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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Smile of God | April 7, 2026
- 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 you that the lord he is.
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- Look, 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,
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- And be gracious unto you.
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- Oh, yea, and give you peace.
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- The face of god.
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- Are. life moves and seasons.
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- Their mountaintop moments of joy.
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- And their valleys.
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- Where faith is tested.
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- But just as winter gives way to spring,
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- No season lasts forever.
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- The bible tells us there is a time
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- For every purpose under heaven.
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- So whatever season you're walking through right now,
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- Trust this god is in the middle of it.
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- God is present in it, and he is shaping
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- You and me in this season and will carry us beyond it.
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- Thank you for joining
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- Me today on the winning walk.
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- We read in psalm
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- Three how absalom,
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- The son of king david,
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- Forwarded a revolution as he went around on every time
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- A decision was made by david and by those in power,
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- Absalom would go and take the very opposite course.
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- In other words, he set up a new system of justice
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- That was contrary
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- To biblical principles that david tried to operate on,
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- On the basis of true truths 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
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- Israel.
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- Absalom went around and he pushed out any president.
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- And now we see in psalm chapter number three,
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- We see that he is engulfed.
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- He's surrounded by thousands of people,
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- David and his little band.
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- As they fled from jerusalem,
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- The king fled barefooted,
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- Covered himself, was weeping and broken.
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- And now he goes across the kidron
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- And he climbs the other side.
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- Remember, he sends the ark of the covenant back
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- The presence of god.
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- And now he goes over the jordan, and he is hiding,
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- And he is desperate, and he is afraid.
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- And remember that little phrase,
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- Psalm three,
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- The bottom falling out.
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- And david says,
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- There's there's no hope.
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- It's all over the kingdom.
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- The people of god have been exported and pressed down.
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- And then that little phrase,
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- But thou, o lord.
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- Is that a great phrase?
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- Whatever's going on in my life, whatever's going on
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- In your life, however we are pressed, we're confused.
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- Were broken. we're sick.
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- If we can look up and say, but thou, o lord,
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- David, did,
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- And then he come to the next chapter.
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- And the problem there is different.
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- It's not fear.
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- Evidently they had withdrawn the army was gathering
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- To resist the godlessness
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- Of his son absalom.
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- And now there's another problem,
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- Because now david is being attacked
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- Personally
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- By those who opposed him.
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- They were slandering, they were fabricating,
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- They were lying.
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- They were gossiping.
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- They were calling back.
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- All of david's sin and throwing them in his face.
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- And then we see a strange thing,
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- A thing that really i didn't see
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- 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.
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- If you've been around the old testament
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- Is a 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
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- Testament there are the first notes,
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- The first inklings,
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- The first moment of fulfilled prophecy.
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- And we see it in lives.
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- We see it in the halle.
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- That's the german word for salvation history,
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- Which that's what the bible is, salvation history.
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- And we see the little things and little notes
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- And little chords in the old testament
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- That's pointing to pointing to follow me.
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- Fulfillment in the new testament.
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- And here we have the law,
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- And the law is the field inside of grace.
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- And you tend
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- All you have little things in the old testament now.
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- It fulfills in the new testament.
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- We can see that in psalm four.
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- And it is a beautiful picture
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- Of what happens in the new testament
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- As we see the gleam of it in psalm chapter
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- Number four, pointing to the fulfillment of it.
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- Follow me
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- In the new testament over your bibles.
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- Psalm chapter number four,
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- Verse one and two.
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- Answer me when i call the lord
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- The god of my righteousness.
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- You have relieved me in my distress.
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- Be gracious to me and 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, is it?
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- But here we see the gleaming,
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- The typology, the pointing to salvation.
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- And now david is saying, in light of all of this,
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- He said, i am saved. here it again.
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- He said, and through me when i call and the picture
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- There for call to answer is a picture of a child
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- 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 the slain.
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- He said, hear me.
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- In other words,
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- He's saying, i don't want to see your face
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- He is way
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- Alienated from family, from friends.
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- He's desperate.
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- And now he calls to god with all of those
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- Who are slandering him and bringing up old sins
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- That had long since been forgiven.
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- And he says, i want to look at your face.
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- Well, have you ever felt like that?
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- God, i, i want to 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 him,
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- O god of my righteousness, you have received
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- Me, relieved me in my distress that 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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- Oh sons of men, how long would you honor?
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- How long will my honorable come approach?
