Ed Young - The Will of God

January 19, 2026 | 27:29

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Will of God | January 19, 2026
  • Years come and years go.
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  • But god's faithfulness never fades and never gets them.
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  • His love doesn't weaken with time, and his word
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  • Never loses its power.
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  • As we step into this new year,
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  • We're reminded that a successful,
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  • Victorious life isn't found in our circumstances.
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  • It's found in a daily, wide, consistent walk with god,
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  • Who is unchangeable in his presence.
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  • We discover how to walk strong,
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  • How to walk confidently, and how to walk forward
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  • With assurance that we're on his team.
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  • Welcome today to the winning
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  • Walk.
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  • Our heavenly father,
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  • Forgive all of us when we have put
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  • Self and selfishness ahead
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  • Of kingdom purposes.
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  • Right now, i pray, would you speak
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  • And let me get out of the way?
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  • Is our petition in jesus name?
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  • Amen.
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  • We could offer after this service
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  • 25 or 30 classes in which you and i could attend
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  • On all sorts of subjects.
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  • Biblical subjects, 25 or 30 classes.
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  • And in one of those classes we would entitled it
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  • How to know the will of god.
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  • I guarantee you that class
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  • Would fill up
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  • For any of the other classes
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  • That we'd offer.
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  • Have you ever watched a road lizard?
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  • Not much.
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  • A road lizards, they just squirm around.
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  • Similar to that rhyme or reason,
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  • They get in the highway, the roads and.
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  • And they're capricious.
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  • And you don't know
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  • If they're looking for food or they run right into trouble.
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  • They're just.
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  • And i use the phrase crazy as a road lizard.
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  • You know what i'm talking about. sure you do.
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  • A lot of us seek the mind of
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  • The will of god like a road lizard.
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  • And i've been guilty of this.
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  • And maybe you have.
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  • We have a decision to make.
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  • Want to let god get in on it.
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  • And hopefully we're a part of what he's leading us to do.
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  • And we flip a coin and say, well, heads, i'll do this
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  • And i'll do this.
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  • Road lizard
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  • Methodology of seeking god's will and plan.
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  • Or we look for the magic bible verse.
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  • Lord, i don't know what to do.
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  • Please give me inside bag.
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  • That's it.
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  • Oh, yes.
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  • You spoke to me.
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  • Or we make list of pro and con on that decision.
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  • And the longest list.
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  • That's how we go.
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  • Forgetting that the priorities on the list
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  • Should be the thing that most gives us insight.
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  • Road, laser
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  • Methodology of trying to find the will of god.
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  • And sometimes ask whether there's a biblical principle
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  • There in judges six.
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  • I put a fleece out.
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  • Remember, it's wet tomorrow and it's dry today.
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  • Listen,
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  • That method is not available to us at this moment in time.
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  • That was one situation there with joshua.
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  • Period.
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  • And we see it all over the place.
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  • And some of us fall back into that trap.
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  • Now, if you are in christ
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  • And i am in christ,
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  • The bible
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  • Tells us, and we know because we're seeking the
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  • Leadership of the holy spirit.
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  • Some basic principles of discovering
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  • The will of god.
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  • And because god loves us, and if we're in christ,
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  • Does it seem strange to anybody here
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  • That god is putting his plan and purpose
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  • For your life in my life in some mysterious, hidden way?
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  • Does that sound like a god who loves us?
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  • We know that when we're living in action
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  • According to his plan.
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  • In this world, in this universe, for you and for me.
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  • And you think he's.
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  • I don't want them to find out.
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  • Oh, i sure hope they don't find out and find
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  • The will of god for some is like an easter egg. god.
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  • We do that every year with our grandkids.
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  • We hide eggs all over the place and and they want to
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  • Find the golden egg and they ain't looking.
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  • Will say you're getting hotter
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  • Or you're getting colder.
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  • Does god operate like that?
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  • Where are you getting close to knowing what i want you to do.
