Ed Young - Redefined

February 17, 2025 | S25:E41

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 - Redefined | February 17, 2025

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Ed young: california this past week, a family had
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A barbecue in their backyard and invited all their neighbors to
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Come, children, dogs.
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The man who was barbecuing looked over in a bush and saw
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A rattlesnake coiled, maybe you read about it.
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And he wanted to get the rattlesnake out of the way, and
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So he took the tongs he was barbecuing with and he went and
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Grabbed a rattlesnake, trying to take him away, and the snake
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Struck him in the arm.
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They called 911, and also they call the catch and release
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Protection agency for the environment and for animals that
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Existed in that city, and they came.
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The ambulance arrive to take him away the same time that the
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Environmentalist came to catch and release the snake in
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Another habitat.
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Interestingly, a bigger crowd was around the capture of the
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Snake than was watching the man who had been struck by the snake
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Put in the ambulance.
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We're always attracted to snakes more than we are to the victim.
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Have you noticed that?
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[congregation applauding]
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The bottom line is everybody here has been snake bitten,
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Every single one of us, no exceptions.
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You say, "what is that all about?"
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It started in the garden of eden.
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The snake, evil, came, asked eve a question or two, she decided
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To eat the fruit so, as the evil snake had told her, she would be
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Like god.
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She was bitten by the snake, adam was bitten by the snake, we
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Call that, in theological terms, the fall of man, it is the fall.
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And in the process, the poisonous venom went in the
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Bloodstream of the first man and the first woman.
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And guess what?
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That venom has been carried down all through the ages until all
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Of us were born with snake venom within us that will kill us.
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What was god's answer?
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The cross, the cross.
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Because god came into this world, and we read he died for
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Our sins, he died for that venom that is flowing in your veins
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And in my veins.
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And by the way, do you know what anti-venom is?
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What does it consist of?
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Anti-venom is blood mixed with venom from snakes.
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And they took this man to the hospital, and i assure you they
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Took some anti-venom and put it in his bloodstream so he would
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Be, how about this word, saved.
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And so jesus christ, in a supernatural transaction that no
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One completely understands, god put on him all the snakebites
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That you and i have ever had.
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And therefore, his perfect blood that was shed becomes an
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Anti-venom, that when we receive him as lord and savior, that
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Anti-venom works in you and in me.
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And that's the background of the word "salvation."
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Now, if someone would doubt that we're born bitten by the snake,
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This is a brief theological-biblical background,
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But i can prove it to you experimentally, i can prove it
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To you by how we live.
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For example, did anybody have to teach anybody here how to lie?
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You know, how to deceive, how to lust, how to be prideful?
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How to have those humble brags that we do?
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"well, i've done all this, but oh, it's of god, you know, we
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Were so skillful."
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But humble brags or not.
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Who taught us to defend ourselves?
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Who taught us to get involved in all?
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How did we learn that?
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We are born bitten by the snake, and the anti-venom that comes in
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Us from the blood of jesus christ, that is
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What saves us.
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I like the word, "salvaged us," as you know, "restores us to the
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Purpose for which we were made."
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So, we come to this side of the cross, and god begins to work
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A miracle in our lives and then we grow up in our faith.
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We call that sanctification, we call that maturity, we call that
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All of a sudden helping god to build his mind, his heart, in
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His way in you and me.
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And we have what we call character.
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Character is not something we have, it's something we become.
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"oh, he has character."
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Have you and i become with genuine character in god?
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That's the process of growing and maturity.
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So we come to this moment in our study of corinth.
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These are christians now, these are part of the church.
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He introduces immorality, and i want you to open your bibles
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With me, it's good to bring them to church.
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Open your bibles to 1 corinthians chapter number 5,
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And let's read, listen together, these first verses.
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He says, "it is actually reported that there is sexual
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Immorality among you," christians, "of a kind that even
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Pagans do not tolerate."
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Oh, this must really be something.
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"a man is sleeping with his father's wife.
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And you're proud!
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Shouldn't you rather have gone into mourning?"
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Incest.
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And he says for a man to sleep with their stepmother, even the
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Roman law would forbid that, let alone the principle of christ.
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The roman law said this is outside the realm.
