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Ed Young - The Right Direction

January 16, 2025 | S25:E14

Ed Young - The Right Direction
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 - The Right Direction | January 16, 2025
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  • Pastor ed young: have you ever tried to read a historical novel
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  • Out of order?
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  • It would be hard if not impossible to understand the
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  • Plot, wouldn't it?
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  • And yet we read and study the bible in much the same way.
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  • Like a novel, the bible tells a story with a beginning,
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  • A middle, and end, and when you read in chronological order, you
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  • Will see history unfold in a new and understandable and
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  • Memorable way.
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  • Listen, in this new year, i want to challenge you to read through
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  • The bible in 52 weeks.
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  • When you give "the winning walk," this month, we want to
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  • Send you a one-year chronological bible.
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  • It's arranged in daily readings that will take about 15 minutes
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  • To read each day, at the end of 52 weeks, you will know and
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  • Understand like never before the full story of the bible.
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  • At winningwalk.org.
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  • Pastor ed: is anybody here awakened to the fact that you
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  • Might, i might, be going in the wrong direction right now and we
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  • Decide to turn around?
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  • That's what happens when we wake up one day and ask the question
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  • When we get where we're going, where will we be?
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  • Have you ever asked yourself that question?
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  • What is the direction of your life?
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  • You say, you know, i'd better turn around.
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  • The bible calls that repentance.
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  • I'm going in the wrong direction.
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  • I realize when i get where i'm going, i'm not going to be the
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  • Place i want to be, so i am convicted of that, i turn
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  • Around, and it's not just all at once i'm brand new.
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  • I turn around and i begin to go in the right direction, and
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  • That's growing up in our faith and walk with jesus christ.
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  • And then, zip, we go all the way in the right direction.
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  • We've been talking about that.
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  • That's what we've been looking at as we studied romans chapter
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  • Number 8, and we realized in the process, if you've read romans
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  • 8, what god is doing for us in the inspired word.
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  • He is love bombing us, b-o-m-b.
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  • Does anybody here know that phrase, to be love bombed?
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  • Anybody know that phrase? a few on the internet, right?
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  • And what's happened?
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  • God in jesus christ has been love bombing all the world there
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  • In romans 8. we've looked at all of it, from the latter part of 7
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  • All the way through to this point, and he is saying i love
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  • You, i forgive you, i want you in my family.
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  • You're gonna have to repent, turn around, and once we turn,
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  • We begin to walk with christ and go with christ.
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  • We have a new life in the lord jesus christ, love bomb.
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  • A lot of people don't like to be loved bombed.
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  • On the internet, you have people that someone is attracted to
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  • Someone else of the opposite sex, and they're just love
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  • Bombing and they resent it.
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  • Others, they like it.
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  • The praise, the adoration, the compliments, the buildup, and i
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  • Can tell you, most of us, when we think about it, we study
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  • Romans 8 and we see that god is love bombing all of us, to bring
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  • Us, to turn us around, to get us in the right direction.
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  • And we ran into one little common phrase, christ became
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  • What we are so we can become what he is, remember that?
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  • Christ became what we are, that covers three or four
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  • Major doctrines.
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  • The incarnation, he became what we are.
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  • Justification, he died for us.
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  • He became where we are.
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  • He took our sins upon himself.
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  • Propitiation, the weight, he shed his blood on the cross so
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  • Our sins are totally obliterated, so we can become
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  • What he is.
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  • And that's when we turn around and began to walk and grow in
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  • The power of god in jesus christ.
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  • And we find that really in one verse, summarized it all, that's
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  • A secular phrasing of it.
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  • But look at it in one verse, 2 corinthians chapter number 8
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  • Verse 9, "for you know the grace of our lord jesus christ, that
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  • Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor."
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  • He became what we are.
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  • "yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his
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  • Poverty might become rich."
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  • Jesus, god, jesus in his riches was rich.
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  • He came all the way here and became poor, died on the cross
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  • For us, took all of our garbage upon himself, so we in our life,
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  • Now and forever, might become rich.
