Ed Young - Restoring Unity

March 17, 2025 | S25:E65

#Theology #Faith #Atheist #Government #Truth #WordofGod #inActive #Restoration #Division #EdYoung #Community #Unity #TheWinningWalkwithDr.EdYoung #1Corinthians1

Closed captions

Show Timecode

The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Restoring Unity | March 17, 2025

...
00:00:00.633 --> 00:00:01.346
♪♪♪
00:00:01.814 --> 00:00:11.123
♪♪♪
00:00:11.256 --> 00:00:20.165
Dr. ed young: the doomsday clock came into being.
00:00:21.366 --> 00:00:22.201
In 1947, two years after the explosion of those atom bombs.
00:00:24.670 --> 00:00:32.010
And they put a clock there that all of these brilliant futurists
00:00:32.010 --> 00:00:38.617
Meet and speculate and decide what time it is for humanity
00:00:38.617 --> 00:00:44.423
From a secular perspective will be virtually obliterated.
00:00:44.423 --> 00:00:52.397
During the cold war, the clock was set at seven minutes
00:00:52.397 --> 00:00:56.969
Till midnight.
00:00:56.969 --> 00:00:59.138
Other times every year they'd move the clock down as they seek
00:00:59.138 --> 00:01:03.809
To determine the perspective as to where we are as to that
00:01:03.809 --> 00:01:09.848
Doomsday moment of 12 midnight.
00:01:09.848 --> 00:01:13.886
This past wednesday they met and they set the clock.
00:01:13.886 --> 00:01:21.660
At 100 seconds till doomsday.
00:01:21.660 --> 00:01:29.201
In other words, in their opinion, for the past 70 plus
00:01:29.201 --> 00:01:32.938
Years when this is takin' place, we're about 100 seconds.
00:01:32.938 --> 00:01:38.844
Never do they feel has the world been as close to catastrophe as
00:01:38.844 --> 00:01:45.350
We are this very moment.
00:01:45.350 --> 00:01:50.189
Their rationale for this is the proliferation of
00:01:50.189 --> 00:01:54.726
Nuclear weapons.
00:01:54.726 --> 00:01:56.662
Now just think about it.
00:01:56.662 --> 00:01:58.797
We've come to the point that in a suitcase someone could carry a
00:01:58.797 --> 00:02:04.536
Nuclear bomb that would literally level a city.
00:02:04.536 --> 00:02:11.076
So they see this widespread hatred between people, division
00:02:11.076 --> 00:02:16.582
Between people, and they see the very real potentiality of that
00:02:16.582 --> 00:02:22.487
Taking place.
00:02:22.487 --> 00:02:24.923
And then they had studied geopolitical politics, and they
00:02:24.923 --> 00:02:30.095
See the deep divisions anywhere you look in our world, any
00:02:30.095 --> 00:02:34.433
Nation, any culture, people at one another's throats.
00:02:34.433 --> 00:02:41.139
Then they see the viruses that are beginning to appear and they
00:02:41.139 --> 00:02:45.010
Speculate that we'll see some viruses that will come that will
00:02:45.010 --> 00:02:48.914
Have no medical answers and millions of lives could well
00:02:48.914 --> 00:02:53.018
Be lost.
00:02:53.018 --> 00:02:55.053
I read that and i said, lord, we thank you that you are the
00:02:55.053 --> 00:03:01.226
Author of history and you have your hand on time.
00:03:01.226 --> 00:03:06.198
[congregation applauding]
00:03:06.198 --> 00:03:10.902
A part of the reason they feel we're at this moment of
00:03:10.902 --> 00:03:15.040
Extremity is because of the division we now see in america.
00:03:15.040 --> 00:03:24.816
We are, as a people, without question, deeply,
00:03:24.816 --> 00:03:30.522
Deeply divided.
00:03:30.522 --> 00:03:33.725
There is a movement in america, colleges universities, scholars,
00:03:33.725 --> 00:03:40.399
Even the business world, there's a movement in america to take
00:03:40.399 --> 00:03:45.837
America and make it totally secular, totally humanistic.
00:03:45.837 --> 00:03:53.178
Mention god in education, you're in trouble.
00:03:53.178 --> 00:03:57.249
Mention god in the business world, you're in trouble.
00:03:57.249 --> 00:04:01.053
Mention god almost anywhere in the basic entities, and now it's
00:04:01.053 --> 00:04:05.791
Even being challenged as to whether or not we can have
00:04:05.791 --> 00:04:08.760
A family that's in god and of god.
00:04:08.760 --> 00:04:11.096
You see where we are?
00:04:11.096 --> 00:04:12.431
We're moving rapidly toward what was represented in the u.s.s.r.
00:04:12.431 --> 00:04:17.602
In which, by their decree of their government, they were
00:04:17.602 --> 00:04:21.373
An atheistic nation completely void of god.
00:04:21.373 --> 00:04:25.377
We are moving rapidly in that direction.
00:04:25.377 --> 00:04:32.250
One nation, not under god.
00:04:32.250 --> 00:04:35.120
You see, that's the reason we're so unified.
