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Ed Young - The Wise and Foolish Builder

June 15, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - The Wise and Foolish Builder
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Wise and Foolish Builder | June 15, 2026
  • You can
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  • Believe in the death, the crucifixion of christ.
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  • You can believe in his resurrection.
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  • You believe in his second coming,
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  • And you can preach and teach and read and study
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  • And do all of these things and call him lord, lord,
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  • And not be a part of his kingdom.
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  • I hope that frightens
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  • A lot of us.
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  • Today
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  • We're going to look at the kingdom of god.
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  • Is that a big enough topic
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  • For everybody?
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  • And we're going to discover
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  • Whether you and i are in the kingdom
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  • Or were you and i are not in the kingdom,
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  • Because people always ask, how do i know i'm a christian?
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  • How do i know i'm saved?
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  • How do i know that i am okay
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  • Forever, now and throughout eternity?
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  • And the bottom line is, are you in the kingdom?
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  • Are you out of the kingdom?
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  • Jesus came, according to matthew.
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  • His first words of utterance
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  • Were simply, repent,
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  • For the kingdom has come.
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  • And his whole message from god as god
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  • Himself was a word of the kingdom has come.
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  • The kingdom of god, the kingdom of heaven,
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  • Are virtually interchangeable in the scripture.
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  • The kingdom of god is where god
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  • The father rules as king, as lord.
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  • And in the kingdom of god there is the body of the church.
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  • And the church is the place where jesus is lord,
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  • And therefore the kingdom of god does not grow.
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  • The church grows within the kingdom
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  • Because as christians we are a part of the body of christ.
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  • That is the church and we're within the kingdom of god.
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  • Now how do you know?
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  • How do i know that
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  • Jesus came?
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  • And early in his ministry, he delivered that immortal
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  • Truths about the kingdom in matthew 567.
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  • I'm sure he repeated it many times.
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  • That is the famous well known
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  • Sermon on the mount.
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  • What is that?
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  • It's simply jesus saying,
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  • If you are in the kingdom and a kingdom person,
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  • This is how you are then to live.
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  • Have you read it lately?
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  • Do you know generally what it says?
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  • A lot of people look at matthew five six and seven
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  • And they say, quite honestly, this must be for heaven.
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  • This is the way heaven operates.
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  • A we supposed to operate like this.
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  • And jesus gives those profound truths.
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  • Bang bang.
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  • Five, six.
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  • Seven and when you get through, you say, wow.
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  • You mean as a christian?
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  • These are the ethics of formula
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  • By which i am to live out my life.
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  • The answer to that is yes.
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  • These are kingdom principles.
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  • Now here's the catch to that.
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  • You can't even begin
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  • To live the kingdom of god life
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  • Unless jesus christ is lord and savior of your life,
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  • And the holy spirit is operating in your life
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  • And my life, enabling us
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  • Through discipline, through prayer, through study,
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  • To begin to demonstrate somebody who is indeed a son
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  • Or daughter of god and in this earth,
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  • But living now in the kingdom of god.
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  • What do we pray?
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  • Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.
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  • That's the kingdom of god on earth as it is in heaven.
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  • And then he comes to the end of the sermon
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  • In matthew chapter number seven.
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  • And he sort of states
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  • It very clearly, very plainly,
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  • So that everybody then and now can understand
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  • Kingdom principles, kingdom lifestyles.
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  • And he uses
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  • Three parables.
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  • Three little parables.
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  • Remember what a parable is because we're studying
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  • The parables.
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  • The parable is
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  • Certainly an earthly story with a heavenly meaning,
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  • With heavenly ramifications, but it's much more than that.
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  • Parabolic is the word literally means
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  • To lay down beside something.
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  • In other words, to put it in our language,
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  • In parables, god just throws down on you.
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  • He throws down on us where we can clearly know
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  • Whether or not
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  • We're since the kingdom or we're not since the kingdom.
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  • You can't miss it.
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  • And he tells in a very simple, simple way.
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  • Jesus says, enter by the narrow
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  • Gate, for wide is the gate,
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  • And broad is the way that leads to destruction.
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  • And there are many who go in by it.
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  • Make a bell,
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  • Because narrow is the gate, and difficult is the way
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  • Which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
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  • There we have the two absolutes.
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  • We either go in the broadgate,
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  • Everybody's going in.
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  • It leads ultimately to destruction,
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  • Though it looks so appealing on the outside.
