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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young

Ed Young - The Sower, The Seed, and The Soil

July 4, 2025 | S25 E160 | 29:0

Ed Young - The Sower, The Seed, and The Soil
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, The Seed, and The Soil | July 4, 2025
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  • Pastor ed young: neuroscientists, those who study
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  • The brain have found a switch that you and i can turn on our
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  • Brain and we will be healthier, wiser, and happier.
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  • Did that sink in?
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  • Now everybody ask, "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, if you studied in the scientific world,
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  • Everybody believed that the brain was constant.
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  • It was a machine that was hardwired and you could not
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  • Adapt it or change it any way, shape, form, or fashion.
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  • Therefore, when anything happened to the brain, a stroke,
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  • A cardiovascular event, if there were built in some learning
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  • Disability, if we were having trouble recalling.
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  • All the things that happened to the brain, for generations all
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  • The way through the 1980s, everybody believed that was
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  • Virtually unchangeable.
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  • Unchangeable.
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  • The brain was wired and programmed 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 transform and remake and
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  • Redefine your brain.
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  • That thesis has been scientifically disproven
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  • By neuroscientists.
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  • Yes, we can think, that is the trigger, the trigger that begins
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  • To change many aspects of the brain.
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  • We're not determinist.
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  • In other words, a lot of people say, "well, you know,
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  • I couldn't help it.
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  • I have a lazy gene," or, "i have an alcoholic gene," or, "i have
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  • An anger gene," or, "i'm just like my daddy, my mother, they
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  • Were depressed and they had these health problems.
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  • Therefore, it's built into me and i really have
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  • No choice about it."
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  • That is the whole school of determinism, which has been
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  • 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 because
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  • 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, folks, and we know
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  • It's erroneous because the bible has told us this.
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  • But now the neuroscientists, those who study the brain and
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  • How it is mapped and how it works, have proven that the
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  • Switch that can change the brain, your brain and my brain,
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  • Is the mind, is how we think.
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  • The most powerful thing in the universe is god.
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  • Anybody wanna debate that?
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  • Nobody can debate that.
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  • But you'll never guess the second most powerful thing in
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  • The universe.
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  • What's the second most powerful thing?
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  • It's a human being's ability to think and to choose.
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  • Yep. most powerful thing is god.
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  • The second most powerful thing is the human ability, the--human
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  • Beings have the ability, 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.
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  • Somebody, "well, human nature can't be changed."
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  • Dumb, it's the only thing that can be changed in all the
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  • Creative order because we are made in the image of god.
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  • In that sacred gift we're able to think and to choose.
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  • As a man thinks, as a woman thinks, so are they.
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  • That's who they are. our thinking rewires our brain.
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  • In fact, every morning, fresh every morning, we have new cells
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  • That are created in our brains.
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  • Go to lamentations 3, "his mercies are fresh every day."
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  • So, we're able to think and rewire our brain.
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  • Even if we look deeper, even our dna--oh, i never heard of that.
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  • Even how we're put together, some of those genes that are
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  • There, some people out there, "well, i've got this gene.
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  • I just can't help it."
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  • Nonsense.
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  • Now, the bible has taught us this, and most of us are
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  • Familiar with this verse and this passage.
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  • Paul is writing in romans chapter number 12
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  • And he says, talking to christians in the church at
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  • Rome, "i beseech you," wake up, "you therefore, brethren," my
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  • Brothers and sisters in christ.
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  • Paul says, "by the mercies of god," the grace, the
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  • Benevolence, "that you present your bodies a living sacrifice,
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  • Holy, acceptable to god, which is your reasonable worship."
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  • Now, how in the world can anybody here, any one of us,
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  • Present our bodies as a holy sacrifice to god in worship?
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  • Anybody here think you're holy?
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  • Does anybody able to go before god unless they are holy?
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  • And we're to present our bodies as a living sacrifice that is
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  • Holy, perfect, which is the way we worship?
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  • How in the planet with any degree of logic or even
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  • A centimeter of biblical and theological understanding can
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  • Anybody do that?
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  • How can we do that?
