Ed Young - Who Can Be Against Us

May 4, 2025 | S25:E106

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Who Can Be Against Us | May 4, 2025

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Pastor ed young: what is the greatest chapter in the bible?
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When you consider that there are 66 books in the bible, selecting
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A single chapter, one to designate as the greatest, is a
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Difficult task.
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A lot of people have different opinions, but romans 8, in my
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Opinion, is the goat chapter: the greatest of all time.
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It covers just 39 verses, but it's the abcs of christianity.
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Where romans 7 shows us what happens when we try to live the
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Christian life by our own power, romans 8 gives us the divine
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Formula for living life as god plans, as god intends.
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It tells us what it means to receive christ, to be in christ,
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And explain what it looks like to live a successful, victorious
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Life, walking with the lord.
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Now, as we study this great chapter together, i trust that
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These messages will encourage you and strengthen you in your
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Daily walk with the lord.
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Pastor ed: if you've been around here, you know we've been
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Studying romans chapter 8, we've called it the goat chapter of
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The bible, the greatest of all time, because i think it is a
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Powerful chapter, and we could debate about it, but i think it
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Encompasses so much of who we are as christians, and through
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These many weeks, i thought about it.
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I said, "you know, when we get through with romans 8, how many
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Of us or will i remember all the scripture, the highlights, the
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Lowlights as we went through romans 8?
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Will i remember those?"
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And then i thought about psalm 119.
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And 119, when i used to read through the psalms, a chapter a
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Day, 30 days you read through the psalms, when i got to 119,
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My, my, my, it's the longest chapter in the bible, ladies and
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Gentlemen: 176 verses.
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It takes a while.
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It seems like when i was reading a chapter a day in psalms during
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Different times of quiet time, i'd get to 119.
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That'd be the very day i had a busy schedule, and i didn't
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Think i had time to read 176 verses, but in those 176 verses,
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Verse number 11 is indeed interesting.
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It says, "your word, god's word, i have treasured in my heart,
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That i may not sin against you."
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So this means in the bible, there are scriptures, there are
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Words of god in this operating manual that we need to have
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Hidden in our heart.
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They need to be treasured within us so we can call upon them in
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Every kind of situation of life, and i thought about what are
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Those words in romans chapter number 8 that we've already
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Studied, those who've been around here?
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And i just mark those verses that stood out for me, and the
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Verses i mark were verse 1 of 8. "therefore there is now no
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Condemnation to those who are in christ jesus."
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And when we're burdened and down and think we've lost our
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Relationship with god, as christians, we need to
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Be awakened.
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In fact, there's no condemnation.
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And then verse 11 i marked as one we need to hide in
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Our hearts.
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"but if the spirit of him who raised jesus from the dead
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Dwells in you, he who raised christ jesus from the dead will
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Also give life to your mortal bodies through the holy spirit
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Who dwells in you."
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In other words, when we're down, right now, our mortal bodies,
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That verse says, "hey, we've got the resurrected power of the
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Holy spirit in our lives that will lift us up," verse 11.
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And then i moved over to verse 15.
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That's a verse we need.
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"for you have not received the spirit of slavery leading to
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Fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as
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Sons by which we can cry out, 'abba!
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Dad!
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Father!'"
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To know we have an intimate relationship with god, well, i
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Marked that verse.
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Then i jumped over to verse 28.
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"and we know that god causes all things to work together for good
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To those who love him, those who are called according to
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His purpose."
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And i said, "i need that verse."
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And then verse 31, that we will bump into today and develop
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More fully.
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So you take those verses, you may pick out others and mark
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Them down and say, you know, those are some of the verses we
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Studied exegetically and rather thoroughly as we went through
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Romans 8, and i wanna have them available, available to me all
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Through my life.
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As we go back to our scripture, that was the verse we ended up
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With last time we gathered, but i wanna sort of bring us in an
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Overview here of the whole book of romans.
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It's interesting that romans chapter 1 through chapter 3 is
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Primarily saying everybody's a sinner: jews, gentiles, greeks,
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Nobody's gonna make it and have a relationship with god.
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You can't keep the law.
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You can't practice all the rituals.
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You're not gonna make it.
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Nobody's gonna make it, and you have three chapters in romans
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Saying exactly that to sum it up, and you-- then you come to
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The end of chapter 3, and ladies and gentlemen, that is the low
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Moment in all the study of romans.
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That's the bottom.
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That's the pit, and paul is saying that's where we all are.
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I want you to look at it, in chapter number 3 of romans, and
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I'm gonna read what that pit sounds like.
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He says, "what then?"
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In fact, we're all losers.
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We're not gonna make it.
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That's verse 9, chapter 3. "are we better than they?
