Ed Young - Shattered Dreams

May 20, 2025 | S25:E121

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Shattered Dreams | May 20, 2025

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Pastor ed young: it's a cold, cold winter night in pittsburgh,
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And a 16 year old girl named carol looked at her newborn son
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Very, very carefully because she knew it was the last time she'd
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Ever see him.
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She looked at his feet and his hands and his face because she
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Had given over to be adopted.
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She was a national honor student, lovely in every way,
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Christian home, professing christian, but a one night
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Stand, she went out with a boy who had already gone to college
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On a football scholarship and she'd gotten pregnant.
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Her father arranged for her to go to another town and carry the
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Child full term and she gave birth to this boy.
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Then she went back to her school, no one knew anything
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But her parents and one cousin.
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Continued her academic work, was outstanding in every way, found
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Forgiveness from the lord and the church and she lived the
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Rest of her life beautifully for god.
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All of us in different ways, ladies and gentlemen, could tell
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A story of going out into the far country for a period
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Of time.
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We've been talking about that as we've looked at the greatest
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Story ever told.
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Found in luke chapter 15, jesus was speaking to a
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Large audience.
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In that audience, we see the kind of people that were there
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And the comment that was made, and then we see what led to
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Jesus telling these three stories of lost and found.
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Chapter 15, verse 1, "then all the tax collectors and the
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Sinners drew near to hear jesus."
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The tax collectors, they're called publicans, not
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Republicans, but publicans.
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They are the jews who hawk themselves off, sold themselves
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To the romans, and they would collect taxes from all the rest
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Of the jews.
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But all that they over-collected, they kept
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For themselves.
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A built-in system of exploitation and they were all
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Filthy rich.
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In the audience were the hated tax collectors.
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And then it says in the audience, there were sinners.
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Who were sinners?
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They were people of the land, they were people who had no
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Status, they couldn't go to the synagogue, they couldn't go to
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The temple, they were disrespected by
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Everybody, disenfranchised.
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They were just sinners, they were throwaways, nobody would
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Speak to them, certainly nobody would marry one of them, they
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Would not get involved in the affairs of israel, they were
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The despised.
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In one sense, they were the untouchables, the sinners.
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They were the audience hearing jesus and also in the audience
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Were a couple of other groups and it says, "and the pharisees
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And the scribes complained."
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The pharisees, they kept all the law, they were super religious,
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Super pious, super judgmental, and the scribes were those who
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Copied the law and copied down the mishnah, the interpretation
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Of the law.
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And they were the theologians who applied the law.
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So the scribes and the pharisees, along with the
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Sinners and the tax collectors, and then they whispered to one
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Another about jesus and said, this man receives sinners.
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And there we have a quartet of words, as we have an overview of
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The greatest story ever told, we will look at three quartets
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Of words.
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This gives meaning to what jesus was teaching all of us, the
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Crowd of that day, and all of us today.
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Now remember jesus is teaching us what god is like.
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What is god like?
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How does god--what is the modus operandi of god?
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That's what jesus is exposing.
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He's saying this is what god thinks, this is how god
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Operates, and he tells these stories.
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Let me read for you this first little parable here because i
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Think it's so beautifully written.
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Jesus says, "what man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he
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Loses one of them does not leave the ninety-nine in the
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Wilderness and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?
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And when he has found it, he lays it on his
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Shoulders, rejoicing.
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And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and
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Neighbors, saying to them, 'rejoice with me, for i found my
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Sheep which was lost!'
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And i say to you that likewise there is more joy in heaven over
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One sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just person," they
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Think they're just, who think they need no repentance.
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A sheep gets lost.
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By the way, you need to know about sheep.
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They are about the dumbest animal on the earth.
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That's true.
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They're beautiful but they're dumb.
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They have no way to defend themselves from any prey, they
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Will not even drink water unless it's still, if the water is
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Flowing, they don't get near it because they can't swim.
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And they're just helpless animals, unless a sheep stays in
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The flock, in the sheep fold, unless a sheep has a shepherd,
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No sheep can survive, no sheep can survive, so how does this
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Little sheep get lost?
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Here's the flock, here's the shepherd, and the sheep goes out
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And says, well, there's some grass over there and just
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Wanders over there and takes, and there's some more grass over
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There and the sheep wanders, and there's some more grass
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Over there.
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And before long, the sheep is around a bend, no sense
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Of direction.
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A sheep doesn't have any sense of direction.
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And now the sheep can't hear the shepherd when he calls, he just
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Wanders off.
