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Ed Young - The Ultimate Weapon

December 2, 2024 | S

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 | December 2, 2024
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  • ♪ theme music
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  • ♪♪♪
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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 enroute, 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?
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  • 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?
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  • 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..."
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  • 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.
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  • 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?
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  • 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..."
  • 00:13:15.017 --> 00:13:16.118
  • Oh yeah, as far as i'm concerned, he's died.
  • 00:13:16.118 --> 00:13:17.386
  • I speak to him...
  • 00:13:17.386 --> 00:13:18.354
  • (audience laughs).
  • 00:13:18.354 --> 00:13:19.555
  • He's not there.
  • 00:13:19.555 --> 00:13:22.191
  • That's not the way to do it.
  • 00:13:22.191 --> 00:13:23.192
  • That's not god's way, folks.
  • 00:13:23.192 --> 00:13:25.027
  • Little confession...
  • 00:13:25.027 --> 00:13:26.729
  • Another way is to respond with violence.
  • 00:13:26.729 --> 00:13:28.697
  • "i'll get you back!
  • 00:13:28.697 --> 00:13:30.132
  • I'm smiling, but, heh, heh, my day will come!"
  • 00:13:30.132 --> 00:13:32.835
  • (audience laughs).
  • 00:13:32.835 --> 00:13:34.103
  • And then when you see god taking some vengeance, as we're gonna
  • 00:13:34.103 --> 00:13:37.539
  • Take in their life, we say, "heh, heh!
  • 00:13:37.539 --> 00:13:39.508
  • That a way, god!
  • 00:13:39.508 --> 00:13:40.142
  • Get 'em!
  • 00:13:40.142 --> 00:13:42.344
  • That's right!
  • 00:13:41.043 --> 00:13:43.279
  • I know that guy hurt me too!"
  • 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:45.681
  • But we let, we overcome our evil, but we are to be
  • 00:13:45.681 --> 00:13:48.550
  • Overcomers, we're overcome evil with good, and we say,
  • 00:13:48.550 --> 00:13:52.588
  • "well, what does that look like"?
  • 00:13:52.588 --> 00:13:54.590
  • Tells us right here in the scripture.
  • 00:13:54.590 --> 00:13:57.259
  • "if possible, so far as it depends on you,
  • 00:13:57.259 --> 00:14:00.062
  • Be at peace with all people."
  • 00:14:00.062 --> 00:14:01.664
  • Let me tell you something: the bible is full of nuance.
  • 00:14:01.664 --> 00:14:06.368
  • There's some people you will not be at peace with.
  • 00:14:06.368 --> 00:14:09.438
  • No matter how you operate on principles we're gonna look at,
  • 00:14:09.438 --> 00:14:12.474
  • They, they just, they just not gonna be right with you.
  • 00:14:12.474 --> 00:14:14.543
  • They're not gonna forgive.
  • 00:14:14.543 --> 00:14:15.644
  • There are a lot of people that are so narcissistic,
  • 00:14:15.644 --> 00:14:18.414
  • They're so schizophrenic, or their so broken,
  • 00:14:18.414 --> 00:14:20.816
  • They're so hurt themselves, they just have to
  • 00:14:20.816 --> 00:14:22.851
  • Be in the constant slashing business!
  • 00:14:22.851 --> 00:14:24.987
  • And, and it says as far as possible...
  • 00:14:24.987 --> 00:14:26.989
  • See how nuanced the bible is?
  • 00:14:26.989 --> 00:14:29.058
  • See, as far as possible...
  • 00:14:29.058 --> 00:14:30.793
  • Do everything you can.
  • 00:14:30.793 --> 00:14:33.362
  • So what does it look like when you overcome evil with good?
  • 00:14:33.362 --> 00:14:36.398
  • Uh, uh, a great illustration of this is, is
  • 00:14:36.398 --> 00:14:39.868
  • I samuel, chapter number 24.
  • 00:14:39.868 --> 00:14:42.438
  • It's a great story!