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- How long will you love what is worthless
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- 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.
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- This is the planning of seeds that will be fulfilled in
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- New testament.
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- And this is salvation seen 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, his word, renew his 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.
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- What are we going to see in fulfillment?
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- In salvation?
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- It is a personal salvation
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- Then the second part.
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- It's more than person.
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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 two.
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- Oh, sons of man, how long will my ardor become reproach?
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- How long will you love
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- What is worthless and aim at deception?
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- Are you around people all the time
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- That are negative,
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- Critical?
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- Every glass is half full.
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- 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.
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- That's the oldest living person in the world today,
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- 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,
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- Always the question is asked,
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- Why do you attribute
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- The length of your life to?
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- And they say all kinds of things.
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- If you study that, a bunch of that
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- Through the year, you know what she said?
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- I attribute my long life to staying away
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- From people that 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
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- That will keep on blasting, blasting away
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- 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
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- From all the toxicity that surrounds so many of us.
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- Salvation, verse one and two.
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- And then we look at verse three and four.
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- It is sanctification.
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- He said, but know that the lord has set apart
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- The godly man for himself.
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- 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.
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- Meditate in your heart upon your bed.
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- And they still this is sanctification.
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- He said, i have been set upon.
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- David knows that all the challenges is facing him.
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- It is a process of god
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- As setting him apart, and he's finding out
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- How god has indeed blessed him, how god has used him,
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- How god had indeed called him, how god indeed
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- Is challenging him for the future.
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- How do you know?
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- Everybody wants a happy home.
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- But let's be honest.
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- A happy home doesn't just happen.
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- It's built.
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- It's shaped.
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- Day by day by day.
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- That's why i want to encourage you to read
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- This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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- This 90 day devotional is from
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- Decades of real life pastoring,
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- Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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- In the page of this book each day
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- You will find a simple rhythm
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- As of scripture,
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- Practical, down to earth navigation,
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- And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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- I read this and i thought
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- About when joe, beth and i were first married.
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- We've been dating for five and a half years.
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- I went to be an interim pastor of a church
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- In spartanburg, south carolina, we go to wake forest.
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- I get in line to register a long line.
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- I'm in the middle of line.
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- I'm. i'm in front of somebody i know fairly well
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- From the
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- First year in seminary, behind somebody i knew casually.
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- So as we're waiting in line, we're talking and
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- And i said, you know, i got married.
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- Oh, good.
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- I said, you know, i, i've,
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- Joe jobs needs to find a job.
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- And boy, i know jobs are scarce all around me.
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- All the students,
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- All the colleges, universities there in the piedmont area.
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- And he said, you know, my wife works at nc state,
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- And they're looking a professor is looking for a secretary
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- To help him write his thesis.
- 00:13:16.140 --> 00:13:19.210
- And i'll
- 00:13:19.477 --> 00:13:20.545
- Never forget what his thesis was, the hard phase
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- In eastern north carolina.
- 00:13:24.249 --> 00:13:27.518
- He was writing a thesis on
- 00:13:28.086 --> 00:13:31.189
- How hogs were dealt with in eastern north carolina.
- 00:13:31.189 --> 00:13:34.926
- And he did it and got a page ph.d.
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- Folks.
- 00:13:37.262 --> 00:13:41.232
- Anyway, jobs went and applied for that job,
- 00:13:42.100 --> 00:13:45.036
- And he said, my wife's going to work.
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- Why don't you let her ride
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- And she can apply for the job and maybe get it?
- 00:13:48.072 --> 00:13:50.275
- I said, great,
- 00:13:50.275 --> 00:13:51.843
- And i said, also, i don't have any place to stay.
- 00:13:51.843 --> 00:13:54.078
- I didn't plan on that.
- 00:13:54.078 --> 00:13:55.346
- You know, how advanced planning it was.
- 00:13:55.346 --> 00:13:58.182
- And the guy behind me
- 00:13:58.182 --> 00:13:59.250
- Said, you know, everything on the campus is full.
- 00:13:59.250 --> 00:14:02.186
- Every apartment, everything is full.
- 00:14:02.186 --> 00:14:03.855
- But he said, you know, there's a dorm mother named mrs.
- 00:14:03.855 --> 00:14:07.959
- Wanders.
- 00:14:07.959 --> 00:14:09.327
- And about ten miles from town, she has a real log cabin,
- 00:14:09.327 --> 00:14:15.166
- Not one that's been made by who knows what,
- 00:14:15.166 --> 00:14:18.069
- But a real log cabin.
