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Ed Young - Saved By A Look

December 17, 2024 | 27:29

Ed Young - Saved By A Look
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 - Saved By A Look | December 17, 2024
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  • Ed young: i'm in heaven, it's the first sunrise i've ever seen
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  • In heaven.
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  • I have on my resurrected body, this old shell was thrown away.
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  • Now i've got that resurrected body, it's going to take me
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  • About 50 trillion years even to understand how the real me can
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  • Operate in this new facility that i've been given.
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  • And all the glory of heaven, this is my first morning, i had
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  • Only five senses on this earth, but now i seem to have dozens
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  • And hundreds and thousands of the senses to comprehend the
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  • Music, the majesty, the color, the artistry, the magnificence,
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  • The splendor of this first morning in heaven.
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  • All of my life, from the very early beginnings, we always went
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  • To my mother's bed in our family and she would read the bible.
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  • We'd pray for missionaries, then she would pray a prayer, and in
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  • Every prayer i've ever heard her pray all the way from the
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  • Earliest childhood all the way until i was an adult, she
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  • Prayed, "when thou art through with us on this earth, take us
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  • To our home which is in heaven."
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  • So, i didn't like to hear that as a child, it sounded a lot
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  • Like death.
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  • But somehow today, with my mother, my dad, and my brother,
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  • My wife, so many have gone before they're in heaven, and
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  • Now here i am, i'm in the land of the living.
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  • All i'd known before was earthly living which is the land of the
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  • Dying, i'm in heaven and i'm overwhelmed.
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  • The throne, jesus, the lamb, the whole spectacular nature, i feel
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  • Like i'm understanding about this much and then, whew, this
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  • Much to get.
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  • Then i notice there are some throngs of people, there's a
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  • Large throng over here and a large throng over there and a
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  • Larger throng all over here, and i'm sort of confused, and an
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  • Archangel recognizes that, he comes down, and says, "welcome,
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  • May i help you?"
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  • I said yes, i don't understand these throngs that i'm seeing, i
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  • Don't understand this and i feel like i ought to join one.
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  • And i said what is this throng that's over here?
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  • "they're all gather around the river of life," i see.
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  • He said, "well, that throng is listening to the teaching of the
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  • Apostle paul, and he is reconciling for all of those who
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  • Are beginning in heaven the arminians and the calvinists,
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  • And he is speaking truth that he had tried to incorporate in his
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  • Life so we'll all be up to speed," and i looked around and
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  • There were a lot of scholars, erudite philosophers,
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  • Theologians there, just drinking in the teaching of paul, and he
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  • Said, "you can certainly join this group," i said no, not for
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  • The first morning in heaven, it's a little too lofty for me,
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  • Though i look forward to it.
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  • And what about this group over here?
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  • And someone here is teaching, who is that?
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  • "and they're all gathered around the crystal sea," he said,
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  • "that's the apostle john," said, "he's talking about love and how
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  • We can apprehend love, how love is the theme of all of eternity,
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  • And he is speaking on love in clear terms of how we can
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  • Apprehend it, how it is a very celestial air of heaven."
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  • I said whoa, i would love to hear john, but that's a little
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  • Too mystical for my first morning in heaven and this is a
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  • Little too scholarly for my first morning in heaven, what is
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  • This big group that's here?
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  • I hear a voice there, and said, and they're all gathered around
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  • The western wall in the new jerusalem, who is that?
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  • And i hear a ringing voice at a distance i couldn't understand,
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  • And he said, "that's the apostle peter," and i knew immediately,
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  • That's where i ought to go.
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  • 'cause i know pete, he was mountaintop, valley, boisterous,
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  • Up and down, around, about, and i said you know, this is where i
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  • Need to belong, i can identify with peter.
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  • Then i started thinking, i wonder what he's speaking on,
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  • What he's teaching, and i drew closer trying to hear, and i
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  • Thought well, maybe he's talking about when he was caesarea
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  • Philippi and jesus asked, "who do you say that i am?"