00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:37.489
If you have a centralized authority, something which you
00:04:37.489 --> 00:04:41.293
Can rally around, one nation under god, then there's hope
00:04:41.293 --> 00:04:46.565
For unity.
00:04:46.565 --> 00:04:48.133
What do you do with division?
00:04:48.133 --> 00:04:51.870
How do you get people together?
00:04:51.870 --> 00:04:55.474
In essentials, unity.
00:04:55.474 --> 00:05:00.178
And non-essentials, diversity.
00:05:00.178 --> 00:05:04.783
In all things, love.
00:05:04.783 --> 00:05:09.321
The essentials.
00:05:09.321 --> 00:05:11.189
You have to agree on the essentials.
00:05:11.189 --> 00:05:14.459
Under god, that's an essential.
00:05:14.459 --> 00:05:18.663
We must understand this.
00:05:18.663 --> 00:05:20.999
Where do we see this?
00:05:20.999 --> 00:05:22.434
Where is it put together?
00:05:22.434 --> 00:05:24.069
Is there a word from almighty god?
00:05:24.069 --> 00:05:26.671
If there's 100 seconds according to the doomsday clock until the
00:05:26.671 --> 00:05:32.077
End of civilization as we know it, how we need a word from
00:05:32.077 --> 00:05:36.548
The almighty.
00:05:36.548 --> 00:05:38.650
Where do you find it?
00:05:38.650 --> 00:05:40.819
Clearly in the book of corinthians.
00:05:40.819 --> 00:05:45.323
Corinthians.
00:05:45.323 --> 00:05:46.658
In fact, in the very early verses, some we've already
00:05:46.658 --> 00:05:49.361
Studied, you can see this formula for unity.
00:05:49.361 --> 00:05:53.732
We can see, in the essentials, there is unity.
00:05:53.732 --> 00:05:57.636
And we've already looked at in our study.
00:05:57.636 --> 00:06:00.505
Verse 4, following we saw clearly the essentials
00:06:00.505 --> 00:06:03.942
Were mentioned.
00:06:03.942 --> 00:06:05.277
Let me remind you of them.
00:06:05.277 --> 00:06:06.611
Beginning with verse 4, paul says, "i thank god always
00:06:06.611 --> 00:06:11.149
Because of who you are, your identity."
00:06:11.149 --> 00:06:13.051
You're a christian.
00:06:13.051 --> 00:06:14.386
That's an essential.
00:06:14.386 --> 00:06:15.720
You know god, you received jesus christ, you're a christian.
00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:19.057
Then he says, i want you all to be reminded of all the gifts
00:06:19.057 --> 00:06:21.893
You've received, the abilities, the talents you've received,
00:06:21.893 --> 00:06:25.130
That god has given you.
00:06:25.130 --> 00:06:27.065
Then he said, i want you to know the direction in which
00:06:27.065 --> 00:06:29.267
You're headed.
00:06:29.267 --> 00:06:30.936
And god has cleaned up you and cleaned up me and made us
00:06:30.936 --> 00:06:33.972
Righteous in the sight of god and we are headed in a proper
00:06:33.972 --> 00:06:37.275
Direction now and when we leave this life.
00:06:37.275 --> 00:06:41.346
And then he said, remember who you know.
00:06:41.346 --> 00:06:44.716
You know christ.
00:06:44.716 --> 00:06:46.651
Relationship with the living god.
00:06:46.651 --> 00:06:49.688
These are essentials, ladies and gentlemen.
00:06:49.688 --> 00:06:52.123
This is not optional.
00:06:52.123 --> 00:06:53.892
This is basic, a-b-c, 101, christianity.
00:06:53.892 --> 00:06:58.396
That's the essentials.
00:06:58.396 --> 00:06:59.798
Or the non-essentials.
00:06:59.798 --> 00:07:01.533
We're gonna talk about that.
00:07:01.533 --> 00:07:03.101
And paul talks about it beginning with verse 10 all the
00:07:03.101 --> 00:07:06.738
Way through here to verse 17.
00:07:06.738 --> 00:07:10.208
He talks about non-essentials.
00:07:10.208 --> 00:07:12.777
He talks about how in the church what was going on.
00:07:12.777 --> 00:07:18.683
A very contemporary phrase was going on.
00:07:18.683 --> 00:07:22.521
Identify politics.
00:07:22.521 --> 00:07:24.256
Have you heard that lately?
00:07:24.256 --> 00:07:26.992
In other words, in the political world they are so skilled, all
00:07:26.992 --> 00:07:31.029
Of them, to dividing us up into groups.
00:07:31.029 --> 00:07:34.165
Oh, this is the group that represents this, this is the
00:07:34.165 --> 00:07:36.401
Group that is this.
00:07:36.401 --> 00:07:37.736
And they have to keep dividing us into groups.
00:07:37.736 --> 00:07:39.638
In the church, we have all of it together, there are no groups,
00:07:39.638 --> 00:07:44.209
There is no division.
00:07:44.209 --> 00:07:46.011
And essentials?