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No, not at all; for we have already charged that both jews,
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Gentiles, greek, everybody are all under sin."
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Can't do business with god under sin, we know that, and then he
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Describes what it is like.
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He said, "there is none righteous, not even one; there
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Is none who understands, there is none who seeks for god; all
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Have turned aside, together they become useless; there is no one
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Who does good, there's not even one.
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Their throat is an open grave, and their tongues, they keep
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Deceiving, the poison of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is
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Full of cursing and bitterness; and their feet are swift to shed
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Blood, there is no fear of god in their eyes."
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There's no worship.
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That is the very bottom of life, and that is a low point in the
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Book of romans, and from that third chapter, paul begins to
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Build his case.
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He begins a show how all of this fails and why it fails.
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He begins to build with a little crescendo, and he goes and says,
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"how do we know this is true?"
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And then he gives, for some, a big word, and we've unpacked
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Those words, and he says, very simply, "let me tell you what.
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This is what god has done for us.
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He has foreknown us."
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That means before time, before the foundation of the world, he
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Planned you out.
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He planned me out.
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Your dna, your soul, your uniqueness has never been before
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And never will be again.
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He says you are foreknown.
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He says you are predestined.
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To say it simply, that means that god has a plan for every
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Life, and if you and i do not get in on that plan, wherever we
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Are, whatever that plan is, there'll be a hole left in
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Civilization that you and i could've filled.
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So we were foreknown, we're predestined, and we're called,
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And we have in us the ability to make a decision.
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Free moral agents, we have free will, and when the call of god
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Comes, we can say yes or we can say no, and therefore, we
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Respond to the call of god.
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He says then we are justified.
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We got things settled with god and settled with ourselves and
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Settled with our fellow man-- that is, revision is made, and
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In justification, there's implication of sanctification,
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And that's where we are to grow up and mature in the lord, and
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Then the last word said we'll be glorified, and glorification is
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In the present tense.
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It's already assumed that's where we're going, and then he
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Gives that powerful 31st verse.
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If god is for us--.
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Congregation: who can be against us?
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Nobody.
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Pastor ed: and he develops this.
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You say, "well, that's good, biblical stuff, but how do we
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Know that is true?"
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He tells us.
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Look at it there in verse 31, following.
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He says, "he who did not spare his own son, but delivered him
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Over to us all--" now follow me there.
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What's the greatest need we have?
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What's the greatest need everybody-- that is, a need to
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Deal with the garbage and trash and sin in our life and to
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Be forgiven.
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And we know we said it in colossians.
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We're forgiven.
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In hebrews, god forgets everything we've ever done.
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So let me say for the humpteenth time, if that is a
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Word, that when we turn from our sin, jesus christ, if we're in
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Christ, forgives our sin, and then on top of that, he can do
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Something we can't do.
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He forgets our sin.
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So quit bringing up all the old sin in your life.
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Would you do that before god?
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It's done.
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It's settled.
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That's what he's saying here.
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That's the reason we have that promise.
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How do we know that he's on our side, that who can be
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Against us?
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He did not spare his own son.
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He said, "will he not also with him freely give us all things?"
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We know that all things work together, all things, and then
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God in christ will give us all things.
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How does that work?
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Do fathers love to give good gifts to their children?
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Isn't that's something?
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Once in a while, you give gifts-- once in a while, bang,
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You knock a home run.
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That's a thrill, and how much more our heavenly father loves
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To give good gifts for you and for me?
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The idea that he is reticent to do that?
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Let's just say, for example, that here two brothers, they're
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Both having a tough time, and one brother gets out of a clear
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Blue sky a distant uncle that he never met.
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One brother is left $90 million right out of the sky.
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He is stunned, but his brother, whom he loves, is struggling.
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He lost his job.
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His car was busted.
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He had no wheels.
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So this brother who'd inherited, bam, $90 million says, "you
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Know, i'm gonna right up front buy my brother a brand-new car."
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He went down and bought a $80,000 car for his brother.
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Now he could go at least find jobs and work in that new car.
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And so, he says, "i'm buying the car," and he purchased it, and
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When he got home, the dealer called and said, "by the way,
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There's some more bells and whistles that could be available
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On that car, and it's another $800.
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If you'd like to, we'll put those on."
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What do you think that brother will do?
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What do you think?
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I think, guarantee you, he said, "man, put all the bells
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And whistles.
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Eight hundred dollars is nothing after i've spent these thousands
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Of dollars.
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Put them on."
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That's what's happening here, folks.
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If god has so blessed us and given us his own son, who took
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Care of the biggest problem you and i have when he gave and
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Delivered jesus to us, and jesus took the penalty that you and i
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Deserve, is it not logical that all the other things that we
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Need and maybe some things that we want, he'll pour into your
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Life and into my life?