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  • Do you think that a sinful person like me and a sinful
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  • Person like you, we could just barge into god and
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  • Say, "god, i wanna worship.
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  • I want you to help me. i want to forgive me.
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  • Man, i come before you.
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  • I will present myself as a living, holy sacrifice."
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  • No.
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  • But then paul tells us how we can do it.
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  • Verse 2 of romans 12, "and do not be conformed to the world,
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  • But be transformed by the renewal of your mind," uh-oh,
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  • Remember the mind?
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  • Have you already forgotten the mind
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  • Is that which you can change the brain and how it's wired?
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  • "renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and
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  • Acceptable and perfect will of god."
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  • So, the only way we can worship as a living sacrifice of our
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  • Body before god and be holy is we have to be not conformed to
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  • The world's agenda, but be transformed by the renewing of
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  • Our mind.
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  • Now, we know that verse.
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  • Most of us, you've been around church for a while, but we never
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  • Thought about, how in the world do you renew your mind?
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  • Can anybody here--"i want to renew my mind.
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  • I want a new mind."
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  • We know the mind, the choices we make, rewire the brain, but how
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  • Do we renew our mind?
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  • And then it says, if we're able to do that, we do perfectly the
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  • Will of god.
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  • Now, hang with that, the will of god.
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  • The will of god.
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  • If we do the will of god, where will the will of god be
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  • Perfectly carried out so we can worship and have our
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  • Mind renewed?
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  • One place, in the kingdom of god.
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  • In the kingdom of god.
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  • "on earth, as 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 that anything but just sort of church biblical babble?
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  • Does it have any relevance and practicality in
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  • Your life and my life?
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  • We've already seen that the scientists have proven that we
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  • Can, indeed, rewire our brains even when there's been damage,
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  • Even when our brains have become toxic by our godless living.
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  • That switch can be turned on of our brain by our minds, and
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  • Suddenly those grooves in there that we automatically respond to
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  • Have been changed and flattened out, the flaps are moved and the
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  • 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 and turn on our brain and we rewire our whole
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  • Personality, folks.
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  • 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 we now think properly?
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  • Paul said in philippians 4, 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.
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  • Where there's truth, then we think in noble thoughts,"
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  • He tells us.
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  • He said, "our truth and noble"--and we think about,
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  • 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 gotta no shabby motivations.
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  • By the way, that gets in deep water.
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  • It's hard--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. 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, we're to think pure thoughts, and we're
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  • To think about lovely things.
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  • If there's anything worthy of praise, anything worthy of
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  • Applause, this is what we think about.
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  • But so, therefore, we are rewiring our brain with our
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  • Thoughts, with our thinking, we're turning on our brain.
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  • But then what else has to happen?
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  • Our hearts, right?
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  • Oh, yeah, we've got the thinking satisfied, we know how we should
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  • Think, and then we know we got to have the
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  • Motivation in our heart.
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  • And the first, really, introduction to all the
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  • Parables is found here.
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  • What deals with the heart? it deals with the soil.
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  • If you have your bibles, open them, if you would, to chapter
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  • 13 of matthew.
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  • First book in the new testament, every man here can find it.
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  • You can look in the pew rack and find a bible, you'll
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  • Turn to matthew.
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  • And we see matthew is all about the kingdom of god.
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  • Remember, we already have established the kingdom of god
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  • Is where god's will is being done.
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  • The kingdom of god is where god the father is the king and god
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  • The son is lord and savior in that domain.
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  • So, the kingdom of god is yesterday, the kingdom of god is
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  • Right now, and the kingdom of god is tomorrow.
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  • And we'll go over this as we look at parables that deal
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  • With the kingdom.
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  • Jesus is saying, "this is how you live the kingdom."
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  • The book of matthew is written by matthew and the primary
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  • Purpose of matthew is this: to convince the jews who knew the
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  • Prophecies of the old testament that jesus was indeed the king,
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  • The messiah, who had come.
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  • That's the thrust of matthew.
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  • And therefore in matthew, you see the phrase "kingdom of
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  • Heaven" more than you see in other books "kingdom of god."
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  • What--why do they say kingdom of heaven?