  • 00:14:42.438 --> 00:14:43.539
  • If you're not familiar with it, david was in hiding.
  • 00:14:43.539 --> 00:14:48.143
  • They were in a cave there, abdullah, hiding from saul,
  • 00:14:48.143 --> 00:14:51.280
  • And saul was paranoid.
  • 00:14:51.280 --> 00:14:53.282
  • Said david was going to take over his throne.
  • 00:14:53.282 --> 00:14:55.284
  • He was jealous of david, and so he had 3,000 of his troops out
  • 00:14:55.284 --> 00:14:59.254
  • Looking for david to kill him!
  • 00:14:59.254 --> 00:15:01.557
  • David was hiding, and in the marching around,
  • 00:15:01.557 --> 00:15:04.393
  • Saul had to make a pit-stop.
  • 00:15:04.393 --> 00:15:07.696
  • So he went in this cave.
  • 00:15:07.696 --> 00:15:08.897
  • He didn't know david was hiding in the cave, and david was
  • 00:15:08.897 --> 00:15:11.633
  • Hiding there in the shadows, and as saul didn't
  • 00:15:11.633 --> 00:15:14.837
  • Observe him, he came and took saul's coat, king saul, and just
  • 00:15:14.837 --> 00:15:19.842
  • Cut a little bit of it off, the coat, his cloak, and kept it.
  • 00:15:19.842 --> 00:15:24.480
  • And saul put his coat back on, walked back out, went out, and a
  • 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:28.917
  • Little while later, david was on top of a high mountain,
  • 00:15:28.917 --> 00:15:32.521
  • And he said, "o' my father, great king saul!
  • 00:15:32.521 --> 00:15:36.892
  • This is your son!
  • 00:15:36.892 --> 00:15:37.960
  • I honor you!
  • 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:39.428
  • Why are you pursuing me"?
  • 00:15:39.428 --> 00:15:41.096
  • Etc., etc...
  • 00:15:41.096 --> 00:15:43.565
  • He treated saul with great deference and great reverence
  • 00:15:43.565 --> 00:15:46.468
  • And great respect.
  • 00:15:46.468 --> 00:15:47.469
  • He said, "why are you pursuing me"?
  • 00:15:47.469 --> 00:15:49.471
  • And david held up the bit of his, his gown, and said,
  • 00:15:49.471 --> 00:15:54.643
  • "in other words, "i could have killed you.
  • 00:15:54.643 --> 00:15:56.712
  • I was right there and you didn't even know it.
  • 00:15:56.712 --> 00:15:58.213
  • Here's part of your gown..."
  • 00:15:58.213 --> 00:15:59.214
  • And saul must have looked, said, "oh, ho-ho!
  • 00:15:59.214 --> 00:16:01.216
  • I didn't notice that was missing..."
  • 00:16:01.216 --> 00:16:02.718
  • Don't you imagine?
  • 00:16:02.718 --> 00:16:04.086
  • And then saul was repentant.
  • 00:16:04.086 --> 00:16:06.789
  • He said, "you're a better man than i.
  • 00:16:06.789 --> 00:16:09.124
  • I'm ashamed, and, and come on back home, david.
  • 00:16:09.124 --> 00:16:12.261
  • You're like a son to me."
  • 00:16:12.261 --> 00:16:14.463
  • And by the way, this happened
  • 00:16:14.463 --> 00:16:15.597
  • Two or three times in other situations.
  • 00:16:15.597 --> 00:16:18.634
  • See, saul was, you know, he had a problem-schizophrenic,
  • 00:16:18.634 --> 00:16:23.372
  • Paranoid-i don't know.
  • 00:16:23.372 --> 00:16:25.707
  • He had a problem.
  • 00:16:25.707 --> 00:16:26.241
  • He was a sick man.
  • 00:16:26.241 --> 00:16:27.076
  • He, he couldn't...
