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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Stuck In A Rut | November 25, 2025
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- Dr. ed young: you'd be amazed how many times people ask me,
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- How you stay so passionate about life?
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- How do you stay fired up all the time?
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- You seem to have fire in your belly!
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- How does that happen?
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- Ladies and gentlemen, i decided a long time ago
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- That i was going to burn up and not rust out.
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- (audience laughing)
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- But i can tell you, there's a lot of people here
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- Who haven't made that decision.
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- I know so many folks that may be 25 or 95,
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- But they've just given up on life.
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- And you know, they have the idea that,
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- Well, i have put a do not disturb sign on my door,
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- And i'm going to continue to live the way i'm living,
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- And you go through life, boring everybody to death,
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- And even boring yourself to death.
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- And you can't justify being alive, breathing air,
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- Consuming goods, loving me, my, and mine,
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- And that's about it.
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- Many people get in a rut.
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- On the alaska highway, there's a sign up there that says,
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- Choose your rut carefully,
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- Because you'll be in it for the next 200 miles.
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- Are you in a rut?
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- Has fire gone out of your life?
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- By the way, you know what a rut is.
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- It's a grave with both ends kicked out of it.
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- And when people begin to say, well, i guess my life is over.
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- I'm just gonna live my life just like this,
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- And i'm not gonna change.
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- When is the last time
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- You launched out into something
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- That you'd never done before?
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- When is the last time you stood up and said,
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- I want to volunteer to move in this area?
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- How many times have people asked you
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- To move out of your comfort zone,
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- And you'd said, you know, i've never done that before.
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- I just don't know.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, you have lost fire in your life.
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- What is fire in the bible?
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- It's used for many things,
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- But primarily, it is a metaphor for god.
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- God is like a fire, and when god comes in a life,
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- He burns all away that which is extraneous,
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- And he gives us life, and purpose, and direction.
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- Have you lost your way?
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- Are you confused?
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- Are you, in a sense caught up in slavery?
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- This is the way it is!
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- There's no hope for me.
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- I can't change.
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- I was in the bible museum
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- About three weeks ago in washington,
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- And the man who put it all together
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- Took me into a section there,
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- And he was showing me literally thousands of bibles,
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- And he said, "look at this shelf.
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- "these are bibles, these are bibles
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- "that the plantation owners had printed for slaves."
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- I said, boy, that's interesting.
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- And here's these slave bibles.
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- The owners of the slave had them printed for their slaves,
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- And i said, what's the difference in this bible,
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- Than all the other bibles?
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- He said, "well, the slave owners
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- "had the book of exodus left out."
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- (audience laughing)
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- Didn't want the slaves to know that god sets people free!
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- God intends for people to be free,
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- But i can tell you, you're in a special kind
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- Of deadly slavery right now
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- If there is no fire of purpose in your life.
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- We've been studying solomon.
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- He's let us walk inside his life.
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- This may have been his memoirs,
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- It may have been is autobiography.
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- It may have been his spiritual journal,
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- But you have to be thrilled when somebody just opens up
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- And says, this is the thrust of my life.
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- You know what he tells us?
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- He says, "this is how you can put
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- "the fire of god in your life."
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- If, if that fire has gone out,
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- If you don't wake up in the morning
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- And hear the sound of the trumpets any longer?
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- Let me tell you something, i wake up every morning,
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- And i wake up winston, and i sing,
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- This is the day the lord has made,
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- And he's never once complained.
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- (audience laughing)
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- Is that your life?
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- Do you hear the sound of the trumpets in the morning?
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- Do you jump out of bed with purpose?
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- Is there fire in your belly, to say it theologically?
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- Solomon says "this is how you can put fire in your belly."
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- And he gives us four proverbs.
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- He's a master of proverbs, he's written that book.
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- And i want you to listen to these proverbs,
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- And if you're sort of fed up with life,
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- You know, you're caught up in the same old, same old,
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- And it's sort of ho-hum, and i'm gonna hang in til' the end.
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- And you always say, well, i can't do that because,
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- You know, i'm older now,
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- And i don't stay up on things like i used to now.
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- Let me tell you something.
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- I stay away from people like that, i run from them.
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- Because they've lost the light of god
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- And the fire of god in their life!
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- And i've seen 'em at 25,
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- I've seen 'em all through the years.