00:07:46.011 --> 00:07:48.446
Oh, you've forgotten.
00:07:48.446 --> 00:07:49.781
[congregation laughing]
00:07:49.781 --> 00:07:51.216
In essentials, and non-essentials.
00:07:51.216 --> 00:07:55.854
And that's what you have, you have non-essential things in
00:07:55.854 --> 00:07:58.356
The church.
00:07:58.356 --> 00:07:59.758
And then paul tells us how to deal with those that we
00:07:59.758 --> 00:08:03.762
Disagree with.
00:08:03.762 --> 00:08:05.330
Oh, this is a challenge.
00:08:05.330 --> 00:08:06.865
Look at verse 10.
00:08:06.865 --> 00:08:09.134
He says, "i appeal to you, brothers and sisters, my family,
00:08:09.134 --> 00:08:13.738
He's saying, in the name of our lord and savior jesus christ."
00:08:13.738 --> 00:08:17.842
The lord jesus christ.
00:08:17.842 --> 00:08:19.177
By the way, in these first 10 verses, lord jesus christ.
00:08:19.177 --> 00:08:23.982
Lord jesus christ is mentioned six times in ten verses.
00:08:23.982 --> 00:08:29.521
What's he telling us?
00:08:29.521 --> 00:08:30.855
He's telling us we're not under god as a nation, but the church
00:08:30.855 --> 00:08:36.561
Is under the lord jesus christ.
00:08:36.561 --> 00:08:38.997
That's the reason we can have unity, see?
00:08:38.997 --> 00:08:42.000
And on the essentials, we talked about them.
00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:45.437
And then the non-essentials, he says this is how you handle it.
00:08:45.437 --> 00:08:50.075
And he says, "that you all agree with one another in what you
00:08:50.075 --> 00:08:55.547
Say, let there be no divisions among you, but that you be
00:08:55.547 --> 00:09:00.118
Perfectly united in mind and thought."
00:09:00.118 --> 00:09:02.988
He said, "my brothers and my sisters."
00:09:02.988 --> 00:09:05.290
See the sweet, conciliatory tone?
00:09:05.290 --> 00:09:09.327
Come from christ's household.
00:09:09.327 --> 00:09:11.463
Chloe, from the household, "have informed me there's quarrels
00:09:11.463 --> 00:09:15.200
Among you."
00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:17.936
Trey gowdy, y'all know, former representative of
00:09:17.936 --> 00:09:21.306
South carolina, served eight years in the u.s.
00:09:21.306 --> 00:09:24.175
Congress, in his recent book he said, those eight years in
00:09:24.175 --> 00:09:27.912
Congress, as i talked with those who did not agree with me on the
00:09:27.912 --> 00:09:31.383
Other side of the aisle, he said, to my knowledge i did not
00:09:31.383 --> 00:09:34.619
Change the mind of a single one.
00:09:34.619 --> 00:09:41.626
Brilliant, christian, logical, dynamic.
00:09:41.626 --> 00:09:44.596
We know him, he's been here.
00:09:44.596 --> 00:09:46.731
Let me tell ya something.
00:09:46.731 --> 00:09:48.066
We have to appeal with a tear in our eye and compassion in our
00:09:48.066 --> 00:09:52.671
Heart when there is divisions among us.
00:09:52.671 --> 00:09:56.941
We don't.
00:09:56.941 --> 00:09:58.276
He's going to get down to dealing with some very serious
00:09:58.276 --> 00:10:01.346
Things, if you read 1 corinthians, he's not gonna
00:10:01.346 --> 00:10:04.416
Pull any punches.
00:10:04.416 --> 00:10:05.750
But he begins by saying, this is the tone that we most use.
00:10:05.750 --> 00:10:09.854
We're in the business of winning, persuading, listening.
00:10:09.854 --> 00:10:15.894
Speak the truth in love.
00:10:15.894 --> 00:10:20.165
So then he talks about the division.
00:10:20.165 --> 00:10:21.833
By the way, these divisions are peripheral things, they have
00:10:21.833 --> 00:10:25.103
Nothing to do with theology, basic understanding of god
00:10:25.103 --> 00:10:28.206
And truth.
00:10:28.206 --> 00:10:29.541
But he talks about the peripheral vision.
00:10:29.541 --> 00:10:31.042
He said look.
00:10:31.042 --> 00:10:32.377
Listen to what he says.
00:10:32.377 --> 00:10:33.878
He says, "i follow paul, another one says, i follow apollos,
00:10:33.878 --> 00:10:37.749
Another says, i follow cephas," that's the hebrew word
00:10:37.749 --> 00:10:40.752
For peter.
00:10:40.752 --> 00:10:42.087
"still another says, i follow christ."
00:10:42.087 --> 00:10:44.989
How do you like that?
00:10:44.989 --> 00:10:47.258
And they're all divided up, following personalities in
00:10:47.258 --> 00:10:50.628
The church.
00:10:50.628 --> 00:10:52.831
And one of them said, boy, i follow paul.
00:10:52.831 --> 00:10:54.699
Now paul's writing, and paul says, you follow me?