  • 00:16:27.076 --> 00:16:28.410
  • But look how david did everything he could, did he not,
  • 00:16:28.410 --> 00:16:31.046
  • To show that he honored and respected god's anointed?
  • 00:16:31.046 --> 00:16:35.117
  • He didn't attack...
  • 00:16:35.117 --> 00:16:36.118
  • And so, that's how we are to respond.
  • 00:16:36.118 --> 00:16:37.619
  • We are to do everything we can.
  • 00:16:37.619 --> 00:16:39.888
  • Sometimes you can't do enough to bring
  • 00:16:39.888 --> 00:16:41.623
  • Things back together in harmony.
  • 00:16:41.623 --> 00:16:44.560
  • And do that in your family.
  • 00:16:44.560 --> 00:16:46.161
  • Jesus says twice, recorded in the new testament, "if someone
  • 00:16:46.161 --> 00:16:50.566
  • Slaps you on one cheek, turn the other cheek and
  • 00:16:50.566 --> 00:16:53.802
  • Let him slap that one as well..."
  • 00:16:53.802 --> 00:16:56.038
  • Now by the way, when you slap somebody,
  • 00:16:56.038 --> 00:16:58.941
  • That's not a physical attack.
  • 00:16:58.941 --> 00:17:01.009
  • It's not.
  • 00:17:01.009 --> 00:17:02.244
  • If you want to attack somebody, hit 'em in the nose,
  • 00:17:02.244 --> 00:17:03.779
  • And the eyes, and the mouth, other places when
  • 00:17:03.779 --> 00:17:06.215
  • You really want to hurt somebody.
  • 00:17:06.215 --> 00:17:07.649
  • But what is a slap?
  • 00:17:07.649 --> 00:17:10.085
  • It, it shames you.
  • 00:17:10.085 --> 00:17:11.720
  • It's humiliating.
  • 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:13.355
  • It's embarrassing.
  • 00:17:13.355 --> 00:17:14.990
  • It's, it's condescending, and, and therefore, when someone
  • 00:17:14.990 --> 00:17:19.027
  • Slaps us on one cheek, how do we respond to that?
  • 00:17:19.027 --> 00:17:23.765
  • Do we respond passively?
  • 00:17:23.765 --> 00:17:25.434
  • Do we respond with anger?
  • 00:17:25.434 --> 00:17:27.936
  • Jesus says we're to turn the other cheek.
  • 00:17:27.936 --> 00:17:31.707
  • When we don't turn the other cheek,
  • 00:17:31.707 --> 00:17:33.375
  • You know what we're doing?
  • 00:17:33.375 --> 00:17:34.042
  • We're saving face.
  • 00:17:34.042 --> 00:17:36.011
  • Say, "well, you slapped me on one side,
  • 00:17:36.011 --> 00:17:38.013
  • But i've still got this side!"
  • 00:17:38.013 --> 00:17:40.282
  • But we turn the other cheek,
  • 00:17:40.282 --> 00:17:41.216
  • We're no longer saving face, are we?
  • 00:17:41.216 --> 00:17:44.953
  • And that's the issue with a slap.
  • 00:17:44.953 --> 00:17:47.823
  • It's not the bodily harm; it's we're saving face,
  • 00:17:47.823 --> 00:17:51.326
  • And if we turn the other cheek,
  • 00:17:51.326 --> 00:17:52.694
  • We're saying it doesn't matter about my ego.
  • 00:17:52.694 --> 00:17:55.164
  • It doesn't matter how embarrassing this is,
  • 00:17:55.164 --> 00:17:58.167
  • But what's important is, that you have harmed me.
  • 00:17:58.167 --> 00:18:00.969
  • You have attacked me in this way to shame me,
  • 00:18:00.969 --> 00:18:03.972
  • And i'm not trying to save face.
  • 00:18:03.972 --> 00:18:06.141
  • I'm putting my ego to one side.
  • 00:18:06.141 --> 00:18:08.343
  • Therefore, we separate-listen carefully-our enemy from what
  • 00:18:08.343 --> 00:18:14.183
  • The enemy has done or said to us.
