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Ed Young - Realism vs. Idealism

May 27, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - Realism vs. Idealism
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Realism vs. Idealism | May 27, 2026
  • Jesus took his apostles for a
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  • Time of discipleship and rebuilding.
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  • In the context he asked them,
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  • Who does everybody say that i am?
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  • You know, who do they say that i am?
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  • So well, they say that you're elijah and they say prophet.
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  • Some people say you're john the baptist.
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  • And but he says, i want to know.
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  • Jesus said.
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  • In realism,
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  • Not idealism, in fact, not in fable.
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  • Or who do you say that i am?
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  • And samuel peter said, doctor, christ,
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  • The messiah, the son of the living god.
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  • In christianity,
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  • Perhaps the biggest word that encompasses
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  • All of our doctrine is the word
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  • Salvation.
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  • All the other basic
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  • Fundamentals that we believe
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  • Come under the broad
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  • Heading of salvation.
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  • The whole bible from genesis to revelation.
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  • The overriding theme is salvation.
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  • And therefore,
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  • When i talk about it,
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  • Is that salvation in jesus christ to you?
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  • Ideally,
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  • Or realism?
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  • As christians, are we idealist or as christians?
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  • Are we realist?
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  • It's a good question.
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  • A lot of people think we're idealist.
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  • It's a philosophy. it's a belief.
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  • It's an idea.
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  • It's something we want to be true.
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  • And in one sense we are idealists.
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  • But in a greater sense, we are realists.
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  • Somebody said, well,
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  • I don't know about this business of god.
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  • If you could prove him scientifically.
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  • And a lot of people like to put god in a test tube,
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  • And we know you cannot do that.
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  • But i think even the scientists
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  • Realize today that all of realism,
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  • All a fact, is not based on tangible stuff.
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  • Is it, you know, face on stuff we can touch and measure and
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  • Say this, this, this is real and the intangible is not real.
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  • We know that is not true.
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  • In fact, you can take a scientist
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  • And he can take a big old net
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  • And throw it out in the middle of the sea of reality.
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  • And the scientist
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  • Pulls in that net and said, everything in that net is real.
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  • What?
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  • He may not realize that
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  • A lot of things that slip through that nick
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  • In that net as he threw it in the sea of reality,
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  • Those things that slip through are more real
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  • Than the things that he could touch and see and measure.
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  • Can you
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  • Put love and attest to you?
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  • Can you put friendship in a test tube?
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  • Can you put compassion?
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  • All the real, real stuff you cannot see,
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  • You cannot measure.
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  • So we look at christianity, we say, oh, you're idealists.
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  • No, we are realist.
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • Was a realist
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  • More than he was an idealist.
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  • Ideas and philosophies become real when they are lived out,
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  • And they are verified and they're proven.
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  • For example,
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  • How do we know that
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  • What we read in this bible is really accurate?
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  • How it's really true.
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  • Well, i could spend a lot of time and i have before
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  • Verifying the veracity and the truth of the bible.
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  • But let's just take the person who wrote
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  • More of the new testament than any other individual.
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  • By the way, it's not paul and it's not
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  • John, it's doctor luke.
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  • He wrote the book of luke.
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  • He wrote the book of acts more than any other author,
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  • A scientist.
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  • And he tells us, interestingly, in luke chapter
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  • Number one, his method of writing history.
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  • Here's what doctor luke said.
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  • He said it is much as many have undertaken to compile
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  • An account of the things that accomplish among us.
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  • But just as they were handed down
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  • To us by those from the beginning.
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  • Were i witnesses?
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  • Is that valid enough?
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  • And servants of the word?
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  • It seemed fitting for me, said doctor luke as well,
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  • Having investigated everything carefully
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  • From the beginning
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  • To write it out for you and consecutive order,
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  • So that you may know the exact truth
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  • About the things you have been taught.
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  • Does that sound like an honest,
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  • Accurate, scholarly historian to you?
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  • What you may not know is that people for thousands of
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  • Years have tried to disprove the historicity.
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  • The book of acts name places,
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  • Bodies of water, individuals.