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  • Or we go in the narrow gate
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  • That is so narrow, narrow.
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  • But on the inside it gets broader and broader.
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  • Do you get the principle now?
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  • Why is it that so many of us
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  • Do not go through the narrow gate?
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  • It's because we look at some people who
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  • Think they are walking the narrow path,
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  • And they're so prideful.
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  • They're so better,
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  • They're so superior
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  • That they sort of got it together.
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  • And boy, but they're very walking that narrow gate.
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  • Narrow people, real narrow people are not people
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  • We really love to spend a lot of time with.
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  • Have you noticed that
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  • Because you feel judged, you feel inadequate
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  • And it expresses itself in so many ways, so narrow people?
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  • Many ways are narrow in how they follow
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  • Christ and narrow in their thinking about the world.
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  • In the broadgate,
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  • You know, a lot of people going through there.
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  • So i thought about this, you know, on the narrow gate,
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  • We need to put up a sign.
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  • It would say
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  • Sorrow and death.
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  • Not too appealing, is it?
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  • Sorrow and death.
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  • Boy in the broad gate
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  • It says fun and freedom.
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  • Which gate are you interested in, man?
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  • Sora and death.
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  • Fun and freedom. hey!
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  • The bible says a lot of people go through the broad gate,
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  • Don't we?
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  • Fun and freedom.
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  • I can run my own life.
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  • I can express fun and pleasure.
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  • Anyway. i want to express it.
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  • Isn't that the way to live?
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  • That's the 21st century.
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  • That's the united states.
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  • We have that privilege.
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  • That's certainly houston, texas.
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  • Fun and freedom.
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  • Anybody doesn't like that.
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  • But jesus says, when
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  • I run my own life and make my own choices,
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  • And i am free to do anything i want to do, that's just fun.
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  • And the narrow gate over here.
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  • And death.
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  • But you see, jesus sees
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  • The long range.
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  • He sees all the way through life now and life forever.
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  • He says the way to go.
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  • It's through the narrow gate, boy.
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  • The narrow gate.
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  • I'd have to get rid
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  • Of some of the stuff
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  • That i think is so important to me, right?
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  • I care around you, care around identity,
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  • Position, whatever friendship.
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  • Oh, man, to get rid of
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  • Because it's a tight squeeze through the turnstile.
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  • I mean, you know, and we've got a lot of weight on us.
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  • The human weight.
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  • But to go through that gate,
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  • You had to be sorry.
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  • For your sin.
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  • Confess it.
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  • You have to die to self and live to god,
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  • Sorrow and death to get through that gate.
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  • Over here.
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  • It's easy,
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  • Man. i want fun and freedom.
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  • It's a broad gate.
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  • I go right in just the way i am.
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  • Live my life just the way i wanted to be.
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  • Right?
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  • But see, jesus is drawing
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  • A line on the continental
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  • Divide between life now and life forever.
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  • Because here's the kicker, folks, don't miss this.
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  • This is the kicker.
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  • You go through
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  • This narrow gate,
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  • Confess in, die to self, live for god, and we walk
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  • Not in a narrow path in this life,
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  • But it gets broader and broader and broader and broader.
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  • And we look back because we walk through this narrow gate,
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  • We look back and see
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  • On the other side of that sign that said death and sorrow.
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  • Now we see fun and freedom.
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  • Oh, yes,
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  • Anybody who does not live
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  • A disciplined life is bound for pain.
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  • Anybody who walks a narrow
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  • Path ends up with a broad
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  • Broadway of fun and freedom.
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  • That's the christian life.
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  • Marriage is one of god's greatest gifts.
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  • You might say, next to the gift of our salvation, christ.
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  • It's number one.
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  • But let's be honest, it also brings real challenges.
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  • Every couple of face disagreements, miscommunication
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  • Or financial pressure, family tensions, and seasons
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  • Of frustration in the whole area of marriage.
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  • You know, saying that if you're married, left unchecked,
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  • Those struggles can slowly erode into
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  • Even a marriage that should be great.
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  • Into a marriage, that's just okay.
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  • But that does not have to be your story.
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  • In the ten commandments of marriage,
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  • I share biblical truth, practical wisdom,
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  • And a little humor drawn from more than 50
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  • Years of ministry and marriage experience.
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  • These ten timeless principles are designed to help husbands
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  • And wives protect what matters most and strengthen
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  • That relationship, and build a marriage
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  • Based on love and joy, and a lasting commitment
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  • That's filled with laughter and pleasure and excitement.
