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Ed Young - Will We Know People In Heaven?

August 21, 2025 | S25 E201 | 29:0

Ed Young - Will We Know People In Heaven?
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 - Will We Know People In Heaven? | August 21, 2025
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  • Dr. ed young: perhaps you noticed in the news
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  • That 007, roger moore, died this past tuesday.
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  • He was 89 years old.
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  • He made, what, seven or eight different movies,
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  • All of them very popular?
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  • He was a man with a gun.
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  • He was a man who was a spy for great britain but pretended
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  • To be a spy but actually conquered all the spies.
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  • He had a license to kill.
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  • Do you remember?
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  • The ian fleming novels that were put on the screen,
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  • 007 james bond died.
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  • Before he died back in 2002, somebody asked roger moore,
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  • That's who he was, "roger, what is your concept
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  • Of life after death?"
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  • Let me paraphrase his answer.
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  • He said, "i believe we'll go into a room and there
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  • We'll have a door and the key to that door will be
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  • The fact that we have died.
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  • And we'll take the key of death and open that door and go inside
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  • To some sort of existence that we don't know a whole lot about
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  • And we can only imagine or dream of."
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  • That's his concept of life after life.
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  • He's not far off from what you can read or hear from a lot of
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  • Philosophies, a lot of religions.
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  • If you're a hindu, you'll have the idea that you'll be
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  • Reincarnated, you'll come back at something else, or something
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  • Other, or something more, or something less.
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  • You'll be going up the scale or down the scale, all of those
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  • Subjective evaluations that have no basis of reality or evidence.
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  • Eastern religion say primarily we go back to some kind of mist
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  • And we absorb into the holy other up there,
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  • Out there, over there.
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  • So, there's all kinds of concepts of life after life.
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  • So, i thought we'd just sit down and discover what
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  • We know about heaven.
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  • Now, first of all, let me drop back and ask you a question,
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  • When you die do you think immediately if you're
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  • A christian that you will know everything?
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  • Some people think that.
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  • You will not, i will not.
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  • Some have equated heaven with divinity.
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  • You see, we are not omniscient now, are we?
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  • Do we know everything now?
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  • No, no, no, and we'll not be omniscient when we die.
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  • We'll not be omnipresent, everywhere when we die.
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  • We'll not be omnipotent, have all power.
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  • These are assets that the divine and the divine god has.
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  • We will not have it when we die so therefore when we die,
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  • We'll not know everything and i say thank god for that.
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  • Man, that's beyond our pay scale.
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  • We'll not have the capacity.
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  • We don't want the responsibility.
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  • God alone has that responsibility of being
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  • Omniscient all knowing.
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  • You'll not know everything when you die.
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  • Some people go to 1 corinthians 13, we see through a glass
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  • Darkly then we'll see face to face then we will know
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  • As we have been known but that doesn't mean our knowing
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  • Will be omniscient.
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  • You'll not know everything when you die.
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  • There may be a revelation of this through eternity,
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  • I don't know.
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  • There's verses that point to that fact.
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  • When you die, you won't know everything but let me tell you
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  • What you will know, and we've talked about this already.
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  • One thing when you and i die in christ and have been resurrected
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  • With him into heaven, one thing we know that we will see god,
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  • That's the beatific vision you've heard about or maybe read
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  • About in some old theologians.
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  • And there's been a question that's been asked,
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  • Very interesting question, i'll ask it to you.
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  • When you die, if you had the choice of having everything
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  • Forever you've ever imagined--did you get that?
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  • You die, here's a choice, you can have everything you've ever
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  • Imagined forever and forever and forever and just stack it up,
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  • Enjoy it, live with it forever.
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  • You get it all when you die, that's one choice, but you never
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  • Get to see god.
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  • You get it all but you never see god.
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  • You better think about that one for a while.
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  • I thought about it many, many times.
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  • I come back to the same conclusion listen, heaven
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  • Will not be heaven unless we get to see god.
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  • Hold, hold up, confectionaries, all the other things that we can
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  • Imagine, and do, and accomplish won't amount to anything after
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  • The first 2 or 4 billion years.
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  • The ultimate is to see god.
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  • We've looked a little bit about what heaven is gonna be like.
