Ed Young - What Really Matters

November 7, 2025 | 29:0

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - What Really Matters | November 7, 2025

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Ed young: john chapter 14.
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Jesus says, "do not let," stop it,
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"do not let your heart be troubled.
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You believe in god; believe also in me."
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What's he saying?
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He said, "if you believe in god,"
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Yes, "you believe also in me," jesus.
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Yes, "then if your heart is troubled, stop it."
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Why?
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Because if we turn our heart over to god,
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Turn our heart over to jesus, he empowers us to handle,
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To go through, to put behind us, and to walk
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With him now and forever.
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Therefore if we keep on harboring, feeding, lamenting,
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Crying, moaning, going into depression, questioning,
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Challenging, digging deeper and deeper,
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And we have a troubled heart, he says stop it because god
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And christ--i can handle it-- exegesis.
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John chapter 14, verse number 1.
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In one sense, that is what solomon has been telling us
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As we have walked through 11 chapters of that book.
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He's saying if you're trying to find meaning,
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Significance, a life of value, a life that has eternal rewards,
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You're not going to find it under the sun in parallel
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Living, one-dimensional living.
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If you are reckoning your life, figuring out life's problems and
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Challenging using only material we get from us under the sun,
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In horizontal living, stop it.
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You're not going to find a life that has significance,
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That has meaning, that's worth a hoot.
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Paraphrase.
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He said, look, stop trying to figure out life
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With human rationales.
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You will never do it. it's never been done.
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It never will be done.
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He said stop trying to do it and here we have solomon now walking
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Through these years telling us how he did everything,
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Went everywhere, accomplished everything,
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Became the wealthiest man on this earth,
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The most gifted, talented man on this earth,
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But he got down to the bottom.
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He said, in these 11 chapters we've studied, nothing matters.
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Summarize 11 chapters: nothing matters.
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If you're adolf hitler, you're the apostle paul, no difference.
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You're foolish, you're wise.
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It doesn't matter, and he says nothing matters.
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That's where he leaves us.
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Now, to be sure he's had a little flickering of god,
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As we studied it, but he comes to conclusion.
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He says it's all vanity.
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It's all smoke, all of life, and,
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You know, he's exactly right.
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If you and i live our life on the basis of everything we see,
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Touch, feel, on the basis of materialism and secularism in
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This dimension, nothing really matters.
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It really doesn't, but then he comes to chapter 12,
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The last chapter of the book, and we're staggered.
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But as he cuts--starts off, and he says,
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"well, by the way, there are two or three things that matter," so
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I don't know about you, i got on tiptoe.
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I said, "my goodness, here is a guy who spent all this time
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Telling us that nothing matters.
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Now he says two or three things matter.
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What are those things that really matter?"
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Look at the beginning of chapter 12 and,
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By the way, chapter 12, verse 1 through verse 8
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Tells us that time matters.
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T-i-m-e, time, and look what he says.
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"remember also your creator in the days of your youth."
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The word "remember" here doesn't mean i make a list.
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"here is all the groceries i'm to supply.
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This is what i'm to do.
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These are birthdays i need to remember."
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That's not what this word means.
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The word "remember" usually in the hebrew language means,
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Listen, "to act decisively for someone else."
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Nail that down.
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To remember means you act decisively on behalf of somebody
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Else, so what is solomon saying?
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He says remember, act decisively on the creator--by the way,
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God is the only creator that has ever created anything because he
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Is the only creator.
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Not going too fast for anybody, am i?
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And he created everything we see,
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Everything that has been, everything is,
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Everything that will be.
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It's called ex nihilo. he created out of nothing.
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Solomon says act decisively in your life.
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Remember the creator.
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When do you act decisively as far as god is concerned?
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He says while you're young.
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I've talked to so many people who are in their latter years
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About christ, and they lived a totally
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Humanistic, secular life.
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Maybe they were good, maybe they were evil,
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Maybe they had a mixed bag, maybe they thought they were
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Gonna do enough, give enough to get to heaven,
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But i've talked to 'em about god and christ and about grace,
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About being a christian, and so many of them have said,
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"oh, yes, i want that," and they've received christ.
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But so many of them, they had lived so long in the far,
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Far country away from god, even though now they had gone back
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Home, they had trouble changing, adapting to the lifestyle of
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Someone who walks with the almighty.
