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Ed Young - The Wise and Foolish Builder

March 11, 2025 | 27:29

Ed Young - The Wise and Foolish Builder
Pastor Ed Young explores the topic of the kingdom of God and whether individuals are a part of it or not. He emphasizes the importance of repentance and accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior in order to be a part of the kingdom. He discusses the Sermon on the Mount and how its teachings are the principles by which Christians are to live.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Wise and Foolish Builder | March 11, 2025
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  • Pastor ed young: today, we're going to look at the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • Is that a big enough topic for everybody?
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  • And we're going to discover whether you and i are in the
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  • Kingdom, or whether you and i are not in the kingdom.
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  • 'cause 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 forever now and
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  • Throughout eternity?
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  • And the bottom line is, are you in the kingdom, or are you out
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  • Of the kingdom?
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  • Jesus came, according to matthew, his first words of
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  • Utterance were simply, "repent for the kingdom has come."
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  • And his whole message from god, as god himself, was a word of
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  • The kingdom has come.
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  • The kingdom of god, the kingdom of heaven, are virtually
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  • Interchangeable in the scripture.
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  • The kingdom of god is where god the father rules as king,
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  • As lord.
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  • And in the kingdom of god, there is the body of the church, and
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  • 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, because as christians,
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  • We are a part of the body of christ, that is a church, and
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  • 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, and early in his ministry, he delivered that
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  • Immortal truths about the kingdom in matthew, 5, 6, 7.
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  • I'm sure he repeated it many times.
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  • That is the famous well-known sermon on the mount.
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  • What is that?
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  • It's simply jesus saying, if you are in the kingdom and a kingdom
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  • Person, 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 5, 6, and 7, and they say quite
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  • Honestly, this must be for heaven.
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  • This is the way heaven operates.
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  • Are we supposed to operate like this?
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  • And jesus gives those profound truths, bang, bang, 5, 6, 7.
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  • And when you get through, you say, wow!
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  • You mean as a christian, these are the ethics, the formula by
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  • 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 to live the kingdom of god life, unless
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  • Jesus christ is lord and savior of your life, and the holy
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  • Spirit is operating in your life and my life, enabling us,
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  • Through discipline, through prayer, through study, to begin
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  • To demonstrate somebody who is indeed a son or a daughter of
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  • God, and in this earth, but living now in the kingdom
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  • 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 in matthew chapter
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  • Number 7.
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  • And he sort of states it very clearly, very plainly,
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  • So that everybody then and now can understand kingdom
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  • Principles, kingdom lifestyles.
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  • And uses three parables, 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 certainly an earthly story with a heavenly
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  • Meaning, with heavenly ramifications.
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  • But it's much more than that.
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  • Parabola is the word.
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  • Literally means to lay down beside something.
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  • In other words, to put it in our language, in parables, god just
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  • Throws down on you.
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  • He throws down on us, where we can clearly know whether or not
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  • We're citizens of the kingdom or we're not citizens of
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  • The kingdom.
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  • You can't miss it.
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  • And he tells you in a very simple, simple way.
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  • Jesus says, "enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and
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  • Broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many
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  • Who go in by it."
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  • Make it ring a bell?
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  • "because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads
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  • 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 broad gate.
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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, but on the inside, it gets broader
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  • And broader.
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  • Do you get the principle?
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  • Now why is it that so many of us do not go through the
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  • Narrow gate?
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  • It's because we look at some people who think they are
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  • Walking the narrow path, and they're so prideful, they're so
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  • Better, they're so superior.
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  • They sort of got it together and, boy, but they're very,
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  • Walking that narrow gate.
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  • Narrow people, real narrow people are not people we really
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  • 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, and it
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  • Expresses itself in so many ways.
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  • So narrow people, 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 broad gate.
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  • You know, a lot of people going through there.
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  • So i thought about this,
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  • Said, you know, on the narrow gate, we need to put up a sign.
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  • It would say, "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, it says, "fun and freedom."
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  • Which gate are you interested in?
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  • Man, "sorrow and death."
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  • "fun and freedom."
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  • Hey, the bible says a lot of people go through the broad
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  • Gate, 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 anyway i wanna 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 i run my own life and make my own
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  • Choices, and i am free to do anything i wanna do, that's
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  • Just fun.
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  • And the narrow gate over here, "sorrow and death."
