Ed Young - Thomas - Defeating Doubt

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Thomas - Defeating Doubt | December 31, 2024

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Pastor ed young: there was a time on this earth when adam and
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Eve, their mind was in perfect
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Agreement with the mind of almighty god.
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The garden of eden, pristine utopia.
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God, mankind.
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In the garden there was beauty, joy, freedom, celebration,
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Because the mind of god was perfectly coordinated with the
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Mind of man.
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But you know what happened.
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That beautiful little slithering, appealing snake came
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And looked at eve and said, "do you have freedom to supervise,
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To be steward and to be over all the beauty of the garden, to
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Participate in all of creation?"
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And eve says, "i do, adam and i do, except there's one thing.
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God says that that tree over in the middle of the garden, that
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That one tree, we can't touch, we can't eat of the fruit of
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That tree or we will die."
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And the slithering, beautiful little snake said in such
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Appealing tones, "oh, that's not true.
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You won't die.
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God is deceiving you, eve.
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If you eat of that tree, you'll know the difference between good
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And evil, and god knows that you will be god."
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if, at that moment in history, that eve
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Had exercised that wonderful gift that god has given to all
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Of us that god himself does not have.
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It's the gift of doubt.
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Wouldn't it have been fabulous if eve had said, "you know, do i
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Believe this beautiful little appealing, hissing snake or do i
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Believe the creator of the universe?"
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Wouldn't it have been terrific if she had doubted what she had
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Heard and not eaten of that fruit?
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By the way, you want to see what that image looks like?
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The fruit that she took a bite of?
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Look on your phone or your computer and you'll see a
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Picture of it, have you ever noticed?
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And at that moment, a hole was punched into the ship
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Of humanity.
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It's called the fall of man, theologically.
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And we know that we were all born with broken minds, every
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Single one of us.
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Somehow that dna was carried all the way through to you and to me
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Today, and we have broken minds.
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What does the bible say we're to do about a broken mind?
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Romans 12 says, "be not conformed to this world.
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Be transformed by the renewing of your mind."
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That's what is happening to us who are christians, our minds
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Are being renewed.
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And the product-- or the process of that is to know how to use
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This fabulous gift of doubt.
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What is doubt? doubt is that which we question.
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Doubt is that which we hold a decision in sort of ambivalence.
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Doubt is when we decide, do we go this way or that way?
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Is this a green light or a red light?
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And so, we have doubt, and if we go one way into skepticism, we
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Move into disbelief.
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We go another way with faith, and we move into belief.
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How do we handle doubt?
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This fabulous gift, how we need to doubt a lot of things, have
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You noticed that?
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So many things we see, so many things we perceive, we need to
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Doubt how many of us see ourselves, how we see others,
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Even how we see god.
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It's a tremendous asset, and people say, "oh, i have so many
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Doubts," honor those doubts.
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They're valid, they're good, and when we follow through on them
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Honestly, so many times we end up with steadfast,
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Immovable faith.
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So how do people reach decisions about what is valid, what
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Is invalid?
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What causes us to believe?
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It leads us to be confident or lack of confident in our
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Belief system.
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Look at chapter 20 of john, verse 1, "now on the first day
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Of the week mary magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was
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Still dark, and saw that the stone already had been taken
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Away from the tomb."
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Mary went to the tomb before the sun came up, and she looked in
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And saw the stone had been rolled away, and she saw it
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Was empty.
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And she turned around and the bible tells us she ran back to
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Tell peter and john.
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I don't know where they were.
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If they were in the house of mary and martha, that was about
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A two and a half mile jog.
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It will be goin' downhill as she ran to them.
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And said, "somebody's taken away the lord."
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In other words, there's been a kidnapping, somebody's got
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The body.
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And she reports that, and peter and john get up, and they run
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To the tomb.
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And i love the account john gives.
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He says, i outran peter.
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Hey, read it, read it, it's there.
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And john, who was younger, maybe in better shape than old pete,
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He spent a long time with those gentiles eating a lot of pork,
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So, maybe, you know, maybe he was in better shape, but they
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Got to the tomb, and the bible is very clear, john looks in the
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Tomb, he sees the grave clothes had been disturbed, and then
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Peter comes and bombastic peter, he just goes right in the tomb
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And he sees the face cloth, he sees the clothes there, and then
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They both knew what mary had witnessed, that something
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Happened to the body.