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  • Remember the description there in revelation 21 and 22?
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  • Remember how that we'd have a holy city, new jerusalem, a new
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  • Country, a new constitution, and it's a magnificent thing.
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  • And then we talked about in the main street of heaven, that
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  • Would be the river of life that would go all the way up to the
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  • Throne, the lamb of god would be on that throne, and the river
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  • Is a symbol of the holy spirit in the main.
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  • It's a clear, deep river.
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  • It's a symbol of pleasure and prosperity right in the main
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  • Street of heaven and on either side of the river will be
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  • The tree of life.
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  • Remember the garden of eden, there was a tree of life and
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  • There was prohibited from eating of the fruit of that tree?
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  • Now, we can eat of the fruit of that tree and the leaves of that
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  • Tree bring us healing.
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  • So, this is a beautiful figure of something of the glory, and
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  • The majesty, and the health, and the presence of that river
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  • Flowing right down through the main street of heaven.
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  • And then the bible tells us about the city.
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  • Remember what the foundation was?
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  • The foundation of heaven, the foundation of the holy city, the
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  • Foundation of the new jerusalem, it is based on the apostles,
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  • The 12 apostles.
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  • The 12 gates around the city are based and named after the 12
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  • Prophets, the 12 forefathers there in the old testament,
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  • Abraham, isaac, jacob, all of that crew, the family of jacob.
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  • And so, we see the old testament and new testament is brought
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  • Together on the base of the foundation and the 12 gates.
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  • And now we go in the city and there is the lamb that is on the
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  • Throne and then at the bottom line you read in the 4th verse
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  • Of chapter number 22 of revelation it says, "we will see
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  • God and the name of god will be written on their foreheads."
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  • Let me deal with the name of god.
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  • It disturbs me today when we do not take the name of god and
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  • Keep it sacred and keep it holy.
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  • When you say, "oh god, well, i don't mean anything by that,"
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  • Is a form of profanity.
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  • When we say, "we're gonna have a come to jesus meeting,"
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  • That is irreverence, irreverence.
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  • We have to be so careful how we use humor
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  • When we bring god in our humor.
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  • So, we lose something when we take god and make him sort of
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  • A pedestrian thing, as a product of humor, as a product of our
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  • Conversation, as a product of our expletives that we say.
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  • Man people are, "jesus christ.
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  • "i didn't mean anything but that."
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  • Oh, yes you are bringing down the wholeness,
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  • And the majesty, and the awesomeness of the almighty.
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  • So, we need to be very, very careful with our lives,
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  • The lives of our children, and our grandchildren
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  • But it's pretty to say, "oh god, oh god."
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  • Listen, thou shall not take the name of the lord
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  • Thy god in vain.
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  • We have to be careful.
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  • In our generation, it is almost a part of our culture.
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  • Then it says we will see god.
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  • Who can see god?
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  • We've talked about that.
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  • Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see god.
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  • Anybody who's pure in heart today, would you stand up?
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  • I want to recognize you.
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  • No, we're not pure in heart, are we?
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  • My heart is not pure, your heart is not pure,
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  • So how will we ever see god?
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  • We begin to see him in this life.
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  • This is where it begins.
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  • The purity of christ must come into you and must come into me.
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  • This helps our motivation.
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  • It helps understand, helps us to see god in life, in our life,
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  • In the lives of others, in this life.
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  • How does purity come to us?
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  • It goes right back to the cross, doesn't it?
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  • Right back to the cross.
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  • Max lucado said the verse in the bible that he hates and despises
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  • More than any other verse and it says when jesus on the cross
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  • And he says, "my god, my god, why have you abandoned me?"
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  • I thought about that, that is a devastating verse, isn't it?
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  • "my god, my god, why?"
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  • Here is jesus asking a question.
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  • That doesn't sound like jesus, does it?
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  • "i and my father are one.
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  • My meat is to do the will of the father.
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  • If you know me, you know the father.
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  • You know the father, you know me."
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  • How he walked 24/7 with his heavenly father in that
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  • Wonderful, wonderful relationship now in the moment
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  • Of great extremity, jesus divinity wrapped up
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  • In human flesh, shamed, embarrassed, nailed, crucified.