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Absolutely, it's right.
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So we see that if god is for you--.
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Congregation: who can be against us?
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Nobody.
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Pastor ed: and then we see the next promise that we have here
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Under the same heading.
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It says, verse 33, "who will bring a charge against god's
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Elect, god's christians?
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God is the one who justifieth."
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Now, who can be against us?
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Nobody.
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Now, who can bring a charge against us?
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The answer to that is nobody because god has justified us.
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God as the judge has already pronounced us innocent on the
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Basis of the shed blood of his son, jesus christ, who was
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Delivered up for you and delivered up for me, and now
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Nobody can charge us.
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How can they charge us when the verdict is already in?
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This is a law court.
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This is an argument that is being forgotten, and it's a
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Beautiful thing.
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Very simply, who can be against us?
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Congregation: nobody.
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Pastor ed: who can charge us?
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Congregation: nobody.
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Pastor ed: absolutely, because god himself has justified us.
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Some people have the idea that god is reluctant in
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Justifying us.
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God, you know, to make it right with him, he's reluctant to do
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That, and you can read in luke chapter number 18 a parable
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Of jesus.
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This is a parable of a judge who is crooked and doesn't care a
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Hoot about people, doesn't care about-- a crooked judge has no
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Compassion for people, and there is a widow woman who is being
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Oppressed illegally by an enemy, and the only way she can get any
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Answer is for the judge to stand before the enemy and make things
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Right, so she goes before the judge poor, no influence, but
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The judge, he's crooked.
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He doesn't care about anybody.
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He throws her out of the court.
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She comes back again.
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The judge throws her out of the court.
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And then finally, finally, finally, she said, "you know,
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The only answer i have is the judge to do the right thing."
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She begins to pester him, another theological word.
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Jesus says she shows up at his door.
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When he leaves, presents her case.
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He goes out to eat.
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She presents her case.
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He goes to work in the court.
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She presents her case, and she does this over and over and over
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And over again.
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Until finally, the judge says, "do something with this woman.
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She's driving me crazy.
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Take care of her problem."
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Now, you've heard this taught illegitimately.
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People have said, trying to understand this parable, "well,
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God is the judge, and to get through to god, you gotta pester
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Him and pray and pray and pray and pray and pray and pray to
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Get him to relinquish, 'cause he's tired of hearing from you."
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That's been interpreted like that.
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That's not what this parable teaches.
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It teaches that god is totally unlike this crooked,
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Uncaring judge.
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God is a judge who loves, who wants the best for all of his
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Children, who can say abba to him, and therefore, he is on
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Their side, and he is always open and available to listen to
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Our deepest needs and wants.
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You see, that's what that teaches, and therefore, who can
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Charge us?
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Nobody, because god has already pronounced us innocent.
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Then the question is asked, "who can condemn us?"
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Why, you say, "you know, other people condemn us.
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We know who can condemn us."
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He says, "but who is the one who condemns us?"
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Verse 34, "jesus christ is the one who died, was rather one who
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Raised, who is at the right hand of god, who intercedes for us."
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What's that all about?
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Jesus died, raised from the dead.
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He intercedes for us at the right hand of god.
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Here you have in this courtroom legal environment, you have two
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Law offices.
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You have one heavenly office, and we have one earthly office.
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In the heavenly office, there is jesus, who is there at the right
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Hand of the father.
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And jesus, as he called himself, is our advocate.
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We have an advocate in heaven, and the holy spirit, who is in
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The law office down on this earth, he is our counselor.
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He's called our counselor.
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So we have an advocate in heaven, and we have a counselor
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On earth: jesus in heaven, the holy spirit on earth.
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And therefore, who in the world can condemn us?
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The judge has already decided the case.
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So if god is for us--.
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Congregation: who can be against us?
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Nobody.
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Pastor ed: who can challenge us?
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Congregation: nobody.
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Pastor ed: who can condemn us?
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Congregation: nobody.
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Pastor ed: who can bring charges against us?
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Congregation: nobody.
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Pastor ed: and then we come to the last thing.
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It's even better, and i'll not totally develop this.
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It says, "who will separate us from the love of christ?"
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And a long list is there.
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Who will separate us from the love of christ?
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Tell us, choir.
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Congregation: nobody.
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Pastor ed: so what we have built here as members of god's family
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Is an overwhelming case that nothing, nobody can separate you
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And me from god.
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Nobody, nothing can improve on god.
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Let me tell you something.
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If we're on god's team, well, how do you get on god's team?
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Well, i wanna be on god's team.
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It's very easy.
