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Ed Young - Who Can Be Against Us?

June 25, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - Who Can Be Against Us?
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Who Can Be Against Us? | June 25, 2026
  • Jesus christ is the coach,
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  • The holy spirit is the quarterback.
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  • And we have to just live out our lives on that team
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  • To know that we're on god's team, to use our gifts and
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  • To function on that god's team and why we're on god's team.
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  • We are bulletproof because
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  • Can't touch us.
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  • Can't touch us.
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  • Is that great biblical assurance
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  • For us?
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  • If you've been around here,
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  • You know we've been studying romans chapter eight.
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  • We've called it the goat chapter of the bible.
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  • The greatest of all time.
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  • Because i think it is a powerful chapter
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  • And we could debate about it, but i think it encompasses
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  • So much of who we are as christians.
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  • And through these many weeks, i thought about it.
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  • I said, you know, when we get through with romans eight,
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  • How many of us are will i remember
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  • All the scripture of the highlights,
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  • The lowlights as we went through romans eight
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  • When i remember those.
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  • And then i thought about psalm
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  • 119 and 119, when i used to read
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  • Through the psalms chapter a day, 30 days.
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  • You read through the psalms.
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  • When i got to 119,
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  • My, my, my, it's the longest chapter in the bible.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, 176 verses.
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  • It takes a while.
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  • It seems like when i was reading
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  • A chapter a day in psalms, in different times of quiet
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  • Time, i'd get the 119.
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  • That'd be the very day i had a busy schedule,
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  • And i didn't think i had time to read 176 verses.
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  • But in those 176 verses.
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  • Verse number 11
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  • Is indeed interesting.
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  • It says your word, god's word.
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  • I have treasured in my heart
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  • That i may not sin against you.
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  • So this means that in the bible
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  • There are scriptures.
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  • There are words of god in this operating manual
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  • That we need to have hidden in our heart.
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  • They need to be treasured within us so we can call
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  • Upon them in every kind of situation of life.
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  • And i thought about what are those words in
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  • Romans chapter number eight that we've already studied,
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  • Those who've been around here.
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  • And i just marked those verses that stood out for me.
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  • And the verses i marked were verse one of eight.
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  • Therefore,
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  • There is now
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  • No condemnation to those who are in christ jesus.
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  • And when we're burdened and down
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  • And think we've lost all relationship with god
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  • As christians, we be awakened to fact.
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  • There's no condemnation.
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  • And then verse 11, i marked as one
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  • We need to hide in 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,
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  • He who raised christ jesus from the dead will also
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  • 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,
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  • When we're down right now, our mortal bodies.
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  • That verse says, hey, we've got the resurrected power
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  • Of the holy spirit in our lives that will lift us up.
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  • Verse 11.
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  • And then i moved over to verse 15.
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  • That's a verse we need, for you have not received
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  • The spirit of slavery
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  • Leading to fear again, but you have received the spirit
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  • Of adoption as sons by which we can cry out, abba,
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  • Dad, father, to know we have
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  • An intimate relationship with god.
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  • For i mark that verse.
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  • Then i jumped over to verse 28,
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  • And we know that god calls us
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  • All things to work together for good to those who love him,
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  • Those who
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  • Are called according to his purpose.
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  • And i said, i need that verse, and then verse
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  • 31 that we will bump into today and develop more fully.
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  • So you take those verses, you may pick out others
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  • And mark them down and say, you know,
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  • Those are some of the verses we studied
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  • Exegetical and rather thoroughly as we went through
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  • Romans eight, and i want to have them available,
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  • Available to me
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  • All through my life.
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  • As we go back to our scripture.
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  • That was the verse we ended up with lifetime.
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  • We gathered.
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  • But i want to sort of bring us in an overview here
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  • Of the whole book of romans.
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  • It's interesting that romans chapter
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  • One through chapter three
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  • Is primarily saying
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  • Everybody's a sinner.
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  • Jews, gentiles, greeks, nobody is going to make it
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  • 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 going to make it.
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  • Nobody's going to make it.
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  • And you have three chapters in romans say
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  • Exactly that to sum it up.
