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Ed Young - The Sower and The Seed

June 14, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - The Sower and The Seed
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Sower and The Seed | June 14, 2026
  • A seed is something i
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  • Spent a lot of time trying to look into scientific world.
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  • The seed.
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  • Do you believe that botanists know
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  • Almost nothing about life in a seed that well?
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  • Well, dick tracy, that's his result.
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  • Tell me how life can be in a seed.
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  • They can't explain it.
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  • Nobody can.
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  • It's been tried to different ways.
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  • They come up saying, well, you know, it's just.
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  • So here we have jesus saying this seed,
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  • Which he said is the word of god is sold in ground.
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  • And what kind of soil do we have?
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  • We have four kinds of soil.
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  • It represents the heart.
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  • It's explained extensively.
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  • This is one of the few
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  • Instances in the bible where jesus says, i tell you this,
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  • And then he explains it, a little interlude.
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  • Then he goes on and says, i'm going
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  • To tell you what i'm talking about.
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  • Neuroscientists,
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  • Those who study the brain
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  • Have found a switch that you and i
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  • Can turn on our brain
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  • And we'll be healthier,
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  • Wiser,
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  • And happier.
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  • Did that
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  • Sink in?
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  • Now everybody asks,
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  • What in the world is that switch?
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  • It's your mind.
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  • It's my mind.
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  • You see, for a long time,
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  • If you study it in a scientific world.
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  • Everybody believed that the brain was constant.
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  • It was a machine that was hard wired
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  • And you could not adapt it
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  • Or change it any way, shape or form or fashion.
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  • Therefore, when anything happened to the brain,
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  • A stroke, a cardiovascular event,
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  • If they were built in, some learning disability,
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  • If we were having trouble recalling
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  • All the things that happen to the brain
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  • For generations, all the way through the 1980s,
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  • Everybody believed that was virtually unchangeable,
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  • Unchangeable.
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  • The brain was wired
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  • And programed by genes and dna
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  • That whatever happened, you had to compensate.
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  • You had no way in which you could
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  • Transform and remake and redefine
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  • Your brain.
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  • That thesis has been
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  • Scientifically disproven
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  • By neuroscientist. yes,
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  • We can think that is the trigger.
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  • The trigger that begins to change
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  • Many aspects of the brain.
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  • We're not
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  • Determinist.
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  • In other words, a lot of people say, well,
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  • You know, i couldn't help but i have a lazy gene,
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  • Or i have an alcoholic gene,
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  • Or i have an anger gene, or i'm just like my daddy.
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  • My mother, they were depressed
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  • And they had these health problems.
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  • Therefore it's built into me and i really have no choice
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  • About it.
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  • That is the whole school of determinism,
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  • Which has been totally disproven.
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  • And now it's been disproven scientifically.
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  • Well, you know, i always lie or just explain things
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  • Because i've got that lying genes back there in my family.
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  • Oh, yeah.
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  • You see, this is totally erroneous,
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  • Folks, and we know is erroneous because
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  • The bible has told us this.
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  • But now the neuroscientists, those who study the brain
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  • And how it is mapped and how it works have proven
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  • That the switch that can change the brain,
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  • Your brain and my brain is the mind
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  • Is how we think.
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  • The most powerful thing in the universe is god.
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  • Anybody want to debate that?
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  • Nobody can debate that.
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  • But you'll never guess.
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  • The second most powerful thing in the universe.
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  • What's the second most powerful thing?
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  • It's a human beings
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  • Ability to think
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  • And to choose.
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  • Yep. those bible things. god.
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  • The second most powerful thing is the human ability.
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  • The human beings have the ability.
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  • All of us here to think and to choose.
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  • It's the second most powerful thing in all the universe.
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  • Nothing else in the universe can think and choose somebody.
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  • Well, human nature can't be changed.
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  • Dumb.
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  • It's the only thing that can be changed in
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  • All the creative order, because we are made
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  • In the image of god.
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  • In that sacred gift, we're able to think
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  • And to choose.
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  • As a man thinks.
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  • As a woman thinks.
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  • So are they. that's who they are.