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  • Matthew said kingdom of heaven because the jews were reticent,
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  • Or did not speak the name of god, because it was such
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  • A holy name.
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  • So, matthew said kingdom of heaven, he was
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  • Really saying kingdom of god.
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  • So, in the bible, when you read kingdom of god, kingdom of
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  • Heaven, usually, not always, it is the same thing.
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  • The kingdom of god is the kingdom of heaven.
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  • And here you go through matthew, a proof that jesus is messiah.
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  • What does he start off with? the genealogies.
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  • Here's the genealogy of him who would be the messiah.
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  • He spells out all the background, all the family,
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  • Through his surrogate father joseph.
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  • That would be in the jewish tradition.
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  • This is how you decide whether or not he is in the lineage of
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  • David, which was the ultimate king.
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  • And then he moves on, he talks about john the baptist preparing
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  • The way for jesus to come, and then he calls forth--he gets
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  • Baptized by john.
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  • Then he's tempted--kingdom temptation in the wilderness.
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  • All about the kingdom in matthew.
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  • It's the whole book of the kingdom.
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  • And then he moves, he calls his apostles, and then he goes--we
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  • Have the sermon on the mount, matthew 5, 6, and 7.
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  • What's the sermon on the mount?
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  • It's the ethics of the kingdom. how do you live in the kingdom?
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  • The sermon on the mount. they're the ethics.
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  • And then following that, jesus performs miracles.
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  • And then you get to the 13 chapter of matthew and one third
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  • Of matthew has already been written.
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  • You get to the 13 chapter, what happens?
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  • Let's go back and look at it. 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 and sat 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; and whole multitudes
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  • Stood on the shore.
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  • And then he spoke many things to them in," there's our
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  • Word, "parables."
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  • What is a parable?
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  • It's a truth of god and the truth of the kingdom that has
  • 00:15:07.963 --> 00:15:12.501
  • Been thrown, 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 set up of the kingdom.
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  • The set up of the kingdom.
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  • It's based on hearts. i will not read all of it.
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  • But generally, jesus is saying here, there are four kind
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  • Of hearts.
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  • First of all, he looked at someone sowing seed on the side
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  • Of the hill, a living illustration.
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  • He said, "all of you out there, the multitude of people, come
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  • Here to hear me teach and i'm out here in this boat and i'm
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  • Seated," by the way, a prophet is always seated when he speaks.
  • 00:15:48.203 --> 00:15:53.075
  • He was seated in the boat and he looked out and he said, "see
  • 00:15:53.075 --> 00:15:55.677
  • That guy out there sowing seed?"
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  • He said, "i wanna tell you what's going on.
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  • That's like life."
  • 00:15:59.515 --> 00:16:01.350
  • And he talks about the seed would be the word of god.
  • 00:16:01.350 --> 00:16:07.456
  • What is the word of god? well, it's the bible.
  • 00:16:07.456 --> 00:16:09.024
  • Also, the word of god is jesus himself, isn't it?
  • 00:16:09.024 --> 00:16:12.294
  • "the word became flesh," john 1, "and dwelt among us."
  • 00:16:12.294 --> 00:16:15.230
  • So, here he say, he's sowing seed, and he said
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  • As he's scattering that seed, it's falling on
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  • Different kinds of ground.
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  • And he said, "then some ground, there's a harvest, but on four
  • 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:30.646
  • Kinds of ground, nothing comes up."
  • 00:16:30.646 --> 00:16:35.284
  • And here he is throwing jesus, in one sense, and that jesus is
  • 00:16:35.284 --> 00:16:39.855
  • The seed, and by the way, a seed is something--i spent a lot of
  • 00:16:39.855 --> 00:16:44.460
  • Time trying to look into the scientific world of the seed.
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  • Do you believe that botanists know almost nothing
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  • About life in a seed?
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  • That, "well, they germinate?"
  • 00:16:53.102 --> 00:16:54.436
  • 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. nobody can.
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  • It's been tried 1000 different ways.
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  • They come up saying, "well, you know, it's just."
