
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  • And to be a mature christian is certainly not impossible.
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  • It's not impossible.
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  • A maturing christian does take effort.
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  • It does take effort.
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  • And let me show you the kind of effort that it takes.
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  • Look if you would in the book of colossians.
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  • It's not galoshes that somebody, a kid--it's colossians,
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  • Chapter number 3.
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  • Look what it says.
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  • It says, "therefore, consider the members
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  • Of your earthly body as dead.
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  • The immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, greed
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  • Which amounts to idolatry."
  • 00:21:47.686 --> 00:21:49.955
  • In other words, if we're gonna grow up,
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  • We have to put some things to death.
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  • What do you have to put to death?
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  • Anything here fits you? immorality?
  • 00:21:56.428 --> 00:22:01.700
  • Got to put that to death. need to kill that.
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  • God'll help you kill it.
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  • Impurity? put that to death.
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  • Passion? put that to death.
  • 00:22:10.709 --> 00:22:14.079
  • Evil desire? put that to death.
  • 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:16.148
  • Greed? put that to death.
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  • There's some things we have to put to death
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  • If we're gonna mature in christ.
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  • Make no mistake about it, and there's some things
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  • We have to put aside.
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  • In other words, we put it out of reach.
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  • And in them, you also once walked,
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  • And you were living in them,
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  • But now you also put them all aside.
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  • What are these things we put out of our reach?
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  • Anger, wrath, malice, slander abusive speech from your mouth.
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  • Do not lie to one another, since you will lay aside the old self
  • 00:22:41.072 --> 00:22:44.976
  • With its--and you have to put on a new self to a true knowledge,
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  • According to the image of the one who created him.
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  • So some things, if you're gonna grow, you have to kill.
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  • Some things you have to put aside, and some things you have
  • 00:22:56.288 --> 00:22:59.891
  • To put on, put on the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:22:59.891 --> 00:23:04.529
  • This is how we grow up, ladies and gentlemen.
  • 00:23:04.529 --> 00:23:09.367
  • So growth is not automatic. no, no, no.
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  • But growth has to take place.
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  • In god's understanding, if you are a christian by definition,
  • 00:23:18.777 --> 00:23:22.514
  • You have to grow up!
  • 00:23:22.514 --> 00:23:25.016
  • I love the story of alexander the great was at battle.
  • 00:23:25.016 --> 00:23:30.856
  • Boy, the fighting was ferocious, and he sees one of his soldiers
  • 00:23:30.856 --> 00:23:34.726
  • Running and, running the opposite direction.
  • 00:23:34.726 --> 00:23:36.828
  • Alexander rides him down, slaps him down with his sword.
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  • The young soldier falls down.
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  • He says, "young man, what's your name?"
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  • He said, "alexander."
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  • He said, "change your name, or change your direction.
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  • You can't have my name and be a coward!"
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  • What's your name?
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  • "i'm a christian!"
  • 00:23:54.946 --> 00:23:56.548
  • He said, god would say,
  • 00:23:56.548 --> 00:23:58.083
  • "change your name, or change your direction.
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  • Change your name, or change your direction.
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  • That is reality of who we are.
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  • That's identifying with who we are, so we have to realize
  • 00:24:05.023 --> 00:24:09.261
  • This doesn't happen just automatically.
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  • It happens with intentionality when we grow up.
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  • We have to kill, and put on, and put off.
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  • And also, we have to understand that being mature is something
  • 00:24:18.837 --> 00:24:23.642
  • That you and i can do.
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  • We can do it!
  • 00:24:26.177 --> 00:24:28.046
  • It's not impossible. it can happen.
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  • But we have to make a decision that i'm tired of pablum; i'm
  • 00:24:31.583 --> 00:24:36.988
  • Tired of pacifiers; i'm tired of what i am and what i represent,
  • 00:24:36.988 --> 00:24:43.194
  • And i want to move on to some steak and nourishing stuff,
  • 00:24:43.194 --> 00:24:47.899
  • And i want to grow up in the lord jesus christ!
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  • It's a decision.
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  • It's a decision.
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  • And i hope there are a lot of people here who will make
  • 00:24:56.975 --> 00:25:00.178
  • That very decision today.
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  • Male announcer: as a thank-you for your support of
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  • "the winning walk," this month, dr. young would like to send you
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  • His prayer journal as a gift to you.
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  • Prayer is an essential part of our spiritual lives.
  • 00:25:11.823 --> 00:25:14.793
  • Even jesus went away from his disciples
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  • To talk with his father.
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  • Ed: it doesn't matter what's happening in your life.
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  • Get on your knees.
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  • He said, in every situation, we are to
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  • Pray, pray, pray, pray.
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  • Announcer: spending time with god in prayer every day can
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  • Dr. young: proverbs 22:6 says, "train up a child in
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  • The way he should go, and when he is old,
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  • He'll not depart from it."
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  • There are two directions in which a child should go:
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  • The mega and the micro.
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  • The mega-direction is towards god and his ways.
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  • The micro is the bent of the child.
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  • Every parent should be point their child toward god.
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  • That's the mega, mega.
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  • That's our priority.
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  • At the same time, we should be observing our kids to nurture
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  • Their personality, talents, and gifts;
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  • Micro, watch them, study them, listen to them.
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  • Now, i know in my own life, each of my three sons were so
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  • Different growing up, and they're different today.
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  • God wants us to encourage the way he has wired them to grow,
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  • Your children, as i sought to do that with my sons.
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  • And with the foundation of god's truth and encouragement of a
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  • Loving family, we will help our kids to go off into the world
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  • Ready to soar for him, to become everything god
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  • Designed them to become.
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  • ♪♪♪
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