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  • But you see, jesus sees the long range, he sees all the way
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  • Through life now and life forever.
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  • He says the way to go is through the narrow gate.
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  • Boy.
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  • The narrow gate, i'd have to get rid of some of the stuff that i
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  • Think is so important to me.
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  • Right?
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  • I carry around, you carry around identity, position,
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  • Whatever, friendship.
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  • Oh i might have to get rid of it 'cause it's a tight squeeze
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  • Through the turnstile, i mean, you know, and we've got
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  • A lot of weight on us, the human weight.
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  • But to go through that gate, you have to be sorry for your sin,
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  • Confess it.
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  • He had to die to self and live for god, sorrow and death to get
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  • Through that gate, phew.
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  • Over here, it's easy.
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  • Man, i want fun and freedom.
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  • It's a broad gate, i can go right in just the way i am, live
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  • My life just the way i want to be, right?
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  • But see, jesus is drawing a line on the continental divide
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  • Between life now and life ever.
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  • Because here's the kicker folks.
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  • Don't miss this.
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  • This is the kicker.
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  • You go through this narrow gate, confess sin, die to self, live
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  • For god, and we walk not in a narrow path in this life, but it
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  • Gets broader and broader and broader and broader.
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  • And we look back because we walk through this narrow gate, we
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  • Look back and see on the other side of that sign that said
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  • 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 a disciplined life
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  • Is bound for pain.
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  • Anybody who walks a narrow path ends up with a broad, broad way
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  • Of fun and freedom.
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  • That's the christian life.
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  • And we see it on the other side.
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  • Now let us go through this other gate that i have moved from one
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  • Side of the platform to the other.
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  • And now we go through the broad gate, man, i want fun
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  • And freedom.
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  • And as i have fun and freedom, the path gets narrower and
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  • Narrower, and i look back, and on this side, it says sorrow and
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  • Death, sorrow and death.
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  • You see, in a distant life, going through the narrow gate,
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  • Living with godly principles, it erupts into fun and freedom.
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  • I don't--i can't tell you anybody.
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  • I just know myself who has both fun and freedom because i
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  • Walked through that narrow gate.
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  • And i know thousands of people like that.
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  • And i know thousands of other people, and they've gone through
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  • The broad gate.
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  • And their family's gone with them, their friends is going
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  • With them.
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  • And in time, i can tell you, there's gonna be sorrow and
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  • There's gonna be death.
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  • That's the way god puts it, ladies and gentlemen.
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  • We either go through the narrow gate, receive him, sorry for
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  • Sin, confess sin, die to self, live for god.
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  • And all of a sudden it erupts into a life now and forever,
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  • Filled with contemporary words.
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  • They're bigger theological words, fun and freedom, forever
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  • In eternity.
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  • Now, have you gone through the narrow gate?
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  • Sorrow, confession, death to self, god, christ, the sin of
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  • Your life.
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  • That's the first thing jesus asked.
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  • He said here are two gates.
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  • If you're going through a narrow gate, you're a kingdom person.
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  • You're going through the broad gate,
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  • You're not a kingdom person.
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  • It's just that simple.
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  • First parable.
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  • You say, "hmm, i didn't know that we're gonna be thrown down
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  • On like this.
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  • God's doing it.
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  • Christ is doing it through his book.
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  • Then look at the next part.
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  • There are two gates, and there are also now two trees.
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  • But it's a long passage.
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  • Verse 15, jesus said, "beware of the false prophets, who come to
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  • You in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are
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  • Ravenous wolves.
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  • You will know them by their fruits.
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  • Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs
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  • From thistles?
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  • Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears
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  • Bad fruit.
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  • A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear
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  • Good fruit."
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  • Whoop, scary, verse 19, "every tree that does not bear good
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  • Fruit is cut down and thrown in the fire.
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  • Therefore," jesus says, "by their fruits you shall
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  • Know them."
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  • What kind of tree are you?
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  • What kind of tree am i?
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  • In the bible, there are two kinds of fruit.
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  • There is the fruit of the spirit, and there is the gifts
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  • Of the spirit.
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  • The gifts of the spirit of those who may have the ability to
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  • Teach or preach, to sing, to administrate, to usher, to help
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  • People, to serve, to do a multiplicity of things.
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  • These are all the the gifts of the spirit, the talents of
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  • The church.