- 00:14:18.069 --> 00:14:20.905
- And she rents out half of it to students.
- 00:14:20.905 --> 00:14:24.909
- And i said, that sounds like perfection.
- 00:14:24.909 --> 00:14:28.179
- And so i go and she
- 00:14:28.646 --> 00:14:31.115
- Measures winders and joe barth and we see this log cabin.
- 00:14:31.115 --> 00:14:34.886
- It is so romantic.
- 00:14:34.886 --> 00:14:36.354
- I'm telling you, you go up these steps to sleep in a log.
- 00:14:36.354 --> 00:14:40.291
- Literally.
- 00:14:40.291 --> 00:14:41.426
- It was one room, a little kitchen,
- 00:14:41.426 --> 00:14:43.294
- A little sitting area, log cabin out in the woods.
- 00:14:43.294 --> 00:14:46.497
- Boy what you can find a better place
- 00:14:46.497 --> 00:14:48.366
- Than that in the plant and go to school.
- 00:14:48.366 --> 00:14:50.735
- Joe barth goes to raleigh.
- 00:14:50.735 --> 00:14:52.904
- She applies for that job.
- 00:14:52.904 --> 00:14:54.305
- There were about 70 or 80 other
- 00:14:54.305 --> 00:14:57.275
- Young ladies trying to get the same job.
- 00:14:57.275 --> 00:15:00.178
- Joe west got it
- 00:15:00.545 --> 00:15:02.680
- Because she was a college graduate, but that wasn't
- 00:15:02.680 --> 00:15:05.316
- The reason she'd taken typing in shorthand in high school.
- 00:15:05.316 --> 00:15:09.654
- So she got the job.
- 00:15:09.654 --> 00:15:10.855
- So we come back now she's got a job
- 00:15:10.855 --> 00:15:13.358
- Making the lofty salary.
- 00:15:13.358 --> 00:15:15.560
- Never forget it. $190 a month.
- 00:15:15.560 --> 00:15:18.262
- I mean, where could you live with more affluence
- 00:15:18.262 --> 00:15:20.164
- That and go to school.
- 00:15:20.164 --> 00:15:22.934
- And i could study and go to school and
- 00:15:22.934 --> 00:15:26.471
- Play basketball in the afternoon.
- 00:15:26.471 --> 00:15:28.806
- And that's what i did.
- 00:15:29.273 --> 00:15:31.876
- And so everything was great
- 00:15:31.876 --> 00:15:34.879
- Until it got cold.
- 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:37.648
- It gets cold in north carolina.
- 00:15:38.282 --> 00:15:40.451
- It's no we can look out and see the outside.
- 00:15:40.451 --> 00:15:43.855
- Do those logs.
- 00:15:43.855 --> 00:15:45.957
- The heating was not there.
- 00:15:45.957 --> 00:15:47.291
- And i said we got to do something
- 00:15:47.291 --> 00:15:48.826
- That we're going to freeze to death.
- 00:15:48.826 --> 00:15:52.797
- And so i go
- 00:15:53.131 --> 00:15:54.032
- To the registrar's office is christmas.
- 00:15:54.032 --> 00:15:56.868
- Everybody was leaving.
- 00:15:56.868 --> 00:15:58.803
- And i go,
- 00:15:58.803 --> 00:15:59.370
- Look, you're building
- 00:15:59.370 --> 00:16:00.405
- Some new little apartments over here that for me,
- 00:16:00.405 --> 00:16:02.974
- You know, i'd like to see if i can stay in one.
- 00:16:02.974 --> 00:16:05.109
- He said, my goodness,
- 00:16:05.109 --> 00:16:06.110
- We got a waiting list for 20 or 30 couples.
- 00:16:06.110 --> 00:16:09.147
- That's not me, he said.
- 00:16:09.147 --> 00:16:11.282
- What's your problem? i said, i'm staying a log cabin.
- 00:16:11.282 --> 00:16:13.351
- We freeze it.
- 00:16:13.351 --> 00:16:13.985
- Yeah, that's my problem.
- 00:16:13.985 --> 00:16:15.420
- Other than that, we're fine.
- 00:16:15.420 --> 00:16:17.555
- And i said, well, thank you.
- 00:16:17.555 --> 00:16:18.823
- And they put my name on the list.