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- By the way, there are four or five stages of life.
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- There's infancy.
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- There's childhood, the teenage years.
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- Then there is the young, middle years,
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- And then there's middle age, and then there's old age,
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- And then there is a you sure look good time.
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- (audience laughing)
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- But in whatever category you find yourself,
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- So many people, i see young people,
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- And there is no fire in their life.
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- I look at their eyes, and their eyes are glazed over.
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- There's no real purpose,
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- And they don't understand the meaning of life.
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- Solomon says, "you wanna keep fire in your life?"
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- He tells us exactly how to do it with four proverbs.
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- Look at them!
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- Ecclesiastes one, verse one.
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- Cast your bread on the surface of the waters,
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- And you will find it after many days.
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- What is that?
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- You cast your bread, your life, your means
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- And just throw it out on the surface of waters.
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- Let me tell you, you take bread
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- And put it in a plastic container, and it'll mold.
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- You put it in the refrigerator, and it'll become dry.
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- I've discovered that in recent days.
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- (audience laughing)
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- And so, what do you do with bread?
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- Solomon says, "you wanna keep fire in your life?
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- "you just cast it out on the water."
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- And you'll be amazed what will happen.
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- It will come back to you, many days later,
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- Buttered, i believe.
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- (audience laughing)
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- And some people, they're so close.
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- He's talking about living a life that is generous.
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- Somebody says, "make all you can,
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- Can all you can, and sit on the can."
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- In other words, don't share. don't become generous.
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- But solomon says, "just cast your bread on the water."
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- By the way, this is another way
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- Of expressing the golden rule.
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- Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you.
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- What does that mean?
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- It means whatever you need, that's what you give.
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- Does anybody here have any need?
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- You have anything you want, or you down,
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- Or what do you need?
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- Need somebody to encourage you?
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- Guess what, encourage others.
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- Try it!
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- "cast some bread on the water."
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- That's what solomon says.
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- And then he gives us another parable
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- That is just as powerful and practical as that.
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- Verse two, "divide your portion to the seven,
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- "or even to the eight,
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- "for you do not know what misfortune may occur on earth."
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- What is he saying there?
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- Don't put all of your eggs in one basket!
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- That's what he's saying.
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- You drop the basket, you lose all your eggs!
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- What does that mean?
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- It means diversify.
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- Don't let one rejection,
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- Or one broken heart destroy your life.
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- I know a young woman who said,
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- "you know, i've never met my soul mate.
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- "i thought that i had, and i lost him,
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- "and oh, i'll never be happy for the rest of my life."
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- The whole thing about soul mate is a myth, folks!
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- It's a myth!
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- It's not, i can only marry one person.
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- Where do you get that in the bible?
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- Now i believe in covenant marriage,
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- Don't misunderstand or misinterpret this.
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- But by the same token, just because this didn't work out,
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- Your life's not destroyed.
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- I see teenagers, well,
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- I didn't get accepted to that college.
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- Therefore, i don't know if i want to go to school anymore.
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- You see, there a lot you have to divert.
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- Don't put all your eggs in one basket
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- And say, this must work for me, or i'm gonna be miserable!
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- How foolish is that kind of thinking?
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- Solomon says you want to keep fire in your life,
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- If this door closes, god may open a window.
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- If this window is raining, you can't go there,
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- He may find you a backward way.
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- In other words, believe in the providence of god!
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- God's running this world, ladies and gentlemen!
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- Nobody else is, don't believe anything you read,
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- And when you and i try to run the world,
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- I try it once in a while, and i quickly resign!
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- (audience laughing)
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- The providence of god is working,
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- So we don't put all of our eggs in one basket, or one thing.
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- By the way, that's what happened to the ship, the titanic.
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- In about 1912, this beautiful ship,
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- Most expensive ship ever made,
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- On its maiden voyage, who's who was on board,
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- And they advertised, this ship cannot be sunk!
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- And they put all of their stock in the steel of the hull.
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- How it was put together as a catacomb,
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- And they had five different chambers
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- That were air tight that gravitated
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- To 16 different steel chambers,
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- And they said, "if something would penetrate
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- "one of these airtight chambers, it would seal itself
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- "and the ship would still stay afloat."
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- They put all their eggs in that kind of engineering,
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- That kind of thinking.