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  • His moment of extremity, god turned his back on him
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  • And jesus says, "my god, why have you abandoned me?"
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  • Makes no sense, does it?
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  • When jesus spoke, usually you put a exclamation point
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  • After it, "come forth!
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  • Be healed!
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  • Stretch out!
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  • Come out!"
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  • You see, there's a exclamation point.
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  • Now we have this, "why, why, why, why?"
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  • What's that all about?
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  • We like it better when john the baptist looked at jesus, young,
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  • Beginning his ministry, walking toward the jordan, and he said,
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  • "behold the lamb of god."
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  • Boy, i like that.
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  • Look at the lamb of god, how magnificent.
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  • What's the rest of the verse?
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  • "who takes away the sin of the world,
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  • Takes away the sin of the world."
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  • How do you feel when you're wallowing in sin?
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  • I've been there.
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  • You've been there.
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  • What's it like?
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  • We feel alone, we feel estranged, we feel abandoned.
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  • That's how jesus felt when he took your sin and my sin
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  • Upon himself on that cross.
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  • My god, my god, why have you abandoned me?"
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  • When we have sin in our life, we feel abandoned but the good
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  • News, jesus was abandoned by the father so that you and i might
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  • Be forgiven and we will not be abandoned for our sin because
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  • He has paid the price in total for your sin and for mine.
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  • Behold the lamb of god which came and takes your sin
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  • And mine upon himself.
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  • Oh, we begin to understand what that verse is all about.
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  • The heavenly father cannot look on impurity, he can look only
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  • On purity and we become pure when we receive christ.
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  • His righteousness is poured in us.
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  • That's how purity comes.
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  • And then in this life when we do that, then we have to live
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  • A life of obedience and a life of discipline, not perfection,
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  • But a life of discipline.
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  • Receive christ, purity comes, sanctification.
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  • We begin to walk in discipline and the result is a life that is
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  • Full and meaningful and we begin to know something about purity,
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  • Clean hands, pure heart, motives, thoughts, lifestyle,
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  • Habits so that's where we start.
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  • "blessed are the pure in heart, they shall see god."
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  • A little bit and light in this life and people and
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  • Events but oh, in heaven, we'll see him face to face.
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  • That's the first thing we know, we will see god.
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  • What's something else we know?
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  • This may not interest you but i think it's interesting to me.
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  • We know there'll be animals in heaven.
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  • I'm asked that all the time.
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  • We know there'll be animals in heaven.
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  • "well, how you know that?"
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  • Read the bible.
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  • There are over 120 different species of animals
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  • And birds in the bible.
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  • Man, look what you have.
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  • Look how animals are all the way through the bible.
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  • You start there with the birth of jesus.
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  • Where was he born? in a stable.
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  • Who witnessed that?
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  • Perhaps joseph and mary, of course, but the animals.
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  • The earth was destroyed by water, by the flood.
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  • Noah took what on ark?
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  • Animals.
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  • They're the second earth, they're animals.
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  • And then when jesus was born--and look back to the
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  • Beginning, there's adam created by god and god says, "all that's
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  • A creation, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good,"
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  • Until finally he says, "it's not good for man to be alone."
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  • Remember that verse?
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  • And then you say, "well, god went and jerked a rib out of
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  • Adam's body and made a woman."
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  • No, read it carefully.
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  • "it is not good for man to be alone," and then god by began to
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  • Bring animals into existence.
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  • Animals predate women.
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  • Check it out, animals in the beginning, animals at the birth,
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  • Animals at the ark.
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  • And so, there's gonna be animals in heaven.
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  • For example, jonah would have drowned hadn't it been
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  • For a big fish.
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  • How in the world would mary have gotten from nazareth to
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  • Bethlehem without a donkey?
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  • What about jesus going in on palm sunday?
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  • What about elijah who was fed by the ravens?
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  • What about the symbol, the dove, the symbol of the holy spirit?
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  • You read all the way through the bible there are animals,
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  • Animals, everywhere.
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  • There are camels, there are oxen,
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  • Animals all the way through.
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  • And is it logical we're gonna have flowers and beauty
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  • That in heaven we're going to have animals?
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  • You can book it.
