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Ed Young - In The Wilderness

January 10, 2025 | S25:E9

Ed Young - In The Wilderness
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 - In The Wilderness | January 10, 2025
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  • Pastor ed young: isaiah chapter 5, says it clearly.
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  • "woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who
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  • Substitute darkness for light.
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  • And light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet and
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  • Sweet for bitter!
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  • Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in
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  • Their own sight!"
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  • September the 11th, 2001,
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  • I was in a prayer meeting with some men
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  • In our church, and i walked down the steps and someone told
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  • Me an airplane has struck one of the twin towers
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  • In new york city.
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  • At the same time, in that tower there on the 78th floor, there
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  • Was a man who was already seated at his desk, under his desk was
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  • His dog rosy in her little bed.
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  • And then, "there was an explosion from above,"
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  • Said this man named michael.
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  • And immediately, the building began to tilt 20 degrees, smoke
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  • Began to come in the room, glass was falling down.
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  • A man named philip came into the room and said, "we're all going
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  • To die, the building is coming down, you'd have have to be
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  • Blind not to know that."
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  • At that time, michael stood up, who was blind from birth, and he
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  • Reached down and got his guide dog rosy, and he turned and he
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  • Said, "trust rosy, she'll get us out of here."
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  • Some of them laughed, others fell in line and rosy turned and
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  • Began to guide michael, and a small group behind him,
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  • In the middle of that catastrophic moment.
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  • He put his trust in rosy.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, anybody who can read and write, and has
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  • A lick of sense, knows that in the world today, and
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  • Particularly in america, there's all kind of debris, fallacy,
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  • Rumors, ideas, and around us are the sound of many voices.
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  • Have you noticed?
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  • Internet, television, friends, where ever we go there's
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  • Voices-voices-voices-voices, saying, "believe this," "give
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  • Money to this," "join this," "be a part of this," and we're just
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  • Surrounded by people calling for time, for influence,
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  • For money, for energy.
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  • And how do you and how do i know whom we can trust?
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  • Good english, in texas, we say, "who we can trust,"
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  • Who can we trust?
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  • Who do we put our confidence in?
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  • Michael, blind as he was, put his confidence in rosy, sound
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  • Many voices, "come," "go," "run," "shout,"
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  • All kind of ideas.
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  • "this is what you do with your savings," "this is what you do
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  • With it," all kinda-- who do we trust?
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  • Who do we listen to?
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  • Now, let's get a little history, go back to
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  • Postmodernism, postmodernism.
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  • I read, this summer, a book, interesting, called, "philip and
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  • Alexander," philip of macedonia, alexander's father,
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  • Alexander the great.
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  • And in this book, it takes you back to antiquity, to the
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  • Beginning of the roman empire.
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  • And i read with great interest how they made decisions, where
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  • They got their authority, and it was all might makes right,
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  • The strongest, survival of the fittest.
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  • Their religion was everything, everybody.
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  • It rains, "zeus is happy," it lightnings, "zeus is unhappy."
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  • And you got all the gods and goddesses, from stoicism to
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  • Epicureanism; all kinds of temples all over the world.
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  • And when alexander went out, with all of his decadent living,
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  • See, they would give children to these potentates as sexual toys.
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  • When they would conquer an area, they would marry the pharaoh's
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  • Daughter so they'd control, and they would adopt all the
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  • Religions, all the idols, all the cults, all the traditions.
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  • And when they had a problem in the sea, they'd say, "well, we
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  • Haven't been faithful to the gods of the sea," or the sun,
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  • Or the moon, all of our instincts,
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  • That was premodernism.
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  • How did they find their authority?
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  • They tried to find the god that met the need and that the shame
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  • Of that moment, and they worshipped that.
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  • Oh, they gave sacrifice, human sacrifice, all kinds of
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  • Sacrifices, premodernism.
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  • Modernism, we've talked about it, that came in there through
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  • The wonderful moment of the enlightenment,
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  • The scientific method came into vogue.
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  • Francis bacon, how do you find truth?
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  • Truth is revealed by experiment, truth.
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  • And how do you find truth?