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- Therefore, they came to icebergs,
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- They said, "full steam ahead, this ship can't be sunk!"
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- And they ran into an iceberg,
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- It pierced one of those airtight
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- Steel compartments in the hull.
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- They said, "well, the rest of them,
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- "they haven't been penetrated."
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- But what they didn't know was,
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- When they pierced this, the water pressure and the power,
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- They had steel horizontally around the ship,
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- But when it pierced this,
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- The water was forced with power
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- And came down in the other areas of the ship vertically,
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- And they went down to the bottom of the ocean.
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- They put all their eggs in the basket of pride,
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- We're invincible, we can't go down.
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- What is solomon saying?
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- He says, "cast your bread on the water!
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- "watch what happens, invest in life, in people,
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- "in things that make a difference."
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- And then he says, "don't put all your eggs in one basket."
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- The he comes and gives us another parable,
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- And by the way, put these things in practice,
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- Fire will come back in your life, purpose in your life.
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- Verse three following,
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- "if the clouds are full, they pour out rain upon the earth,
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- "and whether a tree falls."
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- What's he saying here, by the way,
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- You're gonna see is don't put off to tomorrow
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- What you can do today.
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- He's saying, "nike, victory, do it now!"
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- And he says, and he moves on, "south, or toward the north,
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- "whether the tree falls, where it lies.
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- "he who watches the wind will not sow,
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- "and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.
- 00:13:21.690 --> 00:13:24.760
- "just as you do not know the path of the wind
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- "and how the bones are formed
- 00:13:27.229 --> 00:13:28.664
- "in the womb of a pregnant woman,
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- "so you do not know the activity of god,
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- "who makes all things."
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- What is he saying here?
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- He is saying if you want fire to come in your life,
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- You have to understand and realize
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- That you're not in control of all of this.
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- You have to come to realize
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- Some very practical words of truth about life
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- And where it comes from,
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- And there's a capriciousness there.
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- There's a unsteadiness there.
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- And then he talks about in verse number six,
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- "sow your seed in the morning
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- "and do not be idle in the evening,
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- "for you to do not know whether morning
- 00:14:06.068 --> 00:14:07.937
- "or evening sowing will succeed,
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- "or whether both of them alike will be good."
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- He's saying very simply here
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- That we just sow seed bountifully.
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- We, say in corinthians chapter number nine said,
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- "just sow bountifully."
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- If you sow bountifully, you may have a bountiful harvest.
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- If you sow sparingly, not much is going to come up.
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- So he's talking about the fundamental law
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- Of sowing and reaping.
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- And we just delay, we say,
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- Well, it's not the right time for me to do that.
- 00:14:37.132 --> 00:14:39.735
- We put this off, we put that off, we procrastinate it.
- 00:14:39.735 --> 00:14:43.038
- Solomon said, "do it now!
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- "what are you waiting for?
- 00:14:45.774 --> 00:14:47.109
- "decide now!"
- 00:14:47.109 --> 00:14:49.878
- I read about a georgia farmer,
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- And he was in an old shack, and a car pulled up.
- 00:14:52.614 --> 00:14:55.384
- A man asked for directions,
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- And the farmer gave him directions,
- 00:14:57.553 --> 00:14:59.254
- And the man said, "well, how's your cotton crop coming?"
- 00:14:59.254 --> 00:15:03.092
- He said, "uh, i ain't planted no cotton this year."
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- He said, "why?"
- 00:15:06.762 --> 00:15:08.230
- He said, "boll weevils."
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- Okay.
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- He said, "tell me how your corn crop is doing?"
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- He said, "i ain't planting no corn this year."
- 00:15:13.936 --> 00:15:16.772
- He said, "why?"
- 00:15:16.772 --> 00:15:18.173
- "well, they said we're not gonna have much rain."
- 00:15:18.173 --> 00:15:20.743
- He said, "what about your potatoes?"
- 00:15:20.743 --> 00:15:22.144
- He said, "i didn't plant any potatoes."
- 00:15:22.144 --> 00:15:23.579
- "why?" "potato bugs."
- 00:15:23.579 --> 00:15:25.347
- He said, "what did you plant?"
- 00:15:25.347 --> 00:15:26.915
- He said, "i didn't plant anything.