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  • And then you come to the end of chapter three.
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  • And ladies and gentlemen, that is the low moment
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  • In all the study of roman.
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  • That's the bottom, that's the pit.
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  • And paul is saying, that's where we all are.
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  • I want you to look at it in chapter number three of romans,
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  • And i'm going to read what that pit
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  • Sounds like.
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  • He says, what then?
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  • In fact, we're all loser.
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  • We're not going to make it this verse nine, chapter three.
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  • Oh, we better than they. no, not at all.
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  • For we have already charged that both jews, gentiles,
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  • Greek, everybody are all under sin,
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  • Can't do business with god. understand?
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  • We know that.
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  • And then he describes what it is like.
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  • He said, there is none righteous, not even one.
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  • There is none who understands.
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  • There is none who seeks for god.
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  • All have turned aside.
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  • Together they become useless.
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  • There is no one who does good.
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  • There's not even one.
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  • Their throat is an open grave.
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  • And their tongues they keep deceiving.
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  • The poison of ass is under their lips.
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  • Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
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  • And their feet are swift to shed blood.
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  • 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
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  • Of life.
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  • And that is a low point in the book of romans.
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  • And from that third chapter,
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  • Paul begins to build his case.
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  • He begins to show
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  • How all of this fails and why it fails.
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  • He begins to build with a little crescendo,
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  • And he goes and says, how do we know this is true?
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  • And then he gives for some
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  • A big word, and we've unpacked those words,
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  • And he says very simply, let me tell you
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  • What, this is what god has done for us.
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  • He has for known us.
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  • That means before time, before the foundation of the world.
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  • He planned you out.
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  • He planned me out.
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  • Your dna, your soul, your uniqueness
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  • Has never been before and never will be again.
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  • He says, you are forenoon.
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  • He says you are predestined to say it simply.
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  • That means that god has a plan for every life.
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  • And if you and i do not get in on that plan, wherever we are,
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  • Whatever that plan is, there'll be a hole left
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  • In civilization that you and i could have filled.
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  • So we were four known.
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  • We're predestined, we're called, and we have in us
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  • The ability to make a decision, a free moral agents.
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  • We have free will.
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  • And with the call of god comes.
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  • We can say yes, or we can say no,
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  • And therefore we 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
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  • And settled with our fellow man,
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  • That his provision is made.
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  • And 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.
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  • And then the last word said, we'll be glorified.
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  • And glorification is in the present tense.
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  • It's already assumed that's where we're going.
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  • And then he gives that powerful
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  • 31st verse, if god is for us.
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  • And he
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  • Develops this, he say, well, that's good
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  • Biblical stuff, but how do we know that is true?
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  • He tells us, look at it there in verse
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  • 31 following.
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  • He says, he
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  • Who did not spare his own son,
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  • But delivered him over to us all.
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  • 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.
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  • That is the need to deal with the garbage
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  • And trash, the sin in our life and to 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 umpteenth time, if that is a word,
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  • That when we turn from our sin, jesus christ,
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  • If we're in christ, forgive us our sins.
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  • And then on top of that, he can do something
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  • 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?
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  • That who can be 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
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  • Things work together, all things, and then god in
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  • Christ will give us all things.
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  • How does that work?
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  • The father's love to give good gifts to their children.
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  • And that's something, you know.
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  • It's a why you give gifts.
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  • What's a wild pain?
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  • You knock a home run. that's a thrilling.
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  • How much more i, heavenly father,
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  • Loves 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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  • As we approach our fiscal
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  • Year end on july the 31st.
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  • We're also approaching a historic milestone.
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  • Think about it.
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  • America's 250th anniversary.
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  • And as we reflect on what built this nation
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  • Faith, family and freedom,
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  • Fellowship, joy, meaning, significance, a family
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  • Of god living together under the red, white and blue.
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  • As we live under the banner of america,
  • 00:12:04.002 --> 00:12:07.305
  • We also recognize something deeply wrong.
  • 00:12:07.305 --> 00:12:11.176
  • Biblical truth is being challenged.
  • 00:12:11.176 --> 00:12:14.279
  • Families are under pressure and faith is no longer
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  • At the center of our culture.
