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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Set Free | May 18, 2026
- God has brought salvation to us,
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- And that we tried to keep all those rules and regulations.
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- But the dams are down, the guardrails are off.
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- But jesus comes and he saves us.
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- If you're in the middle of the ocean
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- And you're in the middle atlantic ocean
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- By yourself, if you can't swim, guess what?
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- You're going to drown.
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- If you're in the middle atlantic ocean
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- And you're a pretty good swimmer like i am,
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- You'll stay up a while longer, maybe.
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- Or if you're in the middle atlantic goes
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- And you are an olympic long distance champion,
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- You're still going to drown.
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- What do you need?
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- A savior!
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- Sometimes when you're
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- Perusing around the bible.
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- Opening the first chapter
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- Of judges,
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- Joshua had led the chill of israel
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- To conquered the promised land.
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- He didn't clean
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- Out all the evil that was there, demonstrated
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- In the lives of all the ice,
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- The parasites,
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- All the ice.
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- But now he died, and now the sons of jake
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- Had to go and possess the land that they'd inherited.
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- But there were some still evil for our understanding.
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- Isis like people,
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- Demonic people there.
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- And so judah, one of the sons, inherited
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- The area around jerusalem, but it was occupied.
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- Canaanites.
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- Parasites.
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- And he looked at the king who ruled there.
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- He saw as strong he was.
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- And so judah
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- Went to his brother simeon and said, let's join forces.
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- And if you'll help me conquer the land of judah,
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- Which is where jerusalem is,
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- I'll help you possess the land that you've inherited.
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- And so they came together,
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- And they did battle with the king.
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- Read it there.
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- And joshua. chapter one.
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- Adonai.
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- Bezeq had an air.
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- Bezeq had an army over 10,000.
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- But god's army battled him
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- And they defeated him and ran him out of the area.
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- But at an eye busck, he escaped, was running
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- Away the king and they ran him down,
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- Captured him and cut off
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- Both thumbs and both big toes.
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- And bezeq said,
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- I deserve that
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- Because i have conquered 70 different kings
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- And that's exactly what i did to them.
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- I cut off their thumbs
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- And their big toes.
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- I looked at that a long time
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- And i said,
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- What happens when you don't have your thumbs?
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- You can't grasp anything, really.
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- It's it's awkward.
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- You can't function even to right
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- Or to do to pick up anything without your thumb.
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- Try it.
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- Then i said, what about your big toads?
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- They give us balance.
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- Without big toes, you just sort of waddle around,
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- Awkward
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- Without thumbs, big toes.
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- You are completely disabled.
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- You don't function properly.
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- Kings had to fight.
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- Kings had to lead, and their thumbs are gone.
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- Big toes are gone.
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- Out of business.
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- I know a lot of people
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- Right now, maybe in this place
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- And for all practical purposes,
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- It's like your thumbs are gone.
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- Using it as a metaphor because you can't really grasp things.
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- You don't see the long ramifications
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- Of decisions that are made.
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- You work just on the basis of natural law,
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- Natural ability, talent, education.
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- And that's about it.
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- You can't really grass.
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- There's no depth to life.
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- You make silly foodies choices
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- And then without toes, there's no balance.
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- How?
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- In our culture today, we've lost all sense
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- Of balance, all sense of proportionality.
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- And when that goes crazy and bizarre,
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- Life gets confusing.
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- Life gets confusing.
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- But a lot of people
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- Are running around with
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- Out their thumbs.
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- They can't grasp. they don't get it.
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- They don't think far, they don't move far.
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- And a lot of times your life, in my life,
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- We get out of balance.
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- That's what
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- We're studying about how to
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- Get in balance,
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- How to see a long way,
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- How to be in and figure out what god is doing
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- In this world.
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- And a lot of people in our secular society
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- Are so confused.
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- Something happens and i hear all kinds of people
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- Say, i pray about that.
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- Oh, i pray for you.
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- The question is, to whom do you pray and to whom do i pray?
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- Well, everybody
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- Prays for their own god.
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- We had one of our hurricanes sometime back,
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- And i was in a room with a lot of the so-called leaders
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- Of our city, and our mayor at that time called upon
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- A pastor to pray, and he prayed to mohammed
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- And allah and buddha and everybody in the world.
