Ed Young - Wasted and Wanting

May 21, 2025 | S25:E122

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Wasted and Wanting | May 21, 2025

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Pastor ed young: when you read the bible, it's a good idea to
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Know how to read the bible.
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You have to read the bible in its context.
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What does that mean?
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That means you have to understand what's going on
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Before and after and during that inspired word from god.
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If not, you'll have a totally confused understanding of what
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God is trying to say to you and what he's trying to say to me.
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So we read it in context.
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We've been studying one of the greatest chapters in the bible.
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Luke chapter 15.
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It's the great lost and found chapter.
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Lost, found, lost, found, lost, found.
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Shepherd lost a sheep, found.
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Woman lost a coin, found.
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Father lost a son, found.
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But to understand this chapter, we have to see what was
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Going on.
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You read in luke, jesus was healing people of every kind of
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Ailment you can imagine.
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Here and there and over there: blind, lepers, lame,
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Demonic, healing.
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And in the context of this, large crowds were coming.
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And so the pharisees and the scribes, the religious
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Establishment of the day they said about jesus, he associates
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With sinners, he runs around with sinners and on top of that,
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He goes home and eats with them.
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My, my, my, how can he be a prophet?
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How can he be a teacher?
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What's his credentials?
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What's his education?
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Where has he been? where is he from?
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Who's his parents?
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Because we see he runs around with sinners, sinners and he
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Sits down and eats with sinners and their charge against jesus
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Was absolutely true.
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Isn't that something?
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And jesus then seeks to explain to those supersonic religious
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People, their position as far as being lost and found with god is
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Concerned because i am sure they would have said we're found,
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We're with god, we're moral, we're ethical, we keep the law,
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And all of these sinners are lost.
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Here, we see ladies and gentlemen, a beautiful
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Understanding of scripture, we understand what jesus was
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Teaching and saying to you and to me in the 21st century and
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What he was saying to those stiff neck, super pious
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Religious pharisees and scribes.
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I want you to look at it in luke chapter number 15.
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It begins there in the story of the prodigal son, it says a
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Certain man had two sons and the younger son said, paraphrase,
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Dad, i wish you'd die.
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That's what he said.
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He said, give me the inheritance i will get when you die.
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Isn't that something?
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Now, most fathers in the middle east, and actually all around
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The world, but particularly the middle eastern father, if a
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Young whipper, snapper had come up and said, i want the share of
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My inheritance, i'm gonna get when you die, that medieval
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Father would slap that younger son and say get out of my
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Sight, right?
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That's what they would do in the middle east.
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But what did this father do?
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An unbelievable thing, a remarkable thing.
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He said, okay.
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Okay, and he went out and started to sell enough goods so
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He could give that young son his share of what he would get when
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He would die.
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Now, this is that little phrase in there, it says not many days
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After, you know, the son, not many days after, he didn't leave
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Immediately when the father said he'd give him the heritage
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Because the father had to sell some property, had to sell some
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Sheep and some goats, he had to sell some of his crops in order
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To get enough money for that kid to go off and take everything
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That he'd get--this was a wealthy landowner, a wealthy,
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Wealthy man.
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And when he sold all of this, it affected his family, it affected
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His other son who stayed at home, it affected the whole
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Community because they all worked together and so i'm sure
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They were saying, what got into him, what's going on, what led
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Him to embarrass his father, to steal from his father, to wish
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That his father was dead, to hurt the economy in
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Our community?
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So he got out of dodge.
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Now that young man knew there was no way he could ever go back
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Home to the father and he could never go back to the community
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Because the community had something called kezazah
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It was a ceremony in which they would
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Take burned nuts and they would take burned corn and put it in
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An earthen vessel.
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And if a jewish man or boy went off and lost all their money to
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Gentiles--who were the gentiles?
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Anybody that wasn't a jew.
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If you weren't a jew, you were a gentile.
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And if a jew went off and lost all the money to gentiles, they
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Could never come back to the community.
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In fact, if they came back, they would take and shame them and
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They would take that earthen vessel and they would break it
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And they would call their name and say you have been cut off,
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Zip, never to return.
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So that young guy knew all this.
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He'd been brought up in this culture, and so he got all the
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Loot together and he took off and he went to the far country
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And the bible tells us he lived extravagantly.
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In other words, he was some kind of cool cat there, among
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The gentiles.
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You could be sure that a lot of the mothers said, you know, this
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Young man who's come to town, he's got it all.
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He's handsome, he's got funds, he's an operator.
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Wouldn't it be nice if one of my daughters would date him and
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Maybe marry him, man, that would be great.
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We'd go way up in society.