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  • The five senses, all of them, and then finally you plug in
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  • Reason, and in this materialistic atmosphere people
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  • Found answers to all the voices, to all the decisions,
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  • All the moral questions.
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  • They would look into reality.
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  • Carl sagan asked, "where did all this world come from?"
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  • He said, "the cosmos is, it always has been,
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  • And always will be."
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  • Well, where does life come from?
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  • Did you know, for many centuries, they would see raw
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  • Meat, and maggots would appear on that meat and they'd say,
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  • "look, the meat, somehow inanimate, creates
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  • Something that's animate."
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  • That was believed for hundreds of years, folks.
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  • Pascal threw that out the window.
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  • But this was the era of modernism.
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  • In the science areas of today, of education, modernism is
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  • Dominant, there's little quantum theory atmosphere, you know,
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  • Einstein discovered the quantum realm, and then you spent the
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  • Rest of his life as a physicist trying to disprove everything
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  • He'd found in the quantum area of science.
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  • Interesting.
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  • So we have premodernism, ghosts and goblins; we have modernism,
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  • I've got to see it and i've got to touch it, but all of these
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  • Atheists and agnostics, they never could explain how you have
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  • A creation without a creator, and you can't either.
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  • Then we come to postmodernism, and that's when there are
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  • No absolutes.
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  • What is an absolute?
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  • It's something that is true in all times in all places to all
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  • People, that is an absolute.
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  • Now we have postmodernism, there's no absolute truth, it's
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  • Whatever you want it to be, you just pick a number.
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  • Therefore, there's no foundation at all, therefore we're out in a
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  • Constant area of squirrel-ism, and that's where we are today in
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  • The humanities in our educational process.
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  • And that's how, when all these voices are calling, we just jump
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  • Into one of those areas, now, primarily, postmodernism, and
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  • Say, "well, you know, this is where you find out things."
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  • So the bottom line, we need, and one of my favorite words if
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  • You've been around here for a while, is the word discernment.
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  • Discernment, what is discernment biblically?
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  • Discernment is the spiritual gifts, discernment is a mark of
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  • Being led by the holy spirit, it's not an absolute thing, but
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  • How we need, with all the voices calling for this and that and
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  • The other, how we need to know and put down and have the
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  • Ability of discernment.
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  • A five year-old boy walks in, into kindergarten, he looks and
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  • Says, "mommy, are we racists?"
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  • Six year-old girl comes in from school and she says, "mommy,
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  • The teacher told me, if i wanted to, i could be a boy."
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  • Mommy, what are you gonna say to those kids?
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  • How are you going to communicate to them on their level
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  • So they'd understand what's going on in this woke culture?
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  • How are you going to answer that?
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  • There's a tremendous book out, little book,
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  • "mama bear apologetics."
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  • You say, "oh, that sounds like another one of those little old
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  • Books, 'mama bear apologetics.'"
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  • Let me tell you something, it is written in terms that you can
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  • Understand, and by the way, if you bump into a word that you
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  • Don't know what it means, you know what the simplest thing to
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  • Do is take your cell phone, ask siri,
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  • "what does this word mean?"
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  • And bingo, it's there, and you won't be dumb the whole life
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  • When you read things you don't understand.
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  • Little secret, don't tell everybody that.
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  • So here we have this little book, "mama bear apologetics."
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  • "apologetics?
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  • Well, how do you apologize?"
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  • No, it's from 1 peter, it talks about, "we have to be able to
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  • Defend, defend our faith."
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  • So if somebody asks, "why do you believe this?
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  • How do you know this?"
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  • And that's a big, old pregnant word we talked
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  • About, epistemology.
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  • "oh, i don't like that word."
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  • It means, "how do you know that you know?"
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  • "i know this, i know that, how do you know that?"
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  • So here is "mama bear apologetics" trying to answer
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  • The most profound questions you'll ever be asked.
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  • I remember, i must've been, i'm guessing seven years-old, and i
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  • Asked my mom, "who made god?"
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  • "oh, that's a childish question."
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  • No, that's one of the most profound questions any human
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  • Being could ever ask, so we'd better be prepared.
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  • "mama bear apologetics," read it,
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  • It'll help mama bears to do what they must do
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  • In our broken culture, it's to give sane,
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  • Common sense answers to all the confusion and woke-ness
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  • We're surrounded with.
