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Ed Young - The Ultimate Weapon

October 10, 2025 | 29:0

Ed Young - The Ultimate Weapon
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Ultimate Weapon | October 10, 2025
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  • During the ii world war, only one u. s. general was captured.
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  • General jonathan wainwright was captured by the japanese.
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  • He was placed into a prison camp in mongolia.
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  • When the war ended, macarthur had won.
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  • Peace treaty was signed.
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  • The way in mongolia-they had no way of communication,
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  • So a period of time went by,
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  • And the general there in captivity knew nothing about it.
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  • The japanese there in that prison encampment knew nothing
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  • About it until finally a, an american plane landed nearby in
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  • An airfield, and an officer walked over there to the
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  • Prison camp, and there was general wainwright,
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  • Now crippled with a cane.
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  • The years of being there as a prisoner of war had taken its
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  • Toll, and this officer went outside the base and saluted the
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  • General, and he said, "the japanese have surrendered."
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  • Wainwright returned and began to hobble to the office of the
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  • Commandant there at the prison camp, and he went in,
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  • And he looked at the japanese officer, and he said, "my
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  • Commander-in-chief has defeated your commander-in-chief.
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  • I am i control.
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  • I order you to surrender to me!"
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  • And the officer did.
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  • Wainwright took over that prison, and subsequently all
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  • The prisoners were set free.
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  • We've been studying evil, and i want to announce that there's
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  • Still some mopping-up operations to go, and the news hadn't been
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  • Clearly broadcast, but jesus christ on the cross won
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  • The victory forever!
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  • (audience applauds).
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  • Back in 1987, some were not even born then; some of you may
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  • Remember that little barge just full of garbage, some 3,000
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  • Pounds of garbage that set sail from long island, remember?
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  • Was going to find a place to dump the garbage?
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  • Now the whole story has come out.
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  • Evidently, some kind of mafia-don there in new york had
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  • Worked up a scheme with the, his mafia equivalent in louisiana,
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  • And the plan was to take the garbage from that
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  • Islip township, put in that little barge.
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  • It was to sail all the way down the east coast and go into
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  • Louisiana, and dump all the garbage into the swamp there,
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  • Into the marsh.
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  • I hear there are swamps in louisiana.
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  • And, and the deal was that, that would produce methane gas,
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  • And they have a way of capturing that gas,
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  • And they would sell hit.
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  • Half the profits would go to the crooks in louisiana,
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  • And half the profits would go to the crooks in new york,
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  • And they would continue this process...
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  • But something happened.
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  • The louisiana connection didn't come through, and the barge
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  • Had already left long island was en route, and now the barge
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  • Had to find some place to unload the garbage-problem!
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  • And they tried to unload it in virginia.
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  • They tried to unload it in north carolina, and then
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  • The media got an odor of this scheme...just...the media began
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  • To smell something rotten.
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  • That's back when the media could smell...
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  • (audience laughs and applauds).
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  • And, so they followed the saga of this barge.
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  • Remember? it went on for weeks.
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  • And the barge tried to unload
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  • The garbage in georgia, and in florida.
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  • Went down into the caymans and, and tried to go to different
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  • Islands, and they came back into mississippi and alabama,
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  • And finally, they sailed all the way back to new york.
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  • Cost 'em over a million dollars in the trip,
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  • And they still were loaded with garbage.
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  • And they went right back where they came from, and they found a
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  • Place called the graveyard something, and dumped all the
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  • Garbage there, right back on long island, where they began!
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  • What do you do with garbage?
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  • Now we're into waste management, right?
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  • Waste management is old testament stuff.
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  • In the old testament, they would bring their sacrifices.
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  • They'd confess their sin on different days of atonement,
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  • And the sin would be covered, remember?
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  • Covered by the blood of animals, and doves, etc...
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  • But that's old testament.
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  • That's waste management.
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  • In the new testament, there is garbage elimination.
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  • The blood of jesus christ cleanses us, eliminates the
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  • Garbage, obliterates the trash, throws out the waste, and
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  • Destroys it until it is no more!
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  • That's what happened on the cross.
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  • Now, it's interesting to take the understanding of evil and
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  • Sin and garbage and trash and waste and,
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  • And sort of see how it operates in your life and in my life.
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  • It's also interesting to observe that you look at the major
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  • Religions of the world; in the abolition of man, by lewis
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  • Again, he takes all the ethical principles of the major
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  • Religions and he puts them alongside one another,
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  • And they are a lot alike.