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I'm sure he made some deals, i'm sure he dated a lot of women,
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His older brother said later on he ran around with prostitutes,
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But you can't live that kind of "let the good times roll" very
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Long, i don't care how much loot you've gotten from your dad.
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And before long he ran out of money, he ran out of friends,
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Said no one gave him anything, a little scripture there.
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He ran out of everything and a famine came in the land, he
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Couldn't get a job, he tried there in the far country, and
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Then finally a pig farmer hired him to herd and feed the pigs.
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He became a pig herder.
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And then you have one little verse of scripture that explains
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What's going on as to why he even thought about going back.
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Look at verse 17, it says, "i perish with hunger!"
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That's it.
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Prior to that you have verse 17, the first part said, "he came to
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Himself," was that a turning point in his life?
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He came to himself?
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A long time i have preached that and taught that.
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I was wrong.
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When he came to himself, it merely means that he began to
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Think about himself and who he was and think about a way that
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Somehow because he was so hungry and he had bottomed out and a
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Jew feeding pigs and living with pigs, you can get no lower
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Than that.
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He came to himself, he saw who he was.
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Did you hear about the rabbit who came face to face with
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A rattlesnake?
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The rattlesnake looked at the rabbit and said, i know who
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You are.
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I recognize those ears, twitching nose, that little
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Bushy tail, all that fur, you're a rabbit.
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The rabbit said to the rattlesnake, you're right.
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And he says, i know who you are.
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You got a big mouth and you're smooth and you have all those
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Diamonds on your back.
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You're a television evangelist.
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So the prodigal came to his senses.
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He said he came to himself.
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He didn't come with the idea, i've got to get back in
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Relationship with my father.
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He didn't come with the idea, boy, i've done wrong,
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Taking all that money from my dad.
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No, he came to himself and then he made a little speech.
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He said, you know, my father he has hired servants.
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They eat better than this, they live better than this, and he
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Made up a little speech and some of the people think when he came
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To himself, he began to repent.
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No, that's no repentance there.
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It's all selfish, all his idea, some people have the idea when
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They get in trouble in life, they get hungry and things go
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Bad, they say i'm gonna fix myself.
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I'm going to a psychologist and get some counseling, i'm gonna
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Fix myself.
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I'm gonna leave my wife, my husband, that's my problem, i'm
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Gonna fix myself.
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It's the job that i have, it's where i live, i'm gonna
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Fix myself.
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And a lot of us, just like the prodigal he said, he came to
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Himself, i'm gonna fix myself.
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And he made up this little speech.
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This is the speech, he said, i'll get to my father.
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Father, i've sinned against heaven and before your sight,
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I'm no longer worthy to be called your son, make me as a
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Hired servant.
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Well, you say that was repentance, no, it wasn't.
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Because remember his audience?
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Who is he talking to primarily?
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The scribes and pharisees.
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One thing about the scribes and pharisees, they knew the bible.
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And when the prodigal started saying, i've sinned against
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Heaven and before you, they recognize that as almost the
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Same words pharaoh spoke to moses after the ninth plague,
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When pharaoh trying to manipulate moses said, i've
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Sinned against heaven, i've sinned before the lord, and i've
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Sinned before you.
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Was pharaoh repenting?
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No, he was trying to deal with moses saying, shut down these
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Plagues, and that why the plague of the locusts in which
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Everything green in egypt had been eaten up by the locusts.
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And pharaoh makes the same speech that the prodigal is
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Making and you could be sure those past jews said we've heard
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That before.
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Yeah, that's not sincere, that's not repentance.
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He tried to manipulate moses and what is the prodigal doing?
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He's got a speech, he thinks he can manipulate the father.
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And remember the father in this story is a symbol of
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God himself.
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So the prodigal gets up and i've said a long time he
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Was repenting.
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No, he wasn't, he was hungry, he was going home to manipulate
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His dad.
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And so he retraces his steps.
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And then an amazing thing happens.
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His father knowing that he would not make it looked out and was
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Watching that road day after day, hoping, praying,
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Anticipating his son would come back home.
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Now let me tell you how that whole community would have
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Been structured.
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There would be a village in which in the middle of the
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Village would be the wealthy landowners, the prosperous
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People would have bigger houses and all the other houses would
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Surround them.
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It's not like there was a house here and there's all the land
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And the cattle.
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Oh no, they would all have lived together and the streets would
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Be probably no more than 12 feet wide through the village enough
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For a loaded camel to pass.
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And the second story would lean together be about 6 feet apart.
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And so that father, in the middle of it, was looking out
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For that son because he knew, listen carefully, if he ever
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Decided to come back and the community would see him, they
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Would never let him get to the father.