- 00:15:26.915 --> 00:15:28.717
- "i'm playing it safe!"
- 00:15:28.717 --> 00:15:30.352
- (audience laughing)
- 00:15:30.352 --> 00:15:32.021
- Some people take their whole life and they play it safe.
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- Listen, there's never a perfect time
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- For anything that we're trying to decide on.
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- Some people have the idea, well,
- 00:15:42.664 --> 00:15:44.166
- I can't decide about christ.
- 00:15:44.166 --> 00:15:46.068
- I can't decide about the church.
- 00:15:46.068 --> 00:15:48.270
- I'm just gonna wait and see until my life is perfect,
- 00:15:48.270 --> 00:15:51.473
- I get a lot of moral things straightened out,
- 00:15:51.473 --> 00:15:53.675
- And i have new understanding about being a christian.
- 00:15:53.675 --> 00:15:58.480
- Ravi zacharias was speaking at the harvard veritas forum,
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- And he simply presented jesus christ, biblical truth.
- 00:16:04.286 --> 00:16:08.891
- God revealed himself to man,
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- And he talked about christ in you
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- Will give you a new life at harvard.
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- When he got through, one student lifted his hand.
- 00:16:17.266 --> 00:16:20.369
- He said, "i believe all religions are the same."
- 00:16:20.369 --> 00:16:26.708
- He said, "i believe there are many paths
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- "that go up to the top of the mountain,
- 00:16:28.977 --> 00:16:31.180
- "and it doesn't matter which path you take,
- 00:16:31.180 --> 00:16:34.116
- "as long as you're sincere,
- 00:16:34.116 --> 00:16:36.051
- "we'll all reap the top together."
- 00:16:36.051 --> 00:16:38.454
- He said, "i believe all religions are the same."
- 00:16:38.454 --> 00:16:42.157
- And ravi said, "hmm, you're right.
- 00:16:42.157 --> 00:16:46.662
- "all religions are the same,
- 00:16:46.662 --> 00:16:48.097
- "except for the nature and character of god,
- 00:16:48.097 --> 00:16:53.735
- "the identity and a definition of man,
- 00:16:53.735 --> 00:16:57.906
- "except for ethics, right and wrong,
- 00:16:57.906 --> 00:17:00.676
- "except for the understanding of cosmology, the universe."
- 00:17:00.676 --> 00:17:04.913
- He said, "except for sexuality,
- 00:17:04.913 --> 00:17:08.650
- "except for suffering, except for relationships."
- 00:17:08.650 --> 00:17:13.522
- He said, "except for your eternal destiny,
- 00:17:13.522 --> 00:17:15.624
- Heaven or hell."
- 00:17:15.624 --> 00:17:17.025
- He said, "oh, just with those few little minor things,
- 00:17:17.025 --> 00:17:20.329
- "you're right, all religions are the same."
- 00:17:20.329 --> 00:17:23.098
- (audience laughing)
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- Let me tell you something.
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- He who was at the top of the mountain
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- Made a path down to the bottom of the mountain
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- And came where we are,
- 00:17:35.644 --> 00:17:37.980
- And provided a way through christmas,
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- And calvary, and easter that we can go back up that path,
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- Up the mountain, and that is a simple
- 00:17:46.054 --> 00:17:49.324
- Definition of jesus christ and of christianity!
- 00:17:49.324 --> 00:17:53.729
- (audience applauding)
- 00:17:53.729 --> 00:18:00.702
- Well, you know, i just,
- 00:18:00.702 --> 00:18:02.304
- I don't know about all of these things.
- 00:18:02.304 --> 00:18:04.540
- You wanna stay there with the fire of your life
- 00:18:04.540 --> 00:18:07.476
- Getting dimmer, and dimmer, and dimmer,
- 00:18:07.476 --> 00:18:09.912
- And finally, it just blurs out into oblivion?
- 00:18:09.912 --> 00:18:14.049
- Solomon says, "you want fire, purpose, passion in your life?
- 00:18:14.049 --> 00:18:19.988
- "these parables will point you right to it!"
- 00:18:19.988 --> 00:18:22.858
- And he says, "don't put off to tomorrow
- 00:18:22.858 --> 00:18:24.927
- "what you need to do today."