  • 00:18:14.183 --> 00:18:16.885
  • Very important.
  • 00:18:16.885 --> 00:18:17.886
  • Here is what the enemy has done or said.
  • 00:18:17.886 --> 00:18:20.656
  • We separate that from enemy himself and we ask god for
  • 00:18:20.656 --> 00:18:23.625
  • The power to forgive the enemy,
  • 00:18:23.625 --> 00:18:25.227
  • And don't worry about saving your face.
  • 00:18:25.227 --> 00:18:28.597
  • Then you, the bible says you heap coals of fire on their
  • 00:18:28.597 --> 00:18:32.568
  • Head, and this means you illumine them.
  • 00:18:32.568 --> 00:18:36.004
  • You warn them.
  • 00:18:36.004 --> 00:18:37.673
  • You, you deal with this, and maybe in your forgiving, you not
  • 00:18:37.673 --> 00:18:45.080
  • Only build a relationship again, but you are heaping coals
  • 00:18:45.080 --> 00:18:48.584
  • Of fire on their head, and all of a sudden,
  • 00:18:48.584 --> 00:18:51.253
  • You've diffused the whole situation.
  • 00:18:51.253 --> 00:18:53.655
  • If you do not turn the other cheek, what happens,
  • 00:18:53.655 --> 00:18:56.258
  • You are a part of the evil that has been done.
  • 00:18:56.258 --> 00:19:00.028
  • They're controlling you!
  • 00:19:00.028 --> 00:19:02.197
  • They still have their hooks in you.
  • 00:19:02.197 --> 00:19:04.766
  • They're dominating my thinking,
  • 00:19:04.766 --> 00:19:07.269
  • And we have the idea when we sit down.
  • 00:19:07.269 --> 00:19:09.271
  • We say, "remember what you did"?
  • 00:19:09.271 --> 00:19:10.839
  • Wah!
  • 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:13.842
  • We harangue them, if we can.
  • 00:19:11.840 --> 00:19:14.843
  • Or, we go to somebody else,
  • 00:19:14.843 --> 00:19:15.911
  • "let me tell you what that guy did, what he said.
  • 00:19:15.911 --> 00:19:19.781
  • He owes me!
  • 00:19:19.781 --> 00:19:20.782
  • Da, da, da, da, da!"
  • 00:19:20.782 --> 00:19:22.050
  • We go to somebody else, and we take care of that.
  • 00:19:22.050 --> 00:19:25.020
  • The bible says god'll take care of it.
  • 00:19:25.020 --> 00:19:27.389
  • "vengeance is mine..."
  • 00:19:27.389 --> 00:19:28.390
  • He'll take care of it.
  • 00:19:28.390 --> 00:19:29.658
  • But we do that.
  • 00:19:29.658 --> 00:19:30.859
  • Or, we keep praying it to ourselves, reminding ourselves,
  • 00:19:30.859 --> 00:19:33.996
  • "let me tell you what he..."
  • 00:19:33.996 --> 00:19:35.163
  • You don't do any of that.
  • 00:19:35.163 --> 00:19:37.432
  • You turn the other cheek.
  • 00:19:37.432 --> 00:19:38.734
  • You get your ego out of it, and then you're very aggressive when
  • 00:19:38.734 --> 00:19:43.105
  • You turn the other cheek because you take all the venom out of
  • 00:19:43.105 --> 00:19:46.208
  • It, all the hatred out of it, and they say, you know,
  • 00:19:46.208 --> 00:19:49.511
  • And you do good -it's so tough, folks.
  • 00:19:49.511 --> 00:19:52.481
  • This is where the christian ethic is so radically different
  • 00:19:52.481 --> 00:19:55.350
  • From all other ethics.
  • 00:19:55.350 --> 00:19:57.686
  • All the other ethics say vengeance,
  • 00:19:57.686 --> 00:19:59.688
  • Stay away, or whatever.