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  • I thinking rewires our brain.
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  • In fact, every morning, fresh every morning,
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  • We have new cells that are created in our brains.
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  • Struggle. lamentations three.
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  • His mercies are fresh every day,
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  • So we're able to think.
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  • And we were our brain.
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  • Even if we look deeper, even our dna.
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  • Oh, i never heard of that.
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  • Even.
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  • Even how we're put together some of those genes
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  • That are there. some people have that.
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  • Well, i've got this gene.
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  • I just can't have it.
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  • Nonsense.
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  • My the bible has taught us this,
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  • And most of us are familiar with this verse
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  • And this passage.
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  • Paul is writing in romans
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  • Chapter number 12
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  • And he says, talking to christians in the church
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  • At one, i beseech
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  • You, wake up you therefore,
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  • Brethren, my brothers and sisters in christ.
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  • Paul says, by the mercies of god,
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  • The grace, the benevolence
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  • That you present your bodies,
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  • A living sacrifice,
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  • Holy, acceptable to god,
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  • Which is your reasonable worship.
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  • Now how in the world can anybody here,
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  • Any one of us, present our bodies
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  • As a holy sacrifice to god in worship?
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  • Anybody here? thank your poli.
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  • There's anybody
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  • Able to go before god unless they are holy.
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  • And we're to present our bodies
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  • As a living sacrifice that is holy.
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  • Perfect,
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  • Which is the way we worship.
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  • How in the planet,
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  • With any degree of logic or even a centimeter
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  • Of biblical and theological understanding.
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  • Can anybody do that?
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  • How can we do that?
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  • Do you think that
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  • A simple person like me and a central person like you,
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  • We can just barge into god and say, god, i want to worship.
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  • I want you to help me. i'll just give me.
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  • May i come before you?
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  • I want to set myself as a living holy sacrifice, though.
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  • But then paul tells us how we can do it.
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  • Verse two of romans 12
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  • And do not be conformed to the world,
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  • But be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
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  • Oh, remember the mind.
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  • Have you already forgotten the mind?
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  • Is that which can change the brain and eyes wide
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  • Renewing of your mind, that you may prove
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  • What is the good and acceptable and perfect will of god.
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  • So the only way
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  • We can worship
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  • As a living sacrifice of our body
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  • Before god and be holy is we have to
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  • Be not conform to the world's agenda,
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  • But be transformed by the renewing of our mind.
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  • Now we know that first, most of us.
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  • You've been around church for a while,
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  • But we never thought about
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  • How the world of you, when you your mind
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  • Can anybody.
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  • I want to renew my mind i want a you mind.
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  • We know the mind.
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  • The choices we make.
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  • Rewire the brain.
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  • But how do we renew our mind?
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  • And then it says.
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  • If we're able to do that.
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  • We do perfectly the will
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  • Of god.
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  • Not hang with that.
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  • The will of god, the will of god.
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  • If we do the will of god, where will the will of god
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  • Be perfectly carried out
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  • So we can worship and have our mind renewed?
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  • One place in the kingdom of god
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  • And the kingdom of god
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  • On earth as
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  • It is in heaven, thy will be done.
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  • We pray that all the time with the lord's prayer.
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  • How does that operate?
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  • Is there anything but just sort of church biblical bible?
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  • Does it have any relevance and practicality in your life?
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  • In my life,
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  • We've already seen that the scientists have proven
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  • That we can indeed
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  • Rewire our brains
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  • When there's been damaged, even when our brains
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  • Have become toxic by our godless living,
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  • That switch can be turned on of our brain by our minds,
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  • And suddenly those grooves in there that we automatically
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  • Respond to have been changed and flattened out.
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  • The flaps are moved
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  • And the synapse are working in different ways.
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  • We already have discovered neuroscience has told us that
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  • We can think
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  • And turn on
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  • Our brain, and we we wire our whole personality.
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  • Folks, science has told us this.
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  • The bible has echoed it.
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  • But then we got a problem.
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  • Do we just become new because
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  • We now seek properly?
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  • Paul said in philippians four
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  • He said, this is how you think.