- 00:18:24.927 --> 00:18:26.395
- Oh, i'm gonna decide about god and christ some day.
- 00:18:26.395 --> 00:18:28.997
- Now is the time of your salvation!
- 00:18:28.997 --> 00:18:31.099
- Now is the time to put it together.
- 00:18:31.099 --> 00:18:33.235
- Now is the time to step out and take that wonderful,
- 00:18:33.235 --> 00:18:37.272
- Confident leap of faith!
- 00:18:37.272 --> 00:18:39.841
- And then he comes to the end,
- 00:18:39.841 --> 00:18:41.610
- And he does a fabulous thing here.
- 00:18:41.610 --> 00:18:44.346
- The last, the last proverb he gives us,
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- You find in verse seven following.
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- He says simply, "let the good times roll."
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- You like that one, don't you?
- 00:18:53.889 --> 00:18:56.491
- Christians are to let the good times roll,
- 00:18:56.491 --> 00:18:59.127
- And fire comes back when we cast our bread on the water,
- 00:18:59.127 --> 00:19:02.698
- It comes back buttered.
- 00:19:02.698 --> 00:19:04.566
- Man, that brings fire back to us every single time.
- 00:19:04.566 --> 00:19:09.404
- And then, when we don't put
- 00:19:09.404 --> 00:19:11.173
- All of our eggs in one basket, we've diversified,
- 00:19:11.173 --> 00:19:14.176
- As god works, and leads, and moves with his spirit
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- Providentially in your heart and in my life.
- 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:20.015
- That'll put fire back within us.
- 00:19:20.015 --> 00:19:23.752
- And then we have the thing,
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- Don't put off to tomorrow, do it today.
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- Do it today, nike!
- 00:19:27.789 --> 00:19:29.258
- Nike, now, do it now!
- 00:19:29.258 --> 00:19:31.560
- And then the results of that,
- 00:19:31.560 --> 00:19:33.762
- We can let the good times roll!
- 00:19:33.762 --> 00:19:35.397
- Now how does this operate?
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- Look at it.
- 00:19:36.732 --> 00:19:38.233
- In verse seven, "the light is pleasant."
- 00:19:38.233 --> 00:19:40.669
- You're in the light.
- 00:19:40.669 --> 00:19:42.004
- "it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
- 00:19:42.004 --> 00:19:44.506
- "indeed, if a man should live many years,
- 00:19:44.506 --> 00:19:46.375
- "let him rejoice in them all."
- 00:19:46.375 --> 00:19:48.443
- And here's our first word.
- 00:19:48.443 --> 00:19:49.911
- He says, "let him remember."
- 00:19:49.911 --> 00:19:52.547
- Look at verse nine, "and rejoice, and let him remove."
- 00:19:52.547 --> 00:19:58.253
- We are to have a rear-view mirror
- 00:19:58.253 --> 00:19:59.688
- If we let the good times roll,
- 00:19:59.688 --> 00:20:01.690
- And look back and remember what we've learned in the past,
- 00:20:01.690 --> 00:20:04.593
- Who we've met in the past,
- 00:20:04.593 --> 00:20:05.927
- The great experiences of the past, the good,
- 00:20:05.927 --> 00:20:08.230
- The bad, the different, the ugly, and the past.
- 00:20:08.230 --> 00:20:10.265
- We are to remember that, that prepares us to celebrate,
- 00:20:10.265 --> 00:20:13.902
- Prepares us to rejoice.
- 00:20:13.902 --> 00:20:16.238
- He says, "young man, during your childhood,
- 00:20:16.238 --> 00:20:18.974
- "and in your heart, be pleasant during the days
- 00:20:18.974 --> 00:20:21.977
- "of young manhood and follow the impulses of your heart,
- 00:20:21.977 --> 00:20:26.448
- "and the desires of your eyes,
- 00:20:26.448 --> 00:20:29.284
- "and you know that god will bring you
- 00:20:29.284 --> 00:20:31.253
- "judgment for these things."
- 00:20:31.253 --> 00:20:33.088
- Very interesting passage there.
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- He's saying we are to rejoice.
- 00:20:34.756 --> 00:20:36.825
- There are things that we see that we can appreciate,
- 00:20:36.825 --> 00:20:39.561
- We can rejoice in.
