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Ed Young - Staying Fired Up

November 19, 2025 | 29:0

Ed Young - Staying Fired Up
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Staying Fired Up | November 19, 2025
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  • Dr. ed young: i imagine there was a knock at my door.
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  • I got up, i went there, and there was a group of people that
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  • I did not know.
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  • And i looked at them and i said, "hmm.
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  • I wonder who these people are."
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  • And they looked respectable.
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  • They didn't look like a cartel from mexico or anything.
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  • And so i--i opened the door, and a man stepped forward.
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  • He said, "these people who are with me,
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  • They're on the u.s. olympic team,
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  • And we're the team that selects all the olympians
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  • That'll be in the summer olympics,
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  • And we'd like to speak with you."
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  • And i said, "why, certainly! come in!"
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  • And they came in, were seated.
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  • Introductions took place.
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  • The chairman stepped forward and said,
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  • "we have taken all of our computer profiles.
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  • We've done a lot of research all over the united states,
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  • And we've looked at men of all ages,
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  • All walks of life, background experience,
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  • Athletic capacity, and we have come to the conclusion that you
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  • Would be the best person in america to run in the summer
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  • Games and be on the olympic team,
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  • And your event would even be the 800 meter run,
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  • Which is about a half mile."
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  • I am stunned.
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  • And i said, "do you know i'm over 39?"
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  • And i said, "i've never run in a competitive race in my life."
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  • They knew that, they knew that.
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  • And i thought, "well, you know, i've jogged for 30-plus years.
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  • Maybe it's finally kicking in here,
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  • And they've discovered.
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  • I don't know."
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  • And so, i--i went through all that.
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  • I said, "this is--this is non-sensical.
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  • It's just beyond belief!
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  • They, they've selected me to be on the team!
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  • I accept!"
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  • I said, "boy, this changed my life!
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  • Man, this is something bigger than life!
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  • What a moment!"
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  • And as they go out the door, and i'm waving goodbye,
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  • And i say, "i want you to know, i'm going to do my best!
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  • I'm going to try!"
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  • And the chairman comes back and says,
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  • "oh no, no, no, no, no.
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  • You're not going to try.
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  • You're going to train."
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  • When you and i accepted christ, he put us on his eternal olympic
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  • Team, and we who've come to christ,
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  • So many of us say, i hear it all the time,
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  • "i'm going to try to be a christian."
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  • Anybody who is now trying to be a christian,
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  • Guess what?
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  • You're not going to make it!
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  • That's the antithesis of what the christian life is,
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  • To try.
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  • You don't try to be a christian.
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  • You train because you've received christ.
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  • We're in training to live the christian life
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  • On his olympic team.
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  • But we still try.
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  • We say, "it is by willpower.
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  • It is by determination.
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  • I'm going to try to do this, and not do this,
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  • And be this, and go to"--we try, and we try.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, quit trying.
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  • You.re not going to make it!
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  • But we still have that effort-driven mentality,
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  • Do we not?
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  • Go to most churches and they preach,
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  • "well, you have to try harder, pray more,
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  • Give more, come more.
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  • You try, try, try!
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  • It's all about effort.
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  • Oh, salvation by faith, but you try,
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  • Try, try to live the christian"--you don't try.
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  • You train.
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  • Big difference.
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  • Maybe you're familiar with the little children's story
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  • "toad and frog together."
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  • Toad cooked up a batch of cookies,
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  • Big batch of cookies.
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  • Toad and frog were eating the cookies.
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  • Boy, they were delicious.
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  • And frog said, "you know, we shouldn't eat all these.
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  • This is too good--it's not good for us to eat"--and toad said,
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  • "i know it, but they sure are good."
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  • And toad said, "maybe we could use some
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  • Willpower and stop eating."
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  • And frog said, "well, what is willpower?"
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  • Said, "well, willpower is trying to do something that you want to
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  • Do in your own power, your own strength,
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  • Your own determination."
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  • He said, "well, we can do that.
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  • We can stop eating," but they just kept eating,
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  • And kept eating, and they kept eating.
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  • Said, "we have to try harder."
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  • Said, "i know, but they're delicious!"
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  • And finally, frog said, "i know what we can do.
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  • We can take these cookies. i'll put them in a box.
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  • I'll tie the box up.
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  • I'll go out, and climb a tree, and put that box in the top of
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  • The tree, and then we'll have a tough time getting to them.
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  • That will handle our problem of trying to eat up
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  • All these cookies."