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  • But i'm telling you, you.
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  • Oh, no. you're getting cold.
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  • You think almighty god is operating like that
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  • And trying to give instruction, insight, and his wisdom
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  • In the decision making process of your life.
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  • In my life.
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  • We've been studying romans chapter number eight,
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  • And we're going to be there for a while yet.
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  • And we've already ran into there
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  • In the 26th verse last week.
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  • If you missed it,
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  • You missed one of the pivotal verses in the bible.
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  • Remember, it says the holy spirit when we're praying,
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  • Helps us remember the word, helps.
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  • Big a long greek
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  • Word soon and he la mano to remember it.
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  • And what does it mean?
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  • It means that so many times we do not know how to pray
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  • And we say something.
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  • We're seeking god's mind, god's will for healing, for
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  • For guidance and whatever the situation might be.
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  • And that verse gives us assurance that the holy spirit
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  • Helps goes over where we are.
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  • We don't know exactly how to pray
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  • And takes hold of
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  • Us soon with any on the other side.
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  • Lombardo takes hold of you and me as we're trying to pray
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  • And prays on our behalf and write down this principle.
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  • I said it last week.
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  • I can say it a thousand times,
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  • A thousand times.
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  • This is a basic principle.
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  • The holy spirit helps you and i to pray.
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  • As you and i would pray
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  • If we knew what god knows.
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  • Have you ever tried to read
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  • A historical novel out of order?
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  • It would be hard, if not impossible, to understand.
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  • The plot would.
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  • And yet we read have studied the bible in much the same way.
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  • Like a novel, the bible tells a story
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  • With the beginning of middle and end,
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  • And when you read in chronological order,
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  • You will see history unfold in a new
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  • And understandable and memorable way.
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  • Listen, in this new year, i want to challenge you
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  • To read through the bible and 52 weeks
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  • When you give the winning walk.
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  • This month,
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  • We want to send you a one year chronological bible.
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  • It's arranged in daily readings that will take
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  • About 50 minutes to read each day.
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  • At the end of each of two weeks you will know and understand
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  • Like never before.
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  • The full story of the bible.
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  • To get your copy of the one year chronological bible.
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  • Call the number on your screen
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  • Or go online at winning walk.org.
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  • Stay with that.
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  • Don't say hi.
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  • Got it? no, stay with it.
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  • So we pray
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  • And our prayers go out to the lord.
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  • And sometimes we pray in ignorance and stupidity,
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  • Even though we're sincere.
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  • But the good news is we cannot miss.
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  • Pray.
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  • And then we come to the verse.
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  • Just a part of the verse
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  • We're looking at today that deals with god's will.
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  • Hope you have your bibles with you.
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  • Open if you would.
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  • Romans chapter eight, verse 26.
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  • We looked at it last week.
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  • Let me restated
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  • In the same way
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  • The holy spirit helps,
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  • But we do not know how to pray as we should,
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  • But the spirit himself intercedes
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  • For us with groanings too deep for words.
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  • You follow me.
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  • Then verse 27, and he who searches
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  • The heart, who searches our hearts, jesus.
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  • Jesus searches our hearts.
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  • He searches our hearts, knows the mind of the spirit.
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  • Jesus knows the holy spirit because the holy spirit,
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  • Primarily member is honoring jesus.
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  • Because he intercedes jesus for the saints,
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  • According to there's our phrase, will of god.
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  • Don't get lost in that.
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  • He's saying, god the father, god the son, god
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  • The holy spirit is involved in all of our prayers,
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  • And god the father and god the holy spirit is involved
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  • In helping
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  • You and i to know what god wants us to do and decide,
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  • And how we are to live in that particular unique situations
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  • That unique to every single one of us.
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  • So we see here that when we pray,
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  • Jesus searches our hearts
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  • Because jesus knows the mind of the spirit
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  • And the holy spirit
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  • Takes our verbiage, we're offering to god,
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  • And it goes again through jesus as our intersect,
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  • Or at the right hand of the father.