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  • I know about mama bears, i lived in the mountains of
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  • North carolina for over five years, we had black bears up
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  • There, i've been bear hunting.
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  • Thank goodness i didn't see one, but i'll tell you something, you
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  • Know anything about black bears and most bears, when they have
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  • Cubs, well, that mama bear will give her life
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  • In a skinny new york minute to protect those clubs.
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  • A mama bear is one of the most vicious-vicious animals on the
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  • Earth when the cubs are there.
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  • The cubs are born in hibernation, she has one or two,
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  • Or sometimes four, and that mama bear sticks for those cubs.
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  • See, the cubs, bear cubs are not like normal animals,
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  • Normal animals develop by instinct, not the bear family.
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  • In the bear family, the mama bear has to teach those cubs by
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  • Example where to find food, where to find water,
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  • How to protect themselves.
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  • Usually, they hover down in the bottom, if they can find
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  • A white pine tree in their area of control,
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  • And they will bed down there.
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  • So if mama is ever out foraging for food the cubs can be there,
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  • And she taught them how to climb up that pine tree and be safe.
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  • Mama bears, parents, you'd better be like that bear mama
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  • Handles those cubs; if not, you're gonna wake up and say,
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  • "what happened to our kids?"
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  • Now what about papa bear?
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  • Papa bear is gone, he doesn't participate in any way,
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  • Shape or form or fashion with the bringing up of those cubs.
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  • Hopefully, prayerfully, some papa bears will not follow the
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  • Example of the animal bear, but in the meantimes, mama bear,
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  • You'd better be able to answer those most difficult questions
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  • In ways that they can understand in a judeo-christian
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  • Biblical framework.
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  • If not, you're gonna lose those children.
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  • Read the book, it talks about discernment.
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  • Discernment is able to determine what is right, what is wrong,
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  • What is good, what is bad, what is expedient now and what will
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  • Be expedient in the future.
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  • It's the ability to discern.
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  • We had better learn how to discern, and mama bears teach
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  • Their little cubs how to discern,
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  • And we better practice in our lives.
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  • Because remember the basic fundamental truth, our children,
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  • We can require them to do what we require them to do
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  • Until they get to be teenagers, and then they begin to do
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  • What you do and what i do.
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  • Have you noticed that?
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  • We can't have to speak it, we have to seek to live it.
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  • So discernment.
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  • All the voices, "where do i go? what do i do?
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  • Time, money, what i do?
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  • Who do we trust?
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  • How do we get our value system?
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  • Where do we find those absolutes we can stand on
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  • That'll always be absolute?"
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  • Discernment.
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  • And then in our woke culture, in comes a woke trojan horse.
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  • Remember the trojan horse?
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  • The greeks were sieging troy, and they couldn't get through
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  • The walls, and troy was holding out.
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  • But a greek carpenter, really of sculpture, he made this trojan
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  • Horse out of four different types of wood, it was a
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  • Magnificent piece of art.
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  • It was 10 feet high, it had all the curves of a beautiful horse,
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  • And they present it at the gates of troy and said,
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  • "this is for the king of troy."
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  • And whenever they opened the gate, they took that horse in,
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  • Whew, it was a work of art.
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  • And the king would have put it right in the middle of his
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  • Palace, and it is a fabulous thing, this is a greek
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  • Carpenter's sculpture, they've given us a beautiful horse.
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  • And you know what happened.
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  • When it got dark, inside that horse there were two or three
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  • Elite greek soldiers and they came out, opened the gate,
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  • And bang, troy was destroyed.
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  • A trojan horse has come into the united states of america,
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  • Into our culture.
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  • And guess what that horse has brought into our world?
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  • You'd never guess, a new dictionary.
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  • Whoa, just a new dictionary?
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  • Yeah, because apart of selling us on the woke-ness of today,
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  • Words have to change their meaning,
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  • Phrases have to be re-done.
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  • You want to argue with me?
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  • Well, if you're a phd in philosophy, there's no match,
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  • I surrender, you win.