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  • And jesus talks about them here in the next verse.
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  • He says, "not everyone who says, 'lord, lord,' shall have of the
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  • Kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my father
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  • In heaven."
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  • Lord, if we can have these gifts, these spiritual gifts,
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  • And you name some of them.
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  • "many will say to me, 'lord, lord, have we not prophesied in
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  • Your name?"
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  • Prophesied means to preach or teach, usually.
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  • Not foretell, but to tell forth, "...and have i not done many
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  • Wonders in your name?"
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  • Have i not cast out demons?
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  • And he says, "i will declare to them, 'i never knew you; depart
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  • From me, for you practice lawlessness."
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  • In other words, ladies and gentlemen, this is a scary part
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  • Of scripture.
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  • Listen carefully, you can believe in christmas, jesus
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  • Is god wrapped up in human flesh.
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  • You can believe in all the teaching of the sermon on
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  • The mount.
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  • You think, boy, that's really true.
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  • You can believe in the death, the crucifixion of christ.
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  • You can believe in his resurrection.
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  • You can believe in his second coming, and you can preach and
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  • Teach and read and study and do all of these things, and call
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  • Him lord, lord, and not be a part of his kingdom.
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  • Phew, i hope that frightens a lot of us.
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  • That is using gifts he's given.
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  • If you and i are part of his kingdom, we may be given these
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  • Gifts, and we can use them.
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  • But also in our lives, we have the fruit of the spirit.
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  • What are the fruits of the spirit?
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  • Love.
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  • Do you genuinely love without any other motivation?
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  • Love, joy.
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  • Do you have joy?
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  • When you come into a room, does it feel like somebody has come
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  • In, or somebody's left?
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  • You say joy in your life.
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  • My glory, love, joy, peace.
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  • Is there peace in your life?
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  • Contentment, rhythm, love, joy, patience.
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  • Man, i've prayed for patience a long time.
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  • God has given me a lot of reason to be patient, and i'm much
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  • Better today, and i'm still growing in my patience.
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  • Love, joy, peace, patience in your life.
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  • Kindness.
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  • Are you a kind person?
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  • No, i--no, are you a kind person?
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  • Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness.
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  • Would somebody say, you know that there's
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  • A good, she's a good lady.
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  • That's a good person.
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  • You can count on them to do good.
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  • Are you good or are you faithful?
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  • Can you be counted on?
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  • I'll be there.
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  • I'll do that.
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  • I'm a faithful friend, a faithful follower, a faithful--
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  • Are you faithful?
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  • And then we look and say, well, are you gentle?
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  • Are you a gentle person?
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  • Just i know big guys, big tough guys, but they're so gentle
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  • And sweet.
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  • It's just beautiful to see,
  • 00:17:47.812 --> 00:17:49.580
  • And i know some little ladies that are not too gentle.
  • 00:17:49.580 --> 00:17:54.952
  • You know?
  • 00:17:54.952 --> 00:17:57.622
  • But this is a fruit.
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  • Are you gentle?
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  • And then finally, are you disciplined?
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  • Without a disciplined life, nobody's gonna get anywhere, any
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  • Time, any place.
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  • We gotta model it before our kids.
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  • We have to live it out ourselves.
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  • There are the eight fruits of the spirit, and that gives
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  • Indication that we know jesus christ who embodied that fruit,
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  • And gave us the ability to have that fruit hanging from your
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  • Life and my life.
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  • Therefore, we are a tree planted by the rivers of water, planted
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  • In god, in jesus christ.
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  • And therefore you see the fruit of the spirit coming from your
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  • Life and my life.
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  • If there's no fruit, what did jesus say?
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  • Jesus said, a tree that didn't bare fruit...
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  • Cut it down.
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  • That frightens me, that frightens me.
  • 00:18:47.939 --> 00:18:53.377
  • So we have these parables here, the parables.
  • 00:18:53.377 --> 00:18:59.016
  • And then finally, we see the last illustration, parable,
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  • Whether or not we're in the kingdom.
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  • Jesus said, verse 24, "therefore whoever hears these sayings of
  • 00:19:06.390 --> 00:19:11.762
  • Mine, and does them, i would liken him to a wise man who
  • 00:19:11.762 --> 00:19:17.268
  • Built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods
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  • Came, the winds blew and beat on that house, and it did not fall,
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  • For it was founded on the rock.
