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Ed Young - The Secret of Success

March 5, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - The Secret of Success
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 Secret of Success | March 5, 2026
  • Word.
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  • It be spirit filled.
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  • That's filled with the spirit.
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  • Where to be sanctified, that's growing.
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  • And our understanding of god will be.
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  • We're to be servants
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  • Using our gifts in the body of christ.
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  • We're to be submissive to the authorities.
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  • How to put over.
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  • Those are already clearly stated in god's word.
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  • This is god's will for your life.
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  • Trust in the lord with all your heart.
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  • Lean not on your own understanding.
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  • In all thy ways acknowledge him what you say.
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  • He'll direct your path.
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  • Our scripture.
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  • Book of judges, chapter number six.
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  • Joshua. judges.
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  • Ruth,
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  • Verse 11.
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  • The midianites
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  • Dominated the israelites.
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  • The terrorists came down when they would harvest the crop.
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  • They would come down in there
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  • With their camels and with their warriors,
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  • And take everything that was harvested.
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  • They took all the
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  • Animals a sheep, that goat, their oxen, their cattle.
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  • They took all of their animals, everything they raised.
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  • The nation of israel was in
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  • Abject poverty,
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  • Totally exploited.
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  • The fact that no one owned property, really,
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  • It was capricious.
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  • No one had possessions.
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  • They'd been taken away.
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  • No one could get ahead in life.
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  • No one could provide for their families.
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  • It was a case of desperation.
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  • And they cried out to the lord.
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  • You see, the pattern in the book of judges
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  • And throughout the bible is one of sin,
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  • Suffering, repentance, blessing.
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  • Sin brings.
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  • Suffering leads to repentance.
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  • Turning to god brings blessing back into sin, suffering, sin.
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  • But all that pattern over and over and over again.
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  • Does it sound like your life a little bit?
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  • Sin. judgment.
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  • Suffering. repentance. blessing.
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  • This is the cycle we see in judges.
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  • There had been six leaders that god had raised up
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  • Prior to gideon in the sixth chapter.
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  • And look how this develops in this story.
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  • Look at chapter six of judges,
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  • Verse 11.
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  • Then the angel of the lord
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  • Came and sat under the tree that was called oprah.
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  • There's her name,
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  • Which belonged to joash,
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  • Their beas, right as the son of gideon,
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  • Who was beating out wheat in the winepress
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  • In order to save it from the midianites.
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  • And the angel lord appeared to him, and said to him,
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  • The lord is with you, o valiant warrior.
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  • Is that something?
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  • The midianites would see the dust going up.
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  • They'd say, hey, somebody has got a harvest.
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  • They would sweep down and take everything they'd grown.
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  • That's how it works.
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  • So they were in this cave.
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  • Dust was there.
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  • Gideon was afraid he was a coward.
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  • He was trying to provide for himself and his family.
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  • And he was going through tremendous misery.
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  • They're underground.
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  • And the divine messenger of the lord.
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  • Theophany. we don't know exactly.
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  • The lord came and said, oh, valiant warrior,
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  • You know i am with you.
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  • Gideon must have looked through all the fog
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  • And the smoke and said, who else is in here with me?
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  • This is not me.
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  • I mean, what is this?
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  • And then we began a q&a.
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  • By the way, that is
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  • The most outrageous statement you could make.
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  • O valiant warrior, hiding underground,
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  • Harvesting the wheat.
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  • I mean, what can you know?
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  • Oh, valiant warrior god is with you.
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  • And now we have a little q&a.
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  • Yeah. the q&a.
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  • Here's a statement by the lord.
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  • And here's the response.
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  • Here's the questions that gideon asked.
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  • Look at verse ten.
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  • Then gideon said to him, oh my lord,
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  • If the lord is with us, why has all this happened to us?
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  • He knew why.
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  • They had left god.
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  • God didn't leave him.
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  • You weren't close to god, were you not?
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  • Who moved?
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  • He said, you know,
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  • If you're with us, o lord, why is this happening to us?
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  • My lord, why is this happening?
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  • And then he asked, where are all the miracles
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  • Which our fathers told us about?
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  • Saying, by the way, he answered his own question.