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  • And perhaps we get to heaven, we're hugging all of our family
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  • And friends and having a great reunion there with those who've
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  • Gone before and we'll feel something rubbing on our leg and
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  • There will be the cat, or there will be your dog jumping up on
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  • You and you--animals are gonna be in heaven, folks.
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  • They're gonna be in heaven.
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  • And we're gonna know somehow the carnivorous animals
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  • Will be transformed.
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  • They'll be a part of the miracle of that and the lion
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  • Will lie down with the lamb, isaiah tells us.
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  • So relax, your dogs will be in heaven
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  • And a few cats.
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  • There'll be animals in heaven.
  • 00:17:18.884 --> 00:17:22.721
  • Now, the question we're asked all the time and it's almost
  • 00:17:22.721 --> 00:17:25.524
  • Become silly but it is, "will we know people in heaven?"
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  • You're gonna get dumber when you feel--when you receive
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  • Your resurrection body?
  • 00:17:33.499 --> 00:17:35.434
  • Yes, we'll know people.
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  • Now, they'll have resurrection bodies, but it'll be difficult
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  • To recognize, in some sense, that their lives had been
  • 00:17:41.073 --> 00:17:44.476
  • Purified, and magnified, and there's the image of
  • 00:17:44.476 --> 00:17:47.312
  • The resurrection christ in them.
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  • Sure, we will know people in heaven.
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  • It will be a great time of celebration
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  • And a great time of reunion.
  • 00:17:53.485 --> 00:17:55.787
  • And then we come and ask the question,
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  • "will there be marriage in heaven?
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  • I just wouldn't want heaven to be without my wife,
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  • Without my husband."
  • 00:18:03.195 --> 00:18:05.464
  • You know, there's a scripture in the bible when the sadducees
  • 00:18:05.464 --> 00:18:08.567
  • Came to jesus and they were trying to trap him.
  • 00:18:08.567 --> 00:18:12.671
  • The sadducees did not believe the resurrection and they said,
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  • "master, here's a woman who's been married
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  • To seven different husbands.
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  • Who will be her husband in heaven?"
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  • Elizabeth taylor, i guess, of the new testament.
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  • Pretty good challenging heaven, isn't it, if you believe in
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  • Heaven and the resurrection.
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  • Jesus said there won't be marriage
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  • In a human sense in heaven.
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  • He talked about some kind of angel existence and that is
  • 00:18:42.534 --> 00:18:47.206
  • Certainly true because jesus said it but there will be
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  • Marriage in heaven and that is the magnificent marriage when
  • 00:18:50.209 --> 00:18:54.279
  • Jesus as the bridegroom will take those of us, who in faith,
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  • As his bride.
  • 00:18:58.083 --> 00:19:00.118
  • And it is that marriage and out of that marriage, who knows how
  • 00:19:00.118 --> 00:19:04.289
  • The rest of the relationships will be expressed in heaven?
  • 00:19:04.289 --> 00:19:09.294
  • And you can be sure you say, "well, what about the intimacy i
  • 00:19:09.294 --> 00:19:12.164
  • Enjoy with my mate?"
  • 00:19:12.164 --> 00:19:13.599
  • That will just be like playing a little half-acre lake and going
  • 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:19.638
  • Out in the middle of the ocean.
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  • What god has prepared for those who love him, there won't be
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  • Anything lacking in heaven so relax, get over it, wake up.
  • 00:19:25.477 --> 00:19:33.552
  • Heaven is glory.
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  • Heaven is completeness and there won't be anybody shortchanged
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  • In any way, shape, form, or fashion.
  • 00:19:38.757 --> 00:19:41.226
  • We will be complete in our resurrected life and our
  • 00:19:41.226 --> 00:19:44.463
  • Resurrected world.
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  • That's what the bible teaches us.
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  • That's what it said.
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  • Somebody, "well, what about children who have died young, or
  • 00:19:50.469 --> 00:19:54.273
  • They were aborted, or they died in their mother's womb?"
  • 00:19:54.273 --> 00:19:58.243
  • We have plenty of scriptures, i think, that covers that, that
  • 00:19:58.243 --> 00:20:01.780
  • Counteracts someone would say they have to come to this kind
  • 00:20:01.780 --> 00:20:05.217
  • Of position.