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  • No murder.
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  • No stealing.
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  • Property rights, etc...
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  • A lot of the ethical principles of the major religions and minor
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  • Religions are basically alike.
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  • You can't live in society without having
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  • These basic principles in operation.
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  • So there's great agreement, except what we do personally
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  • About evil, and there, christianity just breaks out of
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  • The pack and runs way ahead of everybody, because the
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  • Christian's answer for evil in your life and in my life is
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  • Radically different from any other answer.
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  • Radically, radically different...
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  • And so we look at evil with a different perspective,
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  • And we go to the book of romans
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  • And paul in chapter number 12 here tells us
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  • How we are to operate in a evil, broken world, even though the
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  • Victory has already been accomplished in this mopping up
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  • Phrase, when old slew foot is still trying to destroy god's
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  • Purpose for your life and for my life.
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  • So romans 12 tells us, beginning in verse 9:
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  • "love without hypocrisy."
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  • There's not a whole lot of that running around, by the way."
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  • Love totally, sincerely, without wax.
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  • That's the meaning of the word.
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  • Just genuinely.
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  • Love no matter what, no matter how.
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  • We think love is a feeling and an emotion.
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  • Love is something you do.
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  • Love-agape love is something that god empowers
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  • His sons and daughters to do in christ jesus.
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  • We are to love without hypocrisy, with a pure love.
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  • And then he tells us two things we have to do.
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  • The first, do you see it there?
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  • Is to abhor evil.
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  • And the second is to cling to good.
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  • Abhor evil.
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  • The word "abhor" there may be translated in your bible-"hate."
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  • Right?
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  • You got a bible -how many of you have
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  • A bible that says "hate" there.
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  • You see it? yeah, yeah-says "hate."
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  • The word "abhor" and "hate" there, uh,
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  • It means to be horrified of.
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  • In other words, we are to be horrified of evil.
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  • Evil should frighten us.
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  • It's a horrible thing.
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  • Literally, we know jesus hated a lot of things.
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  • Do you remember that?
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  • "oh, i thought hate was bad..." oh no!
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  • Why was jesus such a hater of so many things?
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  • It's because jesus was a genuine lover of so many things.
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  • And when you love something-you know, god loves the world.
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  • God loves all inhabitants of the world.
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  • Therefore he hates things that destroys the world.
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  • He hates things that destroys those
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  • Who were created in his image.
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  • Therefore his hatred is stronger than our hatred, because his
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  • Love is infinite, and his love is so much stronger.
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  • And then paul tells us what is good.
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  • "be devoted to one another in brotherly love.
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  • Give preference to one another in honor, not lagging behind
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  • In diligence-in diligence, fermadent--fervent in spirit,
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  • Serving the lord, rejoicing in hope, persevering in
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  • Tribulation-trouble, sickness, devoted to prayer, contributing
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  • To the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality.
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  • That's a test when you look at that.
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  • Just say, "oh, that's nice, that's fine, that's good...
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  • No, lord.
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  • Do i measure?
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  • Do i really have a loving heart"?
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  • That's what a loving heart looks like.
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  • It, you can figure it out.
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  • The spirit will tell you, as its told me.
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  • You pray that.
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  • And then finally, he talks about,
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  • "do we have a blessing heart?
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  • Bless those who persecute you.
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  • Bless and do not curse."
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  • That's not profanity, by the way.
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  • "rejoice with those who rejoice.
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  • Weep with those who weep."
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  • In other words, a lot of people, we're with them,
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  • And we don't feel like they're a blessing to us.
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  • We fe, we hear a (sniffs) they suck the life out of you.
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  • (sniffs).
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  • You can't have too many of those
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  • In your repertoire of friends, by the way.
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  • God help you if you're married to one.
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  • (audience laughs).
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  • But we are to be in the blessing business.
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  • I'd love to take time and put my hand on everybody's head
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  • And say, "lord, lead..."
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  • I'd love for you to put your hand on my...
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  • We're, we're to bless.
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  • We're to lift up. we're to encourage.
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  • We're, we're to rejoice with -cry with those who cry,
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  • Laugh with those who laugh.
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  • We're, we're to be a blessing!
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  • We're to have a heart that blesses!
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  • Don't you love to be around people that are a blessing?
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  • You genuinely-genuinely...