- 00:20:39.561 --> 00:20:41.129
- He said there's things we can't see,
- 00:20:41.129 --> 00:20:43.198
- That's the passion of our heart,
- 00:20:43.198 --> 00:20:45.367
- But said remember within this, there is the judgment of god.
- 00:20:45.367 --> 00:20:51.039
- Other words, we have to be rejoicing
- 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:53.241
- And celebrating within the parameters of god.
- 00:20:53.241 --> 00:20:55.911
- Whoever told people that we as christians
- 00:20:55.911 --> 00:21:00.148
- Can't have fun and enjoy life?
- 00:21:00.148 --> 00:21:04.119
- I don't know where we get that.
- 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:05.454
- And then the final thing,
- 00:21:05.454 --> 00:21:06.855
- He says you remove some things for your life as you rejoice.
- 00:21:06.855 --> 00:21:10.625
- Let me tell you,
- 00:21:10.625 --> 00:21:12.260
- If you put poison in your mind, what you read,
- 00:21:12.260 --> 00:21:18.033
- And you poison your eyes, what you see, pornography,
- 00:21:18.033 --> 00:21:20.435
- That's so prevalent, and you put poison in your mouth
- 00:21:20.435 --> 00:21:23.872
- With various kinds of addictions,
- 00:21:23.872 --> 00:21:26.475
- And all of a sudden, you put enough poison in you,
- 00:21:26.475 --> 00:21:28.977
- Or i put enough poison in me,
- 00:21:28.977 --> 00:21:30.445
- We wonder, why am i not healthy?
- 00:21:30.445 --> 00:21:34.082
- I wonder why i'm not healthy?
- 00:21:34.082 --> 00:21:36.284
- You see, that has to become out of us.
- 00:21:36.284 --> 00:21:39.087
- That's what the fire of god does.
- 00:21:39.087 --> 00:21:41.690
- We invite christ to come in our lives.
- 00:21:41.690 --> 00:21:44.092
- He has to remove a lot of trash,
- 00:21:44.092 --> 00:21:46.828
- And the best way to get trash is to set it on fire,
- 00:21:46.828 --> 00:21:50.532
- And that's what the holy spirit does
- 00:21:50.532 --> 00:21:52.434
- When he enters your life and enters my life.
- 00:21:52.434 --> 00:21:56.104
- That gives us the ability to rejoice!
- 00:21:56.104 --> 00:22:00.175
- Re-joy, joy, joy, joy!
- 00:22:00.175 --> 00:22:04.780
- (audience applauding)
- 00:22:04.780 --> 00:22:09.851
- Cliff barrows, long time personal friend,
- 00:22:09.851 --> 00:22:14.222
- Member of my church,
- 00:22:14.222 --> 00:22:15.557
- Led music for billy graham for many years.
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- Did more than that.
- 00:22:17.292 --> 00:22:18.927
- He was one of the leading administrators and entrepreneur
- 00:22:18.927 --> 00:22:22.497
- In the billy graham evangelistic association
- 00:22:22.497 --> 00:22:24.766
- From the very beginning.
- 00:22:24.766 --> 00:22:27.402
- Someone asked billy graham,
- 00:22:27.402 --> 00:22:29.171
- "who's the greatest christians you've ever known?"
- 00:22:29.171 --> 00:22:31.106
- He said, "my wife, ruth, and cliff barrows."
- 00:22:31.106 --> 00:22:34.709
- My son, cliff, is named after cliff.
- 00:22:34.709 --> 00:22:37.712
- We don't have any musicians in our family,
- 00:22:37.712 --> 00:22:39.581
- But i think because of that, he became a musician,
- 00:22:39.581 --> 00:22:41.817
- I don't even understand that.
- 00:22:41.817 --> 00:22:45.420
- But cliff told me a story.
- 00:22:45.420 --> 00:22:46.822
- He said, "when i was a young teenager."
- 00:22:46.822 --> 00:22:49.424
- He said, "my dad took me to yosemite national park."
- 00:22:49.424 --> 00:22:53.595
- He said, "it was a memorable experience."
- 00:22:53.595 --> 00:22:55.564
- He said, "a forest ranger took a tour group around."
- 00:22:55.564 --> 00:22:59.401
- He said, "he took us all over that park.