  • 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:07.649
  • So here we have jesus saying this seed which, he said is the
  • 00:17:07.649 --> 00:17:12.254
  • Word of god, is sowed 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 incidents in the bible where jesus says,
  • 00:17:22.598 --> 00:17:26.802
  • "i tell you this," and then he explains it a little interlude.
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  • Then he goes on, he says, "i wanna tell you what i'm
  • 00:17:29.671 --> 00:17:32.274
  • Talking about."
  • 00:17:32.274 --> 00:17:33.642
  • He said, "i'm talking about the human heart."
  • 00:17:33.642 --> 00:17:35.577
  • He said some hearts are hard and when, bam, the seed, the word of
  • 00:17:35.577 --> 00:17:42.284
  • God, jesus, is thrown at this heart, the heart does not
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  • Receive it.
  • 00:17:46.221 --> 00:17:48.023
  • How does our heart get hardened?
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  • "i run my own life.
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  • I'm in charge."
  • 00:17:53.629 --> 00:17:55.597
  • And it gets hardened when we live a secular, humanistic life
  • 00:17:55.597 --> 00:18:01.570
  • And our hearts get harder and harder.
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  • Have you ever been in a situation, you say, "you know,
  • 00:18:03.772 --> 00:18:06.175
  • I've got a friend and they heard how they could be forgiven and
  • 00:18:06.175 --> 00:18:09.545
  • Have eternal life and have a life--" and they won't pay
  • 00:18:09.545 --> 00:18:12.748
  • Any attention to it?
  • 00:18:12.748 --> 00:18:14.283
  • They just say that's nonsense.
  • 00:18:14.283 --> 00:18:16.318
  • Hearts can be so hard that even when, in this story, jesus is
  • 00:18:16.318 --> 00:18:22.391
  • Throwing jesus, he's throwing himself as a seed at us,
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  • And we don't even respond.
  • 00:18:27.262 --> 00:18:28.597
  • It doesn't even get through. 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.
  • 00:18:34.002 --> 00:18:36.505
  • They may help their thinking in a secular way and help their
  • 00:18:36.505 --> 00:18:40.075
  • Brain be reprogrammed, but they never really get totally in the
  • 00:18:40.075 --> 00:18:44.346
  • Kingdom, hard heart.
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  • Others, says, there's another kind of--by the way, the heart
  • 00:18:46.248 --> 00:18:49.184
  • Was hard here in the path.
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  • They would plant little gardens in israel and they'd have
  • 00:18:52.054 --> 00:18:55.224
  • A little path they'd walk around on and as the sower were sowing
  • 00:18:55.224 --> 00:18:59.628
  • The seed, it fall on that hard ground, the seed could not
  • 00:18:59.628 --> 00:19:02.998
  • Break through.
  • 00:19:02.998 --> 00:19:04.566
  • Hard heart.
  • 00:19:04.566 --> 00:19:06.034
  • The other kind of heart was a shallow heart.
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  • There's sandstone all over israel and
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  • There's dirt on top of that.
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  • The seed may fall on that dirt which would really be soil, not
  • 00:19:12.808 --> 00:19:16.111
  • Dirt, it would come up, it would begin to grow,
  • 00:19:16.111 --> 00:19:18.680
  • But it couldn't go down.
  • 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:20.015
  • There was stone there, there was rock there.
  • 00:19:20.015 --> 00:19:21.683
  • That's a shallow heart.
  • 00:19:21.683 --> 00:19:23.018
  • I know a lot of people come to christ, man, have a new life,
  • 00:19:23.018 --> 00:19:27.155
  • Forgiveness, cleansing, wholeness, rewire your mind and
  • 00:19:27.155 --> 00:19:31.426
  • Have a brand-new heart, and they say, "oh yes, i want that,"
  • 00:19:31.426 --> 00:19:34.796
  • And they respond, but doesn't last.
  • 00:19:34.796 --> 00:19:39.001
  • Those are ceo christians.
  • 00:19:39.001 --> 00:19:41.770
  • You know about ceo christian.
  • 00:19:41.770 --> 00:19:43.639
  • Christmas and easter only.
