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Ed Young - Relationships

February 17, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - Relationships
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 - Relationships | February 17, 2026
  • And a man
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  • We can take and make a statue that looks like a human being.
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  • Now, if we could speak
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  • Or god could speak and make that statue
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  • Come alive,
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  • Why would that be miraculous?
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  • That is not nearly as miraculous
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  • As when you and i receive jesus christ.
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  • And now we have zoé in us, and we come to life
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  • Everlasting.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, i was married for 58 years
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  • And i had a great marriage.
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  • I've been married this christmas for two years,
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  • And i have a great marriage.
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  • And i'm going to tell you something.
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  • God intends for everybody here
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  • To have a great marriage.
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  • And if you do not have one,
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  • You're not simply being obedient to god.
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  • Every year for a long time, i've taken a little
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  • Many sabbaticals so we fly
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  • 4000 miles to the spot that
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  • We would call
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  • Our little paradise.
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  • And we landed and
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  • Went to costco.
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  • We just hoarded up on everything from tissue
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  • To different kinds of meat, all kinds of stuff.
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  • Some ice cream and
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  • And we we arrive about an hour later
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  • At our little condo that we've been there
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  • And we get out, unload all of costco.
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  • Now it's dark.
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  • Seems to be nobody goes in a little condos in our building.
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  • There's four of them. we're one of them.
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  • And so we unload all there on the porch and and,
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  • I say this opened the door
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  • And she said,
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  • I don't have the key.
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  • And i said, well, i've got
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  • And i didn't have the key.
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  • Oh, yeah.
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  • You didn't bring the key.
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  • I thought you had the key.
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  • No, you're supposed to bring the key.
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  • I thought you had the key.
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  • We're this far from paradise.
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  • It is dark.
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  • Costco is melting
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  • Right there on the board.
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  • I call the manager.
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  • Not there.
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  • No answer.
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  • Everything dark?
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  • I said oh, you know, i.
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  • I know there's a hidden key under the little,
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  • Little stool here on the porch.
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  • And where is the stew?
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  • It's gone.
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  • There we are.
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  • One step from paradise.
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  • You've got the key.
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  • No, you've got the key.
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  • Marital conflict.
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  • We're going to
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  • Talk about marriage in a way that
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  • Perhaps you've never heard it before.
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  • We're in first corinthians chapter number
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  • Seven, and it's all about relationships.
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  • Relationships,
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  • Relationships
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  • And the primary relationship.
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  • After the relationship you and i can have with god through
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  • Jesus christ is marriage, because we and the church are.
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  • The bible tells us we are the very bride
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  • Of jesus christ.
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  • Marriage.
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  • That that fabulous relationship.
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  • If you're single, you say, well, this won't apply to me.
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  • It absolutely applies to you
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  • If you're married.
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  • It absolutely applies to you
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  • Because there is a desire
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  • For paradise in marriage.
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  • Now. paul
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  • Penned these words in
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  • First corinthians seven when he was in prison.
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  • Yeah, one of the prison epistles.
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  • That's when he wrote these words.
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  • I've been to the place where he was in prison.
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  • Many of you have.
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  • It's a dark place underground.
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  • How filthy, how horrific.
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  • But that's where paul was waiting for his execution.
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  • Where he was later beheaded.
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  • And he wrote these words.
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  • And as i finally got into
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  • Our little paradise, i looked for scripture.
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  • I looked for scripture that would
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  • Speak to me and
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  • Take me through
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  • As all of us now find ourselves.
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  • The one powerful word that all of us
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  • Have that determines so much of where we are today.
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  • That is that big word that seem to be getting larger
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  • And larger.
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  • The word anxiety.
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  • Anxiety.
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  • And paul, did
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  • He have a reason to be anxious?
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  • Hello.
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  • And so i bumped into philippians chapter four.
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  • I'd read the verses, but i use those verses
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  • And i want those verses to be your theme and my theme
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  • For the next at least 12 months.
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  • Here is paul
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  • Awaiting execution and death.
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  • And he writes
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  • Philippians four four through eight.
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  • And i presented this to some of our leadership
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  • Last sunday night.
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  • And paul says, rejoice,
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  • Rejoice again.