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  • But if in this argument, you'll let me define all the words
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  • We're gonna use and you let me put the parameters down of where
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  • We're going to argue, i could out-argue, out-debate anybody on
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  • The planet in any subject, if i could define the words and if i
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  • Can put the scope of the debate.
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  • And therefore, what happens in classrooms today,
  • 00:18:17.886 --> 00:18:23.258
  • Where so many redefinitions of words and phrases,
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  • Most students are quiet.
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  • They don't say anything, they're afraid they'll use the wrong
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  • Pronoun, they're afraid they'll use a word that's been thrown
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  • Out the window, that's antiquated under the new
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  • Dictionary that we live under.
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  • That's what the trojan horse had brought us.
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  • Let me give you just a little bit of this.
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  • Jesus accepts everyone.
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  • Jesus was a refugee, jesus does not build walls
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  • That keep people from him.
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  • People need to live their truth.
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  • A real christian accepts everyone
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  • And applauds their position.
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  • And then they take words like committed felon is
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  • A justice-involved person;
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  • Ex-cons, a returning resident,
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  • Oh yeah; a parolee, a person under supervision.
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  • Hey, this isn't mythology, i'm not from mars, i'm from right
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  • Here in river city, right here in the united states of america,
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  • And this is what is happening to us.
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  • And two words they have most abused is the word love and the
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  • Word truth, love and truth.
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  • Love without truth is mushy,
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  • Truth without love is cold,
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  • And they try to take those words away from us,
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  • But they must always go together covered in grace.
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  • Now, do you remember when jesus was going to jerusalem, and he
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  • Had his apostles with him and they came to a samaritan city?
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  • And the samaritan city rebuked them, evidently harmed them,
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  • And threw them out.
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  • And james and john said, "lord, do you want me to call down
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  • Lightning on them?"
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  • I've felt like that.
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  • And jesus said, "no, i'm in the salvation business,
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  • I'm in the salvation business.
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  • Let's move on out."
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  • Now folks, we have to stand, stand for truth, vote not
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  • For elephants or donkeys.
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  • Vote for individuals who will really change the diseased
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  • Culture in which we live.
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  • The question is, whom can we trust?
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  • Whom can we trust?
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  • We'd better stay close to biblical living, godly living,
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  • Daily in our devotional time, and in the weekend in the body
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  • Of christ, so we can put our trust in the lord god almighty
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  • And him alone.
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  • Oh-oh-oh-oh, we forgot about rosy.
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  • Yeah, there was michael, holding onto rosy, and then all the
  • 00:21:51.500 --> 00:21:57.105
  • Lights went out in the building.
  • 00:21:57.105 --> 00:22:00.108
  • Boy, they were screaming and hollering, "we can't see."
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  • Debris was falling, dust and dirt were everywhere, and rosy
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  • Never broke stride.
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  • And now because it was total darkness, michael was just like
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  • Everybody else, though he'd been born blind, and he just
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  • Followed rosy.
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  • And a group started falling rosy, glass was coming,
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  • Dust was coming.
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  • Rosy led michael and a group of people
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  • Down 1,463 steps.
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  • It took an hour to get there, and when they got there,
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  • There were all kind of voices going on.
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  • Man, stay inside, don't go outside, go up the elevator,
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  • Don't take the stairs.
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  • Rosy never broke stride, the minute she left the 78th floor
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  • She never broke stride, michael stayed right, 'cause michael put
  • 00:22:50.826 --> 00:22:53.795
  • His trust in rosy, and the little group following
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  • Put their trust in rosy.
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  • And rosy immediately went outside when the police were
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  • Staying inside, and when they went outside, michael said he
  • 00:23:02.037 --> 00:23:05.207
  • Heard what sounded like a mighty freight train and mighty waters
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  • Falling because the second tower now had fell.
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  • There was dirt, filth, smoke, cries, death, people jumping out
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  • Of rooms way up there in the buildings.
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  • There, at that moment, was a member of our church, yeah,
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  • Dr. sean boutros was a plastic surgeon doing his residency
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  • There in new york.
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  • He got on his motorcycle and drove right there, and was one
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  • Of the first physicians there, and he cared for i don't know
  • 00:23:37.038 --> 00:23:39.841
  • How many people and saved i don't know how many lives.
