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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Sonship: Children of God | April 22, 2026
- A word of warning.
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- You go to a church and you hear more than anything
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- Else, holy spirit, holy spirit, holy spirit, holy spirit,
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- Holy spirit, holy spirit, you go to another church.
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- All you hear is doctrine.
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- We need doctrine.
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- We need biblical truth.
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- We have to have doctrine.
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- Both of them are lopsided
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- And not biblical.
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- You see, the holy spirit operates
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- Always on the basis of truth.
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- Get that?
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- Always on the basis of truth.
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- We're studying
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- Romans chapter eight.
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- Many people believe it is the goat of the bible,
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- The greatest of all time,
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- The greatest word of instruction to us.
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- And we've made our way all the way
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- Through the 70 verse.
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- But we're going back
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- And we're going to verse 12 and 17 again,
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- Because there's so much depth in there.
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- Remember chapter eight, primary purpose is to understand
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- That those who are in christ,
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- Who are in christ,
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- They in turn have the assurance
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- They're sure of heaven.
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- But you have to be in christ.
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- And chapter eight shows us how,
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- If we're in the family of god, we're in christ.
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- The holy spirit gives us assurance.
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- A couple of verses up front.
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- Let's go back to eight.
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- Verse number six,
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- The mind governed by the flesh
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- Is death,
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- But the mind governed by
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- The spirit
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- Is life.
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- Hold on to that.
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- All the battle that we've been talking about
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- Between the spirit in the flesh, the flesh
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- And the spirit,
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- The spirit in the flesh, and here god tells us
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- That the mind set on the flesh
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- Is death.
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- There are many different kinds of death,
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- And the mind set on the spirit
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- Is life.
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- A lot of times when we live
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- On a strictly human level,
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- We don't see spiritual things.
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- And the spiritual things are the things that last forever.
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- Remember, when this old body dies,
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- The soul and the spirit will remain in
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- This body is thrown aside and we'll get a resurrection body
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- When we leave this life, a body that's equipped for heaven
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- That will be in the spiritual area, and a resurrection
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- Body will be a prototype we see in jesus.
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- So we're talking about spiritual insight,
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- And we come to christ.
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- We begin to understand that
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- And what gives us this spiritual quality.
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- It's the holy spirit,
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- The third person of the trinity,
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- God the father, god the son, god the holy spirit.
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- You say, i don't understand how you can have three.
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- Can you understand that h2o can be ice,
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- It can be liquid, it can be vapor.
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- So we understand there are three natures of god almighty.
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- And those natures perform certain duties,
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- Have certain functions and they overlap.
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- But we have to understand this spiritually.
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- So we go right back to the book of romans,
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- Chapter number eight, verse number 12.
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- He's already talked about the battle between
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- The flesh and the spirit, and the spirit in the flesh.
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- And paul tells us that the spirit has won.
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- And now he says, this is how we live the life.
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- Therefore, brothers and sisters,
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- Christians, we have an obligation.
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- Your translation may say duty.
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- We have an obligation, and our obligation
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- Has a negative aspect to it
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- And a positive aspect of the word.
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- We become christians.
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- There's a negative part of the christian life, he said.
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- But it is not to the flesh to live according to the flesh.
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- The holy spirit has brought us this far,
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- And now we are in they in the flesh.
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- But yet there's a spiritual dimension to us,
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- And the holy spirit is involved in everything in your life
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- And in my life, first of all, in salvation
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- We heard, are you full of the spirit?
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- Do you have the fullness of the spirit?
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- It's involved in salvation.
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- Acts chapter number nine, paul damascus road,
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- Confronted by christ, struck blind, went to damascus.
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- There he was blind, knowing that now the one he had
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- Persecuted is indeed the messiah, the son of god.
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- And then ananias comes over there and puts his hand on
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- Paul's head.
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- It struck him by the holy spirit.
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- And paul could see and it says
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- He was filled with the holy spirit.
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- So in salvation, the holy spirit comes
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- And fills us with his spirit.
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- Now i became a christian.
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- I was about 11, but i didn't understand all this,
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- As some do not understand all this now.
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- But the holy spirit comes and enables us
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- To understand things we didn't understand before
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- Christmas, calvary,
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- Easter, resurrection,
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- Ascension, jesus at the right hand of god,
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- Interceding for those who are in his family.