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  • That's what we've been studying, and in the process, we're going
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  • To look at 1 corinthians 8 verse 12 through 17, and three things
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  • We're gonna bump right into.
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  • First of all, i hope you have your bibles open.
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  • Didn't bring your bibles with you, look in the pew in front
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  • And get a bible.
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  • You gotta have a bible to follow.
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  • Romans 8 verse 12, it says, "therefore in light of all that
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  • Has gone before."
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  • Now, christ, the resurrection of christ, the spirit that raised
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  • Christ from the dead, because we are in christ.
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  • Remember, that's the central teaching all the way through the
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  • Letters of paul.
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  • We are in christ.
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  • "therefore, brethren," we're christians, "we are debtors not
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  • To the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
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  • For if you live according to the flesh, you will die."
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  • Brethren, we are debtors.
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  • In other words, now we have been bought and paid for by jesus
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  • Christ, and guess what?
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  • We are on a new team.
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  • You're on a new team.
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  • I'm on a new team.
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  • We've received jesus christ, we're going in a new direction,
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  • And we're walking in newness and freshness of life with
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  • Clean transparency.
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  • And all of a sudden, we say, you know, i want to go back to that
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  • Team, that fleshly team.
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  • This spiritual team somehow isn't working for me, and we go
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  • Back to the old team.
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  • Is that crazy?
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  • And we talked about that earlier.
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  • Remember, we talked about the mindset?
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  • You have your mind set on the world, the flesh, pride,
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  • Achievement, recognition, and now we have a new mindset.
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  • You'd have to be out of your mind, have a concussion, to go
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  • Back on the other team.
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  • Most of you know the name of johnny baker.
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  • He's on the committee that brought me here to this church
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  • 100 years ago, and johnny baker played for then the
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  • Houston oilers.
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  • You may not remember that.
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  • In fact, we have another person here today, mac haik, you know
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  • He sells cars, but also, mac haik scored for the oilers the
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  • First touchdown, and guess what?
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  • The astrodome for the oilers.
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  • He's right here today.
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  • Johnny baker was playing for the oilers, and they were playing
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  • Against denver there at denver, and there was a pass, it was
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  • Third down, a pass over the middle, and a tight end caught
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  • It, johnny hit him head to head back then, the past was dropped,
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  • And johnny was concussed, and so it was third down, he was going
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  • Off the field, because the punting team was coming on.
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  • And johnny ran off the field with the denver broncos, not
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  • With the team in which he was playing for, and got a
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  • 15-yard penalty.
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  • Therefore, now denver had a first down, and he goes back out
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  • There and plays a couple of days, and a guy named bobby
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  • Maples, they sent him in for johnny, because they could tell
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  • He was a victim of a concussion.
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  • Maples, i think, played for baylor, if i'm not mistaken, and
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  • So johnny now runs off the field, not back to his team, he
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  • Runs in the end zone and gets another penalty flag.
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  • What am i saying?
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  • You'd have to be out of your mind to change teams.
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  • But we, so many who are in christ, we do that.
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  • Here we have a liberated life, a clean life, a super life, and we
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  • Somehow change teams.
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  • You have to be out of your head.
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  • My mind was set here, and somehow it goes back where it
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  • Used to be set before i repented and decided to live and go in
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  • The right direction.
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  • And then we see we have a new team, but look what else is a
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  • Part of this team here in our scripture.
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  • It says, "for if you live according to the flesh, you
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  • Will die.
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  • But if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the flesh,
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  • You will live."
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  • You put to death, you crucify the deeds of the flesh, you will
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  • Live, and here we are.
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  • Just a lot of statistics may help quickly.
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  • One that came across my preview recently, did you know that
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  • Increase in death among those from 18 to 62 has increased 40%
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  • This past year.
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  • Should be the prime of your life.
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  • If a 10% increase, you know, something is desperately wrong,
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  • A 40% increase in death of those who are 18 to 62, why is that?
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  • It's because the flesh is winning out, folks, among this
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  • Whole generation.