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  • He tells us exactly how to think.
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  • He said, first of all, we think on the basis of what?
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  • Of truth or there's truth.
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  • Then we think in noble thoughts.
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  • He tells us, he said, i own truth and noble,
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  • And we think about do right, do right.
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  • We know how to do right,
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  • And then we move on and talk about doing right.
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  • And then we are to be pure.
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  • Pure means you got to know shabby
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  • Motivations by the way that gets in deep water.
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  • It's hard.
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  • You'd be hard pressed to tell me any wonderful thing
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  • You and i have ever done with pure motivations.
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  • Oh, yeah.
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  • Hang in there.
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  • You'll get in deep water before you know it.
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  • But we're to be pure.
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  • We're to think pure thoughts and we're
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  • To think about lovely things.
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  • And there's anything worthy of praise,
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  • Anything worthy of applause.
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  • This is what we think about.
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  • But so therefore we are.
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  • We run our brain with our thoughts, with our thinking.
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  • We're turning on our brain.
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  • But then what else has to happen?
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  • Our hearts.
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  • Right?
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  • Oh yeah.
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  • We've got to thinking. satisfied.
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  • We know how we should think.
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  • And then we know we gotta have the motivation in our heart.
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  • And the first really introduction, introduction to
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  • All the parables is found here with deals with the heart.
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  • It deals with the soil.
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  • Marriage is one of god's greatest gifts.
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  • You might say, next to the gift of our salvation, christ.
  • 00:13:12.437 --> 00:13:16.474
  • It's number one.
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  • But let's be honest, it also brings real challenges.
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  • Every couple of face disagreements, miscommunication
  • 00:13:21.479 --> 00:13:26.784
  • Or financial pressure, family tensions, and seasons
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  • Of frustration in the whole area of marriage.
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  • You know, saying that if you're married, left unchecked,
  • 00:13:33.057 --> 00:13:37.295
  • Those struggles can slowly erode into
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  • Even a marriage that should be great.
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  • Into a marriage, that's just okay.
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  • But that does not have to be your story.
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  • In the ten commandments of marriage,
  • 00:13:49.474 --> 00:13:51.276
  • I share biblical truth, practical wisdom,
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  • And a little humor drawn from more than 50
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  • Years of ministry and marriage experience.
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  • These ten timeless principles are designed to help husbands
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  • And wives protect what matters most and strengthen
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  • That relationship, and build a marriage
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  • Based on love and joy, and a lasting commitment
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  • That's filled with laughter and pleasure and excitement.
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  • Listen, god never intended marriage to be.
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  • Let's just survive and hang on.
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  • He attended it to sing and to thrive.
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  • Listen, if you really want a healthier,
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  • Christ centered marriage that still has warmth, passion,
  • 00:14:33.384 --> 00:14:37.188
  • And purpose, these ten commandments of marriage
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  • Is just for you.
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  • Call them on your screen or visit the website below
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  • To regress your copy of the ten commandments of marriage.
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  • Do it today.
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  • You get to the 13th chapter.
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  • What happens?
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  • Let's go back and look at it.
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  • That's where we started.
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  • Matthew 13.
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  • On the same day jesus went out of the house
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  • And set by the sea,
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  • And great multitudes were gathered together to him,
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  • So that he got into a boat and sat,
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  • And whole multitudes stood on the shore.
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  • And then he spoke many things to them.
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  • And there is our word, parables.
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  • What is a parable?
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  • It's a truth of god
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  • And a truth of the kingdom that has been thrown,
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  • That has been thrown down beside something.
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  • And here we see that parable is thrown out.
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  • And then he talks about the setup of the kingdom,
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  • The setup of the kingdom.
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  • It's based on hearts.
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  • I will not read all of it, but generally jesus is saying here
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  • There are four kind of hearts.
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  • First of all, he looked at someone sowing
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  • Seed on the side of the hill, a living illustration.
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  • He said, all of you out there,
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  • The multitude of people come here to hear me
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  • Teach, and i'm out here in this boat, and i'm seated.
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  • By the way, a prophet is always seated when he speaks.