- 00:22:59.401 --> 00:23:02.270
- "told us the history, all the animals,
- 00:23:02.270 --> 00:23:04.339
- "the beauty, the valley, the trees."
- 00:23:04.339 --> 00:23:06.675
- He said, "it was a wonderful day i spent, touring yosemite."
- 00:23:06.675 --> 00:23:12.047
- And he said, "when it got to the end of the day,
- 00:23:12.047 --> 00:23:13.648
- "he took us to a place called glacier point."
- 00:23:13.648 --> 00:23:16.818
- And he said, "we had our tour group there,
- 00:23:16.818 --> 00:23:18.520
- "and he explained to us."
- 00:23:18.520 --> 00:23:19.955
- He said, "there on a mountain, a cliff."
- 00:23:19.955 --> 00:23:22.924
- He said, "it was 1,000 feet high."
- 00:23:22.924 --> 00:23:24.926
- He said, "you'll notice all those coals that are glowing?"
- 00:23:24.926 --> 00:23:27.996
- It was getting almost dark.
- 00:23:27.996 --> 00:23:29.865
- He said, "men have been up there on that cliff
- 00:23:29.865 --> 00:23:33.668
- "burning logs and wood all day long."
- 00:23:33.668 --> 00:23:36.838
- He said, "you, those coals lined up
- 00:23:36.838 --> 00:23:38.673
- "all the top of that mountain."
- 00:23:38.673 --> 00:23:41.109
- He said, "i want to show you something
- 00:23:41.109 --> 00:23:42.677
- "when the sun goes down."
- 00:23:42.677 --> 00:23:44.145
- And sure enough, in a few minutes, the sun went down.
- 00:23:44.145 --> 00:23:48.016
- Everything got dark except for those glowing coals
- 00:23:48.016 --> 00:23:51.453
- Up there at the top of that cliff.
- 00:23:51.453 --> 00:23:54.923
- And then all of a sudden,
- 00:23:54.923 --> 00:23:56.525
- A voice came down from the top and said, "are you ready?"
- 00:23:56.525 --> 00:24:03.899
- And said, down there, his guide looked up and said,
- 00:24:03.899 --> 00:24:08.537
- "we are ready!
- 00:24:08.537 --> 00:24:10.138
- "let the fire fall!"
- 00:24:10.138 --> 00:24:13.775
- And cliff said these men began to shovel
- 00:24:13.775 --> 00:24:17.045
- Over those coals on that cliff.
- 00:24:17.045 --> 00:24:19.781
- He said the minute they hit the cold air,
- 00:24:19.781 --> 00:24:22.183
- They exploded into flames,
- 00:24:22.183 --> 00:24:24.753
- And said, "we were looking at a wall of fire
- 00:24:24.753 --> 00:24:29.491
- "about 100 yards wide, and 1,000 miles down!"
- 00:24:29.491 --> 00:24:35.463
- He said, "we, no one said a word."
- 00:24:35.463 --> 00:24:38.733
- He said, "we stood there in awe,
- 00:24:38.733 --> 00:24:41.670
- "and wonder, and amazement."
- 00:24:41.670 --> 00:24:47.909
- And he said, "no one knew what to do,
- 00:24:47.909 --> 00:24:52.013
- "because looking at that wall of fire."
- 00:24:52.013 --> 00:24:58.286
- He said, "we thought only of almighty god."
- 00:24:58.286 --> 00:25:06.494
- Let the fire fall!
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- It's the perfect size, easy to carry with you wherever you go,
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- And it makes a great gift for someone you love.
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- Request your prayer journal today at winningwalk.org,
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- Or call the number on the screen.
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- Know god more intimately, and invigorate your prayer life with
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- Ed: let me ask you a question.
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- How long has it been since you got excited
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- About something in your daily walk with the lord?
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- Be honest.
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- If your answer is well, too long,
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- Let me challenge you to climb out of that rut.
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- God will help you, and he will provide that wake-up call
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- You need to begin to truly live each day to its fullest.
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- Wake up in the morning under the sound of the trumpets!
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- Boy, that would be great, wouldn't it?
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- Let me advise and help you to take that first step.
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- Call the number on your screen.
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- We have godly men and women who want to show you
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- Exactly how to do just that.
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- And let me personally thank you for watching.
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- And meet with us here next week,
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- Same time, on the winning walk.
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