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  • Yeah, but toad said, "you know, you'd get so hungry,
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  • There'd be a day you'd climb up that tree,
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  • And you'd go get those cookies.
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  • You'd still eat them. that won't work!"
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  • Said, "well, we could take the cookies," and they
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  • Were still eating them.
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  • Said, "we'll just feed them to the birds," and they
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  • Poured out the remainder of the cookies.
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  • The birds came, they said, "hey, we did that with
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  • Our willpower, didn't we?"
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  • "yes, we sure did! we didn't eat all of them.
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  • Most of them, but not all of them."
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  • And so frog said to toad, "what do we do now?"
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  • He said, "i don't know what you're going to do.
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  • I'm going to go home and bake a cake!"
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  • That's what happens to us, isn't it?
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  • "i've got enough willpower over here,
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  • But, you know, it falls apart over here."
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  • Training is what happens to us when willpower is not enough.
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  • To be sure, willpower is a good place to begin.
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  • A desire, a want to, maybe a beginning motivation.
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  • Maybe we've seen others do it.
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  • But willpower in many things, addictions,
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  • Things that have just come into your life and come into my life
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  • That keeps us beat down, will not be enough.
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  • So there has to be training.
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  • Now we talk about spiritual disciplines,
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  • And we know there are a whole lot of spiritual disciplines.
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  • There's a long, long list of them,
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  • And--and they are used for different things.
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  • And by the way, let me say up front that no set of spiritual
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  • Disciplines works for everybody, because we're wired differently.
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  • Have you noticed that?
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  • I mean, we have to adapt our spiritual disciplines to those
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  • Particular things in which are dragging us down and keeping us
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  • From staying fired up with god.
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  • And so there are sins of omission,
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  • Things we do not do that we should do,
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  • And things of commission, things that we do that we absolutely
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  • Should not do.
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  • So this is part of the training.
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  • There's the discipline of abstinence.
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  • See it?
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  • Sins--and the answer for that, the discipline of
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  • Abstinence--keep it there on the board, abstinence,
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  • That is the sins of commission.
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  • Follow me. this is a little close.
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  • In other words, if i'm doing the things i shouldn't do,
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  • I'm exercising muscles in the wrong way,
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  • We should practice the disciplines,
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  • The quiet time, the prayer time.
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  • Look at them: solitude, silence, fasting,
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  • Frugality, chastity, secrecy.
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  • In other words, this fits me.
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  • If i am doing things that i should not do,
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  • Therefore, i have to get involved in the disciplines of
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  • Abstinence, you see?
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  • That affects, it deals with my problem.
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  • By the same token, look, if i am not doing things that i should
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  • Do--i should be patient, i should be kind,
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  • I should get involved.
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  • It's the other kind of discipline.
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  • It's the discipline of engagement.
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  • See it?
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  • By the way, this is dallas willard.
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  • You want to read a classic book, a study of this.
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  • The sins of omission.
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  • Study, worship, service, prayer,
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  • Fellowship, submission.
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  • You see, this is things i'm not doing.
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  • Therefore, the answer for that is to get involved in things
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  • That activate those muscles that i'm not using,
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  • Whereas i'm using the wrong muscles,
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  • I need something that will pacify and relax those muscles.
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  • Illustration of this in the bible.
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  • Here is elijah, in depression.
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  • What was god's answer for elijah in depression?
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  • He said, "i want to kill myself.
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  • Everybody else is following baal or ashtoreth."
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  • And he went off in a lonely place,
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  • And god says, "no, elijah, you need to take a nap.
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  • You need to go to sleep."
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  • And he awakened.
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  • He just fed him and said, "now go back to sleep."
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  • The answer for elijah, his spiritual discipline,
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  • Was to sleep.
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  • By the way, sleep is a beautiful thing.
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  • Have you noticed that? it's a fabulous thing.
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  • You go to sleep at night with a clear conscience,
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  • An open agenda, just listening to god,
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  • Maybe quoting a scripture, and just--it's a wonderful thing.
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  • It can be a spiritual discipline.
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  • Sometimes i'm a little short or quick,
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  • Though that's hard for anybody to believe.
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  • Jo beth might could find an illustration of that.
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  • I'm not sure that she could.
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  • But sometime, i'm just--i'm not rested.
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  • I've been going too hard.
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  • And so i just need to sleep.
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  • That becomes a discipline.
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  • So for elijah, the answer was sleep.
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  • Now look at peter, james, and john.
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  • Jesus said, "go with me into the garden of gethsemane.