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  • Yes, you know why? and where?
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  • Then he answers his own question.
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  • Don't you like that?
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  • And he says, did not the lord bring us up out of egypt?
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  • But now the lord has abandoned us and gives us into the hand
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  • Of midian. here's why.
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  • And the where and how does the lord answer?
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  • He doesn't answer the question. what does he say?
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  • He just gives him more assurance.
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  • He said.
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  • The lord looked at him,
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  • Gideon, and said, go and your strength,
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  • And deliver israel from the hand of midian.
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  • Have i not sent you?
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  • He's a valiant warrior.
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  • Oh not me.
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  • Go in your strength i've sent you.
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  • And look, here's another question. verse 15.
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  • Gideon said, o lord, show me
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  • How can i deliver israel?
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  • Behold,
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  • My family is the least of manasseh, and i am the youngest
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  • In my family.
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  • He's saying, o lord, how can i do this?
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  • I'm nothing.
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  • My family is pitiful.
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  • They're poor, they're backward.
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  • And the tribe i'm a part of is way out of tune.
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  • Way out here in north eastern part of israel.
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  • We are nothing over here.
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  • And i'm the most untalented member of my family.
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  • And i'm the youngest in my family.
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  • I'm at the bottom of the list.
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  • I don't have anything to offer.
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  • I just flunked out of school.
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  • I don't have any ability.
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  • I'm just down and out.
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • God sees things
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  • And people that we can't see.
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  • And that wonderful
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  • God just sees things in you and me.
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  • He sees the right stuff.
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  • And a lot of us that nobody would dream up.
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  • And he saw that in gideon.
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  • He saw something in him.
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  • Gideon was whining.
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  • Why, why, why does this happen to us?
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  • Where are all your miracles, lord?
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  • Then how in the world can you use me?
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  • I'm not a valiant warrior. i'm the.
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  • I'm the bottom of the list on any talent search you'd find.
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  • But then god just makes another statement.
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  • He says, but the lord said to him,
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  • Surely i will be with you, and you shall defeat midian
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  • As one man.
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  • But here's gideon, still floundering around verse 17.
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  • So gideon said to him, if now i have found favor
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  • In your sight, then show me a sign.
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  • Show me a sign that is
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  • You who speak with me.
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  • He must have been from missouri.
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  • Show me a sign if.
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  • Do you see anything in gideon that offers
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  • Any hope for doing anything?
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  • I mean, here he is.
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  • God saying you're a valiant warrior.
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  • I'll be with you.
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  • I've assigned you this task.
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  • Throw away all these oppressors,
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  • Liberate your country, set your people free.
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  • I'll be with you. you'll have victory.
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  • God says all this to him and he's whining and whine.
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  • He gets. and he said, well, you got.
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  • Show me something i've got to know that this is
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  • You speaking with me, and then everything turns.
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  • I'll not read it to you.
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  • All of a sudden we see a spark of something in gideon
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  • That the lord saw, that nobody else saw.
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  • Gideon
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  • Says, wait right here, this divine message.
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  • You wait here.
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  • And he went and killed a young goat.
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  • By the way, how did he keep a goat?
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  • The midianites took all their animals.
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  • They had pillaged the land.
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  • He had hidden it. he cared.
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  • But he had this. this one little goat.
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  • You can be sure that's all he had.
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  • And he cooked the meat, and he took that which
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  • The wheat that he had, and he prepared some bread.
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  • And is a meat in the bread.
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  • Didn't he put some gravy over it?
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  • And he took this meal to his divine guest.
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  • What does that say?
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  • All of a sudden we see gideon
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  • Out of his poverty.
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  • He's giving to the lord a sacrificial gift.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, i doubt there's anybody here
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  • Who has
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  • Ever given anything to god
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  • That really cost you something.
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  • I doubt there's a person here.
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  • Here, gideon.
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  • As far away from god as he can be.
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  • As inept as he was, as backward as he was.
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  • We'll see.
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  • Brought up in a pagan family.
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  • Yet there's a spark in the presence of god.
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  • He takes that which was precious, that bread
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  • And that animal, and offers it as a sacrifice,
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  • An act of worship to this divine guest.