  • 00:19:43.639 --> 00:19:46.074
  • They--you know, they come and, "oh, i'm a christian," but
  • 00:19:46.074 --> 00:19:48.410
  • There's nothing in their life that would convince anybody
  • 00:19:48.410 --> 00:19:50.379
  • That--it's just shallow, a shallow heart.
  • 00:19:50.379 --> 00:19:54.683
  • And then the next kind of heart he talks about is a heart that's
  • 00:19:54.683 --> 00:19:58.220
  • Full of all kind of briars and thorns, it is a crowded heart.
  • 00:19:58.220 --> 00:20:02.190
  • What is that?
  • 00:20:02.190 --> 00:20:03.525
  • See, we've got so much, many things going on, folks.
  • 00:20:03.525 --> 00:20:06.461
  • We've got emails, we've got family, we've got friends,
  • 00:20:06.461 --> 00:20:10.098
  • We can travel, we can go, we can--and all of a sudden we got
  • 00:20:10.098 --> 00:20:13.502
  • All these things, these agendas are like--we don't have time or
  • 00:20:13.502 --> 00:20:17.706
  • Take the time to have our thinking rewire our minds and
  • 00:20:17.706 --> 00:20:23.779
  • Our time to know that jesus is to be the lord of my life and
  • 00:20:23.779 --> 00:20:27.649
  • Therefore is so crowded out.
  • 00:20:27.649 --> 00:20:29.685
  • God and christ is on the peripheral part.
  • 00:20:29.685 --> 00:20:32.321
  • It's a part of our biographical sketch.
  • 00:20:32.321 --> 00:20:34.890
  • "i went to school here. i was born there.
  • 00:20:34.890 --> 00:20:36.958
  • I married there. i have children here.
  • 00:20:36.958 --> 00:20:38.794
  • I did this and that--and by the way, i'm a christian."
  • 00:20:38.794 --> 00:20:42.164
  • It's over there somewhere because all the other stuff is
  • 00:20:42.164 --> 00:20:46.601
  • Crowded out.
  • 00:20:46.601 --> 00:20:48.437
  • You see, if we in god's family, the center of your life and my
  • 00:20:48.437 --> 00:20:51.573
  • Life is the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:20:51.573 --> 00:20:53.842
  • We run everything by the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:20:53.842 --> 00:20:57.179
  • But a heart that's crowded, there's no room.
  • 00:20:57.179 --> 00:21:00.882
  • But there's a fourth kind of heart and that's the good soil.
  • 00:21:00.882 --> 00:21:04.453
  • That's the good heart. and here, pang.
  • 00:21:04.453 --> 00:21:08.190
  • Jesus being thrown in this kind of heart and in that soil.
  • 00:21:08.190 --> 00:21:13.195
  • Oh, that soil, that flourishes.
  • 00:21:13.195 --> 00:21:16.264
  • You say only one out of four, but it flourishes such sometimes
  • 00:21:16.264 --> 00:21:19.568
  • There's--that little seed is reproduced how many times?
  • 00:21:19.568 --> 00:21:23.505
  • How many times?
  • 00:21:23.505 --> 00:21:25.240
  • A hundred, sixty, thirty times.
  • 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:27.342
  • A little bitty seed just explodes into other life.
  • 00:21:27.342 --> 00:21:32.013
  • That's a good soil and a good life.
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  • I don't have time to go through all of this.
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  • Would you see this right here?
  • 00:21:36.752 --> 00:21:39.454
  • These are flowers and they're hydrangeas.
  • 00:21:39.454 --> 00:21:47.596
  • Hydrangea is a fabulous flower.
  • 00:21:47.596 --> 00:21:51.633
  • Let me tell you how it works.
  • 00:21:51.633 --> 00:21:53.335
  • A hydrangea can be many colors according to the soil.
  • 00:21:53.335 --> 00:21:58.874
  • You can have alkaline soil, you can have acidic soil, and that
  • 00:21:58.874 --> 00:22:03.211
  • Determines the color of the flower, the hydrangea.