- 00:16:18.823 --> 00:16:21.225
- If i had
- 00:16:21.492 --> 00:16:22.493
- Stayed there 20 years, i might get one of them.
- 00:16:22.493 --> 00:16:24.962
- But as i was walking out, he said,
- 00:16:24.962 --> 00:16:28.399
- He said, you know, they're just finishing one over here.
- 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:30.835
- These should be heated then. holidays.
- 00:16:30.835 --> 00:16:32.703
- This christmas holiday,
- 00:16:32.703 --> 00:16:33.638
- We were staying there through christmas.
- 00:16:33.638 --> 00:16:35.239
- He said, you got to babysit chris i christmas.
- 00:16:35.239 --> 00:16:36.674
- Oh yeah.
- 00:16:36.674 --> 00:16:37.575
- We we can't drive to mississippi away.
- 00:16:37.575 --> 00:16:40.445
- He said, if you can move in right now,
- 00:16:40.445 --> 00:16:43.614
- You can have that apartment.
- 00:16:43.614 --> 00:16:45.283
- You get ahead of everybody.
- 00:16:45.283 --> 00:16:46.617
- I said, it's done.
- 00:16:46.617 --> 00:16:48.286
- He said, now you got to write a check for $40
- 00:16:48.286 --> 00:16:51.689
- Down payment that you're legit.
- 00:16:52.323 --> 00:16:54.926
- And it's sure i said, great.
- 00:16:54.926 --> 00:16:56.360
- So i wrote a check for $40.
- 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:59.030
- I gave it to him and i drove back in, picked up joe best.
- 00:16:59.030 --> 00:17:02.733
- I told her now she had a job.
- 00:17:02.733 --> 00:17:04.735
- Now we're getting a brand new little a one bedroom apartment
- 00:17:04.735 --> 00:17:08.172
- There on the campus.
- 00:17:08.172 --> 00:17:09.407
- It was super and i told her about it.
- 00:17:09.407 --> 00:17:11.742
- I said, you know, i just wrote a check for $40.
- 00:17:11.742 --> 00:17:14.245
- She said, how much?
- 00:17:14.245 --> 00:17:16.214
- And i said, well, $40.
- 00:17:16.681 --> 00:17:19.717
- She said she looked it up.
- 00:17:19.717 --> 00:17:21.452
- She said, we only have $11 in the bank.
- 00:17:21.452 --> 00:17:24.856
- So i had written a bad check
- 00:17:25.456 --> 00:17:28.593
- To a seminary
- 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:31.362
- That was training me
- 00:17:31.362 --> 00:17:33.865
- To be a pastor and supposedly a man of god,
- 00:17:33.865 --> 00:17:37.668
- And i didn't know what to do.
- 00:17:38.302 --> 00:17:39.470
- Since the campus was empty, all my friends were gone.
- 00:17:39.470 --> 00:17:43.241
- I had no way back then to get $40,
- 00:17:43.241 --> 00:17:46.177
- And i knew they would probably cash it during the holidays,
- 00:17:46.177 --> 00:17:49.614
- And there i'd be a pastor to be
- 00:17:49.614 --> 00:17:53.618
- Or not to be
- 00:17:53.951 --> 00:17:56.721
- Pastor.
- 00:17:56.721 --> 00:17:57.355
- Bad trip to the seminary.
- 00:17:57.355 --> 00:18:00.725
- So we're driving in and we're praying and wondering
- 00:18:00.725 --> 00:18:03.694
- And saying, well,
- 00:18:03.694 --> 00:18:04.695
- I don't know who we can get $40.
- 00:18:04.695 --> 00:18:07.331
- I was trying to say to the campus
- 00:18:07.331 --> 00:18:09.100
- Closed down, it was snowy.
- 00:18:09.100 --> 00:18:10.768
- I mean, it was all over.
- 00:18:10.768 --> 00:18:12.737
- And we go by the post office box and we opened the box
- 00:18:12.737 --> 00:18:15.706
- And i had an aunt gladys who was like my second mother.
- 00:18:15.706 --> 00:18:19.076
- They had no children, and i had heard from her
- 00:18:19.076 --> 00:18:22.180
- A little bit, but not a long time.
- 00:18:22.180 --> 00:18:24.849
- We pulled out an envelope
- 00:18:25.416 --> 00:18:28.419
- And i opened the envelope and there was.
- 00:18:28.419 --> 00:18:33.591
- $220 bills.
