Ed Young - The Smile of God

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Smile of God | October 15, 2025

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Dr. ed young: we read in psalm 3 how absalom, the son of king
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David, forwarded a revolution.
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As he went around on every time a decision was made by david,
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And by those in power, absalom would go and take the very
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Opposite course.
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In other words, he set up a new system of justice that was
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Contrary to biblical principles that david tried to operate on,
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On the basis of true truth of the scripture.
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And, therefore, he changed the whole system of justice.
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Absalom went around and he changed the history of israel.
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Absalom went around, and he pushed out any precedent.
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And now we see in psalm chapter number 3, we see that he is
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Engulfed, he's surrounded by thousands of people, david and
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His little band as they fled from jerusalem.
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The king fled barefooted, covered himself, was weeping
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And broken.
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And now he goes across the kedron, and he climbs the other
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Side--remember, he sends the ark of the covenant back,
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The presence of god, and now he goes over the jordan,
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And he is hiding, and he is desperate, and he is afraid.
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And remember that little phrase, psalm 3, "the bottom is
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Falling out."
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And david says, "there's no hope.
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It's all over."
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The kingdom, the people of god have been exploited and
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Pressed down.
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And then that little phrase, "but thou, o lord."
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Is that a great phrase?
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Whatever is going on in my life, whatever is going in your life,
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However we are oppressed, we're confused, we're broken, we're
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Sick, if we can look up and say, "but thou lord."
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David did that.
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And then he comes to the next chapter, and the problem there
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Is different.
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It's not fear.
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Evidently they had withdrawn, the army was gathering to resist
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The godlessness of his son absalom.
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And now there's another problem because now david is being
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Attacked personally by those who opposed him.
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They were slandering, they were prefabricating, they were lying,
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They were gossiping, they were calling back all of david's sin
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And throwing them in his face.
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And then we see a strange thing, a thing that, really, i didn't
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See as i read psalm over and over and over again.
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Go back to something you've heard in church all your life if
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You've been around.
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The old testament is the new testament concealed.
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You've heard that.
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The new testament is the old testament revealed.
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Oh, it sounds good, but what does it mean?
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It means, in the old testament, there are the first notes, the
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First inklings, the first moment of fulfilled prophecy.
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And we see it in lies.
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We see it in the heilsgeschichte, that's the
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German word for salvation history, which that's what the
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Bible is, salvation history.
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And we see the little themes and little notes and little chords
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In the old testament that's pointing to--pointing to,
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Follow me--fulfillment in the new testament.
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And here we have the law, and the law is fulfilled inside of
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Grace in the new testament.
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All you have little themes in the old testament, now it
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Fulfills in the new testament.
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We can see that in psalm 4.
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And it is a beautiful picture of what happens in the new
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Testament as we see the gleam of it in psalm chapter number 4,
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Pointing to the fulfillment of it--
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Follow me--in the new testament.
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Open your bibles, psalm chapter number 4, verse 1 and 2, "answer
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Me when i call, o lord, the god of my righteousness!
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You have relieved me in my distress; be gracious to me and
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Hear my prayer."
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By the way, this is the word of salvation.
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Well, that's a new testament word, isn't it?
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But here we see the gleaming, the typology, the pointing
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To salvation.
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And now david is saying, in light of all of this, he said,
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"i am saved."
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Hear it again.
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He said, "answer me when i call."
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And the picture there for call to answer is a picture of a
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Child trying to get the attention of their father.
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And david said, "father, here i am, i am desperate.
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I had desperation physically, and now i have desperation
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Emotionally as everybody is attacking me, and their
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Slaying," he said, "hear me."
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In other words, he's saying, "i wanna see your face."
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When i'd been away from home for a day or two, i went back, and
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My boys were young and, and ben was, i don't know, three or four
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Years old.
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I'll never forget this.
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I came in and probably gave some little gift and talked for a
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Minute, and i sat down in my chair, and i got all my papers
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Out, and i had a newspaper up, reading what had happened.