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  • What he said in luke they have spent miles of time
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  • Agnostics and skeptic, trying to find anything
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  • That luke wrote down that was inaccurate.
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  • And i can stand here today and tell you
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  • There's not a scholar who has ever lived
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  • And ever will live who has disproven one word
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  • That doctor luke has written in holy scripture.
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  • So we're
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  • Talking about not idealism.
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  • We're talking about reality.
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  • Christianity, ladies and gentlemen, is a very
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  • Materialistic faith, unlike all the other religion.
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  • It is very materialistic.
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  • It is based in history.
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  • The word logos became flesh.
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  • It didn't stay in heaven.
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  • It came down to earth.
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  • That which was transcendent we cannot see became imminent.
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  • We see this in bethlehem.
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  • When god revealed himself to man.
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  • Who did he first reveal himself to?
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  • Shepherds?
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  • The nobody's,
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  • The nothings, the bottom of the economic ladder.
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  • Those who weren't even legitimized to testify
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  • In a court of law in the first century.
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  • That's who jesus was revealed to.
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  • And the angel said he has come.
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  • He has come. the light has come.
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  • The messiah has come.
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  • And what did those shepherds say?
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  • Let's get up and go
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  • And see this thing.
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  • If jesus had appeared,
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  • Or god
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  • Had brought him into earth, and he had appeared to
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  • The scholars
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  • And the priests and the scribes and the philosophers,
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  • They would say,
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  • Oh, let's go look up and see if this is right.
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  • This is valid.
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  • But no, no.
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  • He appeared to the shepherds
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  • And they were down to earth folks.
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  • They said, we want to go see this thing.
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  • It's real.
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  • And they did.
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  • Jesus calling his verse apostles.
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  • What did he say?
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  • Come and follow me.
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  • I'm going to tell you what we're going to do,
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  • What we're going to say, how we're going to live.
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  • He said, no, come and see experience for yourself.
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  • That's not idealism.
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  • That's reality.
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  • That's not hocus pocus stuff.
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  • That is fact.
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  • And the fact that god revealed himself in
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  • Jesus christ as a human being, the divine became human.
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  • Are we ready for that? that's what happened.
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  • That is real.
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  • That is factual.
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  • It is based on history.
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  • If god had decided to make himself known to the greeks,
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  • They were philosophers.
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  • They said, let's just discuss this and see about this.
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  • But he didn't.
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  • He revealed himself to the jews.
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  • The bible tells us,
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  • Because they saw salvation coming in history.
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  • In fact, in reality,
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  • It's based on fact and truth
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  • And experience and life and flesh and blood
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  • That takes our faith and makes it ever, ever, ever
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  • So fat and vivid
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  • And practical and alive.
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  • So we are studying salvation.
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  • And you say this salvation is that,
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  • You know, if it real, what is it?
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  • Know it is absolutely real.
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  • It's absolutely valid because the kingdom of god
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  • Has come.
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  • Reading revelation
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  • Last look in the bible.
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  • Your wives will help you find it, gentlemen.
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  • Revelation.
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  • Read the interesting passage in the first chapter.
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  • Verse four, john, to the seven churches that are in asia.
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  • Grace to you and peace from him.
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  • Yet this who is and who was
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  • And who is to come.
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  • When jesus came into this world, into time
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  • And space, god came in human flesh.
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  • The kingdom came with him.
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  • The first words we have jesus speaking
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  • There in the gospel of matthew, he said, repent, for
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  • The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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  • He said, the kingdom of heaven
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  • Is here.
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  • Luke he starts the same way.
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  • His first words he uttered after coming
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  • Out of the world as a temptation,
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  • He said, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is here.
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  • And by the way, in the bible,
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  • The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of god
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  • Are interchangeable most of the time.
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  • Couple exceptions, they're interchangeable.
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  • So he's saying the kingdom has come.
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  • The kingdom is like gravity.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, the kingdom came in jesus.
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  • But the kingdom also was.
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  • We read a revelation before time.
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  • The kingdom was there.
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  • Now what is the kingdom of god?