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Jesus, somebody had kidnapped him, somebody had taken the body
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Away, and they go back home.
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And then mary magdalene comes back again.
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And then we see how she found out, how she believed, how she
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Discovered what was true.
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And she believed that this feeling leads to believing.
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You believe, you feel.
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Your feelings lead you to believing.
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Look how this operates, 20, john chapter 11, "but mary was
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Standing outside the tomb, weeping; and so she wept, she
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Stooped and looked into the tomb, and she saw two angels in
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White sitting, one at the head, one at the feet, where the body
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Of jesus had been lying."
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Now, it's interesting, she wasn't startled.
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I thought about that, maybe they appeared as human beings, we
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Don't know, but there were two angels in the tomb.
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"and they said to to her, 'woman, why are you weeping?'
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She said to them, 'because they've taken away my lord, i do
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Not know where they have laid him.'
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And when she had said this, she turned around and saw jesus
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Standing there," just a figure, "did not know that it
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Was jesus."
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You say, well, how could that be?
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I have been right there early in the morning close to that area
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Where the tomb is early in the morning, and i can tell you,
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There, when it was cold, the wind was blowing, fog was heavy,
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And you could hardly see to move around, so maybe it was
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That day.
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She saw just the shape of a man, and she said, "when she had said
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This, she turned around and saw jesus standing there, did not
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Know it was jesus.
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And jesus said to her, 'woman.'"
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The first word that the resurrected jesus spoke
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Was, "woman."
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All you christian feminists should celebrate that.
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He said, "'woman, woman,' said jesus, 'why are you weeping?
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Whom are you seeking?'"
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"she, supposing him to be the gardener, and said to him, 'sir,
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If you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him,
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And i will take him away.'"
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I will pick him up, i'll get help, i'll touch that dead body,
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I'll take him away.
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"and jesus said to her, 'mary!'
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And she turned and said to him in hebrew, 'rabboni!'
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(which means, teacher.)
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And jesus said to her, 'stop clinging to me, for cause i have
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Not yet ascended to the father; but go to my brethren and say to
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Them, 'i ascend to my father and your father, and my
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God and your god.''"
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In other words, she was clinging to jesus.
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She believed that feeling leads to belief.
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If you can touch, touch, touch jesus, she can then believe.
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A lot of us go by feelings, do we not?
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That's the reason a lot of people have all kind of
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Religious doodads around.
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You know, trinkets and statues, and we have to touch and hold,
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We have to have something that's tangible there, you know, for us
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To hold on to our faith.
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You see that a lot of times.
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We have high moments, "oh, i feel," and we have low moments
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When we don't feel, and our faith is like this.
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That's instability, that's like being a 50 year old adolescent.
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We never really land, some people say, "well, i lived my
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Whole life on the basis of feeling, it's feelings."
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Let me tell ya, if you wake up one morning and you decide, i
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Don't feel like goin' to work, that's all right.
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That's the way you live your life.
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I'm going to tell you one thing for sure, you're going to have
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A lot of jobs.
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A lot, lot of vocations.
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We base on feelings.
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This is what mary did.
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She said, you know, feelings lead me to believe.
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She wanted to hold on to him.
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A lot of people operate like that.
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Then we look at the disciples and we see how they found out
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What they believe and what was truth.
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We look down on verse 19, 20 chapter john, "so when it was
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Evening on that day," this is easter sunday, the first easter,
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By the way, that night, "the first day of the week, when the
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Doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the
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Jews," they were there afraid.
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They didn't know what was happening, the body had been
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Stolen, she wasn't-- they were not sure about the accounts.
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"jesus came and stood in the midst of them and said, 'shalom,
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Peace be with you.'"
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They were afraid, and jesus comes and says peace.
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That's the way he operates in our lives, isn't it?
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We have fear, and jesus always comes when he's invited, and he
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Says, peace, peace, peace.
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"and when he had said this, he showed them his hands and
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His side."
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That is, seeing is believing.
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Here's my hands, you know, here's the nails, here's my
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Side, the spear went in.