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  • Everyone who hears these sayings of mine," said jesus, "and does
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  • Not do them, is like a fool, a foolish man who built his house
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  • On the sand: and the rain descended, and the floods came,
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  • And the winds blew and beat on that house, and it fell.
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  • And great was its fall.
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  • There we have it.
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  • Two gates, narrow or broad.
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  • Which one did you go through?
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  • Which one are you going through?
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  • Two trees, one barren, just for myself.
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  • I, me, my, my.
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  • Or one with good fruit, and part of that fruit has been expressed
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  • In your life.
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  • Or, have you built your house, your life on sand?
  • 00:20:28.773 --> 00:20:35.212
  • Those who built their life on sand, when the rains come, when
  • 00:20:35.212 --> 00:20:39.950
  • Sos comes, when 911 is called, when the bad report comes in,
  • 00:20:39.950 --> 00:20:45.423
  • When you are forsaken by friends or family, and when you are in a
  • 00:20:45.423 --> 00:20:49.894
  • Place that leads shame and disgrace to you and yours,
  • 00:20:49.894 --> 00:20:53.798
  • You're broken, you're bleeding.
  • 00:20:53.798 --> 00:20:55.566
  • If you built your house on sand, that house will go...
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  • Crumbling down.
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  • It'll be destroyed, it'll be eliminated.
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  • Right?
  • 00:21:03.974 --> 00:21:05.876
  • That's what happened in israel.
  • 00:21:05.876 --> 00:21:07.578
  • They built a house on the sand that had not any water in here
  • 00:21:07.578 --> 00:21:10.948
  • For years and years and years.
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  • When the floods came, they were gone.
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  • Jesus is saying, your life and my life is like that,
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  • Unless we build on the rock.
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  • On the rock.
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  • Corrie ten boom.
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  • Most of you know that name.
  • 00:21:26.664 --> 00:21:28.833
  • The book, "the hiding place," jeannette clift george played
  • 00:21:28.833 --> 00:21:32.503
  • That in a movie.
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  • Member of our church at the time.
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  • It's the story of a woman in holland.
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  • Her family would hide the jews who were under the sentence of
  • 00:21:42.246 --> 00:21:46.083
  • Being executed by the nazis, the effort to wipe out all the jews
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  • In that generation.
  • 00:21:50.154 --> 00:21:52.156
  • And you know, 6 or 7 million jews were eliminated
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  • From this earth, put in those furnaces in dachau, ravensbruck,
  • 00:21:56.360 --> 00:22:00.297
  • The rest of them.
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  • Also that many christians were also in those death chambers.
  • 00:22:01.766 --> 00:22:07.304
  • Corrie was hiding jews, and they discovered that the boom family
  • 00:22:07.304 --> 00:22:12.143
  • Was hiding jews, and they took the jews, and it took all of her
  • 00:22:12.143 --> 00:22:15.045
  • Family, and threw them in ravensbruck.
  • 00:22:15.045 --> 00:22:19.517
  • And systematically her sister was killed.
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  • I think her father.
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  • All of her friends and family.
  • 00:22:24.155 --> 00:22:25.589
  • She was the only one left.
  • 00:22:25.589 --> 00:22:27.291
  • She stayed there those years.
  • 00:22:27.291 --> 00:22:29.160
  • But right before the end of the second world war, she didn't
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  • Know why.
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  • They gave her a release, and they opened the gate of
  • 00:22:34.231 --> 00:22:37.368
  • Ravensbruck and she walked out into her freedom.
  • 00:22:37.368 --> 00:22:42.606
  • Amazing, amazing.
  • 00:22:42.606 --> 00:22:44.575
  • And for 32 years, corrie traveled america and the world,
  • 00:22:44.575 --> 00:22:50.881
  • Telling the story of god's grace, introducing people
  • 00:22:50.881 --> 00:22:54.885
  • To christ.
  • 00:22:54.885 --> 00:22:56.454
  • Amazing life, amazing life.
  • 00:22:56.454 --> 00:22:59.290
  • 32 years, she traveled everywhere.
  • 00:22:59.290 --> 00:23:01.559
  • She even met on one occasion, the guard who'd been so vicious
  • 00:23:01.559 --> 00:23:05.963
  • And mean and evil to her and exploited and abused her and
  • 00:23:05.963 --> 00:23:09.533
  • So many.