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They would have began the ceremony
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Of being cut off, kezazah,
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And he would be excluded and cut off and never allowed to
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Go home.
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So the father knew that and he watched and he watched when he
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Saw him a great way off.
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The father did a remarkable thing just unheard of anywhere,
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Any time in culture in the bible, the father picked up his
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Long robe and he climbed down and he ran to meet that son.
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A jewish patriarch would never, never do that.
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It was against the law, the mishnah, you know, was
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Interpretation of the talmud and the torah.
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And it said, if a bird would fly under a man's robe, he couldn't
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Get that bird out in public, it would be embarrassing and
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Disgraceful to show his ankles.
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Listen, that's how pious they were about the law.
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But this father, he didn't care.
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He tied up his robe, he ran to meet that son.
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Why?
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Oh, he's glad to see him come back home.
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No, he knew if he did not meet him outside that village and a
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Villager would see him first, knowing that this young man,
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This pig herder coming home had disgraced the father and
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Disgraced the village, they would have cut him off and
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Shamed him and never allowed him to come home.
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So the father had to run out.
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Now notice this, the boy began to make his little speech.
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He said, father, i've sinned against heaven before you.
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And i'm no longer worthy to be called your son.
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About this time the father got there and he embraced him and he
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Kissed him and covered him, i'm sure by his robe, and the son
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Never got to say, make me as a hired servant.
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Now watch this, the son thought he could go back and bring
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Something into the grace and in the forgiveness that he hoped to
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Receive his father--father make me as a hired servant and i will
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Work long enough and hard enough to repay you for all the
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Inheritance i have thrown away and exploited with
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Sensual living.
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But the son never finished that speech.
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Why?
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Because repentance for him was exactly what repentance was for
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The sheep and the coin, it was the acceptance of being found.
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Ladies and gentlemen, that's grace.
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The boy thought i'm gonna go, i'm gonna earn my way back, no,
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It never works like that.
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It's all by the love and the grace of god.
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The boy thought the problem was he'd thrown away all the money,
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Though the problem was that he had broken a relationship with
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His father, and that relationship was reestablished
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With his father and therefore the village would never have
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That ceremony of cutting him off because the father had embraced
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Him and more than that, the father had said, look, bring the
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Best robe and put it on him.
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That was the sign of a family robe, a uniform if you would,
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And they put a ring on his hand, that would be a signet ring.
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He has all the authority of the family that he ever had and
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He's barefooted.
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He's not a slave, he put shoes on his feet.
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Man, he's totally rehabilitated.
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He's totally forgiven, he's back in the family with no merit of
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His own.
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The repentance of the prodigal was he didn't say make me as a
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Hired, psh--no, it was this acceptance of the grace, the
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Love, the forgiveness of being found.
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Here's the question: how do you and i--we're lost, how do we
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Get found?
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Is it your initiative and my initiative as we go to god?
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Or is it god's initiative as he comes to us?
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Can i go to god any time i want to or can i go to god only when
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He is leading and he is calling me to come to him?
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I won't spend a lot of time with the armenians and the
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Calvinists if you're a theologian.
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But here we see the situation.
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How do we get right? how do we get safe?
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How do we know we are salvaged?
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How do you know we're in god's family?
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How do you know, and i know, that we're going to heaven?
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Both of us have the idea, the world does at least, that god
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Grades on some kind of cosmic curve.
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You know, you've had class in which the teacher would grade on
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The curve and they'd take the highest grade in the class, say
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The highest grade was 75 and perfection was 100, but 75 would
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Be the highest grade and they would take all the other grades
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And marshal them on down, so, if you and i made a 40 the highest
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Grade was 75 and the professor grade on a curve, that 40 might
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Be a c and not an f, and so a lot of people think that god
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Grades on the curve.
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That god is such a god of love, that universal is
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That--everybody is going to be saved.
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Johns hopkins university, i think this last semester, if i
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Read it correctly, they had a professor there that said he
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Always grade on the curve.
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And so they went in for a final exam and the class decided,
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Well, he's going to grade on the curve, the highest grade will
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Get an a, what if all of us do not take the final, the only
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Grade for the whole semester?
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And we all made a zero and he would grade on the curve, huh?
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We'd all make an a and believe it or not, that's what they did
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And believe it or not, he graded on the curve and all of them
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Made a zero, but it was the highest grade in the room, so
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All of them made an a.
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That's universalism if we think we get
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Right with god by doing good.
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I got news for you.
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God does not grade on a curve.
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Sorry, he doesn't do it.
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God grades on the basis of, you're either saved,
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You're lost.
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You're either found or you're lost.
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To say it in this way, you pass or fail.