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- The next time we gathered, he called upon
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- A fine evangelical pastor, and he prayed the prayer
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- For us, and he prayed in jesus name.
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- And the mayor said, oh,
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- Prayers, ecumenical prayers.
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- Let me tell you something, folks, i god is a peculiar god.
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- He is one god.
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- Look at this universe and you see.
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- Did you notice it didn't come together by accident?
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- You notice how everything fits together, moves
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- Together in your body, in life and purpose.
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- And therefore we say we're going to pray.
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- It doesn't make any difference.
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- It makes all the difference in the world.
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- If you're praying to whom it may concern,
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- Are the true and living god revealed in the bible?
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- As we look
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- And study romans chapter number one,
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- We begin to see how god operates.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, all you and i have to do
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- Is to master 39 verses
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- Romans 812, 39, 39 verses.
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- That's it.
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- And by the way,
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- This isn't a little walk through the tulips.
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- Tragically, you want to think,
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- Grow,
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- Mature,
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- Bring your bibles, hopefully a pen in your hand.
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- Because regardless of your theological a cuman,
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- And regardless of how long
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- You've been to church and how many times
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- You've read to the bible, you will not get this.
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- Just like.
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- And by the way, it's
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- Going to take some vocabulary.
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- You gotta learn some big words.
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- Listen, any discipline of life,
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- Whatever you do,
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- There is that specialized vocabulary
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- That gives meaning and understanding
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- Of how you function and how you live in this life.
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- And god has given us a beautiful world,
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- But it is not a simplistic world.
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- You pick up anything in this world from a leaf,
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- And you could take 4 or 5 steps
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- And before long you're over your head.
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- But we look at god
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- And he is saying, this is it.
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- He's telling us how he operates.
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- Isn't exciting to know he didn't leave us.
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- Just warning around and guessing.
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- He gave us instructions.
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- He gave us the understanding of how this works.
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- And he starts off,
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- We've already looked at chapter six a little bit.
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- And by the way, these 39
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- Verses in romans chapter one, it's not something new
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- That hadn't brought up in romans before.
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- He's just sort of squeezing it all down
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- Because principles, big
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- Understanding of god and life and how we relate to him
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- And how we don't have to go through life with no thumbs
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- And no big toes, unable to grasp, unable to balance.
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- In chapter six, he tells us
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- What's happened to us in jesus christ.
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- In chapter seven, he confesses paul does.
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- He'd been brought up under the law.
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- Most of us here, unless we have been
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- Brought up in a strict orthodox jewish background,
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- Have no real concept of the reverence of the law,
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- The reverence of the torah,
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- How every jewish boy and girl were brought up from birth
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- All the way through maturity to reverence the law,
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- To keep the law, to follow the law,
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- To hold the law up before them morning, noon, and night
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- As they went in and as they went out,
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- It was the law,
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- God, revelation
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- Of how to live on sinai.
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- And now
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- The transition is coming.
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- And the apostle paul is taking us from sinai.
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- To christmas
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- To calvary
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- To easter
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- To the second coming to heaven.
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- Quite a trip, is it?
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- Not quite a trip.
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- When i was a boy,
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- There was a popular little song called mother.
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- Derived from the acrostic motif.
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- Though the lyrics are not christian.
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- They are certainly universal in their application
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- Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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- I had to
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- Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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- Would you believe that?
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- And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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- Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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- With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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- For mother's day only.
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- So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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- Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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- Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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- To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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- To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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- To get you a copy.
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- Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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- And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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- Or give one to your mother.
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- And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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- Romans chapter eight.
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- We've already looked at one verse.
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- Therefore
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- There is now no condemnation
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- For those who are in christ jesus.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, that verse is
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- What the bible is all about.
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- That verse
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- Is what romans is all about.
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- Jesus is the answer.
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- Why is he the answer?
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- Because in jesus christ there is no condemnation.
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- Remember, if already established, the fact
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- That somebody wins and says, i just want a god of love,
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- Not a god of wrath, because god is a god of love.