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Seeing is believing, that's what the disciples had.
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And when they saw this, they rejoiced.
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Verse 21, "so jesus said to them, 'peace be with you; as the
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Father has sent me, i send you.'"
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He gave them an assignment, he gave mary the assignment,
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Go and tell.
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He gave them an assignment, look what he says.
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"receive the holy spirit.
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Their sins have been forgiven them; and if you retain the sins
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Of any, they have been retained."
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In other words, he said, you go and you introduce me, you tell
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People about me, and their sins are forgiven.
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That's the cross, and there is a earthly transaction and a
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Heavenly transaction.
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The earthly translation, we proclaim sins are forgiven
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Through jesus, and it is confirmed in heaven, and
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Therefore his sins are forgiven here, they're forgiven in
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Heaven, and they're not forgiven in heaven unless they're
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Forgiven here.
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They had an assignment.
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And for them, seeing was believing.
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Mary, feeling was believing, but now we come to the hero of how
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To doubt, i think in all the world, and his name is
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Doubting-- oh.
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We know he has that permanent tag, we come to doubting thomas.
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Instead of it being a negative thing, oh, i'm going to be like
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Doubting thomas, no, you want to be like doubting thomas.
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He knew how to doubt his doubts.
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And i want you to see how this operates, verse 24.
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"but thomas, one of the 12, didymus," that means twin, "was
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Not with them when jesus came."
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When he appeared in that upper room, thomas was not present.
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"so the other disciples were saying to him, 'we have seen
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The lord!'
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And he said to them, get this, this is old doubting thomas,
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'unless i see in his hands the print of the nails, and unless i
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Put my finger in the print of the nails, and unless my hand
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Into his side, i will not believe.'"
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Thomas, proof was belief.
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He said, i've got to have empirical evidence that jesus,
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Whom i knew was crucified, i was there, and was dead and buried,
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That god raised him and brought him back to life.
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He said, i've got to have proof.
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Unless, prove to me.
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Unless, and verse 26, it says, "after eight days his disciples
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Were again inside the upper room, and thomas with them.
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And jesus came, and the doors having been shut, and stood in
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Their midst and he said, 'peace be with you, shalom.'
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And then he said to thomas," thomas is with them.
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I want you to look at this verse on your screen.
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"then he said to thomas, 'reach here with your finger,'"
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That's touching.
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"'see my hands,'" that's seeing.
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"'and reach your hand and put it in my side,'" that's proving.
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So, we see that jesus came and took this skeptic, this doubter,
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And spoke to him in ways that were needed for him to believe.
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He said, feel, see, proof.
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That's our lord, ladies and gentlemen.
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That's our lord.
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And look at the rest of it, it even gets richer.
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What does thomas do?
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Verse 28, "thomas answered and said as he fell at his feet,
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'lord and god.'"
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And that's the highest profession of faith you find
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Anywhere in the bible.
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He said, you are lord, you've got my life, and you are god of
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Creation, and he puts those little personal pronouns.
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He says, you are my lord, and you are my god.
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What a profession, what a profession, what a profession.
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I want you to leave verse 29 alone for a little bit, and
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Let's go and see the rest of the story.
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Verse 30, "therefore many other signs jesus also performed in
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The presence of the disciples, which are not written in this
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Book," and then john tells us why he wrote the gospel of john.
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Think with me, "but these have been written so that you may
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Believe that jesus is the christ, the son of god; and that
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Believing you may have life in his name."
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Ninety-five times in the gospel of john he uses the
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Word believe.
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And he says, why have i written this book?
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He gives us two reasons.
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He says, i have written this book so you can believe the
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Truth about god revealing himself in jesus christ as our
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Savior and our lord.
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And he said, "when you believe, i've written this book so you'll
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Have life, and you'll have life fully here and
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Abundantly forever.
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That's why i've written this book."
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Now, drop back, now we're ready for that little tricky verse, oh
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My goodness, look at verse 29.
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Jesus said, "because you have seen me, have you believed?"
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Question mark.
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Jesus said, "blessed are they who did not see and
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Yet believed."
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Who are they, the people, the they who did not see
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And believe?
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I'll tell you it is, it's you and it's me.