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  • He was seating the boat and he looked at he said, see
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  • That guy out there?
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  • So seed, he said, i want to tell you
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  • What's going on. that's like life.
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  • And he talks about the seed
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  • Would be the word of god.
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  • What is the word of god?
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  • What is the bible also?
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  • The word of god is jesus himself, isn't it?
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  • The word became flesh.
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  • John one and dwelt among us.
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  • So here he say, he sold seed.
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  • And he said, as he scattering, that seed
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  • Is falling on different kinds of ground.
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  • And he
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  • Said, then some ground there's a harvest,
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  • But on four kinds of ground
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  • Nothing comes up.
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  • And here he is throwing jesus in one sense,
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  • And that jesus is the seed.
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  • And by the way, a seed is something
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  • I spent a lot of time trying to look into scientific world.
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  • The seed.
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  • Do you believe that botanists know
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  • Almost nothing about life in a seed that well?
  • 00:17:20.985 --> 00:17:24.755
  • Well, dick tracy, that's his result.
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  • Tell me how life can be in a seed.
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  • They can't explain it.
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  • Nobody can.
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  • It's been tried to different ways.
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  • They come up saying, well, you know, it's just.
  • 00:17:35.466 --> 00:17:38.269
  • So here we have jesus saying this seed,
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  • Which he said is the word of god is sold in ground.
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  • And what kind of soil do we have?
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  • We have four kinds of soil.
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  • It represents the heart.
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  • It's explained extensively.
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  • This is one of the few
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  • Instances in the bible where jesus says, i tell you this,
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  • And then he explains it, a little interlude.
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  • Then he goes on and says, i'm going
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  • To tell you what i'm talking about.
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  • He said, i'm talking about the human heart.
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  • He said, some hearts are hard.
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  • And when bam!
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  • The seed, the word of god, jesus is thrown at this heart.
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  • The heart does not receive it.
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  • How does our heart get hardened?
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  • I run my own life.
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  • I'm in charge and it gets hardened.
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  • When we live a secular, humanistic life
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  • And our hearts get harder and harder.
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  • Have you ever been in a situation say,
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  • You know,
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  • I've got a friend
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  • And they heard how
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  • They could be forgiven and have eternal life and have a life,
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  • And they won't pay any attention to it.
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  • They just say, that's nonsense.
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  • Hearts can be so hard
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  • That even when in this story jesus is throwing
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  • Jesus, he's throwing himself as a seed at us
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  • And we don't even respond.
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  • It doesn't even get through.
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  • Our hearts are so hard.
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  • That's one kind of heart
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  • That person does not get in the kingdom.
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  • They may help their thinking in a secular way
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  • And help their brain be reprogramed,
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  • But they never really get totally in the kingdom.
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  • Hard heart others says there's another kind of.
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  • By the way, the heart was hard here in the past.
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  • They would plant little gardens in israel
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  • And they'd have a little path they'd walk around on.
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  • And as the sower was sowing the seed, he'd fall on that
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  • Hard ground.
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  • The seed could not break through hard, hard,
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  • Though the kind of heart was a shallow heart there.
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  • Sandstone all over israel.
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  • And there's dirt on top of that.
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  • The seed may fall on that dirt, which would really be soil,
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  • Not dirt.
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  • It would come up. it would begin to grow.
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  • But he couldn't go down. there was stone there.
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  • There was rock there.
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  • That's a shallow heart.
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  • I know a lot of people come to christ, man.
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  • Have a new life.
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  • Forgiveness, cleansing, wholeness, rewire
  • 00:20:02.913 --> 00:20:05.916
  • Your mind and have a brand new heart.
  • 00:20:05.916 --> 00:20:09.086
  • And they say, oh yes, i want that.
  • 00:20:09.086 --> 00:20:11.022
  • And they respond, but it doesn't last.
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  • There was a ceo.
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  • Christians you know about ceo christian christmas and easter.
  • 00:20:16.494 --> 00:20:21.232
  • Only then you know they come and oh, i'm a christian, but
  • 00:20:21.232 --> 00:20:24.869
  • There's nothing in their life that would convince anybody
  • 00:20:24.869 --> 00:20:27.638
  • That it's just shallow, a shallow heart.