00:10:54.699 --> 00:10:59.270
Those who followed paul, i wonder who they were in
00:10:59.270 --> 00:11:01.673
The church.
00:11:01.673 --> 00:11:03.007
Remember this was a greatly diversified church in corinth,
00:11:03.007 --> 00:11:05.543
A big metropolitan city, people from all walks of life.
00:11:05.543 --> 00:11:09.247
And they say, i follow paul.
00:11:09.247 --> 00:11:11.082
In all probability, that was the gentiles who had no background
00:11:11.082 --> 00:11:15.386
In the torah in judaism, and they'd came to know jesus christ
00:11:15.386 --> 00:11:19.324
And they'd heard paul say that we have freedom in christ and
00:11:19.324 --> 00:11:22.460
Therefore they said, freedom?
00:11:22.460 --> 00:11:23.795
I can do anything i wanna do!
00:11:23.795 --> 00:11:25.997
They took freedom as license.
00:11:25.997 --> 00:11:28.566
So they said, "well, we like paul.
00:11:28.566 --> 00:11:30.935
Man, he is solid, we follow paul."
00:11:30.935 --> 00:11:33.538
Another group says, "no, no, no, no, i like apollos."
00:11:33.538 --> 00:11:37.108
Apollos was from alexandria.
00:11:37.108 --> 00:11:39.410
Alexandria was the center of learning, and they had the
00:11:39.410 --> 00:11:43.281
Largest library in the world.
00:11:43.281 --> 00:11:45.250
So here was this egyptian who was jewish, and apollos was
00:11:45.250 --> 00:11:49.053
A charismatic speaker.
00:11:49.053 --> 00:11:51.256
Woo!
00:11:51.256 --> 00:11:52.757
Man, when he stood there was a presence, there was an awe.
00:11:52.757 --> 00:11:57.095
His vocabulary was amazing, and he would take scripture and he
00:11:57.095 --> 00:12:01.599
Would use it in a different way.
00:12:01.599 --> 00:12:03.601
He would take scripture and he would allegorize it.
00:12:03.601 --> 00:12:06.171
In other words, he'd say, well, this stands for that, and that
00:12:06.171 --> 00:12:08.740
Stands for that, and they'd say, ooh, i like apollos, he is
00:12:08.740 --> 00:12:13.645
So brilliant.
00:12:13.645 --> 00:12:17.048
Others would say, "oh no, no, no, we like peter.
00:12:17.048 --> 00:12:19.450
That would be the jews who were in the church there."
00:12:19.450 --> 00:12:22.353
And they would say, "peter represents those who believe
00:12:22.353 --> 00:12:26.524
That when you become a christian you had to first of all become
00:12:26.524 --> 00:12:29.060
A jew and get circumcised and follow all the laws of the jews,
00:12:29.060 --> 00:12:32.297
Then you become a christian."
00:12:32.297 --> 00:12:33.631
They said, "we like that."
00:12:33.631 --> 00:12:34.966
They're the old-time, hardcore, fundamentalists.
00:12:34.966 --> 00:12:39.571
And then there was a fourth group that says, well, all
00:12:39.571 --> 00:12:42.974
Of you follow those people, we follow christ.
00:12:42.974 --> 00:12:47.545
There's always some super-pious somebody in a time like this,
00:12:47.545 --> 00:12:52.016
Saying, man, i'm the one that's got it all together, i really
00:12:52.016 --> 00:12:56.254
Know what christ wants, i wish all you heretics did.
00:12:56.254 --> 00:12:59.858
You know how that works?
00:12:59.858 --> 00:13:03.161
And paul says, no, there's no division here.
00:13:03.161 --> 00:13:07.165
And then he asked himself some rhetorical questions.
00:13:07.165 --> 00:13:12.537
And i love how he said, verse number 13, he says,
00:13:12.537 --> 00:13:17.408
"is christ divided?"
00:13:17.408 --> 00:13:18.943
No.
00:13:18.943 --> 00:13:21.546
"was paul crucified for you?"
00:13:21.546 --> 00:13:23.514
Paul is writing these words, he said, "i wasn't crucified
00:13:23.514 --> 00:13:25.650
For you."
00:13:25.650 --> 00:13:26.985
"were you baptized in the name of paul?"
00:13:26.985 --> 00:13:28.786
No.
00:13:28.786 --> 00:13:30.288
And then he talks about those he baptized and those he didn't.
00:13:30.288 --> 00:13:33.892
And then he comes down and he shows here how to speak the
00:13:33.892 --> 00:13:39.297
Truth in love.
00:13:39.297 --> 00:13:42.100
"for christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the
00:13:42.100 --> 00:13:45.870
Gospel, not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of
00:13:45.870 --> 00:13:49.474
Christ be emptied of its power."
00:13:49.474 --> 00:13:52.210
Listen, division comes and we think we can get everybody
00:13:52.210 --> 00:13:56.014
Together, we can compromise.
00:13:56.014 --> 00:13:59.317
Do you realize that jesus christ, in his life, never
00:13:59.317 --> 00:14:03.855
Joined forces with the herodians?