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  • By the way, this is without hypocrisy.
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  • This is the bottom line of love.
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  • And then finally, we're to have a humble heart, beginning in
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  • Verse 16: "be of the same mind toward one another.
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  • Do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly.
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  • Do not be wise in your own estimation."
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  • So this is talking about how we abhor evil,
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  • How we cling to that which is good.
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  • These are the kinds of heart we have, a heart that we develop.
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  • It's not natural heart;
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  • It's a supernatural heart we have in christ.
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  • And then he tells us, we are to be not overcome by evil,
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  • But to overcome evil with good.
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  • We can easily get overcome with evil,
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  • And we turn back evil for evil.
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  • How do you respond to evil?
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  • When someone abuses you, slanders you, hurts you,
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  • Disappoints you, lies to you, lies about you, kicks you,
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  • Deceives you, how do you respond?
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  • How do i respond with that?
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  • Let me tell you how not to respond.
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  • How not to respond is just be passive.
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  • Just-you're, you're quiet on the outside to this evil,
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  • But you're burning up on the inside.
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  • Let me tell you for a long time what i've done, and this is
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  • Wrong-little confession: when someone would really hurt,
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  • Defame, slander-by the way, slander can be telling the truth
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  • In order to hurt somebody.
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  • Did you know that? it's not just lying about them.
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  • Slander can tell the truth in order to hurt somebody.
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  • Well now what happened -what i would do,
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  • I'd pretend like they died.
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  • (audience laughs).
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  • I'd say, "bill died."
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  • He doesn't bother me anymore.
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  • (audience laughs).
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  • Say, "we didn't know he died..."
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  • Oh yeah, as far as i'm concerned, he's died.
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  • I speak to him...
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  • (audience laughs).
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  • He's not there. that's not the way to do it.
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  • That's not god's way, folks.
  • 00:13:23.125 --> 00:13:25.060
  • Little confession...
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  • Another way is to respond with violence.
  • 00:13:26.695 --> 00:13:28.597
  • "i'll get you back!
  • 00:13:28.597 --> 00:13:29.999
  • I'm smiling, but, heh, heh, my day will come!"
  • 00:13:29.999 --> 00:13:32.735
  • (audience laughs).
  • 00:13:32.735 --> 00:13:34.069
  • And then when you see god taking some vengeance, as we're gonna
  • 00:13:34.069 --> 00:13:37.473
  • Take in their life, we say, "heh, heh!
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  • That a way, god! get 'em!
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  • Get 'em! get 'em!
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  • That's right! i know that guy hurt me too!"
  • 00:13:42.177 --> 00:13:45.648
  • But we let, we overcome our evil, but we are to be
  • 00:13:45.648 --> 00:13:48.417
  • Overcomers, we're overcome evil with good, and we say,
  • 00:13:48.417 --> 00:13:52.321
  • "well, what does that look like"?
  • 00:13:52.321 --> 00:13:54.256
  • Tells us right here in the scripture.
  • 00:13:54.256 --> 00:13:56.825
  • "if possible, so far as it depends on you,
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  • Be at peace with all people."
  • 00:13:59.662 --> 00:14:01.196
  • Let me tell you something: the bible is full of nuance.
  • 00:14:01.196 --> 00:14:05.935
  • There's some people you will not be at peace with.
  • 00:14:05.935 --> 00:14:08.904
  • No matter how you operate on principles we're gonna look at,
  • 00:14:08.904 --> 00:14:11.840
  • They, they just, they just not gonna be right with you.
  • 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:13.976
  • They're not gonna forgive.
  • 00:14:13.976 --> 00:14:15.311
  • There are a lot of people that are so narcissistic,
  • 00:14:15.311 --> 00:14:17.846
  • They're so schizophrenic, or their so broken,
  • 00:14:17.846 --> 00:14:20.382
  • They're so hurt themselves, they just have to
  • 00:14:20.382 --> 00:14:22.318
  • Be in the constant slashing business!
  • 00:14:22.318 --> 00:14:24.386
  • And, and it says as far as possible...
  • 00:14:24.386 --> 00:14:26.322
  • See how nuanced the bible is?
  • 00:14:26.322 --> 00:14:28.324
  • See, as far as possible...
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  • Do everything you can.
  • 00:14:29.992 --> 00:14:32.962
  • So what does it look like when you overcome evil with good?
