Ed Young - Satan's Plan For Your Life

October 17, 2025 | 29:0

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Satan's Plan For Your Life | October 17, 2025

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Ed young: how many of you have ever been
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To the louvre in paris?
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That fabulous art -would you lift your hand?
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My! what a traveling bunch!
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The louvre, i don't know if it's the largest place for fine
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Art-is collected and displayed, but it's certainly one of them,
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And you can be sure that some of the most
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Magnificent pieces of art the world has ever known is housed
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In the louvre.
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I've been there, i think, three times.
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It's been some years ago.
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And i tried to stay a, as long as i could,
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Though i'm not particularly an art connoisseur,
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Because it's just, it's unbelievable!
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I mean, it's just -it's just magnificent!
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And uh, i've stayed the three times, long as i could.
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At one time, it was abbreviated.
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My three sons, they had stayed far longer than they could,
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And, but i, i feel like in my three trips there that if this
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Much art is displayed in the louvre after spending the better
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Part of three days there, i've seen about this much.
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You know? you've been there.
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Isn't that right? you've seen about this much.
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And i understood about this much...heh, heh, heh!
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Also around the louvre is a beautiful garden,
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And they've been there for hundreds of years,
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Cultivated flowers-just really magnificent in appearance.
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But during recent days, last few years,
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Those gardens have been infested by rats.
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And the rats now are everywhere in the louvre,
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And they, they have plenty of places to hide.
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But now they don't hide any longer because they're rather,
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Rather bold, and they-people picnic there in the grounds of
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The gardens, and they just picnic right along with you.
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(audience laughs).
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Really true!
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And their growing bigger, and larger, and bolder!
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And a lot of people have said, "well, let's poison them.
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Let's kill them.
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Let's trap them, and the animal lovers said,
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"oh, no, no, no, no!
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Those rats have just as much right to be here as you do!"
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And so the french have acquiesced.
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And so there are rats all around the gardens of the louvre.
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Kind of like the world in which we live, isn't it?
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And the rats have advocates!
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A lot of them!
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"don't you disturb one of those rats..."
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Very true!
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The, i mean, they don't think about the rats
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-all the diseases they carry.
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I looked up the diseases that rats carry,
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And it's unbelievable!
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It's astounding!
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From their waste, it's just-it's, it's unbelievable,
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But they're just, you know,
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They're a part of the culture there, and
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"oh, nothing wrong with those rats!
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There may be something wrong with you,
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But they're just innocent animals there!
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Don't touch a rat! don't bother a rat!"
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That's where we are, if you ever visit the louvre
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And walk around the gardens.
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Sound familiar?
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You identify with that?
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You know, are there any rats running around
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This universe, this world?
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Our america that they're passed off as a okay,
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But really in your heart of hearts, you think,
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"isn't something wrong with this picture?
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Isn't something sinister about that rat?
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Maybe something even evil"?
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What if i gave you the plans to build a house for you
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To live in, and, i said, "here's the brick.
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Here's the mortar. here's the carpenters.
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Here, here's the plumbers...
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Here's-you've got everything you need.
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Go build this house!"
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You'd say, "boy, that's super! i've got it all!
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Yeah-plans, carpenters, masons, plumbers, roofers!
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I got it all! here's the land!
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Man, i'll go build that house..."
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I say, "oh, wait a minute!
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One little thing: while you're building the house,
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There are gonna be a whole of people trying to kill you.
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You're going into enemy territory!"
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Huh!
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That would change a little bit, don't you think?
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About building that house?
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A lot of, a lot of enemies around that wanna
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Take your life?
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This is where we are in our world today,
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Ladies and gentlemen.
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There are rats running around.
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There are enemies there, and we've talked about those enemies
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In terms of the devil and his emissaries.
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The world, and the flesh, and the devil-the lust of the eye,
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The lust of the flesh, the pride of life.
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All of that is operating, and there in-remember,
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The no seeum category.
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Remember those little bugs?
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No seeums.