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  • And out of this comes the will of god.
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  • Reveal to you.
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  • Reveal to me.
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  • Now let me break it down a little bit and talk about
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  • The will of god, the purpose of god, the plan of god.
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  • First of all, the will of god
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  • Is hidden.
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  • There is a hidden will of god.
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  • And if you're a
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  • Theologian that is under the sovereignty of god.
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  • In other words, you say more of my life,
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  • Our people, my life is all messed up.
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  • I made a wrong decision.
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  • I got married and i should have done this,
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  • And i should have done that.
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  • I should have stayed and i moved
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  • And the grass looked greener on the other side.
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  • There ain't no green grass.
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  • And therefore, sometimes we're seeking
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  • God's will and we realize it is hidden to us.
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  • And the
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  • Hidden part of god's will is a super thing.
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  • Because you and i follow me
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  • Most of the time, know that we're in god's will
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  • Only as we look in the rearview mirror,
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  • We look back in the rearview mirror and we say,
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  • You know, i didn't know god was there.
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  • And god led me here and i moved over there.
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  • I had no idea what was going on.
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  • That's true of every single one of us.
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  • With a little introspection, with a little backward glance.
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  • And i like the thing that i learned from leslie
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  • Weatherhead.
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  • There is god's intentional will follow me.
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  • What god intends for you and me to do in every
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  • Decision in our life.
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  • But we don't always do that.
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  • We mess up.
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  • We're not perfect big news.
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  • We're not perfect. big news.
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  • Therefore, god's intentional will may be for this,
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  • But we made some wrong choices and therefore
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  • Now we operate in his circumstantial will.
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  • Right?
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  • But in that circumstantial will.
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  • Guess what?
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  • His ultimate will will be carried out.
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  • Somebody said, well, i made a mistake and there's no hope.
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  • No god did.
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  • Jesus christ specializes is second
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  • Chances, third chances as we go through.
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  • So his intentional will will be carried
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  • Out in our life as we walk and live in jesus christ.
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  • But there is the hidden will of god,
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  • And then there is the general will of god.
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  • By the way, somebody's looking for god's will.
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  • Do you climb a tree, look to heaven,
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  • And try to conjure up some emotional feelings
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  • Or some sign or symbol to find out his will.
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  • We look for his will, guess where the first place to look.
  • 00:12:33.299 --> 00:12:36.268
  • God's will is found in his word.
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  • It's right there for us.
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  • Psalm 19 says, thy word is a lamp
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  • Unto my feet, tells us why to walk right now.
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  • And a light into our path
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  • Tells us how to walk in the future.
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  • So let's start with god's word.
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  • Does that seem strange?
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  • Anybody or peculiar anybody know?
  • 00:12:59.491 --> 00:13:01.961
  • It's where we start
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  • When we determine
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  • Every choice, every decision we make in life.
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  • I'm not talking about where you go to safeway
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  • Or kroger, by the way.
  • 00:13:09.768 --> 00:13:10.903
  • Don't get ridiculous and silly.
  • 00:13:10.903 --> 00:13:12.738
  • I see some
  • 00:13:12.738 --> 00:13:13.873
  • Super pious, whiny people that drop back into that.
  • 00:13:13.873 --> 00:13:17.109
  • Don't get me there.
  • 00:13:17.109 --> 00:13:19.245
  • But i'm
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  • Saying about decision we make in life.
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  • Let's start with the five basic things.
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  • Five things we need to operate in our life
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  • That the bible tells us is the will of god
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  • For every single person on the planet.
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  • Okay, so let's start there.
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  • That is a general will of god for everybody.
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  • Look at it is we be saved.
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  • And i use the word so many times salvage restored
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  • Through faith in jesus christ
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  • For our repentance and receiving him.
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  • We are saved.
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  • We are saved, we're salvaged.
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  • Number two, be filled with the spirit.
  • 00:13:56.882 --> 00:13:59.618
  • When we come to christ.