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And ben is still on the floor playing, talking to me.
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And i'm saying, "uh huh, yeah, uh huh, okay.
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I can hear you."
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And then all of a sudden he gets up, i'll never forget.
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He just crashed through that paper in my lap, got right in my
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Face, pulled my face around to his.
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He said, "daddy, i want you to look at me when i talk to you."
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This is what david is saying here.
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He is way alienated from family, from friends, he's desperate.
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And now he calls to god when all of those who are slandering him
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And bringing up old sins that had long since been forgiven.
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And he says, "i want to look at your face."
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Boy, have you ever felt like that?
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"god, i wanna see your face."
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And this is exactly the picture we see here in this psalm,
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"answer me when i call, o god of my righteousness!
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You have received me, relieved me in my distress."
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That's salvation.
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"be gracious to me and hear my prayer."
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That's when we are saved.
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"o sons of men, how long would you honor--how long will
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My honor become a reproach?
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How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception?"
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Two parts of salvation here.
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By the way, this is sort of a preamble, this is the planting
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Of seeds that will be fulfilled in the new testament.
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And this is salvation seed here in the old testament.
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And, first of all, it is a personal salvation.
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That's what we need, first of all, personal salvation.
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Here's the word grace, here's the word renew, here's the word
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"i'm in relationship with you."
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Here's the word he's saying,
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"i am now righteous."
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This is the early notes, the early chords, what we're gonna
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See in fulfillment in salvation.
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It is a personal salvation.
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A guy went on the beach, and he waded out in the water, as many
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Of us have, all of us have.
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And, he gets out there, and all of a sudden he steps in a hole,
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A cliff.
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He just falls down.
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He thought he was wading, and he bobs up, he said, "help me, save
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Me, i can't swim!"
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And the guy sitting on the beach says, "i can't swim either, but
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I'm not making such a fuss out of it."
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You see, the guy who was over his head, man, that was
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Personal, wasn't it?
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The guy on the beach had the same problem.
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He was doomed himself, but he didn't know it yet.
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But, what david is talking about, "i want
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Personal salvation.
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I have been drowned by the rebellion of my son and half the
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Nation, and now i have come up."
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And he sees that he has been saved.
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That's personal.
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Then the second part, it's more than personal,
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It's practical salvation.
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That's the guy who's going down.
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Verse 2, "o sons of men, how long will my honor become
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A reproach?
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How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception?"
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Are you around people all the time that are negative,
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Critical, every glass is half full, no matter what comes up,
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They see the dark side of it.
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I read only--i read this week that the oldest living person in
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The world today, as far as we know, is a woman in spain who's
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115 years old.
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So, when somebody lives a long time, always the question is
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Asked, "what do you attribute the length of your life to?"
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And they say all kinds of things, if you've studied that
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Or bumped into that through the years.
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You know what she said?
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"i attribute my long life to staying away from people that
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Are toxic."
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That's good counsel, folks.
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And what david is saying, "i'm in christ, i'm saved,
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I'm righteous.
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But there's these toxic people around me that will keep on
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Blasting, blasting away at all of my sins, past and present."
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And he said, "i want salvation from them."
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Personal relation with god and then salvation from all the
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Toxicity that surrounds so many of us.
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Salvation, verse 1 and 2.
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And then we look at verse 3 and 4, it is sanctification.
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He said, "but know that the lord has set apart the godly man for
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Himself; the lord hears when i call to him."
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Do you know that?
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He says, therefore, "tremble, and do not sin; meditate in your
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Heart upon your bed, and be still."
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This is sanctification.
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He said, "i have been set apart."
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David knows that all the challenges that's facing him, it
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Is a process of god as setting him apart, and he's finding out
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How god has indeed blessed him, how god has indeed used him, how
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God had indeed called him, how god indeed is challenging him
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For the future.
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How do you know?
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What are some little things or big things that come up in life,
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And you say, "you know what, god's purifying me.
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God is cleaning up my act.
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God is challenging me."