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They're there-they're invisible, but they are working on you
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And working on me, and they want
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Simply to destroy you and to destroy me.
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Why do they want to bother with us?
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If you are a christian; if i am a christian,
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We are running head on with the hell in this world.
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Doesn't that make sense?
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How can it be any other way, if we are a member of god's family?
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And therefore, paul is telling us here, you've gotta do two
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Things: you've gotta prepare for the battle of the evil and the
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Sinister that is around you that want to take you out.
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Why do they want to take us out?
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So that you will not fulfill the purpose that god has for you for
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The rest of your life, and i will not fulfill the purpose
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God has for me the rest of my life.
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We're to glorify god and to enjoy him forever, right?
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That means we are to find out what he's up to in our lives,
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And we are to follow through on that as members of his family,
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And the evil one wants to destroy, weaken,
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And take you out and take me out.
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Make no mistake about it!
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So we have to be prepared for battle, for war.
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That's what paul is telling us.
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"well, what do you do"?
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He has two great little phrases here i really love.
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He says, look at it in verse 11.
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He says, "put on the full armor of god."
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Then in verse 13, he says,
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"therefore, take up the full armor of god."
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To put on the armor means, well-put on means to kind of
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Settle in, you know, kind of get in it, settle in it.
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I've got an old blue shirt i just love!
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I mean, it's been with me for eons!
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It's worn, it's, you know -it's genuine.
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I didn't have to buy it worn like they do now,
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You know, with holes?
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It really, it's reached that state in its own way,
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And i love that shirt!
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When i, when i get in that shirt, i mean, i just don't ever
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Like for it to be washed unless it's absolutely an emergency!
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(audience laughs).
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And i get in that blue shirt-i just feel better.
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I just sink into it.
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That's what it means -put on the armor.
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It feels natural to you.
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And then it says we're to be very aggressive,
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And we continually put it on, the greek word.
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We just-keeps on putting on that full armor.
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We keep on doing it, these qualifications, these difference
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Pieces that we'll be looking at in week before.
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We put on. we take up and we put on.
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We put on and we take up, and that's our defense.
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Then paul tells us our enemy here-do you see it there?
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He talks about our enemy.
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He said we fight against the schemes of the devil; for our
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Struggle is not against flesh and blood-not against human
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Beings, but against rulers, against the powers,
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Against the world forces of darkness,
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Against spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places.
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In other words, there is a hierarchy of evil that is pitted
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Against you and pitted against me if you're in christ,
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And i'm in christ.
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And therefore, there is the schemes of the devil.
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How does the devil scheme?
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He's got your number-oh yeah!
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He's got my number.
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He knows every hole that is in you
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-remember what evil is, a hole?
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Remember that?
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Every hole in you, he knows every hole, and he wants to fill
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Every hole up with his schemes to destroy
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His purpose for your life.
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Yeah, yeah...
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And so, we see how subtle his scheme-how does he scheme?
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In a zillion different ways.
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I mean, he works on our minds.
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He works on us when we're on the mountain top.
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He works on us when we're in the valley.
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He works on us in every kind of shape, form, fashion.
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That's the reason you have to have the full armor on!
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You can't leave any of the pieces off because he comes
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In so many different directions.
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And then he talks about not only is there a,
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There is a struggle here; he schemes, and then we struggle.
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A lot of people think the christian life is all peace, and
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Peace is certainly a vital part of the christian life, isn't it?
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We looked at romans chapter 5 just a little while ago,
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Remember?
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Be justified by faith, and you have what?
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Peace with god, right.
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We make our peace with god.
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Great!
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And then we turn over in philippians chapter 4.
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He talks about, we have a peace in christ
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That passes all understanding.
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Boy, that kind, that's great peace, isn't it?
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And then we know we read the fruit of the spirit
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-love, joy, peace.
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Peace is in third place.
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We have peace, so all the way through the scripture, earlier,
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You read in chapter two of this book of ephesians.
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He's talking about we have peace.
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Peace is a big word.
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It's cessation of conflict, peace with god, peace with
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Ourselves, the capacity to make peace with others.