- 00:18:33.925 --> 00:18:37.094
- She was a beautician,
- 00:18:37.595 --> 00:18:40.064
- Fixed hair in her home,
- 00:18:40.064 --> 00:18:43.267
- And that $40 was like
- 00:18:43.267 --> 00:18:46.003
- A hundred thousand to some of you here.
- 00:18:46.003 --> 00:18:48.973
- And i looked at that, looked at jobs.
- 00:18:49.774 --> 00:18:52.643
- I said, but thou.
- 00:18:53.077 --> 00:18:56.514
- You see,
- 00:18:56.781 --> 00:18:58.015
- God affirm so many times when we're seeking the wall
- 00:18:58.015 --> 00:19:02.019
- With him, things that happen
- 00:19:02.019 --> 00:19:03.888
- That we say voids or accidents, circumstantial burdens.
- 00:19:03.888 --> 00:19:06.924
- But thou, o lord, that's what
- 00:19:06.924 --> 00:19:09.627
- David was experienced in sanctification.
- 00:19:09.627 --> 00:19:12.363
- And then the next thing is worship.
- 00:19:13.130 --> 00:19:15.766
- Powerful thing of worship.
- 00:19:15.766 --> 00:19:18.436
- Verse five offered the sacrifices
- 00:19:18.436 --> 00:19:20.805
- Of righteousness and trust in the lord.
- 00:19:20.805 --> 00:19:23.507
- Verse six.
- 00:19:23.507 --> 00:19:24.442
- Many are saying, who will show us any good?
- 00:19:24.442 --> 00:19:28.012
- Lift up the light of your candles upon us.
- 00:19:28.012 --> 00:19:31.182
- What does that mean?
- 00:19:31.649 --> 00:19:33.251
- Lift up the light of your countenance.
- 00:19:33.251 --> 00:19:36.420
- It's lord,
- 00:19:36.721 --> 00:19:38.522
- I want to see your face.
- 00:19:38.522 --> 00:19:41.459
- Lord, i want to see your face.
- 00:19:41.459 --> 00:19:44.362
- Serve the lord with gladness.
- 00:19:44.996 --> 00:19:46.430
- Come before his presence with singing.
- 00:19:46.430 --> 00:19:48.199
- Know you that the lord he is.
- 00:19:48.199 --> 00:19:49.600
- Look, he is god.
- 00:19:49.600 --> 00:19:51.168
- May the lord bless you and keep you.
- 00:19:51.168 --> 00:19:52.870
- May the lord make his countenance shine upon you,
- 00:19:52.870 --> 00:19:56.007
- And be gracious unto you.
- 00:19:56.007 --> 00:19:58.709
- Oh, yea, and give you peace.
- 00:19:58.709 --> 00:20:00.945
- The face of god.
- 00:20:00.945 --> 00:20:03.781
- Does anybody hear?
- 00:20:04.215 --> 00:20:07.084
- Want to see the face of god?
- 00:20:07.084 --> 00:20:12.023
- The smile of god, boy,
- 00:20:12.490 --> 00:20:15.660
- How is that possible?
- 00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:18.262
- Listen, we have to understand one basic premise of life.
- 00:20:18.262 --> 00:20:22.266
- God created all of us so that we could know him
- 00:20:22.266 --> 00:20:26.037
- And so he could know us.
- 00:20:26.037 --> 00:20:28.706
- But how do we see him?
- 00:20:28.706 --> 00:20:30.308
- How do we see the very face of god?
- 00:20:30.308 --> 00:20:33.978
- Quickly follow me.
- 00:20:33.978 --> 00:20:36.113
- You have to think and concentrate for a moment.
- 00:20:36.113 --> 00:20:38.983
- You remember when
- 00:20:39.417 --> 00:20:40.351
- Jesus was crucified,
- 00:20:40.351 --> 00:20:43.554
- A lot of things supernaturally happened.
- 00:20:43.554 --> 00:20:46.791
- My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?
- 00:20:46.791 --> 00:20:49.860
- And immediately following that, remember
- 00:20:49.860 --> 00:20:52.396
- There was darkness, there was earthquakes.
- 00:20:52.396 --> 00:20:54.699
- The opening of graves.
- 00:20:54.699 --> 00:20:55.766
- All these things happened.