  • 00:19:59.688 --> 00:20:00.922
  • We say go there and be a part of the healing, and love them.
  • 00:20:00.922 --> 00:20:03.558
  • Figure out ways you can honor them.
  • 00:20:03.558 --> 00:20:05.661
  • Figure out ways you can do something for them.
  • 00:20:05.661 --> 00:20:07.729
  • Let me tell you something: the next funeral in your family,
  • 00:20:07.729 --> 00:20:10.932
  • When all the family shows up, or at the next wedding in your
  • 00:20:10.932 --> 00:20:14.269
  • Family when all of us had to have our picture made together,
  • 00:20:14.269 --> 00:20:17.873
  • Or, or the next holiday in your family and you go, "boy, i sure
  • 00:20:17.873 --> 00:20:21.009
  • Hate to find my brother, or my brother's wife, or my sister,
  • 00:20:21.009 --> 00:20:23.745
  • Or my cousin, or that ki..."
  • 00:20:23.745 --> 00:20:25.447
  • You know, we go there with all this anger.
  • 00:20:25.447 --> 00:20:28.383
  • Go there with the idea, "man, i'm going to love.
  • 00:20:28.383 --> 00:20:31.053
  • I'm going to be redemptive.
  • 00:20:31.053 --> 00:20:32.154
  • I'm going to build up.
  • 00:20:32.154 --> 00:20:33.622
  • Whatever they said, whatever they've done
  • 00:20:33.622 --> 00:20:35.490
  • -my mom, my dad, whatever-man!
  • 00:20:35.490 --> 00:20:37.592
  • It'll change the whole atmosphere!
  • 00:20:37.592 --> 00:20:39.895
  • But the holy spirit has to give you and me the power
  • 00:20:39.895 --> 00:20:43.298
  • To be redemptive, and we have to be
  • 00:20:43.298 --> 00:20:47.035
  • -here's the phrase-passionately, aggressively forgiving.
  • 00:20:47.035 --> 00:20:54.543
  • Passionately, aggressively forgiving and redemptive.
  • 00:20:54.543 --> 00:21:00.349
  • And i'll tell you what it'll do to the person that you don't
  • 00:21:00.349 --> 00:21:02.250
  • Like, the person that doesn't like you.
  • 00:21:02.250 --> 00:21:04.653
  • It'll just knock them off balance.
  • 00:21:04.653 --> 00:21:07.122
  • They won't have a way to deal with that, because you have
  • 00:21:07.122 --> 00:21:11.493
  • Actively turned the other cheek, and you've actively begun to
  • 00:21:11.493 --> 00:21:16.698
  • Defeat the evil that you know is there.
  • 00:21:16.698 --> 00:21:22.437
  • Say, "that's easy..."
  • 00:21:22.437 --> 00:21:23.372
  • No, no, no.
  • 00:21:23.372 --> 00:21:24.406
  • "it's impossible..."
  • 00:21:24.406 --> 00:21:25.240
  • No, no, no.
  • 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:26.308
  • "jesus can do it, but i can't..."
  • 00:21:26.308 --> 00:21:27.743
  • No, no, no.
  • 00:21:27.743 --> 00:21:28.844
  • It's the power of god in you and
  • 00:21:28.844 --> 00:21:31.046
  • Me as we overcome evil with good!
  • 00:21:31.046 --> 00:21:34.583
  • That's what it is!
  • 00:21:34.583 --> 00:21:37.452
  • What is the cross?
  • 00:21:37.452 --> 00:21:38.587
  • It's god overcoming the garbage of the world with good.
  • 00:21:38.587 --> 00:21:44.192
  • You see, god is a-not way up
  • 00:21:44.192 --> 00:21:47.763
  • There somewhere off and away up there...
  • 00:21:47.763 --> 00:21:52.033
  • God is a garbage collector who gets right down in the middle of
  • 00:21:52.033 --> 00:21:57.472
  • Your garbage and my garbage.
