Ed Young - The Wise and Foolish Builder

July 7, 2025 | S25 E162 | 29:0

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Wise and Foolish Builder | July 7, 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,
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And i know some little ladies that are not too gentle.
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You know?
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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.
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So we have these parables here, the parables.
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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
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Mine, and does them, i would liken him to a wise man who
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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?
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Those who built their life on sand, when the rains come, when
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Sos comes, when 911 is called, when the bad report comes in,
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When you are forsaken by friends or family, and when you are in a
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Place that leads shame and disgrace to you and yours,
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You're broken, you're bleeding.
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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?
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That's what happened in israel.
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They built a house on the sand that had not any water in here
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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.
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The book, "the hiding place," jeannette clift george played
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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
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Being executed by the nazis, the effort to wipe out all the jews
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In that generation.
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And you know, 6 or 7 million jews were eliminated
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From this earth, put in those furnaces in dachau, ravensbruck,
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The rest of them.
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Also that many christians were also in those death chambers.
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Corrie was hiding jews, and they discovered that the boom family
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Was hiding jews, and they took the jews, and it took all of her
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Family, and threw them in ravensbruck.
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And systematically her sister was killed.
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I think her father.
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All of her friends and family.
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She was the only one left.
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She stayed there those years.
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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
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Ravensbruck and she walked out into her freedom.
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Amazing, amazing.
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And for 32 years, corrie traveled america and the world,
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Telling the story of god's grace, introducing people
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To christ.
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Amazing life, amazing life.
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32 years, she traveled everywhere.
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She even met on one occasion, the guard who'd been so vicious
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And mean and evil to her and exploited and abused her and
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So many.
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She met him and he came forward with tears and said,
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"i've come to christ.
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I've got forgiven for all the evil in my life.
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But can you forgive me, corrie?"
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She said, the hardest thing she did was to forgive him.
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And she really did.
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She said, "we embraced."
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What a woman.
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But when she was 85 years old, a man gave her a house in
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California, the first place she ever had to call her own.
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The first place she had a place to go and live, that little
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House in california.
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And one day a lady went up to her, and said, "corrie?
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Isn't god good to give you this lovely house?"
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She said, "yes, but he was also good in ravensbruck.
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We all go through ravensbrucks.
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And god is good in the middle of your ravensbruck and
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My ravensbruck.
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Because somehow in all that, his will is being done, and we don't
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Understand it.
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We may never understand this life, but we go through
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Those ravensbrucks.
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What's happening when you're in your ravensbruck.
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You may be in a ravensbruck right now.
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What's going on?
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Little girl, in a room by herself, and a storm came, a
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Rain came, winds came, thunder, lightning, and she was
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Just frightened.
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Stayed under the covers.
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Didn't sleep much of the night.
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She got up the next morning and she ran down to breakfast.
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She looked at her daddy and said, "daddy, where was god in
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The middle of that storm?"
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And she said, "oh, i know, daddy, what you're gonna say,
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God was busy making a morning."
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Where is god in all of our ravensbrucks, ladies
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And gentlemen?
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I'll tell you.
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He's busy making a morning.
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Pastor ed: everybody in the world is hungry for something
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That gives them assurance about the future and comfort about
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What we are facing right today.
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What all of us are looking for can only be found in god's word.
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That's why now's the time to do all we can to share the proven
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Truth of scripture with as many people as possible.
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And so, with a gift today which will be worth double
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Thanks to a special matching grant, we can help millions
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Through the broadcast and resources of "the winning walk"
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And it's a winning walk, as you know, with jesus christ.
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I'm excited about today, i'm excited about tomorrow,
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And thank you for your contribution, for your prayers.
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We scatter seeds of god's truth everywhere
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And lives are changed.
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Congratulations, thank you for being a part
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Of "the winning walk" family.
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Pastor ed: one of my three sons, i think it was ben, had
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A 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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But he kept at it, because he knew i would not leave his side.
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Also, he wanted to ride with his friend.
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As we ride through life, ladies and gentlemen, sometimes
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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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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - The Wise and Foolish Builder

July 7, 2025 | S25 E162 | 29:0

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