- 00:20:55.766 --> 00:20:57.368
- But the first thing matthew tells us,
- 00:20:57.368 --> 00:21:00.905
- The first thing happened after jesus said, it is finished,
- 00:21:00.905 --> 00:21:05.376
- The first thing it happened, the veil
- 00:21:05.376 --> 00:21:08.679
- And the temple was went
- 00:21:09.180 --> 00:21:11.482
- Not from bottom
- 00:21:11.482 --> 00:21:13.884
- To the top, but from top to the bottom.
- 00:21:13.884 --> 00:21:16.987
- And that veil is what kept everybody
- 00:21:16.987 --> 00:21:20.658
- Out of the holy of holies, which is where the ark was,
- 00:21:20.658 --> 00:21:24.228
- Which is where god was in sheer kind of glory in the temple.
- 00:21:24.228 --> 00:21:28.699
- And now, for the first time,
- 00:21:29.300 --> 00:21:32.603
- Anybody, everybody could go and look into the
- 00:21:32.603 --> 00:21:36.774
- Presence of god and go into the holy of holies.
- 00:21:36.774 --> 00:21:41.379
- You see what happened?
- 00:21:41.846 --> 00:21:43.013
- Jesus died for sin
- 00:21:43.013 --> 00:21:45.916
- As he took sin upon all of humanity,
- 00:21:45.916 --> 00:21:49.019
- And therefore now when people have said in the old testament,
- 00:21:49.019 --> 00:21:52.123
- If you looked at god, you'll die, right?
- 00:21:52.123 --> 00:21:54.225
- Anybody who sees god will die.
- 00:21:54.225 --> 00:21:55.993
- But now in the new testament, you want to see god.
- 00:21:55.993 --> 00:21:58.262
- You just look at jesus.
- 00:21:58.262 --> 00:21:59.530
- That was god in human flesh.
- 00:21:59.530 --> 00:22:01.165
- And when jesus died and took all of our sin
- 00:22:01.165 --> 00:22:04.435
- And the sins of the world upon himself,
- 00:22:04.435 --> 00:22:06.604
- Now there was access to god.
- 00:22:06.604 --> 00:22:09.874
- We can go because that david talks
- 00:22:10.641 --> 00:22:13.043
- About the righteousness of god in his life.
- 00:22:13.043 --> 00:22:15.813
- We can go.
- 00:22:15.813 --> 00:22:16.647
- We can look into the holy of holies,
- 00:22:16.647 --> 00:22:18.816
- And we can see into the holy of holies.
- 00:22:18.816 --> 00:22:21.185
- And nobody went in there
- 00:22:21.185 --> 00:22:23.053
- During the day to temple except the high priest.
- 00:22:23.053 --> 00:22:25.656
- Once a year
- 00:22:25.656 --> 00:22:27.091
- To make a sacrifice on the altar.
- 00:22:27.825 --> 00:22:30.294
- But jesus made the total sacrifice
- 00:22:30.294 --> 00:22:33.564
- And made the smile of god.
- 00:22:33.564 --> 00:22:35.800
- The presence of god, available to everybody.
- 00:22:35.800 --> 00:22:39.136
- I imagine something
- 00:22:39.603 --> 00:22:42.106
- Why is it
- 00:22:42.106 --> 00:22:44.408
- That so many of us
- 00:22:44.408 --> 00:22:46.944
- Have stayed and just
- 00:22:46.944 --> 00:22:49.647
- Stayed outside of the holy of holies?
- 00:22:49.647 --> 00:22:53.117
- Why? why have we just
- 00:22:53.617 --> 00:22:55.820
- Never gone in and never experienced
- 00:22:55.820 --> 00:22:57.955
- The face, the literal presence of god?
- 00:22:57.955 --> 00:23:00.825
- Why are we going in?
- 00:23:01.292 --> 00:23:02.960
- We can be qualified because jesus in christ
- 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:05.729
- Has made you and me righteous, right?
- 00:23:05.729 --> 00:23:08.666
- We've been forgiven. we've been cleansed.
- 00:23:08.666 --> 00:23:10.668
- Why do we not go in?
- 00:23:10.668 --> 00:23:13.971
- Why don't we sort of stay outside
- 00:23:13.971 --> 00:23:16.907
- And not ever see the smile of god?
- 00:23:16.907 --> 00:23:21.645
- You know why
- 00:23:21.979 --> 00:23:24.248
- Is because we still have a lot
- 00:23:24.248 --> 00:23:27.284
- In our lives that has not yet been crucified.