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  • I say, rejoice.
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  • The word rejoice means read joy, joy, two joys.
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  • And i love joy as acrostic.
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  • Jesus. first.
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  • Other. second.
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  • Myself. third. jail.
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  • But joy, joy, joy, joy, joy.
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  • And then paul,
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  • He compounds it.
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  • He says again, i say, joy, joy.
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  • Rejoice.
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  • So it begins with joy, joy, joy, joy, joy.
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  • Oh, paul.
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  • And then he goes.
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  • He says, i want you to know that your gentle spirit,
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  • Your gentle spirit
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  • Should be known by everybody.
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  • I have a problem with the word gentle.
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  • I don't naturally have a gentle spirit, but.
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  • But gentle.
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  • I always like to define it with the words of carl sandburg.
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  • He talked about abraham lincoln.
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  • He said still
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  • Wrapped in velvet.
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  • That's the gentle spirit.
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  • And then he says, the lord is near.
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  • See the scripture.
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  • The lord is near.
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  • The lord is he.
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  • He is under present.
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  • He said, the lord is near.
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  • If i could just know that at all times.
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  • And then he says.
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  • In nothing,
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  • There's nothing for you to be anxious about.
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  • Nothing.
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  • You mean paul?
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  • They're waiting for execution.
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  • He says to us today, in this moment of extremity
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  • In the history of the world, there is nothing for you
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  • To be anxious about.
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  • Well, paul,
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  • How does that operate?
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  • He says in everything.
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  • In everything.
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  • And as i have said down in this verse,
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  • I've made a list of all of that will drive me just about.
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  • And i said, lord, in everything
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  • We have no reason to be anxious.
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  • What happens?
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  • How do you do that?
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  • He says by prayer.
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  • That's listing those anxieties.
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  • And but i've got a list.
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  • And by
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  • Supplication that means with passionate prayer.
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  • Don't just say words,
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  • But flesh and blood on those words with passion.
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  • Prayer with love again, and with thanksgiving.
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  • Let your requests be made known to god.
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  • That's it.
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  • Righteous.
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  • Let your requests be known with god.
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  • And then here comes the dogmatic
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  • Answer.
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  • The peace of god, who
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  • Will rule your heart.
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  • Do you like that to happen
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  • And will rule your mind? oh!
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  • In christ jesus.
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  • And then he says, as a result of that he said, therefore,
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  • Then he has a beautiful list that is there,
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  • A beautiful list.
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  • He says, whatever is true
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  • Truth,
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  • So powerful thing.
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  • It's becoming increasingly scarce in our time.
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  • We think truth is not objective and subjective
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  • How we spend it.
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  • No it's not.
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  • Paul says whatever is true.
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  • He said, whatever is honorable,
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  • Honorable.
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  • He said, whatever is right.
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  • You see it right
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  • And whatever is pure
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  • Or purity without alloy, not mix it.
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  • Whatever is pure, whatever is lovely.
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  • I problem with the word lovely.
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  • It's a feminine word to me.
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  • But we know what is lovely.
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  • Whatever is good repute,
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  • Whatever has a good reputation.
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  • And he says, if there is any excellence,
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  • God's people
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  • And god's church should be about excellence.
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  • If you see anything going on around this place,
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  • I don't care whether it's the ground,
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  • I don't care whether it's the buildings.
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  • I don't care
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  • What the bible study, i don't care words a worship.
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  • If it is not saved, then trying to be excellent
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  • For god almighty.
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  • You let me know.
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  • We are about excellence to honor the lord.
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  • He said, whatever is excellent.
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  • By the way, that's a classical greek word
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  • And you could take it, unpack it for a week.
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  • We don't use it much. what is excellence?
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  • And whatever?
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  • Is worthy of praise.
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  • God's praise.
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  • God's approval of god's favor.
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  • He said, we are to think where to dwell.
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  • We are to meditate on these things.
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  • My goodness, ladies and gentlemen,
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  • That is a promise from god almighty himself.
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  • If i give you my word, i'm going to do something.
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  • There's a possibility i might forget.
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  • There's a possibility
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  • I won't lead up and accomplish that which i said,
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  • But i would try to my utmost
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  • To do that.