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There was jadedness there. there was a crustiness there.
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There was a language there, a manner of thinking there that is
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So difficult when your life is set in old age to let god and
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Christ do all the changing that's necessary,
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So very wisely solomon says remember, act decisively.
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Remember on the creator, on god.
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Do business with him while you're young.
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Most of us become a christian when we're young.
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How many of you here became a christian before you were 30?
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Would you lift your hand? i rest my case.
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Remember, act decisively on the basis of god,
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Your--on your creator, on god.
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Respond to him while you're young.
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That's the first thing that soloman says that matters.
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Eleven chapters nothing matters. he said that matters.
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Then he says the next thing is--matters is the aging
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Process, and he gives us some beautiful,
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Sometimes tragic, sometimes humorous
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Pictures of getting old.
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Look at them here.
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He said, verse 2, he said--verse 1 first of all,
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"the years draw near when you will say,
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'i have no delight in them.''
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We're getting old and decrepit. verse 2.
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He said, "before the sun and the light,
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And the moon and the stars are darkened,
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And the clouds return after the rain--"
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He's talking about we slow down mentally.
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That's a part of the aging process.
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Verse 3, "in the day that the watchmen of the house tremble,
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And mighty men stoop--"
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That's our legs. that's our arm, our watchman.
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We tend to stoop and our legs aren't as confident
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As they once were.
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That's a part of the process.
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"the grinding ones stand idle because they are few."
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This is your teeth, my teeth. won't develop that.
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"and those who look through the windows grow dim."
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This is our eyesight.
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Man, a couple of years ago i took a woman in our church who
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Was 103 a big-print bible, and she said,
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"i don't need this bible.
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I don't need that big print."
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And i went back and found her a bible.
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The print was about that big...and she says,
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"i can read every word of it."
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She is the exception.
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By the way, she's now, i think, 106 and active and strong and if
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She doesn't win in bingo about every fourth day, she really
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Gets--anyway, talking about your eyes.
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Our eyes get dimmer.
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"furthermore, men are afraid of high place and
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Terrors on the road."
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"i can't drive at night, i--"
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"and the almond tree blossoms," white hair,
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"the grasshopper drags himself along," that's the
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Whole body, "and the canterberry is ineffective."
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That's the sexual drive.
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"for man goes to his eternal home while
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Mourners go about street."
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He's saying, hey, remember your youth.
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Your youth matters. remember the aging process.
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Then he says death is going to come.
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"remember him," act decisively on the basis of god,
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"before and about the silver cord is broken,
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The golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the well is shattered
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And the wheel at the cistern is crushed."
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That's your mind, perhaps a stroke,
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And your heart does not function,
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And he gets to the end, and he says,
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"'vanity of all vanities,' says solomon, 'all is vanity!'"
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All does not have any value, any meaning,
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Any significance in life,
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But he says, "i'll tell you what does matter:
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Youth, the aging process, and death."
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Then he says that's the first thing that matters,
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But he gives us the second thing that matter,
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And you'd be surprised at this.
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It's words. words.
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Look at verse 9.
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"in addition to being a wise man,
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The preacher," solomon, "also taught the people knowledge;
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And he pondered, and he searched out and arranged many proverbs."
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He looked at some 13,000 of them.
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He picked out those that were most relevant.
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"the preacher sought to find delightful words and to write
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Words of truth correctly."
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Solomon has written down words of truth.
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Let me tell you something.
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Somebody who is secular, somebody who has no belief in
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God, they enjoy the book of ecclesiastes
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If they're really students.
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Why?
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It's because ecclesiastes tells the truth about how life is
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Lived independent of god.
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Bono, the rock 'n' roll guy, he says ecclesiastes is one of the
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Most influential books in his life.
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Tom wolfe, who just died, a foremost american novelist,
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Said it's the greatest word that's ever been written.
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Generally they look at life independent of god,
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Not always, and therefore they read ecclesiastes and said,
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"here are all the profound questions.
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This really describes life without god vividly,
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Clearly, correctly," and we see how solomon carefully
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Chose his words.
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Words matter.
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Verse 11, "the words of wise men are like goads," they're like
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That which goad us, "and masters of these collections are like
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Well-driven nails; and they are given by the shepherd."