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  • Thy kingdom come.
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  • Thy will be done on earth
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  • As it is in heaven.
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  • The kingdom came in jesus christ,
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  • And jesus taught kingdom principles.
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  • What do you think the sermon on the mount is?
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  • Matthew 567.
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  • Some people say, well, it's not realistic.
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  • Nobody can live up to all the principal.
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  • The sermon on the mount. oh, yes.
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  • We won't be perfect in it anymore.
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  • We're perfect and not breaking one of the ten commandments.
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  • But there are the principles of the kingdom of heaven.
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  • If you don't like the sermon on the mount,
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  • You're sure
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  • Not going to find heaven and you're
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  • Not going to be at home if you happen to get there?
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  • Because jesus said, if we live according to these principles,
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  • Your life is built on not sand,
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  • But rock.
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  • Big difference
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  • On rock.
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  • So these are kingdom principles for us
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  • To incorporate into our lives as we come to christ.
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  • Now, the church is not synonymous
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  • With the kingdom of god.
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  • The kingdom of god is here.
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  • It is here.
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  • It is permanent.
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  • It is in existence.
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  • It is real.
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  • And in the kingdom there is the church.
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  • And we in the body of christ, who are in christ,
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  • The arms, the hands, the ministry of the church
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  • In the word of which we live.
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  • We are seeking for the church to be more like the kingdom
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  • On this earth, as the kingdom exists in heaven.
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  • Very understanding.
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  • Somebody says, we're going to grow the kingdom.
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  • You don't grow the kingdom, you grow the church.
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  • The kingdom is pam.
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  • It's here. it's real.
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  • Where god is king and jesus is lord.
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  • There is the kingdom right now, right here.
  • 00:12:51.527 --> 00:12:54.830
  • The kingdom was before the foundation of the world.
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  • It existed before time and space came into existence.
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  • The kingdom will be.
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  • It is coming.
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  • That's when jesus comes
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  • And he establishes a new heaven and a new earth.
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  • And we have, thank goodness,
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  • Our resurrection bodies in which we have to live
  • 00:13:10.946 --> 00:13:13.782
  • In that eternal kingdom, and the kingdom also is.
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  • It was, it is, and it is coming,
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  • When i was a boy,
  • 00:13:23.325 --> 00:13:24.593
  • There was a popular little song called mother.
  • 00:13:24.593 --> 00:13:28.364
  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
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  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
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  • They are certainly universal in their application
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  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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  • I had to
  • 00:13:42.211 --> 00:13:43.312
  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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  • Would you believe that?
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  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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  • For mother's day only.
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  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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  • Romans chapter eight is all about salvation.
  • 00:14:40.803 --> 00:14:43.605
  • The whole bible is about salvation.
  • 00:14:43.605 --> 00:14:46.041
  • But particularly romans chapter eight says,
  • 00:14:46.041 --> 00:14:49.111
  • This is what it means to be saved,
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  • To be in christ.
  • 00:14:52.648 --> 00:14:55.751
  • What does it mean?
  • 00:14:56.185 --> 00:14:57.586
  • It also tells us, gives us a sense of security.
  • 00:14:57.586 --> 00:15:01.023
  • But incidentally, if you happen not to be in christ,
  • 00:15:01.023 --> 00:15:04.626
  • You just use the title
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  • Of christian or you hope, or you suppose, or you.
  • 00:15:06.428 --> 00:15:09.999
  • It's an ideal that you have. you might be.
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  • No, no, no, no.
  • 00:15:12.501 --> 00:15:13.569
  • It also proves those who are not in the kingdom,
  • 00:15:13.569 --> 00:15:16.939
  • Who are not in the church.
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  • Here's what you have.
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  • If you're in the church, here's what you don't have.
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  • You're not saved.
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  • You're not salvaged.
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  • If this is not real to you and the whole figure,
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  • There is a man or a woman or a teenager in christ.
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  • Christ in you.
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  • Christ in me.
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  • That is the kingdom of god.
