Ed Young - Something To Boast About

April 15, 2025 | S25:E90

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Something To Boast About | April 15, 2025

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Ed young: patricia gary, in lincolnshire, england, lost a
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Young daughter to a capricious disease.
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She had the daughter buried in a little sea coast cemetery
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Outside of the small town in which they lived, and she put,
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As a marker for her daughter, her young daughter, a
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Little cross.
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She's received a letter from the authorities that said, "remove
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The cross, we cannot have such an overpowering symbol of
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Christianity in this place."
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So she removed the cross and negotiated and got the right to
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Put a marker, a marker depicting mickey mouse.
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That's the secular world we live, in england and europe and
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Canada, and it's sweeping across our whole lands.
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"get god, get christ out of everything, and especially the
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Cross," because the cross, when the book of corinthians was
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Written, was called a skandalon, it was a scandal.
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And isn't it interesting, it was a scandal in the first century
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And it's still a scandal in the 21st century?
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The cross of the lord and savior jesus christ.
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And by the way, i understand why it was a scandal, i understand
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Why it was a scandal then and i understand why it's a
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Scandal today.
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We have forgotten, basically, what the cross represented in
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How the cross was used.
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The cross was used by the roman empire, they got it from the
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Phoenicians because it was the most horrific, brutal,
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Horrifying death you could imagine.
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They would take the one who was to be crucified and strip that
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Person naked, they would whip him and whip him to the inch of
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His life, and then they would laugh at him, shame him.
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And then he would have to take, in his weakened condition, to
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Pick up that cross and drag it through the city where everybody
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Could see his shame and his embarrassment.
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And they'd put the cross down and he would lie down face up on
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The cross and they wouldn't drive nails, they would drive
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Spikes in his hand and in his feet.
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And that cross would be lifted up and it would drop in that
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Slot they prepared, bang, and he would hang there, usually for an
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Extended period of time, until he was dead.
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That's the cross.
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But you and i have taken the cross today and we sort of
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Polished it, we've taken the cross today and we've got it in
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Brass and gold and we wear it around our necks and around our
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Arms, our hands, and we have beautified and we have made the
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Cross an art object.
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I saw only last week, a cross made out of
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China, beautiful-beautiful.
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And we have different kinds of crosses, jerusalem cross, the
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Greek cross, etc, etc.
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And we've taken it and put it on top of our churches all over the
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World, the cross is that powerful symbol of christianity
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But, you see, we've forgotten that because we so polished
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It up.
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For example, let's just say for a moment that we took down any
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Reference to the cross over our church or churches all around
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The world, instead we put up there an electric chair.
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Yeah, let's put it in an electric chair up over the
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Church and churches all the world, what would people think
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About us?
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They would come and say, are those people out of their mind?
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An electric chair in a prominent place, maybe before the altar,
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Maybe on top or the side, and what in the world, these people,
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The electric chair, that's where we kill the most heinous
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Criminals that we have in all of our society, and they are
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Worshiping that kind of god?
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Little different isn't it?
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Changes, and so we see the cross as a powerful symbol of our
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Faith, but we've forgotten what the cross is all about.
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I understand it was a scandal there in corinth.
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And so we open our bibles, begin to see exactly what was going on
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In our scripture.
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We're studying the book of 1 corinthians, and we'll see the
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Response that the greeks or gentiles, they're
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Interchangeably used in our scripture.
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By the way, a gentile is anybody who's not a jew, it's a jew and
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Everybody else.
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But we see how the greeks responded and we understand how
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The greeks responded.
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Let's go back to 1 corinthians chapter 1(verse 18).
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Paul says, "for the message of the cross is foolishness to
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Those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the
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Power of god."
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To the greeks, the gentiles, the cross was foolishness.
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They were thinking look, we specialize in erudition.
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The greeks were a brilliant people, athens, in that day, was
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A modern boston, massachusetts.
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It was modern boston, it was the center of thinking and
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Advanced people.
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And in that day, corinth recognized exactly what we
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Recognize today, what gives us credibility, what gives us
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Credential, what is the currency that we have today, you and i,
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Right here where we live?
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I can tell you exactly what it is, we know what it is.
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It is wisdom and power.
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Man, if you're thought to be smart, have enough degrees and
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You have insight, man, you've got wisdom.
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And boy, we honor wisdom, intellect, erudition, people who
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Can articulate that, people who have moved out with wisdom.
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That'll open a lot of doors if you're esteemed and thought to
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Have worldly wisdom, will it not?