  • 00:23:09.533 --> 00:23:10.868
  • She met him and he came forward with tears and said, "i've come
  • 00:23:10.868 --> 00:23:14.038
  • To christ.
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  • I've got forgiven for all the evil in my life.
  • 00:23:15.339 --> 00:23:17.775
  • But can you forgive me, corrie?"
  • 00:23:17.775 --> 00:23:20.811
  • She said, the hardest thing she did was to forgive him.
  • 00:23:20.811 --> 00:23:23.414
  • And she really did.
  • 00:23:23.414 --> 00:23:24.615
  • She said, "we embraced."
  • 00:23:24.615 --> 00:23:26.050
  • What a woman.
  • 00:23:26.050 --> 00:23:27.384
  • But when she was 85 years old, a man gave her a house in
  • 00:23:27.384 --> 00:23:33.023
  • California, the first place she ever had to call her own.
  • 00:23:33.023 --> 00:23:37.962
  • The first place she had a place to go and live, that little
  • 00:23:37.962 --> 00:23:40.965
  • House in california.
  • 00:23:40.965 --> 00:23:42.533
  • And one day a lady went up to her, and said, "corrie?
  • 00:23:42.533 --> 00:23:46.203
  • Isn't god good to give you this lovely house?"
  • 00:23:46.203 --> 00:23:51.208
  • She said, "yes, but he was also good in ravensbruck.
  • 00:23:51.208 --> 00:24:01.085
  • We all go through ravensbrucks.
  • 00:24:01.085 --> 00:24:06.090
  • And god is good in the middle of your ravensbruck and
  • 00:24:06.090 --> 00:24:09.660
  • My ravensbruck.
  • 00:24:09.660 --> 00:24:12.496
  • Because somehow in all that, his will is being done, and we don't
  • 00:24:12.496 --> 00:24:17.868
  • Understand it.
  • 00:24:17.868 --> 00:24:19.303
  • We may never understand this life, but we go through
  • 00:24:19.303 --> 00:24:22.973
  • Those ravensbrucks.
  • 00:24:22.973 --> 00:24:25.276
  • What's happening when you're in your ravensbruck.
  • 00:24:25.276 --> 00:24:27.611
  • You may be in a ravensbruck right now.
  • 00:24:27.611 --> 00:24:30.648
  • What's going on?
  • 00:24:30.648 --> 00:24:33.918
  • Little girl, in a room by herself, and a storm came, a
  • 00:24:33.918 --> 00:24:39.957
  • Rain came, winds came, thunder, lightning, and she was
  • 00:24:39.957 --> 00:24:43.494
  • Just frightened.
  • 00:24:43.494 --> 00:24:44.995
  • Stayed under the covers.
  • 00:24:44.995 --> 00:24:46.597
  • Didn't sleep much of the night.
  • 00:24:46.597 --> 00:24:48.432
  • She got up the next morning and she ran down to breakfast.
  • 00:24:48.432 --> 00:24:51.468
  • She looked at her daddy and said, "daddy, where was god in
  • 00:24:51.468 --> 00:24:57.875
  • The middle of that storm?"
  • 00:24:57.875 --> 00:25:00.578
  • And she said, "oh, i know, daddy, what you're gonna say,
  • 00:25:00.578 --> 00:25:04.415
  • God was busy making a morning."
  • 00:25:04.415 --> 00:25:11.088
  • Where is god in all of our ravensbrucks, ladies
  • 00:25:11.088 --> 00:25:15.492
  • And gentlemen?
  • 00:25:15.492 --> 00:25:17.094
  • I'll tell you.
  • 00:25:17.094 --> 00:25:19.229
  • He's busy making a morning.
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  • Difficult time learning how to ride a bicycle.
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  • A buddy learned to ride before he did.
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  • So naturally, my son wanted to jump on and catch up with
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  • His friend.
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  • I worked with him, holding the seat, helping him keep
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  • His balance.
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  • There were minor calamities, with scratches and a few tears,
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  • As i recall.
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  • As we ride through life, ladies and gentlemen, sometimes
  • 00:26:52.623 --> 00:26:56.093
  • Tottering in uncertainty, our heavenly father holds us, and
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  • Picks us up when we fall.
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  • And cleans us up, and sets us rolling again.
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  • Sometimes we fall, but the good news is he will never, never
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  • Leave our side until we get it.
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