00:14:03.855 --> 00:14:06.824
Or the pharisees? the sadducees?
00:14:06.824 --> 00:14:09.427
The essenes? the romans?
00:14:09.427 --> 00:14:11.996
Why?
00:14:11.996 --> 00:14:13.331
Oil and water can't mix together.
00:14:13.331 --> 00:14:16.100
And there was no mutual grounds.
00:14:16.100 --> 00:14:18.536
And so the division in israel remained, even after jesus rose
00:14:18.536 --> 00:14:24.342
From the dead.
00:14:24.342 --> 00:14:26.477
So sometimes we compromise and we miss out.
00:14:26.477 --> 00:14:31.549
I read about a guy in new york who made a lot of money and he
00:14:31.549 --> 00:14:36.154
Always wanted to be a rancher, and so he brought his family, he
00:14:36.154 --> 00:14:39.924
And his wife, his two children, boy and a girl, young man, young
00:14:39.924 --> 00:14:43.594
Woman, they came to texas, bought a ranch.
00:14:43.594 --> 00:14:46.464
They wanted to get in the cattle business.
00:14:46.464 --> 00:14:48.766
And so a friend of his from new york came down to visit him.
00:14:48.766 --> 00:14:53.538
He was talking to him and said, my goodness, you've got
00:14:53.538 --> 00:14:56.474
A beautiful beautiful ranch here.
00:14:56.474 --> 00:14:59.010
What have you named your ranch?
00:14:59.010 --> 00:15:01.779
And he said, "well, we got in a big family squabble."
00:15:01.779 --> 00:15:04.282
He said, "i wanted to name it one thing, my wife was
00:15:04.282 --> 00:15:07.318
Determined to name it something else," he said, "my son wanted
00:15:07.318 --> 00:15:10.388
To name it something else, he said, my daughter wanted to name
00:15:10.388 --> 00:15:12.991
It something else, and we fought and were divided, and went on
00:15:12.991 --> 00:15:15.760
And on, until finally we decided to take all the names that we
00:15:15.760 --> 00:15:19.797
Wanted and put it together in one name for the ranch."
00:15:19.797 --> 00:15:22.633
He said, "therefore, the name of my ranch simply is the bar x the
00:15:22.633 --> 00:15:28.373
Suzy q the flying w and the lazy z ranch of texas."
00:15:28.373 --> 00:15:37.148
And his friend says, "wow, you got it altogether!
00:15:37.148 --> 00:15:41.686
I want to go out and see some real texas cattle."
00:15:41.686 --> 00:15:46.557
And the guy said, "regrettably, none of them survived
00:15:46.557 --> 00:15:51.696
The branding."
00:15:51.696 --> 00:15:53.031
[congregation laughing]
00:15:53.031 --> 00:15:57.335
You see, we think to bring everybody together, no matter
00:15:57.335 --> 00:16:01.406
What, is the way.
00:16:01.406 --> 00:16:02.740
It works. that's not true.
00:16:02.740 --> 00:16:05.343
Paul says, look, this is what unifies you, i've already
00:16:05.343 --> 00:16:07.545
Read it.
00:16:07.545 --> 00:16:08.880
He said, baptism.
00:16:08.880 --> 00:16:10.214
He wasn't belittling baptism, when we're baptized we make a
00:16:10.214 --> 00:16:13.084
Profession of faith and it joins us moving from this life to the
00:16:13.084 --> 00:16:16.587
Old life, the old sin and now the resurrection.
00:16:16.587 --> 00:16:19.257
Baptism brings us together in the family of god.
00:16:19.257 --> 00:16:22.860
Also the gospel.
00:16:22.860 --> 00:16:24.896
Have we said the word gospel?
00:16:24.896 --> 00:16:26.798
You say, what is it?
00:16:26.798 --> 00:16:28.132
It's good news.
00:16:28.132 --> 00:16:29.467
You want a clear definition of the gospel?
00:16:29.467 --> 00:16:31.803
Read in the book of acts, the four great sermons in the book
00:16:31.803 --> 00:16:35.139
Of acts, acts 2, acts 3, acts 4, acts 10.
00:16:35.139 --> 00:16:40.178
And you take the essence of those four great sermons, what
00:16:40.178 --> 00:16:43.614
Do you have?
00:16:43.614 --> 00:16:44.982
You have jesus, the messiah, who fulfilled all the prophecy
00:16:44.982 --> 00:16:48.786
Written hundreds of years before.
00:16:48.786 --> 00:16:50.988
You have the birth, the life, the death, the resurrection of
00:16:50.988 --> 00:16:55.059
Jesus christ.
00:16:55.059 --> 00:16:56.627
And then you have the promise that he will come again, he will
00:16:56.627 --> 00:17:00.031
Bring down the curtain of history according to his
00:17:00.031 --> 00:17:02.867
Timetable, punctuated and authored by god himself.
00:17:02.867 --> 00:17:07.872
And then there's a call to receive christ and to have
00:17:07.872 --> 00:17:11.242
A brand new life in him.