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  • Pray with me, watch with me."
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  • He's facing the cross, and they went to sleep!
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  • Sleep for them was a sin.
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  • Sleep for elijah was the right thing to do.
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  • So what i'm saying?
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  • Some muscles, we need to teach them how to relax,
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  • With spiritual discipline.
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  • Other muscles, we seek them how to get engaged
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  • In spiritual discipline.
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  • That's the genius of it.
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  • That's how it works.
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  • So we're not to, "what's the problem?
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  • What's the problem?"
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  • "man, i'm going to try."
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  • No, we get in training with god, and that's prayer,
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  • That's bible study, that's worship,
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  • That's fellowship, that's all these things we're involved in.
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  • We're getting in spiritual training.
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  • What happens when spiritual training?
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  • We stayed fired up, do we not?
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  • We stay in tune with god.
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  • We have other people who helps us stay in tune
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  • With one another.
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  • And then the next thing we do here,
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  • It's not a matter of balance.
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  • It's not a balancing act.
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  • It is a building program.
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  • Or somebody had the idea, "boy, my life would really be okay.
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  • I'd have tranquility.
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  • I'd be marching along if i got everything in balance.
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  • Get some time-management consultant."
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  • You know those guys, those gals?
  • 00:11:11.350 --> 00:11:13.018
  • They come and tell you, "well, you got to have recreation,
  • 00:11:13.018 --> 00:11:15.721
  • Financial, vocation, spiritual, and you get
  • 00:11:15.721 --> 00:11:18.657
  • All those things in balance.
  • 00:11:18.657 --> 00:11:20.793
  • Boy, you'll just smooth.
  • 00:11:20.793 --> 00:11:23.295
  • You're in balance.
  • 00:11:23.295 --> 00:11:26.432
  • You can just smooth, go right through life."
  • 00:11:26.432 --> 00:11:27.833
  • That's not the answer, because you look at that,
  • 00:11:27.833 --> 00:11:30.436
  • You think all things are equal.
  • 00:11:30.436 --> 00:11:32.638
  • All those little disciplines are the same thing.
  • 00:11:32.638 --> 00:11:34.907
  • They're not.
  • 00:11:34.907 --> 00:11:36.475
  • So a balanced life keeps us from reaching out for things
  • 00:11:36.475 --> 00:11:39.645
  • That are beyond life.
  • 00:11:39.645 --> 00:11:41.914
  • Somebody take the apostle paul and say,
  • 00:11:41.914 --> 00:11:43.783
  • "paul, your life is totally out of balance.
  • 00:11:43.783 --> 00:11:46.252
  • Look what's happened to you.
  • 00:11:46.252 --> 00:11:47.686
  • You're neglecting the tent making that you were called to
  • 00:11:47.686 --> 00:11:50.689
  • Do for all this christian stuff.
  • 00:11:50.689 --> 00:11:53.159
  • Your life's out of balance.
  • 00:11:53.159 --> 00:11:54.827
  • The answer is not balance."
  • 00:11:54.827 --> 00:11:56.629
  • You say, "well, maybe the answer is be out of balance,
  • 00:11:56.629 --> 00:12:01.167
  • Not being balanced."
  • 00:12:01.167 --> 00:12:02.902
  • Somebody who has all their life is spiritual things.
  • 00:12:02.902 --> 00:12:05.771
  • Somebody who has all the piosity.
  • 00:12:05.771 --> 00:12:07.706
  • And they say, "are you going to the grocery store today?"
  • 00:12:07.706 --> 00:12:10.943
  • "well, if it's god's will, i'm going to
  • 00:12:10.943 --> 00:12:13.712
  • The grocery store today."
  • 00:12:13.712 --> 00:12:15.347
  • Know anybody like that?
  • 00:12:15.347 --> 00:12:18.050
  • Simeon stylites became a saint, third century.
  • 00:12:18.050 --> 00:12:21.687
  • He went and sat on a rock.
  • 00:12:21.687 --> 00:12:25.825
  • For 37 years, he never left that rock.
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  • Thirty-seven years.
  • 00:12:29.895 --> 00:12:31.864
  • And boy, he was a saint!
  • 00:12:31.864 --> 00:12:33.432
  • He just prayed to the lord.
  • 00:12:33.432 --> 00:12:35.034
  • Finally, people started gathering around him,
  • 00:12:35.034 --> 00:12:36.769
  • Trying to speak to him, and later on,
  • 00:12:36.769 --> 00:12:38.437
  • They built a tower 50 feet high for him to live on.