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What is he saying? he's saying words are goads.
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They goad us. what is a goad?
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A goad is a sharp stick.
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Would you take an animal, and you would stick him,
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Not to hurt him seriously, but to make him move on,
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Or you'd take--you would take a goad,
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And you would stick an animal to keep him on the path.
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This is what words do.
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This is what the word of god does for us.
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It's a goad saying, "hey, don't just stay there.
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Move on out." it's a goad.
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"you're wandering off the path." it goads us back on the path.
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Words are goads and also words are more than goads.
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They stimulate us. they inspire us.
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They bring life back into us and look what else he says,
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Very wonderful things.
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He says they are driven by shepherds and they are nails.
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See it there? what happens?
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We have the word of god in us, and it becomes a nail that nails
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Down in our minds, nails done in our heart.
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So many times i start to do something and,
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Bang, a verse of scripture will pop up,
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And i'll say, "oh, my goodness, what in the--"
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And, see, these proverbs,
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These sayings, the truth of god, they goad us,
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They move us along, they keep us on the path,
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And they nail truth down within you and within me.
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That's what--they're nails and who is the one
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Who uses the goad?
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Who is the one who drives the nail?
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It's the shepherd. who is the shepherd?
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It's the lord. it's god.
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It's god as the good shepherd directing your life and my life
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As we live under the sun, if we recognize him who
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Is above the sun.
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So, we see words are important, and then he talks
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About many words here.
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Look at this, verse 12, "but beyond this,
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My son, he warned: the writing of many books is endless,
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Excessive devotion in books is wearying to the body."
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So many times we are looking for shiny objects.
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That's a syndrome.
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"i want something that shines, something that glows.
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I want something that encourages.
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I want something that brings about a pulse.
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I'm looking for excitement.
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I'm exploring all the realms of hedonism."
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It's a syndrome, looking for shiny objects,
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And we say, "i wanna find god and know god,
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But i've got more questions.
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I haven't looked at every religion in the world yet.
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I haven't studied all the philosophical truths yet."
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And any time we have an answer, these people,
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They always have another question and here is another
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Answer, here is another question,
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And solomon say you can spend all your life questions and
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Answers and question and answers and never land,
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Never make a decision.
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Let me tell you something, folks.
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There are two things i hear on television that i absolutely
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Am almost violent about, personal.
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When another politician or talking head says,
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"we're gonna kick the can down the road,"
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I wanna kick them right in the shins.
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If there's ever been a phrase that's worn, slapdab,
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Out, it's that one.
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It means "let's just put everything off."
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Listen, our government is phi beta kappa in putting everything
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Off already, so if i hear that phrase i just get kinda
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Temporarily psychotic.
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The other phrase that upsets me, you get into a serious
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Conversation about a great moral or ethical question,
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And somebody will say, "we need to have
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Further conversation about that."
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You know what i wanna do?
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I wanna take whoever said that out and ask them
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A couple of questions.
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I wanna say, "let me ask you something.
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Have you ever had conversations about
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Critical issues before with people?"
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"oh, yes."
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My next question is, "tell me one thing you've ever done or
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Changed as result of those conversations."
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I don't think i'd have a lot of comeback.
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Listen, there is a time to talk and discuss,
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Then there is a time to move into action.
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There is a time to speculate about all of our problems and
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Then there is a time to do something about
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All of our problems.
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There is a time to ask questions about god and life and space and
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There is a time to receive divine answers and respond to
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God and what he means about life.
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That is what solomon is saying.
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Don't spend all your time speculating somewhere you have
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To respond to truth, and he says that matters.
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Time matters: while you're young,
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Aging process, death will come.
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Time matters, and then he moves on.
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He says, "let me tell you what else matters."
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Look at our verse.
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He says in verse number 13, "the conclusion,
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When all has been heard, is: fear god."
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Let me tell you what matters: worship.
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Here we are.
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Worship, worship in awe of god, in adoration of god,
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Listening to god, taking time out with god.
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Worship, worship, worship. worship matters.
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Time matters, words matters, worship matters,
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And then he says look what else matters.
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Morality.
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He says keep the ten commandments.
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"keep his commandments, because they applies to every person."