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- He is a god of wrath, and he cannot overlook
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- And neglect and just pass over and forget all the garbage
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- That collects in your life and in my life.
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- No, no, no, it doesn't work like that.
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- So jesus christ, he says there's
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- No condemnation for those who are what?
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- What is the first thing?
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- Those who are in christ underline that.
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- Put a star by it.
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- 164 times in the writings of paul in the bible,
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- He mentions a phrase in christ, in christ jesus, in our lord.
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- You think that's important?
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- You know, and then he develops it.
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- I haven't even gotten a scripture yet for the day.
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- This is just the introduction.
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- Look at verse number two.
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- It tells us how we are
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- Set free for the law of the spirit of life in christ
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- Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
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- Look here.
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- We already are in prison, in the law of my mind,
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- Making a prisoner of sin, which is in my members
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- Words, he saved my mind.
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- Man, i'm right with god, but in my flesh i get all mixed up.
- 00:14:52.971 --> 00:14:56.874
- And he says, for the law
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- Of the spirit of life in christ jesus has set
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- You free from the law of sin and the law of death.
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- We are set free because we become men and women
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- In christ and what sets us free.
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- It says for the law of the
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- Spirit of life in jesus christ, here's another law.
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- It's the holy spirit.
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- It's a
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- You see,
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- When we go through salvation, we go through
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- These experiences.
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- Understanding what we have built in.
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- You and me is a new life.
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- Remember we talked about how physical birth takes place.
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- Remember then we talked about spiritual
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- Birth takes place and we come through that.
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- With that
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- We have the holy spirit, the power of the holy spirit.
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- But we don't use it.
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- We don't provide for it.
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- We don't truly understand how it function.
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- And let the holy spirit of god
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- Function in us and in in everything we do.
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- There's a resource of power there that will set us free
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- From all the trash that accumulates in our life.
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- And then look at verse three
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- For what the law could
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- Not do, by the way it tells what the law could not do.
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- The law cannot save you.
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- Keeping rules cannot get you to heaven.
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- What the law cannot do.
- 00:16:16.020 --> 00:16:17.989
- You see, we come to faith in jesus christ.
- 00:16:17.989 --> 00:16:20.124
- We're not only forgiven, that's great,
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- But also we're empowered.
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- That's the holy spirit power to operate
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- In us, to keep us clean, to keep us right to so we can
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- March and make our way from the baby pool
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- All the way to the temple where there's waters to swim in.
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- You see it?
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- It's a beautiful, beautiful picture.
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- The law, the spirit of life in jesus christ is.
- 00:16:43.281 --> 00:16:46.050
- The holy spirit has set you free from the law of sin
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- And death. we're free.
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- That's liberty in christ.
- 00:16:52.924 --> 00:16:54.392
- And look at ask for what the law could not do.
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- Why could not the law do this?
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- It's weak. we're all week.
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- Nobody can keep the ten commandments.
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- Nobody has ever kept all the ten commandments.
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- If you say, well, you know, lifetime, i checked them.
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- I was doing pretty good.
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- Well, read beatitudes.
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- And then jesus says,
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- If you have thought and have hatred in your heart
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- Toward anybody, bane rocca, it's as if you killed them.
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- So motive is there.
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- And if the ten commandments didn't get you, i guarantee you
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- The beatitudes in five, six, seven will take care of you.
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- So we can't keep the law.
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- We can't do it.
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- It is impossible because it's weak.
- 00:17:36.634 --> 00:17:38.836
- But look what god did. god.
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- He sent his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh
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- As an offering for sin.
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- He condemned sin in the flesh.
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- Other words, jesus came
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- To take care of the garbage in your life and in my life.
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- And the penalty,
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- The condemnation that you and i deserve for breaking the law.
- 00:17:58.256 --> 00:18:01.792
- And we were born law breakers,
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- But god came in jesus christ and provided
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- A savior, an answer for life.
- 00:18:08.833 --> 00:18:11.202
- And then we see it in verse number
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- Four, so that the
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- Requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us.
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- Now what are we trying?
- 00:18:21.045 --> 00:18:22.046
- What's our goal here?
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- It's become holy.
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- Oh, boy. i'll never make it.
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- No you won't, i won't either.