  • 00:12:38.437 --> 00:12:41.674
  • Thirty-seven years.
  • 00:12:41.674 --> 00:12:44.076
  • That's a whop-sided life, isn't it?
  • 00:12:44.076 --> 00:12:46.445
  • I don't think that's sanctification.
  • 00:12:46.445 --> 00:12:47.780
  • I think it's the opposite, i think it is a life
  • 00:12:47.780 --> 00:12:49.248
  • That has been wasted.
  • 00:12:49.248 --> 00:12:51.517
  • You see, that is an unbalanced life.
  • 00:12:51.517 --> 00:12:53.018
  • So the life, the way is not a balanced life,
  • 00:12:53.018 --> 00:12:55.754
  • The way is not an unbalanced life.
  • 00:12:55.754 --> 00:12:58.090
  • Well, what are we trying to do?
  • 00:12:58.090 --> 00:12:59.992
  • How are trying to stay fired up with god and in charge of what
  • 00:12:59.992 --> 00:13:03.262
  • He has for our lives?
  • 00:13:03.262 --> 00:13:04.830
  • That is a building project.
  • 00:13:04.830 --> 00:13:07.533
  • We are to build into our lives a heart,
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  • A heart that's made for god.
  • 00:13:12.204 --> 00:13:16.308
  • You read in the bible the heart is the seat of our passion.
  • 00:13:16.308 --> 00:13:20.479
  • It's the seat of our emotions.
  • 00:13:20.479 --> 00:13:21.947
  • It is that impetus that is within us.
  • 00:13:21.947 --> 00:13:24.984
  • So we're to build spiritual formations in our lives.
  • 00:13:24.984 --> 00:13:29.088
  • That's a part of that, those disciplines we talked about.
  • 00:13:29.088 --> 00:13:32.224
  • That's a part of spending time, quality time listening and
  • 00:13:32.224 --> 00:13:37.796
  • Speaking to god, as we talked about extensively.
  • 00:13:37.796 --> 00:13:41.300
  • And suddenly, we have a heart that is like that.
  • 00:13:41.300 --> 00:13:45.104
  • And so, what's the answer?
  • 00:13:45.104 --> 00:13:47.139
  • Two things.
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  • One thing would be fellowship.
  • 00:13:48.607 --> 00:13:50.009
  • Look at chronicles, if you would, with me.
  • 00:13:50.009 --> 00:13:53.779
  • The third chapter, verse number 12.
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  • "so, as those who have been chosen of god,
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  • Wholly and beloved," listen to this,
  • 00:14:01.754 --> 00:14:03.923
  • "put on the heart of compassion."
  • 00:14:03.923 --> 00:14:07.893
  • Now what does that heart look like?
  • 00:14:07.893 --> 00:14:09.929
  • Remind--remember now, we're keeping a life that's on charge,
  • 00:14:09.929 --> 00:14:13.132
  • A life that is fired up, a life that has purpose.
  • 00:14:13.132 --> 00:14:15.134
  • "put on a heart of compassion.
  • 00:14:15.134 --> 00:14:17.102
  • It has kindness, humility, gentleness,
  • 00:14:17.102 --> 00:14:21.307
  • And patience, bearing with one another,
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  • Forgiving each other.
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  • Whoever has a complaint against anyone,
  • 00:14:26.011 --> 00:14:28.314
  • Just as the lord forgave you, so also should you."
  • 00:14:28.314 --> 00:14:33.852
  • Verse 14, "beyond all these things,
  • 00:14:33.852 --> 00:14:36.088
  • Put on love which is the perfect bond of unity."
  • 00:14:36.088 --> 00:14:43.195
  • What is it like to put on love?
  • 00:14:43.195 --> 00:14:45.464
  • Augustine says when you put on love,
  • 00:14:45.464 --> 00:14:48.934
  • All of a sudden, you have a heart that's made for god,
  • 00:14:48.934 --> 00:14:54.239
  • And he gives the characteristics of that heart.
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  • Follow me.
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  • Very important.
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  • You do the right thing.
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  • You do the right thing, the right way.
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  • You do the right thing the right way,
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  • The right time, and you do the right thing,
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  • The right way, the right time, for the right reason.
  • 00:15:15.594 --> 00:15:19.098
  • Whoa!
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  • Boy, if that could be your life and my life,
  • 00:15:22.234 --> 00:15:25.070
  • What kind of life would you have?