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  • It's because so many of us have not taught our children, loved
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  • Our children, their children have not had any semblance of a
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  • Home that speaks of christ or christianity.
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  • America has turned away from god and christ, and therefore we've
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  • Seen the results of those who change teams and begin to go
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  • Back in the flesh, and the result always is catastrophic to
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  • Any individual, and it's always catastrophic to a nation.
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  • So, what do we do?
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  • As christians, individually, we are to kill the flesh.
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  • Did you read it?
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  • The deeds of the flesh, the body, will live, but we're to
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  • Take the holy spirit and it is to kill the deeds of the flesh.
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  • When did that happen?
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  • It has to happen every day for you and for me, and remember
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  • Whose team we're on.
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  • It happened on calvary, it happened on the cross.
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  • Jesus christ on the cross, he took our sin, he was executed on
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  • Your behalf and my behalf because our sins were
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  • Executed there.
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  • So, the bible says we are to take up our cross.
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  • What does that mean, every day, you and i, and die?
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  • What does that mean?
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  • It means we're to recognize that we are indeed on the cross, and
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  • We're on the cross, what does it mean to be on a cross?
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  • It means first of all, you're facing in only one direction.
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  • Secondly, it means you can't climb down and go back.
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  • Third thing it means, you and i have no future plans that are
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  • Our own.
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  • We've sold out to him, therefore that means the execution of the
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  • Flesh, if we are to be on the team with the spirit operating.
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  • So, if you're in christ, if i'm in christ,
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  • We're on a whole new team.
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  • We're on a new team.
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  • Not only are we on a new team, we have a new coach.
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  • Look at our coach.
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  • It's right here in the scripture.
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  • It says verse number 13, "for as many as are led," that's what a
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  • Coach does, he leads, "by the spirit of god, these are sons
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  • Of god.
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  • For they did not receive the spirit of bondage again
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  • To fear."
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  • We came out of slavery, myself running my own life, we were
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  • Bound there to it, our habits, and our egos, and our pride, and
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  • Now, all of a sudden, we are led by the holy spirit, and the holy
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  • Spirit is our new coach.
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  • If those who fly an airplane, and many of you know about that,
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  • The big planes now, they can take off, and fly, and land
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  • On autopilot.
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  • They generally do not do that unless it's rough weather, and
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  • Then they know that autopilot will see turbulence and see all
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  • The problems that are there.
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  • When we come to god in jesus christ, the holy spirit comes in
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  • Your life and my life, and we're on autopilot.
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  • Now, the pilot is still there, he can still override the
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  • Autopilot, and most of the flight he does some of that.
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  • It's not usually from takeoff, to flight, to landing,
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  • Everything's on autopilot, but that's a wonderful thing to
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  • Know, that the holy spirit in your life and my life will guide
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  • Us and bring us safely now and safely forever.
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  • So, we have a new coach, it's the holy spirit.
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  • You can put your life in neutral.
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  • He takes over, he runs, he gives us insight.
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  • Trust the lord with all your heart, lean not on your own
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  • Understanding, the way you want to go.
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  • In all your ways acknowledger him, zip, he, the holy spirit,
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  • Will direct your life, and that holy spirit will coach you all
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  • The way now and all the way into eternity because you
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  • Received christ.
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  • We're on a new team, have a new coach, and also we have a new
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  • Position on the team.
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  • And i love this, the position, what position do we play?
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  • The best thing i could say, you and i are quarterbacks for our
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  • Own team.
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  • How about that?
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  • It says, "but you received the spirit of adoption by whom we
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  • Cry out, 'abba, father,' and the spirit himself bears witness
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  • With our spirit that we are children of god, and as children
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  • Then heirs, then heirs of god and joint heirs with christ.
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  • If indeed we suffer with him, we may also be glorified with him."
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  • What is this saying?
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  • It's saying that we have a position and we are a
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  • Quarterback of your life and in my life, and the holy spirit,
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  • The coach, has a game plan for us, and we get in on that game
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  • Plan as we daily, daily, see what the requirements are, as we
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  • Daily, daily die to self and are crucified with him.