  • 00:12:17.682 --> 00:12:20.385
  • Now it's our turn.
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  • Our turn to stand for what matters most.
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  • Listen, when you request this much resource,
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  • You're helping us proclaim the truth of god's word,
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  • Strengthen families,
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  • And advance faith across this great nation.
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  • As i thank you, i would love to send you a signed
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  • Copy of my book, healing broken america,
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  • A book that i have written to help us understand
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  • And to navigate our way through all the challenges
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  • Of the 21st century in our land as we come to our fiscal
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  • Year end.
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  • I'm asking you to step forward in a meaningful way.
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  • Or really ten others, to give $25 a dollar
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  • For every year of our nation's existence.
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  • Encouragement, and meaning across america.
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  • So let's stand together and believe god for renewal
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  • And revival in our great nation.
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  • For if america would catch far for christ,
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  • It would touch the entire world.
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  • Thank you.
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  • Making this possible with your participation
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  • In prayer and gifts to the winning walk.
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  • Let's
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  • Just say for that, here are two brothers.
  • 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:57.348
  • They're both having a tough time, and one brother
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  • Gets out of a clear blue sky.
  • 00:14:01.486 --> 00:14:04.689
  • A distant uncle that he never met.
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  • One brother is left $90 million
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  • Right out of the sky.
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  • He is stunned,
  • 00:14:14.599 --> 00:14:16.334
  • But his brother, whom he loves, is struggling.
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  • He lost his job.
  • 00:14:20.405 --> 00:14:23.074
  • His car was busted.
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  • He had no wheels.
  • 00:14:24.976 --> 00:14:26.844
  • So this brother who had inherited bam,
  • 00:14:26.844 --> 00:14:30.481
  • 90 million says, you know, i'm going to right up
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  • Front by my brother a brand new card.
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  • He went down and bought a $80,000 car for his brother.
  • 00:14:35.253 --> 00:14:40.425
  • Now he could go at least find jobs and work in that new car.
  • 00:14:40.425 --> 00:14:44.762
  • And so he he says, i'm buying the car.
  • 00:14:44.762 --> 00:14:47.832
  • And he purchased it.
  • 00:14:47.832 --> 00:14:49.467
  • And when he got home, the dealer called and said,
  • 00:14:49.467 --> 00:14:51.569
  • By the way,
  • 00:14:51.569 --> 00:14:52.503
  • There's some more bells and whistles
  • 00:14:52.503 --> 00:14:54.372
  • That could be available on that card.
  • 00:14:54.372 --> 00:14:56.107
  • It's another $800 if you'd like to.
  • 00:14:56.107 --> 00:14:59.010
  • We'll put those on.
  • 00:14:59.010 --> 00:15:00.945
  • What do you think that brother will do?
  • 00:15:00.945 --> 00:15:03.314
  • What do you think?
  • 00:15:03.314 --> 00:15:05.516
  • I think guarantee you?
  • 00:15:05.984 --> 00:15:07.452
  • He said, man, put all the bells and whistles.
  • 00:15:07.452 --> 00:15:10.088
  • Eight, $800 is nothing.
  • 00:15:10.088 --> 00:15:12.156
  • After i've spent these thousands of dollars.
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  • Put them on.
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  • That's what's happening here, folks.
  • 00:15:16.527 --> 00:15:18.529
  • If god has so blessed us and given us his own son,
  • 00:15:18.529 --> 00:15:23.001
  • Who took care of the biggest problem you and i have,
  • 00:15:23.001 --> 00:15:25.903
  • When he gave and delivered jesus to us,
  • 00:15:25.903 --> 00:15:28.106
  • And jesus took the penalty that you and i deserve,
  • 00:15:28.106 --> 00:15:31.175
  • Is it not logical that all the other things
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  • That we need, and maybe some things that we want,
  • 00:15:34.245 --> 00:15:38.416
  • He'll pour into your life and into my life?
  • 00:15:38.416 --> 00:15:41.085
  • Absolutely. it's right.
  • 00:15:41.085 --> 00:15:43.388
  • So we see that if god is for you.