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  • Listen, god never intended marriage to be.
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  • Let's just survive and hang on.
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  • He attended it to sing and to thrive.
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  • Listen, if you really want a healthier,
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  • Christ centered marriage that still has warmth, passion,
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  • And purpose, these ten commandments of marriage
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  • Is just for you.
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  • Call them on your screen or visit the website below
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  • To regress your copy of the ten commandments of marriage.
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  • Do it today.
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  • Then look at the next part.
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  • There are two gates, and they're also now two trees.
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  • But it's a long passage.
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  • Verse 15, jesus said, beware the false prophets
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  • Who come to you in sheep's clothing,
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  • But inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
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  • You will know them by their fruits.
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  • Do men gather great from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?
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  • Even so, every good tree bears good fruit,
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  • But a bad tree bears bad fruit.
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  • A good tree cannot bear bad fruit,
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  • Nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
  • 00:14:12.797 --> 00:14:15.733
  • Well, scary.
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  • Verse 19.
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  • Every tree that does not bear
  • 00:14:19.671 --> 00:14:21.739
  • Good fruit is cut down
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  • And thrown in the fire.
  • 00:14:25.076 --> 00:14:27.845
  • Therefore jesus says, by their fruits
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  • Ye shall know them.
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  • What kind of tree are you?
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  • What kind of tree am i?
  • 00:14:37.121 --> 00:14:39.657
  • In the bible there are two kinds of fruit.
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  • There is the
  • 00:14:44.095 --> 00:14:46.264
  • Fruit of the spirit,
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  • And there is the gifts of the spirit.
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  • The gifts of the spirit are those who may have
  • 00:14:54.472 --> 00:14:57.575
  • The ability to teach or preach, to sing,
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  • To administrate, to usher, to help people, to serve.
  • 00:15:01.813 --> 00:15:06.284
  • To do a multiplicity of things.
  • 00:15:06.284 --> 00:15:08.987
  • These are all the
  • 00:15:08.987 --> 00:15:10.755
  • The gifts of the spirit, the talents of the church.
  • 00:15:10.755 --> 00:15:13.691
  • And jesus talks about them here in the next verses.
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  • He says, not everyone who says, lord, lord, shall enter
  • 00:15:17.295 --> 00:15:20.832
  • The kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will
  • 00:15:20.832 --> 00:15:24.402
  • Of my father in heaven.
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  • Lord,
  • 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:29.807
  • We can have these gifts, these spiritual gifts, any name?
  • 00:15:29.807 --> 00:15:32.844
  • Some of them.
  • 00:15:32.844 --> 00:15:34.078
  • Many will say to me, lord, lord, have we not prophesied
  • 00:15:34.078 --> 00:15:37.415
  • In your name?
  • 00:15:37.415 --> 00:15:38.616
  • Prophesied means to preach or teach, usually not foretell,
  • 00:15:38.616 --> 00:15:41.919
  • But to tell forth.
  • 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:43.554
  • And have i not done many wonders in your name?
  • 00:15:44.455 --> 00:15:47.358
  • Have i not cast out demons?
  • 00:15:47.358 --> 00:15:49.494
  • And he says, i will declare to them, i never you.
  • 00:15:49.494 --> 00:15:52.063
  • You depart from me, for you practice lawlessness.
  • 00:15:52.063 --> 00:15:54.532
  • Other words.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen,
  • 00:15:55.199 --> 00:15:56.067
  • This is the scary part of the scripture.
  • 00:15:56.067 --> 00:15:57.735
  • Listen carefully. you can believe in christmas.
  • 00:15:57.735 --> 00:16:00.338
  • Jesus is god wrapped up in human flesh.
  • 00:16:00.338 --> 00:16:03.274
  • You can believe in all the teaching
  • 00:16:04.042 --> 00:16:05.877
  • Of the sermon on the mount.
  • 00:16:05.877 --> 00:16:07.378
  • You think, well, that's really true.
  • 00:16:07.378 --> 00:16:09.480
  • You can believe in the death, the crucifixion of christ.
  • 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:13.851
  • You can believe in his resurrection.
  • 00:16:13.851 --> 00:16:15.987
  • You believe in his second coming,
  • 00:16:15.987 --> 00:16:17.755
  • And you can preach and teach and read and study
  • 00:16:17.755 --> 00:16:20.558
  • And do all of these things and call him lord, lord,
  • 00:16:20.558 --> 00:16:25.029
  • And not be a part of his kingdom.