  • 00:20:27.638 --> 00:20:31.208
  • And then the next kind of heart talks about is
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  • They heart this full of all
  • 00:20:33.878 --> 00:20:35.880
  • Kind of briers and thorns into a crowded heart.
  • 00:20:35.880 --> 00:20:39.417
  • What is that?
  • 00:20:39.417 --> 00:20:40.685
  • See, we've got so much, many things going on, folks.
  • 00:20:40.685 --> 00:20:43.688
  • We've got emails, we've got family, we've got friends.
  • 00:20:43.688 --> 00:20:47.658
  • We can travel, we can go, we can.
  • 00:20:47.658 --> 00:20:49.727
  • And all of a sudden we got all these things,
  • 00:20:49.727 --> 00:20:52.063
  • These agendas, our life.
  • 00:20:52.063 --> 00:20:53.397
  • We don't have time or take the time
  • 00:20:53.397 --> 00:20:57.468
  • To have our thinking rewire our minds
  • 00:20:57.468 --> 00:21:01.405
  • And our time to know that jesus is to be lord of my life.
  • 00:21:01.405 --> 00:21:05.509
  • And therefore it's so crowded out.
  • 00:21:05.509 --> 00:21:08.079
  • God and christ is on the peripheral part.
  • 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:10.881
  • It's a part of our biographical sketch.
  • 00:21:10.881 --> 00:21:13.384
  • I went to school here, i was born there,
  • 00:21:13.384 --> 00:21:15.586
  • I married there, i have children here.
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  • I did this and then and by the way, i'm a christian.
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  • It's over there somewhere
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  • Because all the other stuff is crowded out.
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  • We see if we're in god's family.
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  • The center of your life, in my life is the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:21:29.233 --> 00:21:32.737
  • We run everything by the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:21:32.737 --> 00:21:36.040
  • But a heart is crowded.
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  • There's no room, but there's a fourth kind of heart.
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  • And that's the good soil.
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  • That's a good heart.
  • 00:21:43.948 --> 00:21:44.982
  • And here, pain,
  • 00:21:44.982 --> 00:21:47.051
  • Jesus being thrown in this kind of heart.
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  • And in that saul.
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  • Oh, that's all that flourishes.
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  • You say only one out of four, but it flourishes such
  • 00:21:56.127 --> 00:21:58.929
  • Sometimes there's that little seed is reproduced.
  • 00:21:58.929 --> 00:22:01.899
  • How many times, how many times
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  • 163 times a little bitty seed
  • 00:22:05.403 --> 00:22:09.340
  • Just explodes into other life.
  • 00:22:09.340 --> 00:22:12.443
  • That's good soul and a good life.
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  • I don't have time to go through all of this.
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  • But you see this right here?
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  • These are flowers.
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  • And they're
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  • I drain yours.
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  • Hydrangea is a fabulous flower.
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  • Let me tell you how it works.
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  • A hydrangea can be many colors.
  • 00:22:34.598 --> 00:22:37.501
  • According to the soil.
  • 00:22:37.501 --> 00:22:40.237
  • You can have alkaline soil, you can have acidic soil.
  • 00:22:40.237 --> 00:22:44.041
  • And that determines the color of the flower. you.
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  • For example.
  • 00:22:48.712 --> 00:22:49.380
  • This could be a soul here.
  • 00:22:49.380 --> 00:22:51.649
  • That could be a hard soil.
  • 00:22:51.649 --> 00:22:54.618
  • But you take this soil and you would put egg shells in it.
  • 00:22:54.618 --> 00:22:58.923
  • Eggs that are broken and put it in that soil.
  • 00:22:58.923 --> 00:23:01.525
  • They would know
  • 00:23:01.525 --> 00:23:02.693
  • That you would get hydrangeas that would not be yellow
  • 00:23:02.693 --> 00:23:05.362
  • Or red or white, but they would be blue
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  • That is controlled, that is controlled.
  • 00:23:08.699 --> 00:23:12.536
  • And you have other kind of soil.