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Literally that phrase mean when we worship and we're moral and
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Keep the commandments, we become whole, w-h-o-l-e.
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Everybody becomes whole. we're broken.
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We have holes, h-o-l-e-s, and now
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We become whole and complete.
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That's what happens. man, listen.
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We worship, and we have clean living in our lives.
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We obey and practice commandment.
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We become whole people and that matters.
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Time matters, words matter, worship matters,
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Morality matters, and then i want you to look at this last
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Verse that we're studying.
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This summarizes the whole book, but it staggers me.
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Verse 14, "for god will bring every act to judgment," say
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"judgement," "to judgment, everything which is hidden,
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Whether it is good or evil."
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Three major judgments in the bible.
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First of all, there is the judgment of heaven.
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Revelation 20, great white throne,
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The judgment of those who did not believe,
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Those who are not christians.
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There is a judgment in heaven.
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There is a judgment on earth, matthew 25.
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This is the judgment of all the nations, the sheep and the goat.
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Judgment on earth. there is a judgment in air.
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This is the judgment of christians and believers,
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2 corinthians 5, thessalonians 1:4, and many other places.
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We will be called into account before god.
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Therefore, everybody will be judged.
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Everybody will stand before the almighty.
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Everybody will be there before the throne of god
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And the throne of jesus christ.
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What does that mean? it means everything matters.
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Instead of nothing matters, everything matters because
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Everything we've done, we've said will be called into account
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Before god almighty in judgment, every little thing.
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Did you get it?
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A cup of cold water, a kind word, a vicious response.
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Coldness when we should have been warm,
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Unwilling to forgive.
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We should be gracious.
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Everything, big things, little things, our motives.
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"why did you do that? why did you preach that sermon?
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Ooh, well, why did you go--" motives.
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Everything, good, bad, indifferent that's been done in
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Your life and my life, hypocrisy and genuine,
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Everything, big, little will be brought before god in judgment.
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Therefore, everything about your life,
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Everything about my life matters,
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So whatever solomon has been saying,
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Nothing matters, he comes to the end and say,
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"hey, there is gonna be a time of accounting."
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Therefore everything in your life and my life matters.
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Now, that ought to frighten us and scare us beyond belief,
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Except--you see, god looks at everybody here.
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He doesn't see mary and joe and david and alice.
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He doesn't see you. he doesn't see me.
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He looks at you, he looks at me and says,
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"you know what your name really is?
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You know what your name really is?
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It's jedidiah, the one whom god loves."
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And therefore because he has loved us to himself and we've
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Received jesus christ, when we stand before that judgment bar,
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We will see eyes of love, and we'll see
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Eyes of love in response.
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How in the world did this happen?
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Because when we in jesus christ have gone before the cross,
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Listen, when you go at the foot of the cross,
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You don't look up there and say, "you know,
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I wonder how tall that cross is.
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I wonder how high it is."
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No, you go before the cross you don't say,
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"you know, i wonder how long those arms are on that cross."
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No, no, you go before the cross you don't say,
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"you know, i wonder how much the cross weighs."
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No, go before the cross we say, "i wonder if that cross is high
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Enough to reach to heaven, i wonder if those arms are long
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Enough to include somebody like me,
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And i wonder if that cross weighs enough to tip the scales
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Of forgiveness and grace and justice in my favor," because,
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You see, when we've gone before that cross we don't fear
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Judgment because we know jesus christ has taken all the
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Garbage, all the little things and big things in your life
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And in my life in which we struck out,
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In which we fumbled, in which we failed,
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And he has taken all of that there.
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And jesus was judged on your behalf and on my behalf because
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God looks on us as jedidiah, one whom he loves,
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And therefore judgment will be for those in christ a moment of
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Celebration and joy and adoration.
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That is the christian life.
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Everything matters.
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Ed: jesus christ wants to be the central point
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Of your life--that means that he deserves to be at the center
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Of everything you are and everything you do.
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If he is not in the center you will end up going through life
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Without ever knowing what it is all about,
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And you will miss out on all that god has planned for you.
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And listen, that would be a tragedy.
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So begin today to focus on him
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And let him take control of your life.
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And pray with you about that which is on your mind and heart.
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And don't forget, join us again next time, right here,
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Ed Young - What Really Matters

November 7, 2025 | 29:0

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