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- So the holy spirit was a part of your salvation in mine
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- Also, the holy spirit was a part of our site vacation.
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- Ephesians five
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- Paul says, be filled with the spirit.
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- How do you know you're filled with the spirit?
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- Singing, singing.
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- Thanksgiving.
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- And then he moves on.
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- He says, submission, submitting.
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- And it says submit one to another.
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- These are marks that we are growing
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- In our word, sanctification. remember that.
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- That means we're growing up.
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- We're maturing
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- Before the spirit, the spirit involved in our salvation.
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- It's involved in our growth in the lord jesus christ.
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- And then finally, it's involved in something else.
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- It's involved in our assurance.
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- And you read that in acts chapter four, man,
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- You know what happened at pentecost.
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- And then he moves from pentecost
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- And they're persecuted.
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- And people understood in their own language.
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- And 3000 came to christ and 5000 came to christ,
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- And they came and jerked up.
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- Peter and paul put him before the sanhedrin,
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- And they were bold in what they did,
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- And they somehow let them go and said, don't tell anybody.
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- But they said, how can we not tell people
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- What we've experience and what we've heard?
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- And it says they were full of the holy spirit.
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- The holy spirit gives us assurance.
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- So in every aspect of life, and if we had time,
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- We can look biblical and see that god the father,
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- God the son, god the holy spirit is involved
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- In all three of these endeavors,
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- Our salvation and our assurance
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- That we are indeed in the family of almighty god.
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- So we see we have to understand this
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- And it comes out in a negative
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- Way, this obligation, we understand that.
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- And then it says, for if you live
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- According to the flesh, you will die.
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- Now there's a controversial verse in the bible,
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- You will die.
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- So here i am, i receive christ, i've been baptized,
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- I know him, i claim that i'm a christian.
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- I have the name.
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- But, you know, i'm
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- Sort of went back in the old flesh
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- And have got the same old habits coming up again.
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- And i confess, and i repent and believe
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- And suddenly i'm way or way away from the lord.
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- And when i came to christ, i didn't know,
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- I didn't understand.
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- What i really wanted was about $3 worth of god.
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- I didn't want any more.
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- There were about $3 of god,
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- And all of a
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- Sudden it says, if we profess christ
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- And we continue to live, but besetting ongoing sin,
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- This may be the unpardonable sin in a sense that god
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- Sometimes i think, take people who might profession
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- And are a million miles from living profession,
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- And they just take them out of this world.
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- They just take them out of this world.
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- Because when we're in god's family, christ is in you.
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- Christ is in me.
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- We don't have a blank check now.
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- We're in the family.
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- We want to live like a member of the family.
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- Dangerous verse.
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- So there's a negative thing here.
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- And we have to understand that clearly.
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- Then there's a positive part of this obligation.
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- It goes that said for verse 13, for if you live
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- According to the flesh, you will die.
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- But if by the spirit you will put to death
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- The misdeeds of sin in your body,
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- The holy spirit helps you.
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- And i kill sin.
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- Now, if you haven't figured it out yet,
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- Sin will kill you or we have to kill sin.
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- You got it.
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- Sin died on the cross with christ, i know that,
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- But yet here's the obligation
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- For those of us who are now in the realm.
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- We have to be in the business of killing sin because
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- We haven't reached perfection yet, have we?
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- We haven't gotten there yet.
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- You see, when sin comes in your life, and in my life,
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- It is like a tick and it sucks life out of you.
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- And sucks life at me.
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- And we had to have something sin dealt with effectively,
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- A sin that was radically
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- What is sin?
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- Basically, it's my running my own life.
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- You're running your own life,
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- You say, well, i don't know what my sin is.
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- Just spend about it won't take long, 3
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- Or 4 minutes before the lord and ask him,
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- Man, every time i do that,
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- The answer comes back.
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- Like you,
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- If you're in christ,
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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
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- Book each day 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
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- Right now.
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- And then we moved to the second stage of this,
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- Reminding us once again, again that we're
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- In the family of god.
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- Verse 14, for those who are
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- Led by the spirit of god are children of god.
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- The spirit you receive does not make you slaves
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- So that you live in fear again.