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And we get those little words of assurance.
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I read this, and i thought about when jo beth and i were
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First married.
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We'd been dating 5 1/2 years.
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I went to be an interim pastor of a church in spartanburg,
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South carolina.
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And i was there for the summer, and we got in my car, and we had
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A little bitty cart we pulled behind us that had literally
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Everything we owned.
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And what was in that cart was the wedding present we got.
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That's all we had.
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So we're making our way back to southeastern seminary at wake
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Forest, where i'd been one year before we got married and she'd
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Finished college, and we get to the seminary, we had--i had
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Maybe $400 to our name.
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Period, that was it.
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And we drove all the way through--to wake forest.
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We had no place to stay.
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She didn't have a job.
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I'd already tried to preach for some churches, but i
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Wasn't married.
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I didn't have a wife that played the piano.
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Therefore, those little churches wasn't interested in me, besides
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Being a poor preacher at that time, and still.
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Anyway, we go to wake forest, i get in line to register, long
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Line, i'm in the middle of the line.
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I'm in front of somebody i know fairly well from the first year
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In the seminary, behind somebody i knew casually.
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So, as we're waiting in line, we're talking and, and i said,
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"you know, i got married."
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"oh, good."
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And i said, "you know, jo beth needs to find a job, and, boy, i
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Know the jobs are scarce all around there.
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All the students, all the colleges, universities, they're
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In the piedmont area."
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And he said, "you know, my wife works at nc state, and they're
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Looking--a professor is looking for a secretary to help him
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Write his thesis."
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And i'll never forget what his thesis was, the hog phase in
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Eastern north carolina.
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He was writing a thesis on how hogs were dealt with in eastern
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North carolina, and he did it and got a phd, folks.
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Anyway, jo beth went and applied for that job, and he said,
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"my wife is going to work.
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Why don't you let her ride, and she can apply for the job and
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Maybe get it."
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I said, "it's great."
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And i said also, "i don't have any place to stay."
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I didn't plan on that, you know how advanced planning it was.
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And the guy behind me said, "you know, everything on the campus
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Is full, every apartment, everything is full."
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But he said, "you know, there's a dorm mother named mrs. winders
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And, about 10 miles from town, she has a real log cabin, not
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One that's been made by who knows what, but a real
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Log cabin.
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And she rents out half of it to students."
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And i said, "that sounds like perfection."
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And so i go and see mrs. winders and jo beth, and we see
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This log cabin.
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It is so romantic, i'm telling you, you go up these steps to
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Sleep in a loft, literally.
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It was one room, a little kitchen, a little sitting area,
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Log cabin out in the woods.
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Boy, what, you could find a better place than that in
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The plan and go to school.
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Jo beth goes to raleigh, she applies for that job.
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There were about 70 or 80 other young ladies trying to get the
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Same job.
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Jo beth got it because she was a college graduate, but
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That wasn't the reason.
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She'd taken typing and shorthand in high school, so she got
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The job.
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So we come back, now she's got a job, making the lofty salary--
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Never forget it--$190 a month.
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I mean, where could you live with more affluence than that
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And go to school?
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And i could study, and go to school, and play basketball in
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The afternoon.
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And that's what i did.
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And so everything was great until it got cold.
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It gets cold in north carolina.
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It snowed, we could look out and see the outside through
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Those logs.
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The heating was not there, and i said, "we gotta do something, or
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We're gonna freeze to death."
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And so i go to the register's office, it's christmas,
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Everybody was leaving.
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And i go, "look, you're building some new little apartments
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Over here.
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There's four of them.
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And, you know, i'd like to see if i can stay in one."
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He said, "my goodness, we got a waiting list for 20 or
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30 couples."
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I said, "oh, man." he said, "what's your problem?"
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I said, "i'm staying in a log cabin.
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We freezing to death. that's my problem.
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Other than that, we're fine."
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And i said, "well, thank you."
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And they put my name on the list.
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If i had stayed there 20 years, i might get one of them.