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  • And he said, "thou art the christ, the son of the living
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  • God," maybe he's recounting that moment.
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  • Or, i said you know, it could be that when he's on the sea of
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  • Galilee, they'd fished all night and could not caught anything,
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  • Jesus says, "unfold your nets and throw out on that side."
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  • He said, "i remember seeing how silly that was, he's a
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  • Carpenter, i'm a fishermen, i've lived my whole life here.
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  • And we threw out on that side where you absolutely do not
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  • Catch fish in that time of day, in that place, and we had a
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  • Harvest of more fish than i ever caught in one time in my life."
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  • He said maybe he's talking about that, i'd love to hear
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  • About that.
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  • Or maybe he's going by recounting when he was speaking
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  • At pentecost, and the birthday of the church, and 3,000 jews
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  • Came to faith in christ, and a few weeks later another 5,000
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  • Came around to the irrefutable fact of the bodily resurrection
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  • Of jesus christ, maybe he's talking, i'd love to hear that.
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  • Or maybe he's talking about time that herod put them in jail and
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  • They were to have a prayer meeting, they're praying for
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  • Peter to get out of jail.
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  • And there's a knock at the door and knock at the door, somebody
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  • Said, "i wish that guy wouldn't bother us, we're praying," and
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  • Finally, he kept knocking, knocking, knocking, and went to
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  • The door and there's peter; the angel already got him out of
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  • Jail, their prayer was standing out, maybe he needs to tell us
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  • About that.
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  • But as i got closer, the ringing voice of that apostle, i
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  • Realized he was talking about what happened in luke
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  • Chapter 22.
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  • How in the upper room, jesus said, you know, "time of my
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  • Departure is at hand," he began to talk about his death.
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  • Peter said, "lord, you're saying everybody is going to run away
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  • From you, but i won't, i'll go to prison with you, i'll die
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  • With you," jesus said, "as peter reported, everybody's gonna run
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  • Away, and peter, before the rooster crows in the morning,
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  • You're gonna deny three times that you even know me."
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  • Hmm, three times, we know that's exactly what happened.
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  • They came to apprehended jesus, all the apostles went in hiding,
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  • They ran away, but the new testament tells us peter
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  • Followed from afar, he kept his distance, he stayed away from
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  • Afar until finally he got to the little charcoal fire there, it
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  • Gets cold in jerusalem at night, ladies and gentlemen, cold at
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  • That altitude.
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  • He was warming his hands by the fire and jesus was in with the
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  • Sanhedrin being tried, of course, illegally, but being
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  • Tried anyway.
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  • And so somebody came up and said, "you're one of his
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  • Followers," peter said, "no, no, no, you're mistaken."
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  • A little later, a young girl came up and said, "i recognize
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  • You, you're with this jesus."
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  • "no," he said, "that's not me."
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  • Then another man came up and said, "hey, i recognize your
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  • Galilean accent, you're from galilee, you're a part of those
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  • Galileans, you're with that man jesus," and he cursed, he
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  • Cursed, and said, "i don't know him, i don't know that rascal,"
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  • And the rooster crowed, and the rooster crowed.
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  • And the bible tells us, the gospel of mark says at that
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  • Time, jesus was being moved from the trial with the sanhedrin
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  • Over to caiaphas's house, the high priest, and said, "and
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  • Jesus turned and looked at peter, and peter remembered."
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  • Somebody sent me a picture of how jesus looked, it's some look
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  • The artist captured, i'm afraid he's looked at me sometimes
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  • Like that.
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  • And jesus turned and looked at peter and peter remembered, and
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  • Peter ran out into the night and wept.
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  • I knew i was with the right group in heaven when i was with
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  • A crowd that peter was speaking to, because peter had shamed,
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  • Disgraced himself, his allegiance, his braggadocious
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  • Attitude, yet god, we know, there by the sea of galilee,
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  • Asked him, "do you love me?"