  • 00:16:25.763 --> 00:16:30.034
  • I hope that
  • 00:16:30.368 --> 00:16:31.536
  • Frightens a lot of us.
  • 00:16:31.536 --> 00:16:35.773
  • That is, using
  • 00:16:36.107 --> 00:16:39.210
  • Gifts he's given.
  • 00:16:39.210 --> 00:16:41.045
  • If you and i are part of his kingdom,
  • 00:16:41.045 --> 00:16:44.315
  • We may be given these gifts, and we can use them, but also
  • 00:16:44.315 --> 00:16:48.352
  • In our lives we have the fruit of the spirit.
  • 00:16:48.352 --> 00:16:52.857
  • What are the fruits of the spirit?
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  • Love.
  • 00:16:55.093 --> 00:16:56.627
  • Do you genuinely love without any other motivation?
  • 00:16:56.627 --> 00:17:01.332
  • Love? joy?
  • 00:17:01.632 --> 00:17:03.868
  • Do you add joy when you come into a room?
  • 00:17:03.868 --> 00:17:07.839
  • Does it feel like somebody has come in or somebody left?
  • 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:12.610
  • He said, joy in your life, my glory,
  • 00:17:13.411 --> 00:17:16.814
  • Love, joy, peace.
  • 00:17:17.248 --> 00:17:19.684
  • Is there peace in your life?
  • 00:17:19.684 --> 00:17:22.453
  • Contentment.
  • 00:17:22.453 --> 00:17:24.188
  • Rhythm.
  • 00:17:24.188 --> 00:17:25.756
  • Love. job?
  • 00:17:25.756 --> 00:17:27.058
  • Patience. man.
  • 00:17:27.058 --> 00:17:29.427
  • I've prayed for patience a long time.
  • 00:17:29.427 --> 00:17:31.529
  • God has given me a lot of reason to be patient,
  • 00:17:31.529 --> 00:17:33.764
  • And i'm much better today and i'm still growing
  • 00:17:33.764 --> 00:17:36.801
  • In my patience.
  • 00:17:36.801 --> 00:17:38.136
  • Love, joy, peace, patience in your life.
  • 00:17:38.136 --> 00:17:41.739
  • Kindness.
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  • Are you a kind person?
  • 00:17:42.773 --> 00:17:45.476
  • No, i don't know.
  • 00:17:45.476 --> 00:17:46.878
  • Are you a kind person?
  • 00:17:46.878 --> 00:17:50.214
  • Love. joy.
  • 00:17:50.515 --> 00:17:51.849
  • Peace. patience.
  • 00:17:51.849 --> 00:17:53.718
  • Kindness? goodness?
  • 00:17:53.718 --> 00:17:55.086
  • Would somebody say, you know,
  • 00:17:55.086 --> 00:17:56.787
  • There's a good that she's a good lady.
  • 00:17:56.787 --> 00:17:58.389
  • That's a good person.
  • 00:17:58.389 --> 00:17:59.390
  • You can count on them to do good.
  • 00:17:59.390 --> 00:18:00.925
  • Oh, you good.
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  • Are you faithful?
  • 00:18:03.127 --> 00:18:05.096
  • Can you be counted on?
  • 00:18:05.096 --> 00:18:07.231
  • I'll be there. i'll do that.
  • 00:18:07.231 --> 00:18:10.134
  • I'm a faithful friend, a faithful follower, a faithful.
  • 00:18:10.134 --> 00:18:13.971
  • Are you faithful?
  • 00:18:13.971 --> 00:18:16.707
  • And then we look and say, well,
  • 00:18:16.707 --> 00:18:20.011
  • Are you gentle?
  • 00:18:20.378 --> 00:18:22.480
  • Are you a gentle person?
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  • Just.
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  • I know big guys, big tough guys.
  • 00:18:25.650 --> 00:18:29.654
  • But they're so gentle and sweet.
  • 00:18:29.654 --> 00:18:32.690
  • It's just beautiful to see. and.
  • 00:18:32.690 --> 00:18:35.326
  • And i know some little ladies that are not too gentle,
  • 00:18:35.326 --> 00:18:40.998
  • You know.
  • 00:18:41.299 --> 00:18:41.832
  • But this is a fruit.