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But, as i was walking out, he said, "you know, they're just
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Finishing one over here, and it needs to be heated
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In the holidays."
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This christmas holidays, we were staying there through christmas.
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He said, "you gonna be here through christmas?"
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I said, "oh, yeah, we can't drive to mississippi.
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No way."
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He said, "if you can move in right now, you can have that
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Apartment and get ahead of everybody."
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I said, "it's done."
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He said, "now you gotta write a check for $40 downpayment,
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That you're legit.
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And it's yours." i said, "great."
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So i wrote a check for $40, i gave it to him, and i drove back
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In, picked up jo beth.
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I told her, now she had a job, now we're getting a brand new
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Little one bedroom apartment there on the campus.
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It was super, and i told her about it.
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I said, "you know, i just wrote a check for $40."
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She said, "how much?"
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And i said, "well, $40."
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She said--she looked it up, and she said, "we only have $11 in
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The bank."
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So i had written a bad check to a seminary that was training me
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To be a pastor and supposedly a man of god.
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And i didn't know what to do.
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See, the campus was empty.
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All my friends were gone.
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I had no way back then to get $40, and i knew they would
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Probably cash it during the holidays, and there i'd be,
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Pastor, to be or not to be, passed a bad check to
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The seminary.
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So we're driving in, and we're praying, and wondering, and
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Saying, "well, i don't know where we could get $40."
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I was trying to think. see, the camp was closed down.
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It was snowing. i mean, it was all over.
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And we go by our post office box, and we open the box, and i
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Had an aunt gladys who was like my second mother, they had no
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Children, and i had heard from her a little bit, but not in a
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Long time.
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We pulled out an envelope, and opened the envelope, and there
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Was two $20 bills.
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She was a beautician, fixed hair, in her home, and that $40
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Was like $100,000 to some of you here.
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And i looked at that, looked at jo beth.
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I said, "but thou, o lord," you see, god affirms so many times
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When we're seeking to war with him, things that happen, that we
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Say, "boy, it's an accident, circumstantial," but it's, "but
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Thou, o lord."
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That's what david was experienced in sanctification.
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And then the next thing is worship, powerful thing
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Of worship.
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Verse 5, "offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and trust
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In the lord."
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Verse 6, "many are saying, 'who will show us any good?'
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Lift up the light of your countenance upon us."
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What does that mean?
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Lift up the light of your countenance?
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It's, "lord, i want to see your face.
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Lord, i want to see your face."
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Serve the lord with gladness.
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Come before his presence with singing.
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Know ye that the lord he is god.
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May the lord bless you and keep you.
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May the lord make his countenance shine upon you and
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Be gracious unto you.
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Oh, yeah, and give you peace.
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The face of god.
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Does anybody here want to see the face of god?
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The smile of god?
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Boy, how is that possible?
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Listen, we have to understand one basic premise of life.
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God created all of us so that we could know him and so he could
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Know us.
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But how do we see him?
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How do we see the very face of god?
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Quickly follow me.
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You have to think and concentrate for a moment.
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You remember when jesus was crucified, a lot of things
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Supernaturally happened.
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"my god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?"
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And immediately following that, remember, there was darkness,
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There was earthquakes, the opening of graves, all these
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Things happened.
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But the first thing matthew tells us, the first thing
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Happened--after jesus said, "it is finished," the first thing
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That happened, the veil in the temple was rent, not from bottom
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To the top, but from top to the bottom.
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And that veil is what kept everybody out of the holy of
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Holies, which is where the ark was, which is where god was in
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Shekinah glory, in the temple.
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And now, for the first time, anybody, everybody could go and
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Look into the presence of god and go into the holy of holies.
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You see what happened, jesus died for sin as he took sin upon
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All of humanity.
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And, therefore, now when people have said in the old testament,
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"if you look at god, you'll die," right?
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Anybody who sees god will die.
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But now in the new testament, you wanna see god, you just look
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At jesus, that was god in human flesh.