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- It's become perfect.
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- No, you won't make it.
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- I won't either. but look what happened.
- 00:18:33.391 --> 00:18:35.459
- What? jesus.
- 00:18:35.459 --> 00:18:36.627
- What god did when god gave jesus christ, who was perfect,
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- And he was put in the offering plate there on the cross, so
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- That the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us.
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- What's the requirement of the law?
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- Perfection.
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- How's that working for you?
- 00:18:52.043 --> 00:18:53.411
- I've already said doesn't work.
- 00:18:53.411 --> 00:18:55.513
- But look what happened.
- 00:18:55.513 --> 00:18:57.114
- Jesus came and he filled you up
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- And filled me up with the righteousness of god.
- 00:19:00.618 --> 00:19:04.355
- That's a big old word with the perfection of god
- 00:19:04.355 --> 00:19:08.259
- Which makes us acceptable to him.
- 00:19:08.259 --> 00:19:10.595
- Therefore, we go through god not as people
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- Who've been messed up with our thumbs and our toes,
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- But it has been filled up in us.
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- God has poured righteousness into you and righteousness
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- Into me.
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- Therefore, we go to god boldly
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- And confidently because we are sons and daughters.
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- You have children.
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- They may rebuke you.
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- You may not have a good relationship with them,
- 00:19:37.088 --> 00:19:39.156
- But they're they're still your kids, right?
- 00:19:39.156 --> 00:19:43.261
- They're still your kids.
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- We may be out of fellowship with our kids,
- 00:19:47.498 --> 00:19:50.635
- But never out of relationship with our kids
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- Because their blood is our blood.
- 00:19:53.804 --> 00:19:57.174
- And that's what he's saying.
- 00:19:57.174 --> 00:19:58.709
- That's the reason we say, hey,
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- You can just go and you have a license.
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- Whatever you do, you're forgiven.
- 00:20:03.514 --> 00:20:05.716
- What have you.
- 00:20:05.716 --> 00:20:06.684
- What have you do right now? you're forgiven.
- 00:20:06.684 --> 00:20:08.219
- Well, that's that's privilege.
- 00:20:08.219 --> 00:20:10.087
- That doesn't make any sense.
- 00:20:10.087 --> 00:20:11.188
- I'm a christian, and here's somebody who does it.
- 00:20:11.188 --> 00:20:13.724
- No, no, you do anything you want to do.
- 00:20:13.724 --> 00:20:15.293
- If you're a true christian, if you're in christ.
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- Freedom pole man.
- 00:20:17.795 --> 00:20:20.364
- I like this religion.
- 00:20:20.364 --> 00:20:22.500
- You know what the difference is?
- 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:25.169
- Now? we're in the family and we have new desires.
- 00:20:25.169 --> 00:20:29.206
- If you're in christ, new desires,
- 00:20:29.206 --> 00:20:31.842
- And you're in christ, you have a new walk.
- 00:20:31.842 --> 00:20:34.945
- If you're in christ,
- 00:20:35.413 --> 00:20:38.015
- If you're in christ, and therefore that
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- Which i desired, i
- 00:20:40.818 --> 00:20:42.053
- No longer desire, i may bounce into their sometime.
- 00:20:42.053 --> 00:20:45.923
- But boy, i don't stay because that's not who i am
- 00:20:45.923 --> 00:20:50.695
- And that's not who you are.
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- We let the spirit begin to work in our life.
- 00:20:52.797 --> 00:20:55.132
- You see, it works.
- 00:20:55.132 --> 00:20:56.000
- And when you walk,
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- You better have your big toes.
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- If you're going to walk, folks.
- 00:21:00.371 --> 00:21:03.441
- You better have your thumbs.
- 00:21:04.041 --> 00:21:05.476
- If you're going to grasp anything in this life,
- 00:21:05.476 --> 00:21:09.146
- God has brought salvation to us,
- 00:21:09.847 --> 00:21:12.683
- And that we tried to keep all those rules and regulations.
- 00:21:12.683 --> 00:21:16.887
- But the dams are down, the guardrails are off.
- 00:21:16.887 --> 00:21:20.057
- But jesus comes and he saves us.