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  • Are you gentle?
  • 00:18:43.467 --> 00:18:45.770
  • And then finally, are you disciplined?
  • 00:18:45.770 --> 00:18:49.307
  • Without a disciplined life, nobody is going to get
  • 00:18:49.307 --> 00:18:52.176
  • Anywhere, anytime, anyplace.
  • 00:18:52.176 --> 00:18:54.278
  • We gotta model it before our kids.
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  • We have to live it out ourselves.
  • 00:18:56.447 --> 00:18:58.249
  • There are the eight fruit of the spirit.
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  • And that gives indication that we know jesus christ,
  • 00:19:01.285 --> 00:19:05.723
  • Who embodied that fruit and gave us the ability
  • 00:19:05.723 --> 00:19:09.060
  • To have that fruit hanging from your life and my life.
  • 00:19:09.060 --> 00:19:13.965
  • Therefore, we are a tree
  • 00:19:14.498 --> 00:19:17.468
  • Planted by the rivers of water planted in
  • 00:19:17.468 --> 00:19:20.471
  • God in jesus christ.
  • 00:19:20.471 --> 00:19:22.139
  • And therefore you see the fruit of the spirit
  • 00:19:22.139 --> 00:19:24.875
  • Coming from your life and my life, if there's
  • 00:19:24.875 --> 00:19:27.645
  • No fruit, what did jesus say?
  • 00:19:27.645 --> 00:19:30.715
  • Jesus said, a tree that bear fruit, you cut it out.
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  • That's frightens me.
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  • That frightens me.
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  • And then finally we see
  • 00:19:41.092 --> 00:19:43.661
  • The last illustration.
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  • Parables will not win the kingdom.
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  • Jesus said, verse 24,
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  • Therefore whoever hears
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  • These sayings of mine and does them,
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  • I will liken him to a wise man
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  • Who built his house on the rock.
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  • And the rain descended,
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  • The floods came, the winds blew and beat on that house,
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  • And it did not fall,
  • 00:20:11.489 --> 00:20:15.126
  • For it was founded on the rock.
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  • Now everyone who hears these sayings of mine
  • 00:20:21.065 --> 00:20:23.901
  • Say jesus and does not do them is like a a fool,
  • 00:20:23.901 --> 00:20:28.606
  • A foolish man, who built this house on the sand.
  • 00:20:28.606 --> 00:20:33.277
  • And the rain descended and the floods came,
  • 00:20:33.277 --> 00:20:36.013
  • And the winds blew and beat on that house,
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  • And it fell, and great
  • 00:20:39.183 --> 00:20:43.354
  • Was its fall.
  • 00:20:43.354 --> 00:20:46.891
  • There we have it.
  • 00:20:47.325 --> 00:20:50.361
  • Two gates.
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  • Narrow. broad. which one did you go through?
  • 00:20:51.696 --> 00:20:53.964
  • Which one are you going through?
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  • Two trees.
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  • One barren.
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  • Just for myself.
  • 00:21:02.373 --> 00:21:03.574
  • I mean my mind.
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  • Or one with good fruit.
  • 00:21:05.876 --> 00:21:09.213
  • And part of that fruit is being expressed in your life.
  • 00:21:09.213 --> 00:21:13.651
  • Or have you built your house,
  • 00:21:14.285 --> 00:21:17.054
  • Your life on sand?
  • 00:21:17.054 --> 00:21:19.957
  • Those who built their life on sand.
  • 00:21:20.758 --> 00:21:23.127
  • When the rains come, when
  • 00:21:23.127 --> 00:21:25.930
  • Sos comes, when 911 is called.
  • 00:21:25.930 --> 00:21:28.999
  • When the bad report comes in, when you are forsaken
  • 00:21:28.999 --> 00:21:32.803
  • By friends or family, and when you are in a place
  • 00:21:32.803 --> 00:21:36.640
  • That leads shame and disgrace to you and yours.
  • 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:39.944
  • You're broken. you're bleeding.
  • 00:21:39.944 --> 00:21:41.746
  • If you've built your house on sand, that house will go
  • 00:21:41.746 --> 00:21:47.051
  • On bringing down.
  • 00:21:47.485 --> 00:21:48.652
  • It'll be destroyed.
  • 00:21:48.652 --> 00:21:49.653
  • It'll be eliminated, right?
  • 00:21:49.653 --> 00:21:52.356
  • Corrie can boom.