00:17:11.242 --> 00:17:12.877
That's the essence of the gospel.
00:17:12.877 --> 00:17:14.412
It unites us.
00:17:14.412 --> 00:17:16.647
That's the essentials that we have.
00:17:16.647 --> 00:17:19.183
The diversity of names and personalities, that's not
00:17:19.183 --> 00:17:21.953
Theological, that is the peripheral things,
00:17:21.953 --> 00:17:24.989
That's the non-essentials.
00:17:24.989 --> 00:17:26.958
Therefore, we have diversity.
00:17:26.958 --> 00:17:29.327
But in all things, we have love, and where do we see love
00:17:29.327 --> 00:17:33.998
Best demonstrated?
00:17:33.998 --> 00:17:35.900
It's the cross of jesus christ.
00:17:35.900 --> 00:17:39.036
Why?
00:17:39.036 --> 00:17:40.371
How is the cross?
00:17:40.371 --> 00:17:41.706
He says right here, it's laughter, it's foolish to those
00:17:41.706 --> 00:17:44.675
Who who don't get it, they're perishing.
00:17:44.675 --> 00:17:47.245
But he said, to those who get what the cross is, it is the
00:17:47.245 --> 00:17:50.915
Power of god, and the power of god alone can bring us together.
00:17:50.915 --> 00:17:55.887
You see, the cross does two basic things.
00:17:55.887 --> 00:18:00.258
Number one, the cross, the vertical part, goes all the
00:18:00.258 --> 00:18:04.262
Way up to heaven.
00:18:04.262 --> 00:18:06.164
And that vertical part takes the division that you and i have
00:18:06.164 --> 00:18:11.335
With us in god.
00:18:11.335 --> 00:18:12.670
Did you know that without the cross you are divided from god,
00:18:12.670 --> 00:18:18.276
And god is divided from you?
00:18:18.276 --> 00:18:21.112
And therefore it is jesus' death on the cross that takes care of
00:18:21.112 --> 00:18:25.383
The vertical divide between you and me and god almighty.
00:18:25.383 --> 00:18:30.321
If anybody thinks they can just go to god anytime and pray and
00:18:30.321 --> 00:18:33.858
Ask without first of all confessing and getting
00:18:33.858 --> 00:18:36.928
Right with him.
00:18:36.928 --> 00:18:38.262
You see, the fracture between humanity and god is taken care
00:18:38.262 --> 00:18:41.766
Of on the cross.
00:18:41.766 --> 00:18:43.100
That's the manifestation of his love, isn't it?
00:18:43.100 --> 00:18:44.735
The vertical part.
00:18:44.735 --> 00:18:46.537
It makes you and me right with god through christ on
00:18:46.537 --> 00:18:48.906
That cross.
00:18:48.906 --> 00:18:51.576
And then we get the vertical part right.
00:18:51.576 --> 00:18:54.212
Then the cross also settles everything horizontally.
00:18:54.212 --> 00:18:57.782
We have problems with others, difficulty with others, conflict
00:18:57.782 --> 00:19:00.718
With others.
00:19:00.718 --> 00:19:02.053
You see, when i have a problem with somebody, you know
00:19:02.053 --> 00:19:04.088
What i do?
00:19:04.088 --> 00:19:05.423
I go to god and say, god, let's make sure that we've got
00:19:05.423 --> 00:19:08.092
It together.
00:19:08.092 --> 00:19:09.660
I go humbly and confessing.
00:19:09.660 --> 00:19:11.729
And make sure i got this.
00:19:11.729 --> 00:19:13.064
And then all of a sudden he gives us the power to get all
00:19:13.064 --> 00:19:15.600
The vertical divisions together.
00:19:15.600 --> 00:19:18.936
So that's the love of god.
00:19:18.936 --> 00:19:20.938
Vertically.
00:19:20.938 --> 00:19:22.273
Horizontally.
00:19:22.273 --> 00:19:24.175
And at the cross, understand one thing.
00:19:24.175 --> 00:19:28.512
They're in corinth, they were divided, they had the romans,
00:19:28.512 --> 00:19:32.683
Patricians who wore their fancy robes, they had the corinthians
00:19:32.683 --> 00:19:37.255
There who were covered with their royal vestments, they
00:19:37.255 --> 00:19:40.258
Were in the church.
00:19:40.258 --> 00:19:41.926
They had slaves who were there, they had hard-working men and
00:19:41.926 --> 00:19:46.664
Women who were there, they had those who were in poverty, they
00:19:46.664 --> 00:19:50.067
Had those who were very successful, they had everything
00:19:50.067 --> 00:19:53.337
In the world in that church at corinth, it was
00:19:53.337 --> 00:19:56.107
Totally diversified.
00:19:56.107 --> 00:19:57.608
But at the cross, at the foot of the cross, folks, all of that
00:19:57.608 --> 00:20:02.947
Didn't mean one thing.
00:20:02.947 --> 00:20:07.051
The patrician with his beautiful robes came to the cross, and the
00:20:07.051 --> 00:20:12.256
Slaves came to the cross because, remember this, nothing
00:20:12.256 --> 00:20:18.329
In my hands i bring when you come to the cross.