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That's what christ gives us as we're in him-peace.
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But that's just part of the picture.
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Also, the christian life is conflict.
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Is there any conflict in your life as a christian?
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There should be.
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There ought to be.
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I think there must be.
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There, it, there is a violence in following christ,
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A conflict, a war today.
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We have peace, but also, there is a conflict.
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When a baby is born -i was not there
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When my three sons were born.
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I was in the premises, waiting room,
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But i didn't go in the room.
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Back then, you didn't do that.
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I didn't want to.
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(audience laughs).
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One doctor threw me a green gown and says, "come on in with me!"
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I said, "i think i'll stay out here..."
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But how many of you have seen your--your child,
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Seen a baby-lift your hand!
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I mean, oh yeah, it's the thing to do now.
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It's the thing to do...
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And when a child is born, there is a struggle.
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That-haaa!
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That first breath, and there, there's a struggle, and there's
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Crying, and there's-there's some violence there, isn't it?
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The child is born. the child just lies there.
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You don't say, "well, i guess
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She's got a phlegmatic personality..."
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No.
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You want to, you know, slap, awaken, take that breath, right?
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And that's with us-there, there is in this world
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An agenda that's going the opposite direction,
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What a son or a daughter of god would be going.
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Therefore, there is conflict, and there is violence.
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There's conflict in the chri
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-if there's no conflict in your life?
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You say, "well, i prayed monday morning.
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I read my bible, but you know, i got busy.
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I missed it tuesday.
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I caught back up on thursday,
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And o' lord, i made that vow-conflict!
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Your time!
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Your energy! your resources, the discipline.
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All those decisions, there is a, a battle, a war for your mind,
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For my mind, your heart, your agenda, your life, your family,
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Your vocation, your hobby...everything!
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There is a conflict in the christian life,
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Make no mistake about it.
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And then, there is so much conflict today because we look
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At the world and we see so many rats, and we see so much of the
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World is trying to destroy that which we think is good,
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And redefined it as if it were evil.
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When the roman empire fell, just right after that,
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Augustine-augustin if you're a scholar...
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Augustine was the bishop of hippo in africa,
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And he wrote a book called the city of god.
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And he talked about the city of god in the sense
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The city of god is where god is sovereign.
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God rules. god reigns.
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There is love. there is fellowship.
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There is joy.
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There is worship. there is celebration.
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There is life!
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Abundant life, everlasting life!
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The city of god.
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In the city of god, they have no elections.
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He is king of kings, and lord of lords, and reigns forever
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-the city of god.
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We are christ followers, we're in christ,
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We're citizens of the city of god.
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Also, there is the city of man.
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In the city of man, there is capriciousness.
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In the city of man, there is rats running around.
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In the city of man, there are idols.
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In the city of man, there's all kinds of distortedness and
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Confusion about right and wrong, and light and darkness,
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And bitter and sweetness, and that is the city of man.
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You say, "well, we're a part of the city of god and the city of
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God may be in the city of man, but i'm just gonna stay
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In the city of god.
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Let me tell you something: when there's trouble in the city of
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Man, those who are inhabitants of the city of god must go and
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Unmask evil, because the city of man, they can't unmask evil.
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They don't see it.
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They're just caught up in it, and god should give us eyes that
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We go and we go to the city of man, because we are to love
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God and therefore to love our neighbors,
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And it's a part of loving our neighbors.
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Therefore, as citizens of christ in the city of god, we get
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Involved in the political process, not thinking that is
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Going to answer the questions, but to go there in the name of
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Light and love and seek to set a framework for justice in our
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World-justice in our world.
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Now, you say, "well, you know, i don't know if good is passed off
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As evil, evil is passed off as good..."
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Stay with me!
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In 2005, two federal border agents about 40 miles down the
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Rio grande from el paso, the saw a suspicious van over there
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By the river, and they went over and stopped.
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One agent went over to check out the van.
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A drug smuggler jumped off and started to beat on him.
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His friend came out.
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He ran in the bushes, and he took his gun and shot at him.