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  • Three times, and his denial was reaffirmed by his profession,
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  • And now peter was greatly used by god.
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  • I needed that, i don't know how in the world anybody wouldn't
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  • Need that, that's exactly what i needed to know.
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  • That somehow, i too, would be welcomed in heaven.
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  • Yes, sir, we look at peter and we discovered in 2 peter, this
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  • Little book of three chapters, it tells us how all of us can
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  • Know god, k-n-o-w god.
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  • Now the question is, do you really want to know god?
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  • Hmm?
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  • Do you really want to know him?
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  • Do you want to know what he's about?
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  • Know how he wants you to live?
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  • Know his plan? do you really want to know him?
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  • In the 1st chapter of 2 peter, the word know is mentioned
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  • Nine times.
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  • The whole book is telling us how to know god, and it's so simple,
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  • Clear, plain.
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  • Nobody can say well, i didn't understand that.
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  • Read it, you can't help but understand it, this is how you
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  • Know god.
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  • And we read in the first chapter, he tells us what we
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  • Have, who we are.
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  • And the 2nd chapter of 2 peter, the scholars tell us it's the
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  • Most severe, judgmental, damning, hard words in all the
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  • Bible, 2 peter, 2nd chapter.
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  • It condemns those who follow a false understanding of god and
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  • Follow teachers who are not accurately dividing the word of
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  • Truth, and he condemns those who do that and he condemns those
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  • Who teach that, why?
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  • To be so hard on those who diffuse and do not clearly teach
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  • And proclaim how we can really know and live for god?
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  • Why so hard on those?
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  • You go to the doctor, he gives you a total physical, he scans
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  • Everything, x-rays everything, takes enough blood out of you to
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  • Give a transfusion, you think, to 20 people.
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  • I mean, he examines, he turns, he squirms, he has all these
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  • Machines, and when he gets through with you, he says, "you
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  • Are absolutely healthy, there's not a thing in the world wrong
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  • With you," and you go and say, "boy, i sure do like this
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  • Doctor, i'm going to go to him every time i go to the doctor,
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  • This is my man."
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  • Now there's only one problem with this; the doctor knew, or
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  • At least did not pay attention to the fact, that you had a
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  • Disease that was clearly diagnosed, but he didn't tell
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  • You about it.
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  • This disease could've been cured, it could have been
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  • Healed, you could have known health, but you are not healthy,
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  • You are in a precarious situation but the doctor gave
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  • You good news, what would be the penalty for that doctor?
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  • What you think we ought to do with him?
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  • This is what we read in the 2nd chapter of 2 peter, those who
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  • Tell us, "you're okay, you're fine, you're gonna be healthy
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  • And wealthy, gotta have enough faith, it's okay," and that is a
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  • Lie, contrary to what god teaches about life and how that
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  • We are to live by him, and he has severe words for those who
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  • Are fooled and beguiled and those who teach such heresy.
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  • In the 3rd chapter of 2 peter, he tells us how to get back on
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  • The team; if we wanted off the team, he says this is how you
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  • Can know god and get back on the squad.
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  • But we're going to sit down and look at chapter 1, because it is
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  • A magnificent chapter, 2 peter chapter number 1.
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  • I hope you have your bibles, and i want you to follow along with
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  • Me, it's a fabulous little chapter, you'll love it.
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  • First of all, the first part of the 1st verse, it tells us peter
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  • Had two names and it tells us he had two credentials, look at it.
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  • "simon peter, a bondservant and apostle of jesus christ," his
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  • Hebrew name was simon, that's what he's named, his greek name
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  • Was peter the rock.
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  • He was a bondservant, bondservant means he wasn't
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  • Taken as a slave or he wasn't subscribed as a servant, he
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  • Volunteered himself to be a servant, it's a word
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  • Of humility.