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  • Uh, uh, a great illustration of this is, is
  • 00:14:35.898 --> 00:14:39.234
  • I samuel, chapter number 24.
  • 00:14:39.234 --> 00:14:41.937
  • It's a great story!
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  • If you're not familiar with it, david was in hiding.
  • 00:14:43.272 --> 00:14:47.609
  • They were in a cave there, abdullah, hiding from saul,
  • 00:14:47.609 --> 00:14:50.946
  • And saul was paranoid.
  • 00:14:50.946 --> 00:14:52.881
  • Said david was going to take over his throne.
  • 00:14:52.881 --> 00:14:54.817
  • He was jealous of david, and so he had 3,000 of his troops out
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  • Looking for david to kill him!
  • 00:14:58.654 --> 00:15:01.090
  • David was hiding, and in the marching around,
  • 00:15:01.090 --> 00:15:03.826
  • Saul had to make a pit-stop.
  • 00:15:03.826 --> 00:15:07.229
  • So he went in this cave.
  • 00:15:07.229 --> 00:15:08.564
  • He didn't know david was hiding in the cave, and david was
  • 00:15:08.564 --> 00:15:11.166
  • Hiding there in the shadows, and as saul didn't
  • 00:15:11.166 --> 00:15:14.269
  • Observe him, he came and took saul's coat, king saul, and just
  • 00:15:14.269 --> 00:15:19.475
  • Cut a little bit of it off, the coat, his cloak, and kept it.
  • 00:15:19.475 --> 00:15:23.946
  • And saul put his coat back on, walked back out, went out, and a
  • 00:15:23.946 --> 00:15:28.550
  • Little while later, david was on top of a high mountain,
  • 00:15:28.550 --> 00:15:32.021
  • And he said, "o' my father, great king saul!
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  • This is your son!
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  • I honor you!
  • 00:15:37.693 --> 00:15:39.028
  • Why are you pursuing me"?
  • 00:15:39.028 --> 00:15:40.562
  • Etc., etc...
  • 00:15:40.562 --> 00:15:42.965
  • He treated saul with great deference and great reverence
  • 00:15:42.965 --> 00:15:45.868
  • And great respect.
  • 00:15:45.868 --> 00:15:47.202
  • He said, "why are you pursuing me"?
  • 00:15:47.202 --> 00:15:48.937
  • And david held up the bit of his, his gown, and said,
  • 00:15:48.937 --> 00:15:53.942
  • "in other words, "i could have killed you.
  • 00:15:53.942 --> 00:15:55.911
  • I was right there and you didn't even know it.
  • 00:15:55.911 --> 00:15:57.713
  • Here's part of your gown..."
  • 00:15:57.713 --> 00:15:59.048
  • And saul must have looked, said, "oh, ho-ho!
  • 00:15:59.048 --> 00:16:00.749
  • I didn't notice that was missing..."
  • 00:16:00.749 --> 00:16:02.684
  • Don't you imagine?
  • 00:16:02.684 --> 00:16:04.019
  • And then saul was repentant.
  • 00:16:04.019 --> 00:16:06.622
  • He said, "you're a better man than i.
  • 00:16:06.622 --> 00:16:08.857
  • I'm ashamed, and, and come on back home, david.
  • 00:16:08.857 --> 00:16:11.894
  • You're like a son to me."
  • 00:16:11.894 --> 00:16:14.229
  • And by the way, this happened
  • 00:16:14.229 --> 00:16:15.564
  • Two or three times in other situations.
  • 00:16:15.564 --> 00:16:18.434
  • See, saul was, you know, he had a problem-schizophrenic,
  • 00:16:18.434 --> 00:16:23.005
  • Paranoid-i don't know.
  • 00:16:23.005 --> 00:16:25.441
  • He had a problem. he was a sick man.
  • 00:16:25.441 --> 00:16:26.775
  • He, he couldn't...
  • 00:16:26.775 --> 00:16:28.110
  • But look how david did everything he could, did he not,
  • 00:16:28.110 --> 00:16:31.046
  • To show that he honored and respected god's anointed?
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  • He didn't attack...
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  • And so, that's how we are to respond.
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  • We are to do everything we can.
  • 00:16:37.486 --> 00:16:39.588
  • Sometimes you can't do enough to bring
  • 00:16:39.588 --> 00:16:41.490
  • Things back together in harmony.
  • 00:16:41.490 --> 00:16:44.326
  • And do that in your family.