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- Rather, the spirit you receive brought about your adoption
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- To sonship, adoption to sonship.
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- Now we think of adoption in a high level.
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- But in the greco roman world, adoption was in another level,
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- More than we can think about it.
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- The father of the son or daughter,
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- He had to say to the one who wanted that,
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- Here's the price they would agree on.
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- The day would be close,
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- And then they would go back on the deal.
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- Time would pass, they would agree on it.
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- It'd be close. they'd go back on the deal.
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- Time would pass to be close, and the third time
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- It would be dogmatic.
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- And now that adopted son or daughter would be
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- A member of that family
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- And have all the rights and privileges
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- Of someone who was blood kin, a son or daughter
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- Who was born in that family.
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- And if you were a legitimate son and daughter
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- By blood, born into the family in a natural way,
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- You could be disowned by the father.
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- But if you were adopted,
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- You could never be disowned by the father.
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- You say, what about jesus?
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- God the father, god the son.
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- He was disowned by god.
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- Did you not know that?
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- Did you not remember
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- That from the cross?
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- When all the trash, your trash
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- And my trash
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- Were placed about him, god the father turned his back on
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- His son and disowned him.
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- Jesus says,
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- My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?
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- And remember, that's the only place in the bible
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- Where jesus refers to god is god.
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- Every other time he says, abba, father.
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- He was disowned for that moment,
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- But we know he took him back in.
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- Jesus said,
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- My god, abba, abba,
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- I commend to you my spirit.
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- So when you're adopted and we're adopted
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- And look what happens, then we're adopted.
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- It's amazing to me.
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- I just read it over and over again.
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- We cry, abba, father!
- 00:15:16.260 --> 00:15:17.729
- Now we can say, oh, but dad, the spirit himself
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- Testifies to our spirit that we are god's children.
- 00:15:22.166 --> 00:15:25.636
- How do you know that you're really in christ?
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- How do you know you're really a son or daughter of god?
- 00:15:27.572 --> 00:15:31.209
- It's because the holy spirit affirms that
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- In my spirit
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- And my spirit firms it with the holy spirit,
- 00:15:37.181 --> 00:15:39.951
- And that should be for all who are in christ.
- 00:15:39.951 --> 00:15:43.154
- It's an affirmation,
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- And we have to understand the function of the spirit
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- When we've talked about it.
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- The holy spirit has a
- 00:15:49.894 --> 00:15:52.864
- Floodlight ministry, the holy spirit.
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- If jesus is in front of me and i am here, the holy spirit,
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- I don't look at the holy spirit.
- 00:16:00.538 --> 00:16:02.006
- The holy spirit turns light on jesus and the holy spirit.
- 00:16:02.006 --> 00:16:05.843
- Primary purpose is to honor jesus.
- 00:16:05.843 --> 00:16:08.513
- Does remember we said, let me remind you.
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- You know what i'm saying?
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- Do you know jesus?
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- Certainly, if you're in christ,
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- We've already dealt with that.
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- What do you have, the holy spirit?
- 00:16:17.088 --> 00:16:18.389
- Certainly we have the holy spirit.
- 00:16:18.389 --> 00:16:20.358
- It is in your life, in my life from the beginning.
- 00:16:20.358 --> 00:16:22.794
- And now we grow becomes more and more powerful.
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- It is that search like ministry.
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- A word of warning.
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- You go to a church and you hear more than anything
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- Else, holy spirit, holy spirit, holy spirit, holy spirit,
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- Holy spirit, holy spirit, you go to another church.
- 00:16:37.708 --> 00:16:41.045
- All you hear is doctrine.
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- We need doctrine.
- 00:16:43.014 --> 00:16:44.115
- We need biblical truth.
- 00:16:44.115 --> 00:16:45.583
- We have to have doctrine.
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- Both of them are lopsided
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- And not biblical.
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- You see, the holy spirit operates
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- Always on the basis of truth.
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- Get that?
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- Always on the basis of truth.
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- And truth is found in doctrine,
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- In biblical truth,
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- And therefore biblical truth is necessary
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- For the holy spirit to operate because the holy spirit
- 00:17:13.945 --> 00:17:17.215
- Operates on the basis of truth. how do you know this?