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  • Then it says he's an apostle, that's a one of authority, he
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  • Had witnessed the resurrection of jesus christ, he was the
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  • Intimate crowd, one of the 12, one of the 3, he was
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  • An apostle.
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  • So here we have, hebrew name, greek name.
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  • Here we have a thing of humility, i'm a bondslave, a
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  • Bondservant, and a thing of authority, i'm an apostle, it's
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  • Wonderful to have authority and have humility.
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  • Now, you see both the hebrew name and the greek name here,
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  • And that reminds us of a controversy: anytime you read a
  • 00:15:37.393 --> 00:15:40.295
  • Commentary there's always two sides.
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  • Some people think well 2 peter is written to the gentiles, what
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  • Is a gentile?
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  • You're not a jew?
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  • You're a gentile, greek, romans, et cetera.
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  • They said, oh, it's obviously written to the gentile, others
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  • Say oh no, you're not reading it properly, it's written to
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  • The jews.
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  • And they know it's written to a church, probably in western
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  • Turkey, jewish church background, gentile
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  • Church background.
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  • I think it's a church of jews and gentiles and we see this in
  • 00:16:05.287 --> 00:16:11.326
  • The context of 2 peter.
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  • And then, in this chapter, we get two big things, don't
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  • Miss it.
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  • Peter tells us who we are, and say who are you?
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  • He tells us who we are, who i am, who you are, then he tells
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  • Us what we can become-- this is who you are, this is what you
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  • Can become-- and it's written so simply and so plainly and so
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  • Beautifully, listen to who we are.
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  • "those who have received faith of the same kind as ours, by the
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  • Righteousness of our god and savior, jesus christ."
  • 00:16:48.964 --> 00:16:55.337
  • In other words, he said if you have received jesus christ,
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  • You're a christian, you have received the righteousness of
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  • Jesus christ, keith, come here a minute, i wanna show
  • 00:17:02.945 --> 00:17:05.814
  • You something.
  • 00:17:05.814 --> 00:17:07.449
  • It's amazing, i can pick out anybody that's a christian.
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  • Keith, right here, when he received jesus christ, he
  • 00:17:11.019 --> 00:17:14.923
  • Received all the righteousness of jesus christ.
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  • That's true of you, that's true of you, that's true of you.
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  • If you receive christ, you received all of jesus christ, no
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  • Matter how inconsistent you are.
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  • I asked keith last week about the aggies, he said we won, i
  • 00:17:32.908 --> 00:17:40.749
  • Ask him today about the aggies, he said they lost, be seated.
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  • So you can even be inconsistent and still, in christ, you and i
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  • Are filled with the righteousness of jesus christ.
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  • God looks upon you and me as a christian as perfect, he's
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  • Telling us who we are.
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  • Even gets better than this, look at it.
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  • It says, "grace and peace be multiplied to you in the
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  • Knowledge," there's our word, "of our god and savior
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  • Jesus christ."
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  • In christ you receive all the righteousness of god and now you
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  • Have grace and you have peace, it is multiplied exponentially
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  • In you and in me.
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  • Man, all of a sudden, i'm beginning to realize who i am
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  • And who you are in christ.
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  • Then it says, verse 3, "seeing that his divine power, his
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  • Divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life
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  • And godliness, through the true knowledge of him who called us
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  • By his own glory and excellence."
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  • Now we have righteousness, now we have knowledge, now we have
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  • Power, now we have grace, now we have peace.
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  • If you're in christ and you've received christ and i've
  • 00:19:01.029 --> 00:19:03.465
  • Received christ, doesn't matter about the past, makes
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  • No difference.
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  • Doesn't matter all that back there, how many times peter, how
  • 00:19:08.170 --> 00:19:11.373
  • He shamed the lord, disobeyed the lord, got on the wrong track
  • 00:19:11.373 --> 00:19:15.577
  • Dealing with gentiles there, got in an argument with paul in the
  • 00:19:15.577 --> 00:19:18.914
  • Jerusalem council, doesn't matter about all that.