  • 00:16:44.326 --> 00:16:46.061
  • Jesus says twice, recorded in the new testament, "if someone
  • 00:16:46.061 --> 00:16:50.299
  • Slaps you on one cheek, turn the other cheek and
  • 00:16:50.299 --> 00:16:53.435
  • Let him slap that one as well..."
  • 00:16:53.435 --> 00:16:55.871
  • Now by the way, when you slap somebody,
  • 00:16:55.871 --> 00:16:58.841
  • That's not a physical attack.
  • 00:16:58.841 --> 00:17:00.742
  • It's not.
  • 00:17:00.742 --> 00:17:02.077
  • If you want to attack somebody, hit 'em in the nose,
  • 00:17:02.077 --> 00:17:03.545
  • And the eyes, and the mouth, other places when
  • 00:17:03.545 --> 00:17:06.148
  • You really want to hurt somebody.
  • 00:17:06.148 --> 00:17:07.516
  • But what is a slap?
  • 00:17:07.516 --> 00:17:09.885
  • It, it shames you.
  • 00:17:09.885 --> 00:17:11.653
  • It's humiliating.
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  • It's embarrassing.
  • 00:17:13.222 --> 00:17:14.790
  • It's, it's condescending, and, and therefore, when someone
  • 00:17:14.790 --> 00:17:18.694
  • Slaps us on one cheek, how do we respond to that?
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  • Do we respond passively?
  • 00:17:23.732 --> 00:17:25.334
  • Do we respond with anger?
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  • Jesus says we're to turn the other cheek.
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  • When we don't turn the other cheek,
  • 00:17:31.707 --> 00:17:33.041
  • You know what we're doing?
  • 00:17:33.041 --> 00:17:34.376
  • We're saving face.
  • 00:17:34.376 --> 00:17:35.878
  • Say, "well, you slapped me on one side,
  • 00:17:35.878 --> 00:17:37.779
  • But i've still got this side!"
  • 00:17:37.779 --> 00:17:40.282
  • But we turn the other cheek,
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  • We're no longer saving face, are we?
  • 00:17:41.617 --> 00:17:44.953
  • And that's the issue with a slap.
  • 00:17:44.953 --> 00:17:47.723
  • It's not the bodily harm; it's we're saving face,
  • 00:17:47.723 --> 00:17:51.093
  • And if we turn the other cheek,
  • 00:17:51.093 --> 00:17:52.427
  • We're saying it doesn't matter about my ego.
  • 00:17:52.427 --> 00:17:54.796
  • It doesn't matter how embarrassing this is,
  • 00:17:54.796 --> 00:17:57.699
  • But what's important is, that you have harmed me.
  • 00:17:57.699 --> 00:18:00.602
  • You have attacked me in this way to shame me,
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  • And i'm not trying to save face.
  • 00:18:03.472 --> 00:18:05.574
  • I'm putting my ego to one side.
  • 00:18:05.574 --> 00:18:07.709
  • Therefore, we separate-listen carefully-our enemy from what
  • 00:18:07.709 --> 00:18:13.749
  • The enemy has done or said to us.
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  • Very important.
  • 00:18:16.218 --> 00:18:17.553
  • Here is what the enemy has done or said.
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  • We separate that from enemy himself and we ask god for
  • 00:18:19.988 --> 00:18:23.192
  • The power to forgive the enemy,
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  • And don't worry about saving your face.
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  • Then you, the bible says you heap coals of fire on their
  • 00:18:28.263 --> 00:18:32.100
  • Head, and this means you illumine them.
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  • You warn them.
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  • You, you deal with this, and maybe in your forgiving, you not
  • 00:18:37.272 --> 00:18:44.413
  • Only build a relationship again, but you are heaping coals
  • 00:18:44.413 --> 00:18:48.250
  • Of fire on their head, and all of a sudden,
  • 00:18:48.250 --> 00:18:50.819
  • You've diffused the whole situation.
  • 00:18:50.819 --> 00:18:53.121
  • If you do not turn the other cheek, what happens,
  • 00:18:53.121 --> 00:18:55.924
  • You are a part of the evil that has been done.
  • 00:18:55.924 --> 00:18:59.561
  • They're controlling you!
  • 00:18:59.561 --> 00:19:01.863
  • They still have their hooks in you.