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Now remember where they lived, they lived in corinth, and the
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Church was an island of people who had received christ and they
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Were living around perhaps one of the most sensual societies
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That this world has ever known.
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Las vegas, sin city, "what happens in las vegas stays
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In las vegas."
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I know you've never heard that, that's exactly what they would
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Say in biblical days.
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The corinthians, "what happens in corinth stays in corinth."
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It's sin city.
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And a lot of these christians had been living decadent lives
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Of total immorality.
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There was a freedom of sex and sexual expression.
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Man, it was widespread in corinth, and they even had a
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Temple to aphrodite in which sex was worshipped.
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It's the highest form of pleasure, and so they
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Worship sex.
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So, many of these christians, they'd come out of that
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Environment and they'd come into the church, but now this one
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Person paul is talking about, evidently he was a prominent
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Member of the church, and evidently everybody knew about
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It in the church and all those outside the church knew
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About it.
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Perhaps he was a deacon or a teacher, a pastor, we don't know
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What his role was, but he was very prominent, very important.
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And he says, "the church was proud," isn't that crazy?
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"of this incestuous life he was living."
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I guess the church would say to all those immoral corinthians,
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"our church is so progressive and we're so tolerant and we're
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So up to speed in the 1st century, we've got, you know who
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It is, in our church living an incestuous life and he's still
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Teaching, he's still functioning, and we just sort of
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Turn away from it.
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And you'd fit at our church too.
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You don't have to change your lifestyle very much.
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We sort of accept all of this.
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We don't question all of this," and they were proud of it.
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And then paul says, "but shouldn't you be mourning?"
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And the word "mourning" there means there has been a death,
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It's mourning deeply, someone has been taken away.
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And paul has said, "instead of being proud of this person,
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Saying, 'we have this.'"
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You see, it was the kind of person that they would say,
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"guess who's a member of our church?
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The mayor, the governor," whoever, "oh, we're so proud to
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Have them."
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And now they said, "instead of being proud, you should be
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Mourning over the incest that this man, common knowledge, is
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Participating in," a christian.
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And then paul says, "this is what you do about it."
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This is strong medicine, folks.
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He says, "put out of your fellowship the man who has been
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Doing this?
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For in my part," says paul, "even though i am not physically
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Present, i am with you in spirit.
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As one who is present with you in this way, i have already
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Passed judgment in the name of jesus."
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Paul is saying god has already said in jesus christ that incest
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Is a deadly, deadly moral sin.
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Jesus pronounced judgment.
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Paul did not have to do it.
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And then look at what he says, he says, "what do you do?"
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He says, "hand this man over to satan for the destruction of the
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Flesh," the latter part, "so that his spirit may be saved on
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The day of the lord."
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Now, keep that in your mind.
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This very prominent person in the church in the city is going
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To be called before the christians in his immoral
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Lifestyle, and look at the purpose of it.
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See the purpose?
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So that he might be salvaged, so he might be saved.
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And it says, "what do you do with him?"
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You turn him over, you turn his flesh over to satan, ah.
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Some people say that means that, ananias, sapphira, he's gonna
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Die and have physical problems, it may be physical problems, but
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It's something even deadlier than that.
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You know what that means, "turn his flesh over to satan"?
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It means that that passion, that sexual drive that led him away
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From his wife and his children with infidelity and with all the
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Things that infidelity that led him into this lifestyle, that
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Lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, the pride of the life,
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The world, the flesh, the devil, whatever it was, he says they're
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Going to lose that sexual desire.
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It's going to be taken away.
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In other words, you have an addiction.
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"oh, i just smoked two or three cigarettes a day, and now i'm
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Smoking a pack a day or two packs a day."
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Then i'd go, "sure."
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"oh, i'm just gonna try a little alcohol and i drank more and
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More and more."
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How does it work?
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"oh, i'm gonna experiment here with this drug and i'm going to
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Control it."
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You see, with all the addictions that we have, and once we have
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The addiction and we let it go, and we have this and we let it
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Go, we have this and we let it go, and it has this and we let
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It go, and then it has us.
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That's the story of every addiction you can name.
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So this is what happened, and so he says just let him fall, let
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The results of this addiction take its course.
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And every kind of immoral addiction takes its course,
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Does it not?
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Study the life of any individual you can find, it catches up
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With you.