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  • And all of a sudden, we realize an amazing thing, we are
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  • Children of god.
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  • Children of god, think about that.
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  • Well, i've heard that before, but just let it sort of--i let
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  • It sort of seep into me.
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  • You're a child of god?
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  • That's an intimate thing.
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  • God, the creator, seems way back there.
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  • Even god in jesus christ our redeemer seems, you know, that's
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  • Thousands, 2,000 years ago, but the idea that right now that you
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  • And i are a child of god, and we can say to god, "abba," which
  • 00:17:08.874 --> 00:17:15.881
  • The arabic word, "father," used there in the greek.
  • 00:17:15.881 --> 00:17:20.819
  • It is saying that all people, arabs, greeks, jews, whatever
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  • Your classification, we're all in the family of god because
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  • We're in christ, and if we're in the family god, we can say and
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  • Talk to god as our dad.
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  • There's no way for you and i to understand how radical that was,
  • 00:17:39.438 --> 00:17:46.578
  • Particularly to the jewish world as well as all the rest of the
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  • World, to refer to he who was omnipotent, and omniscient, and
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  • Omnipresent, and holy other as abba.
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  • A jew, when reading the scripture, would not even
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  • Pronounce the name of god.
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  • We look at it, we try to pronounce it as yahweh, but
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  • That's not--we do not really know how it could be pronounced.
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  • They would not say jehovah or yahweh.
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  • They might say adonai as a substitute, because the name of
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  • God was so reverent, so holy, and therefore they would never
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  • Think about any time being so godless and sacrilegious as to
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  • Say, "dad, abba."
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  • That's what jesus did.
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  • Jesus always referred to the father as abba, except on the
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  • Cross, the cry of dereliction.
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  • Only one time he said, "my god, my god, why has thou
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  • Forsaken me?"
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  • Every other time, he talked of him as dad, as abba, an
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  • Intimate thing.
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  • And when the apostles first heard that, they were amazed.
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  • The audience would hear that, they were amazed.
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  • Who is this guy who can talk about dad, abba, intimacy there.
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  • And therefore, because now all of a sudden we have a new
  • 00:19:15.334 --> 00:19:18.470
  • Assignment in our life, we have new provisions to live out our
  • 00:19:18.470 --> 00:19:23.041
  • Life in jesus christ.
  • 00:19:23.041 --> 00:19:24.910
  • All of a sudden, i realize that you and i are children of god
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  • Because we're in christ.
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  • Then he goes on to say we are heirs, heirs?
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  • An heir is someone who hasn't yet possessed something.
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  • We are an heir to a fortune or an heir to an object.
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  • But in this use, it means that we have partially possessed that
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  • Which we will have, and one day will possess all of it when we
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  • Graduate from this life.
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  • We are heirs.
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  • And then one little phrase i want to pick up on, it says,
  • 00:19:57.976 --> 00:20:01.980
  • Verse 16, "the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit
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  • That we are children of god."
  • 00:20:06.585 --> 00:20:08.553
  • In other words, the holy spirit witnesses to us, and my spirit
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  • And your spirit witnesses also that we are children of god.
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  • There's no doubt about it.
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  • There's no question about it.
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  • There is a mutual witness, and for something to be affirmed in
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  • A court of law in that day, there had to be at least
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  • Two witnesses.
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  • For an adoption to take place, it was a big deal in the
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  • Grieco-roman world.
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  • It was a whole litany of procedure.
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  • It took seven witnesses, and one father had to give the child to
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  • Be adopted to the other father and pay what would be offered,
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  • And the other father would give it back, and they would do it
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  • Again, and they would do it again, only the third time did
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  • It become real, and valid, and official of the state, in which
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  • In every way that adopted heir was an heir just like a son or a
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  • Daughter of the family would be.
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  • Every one of the privileges was there.
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  • So, we are an heir, and then it says, did you hear it?
  • 00:21:10.649 --> 00:21:16.154
  • We are a coheir with jesus christ.
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  • Can you get ahold of that?