  • 00:19:01.863 --> 00:19:04.333
  • They're dominating my thinking,
  • 00:19:04.333 --> 00:19:06.735
  • And we have the idea when we sit down.
  • 00:19:06.735 --> 00:19:08.670
  • We say, "remember what you did"? wah!
  • 00:19:08.670 --> 00:19:11.573
  • Wah! wah!
  • 00:19:11.573 --> 00:19:13.508
  • We harangue them, if we can. or, we go to somebody else,
  • 00:19:13.508 --> 00:19:15.510
  • "let me tell you what that guy did, what he said.
  • 00:19:15.510 --> 00:19:19.248
  • He owes me! da, da, da, da, da!"
  • 00:19:19.248 --> 00:19:21.416
  • We go to somebody else, and we take care of that.
  • 00:19:21.416 --> 00:19:24.786
  • The bible says god'll take care of it.
  • 00:19:24.786 --> 00:19:26.888
  • "vengeance is mine..."
  • 00:19:26.888 --> 00:19:28.223
  • He'll take care of it. but we do that.
  • 00:19:28.223 --> 00:19:30.425
  • Or, we keep praying it to ourselves, reminding ourselves,
  • 00:19:30.425 --> 00:19:33.295
  • "let me tell you what he..."
  • 00:19:33.295 --> 00:19:34.630
  • You don't do any of that.
  • 00:19:34.630 --> 00:19:37.032
  • You turn the other cheek.
  • 00:19:37.032 --> 00:19:38.367
  • You get your ego out of it, and then you're very aggressive when
  • 00:19:38.367 --> 00:19:42.537
  • You turn the other cheek because you take all the venom out of
  • 00:19:42.537 --> 00:19:46.008
  • It, all the hatred out of it, and they say, you know,
  • 00:19:46.008 --> 00:19:49.177
  • And you do good -it's so tough, folks.
  • 00:19:49.177 --> 00:19:52.047
  • This is where the christian ethic is so radically different
  • 00:19:52.047 --> 00:19:54.816
  • From all other ethics.
  • 00:19:54.816 --> 00:19:57.252
  • All the other ethics say vengeance,
  • 00:19:57.252 --> 00:19:59.087
  • Stay away, or whatever.
  • 00:19:59.087 --> 00:20:00.422
  • We say go there and be a part of the healing, and love them.
  • 00:20:00.422 --> 00:20:03.125
  • Figure out ways you can honor them.
  • 00:20:03.125 --> 00:20:05.160
  • Figure out ways you can do something for them.
  • 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:07.162
  • Let me tell you something: the next funeral in your family,
  • 00:20:07.162 --> 00:20:10.432
  • When all the family shows up, or at the next wedding in your
  • 00:20:10.432 --> 00:20:13.935
  • Family when all of us had to have our picture made together,
  • 00:20:13.935 --> 00:20:17.739
  • Or, or the next holiday in your family and you go, "boy, i sure
  • 00:20:17.739 --> 00:20:20.776
  • Hate to find my brother, or my brother's wife, or my sister,
  • 00:20:20.776 --> 00:20:23.612
  • Or my cousin, or that ki..."
  • 00:20:23.612 --> 00:20:25.247
  • You know, we go there with all this anger.
  • 00:20:25.247 --> 00:20:28.317
  • Go there with the idea, "man, i'm going to love.
  • 00:20:28.317 --> 00:20:30.919
  • I'm going to be redemptive.
  • 00:20:30.919 --> 00:20:32.254
  • I'm going to build up.
  • 00:20:32.254 --> 00:20:33.588
  • Whatever they said, whatever they've done
  • 00:20:33.588 --> 00:20:35.357
  • -my mom, my dad, whatever-man!
  • 00:20:35.357 --> 00:20:37.392
  • It'll change the whole atmosphere!
  • 00:20:37.392 --> 00:20:39.594
  • But the holy spirit has to give you and me the power
  • 00:20:39.594 --> 00:20:42.898
  • To be redemptive, and we have to be
  • 00:20:42.898 --> 00:20:46.501
  • -here's the phrase-passionately, aggressively forgiving.
  • 00:20:46.501 --> 00:20:54.476
  • Passionately, aggressively forgiving and redemptive.
  • 00:20:54.476 --> 00:21:00.248
  • And i'll tell you what it'll do to the person that you don't
  • 00:21:00.248 --> 00:21:02.084
  • Like, the person that doesn't like you.