  • 00:21:52.356 --> 00:21:54.458
  • Both of you know that.
  • 00:21:54.458 --> 00:21:55.526
  • Name the book the hiding place to that cliff george
  • 00:21:55.526 --> 00:22:00.364
  • Played that in a movie, remember by church at the time,
  • 00:22:00.364 --> 00:22:05.002
  • The story of a woman in holland.
  • 00:22:05.736 --> 00:22:09.940
  • Her family would hide the jews
  • 00:22:10.541 --> 00:22:12.843
  • Who were under the sentence of being executed by the nazis.
  • 00:22:12.843 --> 00:22:17.047
  • Therefore, to wipe out all the jews in that generation.
  • 00:22:17.047 --> 00:22:20.818
  • And, you know, 6 or 7 million jews
  • 00:22:20.818 --> 00:22:23.320
  • Were eliminated from this, or put in those furnaces
  • 00:22:23.320 --> 00:22:27.258
  • And decor ravensbrück, the rest of them also,
  • 00:22:27.258 --> 00:22:31.295
  • That many christians were also in those death chambers.
  • 00:22:31.295 --> 00:22:36.033
  • Corrie was hiding jews,
  • 00:22:36.534 --> 00:22:38.536
  • And they discovered that the boom
  • 00:22:38.536 --> 00:22:41.305
  • Family was hiding jews, and they took the jews.
  • 00:22:41.305 --> 00:22:43.941
  • And he took all of her family and threw them in ravensbrück.
  • 00:22:43.941 --> 00:22:48.212
  • And systematically her sister was killed.
  • 00:22:49.046 --> 00:22:52.183
  • I thank her father, all of her friends and family.
  • 00:22:52.183 --> 00:22:55.252
  • She was the only one left.
  • 00:22:55.252 --> 00:22:57.087
  • He stayed there those years.
  • 00:22:57.087 --> 00:22:58.923
  • But right before the end of
  • 00:22:58.923 --> 00:23:00.858
  • The second world war, she didn't know why.
  • 00:23:00.858 --> 00:23:03.594
  • They gave her a release and they opened
  • 00:23:04.395 --> 00:23:07.364
  • The gate of ravensbrück and she walked out into her freedom.
  • 00:23:07.364 --> 00:23:12.703
  • Amazing, amazing.
  • 00:23:13.137 --> 00:23:15.039
  • And for 32 years,
  • 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:18.075
  • Corey traveled america and the world
  • 00:23:18.075 --> 00:23:21.745
  • Telling the story of god's grace.
  • 00:23:21.745 --> 00:23:24.448
  • Indonesian people to christ,
  • 00:23:25.049 --> 00:23:27.618
  • Amazing life, amazing life.
  • 00:23:27.618 --> 00:23:30.454
  • 32 years she traveled everywhere.
  • 00:23:30.454 --> 00:23:32.890
  • She even met on one occasion
  • 00:23:32.890 --> 00:23:35.092
  • The guard who had been so vicious and mean and evil
  • 00:23:35.092 --> 00:23:38.596
  • To her and exploited and abused her and so many.
  • 00:23:38.596 --> 00:23:41.966
  • She met him and he came forward with tears and said,
  • 00:23:41.966 --> 00:23:45.769
  • I've come to christ.
  • 00:23:45.769 --> 00:23:46.837
  • I've got forgiven for all the evil in my life.
  • 00:23:46.837 --> 00:23:49.573
  • But can you forgive me, corey?
  • 00:23:49.573 --> 00:23:52.776
  • She said the hardest thing she did
  • 00:23:52.776 --> 00:23:54.445
  • Was to forgive her, and she really did.
  • 00:23:54.445 --> 00:23:56.146
  • She said, we embrace what a woman.
  • 00:23:56.146 --> 00:23:58.883
  • But when she was 85 years old,
  • 00:23:58.883 --> 00:24:02.286
  • A man gave her a house in california.
  • 00:24:03.020 --> 00:24:07.558
  • The first place she'd ever had to call her
  • 00:24:07.558 --> 00:24:10.060
  • Own, the first place she had a place to go and live.
  • 00:24:10.060 --> 00:24:13.130
  • That little house in california.
  • 00:24:13.130 --> 00:24:14.732
  • And one day a lady went up to her and said, corey,
  • 00:24:14.732 --> 00:24:18.903
  • Isn't god good to give you this lovely house?