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Didn't think he'd hit him.
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And he heard in a minute another truck start off,
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And he got away.
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They looked in the van.
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There were 800 pounds of marijuana.
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They confiscated it.
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The smuggler got away.
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Waited a couple of weeks, and he smuggler's mother called a
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Friend on the telephone in the area and said,
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"some border guards shot my son in the buttocks."
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That's a revised word for church...
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And she said, "i didn't think they could shoot
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An unarmed person."
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Well, charges were brought against
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These two federal agents.
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A trial was take, take place, and they brought this drug
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Smuggler on a special leave of freedom to come back to
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America and testify against them!
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They were convicted.
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One sent to 11 years; one 12 years in the federal pen.
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Our border agents.
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Huh...
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The smuggler sued the government for five million dollars
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For his civil rights were violated.
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He said in the court of law that he was running drugs so his
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Dying mother would have medicine, but later on, it was
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Discovered he was one of the kingpins, one of the leaders of
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The drug cartel, and they did finally get him.
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Thank goodness for that; but these two guys served two years
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In jail, and the last thing president bush did before
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He left office, he pardoned these two men.
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He should have pardoned the day they were sentenced!
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(audience applauds).
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Evil interpreted as good.
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Good, border agents, interpreted as evil.
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Huh...
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Boston marathon bomber put in jail.
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There's enough evidence against him to convict him
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400 times in any court of law.
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Heinous, vicious, radical, insane crime.
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They put his picture on the front of rolling stone magazine.
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Boy, he's a handsome kid!
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They, they put in the, in the internet, they put a sort of a
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Degree, a, about him, what ought to be done, you know...
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Nobody 19 years old should be persecuted.
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He, you know, he's innocent.
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He got caught up in-- fanatical muslim,
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And you know, nothing, and so, in about two weeks,
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Over 8,000 supporters signed up on his behalf!
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Too cute! too handsome to die!
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Oh yeah! oh yes!
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Unfair!
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Had a bad home life!
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Evil, twisted, interpreted something that's good.
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Let's bring it a little closer to home.
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This is not happening in the life of our church.
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If i have any good characteristic,
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That's the gift of confidentiality.
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I do not break a confidence.
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I don't go and say, "i'm gonna tell you this,
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But don't tell anybody else..."
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(audience laughs).
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You're one of 400 i'm gonna tell,
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And it's for prayer purposes only!
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(audience laughs).
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No, no, no, no.
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So i do not break a confidence here.
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It's something i know about intimately,
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But not in the life of our church.
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Teenage girl pregnant, unwanted pregnancy.
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Went to her parents.
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Told them.
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They cried. they embraced her.
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They told her, "we're with you.
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Carry this child. it is our grandchild.
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We love you.
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Things are gonna work out..."
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She goes to christian counselors of the church and they love her
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And tell her that, "man, this is-god's gonna heal.
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God's gonna use this in your life.
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Make sure the baby lives..."
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And then she goes and find, they find a couple.
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Couple didn't have a child for 10 years and they wanted a
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Child, and, and they met her and said, "we'll, we'll take your
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Child that you, that you're not ready for, you don't want now
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And bring it up with love and christ,"
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And she's ready to, you know, do that.
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Five weeks go by.
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This may be the sixth week.
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But somebody sends her to a secular, humanistic counselor,
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And the counselor says to her, "oh, his baby is a burden.
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You're young.
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This baby's a burden to you, and your parents are trying to
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Control your life.
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Ohhh...
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What a terrible thing...
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And, and that couple, they, that, that needy couple is now
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Pouring all their needs and think you have to satisfy the
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Needs of that couple, and that christian atmosphere they're
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Trying just to build wrong ideas in your life..."
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And so now, the baby is a burden.
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And the parents are controlling.
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And the couple is oh, so needy!
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And the church is manipulating!
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Good-the life, not the pregnancy, but good the life
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That god has given there-good and holy and sacred, now is
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Turned into something that is evil and wrong and a burden.
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This is our america!