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- Those who wrote
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- This scripture were inspired by the holy spirit,
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- And they wrote this word of god.
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- And therefore
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- We have to know and properly interpret the word.
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- And then the holy spirit can work in and through your life.
- 00:17:30.828 --> 00:17:34.432
- Look at the rest of it.
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- And by him we cry, abba, father!
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- The spirit himself testifies with our spirit.
- 00:17:40.204 --> 00:17:42.974
- We're god's children now.
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- If we are children, then we are heirs and heirs of god.
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- And co-heirs with christ.
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- Man, what a wonderful thing that is.
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- In other words, we take the truth of the bible
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- In our lives.
- 00:17:56.621 --> 00:17:57.522
- The holy spirit helps us interpret it,
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- And then we not only have to know it and interpret.
- 00:17:59.857 --> 00:18:03.194
- The challenge we have is to live it out.
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- The bible gives us information,
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- And then we have to take and let the holy spirit
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- Take that information and plan it in our heart.
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- It has to be mental and emotional with application.
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- That's how we as christians are to live,
- 00:18:20.278 --> 00:18:22.613
- Ladies and gentlemen.
- 00:18:22.613 --> 00:18:23.681
- And then the end of this is absolutely magnificent.
- 00:18:23.681 --> 00:18:27.151
- And we're just going to touch on the operative word here.
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- It says we're heirs and co-heirs with christ,
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- If indeed we share in his sufferings,
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- In order that we may also share
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- In his glory,
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- Glory, glory,
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- We're going to make glory in other places.
- 00:18:47.538 --> 00:18:50.608
- He's saying here that now we're in the family of god.
- 00:18:50.608 --> 00:18:54.011
- Now we know what our obligation not to do is.
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- Now we know what obligation that we are to do.
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- Now we know the inheritance that is ours
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- Now we know how to distinguish.
- 00:19:02.186 --> 00:19:03.854
- The holy spirit gives us light in a darkened world.
- 00:19:03.854 --> 00:19:07.258
- And now he says, we are to share
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- In the sufferings of christ.
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- We're to share in suffering.
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- So we're to experience more and more of his glory.
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- I don't know about you.
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- I'm sorry he brought up suffering to you.
- 00:19:19.570 --> 00:19:22.173
- I mean, you know
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- That anybody here think
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- That you and i in our area of influence,
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- Can make a difference in this broken world and culture
- 00:19:29.380 --> 00:19:32.550
- And many of our families, without suffering,
- 00:19:32.550 --> 00:19:35.953
- We think that god can use us.
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- It'll be slick and smooth.
- 00:19:38.956 --> 00:19:40.324
- Everybody does.
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- Oh, that's the truth.
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- I'll change.
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- It takes suffering
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- For redemption.
- 00:19:47.732 --> 00:19:48.799
- And i have a feeling that the body of christ, those
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- Who hang in there, they may not be, but 2 or 3,
- 00:19:51.669 --> 00:19:55.273
- They may not be, but 2 or 3000, but those that hang in there
- 00:19:55.273 --> 00:19:59.243
- And stand for god in christ in this book are going to know
- 00:19:59.243 --> 00:20:02.847
- Something about suffering in the 21st century.
- 00:20:02.847 --> 00:20:06.117
- We've never known that much in america.
- 00:20:06.117 --> 00:20:08.986
- Hang on,
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- It will be coming
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- If there's even a second chance
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- For our united states.
- 00:20:15.526 --> 00:20:18.296
- And the result of that
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- Is absolutely fabulous.
- 00:20:20.564 --> 00:20:23.334
- It says we may also share in his glory.
- 00:20:23.334 --> 00:20:28.706
- You know a lot about glory.
- 00:20:29.307 --> 00:20:30.508
- Oh, give glory to god.
- 00:20:30.508 --> 00:20:32.310
- You know how
- 00:20:32.310 --> 00:20:33.511
- You basically give god used the word glory means doctor.
- 00:20:33.511 --> 00:20:36.814
- It means wait.
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- It means heavy.
- 00:20:39.050 --> 00:20:41.285
- You and i glorify god when jesus christ
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- In your life, in my life, empowered by the holy spirit,
- 00:20:45.623 --> 00:20:49.226
- Makes jesus heavy to you,
- 00:20:49.226 --> 00:20:52.229
- Makes jesus weighty to me.