  • 00:15:43.388 --> 00:15:49.660
  • And then we see the next promise
  • 00:15:50.361 --> 00:15:52.363
  • That we have here under the same heading,
  • 00:15:52.363 --> 00:15:54.665
  • It says, verse 33, who will bring a charge
  • 00:15:54.665 --> 00:15:58.770
  • Against god's elect, god's christians?
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  • God is the one who justifies.
  • 00:16:01.873 --> 00:16:04.976
  • Now who could be against us?
  • 00:16:04.976 --> 00:16:07.712
  • Nobody now who can bring a charge against us.
  • 00:16:07.712 --> 00:16:12.116
  • The answer to that is nobody, because god has justified us.
  • 00:16:12.116 --> 00:16:19.290
  • God, as the judge, has already pronounced us innocent
  • 00:16:19.290 --> 00:16:23.995
  • On the basis of the shed blood of his son jesus christ,
  • 00:16:23.995 --> 00:16:28.199
  • Who was delivered up for you and delivered up for me.
  • 00:16:28.199 --> 00:16:31.536
  • And now nobody can charge us.
  • 00:16:31.536 --> 00:16:33.704
  • How can they charge us when the verdict is already in?
  • 00:16:33.704 --> 00:16:36.974
  • This is a law court.
  • 00:16:36.974 --> 00:16:38.443
  • This is an argument that is being forgiven.
  • 00:16:38.443 --> 00:16:41.846
  • And it's it's a beautiful thing,
  • 00:16:41.846 --> 00:16:45.049
  • Very simply.
  • 00:16:45.383 --> 00:16:47.552
  • Who can be against us?
  • 00:16:47.552 --> 00:16:50.154
  • Who can charge us?
  • 00:16:50.154 --> 00:16:52.723
  • Absolutely.
  • 00:16:52.723 --> 00:16:53.724
  • Because god himself has justified us.
  • 00:16:53.724 --> 00:16:58.830
  • Some people have the idea that god is
  • 00:16:58.830 --> 00:17:00.965
  • Reluctant in justifying us.
  • 00:17:00.965 --> 00:17:03.968
  • You know god, you know, to make it right with him.
  • 00:17:03.968 --> 00:17:06.804
  • He's really lucky to do that.
  • 00:17:06.804 --> 00:17:08.072
  • And you can read in luke chapter
  • 00:17:08.072 --> 00:17:10.975
  • Number 18, a parable of jesus.
  • 00:17:10.975 --> 00:17:13.845
  • This is a parable of a judge who is crooked
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  • And doesn't care a hoot about people,
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  • Doesn't care about a crooked judge,
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  • Has no compassion for people, and there is a widow woman
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  • Who is being oppressed illegally by an enemy,
  • 00:17:29.794 --> 00:17:33.865
  • And the only way she can get any answer is for the judge
  • 00:17:33.865 --> 00:17:38.136
  • To stand before the enemy and make things right.
  • 00:17:38.136 --> 00:17:42.006
  • So she goes before the judge.
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  • Poor, no influence but the judge.
  • 00:17:44.575 --> 00:17:49.847
  • He's crooked, he doesn't care about anybody,
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  • And he throws her out of the court.
  • 00:17:52.583 --> 00:17:55.253
  • She comes back again, the judge throws her out of the court.
  • 00:17:55.253 --> 00:17:59.390
  • And then finally, finally, finally,
  • 00:17:59.390 --> 00:18:04.295
  • She said, you know, the only answer i have
  • 00:18:04.295 --> 00:18:06.564
  • Is the judge to do the right thing.
  • 00:18:06.564 --> 00:18:08.232
  • She begins to pester him.
  • 00:18:08.232 --> 00:18:10.401
  • Another theological word, jesus say.
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  • She sews up at his door when he leaves, presents her case.
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  • He goes out to eat.
  • 00:18:18.176 --> 00:18:19.277
  • She presents her case.
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  • He goes to work in the court, she presents her case.
  • 00:18:20.845 --> 00:18:23.548
  • And she does this over and over and over 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.
  • 00:18:32.390 --> 00:18:34.992
  • Now, you've heard this tort illegitimately.