  • 00:21:21.159 --> 00:21:24.262
  • In other words, we have such a high, lofted position, it sounds
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  • Like out of this world.
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  • It's absurd, it's impossible to believe that you and i who are
  • 00:21:31.536 --> 00:21:36.174
  • In christ will one day be a coheir with the lord jesus
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  • Christ, with our abba, father, who is in heaven.
  • 00:21:40.278 --> 00:21:43.849
  • So, this gives us the equipment now, because our coach is the
  • 00:21:43.849 --> 00:21:48.687
  • Holy spirit to live this life victoriously.
  • 00:21:48.687 --> 00:21:55.994
  • We're on a new team, have a new coach, the holy spirit.
  • 00:21:55.994 --> 00:22:01.466
  • We're in christ.
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  • We have new position, and god has given us the holy spirit and
  • 00:22:03.702 --> 00:22:08.407
  • The ability to play that position, so when we decide to
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  • Turn around, and most of us have, we'll turn all the way
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  • Around and begin to walk in the fullness of life with the lord
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  • Jesus christ.
  • 00:22:20.385 --> 00:22:21.720
  • And the end result, we'll have some suffering in this world,
  • 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:25.957
  • But the end result will have glory in the world to come, and
  • 00:22:25.957 --> 00:22:31.296
  • A touch of it even right now, right here, because guess what?
  • 00:22:31.296 --> 00:22:38.003
  • I'm a child of god, guess what?
  • 00:22:38.003 --> 00:22:40.639
  • In christ you're a child of god.
  • 00:22:40.639 --> 00:22:43.408
  • How beautiful that is.
  • 00:22:43.408 --> 00:22:46.678
  • Texas children's hospital, little girl went in, and she was
  • 00:22:46.678 --> 00:22:51.616
  • Being checked out, and the doctor said, you know, we're
  • 00:22:51.616 --> 00:22:55.387
  • Going to send you in, and we're gonna get what we call an
  • 00:22:55.387 --> 00:22:59.057
  • Ultrasound, a cardiac ultrasound.
  • 00:22:59.057 --> 00:23:01.993
  • It won't hurt, but they're going to see what's in your heart.
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  • This little girl had come to christ a month or so before.
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  • When the doctor told her that they're going to see what's in
  • 00:23:11.636 --> 00:23:14.873
  • Your heart, she said they're going to see jesus.
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  • I won't tell you her name, she said they're gonna see jesus.
  • 00:23:19.678 --> 00:23:23.949
  • How do you know?
  • 00:23:23.949 --> 00:23:26.585
  • How do i know that i'm on a new team?
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  • How do i know that the holy spirit is really coaching my
  • 00:23:33.124 --> 00:23:37.729
  • Life and your life?
  • 00:23:37.729 --> 00:23:39.064
  • How do we know that?
  • 00:23:39.064 --> 00:23:40.799
  • How do we know that we're children of god?
  • 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:43.401
  • We have all these provisions given to us in that lofty,
  • 00:23:43.401 --> 00:23:48.673
  • Lofty, exalted title, lofty family.
  • 00:23:48.673 --> 00:23:54.045
  • How do we know that?
  • 00:23:54.045 --> 00:23:57.315
  • There's a scripture in matthew, the 6th chapter
  • 00:23:57.315 --> 00:24:02.020
  • That says by my grace,
  • 00:24:02.020 --> 00:24:10.795
  • You will know as whether or not you're in my family,
  • 00:24:10.795 --> 00:24:16.468
  • Because you lay not up treasures on earth where moth and
  • 00:24:16.468 --> 00:24:25.043
  • Rust corrupt.
  • 00:24:25.043 --> 00:24:26.378
  • Isn't that true?
  • 00:24:26.378 --> 00:24:27.746
  • Treasures on this earth, moth and rust corrupt, thieves break
  • 00:24:27.746 --> 00:24:35.854
  • Through and steal.
  • 00:24:35.854 --> 00:24:38.623
  • He said, but were to lay up treasure in heaven where nothing
  • 00:24:38.623 --> 00:24:46.831
  • Can touch it.