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  • But when god gives his promise.
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  • Here's the anxiety i offer you.
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  • Peace. guard your heart.
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  • Guard your mind.
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  • You can book what
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  • I wrote standing on the promises
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  • This little book, years ago, because life has a way
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  • Of shaking us right to our very foundations.
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  • We all face days when circumstances
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  • Feel bigger than our faith, and the very ground
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  • On which we stand seems to be shaking.
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  • But over the years, i found there's
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  • Something that never changes.
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  • God keeps his promises.
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  • This book is designed to help you hold on to that truth
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  • Every single day, 24/7.
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  • Standing on the promises is a 365 day
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  • Devotional short, practical, rooted in scripture,
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  • Created to meet you right where you are.
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  • Whether you're starting your day or ending your day, or
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  • Or just needing encouragement in the middle of your day,
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  • Each reading reminds you
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  • That god's word is reliable.
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  • His presence is real.
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  • His promises are working even when you can't
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  • See the results yet,
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  • And you don't know which promise to claim.
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  • My prayer is that this book becomes a daily companion.
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  • Strengthen your faith.
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  • Restore your confidence, and helping you stand firm
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  • No matter what comes your way.
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  • I invite you to call the number on the screen and order
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  • Standing on the promises today, and discover
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  • The peace that surpasses all human understanding
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  • That comes from building your life
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  • On god's un.
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  • Changing word.
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  • And then we run into the word.
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  • We don't use much.
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  • But we quoted quickly in john 316, for god
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  • So loved the world that he gave his only begotten.
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  • We we don't use the word begotten.
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  • That's sort of an old king james begotten, but we know
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  • What it means.
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  • We know that human
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  • Beings beget human beings, right?
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  • Lines beget lines.
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  • Bears beget.
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  • We beget that which is of our kind.
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  • But it says our only begotten son
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  • Somewhere god the father, in pre time
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  • And pre-history his son was begotten.
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  • And divinity begets divinity.
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  • Do you follow me?
  • 00:14:33.085 --> 00:14:34.720
  • Divinity begets divinity.
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  • Humanity begets humanity.
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  • And therefore, in one sense, we're all made in the image
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  • Of god. everybody on this earth.
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  • We are brothers and sisters in nature.
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  • We're biologically human beings.
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  • Homo sapiens. we.
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  • We know that.
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  • But when we receive christ, we receive something else.
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  • We receive his spirit.
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  • And now we're not only biologically,
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  • But we are literally in the family of god.
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  • Because when we receive
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  • Jesus christ as our savior and our lord.
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  • Zoe zoe comes in us.
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  • And that's eternal.
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  • So we're not only biologically begotten.
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  • Follow me, but now, spiritually we're begotten
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  • And we have now divinity within us.
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  • This biological body is going to run down.
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  • Anybody want to bait that a little while?
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  • I mean, that's that's true.
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  • But that zoe,
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  • When we've been begotten by the father through jesus christ,
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  • That is being born again and now, and you and me,
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  • We're not
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  • Only begotten as humans,
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  • But we're begotten by god through christ.
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  • And now we have that divinity within us that lasts forever.
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  • And we're going to discover in first corinthians 15,
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  • This little zoé, and you and me, it's
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  • Going to have an eternal body when we leave this earth.
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  • And so what happens?
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  • And now we as a christian, we have something that's
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  • In this world, but out of this world,
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  • Something that is
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  • Not transient, but something that is absolutely permanent
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  • In all time.
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  • And a man
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  • We can take and make a statue that looks like a human being.
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  • Now, if we could speak or
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  • God could speak and make that statue
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  • Come alive,
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  • Why would that be miraculous?
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  • That is not nearly as miraculous
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  • As when you and i receive jesus christ.
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  • And now we have zoé in us, and we come to life
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  • Everlasting.
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  • That's what is being christian.
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  • That's what we have.
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  • And as christians, we can go as part of the brethren there,
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  • Brother and sister in the family of guys
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  • And the church is the bride of christ itself.
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  • Now we can go and claim
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  • Philippians
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  • Over.
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  • Anxious about nothing.
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  • The peace of god comes.