- 00:20:52.797 --> 00:20:55.866
- And jesus has great significance in our life.
- 00:20:55.866 --> 00:20:58.903
- That's what it means.
- 00:20:58.903 --> 00:21:00.037
- Do we give glory when jesus can't?
- 00:21:00.037 --> 00:21:02.440
- We don't keep jesus on the outskirts of the city.
- 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:05.076
- We put him right in the middle of the town,
- 00:21:05.076 --> 00:21:07.345
- And we take the holy spirit and use the holy spirit
- 00:21:07.345 --> 00:21:09.880
- As a grid for everything you do and everything i do.
- 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:13.351
- Well in the business world, no, especially the business world
- 00:21:13.351 --> 00:21:17.888
- Especially the family were.
- 00:21:18.489 --> 00:21:20.858
- Especially in relationships.
- 00:21:20.858 --> 00:21:22.893
- We run everything by through the greater the holy spirit.
- 00:21:22.893 --> 00:21:26.764
- You'll discover in a practical way
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- The difference between knowledge.
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- Oh, i know that.
- 00:21:31.836 --> 00:21:32.870
- I understand that i've studied that and wisdom.
- 00:21:32.870 --> 00:21:37.041
- The holy spirit takes knowledge that we have and takes on it.
- 00:21:37.041 --> 00:21:41.212
- Wisdom.
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- And that's a different dimension.
- 00:21:43.013 --> 00:21:44.582
- Now we move into the spiritual area of living
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- That he's not on the outskirts.
- 00:21:48.919 --> 00:21:50.554
- He's right downtown, this holy spirit,
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- This holy spirit
- 00:21:52.857 --> 00:21:53.958
- Is the middle of your life and my life of decision,
- 00:21:53.958 --> 00:21:56.694
- Action, of fun and life and everything that comes out.
- 00:21:56.694 --> 00:22:00.865
- You see, we
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- Not only have knowledge
- 00:22:01.432 --> 00:22:02.533
- In figures that all of a sudden we've got absolutely
- 00:22:02.533 --> 00:22:05.169
- The mind of god in jesus christ.
- 00:22:05.169 --> 00:22:07.405
- We have wisdom. see this briefly.
- 00:22:07.405 --> 00:22:09.340
- He is fabulous in the book of second corinthians,
- 00:22:09.340 --> 00:22:13.310
- One of my
- 00:22:13.611 --> 00:22:14.612
- Favorite favorite passages, verse number 16.
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- But whenever anyone turns to the lord,
- 00:22:18.349 --> 00:22:21.585
- The veil is taken away.
- 00:22:22.086 --> 00:22:24.955
- Now the lord is, this is the spirit.
- 00:22:24.955 --> 00:22:27.358
- And where the spirit is the lord, there is freedom.
- 00:22:27.358 --> 00:22:30.895
- And we all who with unveiled faces
- 00:22:30.895 --> 00:22:34.698
- Remember moses in the presence of god,
- 00:22:34.698 --> 00:22:37.868
- Had the reflection of god on him, and his face shone.
- 00:22:37.868 --> 00:22:42.473
- And every time he'd go before the people, that's moses.
- 00:22:42.473 --> 00:22:45.976
- His face is showing he was with god.
- 00:22:45.976 --> 00:22:48.512
- And then finally the
- 00:22:48.512 --> 00:22:50.648
- The, the shekinah
- 00:22:50.648 --> 00:22:52.783
- Melted and his the his face, the long resume.
- 00:22:52.783 --> 00:22:56.020
- So moses were all veil.
- 00:22:56.020 --> 00:22:58.289
- So all the people would think,
- 00:22:58.289 --> 00:22:59.457
- Man, i'm still got my face shiny.
- 00:22:59.457 --> 00:23:01.325
- I was with god, but he was gone.
- 00:23:01.325 --> 00:23:03.961
- And now paul says, when we come to jesus christ,
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- Look what happens.
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- There's freedom and we all come.
- 00:23:08.132 --> 00:23:10.468
- And our face, our faces are unveiled.
- 00:23:10.468 --> 00:23:13.737
- We contemplate the lord's glory.