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Sure it will, sure it will, that's a part of our cash that
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We have.
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And also, power.
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Man, you have power because you inherited it with your name, you
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Have power because of what you have achieved.
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You have power and therefore the whole area of influence evolves
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Around wisdom and power today as it did in the 1st century.
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And so we see the athenians there, and we see the greeks,
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And they said you mean to tell me that cross, that cross the
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Romans used to crucify everybody but romans by the way.
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You know, a roman would never be crucified no matter what they
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Did, that was for everybody else, that was for the run of
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The mill, but the romans, no-no.
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And then they saw, the greeks, that that cross, that cross, to
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Them it was foolishness
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That god, visiting this earth as the promised one, would ever die
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Such a shameful, painful, unbelievable death of the common
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Lowest criminal.
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I get that, i get that, you get that, and look how paul
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Elaborates on that, it's magnificent.
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Look here at verse 19, "for it is written:" he said, "i will
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Destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the
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Intelligent i will frustrate."
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He said, in other words, how we think in a secular vain, he said
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That's not operate in the area we're understanding, and then we
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Have an interview, i think of three people.
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Three of the intelligentsia, three of the elite in
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Scholarship, and these are the three, look at it.
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He says, "where is the wise person?"
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Oh, who do we think of as somebody who's wise?
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Albert einstein, how about ol' albert?
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And he's like he was wise enough?
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Brilliant, brilliant.
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And the question that we're going to ask all of these three,
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And i'm putting a name with them, not in the bible, my name.
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Where is the wise?
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The question they're asking these three, here paul is, tell
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Me how to know god.
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He said tell me how to know god.
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So where is the wise?
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Let's take albert, and to go to albert einstein and says albert,
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Man, you're a physicists, brilliant.
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And albert einstein off off the chart, the theory of relativity,
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So albert, you're so smart and you're so wise.
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I know you follow spinoza, another philosopher, and spinoza
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Said exactly what you read in romans chapter 1. it says look,
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Here's all the evidence of god.
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He's the created order is the moon, the stars, all that had
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Been given in nature in natural revelation.
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And paul says, in romans, you know there's a god but you don't
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Know god, there's plenty evidence of that, irrefutable
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Natural revelation.
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So einstein was in on that as he followed spinoza, and so here he
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Says for it is the wise that i say boy is albert einstein.
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Albert, tell us how to know god, can you do that?
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Physicists.
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Albert einstein, by the way, found quantum physics, invented
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It and spent the rest of his life trying to prove it didn't
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Exist, but that's for another time.
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But gosh, the brilliance.
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Okay albert, can you tell us how to know god?
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Albert says no, i can't.
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Huh.
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And let's interview somebody else and he looked at the next
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Little question it's asking.
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Well, "where is the teacher of the law?"
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Here's a teacher of the law, let's just say confucius.
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Now confucius was a wise teacher not unlike the book of proverbs,
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And confucius, in the eastern world, the oriental world, he
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Was the authority on how to live basic-basic principled life.
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He taught the law, the principle life, so let's go to confucius.
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Confucius, my glory, how many people you've influenced.
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Tell us, confucius, how to know god.
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Confucius would say i can't do it, no.
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And then we interview someone else, and then the question is
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Asked, where is the philosopher of our age?
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Now we're there, philosopher of the age, who is that?
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Let's take its some, oh, socrates.
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We go up to soc, and say man, i want to ask you something.
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You are a great philosopher and we get the soteric way of logic,
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You know what is.
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Socrates, in his "apologetics," trying to prove something he
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Never landed anywhere, he kept asking questions.
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Somebody would say this, he'd would say what about that?
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They'd answer that, he'd say what about that?
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What about that, what about that?
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That's the socratic method, is it not?
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Just ask questions and questions and questions and questions and
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Never land anywhere, never really believe anything.
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That's socrates.
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Well, let's go to old socrates.
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Socrates, look man, we've run this by albert einstein, we've
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Gone through confucius, and these are the great, brilliant
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Areas of study in all the world.
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Socrates, man, how can i know god?
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Socrates says i don't have anything to say.
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And then we come, and we read the rest of it and it is
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Really powerful.
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He says, "has not god made foolish the wisdom of
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The world?"
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The einsteins, the confucius and the socrates?
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"for since, the wisdom of god, the world through its wisdom
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Does not know him."
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Did you get that?
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"the world through its wisdom does not know him."
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That was true in the 1st century, it's absolutely true in
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The 21st century.
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He said, "[god]
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Was pleased through the foolishness of what was
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Proclaimed to those who believe."