  • 00:23:12.536 --> 00:23:14.672
  • You say, well, i want to have a green hydrangea here.
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  • I want to grow green.
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  • Therefore you would take and put coffee grounds.
  • 00:23:19.376 --> 00:23:22.379
  • By the way, this is botany.
  • 00:23:22.379 --> 00:23:24.715
  • This is true.
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  • And put coffee grounds in.
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  • And you would hydrangeas of a certain color
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  • Or certain.
  • 00:23:30.754 --> 00:23:31.889
  • And then you could put aluminum and other kind of soil.
  • 00:23:31.889 --> 00:23:34.158
  • You'd have
  • 00:23:34.158 --> 00:23:35.426
  • Hydrangeas another color, and sometimes you'd have hydrangeas
  • 00:23:35.426 --> 00:23:38.629
  • That were white and will refer to different kinds of soil.
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  • And the soil is your heart and my heart.
  • 00:23:42.700 --> 00:23:46.604
  • And so let's kind of bring it all together if we can.
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  • This is an introduction to the parables.
  • 00:23:50.741 --> 00:23:53.511
  • Remember, the parables are not just mild stuff.
  • 00:23:53.511 --> 00:23:56.447
  • They are violent
  • 00:23:56.447 --> 00:23:57.515
  • Things that god throws at us and god throws seed.
  • 00:23:57.515 --> 00:24:00.918
  • He throws himself into hearts and lives.
  • 00:24:00.918 --> 00:24:03.754
  • And how we respond with our hearts
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  • To get a brand new heart.
  • 00:24:08.192 --> 00:24:11.462
  • And then all of a sudden we become a brand new person.
  • 00:24:11.462 --> 00:24:14.932
  • How? by our thinking
  • 00:24:15.399 --> 00:24:18.669
  • And by our hearts, our new heart,
  • 00:24:18.669 --> 00:24:22.673
  • A new heart and you brain a new mind, a new life.
  • 00:24:22.673 --> 00:24:27.244
  • How do we nail this down?
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  • Follow me carefully.
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  • Second timothy,
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  • Chapter number one,
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  • Verse number seven.
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  • It says, god does not give us a spirit of fear.
  • 00:24:43.761 --> 00:24:50.568
  • But he gives us what
  • 00:24:51.035 --> 00:24:54.572
  • Power, love,
  • 00:24:54.905 --> 00:24:57.675
  • And a sound mind.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, there are only two emotions
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  • In this world love and fear.
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  • Every other emotion can be put under love.
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  • Every other emotion can be put under fear.
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  • The only two emotions.
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  • And this verse puts it all together.
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  • God has not given us a spirit of fear
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  • Because by our thinking, we're
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  • Rewiring our brain, our response
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  • Not conformed. we're transformed.
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  • Follow me.
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  • And then all of a sudden, by our heart, as
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  • Jesus has thrown himself as a word of god
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  • In our heart, he's given us a brand new heart.
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  • And now he has given us what power
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  • And love
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  • And a sound mind.
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  • How do we maintain
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  • This kind of thinking?
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  • We have the power that christ gives us.
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  • When you and i are given a brand new heart.
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  • Marriages today face more pressures than ever.
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  • Many couples live
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  • With stress, disappointment, distance and discouragement,
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  • Wondering if the joy they want shared can ever return.
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  • But god's design for marriage has not changed.
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  • In doctor young's the ten commandments of marriage,
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  • You'll find practical biblical principles that can help
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  • Transform your relationship from the inside out.
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  • Whether you've been married for months or decades,
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  • These truths can help you communicate better, grow closer
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  • Spiritually, resolve conflict in a healthy way,
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  • And to rediscover the love that first brought you together.
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  • A strong marriage doesn't happen by accident.
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  • It grows when a husband and wife choose
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  • To build their relationship god's way with christ.
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  • At the center of your home,
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  • There is always hope, healing, and a path forward.
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  • If you want to strengthen your marriage and build
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  • A relationship that honors god and blesses your family.
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  • The ten commandments of marriage is for you.
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  • Call the number on your screen or visit the website below to
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  • Request your copy today.
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