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  • The spirit comes in our life, but we leak.
  • 00:14:00.786 --> 00:14:03.322
  • So there's a constant
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  • Thing of saying, lord, i want to be available
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  • For your filling.
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  • Ephesians five.
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  • And then we go down and the next thing up there
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  • Be sanctified.
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  • First thessalonians four three and basically said, that means
  • 00:14:14.333 --> 00:14:17.970
  • We are growing up and becoming increasingly pure.
  • 00:14:17.970 --> 00:14:22.675
  • Anybody like the word pure?
  • 00:14:23.275 --> 00:14:25.210
  • That's that's a part of growing up in christ.
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  • We get pure, our motives get right,
  • 00:14:28.681 --> 00:14:31.116
  • Our background is we.
  • 00:14:31.116 --> 00:14:32.618
  • That's being sanctified, that's growing up in our faith.
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  • Have you ever tried to read
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  • A historical novel out of order?
  • 00:14:38.757 --> 00:14:41.694
  • It would be hard, if not impossible, to understand.
  • 00:14:41.694 --> 00:14:44.463
  • The plot would.
  • 00:14:44.463 --> 00:14:46.031
  • And yet we read have studied the bible in much the same way.
  • 00:14:46.031 --> 00:14:49.735
  • Like a novel, the bible tells a story
  • 00:14:49.735 --> 00:14:52.071
  • With the beginning of middle and end,
  • 00:14:52.071 --> 00:14:54.573
  • And when you read in chronological order,
  • 00:14:54.573 --> 00:14:56.775
  • You will see history unfold in a new
  • 00:14:56.775 --> 00:14:59.244
  • And understandable and memorable way.
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  • Listen in this new year, i want to challenge you
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  • To read through the bible in 52 weeks.
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  • At the end of each two weeks, you will know and understand
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  • Like never before.
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  • Walk.
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  • The next thing is, the will
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  • Of god would be serving we serve.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, we have a function, an office
  • 00:15:45.357 --> 00:15:48.494
  • For everybody here.
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  • No matter what your state of life, where you are sick.
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  • Well doesn't matter.
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  • We have something everybody here can do.
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  • We all have certain gifts.
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  • Put them to work.
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  • They can be holding the door.
  • 00:16:00.205 --> 00:16:02.141
  • They can be cutting.
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  • It's a zillion things out there.
  • 00:16:03.008 --> 00:16:05.210
  • Just stand up, look around.
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  • Find a place where you can serve.
  • 00:16:06.745 --> 00:16:08.747
  • Now we have people
  • 00:16:08.747 --> 00:16:09.948
  • All the time who come and says, i want to sing of solo.
  • 00:16:09.948 --> 00:16:13.819
  • Well, we'll try you out if you can sing.
  • 00:16:13.819 --> 00:16:16.889
  • But if you can't, guess what?
  • 00:16:16.889 --> 00:16:18.123
  • That's not your gift.
  • 00:16:18.123 --> 00:16:20.459
  • And i don't decide that.
  • 00:16:20.459 --> 00:16:22.928
  • God decides that by the affirmation of our gifts.
  • 00:16:22.928 --> 00:16:26.065
  • So find a place you can share with whatever it is we are.
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  • If we are seeking
  • 00:16:29.635 --> 00:16:30.869
  • The will of god would be using, we have to be serving.
  • 00:16:30.869 --> 00:16:34.640
  • Next thing is look, be suffering.
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  • Oh my goodness, i have got to suffer.
  • 00:16:36.875 --> 00:16:39.812
  • Yes. let me tell you about that suffering.
  • 00:16:39.812 --> 00:16:42.481
  • There's a painting
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  • Called the straight and the narrow.
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  • Remember jesus said,
  • 00:16:48.220 --> 00:16:49.288
  • There's a narrow way that leads to heaven.
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  • There's a roadway that leads to hell.