  • 00:21:57.472 --> 00:22:00.475
  • That's what the cross is.
  • 00:22:00.475 --> 00:22:03.779
  • You see, a lot of people want justice.
  • 00:22:03.779 --> 00:22:06.381
  • "oh, i want justice.
  • 00:22:06.381 --> 00:22:08.183
  • I'm tellin' you!"
  • 00:22:08.183 --> 00:22:10.318
  • A lot of people say, "oh, no, no.
  • 00:22:10.318 --> 00:22:11.386
  • I want love, and i want to love everybody..."
  • 00:22:11.386 --> 00:22:14.189
  • See, you can't have justice without love;
  • 00:22:14.189 --> 00:22:16.124
  • You can't have love without justice.
  • 00:22:16.124 --> 00:22:18.427
  • We, we say, you know, "i want to be just.
  • 00:22:18.427 --> 00:22:21.263
  • I want to be right with god."
  • 00:22:21.263 --> 00:22:22.831
  • You can't be declared just before god unless jesus christ,
  • 00:22:22.831 --> 00:22:26.301
  • Who is just, and he is the justifier.
  • 00:22:26.301 --> 00:22:30.038
  • That's what happened on the cross.
  • 00:22:30.038 --> 00:22:31.473
  • Justice was established between you and me and god on the cross.
  • 00:22:31.473 --> 00:22:35.477
  • Justice was established!
  • 00:22:35.477 --> 00:22:36.912
  • God's justice, god's purity, god's holiness was established
  • 00:22:36.912 --> 00:22:41.016
  • By jesus in his death on the cross.
  • 00:22:41.016 --> 00:22:43.485
  • Justice was there.
  • 00:22:43.485 --> 00:22:44.786
  • Also, love was demonstrated.
  • 00:22:44.786 --> 00:22:47.189
  • You see, that's the miracle -love was demonstrated
  • 00:22:47.189 --> 00:22:50.025
  • How much god loved us.
  • 00:22:50.025 --> 00:22:51.860
  • He sent jesus, the garbage collector!
  • 00:22:51.860 --> 00:22:56.198
  • By the way, you say, "this doesn't get god off the hook."
  • 00:22:56.198 --> 00:22:58.567
  • What is god on the hook about, remember way back?
  • 00:22:58.567 --> 00:23:01.436
  • God is on the hook by a lot of people say, "well, if god is all
  • 00:23:01.436 --> 00:23:04.673
  • Powerful, he can't be all good, or he'd eliminate evil."
  • 00:23:04.673 --> 00:23:07.108
  • Remember that?
  • 00:23:07.108 --> 00:23:08.109
  • A lot of people put god on the hook about that.
  • 00:23:08.109 --> 00:23:10.445
  • The cross, really, is the answer for that.
  • 00:23:10.445 --> 00:23:12.714
  • Jesus is the answer for that.
  • 00:23:12.714 --> 00:23:15.383
  • I've said it before, and i'll say it again: when you and i go
  • 00:23:15.383 --> 00:23:18.320
  • To the foot of the foot of the cross, we don't look up there
  • 00:23:18.320 --> 00:23:22.257
  • And say, "eh, i wonder how, how high, how tall is that cross"?
  • 00:23:22.257 --> 00:23:28.530
  • We don't do that.
  • 00:23:28.530 --> 00:23:30.398
  • We go to the cross, we don't say, "you know, i wonder how
  • 00:23:30.398 --> 00:23:33.502
  • Long the arms are of the cross?
  • 00:23:33.502 --> 00:23:35.237
  • You know, how many, how many feet
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  • -how long are the arms of the cross"?
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  • We don't do that...
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  • You go to the cross, you want to say,
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  • "you know, i wonder how much that cross weighs?
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  • I, it's a pretty heavy bit of wood there.
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  • I wonder how much it weighs..."
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  • We don't do that.
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  • We go to the cross.
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  • 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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  • - 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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  • 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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