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  • In every life we are kingdom citizens,
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  • And the holy spirit we learn in chapter eight
  • 00:15:41.096 --> 00:15:43.599
  • Gives us the ability to live out our citizenship,
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  • To practice what we say we believe.
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  • Somebody say,
  • 00:15:49.905 --> 00:15:50.906
  • Well, i believe this, but i live like this.
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  • It doesn't work like that, does it?
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  • We live on the basis of what we genuinely believe.
  • 00:15:55.377 --> 00:15:58.313
  • I said, oh, i believe this, but no, no, no, i truly
  • 00:15:58.313 --> 00:16:01.483
  • Believe is based on how we live and that needs to match up.
  • 00:16:01.483 --> 00:16:04.486
  • And it did with jesus.
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  • Jesus words were not different from his life.
  • 00:16:06.522 --> 00:16:10.426
  • His life verified his words, and his words
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  • Verified his life.
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  • Then we come to our strong, strong verse
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  • That all of us like from us.
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  • 828 oh, that's a big one, isn't it?
  • 00:16:21.937 --> 00:16:26.375
  • But understand, let me say in the beginning.
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  • Romans 828 is valid and can be claimed
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  • Only when it is put in the context
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  • Of the kingdom of god
  • 00:16:39.188 --> 00:16:41.190
  • Here and the church that is here,
  • 00:16:41.190 --> 00:16:44.626
  • And the context that we meet, the conditions that are in.
  • 00:16:44.626 --> 00:16:49.264
  • Romans 828.
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  • Here they are.
  • 00:16:51.633 --> 00:16:54.236
  • Paul says, we know this is a big knowledge, by the way.
  • 00:16:54.236 --> 00:16:58.340
  • It's a big thing.
  • 00:16:58.340 --> 00:16:59.374
  • We know that all things work together for good.
  • 00:16:59.374 --> 00:17:02.778
  • Doesn't mean everything's good.
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  • Oh, it.
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  • Oh, no, everything's not good.
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  • There's evil in the world. there.
  • 00:17:07.483 --> 00:17:08.784
  • There is conflict. there is.
  • 00:17:08.784 --> 00:17:10.619
  • There is terrible things
  • 00:17:10.619 --> 00:17:12.488
  • Going on in the world and your life and.
  • 00:17:12.488 --> 00:17:14.356
  • No, but all things work together.
  • 00:17:14.356 --> 00:17:17.259
  • For those who what love god.
  • 00:17:17.860 --> 00:17:21.663
  • They ask jesus what commandments already keep.
  • 00:17:21.663 --> 00:17:24.266
  • He said, love the lord thy god with
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  • With everything you got mind, body, soul, spirit.
  • 00:17:27.002 --> 00:17:30.739
  • That's the first thing.
  • 00:17:30.739 --> 00:17:32.174
  • So all things work together for good, for those who
  • 00:17:32.174 --> 00:17:35.577
  • Genuinely love god and those who are the called, the called.
  • 00:17:35.577 --> 00:17:41.817
  • That means those who've responded to the call of god
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  • In christ, those who are in christ,
  • 00:17:44.353 --> 00:17:45.954
  • Those who are christian.
  • 00:17:45.954 --> 00:17:47.022
  • And then the last thing according to his purpose,
  • 00:17:47.022 --> 00:17:50.859
  • Lord, all things work together for good.
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  • I love god, i'm called.
  • 00:17:54.897 --> 00:17:56.865
  • I'm in christ.
  • 00:17:56.865 --> 00:17:58.467
  • Oh yeah.
  • 00:17:58.467 --> 00:17:59.635
  • But then the other thing is, according to his purpose,
  • 00:17:59.635 --> 00:18:03.205
  • I'm also seeking to live led by the holy spirit,
  • 00:18:03.205 --> 00:18:07.442
  • Which permeates chapter eight in the way
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  • That god would have me to live and conform to his purpose
  • 00:18:10.679 --> 00:18:14.683
  • And will for my life according to his purpose.
  • 00:18:14.683 --> 00:18:19.154
  • So all things work together for good.
  • 00:18:19.154 --> 00:18:21.156
  • Yes, for those who love god, those who are the called
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  • According to his purpose, they are seeking his will.