  • 00:21:02.084 --> 00:21:04.386
  • It'll just knock them off balance.
  • 00:21:04.386 --> 00:21:06.788
  • They won't have a way to deal with that, because you have
  • 00:21:06.788 --> 00:21:10.992
  • Actively turned the other cheek, and you've actively begun to
  • 00:21:10.992 --> 00:21:16.031
  • Defeat the evil that you know is there.
  • 00:21:16.031 --> 00:21:22.337
  • Say, "that's easy..." no, no, no.
  • 00:21:22.337 --> 00:21:24.239
  • "it's impossible..." no, no, no.
  • 00:21:24.239 --> 00:21:26.007
  • "jesus can do it, but i can't..."
  • 00:21:26.007 --> 00:21:27.342
  • No, no, no.
  • 00:21:27.342 --> 00:21:28.677
  • It's the power of god in you and
  • 00:21:28.677 --> 00:21:30.645
  • Me as we overcome evil with good!
  • 00:21:30.645 --> 00:21:34.249
  • That's what it is!
  • 00:21:34.249 --> 00:21:36.852
  • What is the cross?
  • 00:21:36.852 --> 00:21:38.186
  • It's god overcoming the garbage of the world with good.
  • 00:21:38.186 --> 00:21:43.825
  • You see, god is a-not way up
  • 00:21:43.825 --> 00:21:47.262
  • There somewhere off and away up there...
  • 00:21:47.262 --> 00:21:51.400
  • God is a garbage collector who gets right down in the middle of
  • 00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:56.638
  • Your garbage and my garbage.
  • 00:21:56.638 --> 00:22:00.108
  • That's what the cross is.
  • 00:22:00.108 --> 00:22:03.311
  • You see, a lot of people want justice.
  • 00:22:03.311 --> 00:22:06.047
  • "oh, i want justice.
  • 00:22:06.047 --> 00:22:07.783
  • I'm tellin' you!"
  • 00:22:07.783 --> 00:22:09.684
  • A lot of people say, "oh, no, no.
  • 00:22:09.684 --> 00:22:11.019
  • I want love, and i want to love everybody..."
  • 00:22:11.019 --> 00:22:13.588
  • See, you can't have justice without love;
  • 00:22:13.588 --> 00:22:15.457
  • You can't have love without justice.
  • 00:22:15.457 --> 00:22:18.260
  • We, we say, you know, "i want to be just.
  • 00:22:18.260 --> 00:22:20.996
  • I want to be right with god."
  • 00:22:20.996 --> 00:22:22.497
  • You can't be declared just before god unless jesus christ,
  • 00:22:22.497 --> 00:22:26.168
  • Who is just, and he is the justifier.
  • 00:22:26.168 --> 00:22:29.771
  • That's what happened on the cross.
  • 00:22:29.771 --> 00:22:31.173
  • Justice was established between you and me and god on the cross.
  • 00:22:31.173 --> 00:22:35.277
  • Justice was established!
  • 00:22:35.277 --> 00:22:36.678
  • God's justice, god's purity, god's holiness was established
  • 00:22:36.678 --> 00:22:40.882
  • By jesus in his death on the cross.
  • 00:22:40.882 --> 00:22:43.218
  • Justice was there.
  • 00:22:43.218 --> 00:22:44.553
  • Also, love was demonstrated.
  • 00:22:44.553 --> 00:22:46.855
  • You see, that's the miracle -love was demonstrated
  • 00:22:46.855 --> 00:22:49.925
  • How much god loved us.
  • 00:22:49.925 --> 00:22:51.693
  • He sent jesus, the garbage collector!
  • 00:22:51.693 --> 00:22:56.131
  • By the way, you say, "this doesn't get god off the hook."
  • 00:22:56.131 --> 00:22:58.433
  • What is god on the hook about, remember way back?
  • 00:22:58.433 --> 00:23:01.203
  • God is on the hook by a lot of people say, "well, if god is all
  • 00:23:01.203 --> 00:23:04.339
  • Powerful, he can't be all good, or he'd eliminate evil."
  • 00:23:04.339 --> 00:23:06.942
  • Remember that?
  • 00:23:06.942 --> 00:23:08.276
  • A lot of people put god on the hook about that.
  • 00:23:08.276 --> 00:23:10.312
  • The cross, really, is the answer for that.
  • 00:23:10.312 --> 00:23:12.514
  • Jesus is the answer for that.