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And then he says, "what are we to do?"
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We are to judge, as a church, this person who was living in
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Well-known incest.
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How do we deal with that?
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How do you deal with somebody you know is going down
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A dead-end street and you can see, without being too smart,
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They're about to fall off the cliff?
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How do we deal with that?
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Matthew 18, and by the way, this has been done in this church
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Many, many, many times.
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If there's a moral problem, we should pray and fast, and go and
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Sit down with that person, and don't tell anybody else.
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"well, i'm going to talk with bill because he's caught up in
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An adulterous relationship, i want you to pray for me."
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No, no, no!
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I see a lot of prayer meetings that are more ungodly than those
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Who don't even pray.
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How you handle, matthew 18, you go one on one, and with tears
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And with prayer and with your own understanding that you're
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Not going as somebody who's perfect, and you deal with that
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In love and in pairs and try to help them come out of the
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Immoral trap.
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If that doesn't work, jesus says, "then you take two or
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Three others and they go with you and they sit down with this
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Person and they try to deal with them."
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You see, you don't take something and expand it.
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And then if that doesn't work, you take them before the body of
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Christ, the church.
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Evidently, this is what had happened with this man.
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The church was so prideful and he was so prideful, saying,
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"well, this is not a big deal," or whatever, and now they go
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Before the church and the church pronounces judgment.
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I have never got to that point in my personal relationship and
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Dealing and using matthew 18, i've never got to that point.
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And we save them in church, it doesn't mean they cannot
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Attend worship.
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Certainly and evidently, this man, we'll see, evidently
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Continued to go to church, he just did not have
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A prominent position.
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So, then we see, what was the problem here?
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The problem was the man didn't kill the snake.
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He didn't kill the snake.
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Look at verse 5, "your boasting is not good.
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Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch
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Of dough?
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Get rid of the old yeast."
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In the old testament, yeast, leaven is always connected
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With sin.
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In the passover, they took any yeast, any leaven out of the
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House before they went to the passover feast, why?
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Because you put a little yeast in a whole hunk of dough, i
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Don't know much about it but i understand that that yeast just
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Goes through all that dough and it rises and gets larger
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And larger.
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You think, "well, your sin or my sin doesn't affect the church."
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Sure it does, immorality affects all the church, all the body of
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Christ, everybody.
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It's like yeast, it goes everywhere.
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He says, "kill the snake, get the yeast out."
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And then the next thing, he says you can't be tolerant.
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He's already introduced said in the very first verse of
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This chapter.
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He says, "i wrote you a letter not to associate with sexually
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Immoral people."
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Now he explains that, let me tell you briefly.
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He says it's not that we don't associate with immoral people in
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The world.
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You couldn't live if we didn't do that.
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Now you don't just become intimate friends with them and
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Do a lot of business with them.
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I think that's deadly every single time it happens.
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But see, god is gonna judge the world.
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Folks, don't get in the business of being judging.
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We're not to judge the world, god's gonna take care of that.
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Those who are outside the family of god, those who have never
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Been this side of the cross, god's gonna handle that.
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But we are, in the church, matthew 18, to go and try to
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Call those back who are running over the cliff.
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God did not put these "thou shalt not" down to keep us from
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Having a good time or fulfilling everything in life.
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He put those "thou shalt not" down as a protection for us to
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Have a full and glorious life.
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Now, what has happened to so many people is that in our
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Sensual culture, our sensual culture, we have a tremendous
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Problem in the whole area of sex.
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One of the biggest businesses in the world now is pornography.
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We've all been exposed to it.
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When children are exposed to it, it is so very deadly because
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There is that prefrontal cortex right in the middle here, cortex
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Covers that part of our brain, that lobe in our brain, and when
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Children see pornography that part of their brain is
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Not developed.
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What does that brain do?
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That brain helps us make decisions, helps us to relate to
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People, help us to run our lives properly, and when children are
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Exposed to that it is stunted, it is dwarfed, it is confused.
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And when adults are repeatedly exposed to this, the
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Pornographers say, "we're getting more and more vivid."
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The reason they're doing that is because there's a jadedness and
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They have to continually become more and more perverted.
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I looked at this, and i thought maybe this explains--
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I'm not speaking ex cathedra here or being overly dogmatic.