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How does the sheep get lost, by gradualism.
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Not just running out in the wilderness or running away, no,
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Sheep just takes one little step, another little step, and
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Goes over here and goes over there.
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That's how sheep get lost.
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How do you and i get lost?
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Same way, well, we didn't go to church last sunday, we went to a
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Ball game out of town and took the kids.
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We had a great time, we were gonna drive back but it was late
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And raining and we just, you know, missed church.
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No big deal, we've all done that, i've done that.
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Then the next week we have company who's come and the
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Company they don't go to church much.
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I didn't want to drag them up to our church.
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All of a sudden, we go over here, we visit over here, we go
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To the lake, we go to a ranch, we're invited over here, and
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All--we wake up and say, you know, i'm not at church much and
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You know, i'm not in bible study.
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We just gradually move away and we say, you know, when i go to
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Church, i don't feel what i used to feel with god.
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Something must be wrong up there.
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You know, i used to be close to god and the lord, but i don't
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Feel that way anymore.
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Who moved?
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You see, that's how i get lost, that's how you get lost.
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We just wander away a little bit here, a little neglect there, we
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Don't read our bible here, we won't pray there, we don't spend
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Time, we don't listen, that's how we get lost, we just
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Wand--are you a christian?
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Oh, yes, i'm a christian, but we have lost something of the joy
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And the spontaneity and the freedom of being in the flow and
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Having the shepherd speak to us daily, especially in
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God's house.
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That's how sheep get lost, gradually.
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That's how we get lost, gradually.
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Then what about the next parable that jesus told?
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They went out to seek, that was strange to the jews.
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But look at verse 8, "or what woman, having ten silver coins,
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If she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house,
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And search carefully until she finds it?
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And when she's found it, she calls her friends and neighbors
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Together, saying, 'rejoice with me, for i have found the piece
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That which i lost.'
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Likewise, i say to you, there is joy in the presence of the
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Angels of god over one sinner who repents," who turns around.
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What's the story?
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A piece of silver, probably a silver drachma.
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She would have it on her headband, it would be her dowry.
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Ten pieces means that she's married, it's like losing your
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Wedding ring and she lost the ring.
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Where did she lose it, in the house.
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She didn't go off somewhere, she didn't wander off, she lost it
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Doing her work, she hadn't secured it.
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She lost it through carelessness.
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Let me tell you, in a house there in israel, it would be a
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Small house, one window about 18 inches around.
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The floor would be a dirt floor with reeds on it.
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And you could see how working you'd lose your ring and how
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Hard it would be to find it.
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It would be dark.
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She'd have to sweep and look very carefully.
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She lost that ring through carelessness.
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How do we lose our sons and daughters, parents?
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Through carelessness.
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You didn't notice when they came home, you didn't look in their
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Eyes, you didn't smell the warning that was there, you
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Didn't observe the friends they were running with, their habits
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And their background and what they were taught in their home.
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I can't tell you how many times, with my three boys, that jo beth
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And i would say, boys, you can't play with, and we'd name it, and
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They'd wanna know why, and we wouldn't tell them really why
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Because we knew the agenda of the parents and what went on in
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That family and we'd pull them away from those kids and i'm
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Sure they thought, we've got the meanest father and mother in all
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This world.
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I thought that about my mother, i said, you know, why did god
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Give me this mean, strict mother?
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Thank god for my mother.
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Listen, parents, we lose our children through carelessness.
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Well, they went to beach retreat, they got baptized, they
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Got a shirt.
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Let me tell you something, you gotta pay attention.
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Your children do not need any more friends or confidants, they
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Need parents.
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A father and a mother who pays attention.
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I can't tell you how many couples have lost their children
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Once they went in the military, once they went off to school,
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And they say, i don't know what happened over there.
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Pay attention.
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Don't lose your kids or lose your way or get lost
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Through carelessness.
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It's not fun, it's not just all stream, light, and beauty, but
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One day when you pay attention and you bring your children up
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In the church and in the admiration of lord, they will
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Rise up and they will call you blessed.
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That's what happens, that's how kids get lost, that's how
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Families get broken.
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Pay attention, early, all the way through.
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And then we see the next quartet that teaches us here in
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This passage, this quartet of words, look at verse 13.
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It says, "not many days after."
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Now, here we get in the prodigal son.
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The prodigal son says, dad, give me everything that i will have
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Coming when you die, i wanna get out of here.
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I'm tired of being at home, it's like a prison.
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I'm tired of my strict, pious older brother who is so
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Different from me.