  • 00:20:05.217 --> 00:20:06.752
  • We know that jeremiah, before he was born it said
  • 00:20:06.752 --> 00:20:10.956
  • The holy spirit was there.
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  • We know john the baptist in the womb of his mother elizabeth,
  • 00:20:12.291 --> 00:20:15.394
  • The holy spirit was operative there.
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  • We know david when he lost that son clear teaching in the old
  • 00:20:17.329 --> 00:20:21.967
  • Testament it was said that he could go and be with his son
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  • In heaven but his son could not come back to be with him.
  • 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:30.208
  • David was in the land of dying, the son was in the land of
  • 00:20:30.208 --> 00:20:33.545
  • Living, that's true of us.
  • 00:20:33.545 --> 00:20:35.580
  • Certainly jesus said, "suffer the little children
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  • To come unto me.
  • 00:20:38.817 --> 00:20:40.452
  • Come sit in my lap." he said, "unless we have the faith,
  • 00:20:40.452 --> 00:20:45.324
  • The simplicity, and the naivety,
  • 00:20:45.324 --> 00:20:48.760
  • The little bit of a child, we'll never see the kingdom god,
  • 00:20:48.760 --> 00:20:51.797
  • We'll never see heaven.
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  • There's that naiveness there with children, it is beautiful.
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  • Jesus honored children.
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  • You can be sure that child of yours will be in heaven.
  • 00:20:58.136 --> 00:21:02.507
  • Heaven wouldn't be heaven without children, would it?
  • 00:21:02.507 --> 00:21:04.710
  • Now, full disclosure, about, i don't know, maybe 13, 14 years
  • 00:21:04.710 --> 00:21:12.517
  • Ago, a member of our church who'd gotten to know roger moore
  • 00:21:12.517 --> 00:21:17.089
  • And his wife, 007, invited him and his wife to go and spend
  • 00:21:17.089 --> 00:21:23.295
  • The night with them while they were in houston in their home.
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  • And they called me and asked me to come over, jo beth and i,
  • 00:21:26.998 --> 00:21:30.702
  • Have dinner and to witness to 007, roger moore, and bear
  • 00:21:30.702 --> 00:21:39.745
  • Witness to who jesus christ could do for his life.
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  • I had something that night that was already planned that i could
  • 00:21:43.415 --> 00:21:46.718
  • Not get out of so i thanked them for the invitation and they
  • 00:21:46.718 --> 00:21:51.823
  • Said, "well, there'll be another time," but there wasn't.
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  • I never had a chance to witness to roger moore.
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  • And when i saw that he had died, it all came flooding back to me
  • 00:22:02.300 --> 00:22:08.640
  • And i began to say, "lord, did i miss something?
  • 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:11.376
  • Should i have canceled whatever i had and gone?
  • 00:22:11.376 --> 00:22:14.413
  • Would it made any difference?
  • 00:22:14.413 --> 00:22:15.847
  • I don't know."
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  • By you're here and i don't want to miss anybody here
  • 00:22:18.216 --> 00:22:23.255
  • Because we have to begin with the holy spirit operating
  • 00:22:23.255 --> 00:22:26.958
  • In a life, convincing you, convincing me of our sin and
  • 00:22:26.958 --> 00:22:32.130
  • Then when we convinces us of our sin and we see the severity
  • 00:22:32.130 --> 00:22:35.634
  • Of it, then we are to confess that sin.
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  • Anybody need to do that now with your eyes open,
  • 00:22:39.805 --> 00:22:42.174
  • Look at me, any sin?
  • 00:22:42.174 --> 00:22:43.775
  • Just confess it to the father, confess it to the father.
  • 00:22:43.775 --> 00:22:49.080
  • And then if you want to turn away from that sin, that's the
  • 00:22:49.080 --> 00:22:52.384
  • Option, convicted of sin, turn away from sin, and then we do
  • 00:22:52.384 --> 00:22:58.824
  • Something that's really important.
  • 00:22:58.824 --> 00:23:01.626
  • The bible says those who receive him to them he gives the power
  • 00:23:01.626 --> 00:23:05.230
  • To become sons and daughters of god.