  • 00:16:52.825 --> 00:16:55.461
  • There's a painting,
  • 00:16:55.461 --> 00:16:56.762
  • Famous painting, and it pictures a mountain.
  • 00:16:56.762 --> 00:17:00.165
  • And there's a few people on that mountain
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  • Struggling, climbing, trying to reach the city of god.
  • 00:17:02.935 --> 00:17:06.205
  • Oh, they're having a tough time.
  • 00:17:06.205 --> 00:17:08.107
  • Then the same picture.
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  • There's a river
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  • That's flowing, and there are people
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  • All in that river having a great time.
  • 00:17:12.377 --> 00:17:14.746
  • And the river is flowing, but
  • 00:17:14.746 --> 00:17:15.981
  • You could see in the foreground those are in the broadway.
  • 00:17:15.981 --> 00:17:19.618
  • They're about to go over
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  • A cliff and to destruction and be killed
  • 00:17:20.752 --> 00:17:23.522
  • Down on the rocks below.
  • 00:17:23.522 --> 00:17:24.723
  • But they're just having a big time.
  • 00:17:24.723 --> 00:17:26.492
  • This group is climbing that mountain and struggling.
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  • You said, boy, that's a good picture. no, it's not.
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  • No, it's not where it's christians.
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  • It's not that we're lonely
  • 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:37.336
  • Climbing up a mountain trying to get to the city of god.
  • 00:17:37.336 --> 00:17:40.239
  • But as christians,
  • 00:17:40.672 --> 00:17:42.307
  • Here is the broadway where everybody is in that river.
  • 00:17:42.307 --> 00:17:45.677
  • But we're in the river.
  • 00:17:45.677 --> 00:17:47.045
  • The only difference is we're swimming upstream.
  • 00:17:47.045 --> 00:17:50.115
  • And when you swim upstream, you bump into people.
  • 00:17:50.115 --> 00:17:53.252
  • And you'll be sure if you walk with jesus christ in the 21st
  • 00:17:53.252 --> 00:17:57.289
  • Century, there's going to be some suffering.
  • 00:17:57.289 --> 00:18:00.559
  • There's going to be some suffering.
  • 00:18:01.326 --> 00:18:03.428
  • So that's the picture.
  • 00:18:03.428 --> 00:18:04.630
  • So here there are five things not
  • 00:18:04.630 --> 00:18:08.100
  • Operating perfectly in our life that we're committed to.
  • 00:18:08.100 --> 00:18:11.370
  • We understand that's the will of god.
  • 00:18:11.370 --> 00:18:14.506
  • That's not too complicated, is it?
  • 00:18:14.506 --> 00:18:15.974
  • I mean, there they are.
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  • What's god's will for my life about. oh, no.
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  • Start off of those five.
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  • If these five things are operating and we're growing
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  • And the holy spirit is leading in your life and my life,
  • 00:18:24.983 --> 00:18:27.986
  • Guess what?
  • 00:18:27.986 --> 00:18:28.854
  • The will of god is in any situation.
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  • Trust the lord with all your heart.
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  • Five things.
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  • Lean not upon your own understanding.
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  • In all thy ways acknowledge him.
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  • The operative principle, these five things,
  • 00:18:41.934 --> 00:18:44.002
  • And yes, what he will direct your life.
  • 00:18:44.002 --> 00:18:46.471
  • And then it becomes in your decision,
  • 00:18:46.471 --> 00:18:49.408
  • Master.
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  • Lord jesus christ, mission
  • 00:18:52.411 --> 00:18:54.813
  • You're calling your vocation your make, your make.
  • 00:18:54.813 --> 00:18:59.318
  • And i see this so many times, people, it's like that girl
  • 00:18:59.318 --> 00:19:03.155
  • That was dating six guys named william.
  • 00:19:03.155 --> 00:19:07.226
  • You know what?
  • 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:08.527
  • She was a bill collector or bill collector.