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Paul said take off your old uniform, your old self, and put
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On your new uniform, the self of jesus christ, where jesus christ
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At the center of our lives and controls our thoughts and
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Our destiny.
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We take off the old; we put on the new.
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We're on a new team.
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Well, what's this new team we're on?
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I can tell you.
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God owns a team.
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Jesus christ is the coach.
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The holy spirit is a quarterback, and we have to just
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Live out our lives on that team to know that we're on god's
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Team, to use our gifts, and to function on that god's team, and
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While we're on god's team, we are bulletproof because--.
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Congregation: nobody--.
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Pastor ed: --can touch us.
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Can't touch us.
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Is that great, biblical assurance for us?
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It happened at texas tech.
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A student was taking his final exam in logic.
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He had a tough time with logic.
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How many of you have ever taken a course in logic?
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Lift your hand.
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You have my deepest sympathy.
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For most of us, it's a challenge, and for this student
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At texas tech, it was a big challenge.
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He was a graduating senior, but he had to pass his final exam
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On logic.
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He'd studied, he'd worked, but he just did not get so many
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Intricacies of that discipline, but the professor said, "for
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This test, i'm gonna let everybody in the class get a 8
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1/2" x 11" piece of paper, and ever-- anything you could put on
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That paper, you can use it as you take this test.
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You got that?"
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You can imagine, you'd write fine all over that paper.
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You could hardly see any white on that paper.
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You'd write everything because he said anything you put on this
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Paper you can use if you take this final exam in logic.
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So all the students came in, and this one student came in, and he
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Took that 8 1/2" x 11" paper and put it down by his desk, and in
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Walked another young man who was getting his phd in logic,
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Graduate student, and came and stood on that paper.
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So as he was taking the test, anything he didn't understand,
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There he was standing on that paper.
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You answer and help him.
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In fact, that student was the only one who made an a.
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Professor said, "where in the world did you get that idea?"
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And the student said, "logic."
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Oh, the logicalness of god.
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How in divine logic he has provided a way for you and i,
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And whatever comes up in life, to have the lord jesus christ
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There by us, the lord jesus christ as our coach and the holy
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Spirit as our quarterback.
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So we're confident of one thing, one thing described here in this
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Fabulous passage: if god is for us--.
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Congregation: who can be against us?
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Nobody.
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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: just think, if you and i know jesus christ, we have
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An entree to god 24/7.
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That's amazing.
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That's a gift to you and to me.
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Somebody said, "well, oh, we can just pray."
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No, that's the first thing we do.
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We seek the mind and will and purpose of god, and we turn our
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Lives over to him.
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We listen to him.
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We let him speak to us.
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Then we make our petitions to him.
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First of all, confession, and then we do a moment of praise,
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And then we just sit back and say, "lord, help me to
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Understand this, this, this, and this."
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And he gives us his wisdom, and he gives us his healing.
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Let me tell you how i begin each day and end every day.
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I've done it for many, many years.
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When i roll out of bed, the first thing i do, i hit my
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Knees, i call it knee-to-knee, or i call it a "self" prayer
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Because, you know, my biggest problem, it's the same problem
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You have.
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It's spelled s-e-l-f.
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Isn't that the person you have the most difficulty with?
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It's my number one problem.
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Therefore, when i begin my day, i'm on my knees.
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My wife comes and kneels with me, and i put my hand on the
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Bed, and i pray a little prayer revolving around "self."
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It's an acrostic, and i just spell s-e-l-f.
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I start off and say, "lord, i surrender this day to you."
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And i talk about surrendering everything in my life to him,
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And then i talk about, e, i surrender, and then that e comes
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Up, and i empty myself.
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Whatever i'm full of self or selfishness, i start off by
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Emptying so i will be fresh.
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Then i turns my hands up as i'm on my knees by my bed.
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And i say, "o lord, fill me with your spirit.
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I surrender, i empty, and i love you, and now fill me with
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Your spirit."
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Self.
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That's where we start, and as we express our love to him and he
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Fills us with our spirit, then i'll have a personal prayer that
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Fits me and fits my wife, or she prays, and then we say, "in
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Jesus's name, amen."
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I do that every morning.
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I do it every night.
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I pray the "self" prayer, the knee-to-knee prayer.
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First thing in the morning, i hit my knees.
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The last thing at night, i am on my knees, and i don't know how
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It works for anybody else, but that "self" prayer, that
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Knee-and-knee prayer, is a good way to begin every day because
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It gets self out of the way.
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It goes, "surrender, empty, i love you, fill me with
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Your spirit."
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Just a little ritual that i think will help your day to
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Start off with wings and end your day with praise.
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - Who Can Be Against Us

May 4, 2025 | S25:E106

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