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I need to get out and live my life and have freedom and
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Express myself and be successful in the world.
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And so the father gave him what he would give him if he
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Had died.
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And then that little phrase, that quartet of words, "not many
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Days after."
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He didn't leave immediately, reckon what that young man did
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When he was still home before he left, before he took off for the
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Far country and here's he did.
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You wanna know what i think he did, he dreamed.
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He dreamed about what it was gonna be like.
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Man, what, how he would express himself, how all the instinctive
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Drives that he had, that his father had kept control of, how
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He could just eat, drink, and be merry and enjoy himself anytime,
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Anywhere, any way.
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Dreaming about pleasure, hedonism, launching out, running
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My own life, following all the passions that are in me.
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Man, this is really living it up.
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I got a question for you, why is eat, drink, and be merry and
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Just let the good times roll, why does a life committed to
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That never work out?
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Hm, all hedonists in history end up as pessimists.
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Why do they never find the happiness and joy and freedom
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They're seeking?
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Why doesn't that work?
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Looks like it would, it's just following the natural drives
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That we seem to have.
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But right down in the middle of that lifestyle, there is an
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Immutable law that stands up and says, halt, this life will
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Never work.
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Now on the side, if you remember solomon, solo-man, who had
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Everything this world could ask for.
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He tried it all, read it carefully, he tried women, men,
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What extremes he went to.
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He tried power, what a powerful man he was.
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He tried riches, he became the richest man in all of history.
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He tried horticulture, he tried building, he tried agriculture.
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Solomon, read it, he tried everything and reached the end
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Result of everything.
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Solomon had it all.
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But in the end they ask him, solomon, tell me about your
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Life, all that you have done.
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He said it's all zero.
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It's all vanity.
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So why is it when we just launch out, let the good times roll,
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That life never works.
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That life never ends in genuine--why is that?
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I'm gonna tell you, it's the fact that god has placed
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Eternity in every heart and every life right here in
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This world.
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He's put eternity in you, he's put eternity in me, and there's
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Always would be a restlessness until we, through jesus christ,
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Get a relationship with our heavenly father.
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See all of us are going to live forever.
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Yeah, we're all immortal and nothing in this world will
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Satisfy, except we get a relationship with our father
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Because there's eternity in you.
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There's eternity in me, and that is a magnificent thing.
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So see the prodigal goes out there and he says, not many days
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After, he dreams, but his dream was a false dream.
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But he had that dream, and then the next quartet of words are
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Really fabulous.
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This is the one that really sings for me.
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Look at verse 17, it says, "he came to himself."
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He came to himself, the final quartet of words.
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Those four words are perhaps one of the greatest compliments god
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Ever gave to humanity.
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In other words, he is saying that when you are engaged in
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Horns and not in halos, when you're in the far country and
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Not at home, when your life is broken and bent, that's not who
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You are, that's not who i am.
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How many times i've said, you know, i did that but that's not
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Really who i am, right?
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We've all said that and that's not my character, that's not
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What i really believe.
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I don't know what got into me, that's not who i am.
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And here we have jesus saying, of the prodigal when he was
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There with the pigs, he came to himself.
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That is a great compliment on our human nature, your
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Human nature.
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That's a great compliment and describing who we really are as
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Human beings.
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We don't want to live with the flesh, that's where the
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Horns are.
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We want to live in the spirit, that's where the halos are.
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But there's that conflict that is there, human nature.
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A lot of people say, well, don't you know, human nature can't
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Be changed?
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You can be changed, i can be changed by the power of god
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In christ.
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You doubt it?
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Take your bible sometime and look at 1 corinthians chapter
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Number 6, verse 10.
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It tells the people who will never make the kingdom of god.
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A long tough list, scary.
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Liars, cheaters, swindlers, adulterers, fornicators, a long
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List of bad, godless people who will never make heaven.
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He's speaking to the church at corinth and when he gets through
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The list, he says, such were some of you.
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You see, by the power of god in christ, he says you've been
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Changed, you've been forgiven, you've come back home from the
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Far country.
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And that happens all the time.
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The 16 year old boy dylan mccullough was in a english
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Class, third period.
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He looked out the window and he saw there a mercedes benz drive
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Up, red.
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He'd never really seen one, had those big gold hub caps,
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Tan exterior.
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He wondered who in the world that was.
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And he saw a man get out of that mercedes and straight and tall
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And confidence, walked like an athlete and he knew he was going
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To the school and he was thinking, well, i wonder what
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He wants?