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That's exactly who it is.
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Then how are we to believe?
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John says, "you believe the word of god, and you believe me as i
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Give witness, because i was a part of the group who touched
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And saw and proved, and i give my witness that this is true,
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Absolute truth, on that basis.
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You believe me, the word of god."
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That's what john is saying.
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Now, hold on to that.
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In chantilly, france, a lady who
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Was 90 years old was moving out
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Of her little flat into assisted living, and she was selling
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Everything she had in that little flat, and she brought
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Someone else who handled real estate, and sold the property
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People would have in their estates, and this lady came out,
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Looked around the little flat, and the lady looked over and saw
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A picture that was right above her little hot plate there in
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The kitchen.
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It's a picture of jesus.
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And it was a picture entitled, "jesus mocked."
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And it showed jesus being mocked by the crowd.
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And this estate woman said, "do you know, that that picture may
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Have some value."
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She said, "i'm not an artist, but i don't know, it may have
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Some value.
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Do you mind if i get it evaluated with your estate?"
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By the way, all the rest of her estate didn't even lead to
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$6000, but said, "do you mind if i get it evaluated?
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And maybe we could sell it."
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And the 90 year old woman said, you know, "my grandchildren
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Laugh, they call that my crazy jesus picture."
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Said, "i look at it every morning with café," and said,
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"i look at it every night with my hot plate," and said, "i look
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At that picture all the time."
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And by the way, it's only 10 inches long and 10 inches high,
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It's a little bitty thing like this.
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And so, the estate woman took it and had it appraised, then she
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Got an appraisal of someone who is at the top of the heap of
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Appraising paintings and discovered it was painting by an
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Italian artist pre-renaissance, painted in 1280, and it was
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A very valuable painting.
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And so, they took that little painting of the crazy jesus,
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According to the grandkids, who were going to get all of her
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Estate, and had it evaluated, and last sunday, this week, last
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Week, last week, first day of last week, sunday, last sunday,
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They auctioned that little 10 x 10 painting of jesus being
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Mocked and doubted in the auction house in france, and it
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Sold for $26.8 million.
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A french gentleman just this week wrote to a newspaper and
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Asked, "perchance, is madam at
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This time single?"
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Only the french, you just can't beat 'em, can you?
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Isn't that beautiful?
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I could have taken that little painting if we had it and passed
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It around and said, "now, what do you think this is worth?
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A little 10 x 10 painting."
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You know, you could have touched it, you could have seen it,
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Looked at it, you could examine it in order to prove it, man is,
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Well what is this, i don't know, it's funny looking jesus, it's
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Way back, it's old--
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And not anybody here would have any idea of whether it's valid
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And true and worth anything at all.
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But that art authority who looked at it and affirmed that
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It was indeed real and original and very, very valuable, and
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Everybody believed him on the basis of who he was, on the
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Basis of his authoritative understanding of that little
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Painting when he touched it and saw it and proved it.
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John is saying right here, "you got any doubt about jesus being
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Lord and god?
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On my word, the word of john, i've written this book so you
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Can believe and have a brand-new life now and forever."
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Ed young: we have all felt alone.
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Even jesus experienced loneliness during his time
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On earth.
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But god did not create us to live in
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A constant state of loneliness.
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We need community and fellowship
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With others for our emotional and physical well-being.
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Listen, if you are experiencing loneliness today,
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We have created a booklet
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Pastor ed: do you have any doubts?
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Sure you do, it's a good thing.
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We all have doubts.
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But what you may not know is that doubt is a terrific thing
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Because it can become a stimulus for our faith.
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The problem with doubt comes when we begin to major on it
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Instead of on that which we know and that which we believe.
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We look at people and events and circumstances instead of looking
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To the face of jesus christ.
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Look to him.
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He will help transform your doubt into a rock solid faith.
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Christianity is not a leap into the dark, it's a confident leap
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Into the light.
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Are you wrestling with doubt today?
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Call the number on your screen, we would like to help you begin
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A relationship with our lord jesus christ built on the firm
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Another exciting step together on "the winning walk" with
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Jesus christ.
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Ed Young - Thomas - Defeating Doubt

December 31, 2024 | S

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