  • 00:24:18.903 --> 00:24:23.841
  • She said, yes,
  • 00:24:24.174 --> 00:24:26.277
  • But he was also good in ravensbrück.
  • 00:24:26.277 --> 00:24:34.018
  • We all.
  • 00:24:34.251 --> 00:24:36.320
  • Go through ravens brooks
  • 00:24:36.320 --> 00:24:39.123
  • And god is good.
  • 00:24:39.523 --> 00:24:40.758
  • In the middle of your race is brooke and my ravens brooke.
  • 00:24:40.758 --> 00:24:45.529
  • Because somehow in all that
  • 00:24:46.130 --> 00:24:48.098
  • His will is being done and we don't understand it.
  • 00:24:48.098 --> 00:24:53.137
  • We may never understand this life,
  • 00:24:53.137 --> 00:24:56.373
  • But we go through those ravens.
  • 00:24:56.373 --> 00:24:58.075
  • Brooks,
  • 00:24:58.075 --> 00:24:59.410
  • What's happening when you're in your ravensbrück?
  • 00:24:59.410 --> 00:25:02.146
  • You may be in a ravensbrück right now.
  • 00:25:02.146 --> 00:25:05.082
  • What's going on?
  • 00:25:05.082 --> 00:25:08.118
  • Little girl
  • 00:25:08.452 --> 00:25:10.554
  • In her room by herself.
  • 00:25:10.554 --> 00:25:12.890
  • And a storm came, a rain came.
  • 00:25:12.890 --> 00:25:15.926
  • Winds came thunder, lightning.
  • 00:25:15.926 --> 00:25:18.062
  • And she was just frightened.
  • 00:25:18.062 --> 00:25:19.597
  • State of the covers.
  • 00:25:19.597 --> 00:25:20.798
  • Didn't sleep much of the night.
  • 00:25:20.798 --> 00:25:23.334
  • She got vexed morning.
  • 00:25:23.334 --> 00:25:24.635
  • And she ran down to breakfast.
  • 00:25:24.635 --> 00:25:26.704
  • She looked at her daddy and said, eddie,
  • 00:25:26.704 --> 00:25:30.641
  • Where was god
  • 00:25:31.008 --> 00:25:33.177
  • In the middle of that storm?
  • 00:25:33.177 --> 00:25:36.046
  • And she said, oh, i know, daddy,
  • 00:25:36.046 --> 00:25:39.450
  • God was busy making a morning.
  • 00:25:40.050 --> 00:25:46.724
  • Where is god
  • 00:25:47.057 --> 00:25:49.360
  • In all of our ravens?
  • 00:25:49.360 --> 00:25:51.095
  • Brooks, ladies and gentlemen, i'll tell you,
  • 00:25:51.095 --> 00:25:55.099
  • He's busy
  • 00:25:55.399 --> 00:25:57.735
  • Making a morning.
  • 00:25:57.735 --> 00:26:02.439
  • Marriages today face more pressures than ever.
  • 00:26:03.340 --> 00:26:06.477
  • Many couples live
  • 00:26:06.477 --> 00:26:07.945
  • With stress, disappointment, distance and discouragement,
  • 00:26:07.945 --> 00:26:11.782
  • Wondering if the joy they want shared can ever return.
  • 00:26:11.782 --> 00:26:15.719
  • But god's design for marriage has not changed.
  • 00:26:15.719 --> 00:26:19.323
  • In doctor young's the ten commandments of marriage,
  • 00:26:19.323 --> 00:26:22.893
  • You'll find practical biblical principles that can help
  • 00:26:22.893 --> 00:26:25.963
  • Transform your relationship from the inside out.
  • 00:26:25.963 --> 00:26:29.800
  • Whether you've been married for months or decades,
  • 00:26:29.800 --> 00:26:33.170
  • These truths can help you communicate better, grow closer
  • 00:26:33.170 --> 00:26:36.907
  • Spiritually, resolve conflict in a healthy way,
  • 00:26:36.907 --> 00:26:40.244
  • And to rediscover the love that first brought you together.
  • 00:26:40.244 --> 00:26:44.748
  • A strong marriage doesn't happen by accident.
  • 00:26:44.748 --> 00:26:47.785
  • It grows when a husband and wife choose
  • 00:26:47.785 --> 00:26:50.821
  • To build their relationship god's way with christ.
  • 00:26:50.821 --> 00:26:54.658
  • At the center of your home,
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