  • 00:24:46.831 --> 00:24:48.667
  • And then the scripture says where your heart is, that's
  • 00:24:48.667 --> 00:24:53.505
  • Where your treasure is.
  • 00:24:53.505 --> 00:24:56.474
  • No, no, no, it says something different.
  • 00:24:56.474 --> 00:24:59.344
  • It says where your treasure is, my treasure and your treasure
  • 00:24:59.344 --> 00:25:02.914
  • Is, that's where your heart is.
  • 00:25:02.914 --> 00:25:07.185
  • So really, the only thing tangibly, or one of the few
  • 00:25:07.185 --> 00:25:10.789
  • Things tangibly we can measure about whether or not we're in
  • 00:25:10.789 --> 00:25:14.626
  • The family of god and where our heart is, is where our treasure
  • 00:25:14.626 --> 00:25:19.497
  • Is, because the treasure indicates the real position
  • 00:25:19.497 --> 00:25:26.404
  • Of our heart.
  • 00:25:26.404 --> 00:25:29.608
  • Pastor ed: have you ever tried to read a historical novel out
  • 00:25:29.674 --> 00:25:33.078
  • Of order?
  • 00:25:33.078 --> 00:25:34.412
  • It would be hard if not impossible to understand the
  • 00:25:34.412 --> 00:25:37.082
  • Plot, wouldn't it?
  • 00:25:37.082 --> 00:25:38.717
  • And yet we read and study the bible in much the same way.
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  • Like a novel, the bible tells a story with a beginning,
  • 00:25:42.120 --> 00:25:44.990
  • A middle, and end, and when you read in chronological order, you
  • 00:25:44.990 --> 00:25:48.960
  • Will see history unfold in a new and understandable and
  • 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:52.864
  • Memorable way.
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  • Listen, in this new year, i want to challenge you to read through
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  • The bible in 52 weeks.
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  • When you give "the winning walk," this month, we want to
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  • Send you a one-year chronological bible.
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  • It's arranged in daily readings that will take about 15 minutes
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  • To read each day, at the end of 52 weeks, you will know and
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  • Understand like never before the full story of the bible.
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  • Male announcer: to get your copy of the one-year chronological
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  • Bible, call the number on your screen or go online
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  • At winningwalk.org.
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  • Pastor ed: this past year, we've seen god work in amazing ways
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  • Through "the winning walk."
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  • In a world that has turned increasingly upside down, we're
  • 00:26:37.175 --> 00:26:40.645
  • Seeing people turn to the truth that can only be found in the
  • 00:26:40.645 --> 00:26:45.150
  • Book, in the bible.
  • 00:26:45.150 --> 00:26:46.584
  • There's nothing more powerful than seeing god at work in
  • 00:26:46.584 --> 00:26:50.288
  • Someone's life.
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  • I want to share with you this encouraging note we received
  • 00:26:51.723 --> 00:26:55.093
  • Recently from a listener named bruce.
  • 00:26:55.093 --> 00:26:57.262
  • He writes, "anyone can be happy when circumstances are pleasant,
  • 00:26:57.262 --> 00:27:02.634
  • But to be joyful in suffering is to know peace and happiness that
  • 00:27:02.634 --> 00:27:07.439
  • Surpasses all understanding," all common sense.
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  • Hearing and understanding god's word is the key to living with
  • 00:27:12.110 --> 00:27:16.681
  • Joy, even in the midst of difficult,
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  • Painful circumstances.
  • 00:27:19.884 --> 00:27:22.554
  • And because of you, people like bruce are proof of what god can
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  • Do to change lives.
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  • When you support this ministry, you have an active part in
  • 00:27:28.827 --> 00:27:32.363
  • Seeing lives transformed through a relationship with
  • 00:27:32.363 --> 00:27:35.433
  • Jesus christ.
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  • And let me say thank you.
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  • I'm so grateful for your partnership with us.
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  • Together, we're taking the message of god's truth
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  • Around the world.
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  • Think about it.
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  • ♪♪♪
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