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  • What kind of life would i have? would that not do it?
  • 00:15:26.739 --> 00:15:30.142
  • Now, most of us know, "oh, i want to do the right thing."
  • 00:15:30.142 --> 00:15:32.845
  • Even when we do the right thing, sometime we do the right thing
  • 00:15:32.845 --> 00:15:34.880
  • The wrong way, don't we?
  • 00:15:34.880 --> 00:15:36.915
  • Sure we do.
  • 00:15:36.915 --> 00:15:38.584
  • I can tell you a lot of illustration in my life,
  • 00:15:38.584 --> 00:15:40.486
  • Did the right thing, but the wrong way.
  • 00:15:40.486 --> 00:15:43.122
  • And sometime, we do the right thing the right way,
  • 00:15:43.122 --> 00:15:45.624
  • And we don't do it at the right time.
  • 00:15:45.624 --> 00:15:47.926
  • Boy, our timing is mixed up.
  • 00:15:47.926 --> 00:15:49.762
  • Boy, that's a problem.
  • 00:15:49.762 --> 00:15:51.797
  • Oh, oh, oh, bad timing!
  • 00:15:51.797 --> 00:15:53.532
  • Oh, oh, oh, messed up doing the right thing the right way.
  • 00:15:53.532 --> 00:15:55.234
  • The timing is off.
  • 00:15:55.234 --> 00:15:56.635
  • Messed everything up, and then for the right reasons.
  • 00:15:56.635 --> 00:15:58.203
  • That's the motivation!
  • 00:15:58.203 --> 00:16:00.706
  • Get those together, ladies and gentlemen,
  • 00:16:00.706 --> 00:16:02.741
  • And we'll begin to have a heart for god.
  • 00:16:02.741 --> 00:16:05.711
  • We put love.
  • 00:16:05.711 --> 00:16:07.179
  • We've got these qualities operating in your
  • 00:16:07.179 --> 00:16:08.580
  • Life and my life.
  • 00:16:08.580 --> 00:16:09.948
  • Well, where do we begin?
  • 00:16:09.948 --> 00:16:11.483
  • See, our goal--let me tell you our goal out there.
  • 00:16:11.483 --> 00:16:15.187
  • Our goal is, as we are in christ,
  • 00:16:15.187 --> 00:16:18.724
  • That we are to do and become what christ would do and become
  • 00:16:18.724 --> 00:16:25.064
  • If he were in your shoes and in my shoes.
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  • You got it?
  • 00:16:27.900 --> 00:16:29.334
  • The old thing "what would jesus do?"
  • 00:16:29.334 --> 00:16:31.103
  • One little book, two or three generations ago.
  • 00:16:31.103 --> 00:16:33.839
  • That's not the question.
  • 00:16:33.839 --> 00:16:35.240
  • But what would jesus do if he were in charge of your life now,
  • 00:16:35.240 --> 00:16:39.378
  • Where you are, past, present, future?
  • 00:16:39.378 --> 00:16:41.914
  • All of a sudden, you say, "man!
  • 00:16:41.914 --> 00:16:43.749
  • I've got to have a changed heart.
  • 00:16:43.749 --> 00:16:45.951
  • I have to have a changed life.
  • 00:16:45.951 --> 00:16:47.519
  • I have to stay fired up with the lord."
  • 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:50.189
  • How does it happen? it happens through fellowship.
  • 00:16:50.189 --> 00:16:53.258
  • You put on. there is fellowship here.
  • 00:16:53.258 --> 00:16:55.527
  • A nobleman's son asked his father,
  • 00:16:55.527 --> 00:16:59.398
  • He said, "i want to know what i'm to do with my life.
  • 00:16:59.398 --> 00:17:04.436
  • I don't know what my life is for.
  • 00:17:04.436 --> 00:17:06.238
  • I don't have purpose."
  • 00:17:06.238 --> 00:17:08.440
  • And the father said, "son, get to know the king,
  • 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:13.712
  • And you will soon find out."
  • 00:17:13.712 --> 00:17:17.249
  • People say, "what's god's purpose for my life?"
  • 00:17:17.249 --> 00:17:19.852
  • Get to know the king, king jesus.
  • 00:17:19.852 --> 00:17:22.254
  • He can do that, he wants to know you, know you better,
  • 00:17:22.254 --> 00:17:25.991
  • Know you fully, know you completely.
  • 00:17:25.991 --> 00:17:27.593
  • Hang around jesus!