  • 00:19:08.527 --> 00:19:11.997
  • So a lot of times,
  • 00:19:12.431 --> 00:19:13.298
  • I don't know, part of the marriage,
  • 00:19:13.298 --> 00:19:14.366
  • This order to marry, this one, to go there,
  • 00:19:14.366 --> 00:19:16.335
  • Let me tell you something.
  • 00:19:16.335 --> 00:19:17.436
  • When the holy spirit is all into her life,
  • 00:19:17.436 --> 00:19:19.438
  • All of a sudden the wisdom god comes in our life.
  • 00:19:19.438 --> 00:19:21.840
  • And then we begin to go back.
  • 00:19:21.840 --> 00:19:23.742
  • Now we've got the general well, haven't wait for everybody.
  • 00:19:23.742 --> 00:19:26.878
  • Now let's get that. why are you in? tell me.
  • 00:19:26.878 --> 00:19:28.880
  • When not i should move
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  • Or when i build a house or rent or whatnot.
  • 00:19:30.582 --> 00:19:33.051
  • And all of you. let me tell you how that works.
  • 00:19:33.051 --> 00:19:35.887
  • Matthew.
  • 00:19:36.154 --> 00:19:36.855
  • Chapter seven.
  • 00:19:36.855 --> 00:19:38.624
  • What does jesus say that we do?
  • 00:19:38.624 --> 00:19:41.593
  • He says simply. ask
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  • You. receive, seek
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  • And you will find.
  • 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:49.534
  • Knock and it will be open to you.
  • 00:19:49.534 --> 00:19:51.803
  • That's in our praying.
  • 00:19:51.803 --> 00:19:53.105
  • We ask, we say, lord, i know the blank check is there.
  • 00:19:53.105 --> 00:19:57.009
  • I know i can leave, but i want to ask you for
  • 00:19:57.009 --> 00:19:59.278
  • Your leadership and guidance.
  • 00:19:59.278 --> 00:20:00.679
  • And when making a big time decision, take a time out.
  • 00:20:00.679 --> 00:20:04.316
  • Sit down.
  • 00:20:04.316 --> 00:20:05.584
  • Listen to god.
  • 00:20:05.584 --> 00:20:09.688
  • Ask god and wait.
  • 00:20:08.520 --> 00:20:14.393
  • And then you see.
  • 00:20:14.826 --> 00:20:15.794
  • What does that mean?
  • 00:20:15.794 --> 00:20:16.995
  • You seek information,
  • 00:20:16.995 --> 00:20:18.864
  • You go to godly people, you get counsel.
  • 00:20:18.864 --> 00:20:21.300
  • And that's when you might make those lists
  • 00:20:21.300 --> 00:20:24.636
  • And you're seeking information about it.
  • 00:20:24.636 --> 00:20:27.873
  • And then finally you knock and a door may open.
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  • The door may close.
  • 00:20:31.710 --> 00:20:32.511
  • By the way,
  • 00:20:32.511 --> 00:20:33.745
  • Just because there's an open door doesn't mean we walk in.
  • 00:20:33.745 --> 00:20:35.914
  • And that's god's will.
  • 00:20:35.914 --> 00:20:37.182
  • Oh, this door open for me.
  • 00:20:37.182 --> 00:20:39.051
  • I was in seminary.
  • 00:20:39.051 --> 00:20:40.352
  • I had a professor, virgil murphy, on my first semester.
  • 00:20:40.352 --> 00:20:43.588
  • He told me, humble eddie, that's pretty.
  • 00:20:43.588 --> 00:20:46.291
  • You can tell he failed in his task.
  • 00:20:46.291 --> 00:20:48.160
  • But anyway, he told me humble eddie's.
  • 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:51.363
  • And he was a young man.
  • 00:20:51.363 --> 00:20:52.464
  • And after class one day, we had a large class,
  • 00:20:52.464 --> 00:20:55.267
  • And he came to me.