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I'm speculating, and it's my speculation, maybe this explains
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How a lot of people in positions of power in the corporate world,
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In our political world, in our educational world, seem to many
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Of us to be doing everything they can to destroy america.
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Maybe that prefrontal cortex has been so damaged they can't
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Discern darkness from light and right from wrong.
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It is wild and hard to believe, and to see right before our very
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Eyes, maybe, in all the sensuality that we've been
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A part of for so many generations now, we're seeing
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The deadly payoff at this moment in history.
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I pray that that is not right, but i think that's something to
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Think about.
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So here we are.
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What do we do from here?
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The end of this chapter is so strong.
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He says, "what business is it a mind to judge those who are
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Outside the church?
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Are you not to judge those inside the church?
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God will judge those outside.
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'expel the wicked person from among you.'"
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Think about this corinthian man, so prominent, so well known,
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Proud of in the church, known outside the church, living
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Incestuous life.
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Look what he went through in all the humiliation and shame before
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That body of christ.
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But paul says he was a christian.
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How can this be?
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You see what happened, he came to christ, he understood the
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Shed blood of christ, paul has already talked about the cross,
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And knew the blood of christ was cleansing him of sin.
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But what happened?
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We've already talked about corinthians.
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There's a natural person who's outside of the christ, there's
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A spiritual person who is in christ, and there is the carnal
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Person, fleshly person.
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So what happens?
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This man ends up on the back side of the cross.
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Now he is a christian, but he's lost the protection of the
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Church, he's lost the authority that christ gives his sons and
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Daughters, and now he is living a carnal, fleshly life just like
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He lived before he ever came to christ and became a part of the
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Body of christ.
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He's gone back there and now his back to the cross and he is
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Carnal, he is carnal, he is sensual, he is living an immoral
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Sexual life.
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Before you get too pious out there, everybody here, in
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Different times and different states, we too have been on the
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Wrong side of the cross, don't misunderstand me.
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We've been over here, different reasons, different things, we've
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Been over here, for the flesh controls us.
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What do we do here?
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The same thing he did when he came to christ, he goes back on
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The right side of the cross and he goes and he confesses his sin
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And turns from sin and asks that blood of jesus christ to come
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Into our life and to be that anti-venom that sets us back on
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Our feet and sets us free.
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That's what we have to do.
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Let me show you.
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This is one of the most thrilling verses in
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All the bible.
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You say, "well, i wonder what happened to this guy in corinth.
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I mean, did he do that, receive christ?
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Wrong side of the cross, did he go back on the right side of the
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Cross, all that he went through?"
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Listen to what happens in 2 corinthians, same guy.
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"if anyone has caused grief," this man did, "he has not so
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Much grieved me," said paul, "as he is grieved all of you to some
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Extent--not to put it severely.
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The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient.
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Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that
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He will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
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I urge you, therefore, to affirm your love for him."
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This man was completely restored in the fellowship of the body of
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Christ, and that is the miracle of his grace.
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Female: we have the promise that god
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Will direct all our paths.
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Male: plus the guarantee of a long life.
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Female: the assurance of our family's protection.
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Male: the promise of creative wisdom.
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Female: and he will never leave us or forsake us.
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Male announcer: the promises of god are available
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For all believers in christ.
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Each day is an opportunity to live in the fullness of what
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He's already pledged to us in his word.
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Now in this beautiful hard-bound edition,
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Promises of god's word.
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Ed young: when you come to faith in jesus christ you become
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A believer, but that does not mean that the flesh is dead.
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If you find yourself on the wrong side of the cross today,
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Let me suggest two important things you can do.
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One, leave room for failure, don't be too hard on yourself.
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The important thing is to not despair but instead to turn to
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The lord.
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In him there is forgiveness and grace and love.
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And the second thing is to be honest with god.
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Tell him about your struggle.
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He's in the restoration business.
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He can help us to move back to the right side of the cross when
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We can live there the victorious life.
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Now, listen, if you have questions about what we've
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Covered today or just need someone to pray with you, call
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The number on your screen.
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And let me personally thank you for watching, and make plans
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As we tune in next time and take another big step
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On the "winning walk" with jesus christ.
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Ed Young - Redefined

February 17, 2025 | S25:E41

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