- 00:23:14.438 --> 00:23:17.107
- What is glory?
- 00:23:17.107 --> 00:23:18.209
- The weight,
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- The influence of christ in your life and in my life
- 00:23:19.310 --> 00:23:23.280
- With ever increasing glory
- 00:23:23.848 --> 00:23:26.717
- Which comes from the lord, who is the spirit.
- 00:23:26.717 --> 00:23:29.787
- That is a fabulous pap.
- 00:23:29.787 --> 00:23:31.889
- We could spend ten years on that one passage.
- 00:23:31.889 --> 00:23:34.625
- Do you see it?
- 00:23:34.625 --> 00:23:35.926
- In other words, moses had the reflection
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- Of god.
- 00:23:39.697 --> 00:23:40.965
- We who are in the family of god, you.
- 00:23:40.965 --> 00:23:43.767
- We've got so much more than we ever
- 00:23:43.767 --> 00:23:45.569
- Calculate to understand, believe or claim.
- 00:23:45.569 --> 00:23:48.205
- That's what we got to pick up.
- 00:23:48.205 --> 00:23:49.473
- We're in the family of god.
- 00:23:49.473 --> 00:23:50.808
- We don't have reflected glory
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- Because christ is in us, the christ in you.
- 00:23:53.310 --> 00:23:55.913
- We have a radiant glory that comes out of us,
- 00:23:55.913 --> 00:23:59.483
- And that is that unveiled face.
- 00:23:59.483 --> 00:24:01.418
- And the more we walk and grow
- 00:24:01.418 --> 00:24:03.087
- With christ, the bright it becomes.
- 00:24:03.087 --> 00:24:06.056
- There's a beam from lives.
- 00:24:06.624 --> 00:24:09.059
- You see somebody sold out to god in christ.
- 00:24:09.059 --> 00:24:12.263
- When you with wisdom,
- 00:24:12.263 --> 00:24:13.531
- They don't have to advertise anything.
- 00:24:13.531 --> 00:24:15.332
- It just overflows with the glory because they've given
- 00:24:15.332 --> 00:24:19.937
- Jesus christ, the sinner, and the heaviness of their life
- 00:24:19.937 --> 00:24:23.641
- And the significance of their life.
- 00:24:23.641 --> 00:24:26.577
- Deep water,
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- Water to swim in,
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- Going deeper with god.
- 00:24:32.316 --> 00:24:34.952
- And this is just the introduction to the glory
- 00:24:34.952 --> 00:24:37.888
- That's going to follow.
- 00:24:37.888 --> 00:24:40.791
- Thanks be to god.
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- Available
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- To everybody.
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- The spiritual dimension of life
- 00:24:52.002 --> 00:24:55.272
- Takes the physical dimension
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- And it catches fire
- 00:24:57.808 --> 00:25:00.044
- As we give him center place,
- 00:25:00.044 --> 00:25:03.314
- Significance
- 00:25:03.647 --> 00:25:06.116
- Slowly sure has been slow with me.
- 00:25:06.116 --> 00:25:09.320
- Slowly, slowly through the process,
- 00:25:09.320 --> 00:25:12.890
- We begin to give forth light
- 00:25:13.490 --> 00:25:17.861
- And the glory
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- Of almighty god.
- 00:25:21.098 --> 00:25:24.335
- Everybody wants a happy home.
- 00:25:24.335 --> 00:25:27.338
- But let's be honest.
- 00:25:27.338 --> 00:25:28.839
- A happy home doesn't just happen.
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- It's built.
- 00:25:31.742 --> 00:25:33.010
- 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
- 00:25:36.580 --> 00:25:39.149
- This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
- 00:25:39.149 --> 00:25:42.386
- This 90 day devotional is from
- 00:25:42.386 --> 00:25:44.888
- Decades of real life pastoring,
- 00:25:44.888 --> 00:25:48.158
- Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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- In the page of this
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- Book each day 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
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- Right now.
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- Life is a journey of faith.
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- One step at a time.
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- There'll be moments of clarity and moments
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- When you simply have to trust god for the next step.
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- Keep your eyes on
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- Him and keep moving forward in faith.
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- This will give you a winning walk every single day.
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