  • 00:18:34.992 --> 00:18:39.463
  • People have said, trying to understand this
  • 00:18:39.463 --> 00:18:41.999
  • Parable well, god is the judge.
  • 00:18:41.999 --> 00:18:45.136
  • And to get through to god, you gotta pester him and pray
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  • And pray and pray and pray and pray and pray
  • 00:18:48.773 --> 00:18:51.842
  • To get him to relinquish because he's tired of
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  • Hearing from you.
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  • That's been interpreted like that.
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  • That's not what this parable teaches.
  • 00:18:56.647 --> 00:18:59.450
  • It teaches that god is totally unlike this
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  • Crooked, uncaring judge.
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  • God is a judge
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  • Who loves, who wants the best for all of his children,
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  • Who can say abba to him, and therefore
  • 00:19:11.229 --> 00:19:14.232
  • He is on their side and he is always open
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  • And available to listen to our deepest needs and wants.
  • 00:19:17.635 --> 00:19:21.205
  • You see, that's what that teaches.
  • 00:19:21.205 --> 00:19:23.441
  • And therefore, who can charge us?
  • 00:19:23.441 --> 00:19:25.243
  • Nobody, because god is already pronounced us innocent.
  • 00:19:25.243 --> 00:19:29.447
  • Then the question is asked, who can condemn us?
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  • What you say?
  • 00:19:33.351 --> 00:19:34.151
  • You know, other people condemn us.
  • 00:19:34.151 --> 00:19:35.386
  • We know who can condemn us,
  • 00:19:35.386 --> 00:19:38.055
  • He says, but who is the one who condemns us?
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  • Verse 34 jesus christ is the one who died.
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  • Was was rather one who raised,
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  • Who was at the right hand of god, who intercedes for us.
  • 00:19:46.397 --> 00:19:49.867
  • What is that all about?
  • 00:19:50.368 --> 00:19:52.403
  • Jesus died,
  • 00:19:52.403 --> 00:19:54.805
  • Raised from the dead.
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  • He intercedes for us at the right hand of god.
  • 00:19:57.775 --> 00:20:02.079
  • Here you have in this courtroom legal environment.
  • 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:06.150
  • You have two law offices.
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  • You have one heavenly office,
  • 00:20:09.153 --> 00:20:11.355
  • And we have one earthly office.
  • 00:20:11.355 --> 00:20:13.991
  • In the heavenly office there is jesus,
  • 00:20:13.991 --> 00:20:16.727
  • Who is there at the right hand of the father.
  • 00:20:16.727 --> 00:20:19.930
  • And jesus, as he called himself, is our advocate.
  • 00:20:19.930 --> 00:20:25.069
  • We have an advocate in heaven and the holy spirit
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  • Who is in the law office down on this earth.
  • 00:20:29.206 --> 00:20:32.076
  • He is our counselor.
  • 00:20:32.076 --> 00:20:34.478
  • He's called our counselor.
  • 00:20:34.478 --> 00:20:35.946
  • So we have an advocate
  • 00:20:35.946 --> 00:20:37.315
  • In heaven and we have a council on earth,
  • 00:20:37.315 --> 00:20:40.084
  • Jesus in heaven, the holy spirit on earth.
  • 00:20:40.084 --> 00:20:42.486
  • And therefore, who in the world can condemn us?
  • 00:20:42.486 --> 00:20:45.122
  • The judge has already decided the case.
  • 00:20:45.122 --> 00:20:48.759
  • So if god is for us.
  • 00:20:49.226 --> 00:20:56.267
  • Who can challenge us?
  • 00:20:56.767 --> 00:20:59.537
  • Who can condemn us,
  • 00:21:00.004 --> 00:21:03.407
  • Who can bring charges against us?
  • 00:21:03.407 --> 00:21:06.811
  • And then we come the last thing, it's even better.
  • 00:21:06.811 --> 00:21:11.215
  • And i'll not totally develop this.
  • 00:21:11.215 --> 00:21:13.718
  • It says, who will separate us from the love of christ?
  • 00:21:13.718 --> 00:21:17.755
  • And a long list is there.