  • 00:17:27.593 --> 00:17:29.528
  • You know, that's what we'd say.
  • 00:17:29.528 --> 00:17:31.396
  • And you'll find out exactly what your purpose
  • 00:17:31.396 --> 00:17:34.700
  • In life is all about.
  • 00:17:34.700 --> 00:17:37.936
  • The next thing you would say, not only hang around jesus,
  • 00:17:37.936 --> 00:17:41.773
  • But this is the powerful little verse here that i want us
  • 00:17:41.773 --> 00:17:45.377
  • All--just repeat it after me.
  • 00:17:45.377 --> 00:17:49.148
  • "whatever you do in word"--
  • 00:17:49.148 --> 00:17:51.283
  • Congregation: whatever you do in word.
  • 00:17:51.283 --> 00:17:53.919
  • Dr. ed: "or deed"-- congregation: or deed.
  • 00:17:53.919 --> 00:17:56.188
  • Dr. ed: "do all in the name"--
  • 00:17:56.188 --> 00:17:57.890
  • Congregation: do all in the name.
  • 00:17:57.890 --> 00:17:59.358
  • Dr. ed: "of the lord jesus."
  • 00:17:59.358 --> 00:18:00.692
  • Congregation: of the lord jesus.
  • 00:18:00.692 --> 00:18:02.227
  • Dr. ed: that's it, "well, it sounds pious.
  • 00:18:02.227 --> 00:18:03.795
  • How does it work?"
  • 00:18:03.795 --> 00:18:05.130
  • Whatever you do in word--
  • 00:18:05.130 --> 00:18:07.566
  • Congregation: whatever you do in word.
  • 00:18:07.566 --> 00:18:08.901
  • Dr. ed: whatever you do in deed.
  • 00:18:08.901 --> 00:18:10.402
  • Congregation: whatever you do in deed.
  • 00:18:10.402 --> 00:18:11.803
  • Dr. ed: do in the name. congregation: do in the name.
  • 00:18:11.803 --> 00:18:13.939
  • Dr. ed: of the lord jesus.
  • 00:18:13.939 --> 00:18:16.041
  • It means we get up in the morning and say,
  • 00:18:16.041 --> 00:18:19.244
  • "morning, lord. i'm here, i'm open.
  • 00:18:19.244 --> 00:18:21.246
  • I'm available to you.
  • 00:18:21.246 --> 00:18:22.848
  • Whatever i do today, help me to do it in your name,
  • 00:18:22.848 --> 00:18:25.350
  • Every relationship, every activity."
  • 00:18:25.350 --> 00:18:28.287
  • Billy graham said that he was taught a spiritual practice
  • 00:18:28.287 --> 00:18:32.491
  • Right early in his life.
  • 00:18:32.491 --> 00:18:35.027
  • He said, "virtually everybody i meet,
  • 00:18:35.027 --> 00:18:37.095
  • When i'm talking with them, i try to,
  • 00:18:37.095 --> 00:18:38.764
  • As i'm speaking, to pray, "lord, work and speak in this life."
  • 00:18:38.764 --> 00:18:43.669
  • He said, "it's changed everything."
  • 00:18:43.669 --> 00:18:46.004
  • Work and speak in this life.
  • 00:18:46.004 --> 00:18:48.840
  • That's doing everything in the name of the lord jesus.
  • 00:18:48.840 --> 00:18:52.611
  • Doesn't mean you say, "oh, i'm speaking to you in the name of--
  • 00:18:52.611 --> 00:18:55.247
  • Don't get that super pious air.
  • 00:18:55.247 --> 00:18:58.650
  • Just live it and put reality to it.
  • 00:18:58.650 --> 00:19:01.386
  • Everything we do, we do in the name of the lord jesus.
  • 00:19:01.386 --> 00:19:04.790
  • And then an amazing thing happens to us: we discover we
  • 00:19:04.790 --> 00:19:08.227
  • Have built, and god is building in you and me a heart for him.
  • 00:19:08.227 --> 00:19:11.964
  • Our heart has been reconstructed.
  • 00:19:11.964 --> 00:19:14.499
  • It is being rekindled.
  • 00:19:14.499 --> 00:19:18.170
  • Let me put this in a simple way.
  • 00:19:18.170 --> 00:19:23.375
  • Years ago, there was a missionary in nigeria,
  • 00:19:23.375 --> 00:19:25.577
  • And there was one outstanding young man.
  • 00:19:25.577 --> 00:19:29.715
  • This missionary watched this child come from first grade all
  • 00:19:29.715 --> 00:19:33.051
  • The way through school, until he finished high school.