  • 00:22:03.211 --> 00:22:07.082
  • For example, this could be a soil here that could be a hard
  • 00:22:07.082 --> 00:22:11.753
  • Soil, but you take this soil and you would put egg shells in it,
  • 00:22:11.753 --> 00:22:16.758
  • Eggs that are broken, and put it in that soil, they would know
  • 00:22:16.758 --> 00:22:20.162
  • That you would get hydrangeas that would not be yellow or red
  • 00:22:20.162 --> 00:22:23.465
  • Or white, but they would be blue.
  • 00:22:23.465 --> 00:22:26.435
  • That is controlled. that is controlled.
  • 00:22:26.435 --> 00:22:30.205
  • And you have other kind of soil.
  • 00:22:30.205 --> 00:22:31.940
  • You say, "well, i wanna have a green hydrangea here.
  • 00:22:31.940 --> 00:22:35.343
  • I wanna grow green."
  • 00:22:35.343 --> 00:22:36.678
  • Therefore, you would take and put coffee grounds.
  • 00:22:36.678 --> 00:22:39.581
  • By the way, this is botany, this is true.
  • 00:22:39.581 --> 00:22:43.084
  • And put coffee grounds in it, you would have hydrangeas of
  • 00:22:43.084 --> 00:22:45.587
  • A certain color, a certain--and then you could put aluminum and
  • 00:22:45.587 --> 00:22:49.658
  • Other kind of soil.
  • 00:22:49.658 --> 00:22:50.992
  • You'd have hydrangeas of another color and sometimes
  • 00:22:50.992 --> 00:22:53.929
  • You'd have hydrangeas that were white.
  • 00:22:53.929 --> 00:22:56.431
  • And we'll refer to different kinds of soil, and the soil is
  • 00:22:56.431 --> 00:23:00.168
  • Your heart and my heart.
  • 00:23:00.168 --> 00:23:03.305
  • And so, let's kind of bring it all together if we can.
  • 00:23:03.305 --> 00:23:06.875
  • This is an introduction to the parables.
  • 00:23:06.875 --> 00:23:09.277
  • Remember, the parables are not just mild stuff, they are
  • 00:23:09.277 --> 00:23:12.781
  • Violent things that god throws at us, and god throws seed,
  • 00:23:12.781 --> 00:23:16.685
  • He throws himself into hearts and lives, and how we respond
  • 00:23:16.685 --> 00:23:22.224
  • With our hearts to get a brand-new heart.
  • 00:23:22.224 --> 00:23:27.062
  • And then all of a sudden we become a brand-new person.
  • 00:23:27.062 --> 00:23:30.532
  • How?
  • 00:23:30.532 --> 00:23:31.867
  • By our thinking and by our hearts, our new heart.
  • 00:23:31.867 --> 00:23:37.772
  • A new heart, a new brain, a new mind, a new life.
  • 00:23:37.772 --> 00:23:41.943
  • How do we nail this down?
  • 00:23:41.943 --> 00:23:44.813
  • Follow me carefully.
  • 00:23:44.813 --> 00:23:48.250
  • 2 timothy chapter number 1, verse number 7.
  • 00:23:48.250 --> 00:23:56.391
  • It says, "god does not give us a spirit of fear, but he
  • 00:23:58.193 --> 00:24:05.300
  • Gives us," what?
  • 00:24:05.300 --> 00:24:08.803
  • "power, love, and a sound mind."
  • 00:24:08.803 --> 00:24:15.343
  • Ladies and gentlemen, there are only two emotions in this world:
  • 00:24:15.343 --> 00:24:19.614
  • Love and fear.
  • 00:24:19.614 --> 00:24:22.450
  • Every other emotion can be put under love.
  • 00:24:22.450 --> 00:24:25.353
  • Every other emotion can be put under fear.
  • 00:24:25.353 --> 00:24:27.522
  • There are only two emotions.
  • 00:24:27.522 --> 00:24:29.457
  • And this verse puts it all together.
  • 00:24:29.457 --> 00:24:32.627
  • God has not given us a spirit of fear because by our thinking we
  • 00:24:32.627 --> 00:24:38.400
  • Rewiring our brain, our response.
  • 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:42.237
  • Not conformed, we're transformed.