- 00:23:27.284 --> 00:23:32.790
- Galatians 220 a lot of us
- 00:23:33.357 --> 00:23:35.259
- Know it, a lot of us familiar with it.
- 00:23:35.259 --> 00:23:38.329
- I was crucified with christ.
- 00:23:38.929 --> 00:23:40.731
- Nevertheless, i live yet not i, but christ lives in me.
- 00:23:40.731 --> 00:23:45.336
- Well, i was crucified with christ.
- 00:23:46.103 --> 00:23:48.973
- Have you have i really been crucified with christ?
- 00:23:48.973 --> 00:23:51.876
- Let me tell you something about being crucified.
- 00:23:51.876 --> 00:23:54.545
- Being crucified means bloodshed, right?
- 00:23:54.545 --> 00:23:57.848
- Can you have a crucifixion without the shedding of blood?
- 00:23:57.848 --> 00:24:00.784
- Can anybody here be crucified without shedding a blood?
- 00:24:00.784 --> 00:24:05.389
- And what we've done,
- 00:24:05.856 --> 00:24:06.991
- We've taken the cross and we've eliminated the cross.
- 00:24:06.991 --> 00:24:09.360
- Because, by the way, when you get on the cross, you die.
- 00:24:09.360 --> 00:24:13.130
- Death is never good.
- 00:24:13.597 --> 00:24:15.065
- Death is never fun.
- 00:24:15.065 --> 00:24:17.268
- Death is horrific.
- 00:24:17.268 --> 00:24:18.936
- Death is result of sin.
- 00:24:18.936 --> 00:24:22.172
- And therefore, if you and i are to know
- 00:24:22.172 --> 00:24:25.109
- Something of the very smile of god,
- 00:24:25.109 --> 00:24:29.446
- The calendar's of
- 00:24:29.880 --> 00:24:30.848
- God, we have to genuinely
- 00:24:30.848 --> 00:24:33.851
- Go to that cross.
- 00:24:33.851 --> 00:24:37.054
- And the cross is horrible.
- 00:24:37.054 --> 00:24:39.123
- It's horrific, it's brutal, it's painful.
- 00:24:39.123 --> 00:24:42.660
- And experience something of the pain in your life.
- 00:24:42.660 --> 00:24:46.530
- And in my life
- 00:24:46.530 --> 00:24:49.066
- To be crucified.
- 00:24:49.066 --> 00:24:50.234
- And when we stay there and we die, what is the
- 00:24:50.234 --> 00:24:53.771
- What is the veil that's keeping us from going
- 00:24:54.705 --> 00:24:57.408
- In the holy of holies?
- 00:24:57.408 --> 00:24:58.809
- It's a veil of flesh and pride and self
- 00:24:58.809 --> 00:25:03.347
- That covers our hearts and our minds,
- 00:25:03.347 --> 00:25:05.516
- And that has to be crucified and cut out of us
- 00:25:05.516 --> 00:25:09.520
- In order for us to be able to go into the holy of holies
- 00:25:10.654 --> 00:25:14.858
- And see the smile of god.
- 00:25:14.858 --> 00:25:19.763
- Spend some time
- 00:25:20.130 --> 00:25:21.332
- At the foot of the cross
- 00:25:21.332 --> 00:25:24.134
- And die
- 00:25:24.134 --> 00:25:25.936
- And die.
- 00:25:25.936 --> 00:25:27.771
- And then, like jesus, will be resurrected
- 00:25:27.771 --> 00:25:31.542
- And all of a sudden
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- We begin to see and to feel and to know
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- The presence of god in the lives of people
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- And events of life.
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- And god will do a miraculous work.
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- I pray in all of us
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- And in the american which we live.
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- Everybody wants a happy home.
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- But let's be honest.
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- A happy home doesn't just happen.
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- It's built.
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- It's shaped.
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- Day by day by day.
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- That's why i want to encourage you to read
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- This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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- This 90 day devotional is from
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- Decades of real life pastoring,
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- Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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- In the page of this book each day
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- You will find a simple rhythm
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- As of scripture,
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- Practical, down to earth navigation,
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- And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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- We're not talking about something complicated here.
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- We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
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- 15 minutes.
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- Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
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- Your home on what matters the most in christ
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- Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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- Your life.
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- Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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- Everything else changes.
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- Conversations change.
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- Priorities change.
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- Hearts begin to change.
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- Take that first step today.
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- Call the number or visit the website below
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- And get cardinal rules for a happy home
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- And begin your 90 day journey right now.
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