  • 00:19:33.051 --> 00:19:35.654
  • He had great potential.
  • 00:19:35.654 --> 00:19:37.289
  • And he went to his mom and dad.
  • 00:19:37.289 --> 00:19:39.258
  • They came from poverty, as you would expect,
  • 00:19:39.258 --> 00:19:42.461
  • And said, "i want benjamin to go to college in the united states.
  • 00:19:42.461 --> 00:19:46.498
  • I've prepared for a scholarship for him in a christian college.
  • 00:19:46.498 --> 00:19:49.835
  • I want him to go, if you'll let him."
  • 00:19:49.835 --> 00:19:52.904
  • And they said, "of course," and so benjamin flew
  • 00:19:52.904 --> 00:19:55.040
  • To america by himself.
  • 00:19:55.040 --> 00:19:56.742
  • Found his way to the college, rode there on a bus.
  • 00:19:56.742 --> 00:19:59.344
  • Went in and enrolled.
  • 00:19:59.344 --> 00:20:00.779
  • Got in class, began to work.
  • 00:20:00.779 --> 00:20:02.914
  • Can you imagine the culture shock?
  • 00:20:02.914 --> 00:20:05.150
  • I think about boy, what a--what a--i've been in places,
  • 00:20:05.150 --> 00:20:08.820
  • And i was in culture shock.
  • 00:20:08.820 --> 00:20:10.555
  • But i'm telling you, his culture shock must have been
  • 00:20:10.555 --> 00:20:12.691
  • Beyond measure.
  • 00:20:12.691 --> 00:20:14.826
  • But in that culture shock, he's walking around the campus,
  • 00:20:14.826 --> 00:20:17.029
  • And he saw a stadium.
  • 00:20:17.029 --> 00:20:18.397
  • He saw some other students running and jumping,
  • 00:20:18.397 --> 00:20:23.168
  • And he asked somebody, "what are they doing?"
  • 00:20:23.168 --> 00:20:24.936
  • He said, "well, that's our track team.
  • 00:20:24.936 --> 00:20:26.972
  • We got a wonderful track team.
  • 00:20:26.972 --> 00:20:28.473
  • We--we think we'll win the conference."
  • 00:20:28.473 --> 00:20:30.909
  • He said, "well, what do they do?"
  • 00:20:30.909 --> 00:20:32.311
  • And they told him they race, and they lift,
  • 00:20:32.311 --> 00:20:34.179
  • And they jump, do different things.
  • 00:20:34.179 --> 00:20:36.281
  • And he said, "you know, can anybody be on the team?"
  • 00:20:36.281 --> 00:20:39.184
  • And they said, "well, if you try out."
  • 00:20:39.184 --> 00:20:40.986
  • And so they got him a try out, put the uniform on.
  • 00:20:40.986 --> 00:20:43.622
  • He'd never run a competitive race in his life.
  • 00:20:43.622 --> 00:20:46.425
  • He raced as kids, went from village to village there in
  • 00:20:46.425 --> 00:20:48.694
  • Nigeria, but he had no experience.
  • 00:20:48.694 --> 00:20:50.996
  • And they said, "no, let's just time him."
  • 00:20:50.996 --> 00:20:52.631
  • So they had him--he said, "benjamin,
  • 00:20:52.631 --> 00:20:54.366
  • As fast as you can, run around that track
  • 00:20:54.366 --> 00:20:56.635
  • Four times," and he did.
  • 00:20:56.635 --> 00:20:57.969
  • And they timed him, and they said,
  • 00:20:57.969 --> 00:21:00.772
  • "take your breath, and do that
  • 00:21:00.772 --> 00:21:02.708
  • Once more, would you please?"
  • 00:21:02.708 --> 00:21:04.042
  • And he ran around once more, and the coaches said,
  • 00:21:04.042 --> 00:21:07.212
  • "he just missed by a few seconds breaking the record,
  • 00:21:07.212 --> 00:21:11.383
  • Conference record for the mile."
  • 00:21:11.383 --> 00:21:14.186
  • That's when they ran around four times.
  • 00:21:14.186 --> 00:21:16.455
  • And they said, "benjamin, you're on the team!"
  • 00:21:16.455 --> 00:21:19.257
  • And they said, "we have a chance to beat this big university."
  • 00:21:19.257 --> 00:21:22.260
  • They had, had a meet the next week with like,
  • 00:21:22.260 --> 00:21:23.895
  • Uh, university like ut, or a & m.