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The greeks said man, that cross is absolutely so laughable,
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That's god visited planet?
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That's who you worship?
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That's absurd.
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And then the jews, they looked to the cross and we see what
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They said.
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"and the jews demand signs, and greeks look for wisdom; but we
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Preach christ crucified, a stumbling block to the jews and
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Foolishness to the gentiles."
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Isn't that something?
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The jews said, when i look at the cross, it's weakness, that's
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Where you'd figured out if you were thinking logically
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And simply.
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Somebody dying on the cross, i mean, that's the weakest think
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You could imagine.
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The jews always wanted a sign.
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You read the old testament, the book of judaism, the torah, you
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Read this book, and you discover there are miracles all over
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The place.
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I mean, in genesis, man, and you go on, the parting of the sea,
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Elijah, elisha, the miracles they perform, and you look at
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The whole history of the hebrew faith, there's miracle after
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Miracle after miracle and sign after sign after sign.
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So they look at jesus and they say well this is your messiah,
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He said no-no, give me a sign.
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The cross is weakness, it's weakness, we can't go along
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With that.
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Show me something, and they did this to jesus all the way
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Through his life, did he not?
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He performed miracles, he brought people back to life
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Everywhere he went, and all the jewish leaders would say, well i
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Missed that, i wasn't there when that happened.
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You know, show me something, alakazam, boom, bang, give me a
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Sign to show it, show me a sign.
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And this is what we have.
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Now, if the greeks, with all of their emphasis on thinking and
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Logic, they look to the cross and said that's just stupidity.
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And the jews, with all their religious tradition, they look
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To the cross and said my-my-my, that is the ultimate picture
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Of weakness.
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But if you have time sometime, take your bible and look at
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Isaiah chapter 55, verses 8 and 9.
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God is speaking, and god says,
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Very simply, and gives us a very profound principle,
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And let me read it to you to be absolutely accurate
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In what he says.
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Isaiah 55, by the way, how many have your bibles with you?
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Hold your bible up, bring your bible next week.
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So look at what this verse says.
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God says, "for my thoughts are not your thoughts," this is god
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Speaking, "'neither are your ways my ways,' declares
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The lord.
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'as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher
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Than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.'"
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Anybody have a problem with that?
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God says the way i think is higher in the way you human
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Beings think, and my ways, the way i'd have you to operate,
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They're higher than your ways.
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And the question evidently is asked, well lord, what is the
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Distance between the way we think and the way you act and
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The way you think?
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What is the distance?
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And god says it's the distance from the earth all the way
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To heaven.
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How far is that?
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Here we have atmosphere, we move up into the higher and higher
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Levels, we move up and up until we get in outer space.
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And we say, here we're on earth, we go all the way to outer
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Space, and let's go to the constellation orion, how far are
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You and i from outer space?
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The atmosphere, how far is that?
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Do you measured it in inches or feet or miles?
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No-no-no, it's too far.
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You measure it in, remember, light years.
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You turn on a light and that's ultimate speed.
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How long does it take that light to reach all the way up?
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It is light years away, that's how far the way we think, and
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Our ways are from the ways of god.
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Ooh, that's brings us right back to the cross, don't miss it,
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Don't miss it, right back to the cross.
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So we go to the cross as the greeks do, we say man, this
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Is foolishness.
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No, the bible says the cross, for you greeks who give yourself
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To mental capacities, oh no-no-no-no-no, that cross is
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Not foolishness, it is the wisdom of god.
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We've already seen it, his ways and his thoughts are above, it
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Is his wisdom.
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Well what does this mean?
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And we touched on this already, the brokenness that you and i
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Have between god, remember?
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We're born not in a relationship with god, but separate from god,
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And we're separate with god and we can't get through god unless
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There is a mediator that comes in; and that's jesus on
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The cross.
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Jesus on the cross was a scapegoat, remember yom kippur?
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How the high priest would put his hand on a scapegoat and he
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Would list all the sins of the nation of israel?
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Man, it took me a long time, didn't it?
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I imagine he said, somebody said did i miss anybody's sin?
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Oh no, you got me, and that scapegoat would be sent out.
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One goat would be killed and slaughtered there at the altar
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As a sacrifice and that would give the sins of the high priest
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And his court forgiveness, and those who were present.
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But for the rest of the nation, all the sins would be laid on
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The scapegoat.
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Jesus is the scapegoat because we can't barge into god because
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We're too unclean.
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But jesus took all of our sin, and there was a cosmic
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Transaction there, and he paid the price for you and me.