  • 00:24:42.237 --> 00:24:43.972
  • You follow me?
  • 00:24:43.972 --> 00:24:45.307
  • And then all of a sudden by our heart, as jesus has thrown
  • 00:24:45.307 --> 00:24:49.144
  • Himself as the word of god in our hearts, he's given us
  • 00:24:49.144 --> 00:24:52.480
  • A brand-new heart.
  • 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:54.649
  • And now he has given us what?
  • 00:24:54.649 --> 00:24:56.585
  • Power and love and a sound mind.
  • 00:24:56.585 --> 00:25:05.727
  • How do we maintain this kind of thinking?
  • 00:25:05.727 --> 00:25:10.231
  • We have the power that christ gives us when you and i are
  • 00:25:10.231 --> 00:25:13.702
  • Given a brand-new heart.
  • 00:25:13.702 --> 00:25:16.638
  • Pastor ed: everybody in the world is hungry for something
  • 00:25:16.705 --> 00:25:19.274
  • That gives them assurance about the future and comfort about
  • 00:25:19.274 --> 00:25:23.278
  • What we are facing right today.
  • 00:25:23.278 --> 00:25:26.781
  • What all of us are looking for can only be found in god's word.
  • 00:25:26.781 --> 00:25:32.287
  • That's why now's the time to do all we can to share the proven
  • 00:25:32.287 --> 00:25:37.559
  • Truth of scripture with as many people as possible.
  • 00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:42.364
  • And so, with a gift today which will be worth double
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  • Thanks to a special matching grant, we can help millions
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  • Through the broadcast and resources of "the winning walk"
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  • And it's a winning walk, as you know, with jesus christ.
  • 00:25:54.743 --> 00:25:58.580
  • I'm excited about today, i'm excited about tomorrow,
  • 00:25:58.580 --> 00:26:02.117
  • And thank you for your contribution, for your prayers.
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  • We scatter seeds of god's truth everywhere
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  • And lives are changed.
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  • Congratulations, thank you for being a part
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  • Of "the winning walk" family.
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  • Pastor ed: when my oldest son, ed, was four,
  • 00:26:16.398 --> 00:26:18.199
  • He liked to wander into the woods back behind our house.
  • 00:26:18.199 --> 00:26:22.437
  • I would go after him and bring him back in.
  • 00:26:22.437 --> 00:26:25.273
  • Then i started disciplining him and say,
  • 00:26:25.273 --> 00:26:27.409
  • "you can't do that, son."
  • 00:26:27.409 --> 00:26:29.344
  • But it didn't do any good.
  • 00:26:29.344 --> 00:26:31.279
  • One day, i decided i'll just let him go off in the woods
  • 00:26:31.279 --> 00:26:34.282
  • And just see where he'll go.
  • 00:26:34.282 --> 00:26:36.685
  • And i followed from a distance, hiding behind a tree,
  • 00:26:36.685 --> 00:26:40.689
  • He wandered deeper into the woods,
  • 00:26:40.689 --> 00:26:42.290
  • And finally he realized as he looked around he was lost.
  • 00:26:42.290 --> 00:26:46.928
  • And he began to cry.
  • 00:26:46.928 --> 00:26:48.830
  • I let him cry a little bit, but after a while,
  • 00:26:48.830 --> 00:26:52.167
  • I stepped out from my hiding place and said,
  • 00:26:52.167 --> 00:26:54.436
  • "son, are you ready to go home?"
  • 00:26:54.436 --> 00:26:59.274
  • If you are god's child through jesus christ,
  • 00:26:59.274 --> 00:27:02.577
  • He promises to watch your path.
  • 00:27:02.577 --> 00:27:05.680
  • Sometimes it feels like life is hopeless,
  • 00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:09.484
  • But he will be there, when you're ready,
  • 00:27:09.484 --> 00:27:13.188
  • To take you all the way home.
  • 00:27:13.188 --> 00:27:17.258
  • Pastor ed: god has blessed america.
  • 00:27:18.693 --> 00:27:20.895
  • Now, may america be a blessing for god beginning
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  • With our celebration this fourth of july.
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