00:20:18.329 --> 00:20:23.401
But simply to the cross we cling.
00:20:23.401 --> 00:20:27.605
It's the love of god.
00:20:27.605 --> 00:20:29.507
It's how we get together, right with god, and right with
00:20:29.507 --> 00:20:33.110
One another.
00:20:33.110 --> 00:20:34.445
And it's very, very flat there.
00:20:34.445 --> 00:20:37.081
You don't have, i don't have, a thing in and of myself and in
00:20:37.081 --> 00:20:40.785
And of yourself we can offer to god and say, lord, you know--
00:20:40.785 --> 00:20:44.188
No, no, no, no.
00:20:44.188 --> 00:20:45.523
It is flat at the cross as his love is poured out for those who
00:20:45.523 --> 00:20:52.263
Go there and kneel there, fall on their face there.
00:20:52.263 --> 00:20:58.069
Now all of a sudden there's no division between you and me and
00:20:58.069 --> 00:21:01.172
God, and all of a sudden the divisions that divide us begin
00:21:01.172 --> 00:21:05.076
To disintegrate.
00:21:05.076 --> 00:21:06.944
You see.
00:21:06.944 --> 00:21:09.146
Let's whisper it now.
00:21:09.146 --> 00:21:11.682
Essentials.
00:21:11.682 --> 00:21:15.820
And non-essentials.
00:21:15.820 --> 00:21:19.223
Now, let's shout this last one.
00:21:19.223 --> 00:21:21.292
Ready?
00:21:21.292 --> 00:21:22.626
In all things, love!
00:21:22.626 --> 00:21:27.865
In the philippines, a 36-year-old man was riding his
00:21:27.865 --> 00:21:34.939
Motorbike down some back country roads, and a little black dog
00:21:34.939 --> 00:21:41.145
Came out barking at him.
00:21:41.145 --> 00:21:42.513
[imitating barking noises]
00:21:42.513 --> 00:21:44.582
And the dog kept on barking, and he wasn't just barking at the
00:21:44.582 --> 00:21:47.017
Bike, the dog would run ahead of him and bark and run off to the
00:21:47.017 --> 00:21:50.621
Side and he said, yeah, what does this dog want?
00:21:50.621 --> 00:21:54.792
And finally he figured out the dog wanted him to follow him.
00:21:54.792 --> 00:21:58.562
And so he got down off the motorbike and the dog was happy
00:21:58.562 --> 00:22:02.600
And he began to walk at a good pace and he walked right behind
00:22:02.600 --> 00:22:05.436
Him and the dog led him to a trash pile.
00:22:05.436 --> 00:22:10.040
And he saw there a brown blanket.
00:22:10.040 --> 00:22:13.177
And he went over and he lifted the brown blanket and there
00:22:13.177 --> 00:22:17.014
Was a newborn baby.
00:22:17.014 --> 00:22:20.251
And he picked up the baby in the blanket and he went back on his
00:22:20.251 --> 00:22:22.987
Motorbike and very carefully he rushed that baby
00:22:22.987 --> 00:22:26.257
To the hospital.
00:22:26.257 --> 00:22:27.758
And the nurses came out and the doctors and they cleaned him up
00:22:27.758 --> 00:22:30.995
And the dog followed him all the way back to the hospital.
00:22:30.995 --> 00:22:35.232
In a little while they came out and said, you know, you rescued
00:22:35.232 --> 00:22:38.602
The baby just in time, he's going to be fine.
00:22:38.602 --> 00:22:42.740
He's going to be fine.
00:22:42.740 --> 00:22:45.009
And i'm sure we'll find a family that would be delighted
00:22:45.009 --> 00:22:48.145
To adopt him.
00:22:48.145 --> 00:22:50.181
And then he went out, was tellin' all his friends about
00:22:50.181 --> 00:22:53.484
The heroic dog that led him to the baby, that saved the life
00:22:53.484 --> 00:22:56.654
Of the baby.
00:22:56.654 --> 00:22:57.988
Rescue story.
00:22:57.988 --> 00:22:59.323
Then his friend says, "well, what happened to the dog?"
00:22:59.323 --> 00:23:03.127
He said, "i don't know."
00:23:03.127 --> 00:23:05.029
He said, "let's go see if we can find him."
00:23:05.029 --> 00:23:07.665
So a group of them begin walkin' around that whole area in the
00:23:07.665 --> 00:23:10.434
Woods and on the street until finally they came to a garbage
00:23:10.434 --> 00:23:13.904
Dump and there was that dog, a stray, emaciated, mange,
00:23:13.904 --> 00:23:21.412
Terrible health.
00:23:21.412 --> 00:23:23.180
They went and got that dog and took him to the vet and got him
00:23:23.180 --> 00:23:26.984
Cleaned up and cured and, sure enough, a family came and said,
00:23:26.984 --> 00:23:31.355
"i want to have that heroic dog as my dog, as my pet."
00:23:31.355 --> 00:23:38.929
That's a true, great, rescue story.