  • 00:18:24.092 --> 00:18:29.398
  • And now we can claim that tremendous verse
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  • In the context of the kingdom
  • 00:18:32.935 --> 00:18:35.103
  • And in the context of the church.
  • 00:18:35.103 --> 00:18:38.507
  • Jesus says.
  • 00:18:38.840 --> 00:18:42.177
  • Says free of philippi to retreat.
  • 00:18:42.945 --> 00:18:45.914
  • Jesus took his apostles
  • 00:18:46.415 --> 00:18:48.016
  • For a time of discipleship and rebuilding.
  • 00:18:48.016 --> 00:18:52.154
  • In the context he asked them,
  • 00:18:52.154 --> 00:18:55.157
  • Who does everybody say that i am?
  • 00:18:55.157 --> 00:18:57.426
  • You know, who do they say that i am?
  • 00:18:57.426 --> 00:18:59.661
  • So well, they say that you're elijah and they say prophet.
  • 00:18:59.661 --> 00:19:04.800
  • Some people say you're john the baptist.
  • 00:19:04.800 --> 00:19:07.069
  • And but he says, i want to know.
  • 00:19:07.069 --> 00:19:09.738
  • Jesus said.
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  • In realism,
  • 00:19:13.976 --> 00:19:15.677
  • Not idealism, in fact, not in fable.
  • 00:19:15.677 --> 00:19:19.214
  • Or who do you say that i am?
  • 00:19:19.214 --> 00:19:23.518
  • And samuel peter said, doctor, christ,
  • 00:19:24.353 --> 00:19:28.190
  • The messiah, the son of the living god.
  • 00:19:28.190 --> 00:19:33.228
  • Jesus said, pete,
  • 00:19:33.662 --> 00:19:36.765
  • Paraphrase.
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  • You don't have enough sense
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  • In and of yourself to have figured that out,
  • 00:19:40.335 --> 00:19:43.238
  • But the holy spirit
  • 00:19:43.238 --> 00:19:45.674
  • Put words in your mouth,
  • 00:19:45.674 --> 00:19:48.877
  • And what you said came to the spirit
  • 00:19:48.877 --> 00:19:51.913
  • When you said, i'm the christ, the son of living god.
  • 00:19:51.913 --> 00:19:54.783
  • And then jesus says, on that rock, what is that rock?
  • 00:19:54.783 --> 00:19:59.755
  • It's his profession of faith.
  • 00:20:00.389 --> 00:20:02.858
  • It's the fact he'd come to be a man in christ.
  • 00:20:02.858 --> 00:20:05.994
  • That's the rock jesus on that rock.
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  • I'll build my church,
  • 00:20:08.797 --> 00:20:11.867
  • And the gates of hell
  • 00:20:11.867 --> 00:20:14.202
  • Will not prevail against it.
  • 00:20:14.202 --> 00:20:17.472
  • Now, wait a minute.
  • 00:20:17.939 --> 00:20:20.042
  • Just wait a minute.
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  • Hell is a real place.
  • 00:20:23.712 --> 00:20:26.381
  • Hell is a place where god is not there.
  • 00:20:26.381 --> 00:20:29.718
  • It's a place of punishment.
  • 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:32.454
  • God doesn't send anybody to hell.
  • 00:20:32.454 --> 00:20:34.456
  • If you think god's going to send you to hell, he's not.
  • 00:20:34.456 --> 00:20:36.725
  • We make that choice on this life
  • 00:20:36.725 --> 00:20:38.794
  • When we reject god and reject christ,
  • 00:20:38.794 --> 00:20:40.662
  • And then we decide about our eternal destiny.
  • 00:20:40.662 --> 00:20:44.866
  • But hell is a place where god is not now.
  • 00:20:44.866 --> 00:20:50.072
  • But let me ask you a question
  • 00:20:50.706 --> 00:20:53.375
  • On this rock, this profession of faith,
  • 00:20:53.375 --> 00:20:56.545
  • I will build my church, and the gates of hell
  • 00:20:56.545 --> 00:21:00.182
  • Will not keep the church out.