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  • Man, right now, this is who we are in the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:19:22.584 --> 00:19:28.090
  • And then it says, verse 4, "we're partakers of the divine
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  • Nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world
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  • Of lust."
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  • I want to ask everybody here, do you need anything else?
  • 00:19:37.199 --> 00:19:43.905
  • Can you think of anything that's all for life?
  • 00:19:43.905 --> 00:19:46.608
  • Does anybody here needs anything else?
  • 00:19:46.608 --> 00:19:48.844
  • I don't believe you can name a single thing, not a single
  • 00:19:48.844 --> 00:19:53.715
  • Thing, that's who you are, that's who i am, and peter's
  • 00:19:53.715 --> 00:19:57.853
  • Just reminding us of this, how fabulous that is?
  • 00:19:57.853 --> 00:20:04.559
  • That's who we are in christ, very simple.
  • 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:07.162
  • Then he says on top of this, on top of this, given this, when we
  • 00:20:07.162 --> 00:20:12.734
  • Receive christ, this is what you can become, it's even more.
  • 00:20:12.734 --> 00:20:16.805
  • Verse 5, "now for this very reason also, applying all
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  • Diligence in your faith, supply moral excellence, excellent
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  • Morality, in your moral excellence you'll have
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  • Knowledge, wisdom, and your knowledge, you'll be have
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  • Self-control, discipline, in your self-control you'll have
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  • Perseverance, in your perseverance, godliness, and in
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  • Your godliness, brotherly kindness, in your brotherly
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  • Kindness, love."
  • 00:20:45.667 --> 00:20:48.003
  • He's almost echoing the fruit of the spirit.
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  • This is who i am, this is who you are, and this is what we
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  • Can become.
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  • Oh goodness, it's just, the sky's the limit.
  • 00:20:57.779 --> 00:21:02.417
  • He's saying you have to grow in your faith, your relationship
  • 00:21:02.417 --> 00:21:08.223
  • With christ, my relationship with christ is never static, it
  • 00:21:08.223 --> 00:21:11.093
  • Is always dynamic, and he talks about this.
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  • Verse 8, "for those qualities," or here, our qualities, "are
  • 00:21:14.596 --> 00:21:19.668
  • Yours and are increasing, and render you neither useless,"
  • 00:21:19.668 --> 00:21:24.573
  • You're useful, "nor unfaithful," you are faithful, "in the true
  • 00:21:24.573 --> 00:21:28.176
  • Knowledge of our lord jesus christ."
  • 00:21:28.176 --> 00:21:30.645
  • Then verse 9, "for he or her who lacks these qualities, not
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  • Growing, you're blind, shortsighted, having forgotten
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  • His purification from his former sins," what's he saying?
  • 00:21:42.357 --> 00:21:47.562
  • He's saying this is who you are, you got all this, and you're
  • 00:21:47.562 --> 00:21:51.266
  • Right with god, right with yourself, right with your fellow
  • 00:21:51.266 --> 00:21:54.035
  • Man, and then you can have all of this in addition to that.
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  • And therefore, because you have all of this, and you can have
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  • All of this even more as we grow with the fruit of the spirit.
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  • We are to mature, we are to grow up.
  • 00:22:04.246 --> 00:22:08.517
  • Being around church, you've heard isaiah 53:6, "all we, like
  • 00:22:08.517 --> 00:22:13.855
  • Sheep, have gone astray," how does sheep go astray?
  • 00:22:13.855 --> 00:22:18.093
  • They just drift off, they wander away from the shepherd and the
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  • Flock, and they have no sense of direction, and they'd trip, they
  • 00:22:21.029 --> 00:22:24.666
  • Get cast, they can't defend themselves, they just wander.
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  • That's how we get astray, and we just wander away, any way,
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  • We just go.