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  • My mind. it's there for us.
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  • It's a fabulous thing.
  • 00:17:16.215 --> 00:17:17.583
  • And then you come back to
  • 00:17:17.583 --> 00:17:18.884
  • What are we going to be dealing with?
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  • The most powerful,
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  • Important relationship
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  • We have as human beings in this life,
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  • Outside of the vertical relationship with christ,
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  • Is marriage.
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  • Marriage.
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  • Powerful thing
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  • To become one who
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  • Powerful thing.
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  • And we're going to be walking around in this most powerful,
  • 00:17:50.349 --> 00:17:53.619
  • Sacred relationship that man has given to us,
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  • That god has given us as god has given to man.
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  • And there are only three kinds of marriages,
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  • Only three.
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  • There are bad marriages.
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  • There, okay.
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  • Marriages
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  • And there are great
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  • Marriages.
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  • What kind of marriage do you have?
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  • Tell you what a bad marriage is.
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  • A bad marriage is described in many places,
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  • But particularly in proverbs chapter 27.
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  • And that verse says, a wife
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  • That nags is like a drip,
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  • Drip, drip, drip, drip drip, drip, drip, drip.
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  • The same thing is true for a husband who nags is like
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  • Drip, drip, drip, drip.
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  • It's not good enough. it's not big enough.
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  • It's not important enough is not significant enough.
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  • You didn't satisfy.
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  • And you're born in the negative mindscape.
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  • Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip
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  • That will lead to a bad marriage.
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  • And it is a bad marriage.
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  • By the way, i want you to look in the mirror every day
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  • With marriage and ask yourself continually one question
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  • What's it like being married to me?
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  • Sit down on that one.
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  • Get your pen and paper out and just answer that honestly.
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  • If you really want to handle it, ask your partner.
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  • Drip drip drip drip.
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  • You'll lose all your joy.
  • 00:19:35.821 --> 00:19:38.357
  • Actually, a bad marriage is joy
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  • Reversed it.
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  • Jesus, others yourself.
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  • It is putting yourself first.
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  • Putting yourself first in that relationship.
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  • When i was studying this passage, this is amazing to me.
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  • I'm sitting on the couch where i don't usually sit when
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  • I'm studying and i'm thinking about rejoice.
  • 00:20:00.646 --> 00:20:03.815
  • You lose your joy.
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  • Bad marriage is my myself, yourself first, myself first.
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  • And winston comes up and starts barking.
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  • What's the matter with you?
  • 00:20:14.993 --> 00:20:16.328
  • Oh, whoa whoa whoa whoa.
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  • What in the world?
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  • And i realized
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  • That i was sitting on the place and the couch
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  • That he normally sits.
  • 00:20:25.470 --> 00:20:28.440
  • You know, after all, he's a king
  • 00:20:29.141 --> 00:20:31.043
  • Charles spaniel.
  • 00:20:31.043 --> 00:20:33.845
  • So i said, i get it, so i move.
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  • True story.
  • 00:20:36.782 --> 00:20:37.516
  • He jumped up there
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  • On my couch.
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  • I have a little pillow that says, rejoice.
  • 00:20:41.787 --> 00:20:44.356
  • I'd forgotten he was there.
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  • I'll be honest with you, winston.
  • 00:20:45.490 --> 00:20:47.693
  • Immediately takes that pillow and just takes his nose
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  • And knocks it off the couch.
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  • I cannot make it up.
  • 00:20:54.433 --> 00:20:57.703
  • And i thought, my god, glory.
  • 00:20:57.703 --> 00:20:59.638
  • I'm looking for an illustration of a bad marriage.
  • 00:20:59.638 --> 00:21:02.107
  • And here you got it.
  • 00:21:02.107 --> 00:21:03.308
  • Because it is.
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  • When one or another or partner dies, they sit on their
  • 00:21:04.376 --> 00:21:08.080
  • Own throne
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  • And it's all about yourself.
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  • What's an okay marriage?
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  • Okay, marriage.
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  • Listen carefully is when there is no longer
  • 00:21:20.125 --> 00:21:24.062
  • Any fighting or fussy. oh.