  • 00:21:17.755 --> 00:21:19.824
  • Who will separate us in the love of christ?
  • 00:21:19.824 --> 00:21:22.293
  • Tell us choir.
  • 00:21:22.293 --> 00:21:25.463
  • So what we have built here
  • 00:21:26.030 --> 00:21:29.233
  • As members of god's family
  • 00:21:29.233 --> 00:21:31.869
  • Is an overwhelming case
  • 00:21:31.869 --> 00:21:35.706
  • That nothing,
  • 00:21:36.073 --> 00:21:37.842
  • Nobody, can separate you and me from god.
  • 00:21:37.842 --> 00:21:41.746
  • Nobody, nothing can improve on god.
  • 00:21:41.746 --> 00:21:44.749
  • Let me tell you something.
  • 00:21:44.749 --> 00:21:45.983
  • If we're on god's team, well, how do you get on god's team?
  • 00:21:45.983 --> 00:21:49.587
  • I want to be on god's team.
  • 00:21:49.587 --> 00:21:51.188
  • It's very easy. paul said.
  • 00:21:51.188 --> 00:21:52.757
  • Take off your old uniform,
  • 00:21:52.757 --> 00:21:55.326
  • Your old self, and put on your new uniform
  • 00:21:55.326 --> 00:21:59.530
  • The self of jesus christ, where jesus christ at the center
  • 00:21:59.530 --> 00:22:03.033
  • Of our lives and controls our thoughts and our destiny.
  • 00:22:03.033 --> 00:22:06.637
  • We take off the old.
  • 00:22:06.637 --> 00:22:07.905
  • We put on the new world, on new team.
  • 00:22:07.905 --> 00:22:10.074
  • What's this new team we're on?
  • 00:22:10.074 --> 00:22:12.176
  • I can tell you god owns a team.
  • 00:22:12.176 --> 00:22:17.047
  • Jesus christ is the coach,
  • 00:22:17.615 --> 00:22:20.751
  • The holy spirit is the quarterback.
  • 00:22:20.751 --> 00:22:23.387
  • And we have to just live out our lives on that team
  • 00:22:23.387 --> 00:22:27.324
  • To know that we're on god's team, to use our gifts and
  • 00:22:27.324 --> 00:22:30.995
  • To function on that god's team and why we're on god's team.
  • 00:22:30.995 --> 00:22:35.065
  • We are bulletproof because
  • 00:22:35.065 --> 00:22:38.736
  • Can't touch us.
  • 00:22:39.103 --> 00:22:41.105
  • Can't touch us.
  • 00:22:41.105 --> 00:22:42.807
  • Is that great biblical assurance
  • 00:22:42.807 --> 00:22:46.243
  • For us?
  • 00:22:46.243 --> 00:22:52.082
  • It happened at texas tech.
  • 00:22:52.650 --> 00:22:56.520
  • A student was taking his final
  • 00:22:57.121 --> 00:23:00.357
  • Exam in logic.
  • 00:23:00.357 --> 00:23:03.694
  • He had a tough time with logic.
  • 00:23:04.328 --> 00:23:05.996
  • How many of you have taken a course in logic?
  • 00:23:05.996 --> 00:23:07.865
  • Lift your hand.
  • 00:23:07.865 --> 00:23:09.400
  • You have my deepest sympathy.
  • 00:23:09.400 --> 00:23:12.670
  • For most of us, it's a challenge.
  • 00:23:13.404 --> 00:23:15.673
  • And for this student at texas tech, it was a big challenge.
  • 00:23:15.673 --> 00:23:19.276
  • He was a graduating senior,
  • 00:23:19.276 --> 00:23:20.744
  • But he had to pass his final exam of logic.
  • 00:23:20.744 --> 00:23:24.515
  • He studied, he'd worked, but he just did not get
  • 00:23:24.515 --> 00:23:27.318
  • So many intricacies of that discipline.
  • 00:23:27.318 --> 00:23:30.688
  • But the professor said,
  • 00:23:31.188 --> 00:23:33.491
  • For this test, i'm going to let everybody in
  • 00:23:33.491 --> 00:23:37.027
  • The class get an eight and a half by 11 piece of paper
  • 00:23:37.027 --> 00:23:41.599
  • And everything you could put on that paper.