- 00:21:20.057 --> 00:21:22.727
- If you're in the middle of the ocean
- 00:21:22.727 --> 00:21:25.296
- And you're in the middle
- 00:21:25.830 --> 00:21:27.031
- Atlantic ocean by yourself, if you can't swim, guess what?
- 00:21:27.031 --> 00:21:29.967
- You're going to drown.
- 00:21:29.967 --> 00:21:32.069
- If you're in the middle atlantic ocean
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- And you're a pretty good swimmer like i am,
- 00:21:33.471 --> 00:21:36.474
- You'll stay up a while longer, maybe.
- 00:21:36.474 --> 00:21:39.343
- Or if you're in the middle atlantic goes
- 00:21:40.211 --> 00:21:41.612
- And you are an olympic long distance champion,
- 00:21:41.612 --> 00:21:45.249
- You're still going to drown.
- 00:21:45.850 --> 00:21:48.252
- What do you need, a savior?
- 00:21:48.252 --> 00:21:51.322
- Somebody come and take you out.
- 00:21:51.956 --> 00:21:54.191
- And that's exactly what jesus christ has done for us
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- On that cross.
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- He took all of our garbage there.
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- He took it on himself.
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- He took all of our judgment
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- And all of our condemnation upon himself.
- 00:22:04.168 --> 00:22:08.239
- And therefore,
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- You and i are set free because we have a new desire.
- 00:22:10.408 --> 00:22:15.079
- If there's still those pagan desires, those lustful desires,
- 00:22:15.079 --> 00:22:19.150
- They're in your life.
- 00:22:19.150 --> 00:22:20.184
- You better check whether or not you're in christ
- 00:22:20.184 --> 00:22:23.320
- Because he makes brand people,
- 00:22:23.320 --> 00:22:26.590
- And whether or not you're walk is with him.
- 00:22:26.590 --> 00:22:28.959
- You better check whether or not you're in christ.
- 00:22:28.959 --> 00:22:33.464
- I didn't
- 00:22:33.731 --> 00:22:34.432
- Intend to say this, but i am.
- 00:22:34.432 --> 00:22:38.035
- I meet a lot of people, run into a lot of situations.
- 00:22:38.035 --> 00:22:41.739
- My vocation.
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- I watch television
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- Somewhat.
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- If you got a number on your back, i might see you.
- 00:22:49.180 --> 00:22:52.616
- If you don't news,
- 00:22:53.050 --> 00:22:54.885
- I'd probably see you.
- 00:22:54.885 --> 00:22:57.621
- You know what breaks my heart?
- 00:22:57.621 --> 00:23:01.492
- In individuals,
- 00:23:01.859 --> 00:23:04.895
- In our culture and our city and our world.
- 00:23:04.895 --> 00:23:08.265
- If if you and i
- 00:23:08.632 --> 00:23:13.504
- And those
- 00:23:13.804 --> 00:23:16.841
- Servants in every walk of life, the commercial world,
- 00:23:16.841 --> 00:23:20.444
- The political world, the medical world,
- 00:23:20.444 --> 00:23:22.413
- The educational world would simply.
- 00:23:22.413 --> 00:23:27.852
- Let jesus christ come in their life.
- 00:23:28.652 --> 00:23:31.288
- It's that jesus christ coming to life.
- 00:23:31.288 --> 00:23:35.059
- They get new thumbs.
- 00:23:35.526 --> 00:23:37.895
- They'd be able to grasp things
- 00:23:37.895 --> 00:23:39.797
- That seems to be beyond their grass.
- 00:23:39.797 --> 00:23:43.367
- They would get you big toes,
- 00:23:43.968 --> 00:23:45.569
- And they'd been able to to walk in ways we came to imagine.
- 00:23:45.569 --> 00:23:50.774
- But yet we live in the flesh.
- 00:23:51.408 --> 00:23:54.845
- That's what we see.
- 00:23:55.312 --> 00:23:58.015
- It is mind boggling.
- 00:23:58.015 --> 00:24:00.451
- I could never understand how isis,
- 00:24:00.451 --> 00:24:04.355
- When they were running roughshod
- 00:24:04.355 --> 00:24:06.257
- Over much of the middle east, were just killing,
- 00:24:06.257 --> 00:24:10.060
- Beheading christians left and right.