  • 00:23:12.514 --> 00:23:15.083
  • I've said it before, and i'll say it again: when you and i go
  • 00:23:15.083 --> 00:23:18.153
  • To the foot of the foot of the cross, we don't look up there
  • 00:23:18.153 --> 00:23:21.957
  • And say, "eh, i wonder how, how high, how tall is that cross"?
  • 00:23:21.957 --> 00:23:28.630
  • We don't do that.
  • 00:23:28.630 --> 00:23:30.432
  • We go to the cross, we don't say, "you know, i wonder how
  • 00:23:30.432 --> 00:23:33.435
  • Long the arms are of the cross?
  • 00:23:33.435 --> 00:23:35.103
  • You know, how many, how many feet
  • 00:23:35.103 --> 00:23:36.438
  • -how long are the arms of the cross"?
  • 00:23:36.438 --> 00:23:39.274
  • We don't do that...
  • 00:23:39.274 --> 00:23:40.642
  • You go to the cross, you want to say,
  • 00:23:40.642 --> 00:23:42.110
  • "you know, i wonder how much that cross weighs?
  • 00:23:42.110 --> 00:23:44.012
  • I, it's a pretty heavy bit of wood there.
  • 00:23:44.012 --> 00:23:46.114
  • I wonder how much it weighs..."
  • 00:23:46.114 --> 00:23:48.650
  • We don't do that.
  • 00:23:48.650 --> 00:23:50.986
  • We go to the cross.
  • 00:23:50.986 --> 00:23:53.522
  • We just want to know, is that cross high
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  • Enough to reach to heaven?
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  • Is that cross-the arms of that cross-are they long enough to
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  • Include somebody that's has so much garbage in their life,
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  • Now and in the past?
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  • Are the arms long enough to include somebody like me who's
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  • Been in waste management instead of garbage elimination?
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  • Can somebody like me full of garbage
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  • -are those arms long enough to include me?
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  • And we ask, "does that cross weigh enough to tip the scales
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  • Of grace, and forgiveness on my behalf"?
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  • See, that's personal, isn't it?
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  • At the cross.
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  • - [announcer] in the middle of life's darkest storm
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  • There's always the quiet promises of god
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  • That lie just beyond the turbulence.
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  • You can discover how to claim these promises
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  • In dr. young's book, "living under the rainbow."
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  • It's our gift to you with your support
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  • Of the ministry this month.
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  • Ed - the rainbow is a comforting reminder of god's promises.
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  • Under the rainbow our lives, families and careers
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  • Can become what god designed them to be.
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  • In my book, "living under the rainbow,"
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  • You will learn about the key promises god has made to us
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  • In his word, the bible
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  • And we'll discover how we can claim them in our daily lives.
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  • Applying these promises leads out only to daily victory,
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  • But puts you and me on the path
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  • Of a truly life with significance.
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  • - [announcer] to get a copy of "living under the rainbow"
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  • For yourself or someone you love call the number
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  • On your screen or go online at winningwalk.org.
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  • - in america and in the world today,
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  • It is vitally important that the church become the salt
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  • And the light that are so desperately needed
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  • If we are to resist being absorbed into the culture.
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  • What that means for many of us
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  • Is that it is time for you and for me to grow up
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  • And become the mature men and women
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  • Jesus christ intends for us to become.
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  • I can think of no better place to begin this process
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  • Than in the bible, god's word.
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  • Read it, study it, meditate on it.
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  • Let it speak to your life and change your life.
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  • And as you and i hunger
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  • For our spiritual nourishment that god provides
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  • Through his word, guess what?
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  • We begin to grow up.
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  • We become better equipped to know the very mind of christ
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  • To arm yourself with the weapons you need
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  • For the spiritual warfare in which we are now engaged.
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  • As a mature christian,
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  • You will be able to stand against the forces of evil
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  • That are undermining and eroding
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  • The very foundations of our civilization.
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  • This is only accomplished in the body of christ,
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  • Which is the church.
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  • Thank you for worshiping with us today.
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  • If you have questions about this program
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  • Or you need someone to pray with you,
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  • Just call the number on your screen,
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  • They're godly people standing by
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  • Waiting to pray with you and answer your call.
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  • Let me say personally, it's a privilege to study the bible
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  • With you each and every week, so join us next time
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  • As we take a winning walk
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  • With jesus christ.
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  • ♪♪♪
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