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  • And the divine guest looks at it
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  • As it's placed on a rock, and the gravy is poured on top,
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  • And he touches it with his staff.
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  • Fume and fire explode, sure,
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  • And consumes all of the offering.
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  • And the guest is gone.
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  • And gideon knows he has encountered the living god.
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  • A child takes their
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  • First step unsteady.
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  • Unsure.
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  • Reaching for a father's hand.
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  • No one is born knowing how to walk.
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  • It takes training, strength.
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  • Balance. time.
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  • Walking with god is no different.
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  • Like all journeys, walking the winning
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  • Walk requires the proper equipment and preparation.
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  • By outfitting our lives with the word of god,
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  • We will be able to follow where the master leads.
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  • Psalm 119 says, your word is a lamp
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  • Unto my feet and a light under my path.
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  • God doesn't rush the journey.
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  • He lights the next step in the winning walk.
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  • Doctor ed young shares practical, biblical guidance
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  • To help you develop the strength and spiritual
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  • Balance needed for a steady, daily walk with christ.
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  • If you're ready to grow stronger in your faith,
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  • Call the number on your screen and request your copy of the
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  • Winning walk today and begin walking confidently with him.
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  • Look at
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  • Verse 25, chapter number six.
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  • Now, on the same night,
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  • The lord said to gideon, take your father's bull
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  • And a second bull,
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  • Seven years old, and pull down the altar of baal,
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  • Which belongs to your father joash,
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  • And cut down the asherah that is behind it.
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  • The ashtaroth, another pagan, symbol of wooden
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  • Grove of trees and all probability are sticks
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  • And totem poles, like stuck in the ground, pagan altars.
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  • And build an order to the lord
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  • Your god on the top of this stronghold.
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  • Now look,
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  • When god identifies idols in your life,
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  • And i hope the holy spirit is doing that
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  • As i'm speaking today.
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  • You said, you know, i'm putting this ahead of god,
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  • That ahead as you identify those idols.
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  • What he told gideon to do was to take these two oxen,
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  • And he put a rope around the beautiful, ornate,
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  • The altars, the bale were fabulous,
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  • And he put a rope around them.
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  • This is all at night.
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  • And he pulled that pagan
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  • Altar down with those bold, with those oxen.
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  • And then god said, go
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  • Now, and build an altar to the lord there.
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  • And he took those bulls, and he killed the second bull.
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  • And that was the sacrifice to god.
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  • And the fire was candle by over esther
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  • Ashraf, all the pagan trees and pagan wood and totem poles
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  • That were also in the area.
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  • So the fire from the wood of a dollar tree,
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  • And there the animal was given, as his dad was an idolater.
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  • See his dad worship baal, we're told,
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  • And now he builds an altar to the lord.
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  • Listen,
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  • If you take down an altar to a pagan gods in your life,
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  • You'd better put up an altered god.
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  • The same time you take down one altar,
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  • You better take down the other one,
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  • Because everybody on the planet worships.
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  • You mean over that in the back?
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  • Yes. every continent, every people, every race,
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  • Every tribe, every nationality, every individual breathing
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  • On this planet worships every single person.
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  • It's just the object of that worship.
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  • And it's who they worship and how they worship.
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  • And when they worship,
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  • You take down these idols in your life
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  • That you put up there ahead of god.
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  • You'd better also build another altar
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  • To the living god, because nature life abhors a vacuum.
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  • Something will fill it in.
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  • And he built this altar and he made a sacrifice.
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  • And when his dad woke up the next morning,
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  • And all that village that had been worshiping bale,
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  • These were jews.
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  • These were israelites,
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  • Somebody said, who tore down our altar?
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  • They said it was gideon, joash his son.
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  • They said, kill him.
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  • But to the credit of his father,
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  • Who was a pagan
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  • Adulterer, he said, look, he tore down bale's altar.
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  • Let baal take care of baal.
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  • And so gideon received the nickname.
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  • And that's what his nickname means.
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  • Let baal take care of baal.
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  • They. baal is god.
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  • Don't you think he can handle somebody?
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  • Tear down his own?
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  • Absolutely.