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In god's course, everybody here passes or fails.
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Good, better, best has nothing to do with it.
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Whoa, how does that work?
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You pass or you fail, what about all those good people?
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A lot of people are--well, how can god send anybody to hell?
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Ladies and gentlemen, god never sends a person to hell.
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We're free, moral agents, we make our own choice about
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This thing.
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You say hell is there, why?
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Why does god even have to have a hell, hell is there because we
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Live in a moral universe.
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Without hell, there's no morality.
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There's no right and there's no wrong, there's no punishment for
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Wrong and there's no reward for being right.
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In other words, if there's no hell, what are you gonna do with
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The pedophiles?
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What are you gonna do with adolf hitler?
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What are you gonna do with all of those in our city right here
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Where we live, who are selling thousands of children every day
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In sex trafficking?
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What are you gonna do with those folks?
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I thank god, there's a hell and it is a moral choice that
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Everybody makes.
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If you're in a little boat and it goes down at sea and they
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Send a boat to rescue you and you say no, i don't want to be
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Rescued, i'm gonna take care of myself.
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Did that boat cause you to drown at sea?
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No, you drowned at sea because the choice you made not to get
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On that boat.
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God grades on the basis of pass or fail.
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You say, well, goodness, what do i have to do to pass?
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How good do you have to be?
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How good do i have to be?
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Now, this will blow your mind, but what the bible says, you
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Know how good we have to be to be safe, to be salvaged?
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We have to be as good as god.
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Boy.
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I'm disqualified.
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You're all disqualified.
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On a pass or fail basis, you're not as good as god, i'm not as
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Good as god, i guess we're all permanently lost.
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No, this is where grace comes in.
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God sent his son jesus christ, who was perfection and he took
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All the trash hypocrisy in your life and the life of every
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Prodigal son or daughter upon himself and was nailed to the
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Cross and died and paid the debt to god that you and i could not
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Pay anymore the prodigal could pay the debt to his father and
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He paid that debt.
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And when we receive jesus christ, he puts in you and in me
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Righteousness, he puts in you and me, jesus christ, and
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Therefore those who are in christ.
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God looks at you and god looks at me and says you're good
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Enough, in fact, you're perfect just like my son jesus.
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He paid the debt that we could not never pay.
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That is grace and repentance is acceptance of being found.
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Now the prodigal, now the prodigal he put on the robe
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Right there when he came back home, he put the ring back on.
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He'd left with a robe, lost it.
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He'd left with the ring, sold it.
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He'd left with shoes, he came home barefooted.
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But now when he put the robe and the ring and the shoes back on,
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He knew he couldn't earn his way back into the household of
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The father.
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He walked with new humility in his life because he knew that
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Everything he was, everything he had, all the joy in his life was
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A gift from the father.
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That's why, that's why we call acceptance of being found,
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Acceptance of being saved, acceptance of receiving
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That grace.
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That's why we call it, guess what?
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Amazing.
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Amazing.
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Pastor ed: at some point, every marriage will run into
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Tough times.
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Whether it's miscommunication, money, sex, or in-laws, every
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Marriage goes through a rocky patch.
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Far too often, those rocky patches end up ruining otherwise
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Great, potentially super marriages.
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But it does not have to be that way.
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God designed marriage, and he gave us the keys to have a
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Marriage that works, a marriage that sizzles.
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In my book, "the ten commandments of marriage," i lay
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Out ten practical principles to make your marriage super.
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I hope that you will get this resource today.
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Female announcer: to get your copy, call the number on your
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Screen or go online at winningwalk.org.
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It's our gift to you for your financial support
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Of this ministry.
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Marriage may not always be bliss, but with god's help, it
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Can be amazing.
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Pastor ed: before my freshman year at the university of
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Alabama, i worked in a tunnel.
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In those days, i thought i'd be an engineer.
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We were boring through an alabama mountain where a big
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Water conduit was to be placed.
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One contractor bored from the east and the other came in from
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The west and they had to meet and then we knew they were
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Getting close and we were running the lines and the grade
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To make sure they'd meet, but we weren't sure, sure, sure.
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I remember one morning asking have they broken through yet?
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And then they answered, yes, they broke through last night on
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The graveyard shift because they worked that mine 24/7.
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They broke through on the graveyard shift.
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Years later, it hit me.
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Jesus worked the graveyard shift at the cross.
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He broke through the tunnel of death and defeated death
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Forever, for those who receive him.
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We can be confident in our future, knowing that jesus
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Christ will carry us all the way through this life and then he'll
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Carry us all the way to heaven.
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - Wasted and Wanting

May 21, 2025 | S25:E122

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