- 00:24:10.060 --> 00:24:11.896
- I said, you know, of all people,
- 00:24:11.896 --> 00:24:14.965
- People who are christians, why?
- 00:24:14.965 --> 00:24:18.569
- What they accept,
- 00:24:19.003 --> 00:24:21.005
- They love, they forgive, they they serve,
- 00:24:21.005 --> 00:24:24.008
- They reach out to anybody, everybody, anywhere,
- 00:24:24.008 --> 00:24:27.077
- Anytime, regardless of any other consideration.
- 00:24:27.077 --> 00:24:30.114
- And they're the one that evil went after wholesale. why?
- 00:24:30.114 --> 00:24:34.318
- It's because the power and the witness of christ
- 00:24:34.318 --> 00:24:38.589
- Is diametrically opposed to evil.
- 00:24:39.323 --> 00:24:42.126
- Any shape, fashion, maybe objectively,
- 00:24:42.126 --> 00:24:46.130
- Maybe subjectively.
- 00:24:46.130 --> 00:24:47.398
- But that's who we are,
- 00:24:47.398 --> 00:24:50.301
- And that's what we must do.
- 00:24:50.301 --> 00:24:52.169
- And that's how we, you and i, must live.
- 00:24:52.169 --> 00:24:55.606
- We're going to live like that.
- 00:24:56.206 --> 00:24:57.575
- We'll understand more and more of what it means to be a man,
- 00:24:57.575 --> 00:25:02.813
- A woman, a teenager, a young person
- 00:25:02.813 --> 00:25:06.350
- Who is in christ
- 00:25:06.350 --> 00:25:09.153
- And will move out of the shallow water.
- 00:25:09.153 --> 00:25:11.889
- We'll move into waters
- 00:25:11.889 --> 00:25:13.190
- That we can swim in, and we'll begin to
- 00:25:13.190 --> 00:25:16.160
- Make a difference in this day and this age and this time.
- 00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:26.670
- When i was a boy, there
- 00:25:27.171 --> 00:25:28.639
- Was a popular little song called mother.
- 00:25:28.639 --> 00:25:32.209
- Derived from the acrostic motif.
- 00:25:32.209 --> 00:25:36.513
- Though the lyrics are not christian.
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- They are certainly universal in their application
- 00:25:39.416 --> 00:25:42.720
- Of mothers everywhere as a child.
- 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:46.056
- I had to
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- Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
- 00:25:47.157 --> 00:25:50.494
- Would you believe that?
- 00:25:50.494 --> 00:25:51.762
- And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
- 00:25:51.762 --> 00:25:56.433
- Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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- With this little acrostic for mother's day.
- 00:25:58.936 --> 00:26:02.339
- For mother's day only.
- 00:26:02.339 --> 00:26:04.475
- So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
- 00:26:04.475 --> 00:26:08.379
- Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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- Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
- 00:26:11.915 --> 00:26:15.653
- To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
- 00:26:15.653 --> 00:26:19.723
- To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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- To get you a copy.
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- Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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- And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
- 00:26:29.099 --> 00:26:33.470
- Or give one to your mother.
- 00:26:33.470 --> 00:26:35.139
- And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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- Thank you
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- For joining me today on the winning walk.
- 00:26:45.349 --> 00:26:47.951
- Spiritual growth does not happen overnight,
- 00:26:47.951 --> 00:26:50.521
- But it does happen day by day, moment by moment,
- 00:26:50.521 --> 00:26:54.191
- As we trust god and seek to live up to his word.
- 00:26:54.191 --> 00:26:58.796
- So keep taking that next fateful step.
- 00:26:58.796 --> 00:27:03.233
- We must keep growing, keep believing,
- 00:27:03.233 --> 00:27:05.536
- And keep walking with the lord jesus christ.
- 00:27:05.536 --> 00:27:08.872
- I hope the lord today will fill you with his spirit
- 00:27:08.872 --> 00:27:12.776
- And help you and help me as we walk together step by step
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- On what i think the bible will call a winning walk.
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