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  • So you see right here, first of all,
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  • He had to deal with the enemies that were among his family.
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  • Say this is god. prepare gideon.
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  • Deal with the enemies that were among them.
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  • And then he had to deal with it, get it?
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  • The enemies that were around them.
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  • This is all the midianites.
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  • This is all the ites, the amalekites.
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  • Look at it.
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  • Verse 33,
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  • Then all the midianites and the amalekites
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  • And the sons of the east assembled themselves.
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  • And they crossed over and camped
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  • In the valley of jezreel.
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  • In other words, they saw that the israelites were rebelling.
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  • They'd been exporting them for seven years.
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  • We're told in the scripture
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  • And now they're coming down to say, hey,
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  • We got too good a deal.
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  • They raise the crops, we steal them,
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  • They raise animals, we steal them.
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  • And so they said they were camping to bring this
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  • Rebellious people back in line, back
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  • Worshiping their god and god.
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  • It says of baal and ashtaroth and the other pagan idols.
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  • And so that was the enemy all around them.
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  • And then, gideon, look what the scripture says.
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  • It says verse
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  • 34, so the spirit of the lord came upon gideon.
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  • You know that meeting the hebrew, the holy spirit
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  • Put on gideon.
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  • You get that
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  • The holy spirit put on gideon,
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  • But don't you wish the holy spirit
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  • Would put on your clothes every day?
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  • The holy spirit put gideon on himself.
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  • See, gideon is beginning
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  • To understand how to walk in the spirit
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  • And be led by the spirit and be obedient to the spirit.
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  • This is a confirmation.
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  • This is how god was testing him.
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  • And gideon found a trumpet.
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  • Shofar, ram's horn.
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  • And israelites came.
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  • How many came?
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  • 32,000. man.
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  • They rallied around.
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  • There's nobody. there's nothing.
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  • There's gideon.
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  • But what was different about him now?
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  • The holy spirit put gideon on.
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  • But what a difference that makes.
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  • What a difference that may.
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  • Gideon must have been astounding.
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  • All of these have come from all these tribes
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  • To fight with me against these oppressing
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  • Midianites and amalekites.
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  • So you have honor and 35,000 of the enemy in their black
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  • Tents, the better ones, and ready to go and do battle.
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  • And you have 32,000 israelites.
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  • How did you deal with the enemy that was around them?
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  • And then you have a little interlude here.
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  • He had to deal with the enemy that is within them.
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  • Look at verse 36.
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  • Then gideon said to god, if you will deliver israel
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  • Through me as you have spoke.
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  • In other words, god, if you will keep your word,
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  • Behold, i will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor.
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  • If there's do you own the fleece on, etc.
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  • This is putting out the fleece.
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  • What is that all about?
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  • Said it's about determining god's will.
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  • No, it's not.
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  • It's nothing about determining god's will.
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  • What in the word do you say?
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  • Gideon didn't know what god
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  • Warned him to do, yet we've been through it.
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  • A chapter and a half,
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  • He said.
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  • Oh, mighty warrior, i will be with you.
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  • Go and be victorious.
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  • I am there all the way.
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  • He'd proven it.
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  • Gideon, you're exactly what god's will was.
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  • Oh, this fleece business we put out fleece is.
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  • I see it happen all the time.
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  • It's god being patient with gideon, to be sure,
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  • Because he was still
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  • In the kindergarten of his walk with god.
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  • We put out a fleece. i here's my.
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  • Oh, i was praying and thunder road.
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  • Therefore i know god wants me to.
  • 00:18:16.885 --> 00:18:19.688
  • Oh, we use oh.
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  • Where to find the magic verse.
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  • And now what should i do that or not? bang bang.
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  • It says he counts a number of the stars.
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  • He gives names. all of them.
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  • They say great is the lord.
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  • Oh, yeah. there's my answer.
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  • Oh, let's draw straws.
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  • Oh, let's just throw some dice.
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  • Find out what god's will.
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  • Let's flip a coin. hey! yeah.
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  • God heads! i'll do it. heads on the.
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  • This is all the fleece business.
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  • Gideon knew exactly what god wanted him to do.