  • 00:21:23.895 --> 00:21:26.631
  • And, and so they said, "well, we got a chance to win that with
  • 00:21:26.631 --> 00:21:29.601
  • Benjamin running the mile," and so the event started.
  • 00:21:29.601 --> 00:21:32.971
  • Toe your mark, get set!
  • 00:21:32.971 --> 00:21:34.306
  • And the coaches told him, said, "benjamin,
  • 00:21:34.306 --> 00:21:36.141
  • You'll win this race.
  • 00:21:36.141 --> 00:21:38.210
  • They've got some good milers, but you should win.
  • 00:21:38.210 --> 00:21:40.512
  • Just get on the outside. stay away from everybody.
  • 00:21:40.512 --> 00:21:42.881
  • You just run four laps and see what happens."
  • 00:21:42.881 --> 00:21:45.283
  • So he did.
  • 00:21:45.283 --> 00:21:47.018
  • But they started off the first 100 yards,
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  • 200 yards, first--you know, half of the first quarter.
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  • Man, it looked like he couldn't pick his legs up!
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  • He was just dragging.
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  • Everybody moving ahead of him.
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  • They got almost a half a lap ahead of him.
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  • Then they got great distance ahead of him,
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  • And about bending the second part or the third time
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  • Around--they had to run four times.
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  • All of a sudden, pshewt!
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  • You could see life came to him, and he began to move!
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  • And finally, he caught up with the last of them as they began
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  • The last 300 yards, and, and he'd moved ahead,
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  • And finally the last 100 yards, he was like a sprinter.
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  • Zip!
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  • He went across the tape, ahead of everybody else.
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  • And they didn't know who he was.
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  • The crowd didn't know. the coaches were thrilled.
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  • And they got him over to one side.
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  • They said, "benjamin, congratulations.
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  • You have won, and you set a new record for the conference.
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  • We don't know what you can do running the mile."
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  • And the coach said, "by the way, what was wrong with you the
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  • First quarter, quarter and a half?
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  • You just--you got way behind.
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  • What was going on?"
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  • He said, "i don't know."
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  • He said, "my legs felt like iron."
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  • He said--he said, "i--i just couldn't pick them up!"
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  • He said, "then what happened to you when you just
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  • Sprang into action?"
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  • He said, "i just prayed."
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  • And he said, "jesus, if you'll pick them up,
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  • I'll put them down."
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  • And he said, "jesus picked them up so fast,
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  • I could hardly put them back down!"
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  • Do everything in the name of jesus!
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  • He'll pick them up!
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  • We put them down!
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  • And all of a sudden, we'll stay fired up for him.
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  • We'll be on his team.
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  • Not always on the mountain tops, but we'll begin to hear the
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  • Sound of the trumpets in the morning.
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  • And guess what?
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  • With this new heart?
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  • And we're not trying.
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  • We're in training.
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  • We're not trying to balance everything.
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  • We're building this heart for the lord
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  • And this heart for christ.
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  • We'll discover, you know?
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  • "i'm doing the right thing.
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  • I'm doing it the right way, and i'm doing it at the right time.
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  • And i'm doing it for the right reason."
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, that's our goal!
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  • That's when all of a sudden, we realize that,
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  • You know, i'm really on the lord jesus christ's olympic team.
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  • I've got a new heart, and i'm not sinning like i used to in my
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  • Mind, in my way, and in my personality,
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  • Because the desire is no longer there.
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  • That, ladies and gentlemen, is how to stay fired up!
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  • Dr. ed: i remember a bible study group that consisted of
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  • Doctors, and attorneys, and ceos,
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  • And vice presidents, and presidents of corporations,
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  • Entrepreneurial geniuses, and a street sweeper.
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  • In the initial meeting, the group leader asked each to
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  • Identify himself.
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  • First one said, "i'm a physician."
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  • Another, "i'm an attorney."
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  • "i'm vice president of operations," answered a third.
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  • And finally, it was the street sweeper's turn.
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  • I was a little apprehensive of what he would say.
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  • He said, "i am a son of the king."
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  • He had no identity in the world in which he could boast,
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  • But he knew his core identity.
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  • The others were clouded by the earthly titles,
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  • Position, but the street sweeper knew he was chosen by the king
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  • Of kings to be a son with all the privileges and honors,
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  • Man, of that high position.
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  • In jesus christ right now, today,
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  • There is not a higher position in anybody's kingdom.
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