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  • He can tell you what was going on, voices, shouting, cries,
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  • Nowhere to go.
  • 00:23:46.648 --> 00:23:48.049
  • Rosy never broke stride, rosy never broke stride.
  • 00:23:48.049 --> 00:23:51.853
  • And finally, when all this was falling and nobody could see and
  • 00:23:51.853 --> 00:23:53.855
  • They were inhaling in their lugs, rosy suddenly went down
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  • Some steps and took them down there underground where there
  • 00:23:57.893 --> 00:24:03.665
  • Were the trains, and suddenly the air was clean.
  • 00:24:03.665 --> 00:24:08.336
  • And rosy walked around the other side, and 31 people,
  • 00:24:08.336 --> 00:24:13.909
  • Who followed rosy, they trusted rosy, they were saved.
  • 00:24:13.909 --> 00:24:23.018
  • "trust in the lord with all your heart, lean not upon your own
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  • Understanding," but upon god's understanding,
  • 00:24:28.256 --> 00:24:31.927
  • And what does it say?
  • 00:24:31.927 --> 00:24:33.895
  • "he will direct your path."
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  • Basic, simple, doable empowered
  • 00:24:45.073 --> 00:24:50.579
  • By the holy spirit, and somehow,
  • 00:24:50.579 --> 00:24:55.050
  • In all the shouts and all the half-truths, mixed-up truths,
  • 00:24:55.050 --> 00:24:59.988
  • All the noise and debris, the lord god and his holy spirit
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  • Will lead us, if we put our full trust in him.
  • 00:25:05.093 --> 00:25:12.067
  • Pastor ed: for far too long the church has been asleep.
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  • It's time we wake up.
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  • While we've been silent, a godless culture has begun
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  • Dismantling our country and our world.
  • 00:25:24.412 --> 00:25:27.082
  • The foundations of the body of christ have been eroded.
  • 00:25:27.082 --> 00:25:30.352
  • We're being divided by gender, race, and social class.
  • 00:25:30.352 --> 00:25:34.222
  • Our families are under attack and our children are being
  • 00:25:34.222 --> 00:25:36.825
  • Corrupted and confused.
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  • It's time for god's family to stand up
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  • Against this woke culture.
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  • In "the church awake" we will discover biblical solutions
  • 00:25:43.765 --> 00:25:47.202
  • As we battle the forces that are ripping our country apart.
  • 00:25:47.202 --> 00:25:51.640
  • It's my prayer that through biblical truth
  • 00:25:51.640 --> 00:25:54.876
  • We'll find the strength and courage we need
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  • To awaken the united states of america.
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  • Male announcer: to get the series, "the church awake"
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  • Call the number on your screen or go online at winningwalk.org
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  • Pastor ed: when we say, "the lord is my shepherd," we're
  • 00:26:10.825 --> 00:26:12.894
  • Making a powerful statement, we're trusting jesus to walk
  • 00:26:12.894 --> 00:26:16.765
  • Before us, to protect us, and provide the direction
  • 00:26:16.765 --> 00:26:20.835
  • We so desperately need.
  • 00:26:20.835 --> 00:26:23.705
  • The relationship between a shepherd and a sheep
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  • Is a beautiful one.
  • 00:26:25.707 --> 00:26:27.776
  • He calls each and every one by name.
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  • They follow him because they know his voice.
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  • We need to take time to be quiet enough or long enough to hear
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  • The still small voice of our shepherd and lord.
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  • Today, we can ask god to give us the discernment we need to
  • 00:26:43.725 --> 00:26:47.328
  • Determine what is true, what is right, what is good, but you
  • 00:26:47.328 --> 00:26:53.101
  • Have to be willing to trust him.
  • 00:26:53.101 --> 00:26:56.571
  • Call the number on your screen, and when you do you'll find
  • 00:26:56.571 --> 00:26:58.640
  • Someone there just willing and waiting to speak with you,
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  • And to pray for you.
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  • And thank you for watching today.
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  • I look forward to our time together next time as we take
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  • Another exciting step
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  • On the "winning walk" with jesus christ.
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  • ♪♪♪
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