  • 00:20:55.701 --> 00:20:56.568
  • He said, you know, i i've watched you
  • 00:20:56.568 --> 00:20:58.370
  • And i think
  • 00:20:58.370 --> 00:20:58.870
  • Maybe
  • 00:20:58.870 --> 00:20:59.705
  • You ought to go with my family and i
  • 00:20:59.705 --> 00:21:01.473
  • Because this is the last
  • 00:21:01.473 --> 00:21:02.708
  • Semester i'm going to teach at seminary.
  • 00:21:02.708 --> 00:21:04.743
  • We're going to italy as a missionary.
  • 00:21:04.743 --> 00:21:07.446
  • And i'd love for you to learn italian
  • 00:21:07.446 --> 00:21:09.314
  • With our family and go with us.
  • 00:21:09.314 --> 00:21:10.782
  • I think you'd really be effective.
  • 00:21:10.782 --> 00:21:13.485
  • Well,
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  • Man, that's floored me.
  • 00:21:15.320 --> 00:21:18.123
  • And i remember what my dad said when i told him
  • 00:21:18.123 --> 00:21:20.359
  • I was called by god to work in the church,
  • 00:21:20.359 --> 00:21:23.161
  • Which was weird to all of my family.
  • 00:21:23.161 --> 00:21:25.497
  • I can assure you of that.
  • 00:21:25.497 --> 00:21:27.966
  • And my dad said, you're still in your life away.
  • 00:21:27.966 --> 00:21:30.669
  • Nobody's lazier than preachers.
  • 00:21:30.669 --> 00:21:33.138
  • My dad believe that.
  • 00:21:33.138 --> 00:21:35.006
  • And now, after a while in this ministry,
  • 00:21:35.006 --> 00:21:37.175
  • I almost agree with him. two
  • 00:21:37.175 --> 00:21:39.945
  • But anyway, he said, look.
  • 00:21:39.945 --> 00:21:41.346
  • And then he said, of all things my mom said, don't
  • 00:21:41.346 --> 00:21:44.182
  • Go to one of those foreign mission fields.
  • 00:21:44.182 --> 00:21:47.085
  • Now here i was thinking the will of god was something
  • 00:21:47.085 --> 00:21:50.722
  • That i didn't know.
  • 00:21:50.722 --> 00:21:51.690
  • By the way, the will of god in the most
  • 00:21:51.690 --> 00:21:53.358
  • Isn't always the most difficult thing to do.
  • 00:21:53.358 --> 00:21:55.293
  • Oh, it must be the will of god,
  • 00:21:55.293 --> 00:21:57.195
  • Because i've got a sacrifice here.
  • 00:21:57.195 --> 00:21:59.164
  • No no no no, an open door doesn't mean often.
  • 00:21:59.164 --> 00:22:02.501
  • The closed door to me.
  • 00:22:02.501 --> 00:22:03.502
  • An opportunity,
  • 00:22:03.502 --> 00:22:05.103
  • Because we have these things operative in our life
  • 00:22:05.103 --> 00:22:07.606
  • And god gives us wisdom to make decisions.
  • 00:22:07.606 --> 00:22:10.609
  • And i waited till i finished seminary.
  • 00:22:10.609 --> 00:22:12.377
  • I felt no leadership, but i was willing.
  • 00:22:12.377 --> 00:22:15.881
  • I was ready.
  • 00:22:16.214 --> 00:22:17.849
  • I'll go to bangladesh today if i get a clear indication.
  • 00:22:17.849 --> 00:22:20.552
  • It would be a skinny minute like that.
  • 00:22:20.552 --> 00:22:23.221
  • So at the bottom line is the will of god.
  • 00:22:23.221 --> 00:22:25.490
  • When these things are operating in your life.
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  • In my life,
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  • He gives us his wisdom and we begin to make good choices.
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  • Because now remember our verse,
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  • The holy spirit has picked us up.
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  • And when we pray and seek information,
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  • The holy spirit takes the right prayer
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  • To jesus christ at the right hand of god.
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  • And he, in terms of the father.