  • 00:21:24.062 --> 00:21:27.966
  • When fighting and fussing is eliminated,
  • 00:21:28.834 --> 00:21:31.536
  • You just have an okay marriage.
  • 00:21:31.536 --> 00:21:34.539
  • So both.
  • 00:21:34.806 --> 00:21:35.574
  • That's kind of weird. is it? no.
  • 00:21:35.574 --> 00:21:38.410
  • It's a picture of a okay married, a standoff.
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  • It's a picture of a marriage that has moved
  • 00:21:42.748 --> 00:21:45.083
  • Into the deadliest posture of apathy.
  • 00:21:45.083 --> 00:21:48.954
  • I've talked to a lot of a lot of couples
  • 00:21:49.821 --> 00:21:51.957
  • Through the years about marriage.
  • 00:21:51.957 --> 00:21:53.558
  • When they come in, they're at each other's throats.
  • 00:21:53.558 --> 00:21:55.560
  • They're arguing.
  • 00:21:55.560 --> 00:21:56.561
  • They're presenting their case and their side.
  • 00:21:56.561 --> 00:21:59.231
  • Man, there's hope for that marriage.
  • 00:21:59.231 --> 00:22:00.832
  • But when they both sit there and say,
  • 00:22:00.832 --> 00:22:03.769
  • I don't care what he does,
  • 00:22:04.336 --> 00:22:06.471
  • I'm not interested in her,
  • 00:22:06.471 --> 00:22:09.207
  • And you're together, but you're far apart.
  • 00:22:09.207 --> 00:22:12.377
  • There's no communication
  • 00:22:12.377 --> 00:22:14.546
  • In the
  • 00:22:14.746 --> 00:22:15.614
  • Intimate relationship is mechanical.
  • 00:22:15.614 --> 00:22:17.916
  • There's no sharing that you're going
  • 00:22:17.916 --> 00:22:20.452
  • In the same direction, but you don't have the same goals.
  • 00:22:20.452 --> 00:22:24.489
  • And there's a coldness and a hollowness and a just.
  • 00:22:24.489 --> 00:22:28.460
  • We're going to just get along and survive.
  • 00:22:28.460 --> 00:22:32.297
  • And this is also joy
  • 00:22:32.764 --> 00:22:35.033
  • Reversed, because now there are other things.
  • 00:22:35.033 --> 00:22:37.969
  • May be kids, it may be friendship, it may be
  • 00:22:37.969 --> 00:22:41.273
  • Hobbies that it comes before your number one priority.
  • 00:22:41.273 --> 00:22:45.243
  • Who is the person who is your mate under god for life?
  • 00:22:45.243 --> 00:22:48.547
  • And that's what happens in a okay marriage.
  • 00:22:48.547 --> 00:22:51.883
  • No longer any fighting or fussing dangerous place.
  • 00:22:52.884 --> 00:22:57.222
  • Apathy sets it
  • 00:22:57.222 --> 00:22:59.991
  • Well.
  • 00:23:00.225 --> 00:23:00.892
  • What about a great marriage,
  • 00:23:00.892 --> 00:23:03.495
  • A great marriage?
  • 00:23:03.929 --> 00:23:05.197
  • We're going to be talking about bad marriages, okay?
  • 00:23:05.197 --> 00:23:07.599
  • Married and great marriages for week to come.
  • 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:09.734
  • But a great marriage is
  • 00:23:09.734 --> 00:23:12.604
  • Waiting
  • 00:23:12.838 --> 00:23:15.273
  • And sowing
  • 00:23:15.273 --> 00:23:17.275
  • You weed things out of your life and your life.
  • 00:23:17.275 --> 00:23:20.512
  • You ought to list for this galatians five.
  • 00:23:20.512 --> 00:23:24.082
  • So you weed things out, you weed things out,
  • 00:23:24.082 --> 00:23:26.685
  • You have to do, and then you plant, then you.
  • 00:23:26.685 --> 00:23:28.653
  • So you're weeding and you're planning,
  • 00:23:28.653 --> 00:23:30.722
  • You're weeding and you're planning.
  • 00:23:30.722 --> 00:23:32.224
  • It's an ongoing process
  • 00:23:32.224 --> 00:23:35.260
  • To have a great marriage.