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And therefore, the cross is not foolishness, it is the wisdom of
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God, because that's how we get right with god.
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And therefore, we can talk and pray and be forgiven, that is a
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Big word, propitiation.
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So we see, the greeks, oh, that's foolishness.
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No, it's the very power, it is the very wisdom of almighty god.
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The jews says well the cross is weak.
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We come back and the bible says oh no, for you jews looking for
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A sign, you think that is weakness, that cross is the very
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Dynamite, the dunamis, the power of god.
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How is that?
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It's because when we get right with god, and jesus provides
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That, and that is the wisdom of god, and now, guess what?
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That cross is so powerful, it changes you and me from
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The inside.
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Does anybody here have any problem having an appetite?
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"you know, i hope i'm hungry tomorrow."
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Anybody here say, "boy, i sure want to be thirsty, wouldn't
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That be good?
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I'd like to be thirsty?"
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You see, to be hungry and to be thirsty, it's just built in us.
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So see, when we receive jesus christ, and christ comes in and
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Changes you from the inside, your appetites and where there
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Was lust, it begins to disintegrate; where there was
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Pride and we say, "oh boy, let me tell you who i know, what i
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Do," it begins to disintegrate; and all of those things that are
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Not pleasing, when we try to brag, our subtle brags that we
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Have, it begins to disintegrate because christ changes us
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Inside, and that is the very power of god.
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Nothing else has that kinda dunamis, that kinda dynamite,
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Does it?
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And so we see the magnificence of the cross.
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All of a sudden it's not foolishness, it's the very
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Wisdom of god, because vertically we get right
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With him.
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Well, it is weakness.
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No, it's not weakness, it's the very power of god because that
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Power changes us inside out.
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And therefore, we look at the cross, we don't say you know, i
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Wonder how tall that cross is.
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We don't look at the cross and say i wonder how long those
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Arms are.
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We don't look at the cross, we'll say i wonder how much that
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Cross weighs.
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No, ladies and gentlemen, my brothers and my sisters, we look
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At the cross and we ask, i wonder if it's high enough to
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Reach to heaven vertically, i wonder if those arms are long
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Enough to include a sinner like you and like me, and i wonder if
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It weighs enough to do exactly what we were singing about
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Earlier; it weighs enough to tip the scale of grace and mercy in
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My favor.
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The cross, stumbling block, but yet it is the very wisdom that
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Gets us right with god, it is a very horizontal ability, because
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We're changed inside, to get right with ourselves and right
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With the world in which we live as we become redemptive agents
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In the 21st century.
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Male announcer: trials are woven into the very fabric of life.
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When we least expect it, storms can come and turn our lives
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Upside down, they can come crashing like waves on our
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Finances, our health, and our relationships.
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So how do we weather these storms and turn the trials
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Of life into triumphs?
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In his booklet, "hope in the storms of life,"
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Dr. ed young looks at how the apostle paul,
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Though beaten, robbed and shipwrecked,
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Found great joy in life, a joy that our
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Heavenly father wants to fill your life.
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Right now, this powerful booklet is our
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Or someone you love.
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When trials come your way, you can turn those trials
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Into triumphs.
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Ed young: it is time for you to stand up and let
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Everyone know whose side you're on.
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You can nail that down right now, today, right where you are.
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Just simply pray this prayer after me and this will begin a
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New walk with jesus christ.
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Would you pray with me?
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Dear heavenly father, thank you for sending jesus to this world,
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Thank you for letting us know exactly who you are as we look
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And study the life of jesus.
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Lord, there are many who need to have a new life; may this be the
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Prayer that begins that new walk with jesus christ.
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As the lord is leading you, would you pray these words?
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My prayer, your prayer, will you pray these words after me?
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"dear heavenly father, i have messed up many times, i've
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Broken so many promises to you, but right now i confess all of
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My garbage, all of my sin, and i repent, i turn away from all the
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Known rebellion, all the known trash in my life, right now.
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And right now, dear father, i ask jesus christ to come into my
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Life to change me from within.
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I give him my hands, my feet, my mind, my body, all that i am and
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All i'll ever be.
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Thank you for making me into a brand-new person through
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Jesus, amen."
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Tell you something, if you prayed that simple prayer right
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Now and you were sincere, we'd love to hear from you.
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Call the number on your screen, we want to rejoice with you and
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On your "winning walk," as a christian in god's family, your
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"winning walk" with jesus christ.
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Ed Young - Something To Boast About

April 15, 2025 | S25:E90

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