  • 00:21:00.182 --> 00:21:03.785
  • The gates of hell will not keep the church
  • 00:21:03.785 --> 00:21:06.188
  • Out of those places that god is not honored.
  • 00:21:06.188 --> 00:21:11.026
  • God is not believed.
  • 00:21:11.026 --> 00:21:12.561
  • For jesus cannot be admitted or jesus is not wanted.
  • 00:21:12.561 --> 00:21:16.565
  • And in these places that are behind the gates
  • 00:21:16.565 --> 00:21:19.434
  • Of hell in this world, if you get over there
  • 00:21:19.434 --> 00:21:23.472
  • And you start witnessing
  • 00:21:23.472 --> 00:21:24.940
  • And talking about god in christ the church,
  • 00:21:24.940 --> 00:21:27.676
  • You'll be marginalized, you'll be slandered,
  • 00:21:27.676 --> 00:21:30.512
  • You'll be persecuted, and you may even be prosecuted.
  • 00:21:30.512 --> 00:21:35.751
  • Now, right now,
  • 00:21:36.118 --> 00:21:38.220
  • In time, where are the gates of hell?
  • 00:21:38.220 --> 00:21:41.390
  • I'll tell you where one is.
  • 00:21:41.990 --> 00:21:44.860
  • The gates of hell are right
  • 00:21:44.860 --> 00:21:46.828
  • At the front door of our school system.
  • 00:21:46.828 --> 00:21:50.232
  • Ks through 12, our college and university.
  • 00:21:50.232 --> 00:21:53.268
  • There is a gate of hell.
  • 00:21:53.268 --> 00:21:54.803
  • Because i can guarantee you god is not accepted.
  • 00:21:54.803 --> 00:21:57.973
  • Christ is not honored.
  • 00:21:57.973 --> 00:21:59.307
  • Inside the school system of the united states of america.
  • 00:21:59.307 --> 00:22:04.212
  • Where is another gate of hell?
  • 00:22:04.813 --> 00:22:08.183
  • Is right is the gate of our companies and our corporations.
  • 00:22:08.183 --> 00:22:12.788
  • They are woke to the extreme and i can tell you you can't.
  • 00:22:12.788 --> 00:22:16.825
  • You'll be challenged if you wear cross many places.
  • 00:22:16.825 --> 00:22:19.861
  • You'll be challenged if you talk about jesus.
  • 00:22:19.861 --> 00:22:22.397
  • The gates of hell are right there before companies
  • 00:22:22.397 --> 00:22:25.267
  • And corporations in our culture today.
  • 00:22:25.267 --> 00:22:29.471
  • Where else?
  • 00:22:29.805 --> 00:22:30.739
  • Or the gates of hell?
  • 00:22:30.739 --> 00:22:32.441
  • The gates of hell are right there with the entertainment,
  • 00:22:32.441 --> 00:22:36.178
  • With hollywood, with all the other places.
  • 00:22:36.178 --> 00:22:39.147
  • They're right there with all of our media.
  • 00:22:39.147 --> 00:22:41.383
  • There are the gates of hell.
  • 00:22:41.383 --> 00:22:42.951
  • Because on the other side, jesus christ is not welcome
  • 00:22:42.951 --> 00:22:46.721
  • And the word of god will not be tolerated.
  • 00:22:46.721 --> 00:22:49.524
  • There's a gate of hell.
  • 00:22:49.524 --> 00:22:52.727
  • Where else is the gate of hell?
  • 00:22:53.361 --> 00:22:55.597
  • The gate of hell is where
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  • Most of our county and city and state and national government
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  • White house.
  • 00:23:01.636 --> 00:23:02.437
  • They have built the gates of hell.
  • 00:23:02.437 --> 00:23:04.306
  • And don't
  • 00:23:04.306 --> 00:23:05.540
  • Bring jesus in christ and his kingdom principles in there.
  • 00:23:05.540 --> 00:23:08.677
  • So we have these gates of hell.