  • 00:23:35.260 --> 00:23:38.497
  • It's a beautiful thing to have a great marriage.
  • 00:23:38.497 --> 00:23:41.433
  • And when you both think the other hold the key to paradise.
  • 00:23:42.601 --> 00:23:46.104
  • By the way, let me take you back to,
  • 00:23:46.104 --> 00:23:50.175
  • Costco on the porch.
  • 00:23:50.642 --> 00:23:55.480
  • Darkness.
  • 00:23:55.780 --> 00:23:58.750
  • And finally she laughs.
  • 00:23:59.251 --> 00:24:02.821
  • I'm mad, but i laugh.
  • 00:24:03.321 --> 00:24:06.591
  • You're supposed to have the key.
  • 00:24:06.591 --> 00:24:07.926
  • I'm going to have the key to paradise.
  • 00:24:07.926 --> 00:24:09.594
  • And then i look up and there's a little window up there.
  • 00:24:09.594 --> 00:24:14.833
  • I said,
  • 00:24:15.066 --> 00:24:16.701
  • I wonder if i could
  • 00:24:16.701 --> 00:24:18.537
  • Crawl up to that window.
  • 00:24:18.537 --> 00:24:21.640
  • So she tries to help me up and
  • 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:25.010
  • My shoulders were too wide.
  • 00:24:25.610 --> 00:24:27.412
  • And then i said, let me help you.
  • 00:24:27.412 --> 00:24:29.447
  • And i get her up and we go, and we stand on this
  • 00:24:29.447 --> 00:24:33.351
  • Rickety chair, and she gets up there
  • 00:24:33.351 --> 00:24:36.054
  • And thank goodness for swimming and a little yoga
  • 00:24:36.054 --> 00:24:39.291
  • Through the years.
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  • And she gets her head, her shoulders through
  • 00:24:40.258 --> 00:24:42.961
  • And finally she gets the others through, and somehow
  • 00:24:42.961 --> 00:24:46.197
  • She spins around and drops down on the other side.
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  • How are you for?
  • 00:24:51.069 --> 00:24:54.573
  • And she goes around and opens the door
  • 00:24:54.573 --> 00:24:57.976
  • To paradise.
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  • It took
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  • Both of us.
  • 00:25:06.551 --> 00:25:07.552
  • I didn't have the key. she didn't have the key.
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  • It took both of us.
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  • And all of us are married.
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  • Sometime we have to go through those narrow places,
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  • But we have to go through those places together.
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  • The secret.
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  • The beginning of a great marriage.
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  • You wait and you play it, you wait and you're playing.
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  • And we come up and you pull them up and you plant
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  • And you do it together.
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  • Life doesn't always unfold the way we expect.
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  • There are moments filled with uncertainty.
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  • Challenges that test our strength.
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  • And days
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  • When encouragement feels hard to find in those moments.
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  • What if you had something solid to stand on?
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  • Standing on the promises is a daily
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  • Devotional designed to remind you god is faithful.
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  • With 365 short, meaningful reflections.
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  • This book draws you back to the promises found in scripture
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  • Promises of hope,
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  • Peace, strength, and guidance for everyday life.
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  • Whether you're walking through a new challenge in life
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  • Or simply longing for a deeper connection with god,
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  • Standing on the promises meets you right where you are.
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  • It's a daily reminder that you are never alone
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  • And that god's word is still true.
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  • Still relevant and still trustworthy.
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  • Call the number below or visit our website
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  • To get a copy of standing on the promises today,
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  • And let god's promises guide you one day at a time.
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  • I'm thankful you joined us today on the winning walk.
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  • Remember, god's word in the bible
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  • Is a reliable guide offering wisdom,
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  • Hope, and strength for every season of life.
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  • As you go, i pray that god willing, courage your heart
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  • Give you a brand new heart and help
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  • You live out what you have learned today.
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  • Keep it simple.
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  • Take a simple principle and say, i claim this
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  • Biblical truth in my life.
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  • Thank you for watching being part of the family
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  • And i look forward to
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  • Being with you again tomorrow as we take another step
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  • On the winning walk with jesus christ.
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