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  • "all we like sheep have gone, every one has turned to their
  • 00:22:34.910 --> 00:22:37.846
  • Own way but god has taken him and put our iniquity," i love
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  • That word, that's a true word for sin, it sounds
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  • Slimy, iniquity.
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  • God has put our iniquity on jesus, and he has taken all our
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  • Iniquity and died for us.
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  • Now, we get the first part, all we like sheep gone astray,
  • 00:23:00.435 --> 00:23:03.472
  • Absolutely, and god has taken our iniquity, our sin, and put
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  • It on jesus and he's paid the price, we get that but we miss
  • 00:23:07.843 --> 00:23:11.847
  • The middle part.
  • 00:23:11.847 --> 00:23:14.883
  • It says, "each and every one have gone their own way," sin is
  • 00:23:14.883 --> 00:23:23.625
  • Going your own way, it's when i go my own way.
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  • It's when we get so arrogant that we can say you know, i've
  • 00:23:30.198 --> 00:23:35.303
  • Worked out my own deal with god, we go our own way.
  • 00:23:35.303 --> 00:23:40.175
  • And you might say well, this preacher told me it was alright,
  • 00:23:40.175 --> 00:23:43.078
  • Or my mother said, or we've got to understand that god has
  • 00:23:43.078 --> 00:23:46.882
  • Clearly spelled out for us, you see it here in 2 peter so
  • 00:23:46.882 --> 00:23:51.019
  • Clearly, how we can know him and live for him and have a life,
  • 00:23:51.019 --> 00:23:57.592
  • Here and forever, that is glorious.
  • 00:23:57.592 --> 00:24:01.530
  • It's god's way, here's the formula, here's the
  • 00:24:01.530 --> 00:24:05.433
  • Prescription, it's not what you think, what i think, what i want
  • 00:24:05.433 --> 00:24:10.105
  • And what you want, god has a way and we've got to grow up in
  • 00:24:10.105 --> 00:24:14.976
  • This way.
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  • He's given us the capacity to do it, he's put in us the very
  • 00:24:16.311 --> 00:24:20.415
  • Righteousness of jesus christ, a sense of his divinity.
  • 00:24:20.415 --> 00:24:26.121
  • In that, sin has marred us, we're made in the image of god,
  • 00:24:26.121 --> 00:24:29.958
  • The image of god can begin to be restored in this life.
  • 00:24:29.958 --> 00:24:34.696
  • Whoa, we gotta grow up, mature, you can't stay steady
  • 00:24:34.696 --> 00:24:43.672
  • With all of this, that god in christ has given to us.
  • 00:24:43.672 --> 00:24:48.143
  • So many of us lapse back and, i'll do it my way.
  • 00:24:48.143 --> 00:24:52.781
  • Uh-uh, uh-uh, there's no separate, private, exclusive
  • 00:24:52.781 --> 00:24:57.752
  • Built-in deals that's contrary to the truth of god and to
  • 00:24:57.752 --> 00:25:01.790
  • His book.
  • 00:25:01.790 --> 00:25:03.959
  • It is god's principles, as to how to know his son, jesus
  • 00:25:03.959 --> 00:25:08.830
  • Christ, and how to have a life in this world
  • 00:25:08.830 --> 00:25:15.403
  • That's out of this word.
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  • Ed young: we have all felt alone.
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  • Even jesus experienced loneliness during his time
  • 00:25:25.280 --> 00:25:28.350
  • On earth.
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  • But god did not create us to live in
  • 00:25:29.851 --> 00:25:32.087
  • A constant state of loneliness.
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  • We need community and fellowship
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  • With others for our emotional and physical well-being.
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  • 00:26:20.301 --> 00:26:22.904
  • A rooster crowed, and he turned
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  • And looked at peter and peter remembered, and he wept.
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  • Just like peter, we also damage our witness and compromise our
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  • Integrity, but we can be grateful that jesus continues to
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  • Look at you and me in love; he forgives us and can
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  • Use us again.
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