00:23:38.929 --> 00:23:45.636
True, i think, great, rescue story.
00:23:45.636 --> 00:23:50.808
The dog saved the baby, then the baby saved the dog.
00:23:50.808 --> 00:24:00.551
Isn't that something?
00:24:00.551 --> 00:24:02.887
There's something about an unwanted baby in history,
00:24:02.887 --> 00:24:07.725
Isn't it?
00:24:07.725 --> 00:24:09.527
Mary had an unwanted baby, an unwanted pregnancy, that was
00:24:09.527 --> 00:24:15.466
Ordained by god through the holy spirit.
00:24:15.466 --> 00:24:18.869
And it was that unwanted pregnancy a child was born,
00:24:18.869 --> 00:24:24.575
God-man, and died on a cross so that we might be right with god
00:24:24.575 --> 00:24:34.618
And right with our fellow man.
00:24:35.653 --> 00:24:38.989
Division.
00:24:38.989 --> 00:24:42.560
God brings it all together.
00:24:42.560 --> 00:24:45.429
Incidentally, that baby was born, that filipino baby was
00:24:45.429 --> 00:24:52.803
Born this past december the 24th.
00:24:52.803 --> 00:24:58.576
Male announcer: for a limited time,
00:25:00.711 --> 00:25:02.179
Dr. young would like to give you his book,
00:25:02.179 --> 00:25:03.981
"the winning walk."
00:25:03.981 --> 00:25:05.316
It's our gift to you for your financial support
00:25:05.316 --> 00:25:07.117
Of this ministry.
00:25:07.117 --> 00:25:08.452
Ed: did you know walking involves practically every
00:25:08.452 --> 00:25:11.188
Muscle in the body?
00:25:11.188 --> 00:25:12.690
None of us are born with the ability to walk.
00:25:12.690 --> 00:25:15.526
It requires strength and balance and coordination
00:25:15.526 --> 00:25:18.896
And time.
00:25:18.896 --> 00:25:20.464
I have found walking with god is no different.
00:25:20.464 --> 00:25:23.434
No one instantly becomes an overcoming christian.
00:25:23.434 --> 00:25:28.172
We must take those first timid steps, cling to the father's
00:25:28.172 --> 00:25:32.209
Hand before we can walk worthy of our calling as
00:25:32.209 --> 00:25:35.946
Children of the king.
00:25:35.946 --> 00:25:37.748
Like all journeys, "the winning walk," requires
00:25:37.748 --> 00:25:41.185
The proper equipment and preparation.
00:25:41.185 --> 00:25:44.188
By outfitting our lives with the word of god,
00:25:44.188 --> 00:25:46.357
We'll be able to follow wherever the master leads.
00:25:46.357 --> 00:25:51.061
Announcer: get your copy today.
00:25:51.128 --> 00:25:52.830
Call the number on your screen or visit us
00:25:52.830 --> 00:25:55.432
At winningwalk.org.
00:25:55.432 --> 00:25:57.801
♪♪♪
00:25:58.369 --> 00:26:09.380
Dr. ed young: let me personally thank you for being a part
00:26:10.748 --> 00:26:13.517
Of the winning walk family this week.
00:26:13.517 --> 00:26:15.986
It's a privilege to open god's word together and know that his
00:26:15.986 --> 00:26:19.623
Truth is the way to real abundant life.
00:26:19.623 --> 00:26:23.293
I'm reminded daily, i just can't graduate past jesus loves me,
00:26:23.293 --> 00:26:27.965
This i know, for the bible tells me so.
00:26:27.965 --> 00:26:30.834
This simple but profound truth summarizes what god's word
00:26:30.834 --> 00:26:34.605
Is all about.
00:26:34.605 --> 00:26:36.240
When we comprehend the love jesus demonstrated for you and
00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:40.044
For me on the cross, we begin to understand that we can trust him
00:26:40.044 --> 00:26:43.781
And know that his way is always number one, it's always
00:26:43.781 --> 00:26:47.751
The greatest way.
00:26:47.751 --> 00:26:49.219
And thank you for worshiping with us today.
00:26:49.219 --> 00:26:51.455
If you have questions about this program, or you need someone to
00:26:51.455 --> 00:26:54.725
Simply pray for you something specifically for you, call that
00:26:54.725 --> 00:26:58.629
Number on your screen, there are people, god-fearing people,
00:26:58.629 --> 00:27:02.032
Standing waiting for your call.
00:27:02.032 --> 00:27:05.335
And i want to say a special thanks for those of you who
00:27:05.335 --> 00:27:08.338
Support this program week by week with your genuine prayers
00:27:08.338 --> 00:27:12.976
And with your gifts.
00:27:12.976 --> 00:27:14.378
It keeps us always talking and presenting to you "the winning
00:27:14.378 --> 00:27:19.083
Walk" with jesus christ.
00:27:19.083 --> 00:27:22.019
♪♪♪
00:27:22.019 --> 00:27:22.019

Ed Young - Restoring Unity

March 17, 2025 | S25:E65

Closed captions

Share