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  • God was patient with his immaturity,
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  • So he had to deal with all their superstition and the.
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  • And the lack of understanding of god that was inside him.
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  • See, god is preparing him for a great battle.
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  • Now, the seventh chapter.
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  • I'd like to read it.
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  • Here's gideon, general gideon,
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  • 32,000 soldiers ready to go, ready to fight.
  • 00:19:13.575 --> 00:19:17.846
  • And god says to gideon young's paraphrase,
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  • Gideon, you've got a manpower problem.
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  • You're facing 135,000.
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  • Gideon, you got a manpower problem.
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  • Gideon says, lord, i'm sure glad that you noticed that.
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  • He said,
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  • Yeah, your problem is you have too many soldiers.
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  • I've got too many.
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  • Yeah, you got too many.
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  • General gideon,
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  • He said, i imagine you sure could have fooled me.
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  • I mean, you see, right in the beginning,
  • 00:19:49.011 --> 00:19:52.281
  • The word of god tells us what was going on.
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  • He wanted gideon and all of israel to know
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  • That when the victory takes place,
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  • It was god's victory
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  • And not man's victory in the flesh.
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  • That's what he wanted to know.
  • 00:20:06.295 --> 00:20:08.430
  • So gideon goes and use the strategy of god.
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  • You remember how he won the victory?
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  • 135,000.
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  • He took the 300.
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  • He divided them up and they got a trumpet.
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  • Ram's horn.
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  • They got a torch, and they got some pottery.
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  • And that his signal surrounding.
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  • Oh, by the way, all of you have now become the midianites
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  • And the amalekites.
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  • You're the ites.
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  • And here these 300, all divided up
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  • All around you, torches, trumpet.
  • 00:20:35.257 --> 00:20:39.027
  • And now all of a
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  • Sudden, at a signal, they broke all those pots.
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  • It sound like the clank of armor looks like.
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  • And they all of a sudden they begin to shout,
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  • The sword of the lord and of gideon is upon you!
  • 00:20:49.771 --> 00:20:52.908
  • And they'd be it.
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  • Running through the camps
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  • Were those torches that were flashing the sword of the lord.
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  • And gideon is upon you,
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  • And they're shouting and running,
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  • And all the midianites in the middle of the night.
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  • They're frightened.
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  • They get up, they draw their swords.
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  • They begin to kill one another, and they just swarm
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  • All the area.
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  • They go and panic and pandemonium at 135,000
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  • Head out.
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  • They didn't have a sword in their hand
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  • Except the sword of the lord and gideon.
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  • And a torch and a shout and the breaking of those pots.
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  • Amazing, isn't it?
  • 00:21:29.411 --> 00:21:31.279
  • And those 22,000
  • 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:33.148
  • Who left earlier, and the 9700 who left
  • 00:21:33.148 --> 00:21:36.685
  • Gideon when they left, evidently said,
  • 00:21:36.685 --> 00:21:39.221
  • Go find all the places at the fords of the river
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  • And the places that they cross, because these midianites
  • 00:21:42.791 --> 00:21:45.594
  • Will soon run right into your hands.
  • 00:21:45.594 --> 00:21:48.430
  • And they did.
  • 00:21:48.430 --> 00:21:50.132
  • And god won a victory.
  • 00:21:50.132 --> 00:21:52.901
  • What's this all about?
  • 00:21:52.901 --> 00:21:55.337
  • It's about walking with god.
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  • That is success.
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  • It's about knowing the will of god
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  • And walking in the will and purpose, the plan of god
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  • For your life. and in my life.
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  • How do we decide
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  • God's will for your life and my life
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  • So we can be successful in a winning walk?
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  • I will not be exhausted by. be brief.
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  • Number one, god's will is not about guidance.
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  • It's about a guide.
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  • You go to a new city.
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  • You have to go to an address.
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  • You'd rather have a map.
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  • I'd rather have somebody who lives there,
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  • Who's been there a long time and will guide you
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  • Right there to the place.
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  • You see, god's word is the light of god.
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  • When we are, remember, we present
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  • Ourselves gifts of the spirit.
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  • We're obedient to him. we walk with him.
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  • We have a god built in us that tells us and inspires us.