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You see this young man was brought up in a broken home by a
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Single mother, he was adopted, but there were other children
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And he had no way out except at 16, you could already tell he
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Was a fabulous athlete.
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He was fast, he was tough, an outstanding football player.
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In a few minutes in this class, the pink slip came in and they
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Said go to the principal.
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So dylan got up, went to the principal, sat down, and the man
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Who got out of that mercedes benz came over to him and shook
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His hand.
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He says, i'm sherman smith, i'm the backfield coach at
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University of miami here in ohio, and i've come to offer you
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A football scholarship.
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And sherman talked to him in that room, he talked about
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Discipline, he talks about life, he talked about all the
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Basic things.
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And now dylan was attracted to him, like no man he'd ever been
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Attracted to before.
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He said, now this is a real man.
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This is someone i want to play for.
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Now he received a lot of other offers when he graduated.
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I mean, he was outstanding, but he decided he would go to the
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University of miami where sherman smith was the coach.
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And when he got there and signed the first day, smith got all the
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Boys together, he said, gentlemen, while you're here,
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I'm gonna treat every one of you as if you were my son.
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He said you may not need a father, but that's the way i'm
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Gonna treat you anyway because you're here, my primary purpose
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Is to make a man out of you, and in the process, you'll become a
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Football player.
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And boy then that year that sherman smith coached dylan, it
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Was really something.
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The next year though, smith went and became a coach, university
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Of illinois and dylan mccullough stayed there all four years, he
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Was outstanding, made the hall of fame, the university rushed
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For over 4,000 yards his senior year, and he was called, he was
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Commissioned, he was drafted to play with the
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Cincinnati bengals.
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Professional football, nfl.
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But early he was there for about one minute and he had a career
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Ending injury, could not play any longer.
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But dylan went into coaching, high school coaching, married,
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Children, christian, all the influence of sherman smith.
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In the process, he decided, you know, i'd like to move and coach
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In the college ranch.
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He called coach smith, who was now with the seattle seahawks,
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Professional coach.
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And he said, you know, coach, i'd like to coach in college and
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Smith said, "dylan, why don't you come and be one of our
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Interns here with seattle in the nfl?
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We've got a position for you," and that's exactly what he did.
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That's exactly what he did.
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Now, last year, dylan discovered that a law had been changed in
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Pennsylvania that you could now find out at a certain time who
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Your daddy was, who your mother was if you'd been adopted.
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So he found out and got the number of someone named
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Carol, remember?
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And he called carol and said, "i'm your son that was given up
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For adoption."
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He told her what had happened in his life and she was thrilled
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And said, "we've got to get together, son," and then he was
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Very reluctant.
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He said, "i wanna ask you about my father, my dad," and carol
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Said, "you know, i don't know what happened to him."
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She said, "i lost track, i knew he went to college and played
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Football, but i don't know where he is now.
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I can't tell you how to get in contact with him."
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He said, "would you tell me his name?
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She said, "sure."
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She said it was sherman smith.
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Today, dylan mcgregor and sherman smith, sherman's retired
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From coaching pro football, they're very close, father and
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Son, and they just can't believe how all god always with
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Christians finishes up that which he begins.
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Ed: at some point, every marriage will run into
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Tough times.
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Whether it's miscommunication, money, sex, or in-laws, every
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Marriage goes through a rocky patch.
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Far too often, those rocky patches end up ruining otherwise
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Great, potentially super marriages.
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But it does not have to be that way.
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God designed marriage, and he gave us the keys to have a
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Marriage that works, a marriage that sizzles.
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In my book, "the ten commandments of marriage", i lay
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Out ten practical principles to make your marriage super.
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I hope that you will get this resource today.
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Of this ministry.
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Marriage may not always be bliss, but with god's help, it
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Can be amazing.
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Pastor ed: i can remember when i first learned how to swim.
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Perhaps you can remember the moment when you began to learn
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How to swim, i certainly do.
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My dad taught me in a muddy, muddy lake.
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I stepped in the water, filled with fear and stiff and
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Abnormally cold.
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He said, "relax, son, i'll put my arms under you.
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And when you begin to sink, i'll be right there and lift you up."
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Sure enough, i started to sink, but felt his sturdy arms holding
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Me up and everything changed.
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I trusted and relaxed, knowing that my father was there.
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Remember, when you swim in life's deep holes and muddy
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Waters, your lord god almighty, your heavenly father's arms are
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Just below the surface ready to hold you.
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And if necessary just lift you right up.
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Ed Young - Shattered Dreams

May 20, 2025 | S25:E121

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