  • 00:23:09.311 --> 00:23:12.314
  • Now, either the bible is wrong
  • 00:23:12.314 --> 00:23:15.116
  • Because in our culture, it seems to me
  • 00:23:15.884 --> 00:23:18.186
  • There's been enough barriers built
  • 00:23:18.186 --> 00:23:20.355
  • And we are losing or have lost the cultural war.
  • 00:23:20.355 --> 00:23:25.026
  • Ladies and gentlemen,
  • 00:23:25.026 --> 00:23:27.062
  • Therefore, we have these gates of hell.
  • 00:23:27.062 --> 00:23:29.564
  • But christ says they will not prevail.
  • 00:23:29.564 --> 00:23:32.667
  • So how do we
  • 00:23:32.667 --> 00:23:35.203
  • Barge in?
  • 00:23:35.504 --> 00:23:37.339
  • Break in the church?
  • 00:23:37.339 --> 00:23:40.408
  • The gates of hell.
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  • I'm going to tell you a secret.
  • 00:23:44.379 --> 00:23:47.682
  • All of us?
  • 00:23:47.983 --> 00:23:50.418
  • Yeah.
  • 00:23:50.418 --> 00:23:51.853
  • Already on the other side of the gates of hell.
  • 00:23:51.853 --> 00:23:55.891
  • We're in our school systems.
  • 00:23:55.891 --> 00:23:57.526
  • We're in our government.
  • 00:23:57.526 --> 00:23:59.094
  • We're in our media.
  • 00:23:59.094 --> 00:24:00.562
  • We're in in the corporate world.
  • 00:24:00.562 --> 00:24:02.531
  • We're already there.
  • 00:24:02.531 --> 00:24:04.165
  • But we've gotten in there, and we've gotten so quiet.
  • 00:24:04.165 --> 00:24:09.638
  • I don't want anybody to know.
  • 00:24:10.272 --> 00:24:12.941
  • I won't breach any of the unspoken laws here.
  • 00:24:12.941 --> 00:24:17.512
  • I don't want to offend anybody with my christian faith.
  • 00:24:17.512 --> 00:24:21.850
  • You see, we're already there.
  • 00:24:21.850 --> 00:24:23.885
  • Those who are part of the body of christ,
  • 00:24:23.885 --> 00:24:26.054
  • We've only been silenced and marginalized,
  • 00:24:26.054 --> 00:24:29.624
  • And we backed up.
  • 00:24:30.058 --> 00:24:32.861
  • And generally we say nothing.
  • 00:24:32.861 --> 00:24:37.032
  • Now here's the challenge.
  • 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:39.601
  • Let's be honest.
  • 00:24:39.601 --> 00:24:41.403
  • Jesus
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  • Got inside the gates of hell and his day.
  • 00:24:43.605 --> 00:24:46.508
  • How did he conduct himself?
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  • Number one,
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  • Those of us he bumped into in the gates of hell,
  • 00:24:50.545 --> 00:24:54.282
  • Who pretended to be religious and pious
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  • And holy and better than anybody else.
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  • He dealt with them strongly, firmly,
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  • And he condemned them in no uncertain sound.
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  • That's what he did with those
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  • Who were religious folks behind the gates of hell.
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  • How did he deal with those
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  • Behind the gates of hell
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  • Who didn't know
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  • Who were throwaway people who were empty?
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  • People who were confused, who were lost,
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  • Who didn't know anything
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  • About a true and living god had to deal with them,
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  • The adulterers, the fornicators,
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  • Those who were profane,
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  • Those who were immoral, those who were thieves.
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  • How do you deal with them?
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  • He dealt with them
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  • With love,
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  • Compassion, understanding, grace.
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  • He lived before them the power of love.
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  • And ladies and gentlemen,
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  • There's nothing more powerful in the world than love.
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  • When you get inside the gates of hell.
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  • When i was a boy,
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  • There was a popular little song called mother.
  • 00:26:09.624 --> 00:26:13.395
  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
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  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
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  • They are certainly universal in their application
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  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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  • I had to
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  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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  • Would you believe that?
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  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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  • For mother's day only.
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  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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