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  • It speaks to us.
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  • God's will is about that guide that we meet
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  • Every day, that we walk with every step of the way.
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  • It's about a guide, more about guidance.
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  • Number two, you find god's will.
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  • I wonder where we are to look.
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  • God's will is not mysterious.
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  • He's not hiding it from us
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  • Like he's a oh, you're getting warmer.
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  • Oh well, you're getting no, no no no.
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  • God's will is right there in his book.
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  • Gideon heard god speak my word.
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  • I have the word. i have the word in word.
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  • Still, he played the fleece game. then he.
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  • And he almost got fleeced.
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  • If he'd stayed with it.
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  • And god had been patient with him.
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  • To what is god?
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  • What does the bible say?
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  • Quickly, i've got virtually behind.
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  • I don't have time for number one.
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  • God's will said, you be saved.
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  • You receive jesus christ as lord.
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  • It's god's will. that's the first thing.
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  • Don't worry about
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  • Finding out what god will lead unless you're say number one
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  • Word. it be spirit filled.
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  • That's filled with the spirit.
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  • Where to be sanctified, that's growing.
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  • And our understanding of god will be.
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  • We're to be servants
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  • Using our gifts in the body of christ.
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  • We're to be submissive to the authorities.
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  • How to put over.
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  • Those are already clearly stated in god's word.
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  • This is god's will for your life.
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  • Trust in the lord with all your heart.
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  • Lean not on your own understanding.
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  • In all thy ways acknowledge him what you say.
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  • He'll direct your path.
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  • The desires of your heart.
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  • You see, god's will is more about a guy than about guy.
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  • That's god's will is
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  • Stated here in the bible clearly for us and god's will
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  • Will always be inside your gifts.
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  • I'd stand and say, i believe god is calling me
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  • To be a soloist in the church every sunday morning.
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  • I don't have a good voice.
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  • I have no experience.
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  • But this is, you know, i want to be.
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  • You see, that's not my spiritual gift.
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  • You see, it's going to always be inside
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  • Your gifts that are affirmed by the body of christ.
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  • So don't pray about god's will. what?
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  • I want to be a teacher.
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  • No, no no, no.
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  • Discerning your gifts.
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  • The body will help you do that and call those out,
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  • And god's will will be inside those gifts.
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  • Doesn't matter if it's public or private or who it is.
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  • It'll be inside those gifts.
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  • And then finally, there's the longer listen.
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  • This god's will is determined by godly friends and counselors
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  • Who help us understand what he's about right?
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  • What does jesus say?
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  • Jesus says, i know my sheep
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  • And they know me.
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  • When i call,
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  • They come
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  • To be successful
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  • Is to walk in god's will,
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  • And that is
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  • A winning walk.
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  • Your word is a lamp to my feet,
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  • A light into my path.
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  • Notice the promise in that verse.
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  • A lamp for my feet i can see right here.
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  • A light for your path.
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  • We can see out there.
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  • Not just inspiration.
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  • For a moment, but guidance for a lifetime.
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  • The christian life
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  • Was never meant to be lived casually,
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  • But it is a walk, a daily, intentional,
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  • Fateful walk with the lord jesus christ.
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  • That's the heartbeat of this book.
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  • The winning walk in his pages, i share practical,
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  • Biblical principles that will help you cultivate
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  • A consistent devotional life, applying god's truth
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  • In the practical realities of everyday living.
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  • This isn't about religion.
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  • It's about relationship.
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  • It's about learning to trust god step by step
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  • And stay in step with our lord.
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  • The christ.
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  • So i encourage you to call the number on your screen
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  • And request your copy of the winning walk.
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  • Do it today.
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  • And then we begin walking victoriously,
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  • One step at a time.
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  • Thank you for being a part of the winning world.
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  • Family.
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  • If today's message as in courage,
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  • Your heart is spoken to, some need in your life,
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  • I invite you to keep on growing.
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  • Spend time in the bible this week.
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  • Revisit the scriptures you shared and
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  • And let them take root in your life.
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  • Make a difference in your life.
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  • I'll see you tomorrow, right here
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  • As we meet together
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  • As the winning world family.
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