  • 00:23:05.230 --> 00:23:07.332
  • And then we have to say, "lord jesus christ,
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  • I'm convicted. i confess.
  • 00:23:09.501 --> 00:23:11.603
  • I turn away from and now i invite you
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  • To come into my life."
  • 00:23:13.872 --> 00:23:15.207
  • That's it.
  • 00:23:15.207 --> 00:23:16.875
  • And he'll come in your life.
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  • And what happens is one way to express it, you give him your
  • 00:23:19.144 --> 00:23:22.214
  • Life and christ gives you his life, what a deal.
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  • That's a purifying process.
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  • That's a saving process.
  • 00:23:30.288 --> 00:23:32.591
  • That's a salvaging process restoring to us the purpose
  • 00:23:32.591 --> 00:23:36.528
  • For which we were made.
  • 00:23:36.528 --> 00:23:39.130
  • And there's some here who may need to do that right now.
  • 00:23:39.130 --> 00:23:41.633
  • Without anybody moving will you bow your heads,
  • 00:23:41.633 --> 00:23:44.069
  • Just bow your heads where you are?
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  • I'm gonna pray a prayer that had i been given the opportunity,
  • 00:23:48.907 --> 00:23:53.512
  • I would have prayed the prayer for roger moore years ago.
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  • I'm gonna pray for anybody who might be here to make sure that
  • 00:23:57.382 --> 00:24:02.687
  • You know exactly what it means to have a new life, to have
  • 00:24:02.687 --> 00:24:07.726
  • A fresh new beginning, and it begins exactly with what i said,
  • 00:24:07.726 --> 00:24:13.298
  • Conviction of sin is the holy spirit of god convicting you of
  • 00:24:13.298 --> 00:24:19.771
  • Trash in your life, confess it right now to him.
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  • Would you do that? be specific.
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  • Don't say, "forgive me of all my sin."
  • 00:24:25.477 --> 00:24:27.412
  • Be specific, confess it.
  • 00:24:27.412 --> 00:24:30.582
  • Now, turn away from that sin, that's repentance.
  • 00:24:30.582 --> 00:24:34.986
  • Confession, conviction, repentance and now this is where
  • 00:24:34.986 --> 00:24:39.958
  • The miracle starts, you can simply pray in your own way
  • 00:24:39.958 --> 00:24:44.329
  • These words, "dear lord jesus christ,"
  • 00:24:44.329 --> 00:24:48.266
  • That's right, pray it right now.
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  • "i invite you to come into my life to forgive me, to salvage
  • 00:24:52.737 --> 00:24:58.076
  • Me, to restore me to the purpose for which i was made.
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  • I give you my life, lord, thank you for giving me your life.
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  • Lord, thank you for this purifying process that begins
  • 00:25:06.384 --> 00:25:09.788
  • Right now that will take me all the way to heaven."
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  • Ed: there's never been a better time than right
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  • Now to make god a priority in your life.
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  • That's why we've created this 90 day devotional, "putting god
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  • First," number one.
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  • And when you and i do that, he is faithful to give the
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  • Direction of guidance you and i need every day to walk
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  • Through life.
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  • It is my prayer that this devotional will help you to
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  • Become all that god has designed you to become.
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  • Male announcer: call today or go online at winningwalk.org to get
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  • Your copy of dr. young's 90 day devotional "putting god first."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor ed: i can remember when i first learned how to swim.
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  • Perhaps you can remember the moment when you began to learn
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  • How to swim, i certainly do.
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  • My dad taught me in a muddy, muddy lake.
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  • I stepped in the water, filled with fear and stiff and
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  • Abnormally cold.
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  • He said, "relax, son, i'll put my arms under you.
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  • And when you begin to sink, i'll be right there and lift you up."
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  • Sure enough, i started to sink, but felt his sturdy arms holding
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  • Me up and everything changed.
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  • I trusted and relaxed, knowing that my father was there.
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  • Remember, when you swim in life's deep holes and muddy
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  • Waters, your lord god almighty, your heavenly father's arms are
  • 00:27:02.333 --> 00:27:08.139
  • Just below the surface ready to hold you.
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  • And if necessary just lift you right up.
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  • ♪♪♪
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