  • 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:45.970
  • You can
  • 00:23:46.203 --> 00:23:46.904
  • Use it as you take this test.
  • 00:23:46.904 --> 00:23:49.473
  • You got that?
  • 00:23:49.473 --> 00:23:51.675
  • You can imagine.
  • 00:23:51.675 --> 00:23:53.611
  • You write fine.
  • 00:23:53.611 --> 00:23:55.513
  • All in favor?
  • 00:23:55.513 --> 00:23:56.881
  • You could already see any any white on that paper.
  • 00:23:56.881 --> 00:23:59.650
  • You'd write everything because he said anything
  • 00:23:59.650 --> 00:24:02.653
  • You put on this paper, you can use it.
  • 00:24:02.653 --> 00:24:05.322
  • You take this fine examined logic.
  • 00:24:05.322 --> 00:24:08.025
  • So all the suitors came in, and this one student came in,
  • 00:24:08.025 --> 00:24:12.096
  • And he took that eight and a half by 11 paper
  • 00:24:12.096 --> 00:24:15.599
  • And put it down by his desk.
  • 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:18.769
  • And in walk another young man
  • 00:24:18.769 --> 00:24:22.373
  • Who was getting his phd in logic,
  • 00:24:23.107 --> 00:24:27.077
  • Graduate student, and came in, stood
  • 00:24:27.077 --> 00:24:30.548
  • On that paper.
  • 00:24:30.548 --> 00:24:35.052
  • So as he was taking the test.
  • 00:24:35.686 --> 00:24:39.690
  • Anything he didn't understand,
  • 00:24:40.291 --> 00:24:43.160
  • There he was standing on that paper.
  • 00:24:43.160 --> 00:24:46.764
  • He would answer and help him.
  • 00:24:47.398 --> 00:24:49.867
  • In fact, that student
  • 00:24:49.867 --> 00:24:52.603
  • Was the only one who made an a.
  • 00:24:52.603 --> 00:24:58.409
  • Professor said,
  • 00:24:58.776 --> 00:25:01.812
  • Where in the world did you get that idea?
  • 00:25:01.812 --> 00:25:04.415
  • And this unit said, logic.
  • 00:25:04.415 --> 00:25:10.621
  • The logic of god.
  • 00:25:11.055 --> 00:25:14.158
  • How in divine logic
  • 00:25:14.625 --> 00:25:17.294
  • He has provided a way for you and i,
  • 00:25:17.294 --> 00:25:21.165
  • And whatever comes up in life
  • 00:25:21.165 --> 00:25:24.535
  • To have the lord jesus christ, their bias,
  • 00:25:25.436 --> 00:25:29.406
  • The lord jesus christ as our coach
  • 00:25:30.174 --> 00:25:33.711
  • And the holy spirit as our quarterback.
  • 00:25:33.711 --> 00:25:37.081
  • So we're confident of one thing.
  • 00:25:37.081 --> 00:25:42.219
  • One thing
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  • Described here in this fabulous passage.
  • 00:25:44.154 --> 00:25:51.061
  • If god is for us.
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  • America the beautiful, our country
  • 00:25:59.770 --> 00:26:03.007
  • After home sweet home.
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  • But our america is hurting.
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  • We see it in our fractured, divided communities
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  • And in our struggling families.
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  • God's answer for a broken nation has never been found
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  • In politics, power, or human effort alone.
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  • God says, if my people who are called by
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  • My name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and
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  • Turn from their wicked ways, then i will hear from heaven,
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  • Forgive their sin, and heal their land.
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  • Healing begins when god's people return to him.
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  • In his powerful book, healing broken america.
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  • Doctor jung explores the spiritual path toward
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  • Healing and restoration through faith, family,
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  • And the values that have shaped generations of americans.
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  • Because when
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  • Hearts are transformed by god, lives are changed,
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  • Families are restored, and the nation can begin to heal.
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  • To get your copy of healing broken america.
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  • Please call the number on your screen or visit
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  • The website below.
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  • And may god bless america.
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