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  • And that kind of praying is answered every single time.
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  • Sometimes the answer is no,
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  • Sometimes it is yes, sometimes it is.
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  • Maybe. sometimes it is. wait.
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  • But it's always answered.
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  • This is how we know the will of god.
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  • The holy spirit picks us up.
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  • Do y'all remember?
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  • Powerful, powerful
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  • Story of a family?
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  • The father
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  • And the son were so very close.
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  • The father was named dick and the son was named rick.
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  • And rick was born with a very rare form of cerebral palsy.
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  • The son could not use his arms.
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  • He could not speak,
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  • But through a computer, and he was able to communicate.
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  • And the son was in high school
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  • And another classmate was in an accident
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  • And was now paralyzed from the waist down.
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  • And so the class decided
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  • That they would go and they would run a ten k,
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  • Get money to follow them, and give money to this family
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  • That now had this son that was now paralyzed.
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  • And in that class was rick
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  • With cerebral palsy.
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  • And he went home and told his dad,
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  • You know, he wish he could run in that race.
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  • And he'd ask the teacher, and the teacher said
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  • The dad could run on his behalf
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  • If he would.
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  • And so the father, dick, remains the way
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  • To get on a cart and to run
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  • With his son in the cart.
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  • That ten k to raise funds
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  • That begin a ministry for the father, dick
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  • And the son, rick.
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  • In the next couple of decades,
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  • They ran in
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  • 62 or 3 marathons.
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  • The father taking care of the son, and they ran.
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  • And over 155 or 6 triathlons, a triathlon.
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  • You swim for almost three miles, you bike for almost over
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  • 100 miles, and then you run a 26 mile race triathlon.
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  • They did about 150 of 60 of those over a couple of decades.
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  • And the son said.
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  • Dad with
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  • His computer, he couldn't talk
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  • When we're running together,
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  • I feel that i don't have
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  • A single disability.
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  • Thank you for spending time
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  • With me today on the winning walk.
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  • It is my prayer that god's word has encouraged
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  • Your heart and strengthened your faith in him.
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  • And as you go into the days ahead,
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  • Remember that you don't walk alone.
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  • Somebody says, i feel so lonely in jesus christ.
  • 00:25:46.424 --> 00:25:51.029
  • We never feel god's presence goes with us
  • 00:25:51.029 --> 00:25:55.533
  • And his word continues to guide your steps.
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  • In my steps, no matter where you are
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  • And what you're facing.
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  • Take what you've heard today
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  • And carry it with you from now all the way into the future.
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  • And let it shape your thoughts and my thoughts
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  • And your choices and my joys.
  • 00:26:12.684 --> 00:26:15.453
  • And remember, stay on this path of faith.
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  • In his will is our peace.
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  • We're on this road to you.
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  • See you
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  • Tomorrow on the winning walk.
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  • Have you ever tried to read
  • 00:26:29.601 --> 00:26:31.469
  • A historical novel out of order?
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  • It would be hard, if not impossible, to understand.
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  • The plot would.
  • 00:26:37.142 --> 00:26:38.777
  • And yet we read have studied the bible in much the same way.
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  • Like a novel, the bible tells a story
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  • With the beginning of middle and end.
  • 00:26:44.783 --> 00:26:47.252
  • And when you read in chronological order,
  • 00:26:47.252 --> 00:26:49.487
  • You will see history unfold in a new
  • 00:26:49.487 --> 00:26:51.956
  • And understandable and memorable way.
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  • Listen, in this new year, i want to challenge you
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  • To read through the bible in 52 weeks.
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  • When you give the winning walk this month,
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  • We want to send you a one year chronological bible.
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  • It's arranged in daily readings that will take
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  • About 50 minutes to read each day.
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  • At the end of each of two weeks,
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  • You will know and understand like never before.
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  • The full story of the bible.
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  • To get your copy of the one year chronological bible,
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  • Call the number on your screen or go online at winning walk.
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