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This is our world, and ladies and gentlemen, where were you?
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Where was i when these judges were put in office, when these
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People were elected, when in your company and your market
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Place, they said, "don't wear that cross any longer.
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You might offend somebody."
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"well, i don't agree, but i'm gonna have to go along."
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Where were we when our school system was stripped of any
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Semblance of god?
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Where were we when all of this was taken out of our culture,
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Piece, by piece, by piece, and now there are rats running
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Around everywhere!
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(audience applauds).
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Why do we keep putting liars in places of responsibility from
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Ceo's to offices and institutions around our nation,
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And we sit back and we say,
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"you know, i don't want to make any streams.
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I'm going to retire in a few years,
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And this is not what they're like..."
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When is the day that we stand up as christians and march as
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An army and say, "no more!
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No more!
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No more evil being spoken of as good!"
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(audience applauds).
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Stay standing and sing it with me.
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Sing it with me.
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Sing it with me...
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♪ onward christian soldiers! ♪
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♪ marching as to war! ♪
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♪ with the cross of jesus, ♪
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♪ going on before! ♪
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♪ christ the royal master, ♪
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♪ leads against the foe! ♪
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Sing it!
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♪ forward into battle ♪
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♪ see his banners go! ♪
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Sing it!
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♪ onward christian soldiers ♪
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♪ marching as to war! ♪
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♪ with the cross of jesus! ♪
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♪ going on before! ♪♪
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Male announcer: in the middle of life's darkest storm,
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There's always the quiet promises of god that lie
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Just beyond the turbulence.
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You can discover how to claim these promises
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In dr. young's book, "living under the rainbow."
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It's our gift to you with your support
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Of the ministry this month.
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Ed: the rainbow is a comforting reminder
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Of god's promises.
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Under the rainbow our lives, families,
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And careers can become what god designed them to be.
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In my book, "living under the rainbow," you will learn about
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The key promises god has made to us in his word, the bible,
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And we'll discover how we can claim them in our daily lives.
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Applying these promises leads not only to daily victory, but
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Puts you and me on the path of a truly life with significance.
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Announcer: to get a copy of "living under the rainbow" for
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Yourself or someone you love, call the number on your screen,
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Or go online at winningwalk.org.
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Ed: let me tell you how i begin each day and end every day.
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I've done it for many, many years.
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When i roll out of bed, the first thing i do, i hit
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My knees.
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I call it knee to knee or i call it a self prayer.
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Because, you know, my biggest problem?
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It is the same problem you have.
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It's spelled s-e-l-f.
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Isn't that the person you have the most difficulty with?
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It's my number one problem.
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Therefore, when i begin my day, i'm on my knees.
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My wife comes and kneels with me and i put my hand on the bed
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And i pray a little prayer revolving around self.
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It's an acrostic.
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And i just spell s-e-l-f, i start off
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And say, lord, i surrender this day to you.
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And i talk about surrendering everything in my life to him.
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And then i talk about e, e, i surrender.
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And that e comes up and i empty myself.
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Whenever i'm full of self or selfishness,
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I start off by emptying so i will be fresh.
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Then i turn my hands up as i'm on my knees by my bed.
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And i say, "oh lord, fill me with your spirit.
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I surrender. i empty.
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And i love you and now fill me with your spirit."
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Self, that's where you start and as we express our love to him
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And he fills us with our spirit.
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Then i'll have a personal prayer that fits me and fits my wife
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Where she prays.
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Then we say in jesus's name, amen.
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I do that every morning, i do it every night.
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I pray the self prayer, the knee to knee prayer.
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First thing in the morning, i hit my knees,
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The last thing at night, i am on my knees.
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And i don't know how it works for anybody else
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But that's self prayer.
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That knee to knee prayer is a good way to begin every day
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Because it gets self out of the way.
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It does.
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Surrender, empty, i love you,
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Fill me with your spirit.
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Just a little ritual that i think will help your day
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To start off with wings and end your day with praise.
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - Satan's Plan For Your Life

October 17, 2025 | 29:0

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