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And, when jesus died and took all of our sin and the sins of
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The world upon himself, now there was access to god.
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We can go because if david talks about the righteousness of
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God in his life, we can go, we can look into the holy of
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Holies, and we can see into the holy of holies.
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And nobody went in there during the days of the temple except
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The high priest once a year to make a sacrifice on the altar.
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But jesus made the total sacrifice and made the smile of
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God, the presence of god available to everybody.
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Now, let me ask you something.
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Why is it that so many of us have stayed and just stayed
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Outside of the holy of holies?
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Well, why have we just never gone in and never experienced
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The face, the literal presence of god?
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Why haven't we gone in?
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We can be qualified because jesus in christ has made you and
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Me righteous, right?
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We've been forgiven, we've been cleansed.
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Why do we not go in?
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Why do we sort of stay outside and not ever see the smile
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Of god?
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You know why?
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It's because we still have a lot in our lives that has not yet
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Been crucified.
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Galatians 2:20, a lot of us know it, a lot of us are familiar
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With it.
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"i was crucified with christ: nevertheless i live; yet not i,
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But christ lives in me."
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"well, i was crucified with christ."
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Have you, have i really been crucified with christ?
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Let me tell you something about being crucified.
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Being crucified means blood is shed, right?
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Can you have a crucifixion without the shedding of blood?
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Can anybody here be crucified without the shedding of blood?
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And what we've done, we've taken the cross, and we've eliminated
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The cross because, by the way, when you get on the cross,
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You die.
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Death is never good.
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Death is never fun.
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Death is horrific.
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Death is a result of sin.
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And, therefore, if you and i are to know something of the very
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Smile of god, the countenance of god, we have to genuinely go to
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That cross--and the cross is horrible, it's horrific, it's
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Brutal, it's painful--and experience something of the pain
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In your life and in my life to be crucified.
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And, when we stay there and we die, what is the, what is the
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Veil that's keeping us from going into the holy of holies?
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It's the veil of flesh and pride and self that covers our hearts
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And our minds.
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And that has to be crucified and cut out of us in order for us to
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Be able to go into the holy of holies and see the smile of god.
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Spend some time at the foot of the cross, and die, and die.
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And then, like jesus, we'll be resurrected.
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And, all of a sudden, we begin to see and to feel and to know
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The presence of god in the lives of people, in the events
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Of life.
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And god will do a miraculous work, i pray, in all of us and
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In the america in which we live.
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Male announcer: in the middle of life's darkest storm, there's
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Always the quiet promises of god that lie just
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Beyond the turbulence.
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You can discover how to claim these promises in dr. young's
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Book "living under the rainbow."
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It's our gift to you with your support of the
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Ministry this month.
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God's promises.
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Under the rainbow, our lives, families, and careers can become
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What god designed them to be.
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In my book "living under the rainbow," you will learn about
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The key promises god has made to us in his word, the bible, and
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We'll discover how we can claim them in our daily lives.
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Applying these promises leads not only to daily victory but
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Puts you and me on the path of a truly--life with significance.
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Dr. young: this month, we're studying one of the most
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Fascinating and spiritually enriching books of the entire
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Bible, the book of psalms.
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Psalms is the most-quoted book in the new testament.
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It's a book of praise, it's a hymn book of prayer, it's a
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History book, and it's even a book of prophecy.
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Did you know all that?
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As we spend time together in psalms, we'll discover that,
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Even in our darkest moments, when all looks to be lost and
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Gloomy, god offers his mercy and forgiveness when we cry out to
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Him in true repentance.
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No matter what you and i may be going through, we have
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Confidence that god hears and answers our petitions,
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Our prayers.
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So, whether you find yourself in the depths of despair and
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Depression, or you experience a great heights of joy and
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Happiness and celebration, the book of psalms has a message for
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You and for me.
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And i'm always thrilled to see what god has to say to all of us
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As we study and apply his word, his truth, to our lives.
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Ed Young - The Smile of God

October 15, 2025 | 29:0

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