Ed Young - Worship in the Wilderness

November 6, 2025 | 29:0

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Worship in the Wilderness | November 6, 2025

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Ed young: isaiah chapter 5, says it clearly.
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"woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who
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Substitute darkness for light.
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And light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet and
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Sweet for bitter!
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Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in
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Their own sight!"
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September the 11th, 2001,
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I was in a prayer meeting with some men
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In our church, and i walked down the steps and someone told
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Me an airplane has struck one of the twin towers in new
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York city.
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At the same time, in that tower there on the 78th floor, there
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Was a man who was already seated at his desk, under his desk was
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His dog rosy in her little bed.
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And then, "there was an explosion from above," said this
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Man named michael.
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And immediately, the building began to tilt 20 degrees, smoke
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Began to come in the room, glass was falling down.
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A man named philip came into the room and said, "we're all going
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To die, the building is coming down, you'd have have to be
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Blind not to know that."
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At that time, michael stood up, who was blind from birth, and he
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Reached down and got his guide dog rosy, and he turned and he
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Said, "trust rosy, she'll get us out of here."
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Some of them laughed, others fell in line and rosy turned and
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Began to guide michael, and a small group behind him, in the
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Middle of that catastrophic moment.
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He put his trust in rosy.
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Ladies and gentlemen, anybody who can read and write, and has
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A lick of sense, knows that in the world today, and
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Particularly in america, there's all kind of debris, fallacy,
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Rumors, ideas, and around us are the sound of many voices.
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Have you noticed?
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Internet, television, friends, where ever we go there's
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Voices-voices-voices-voices, saying, "believe this," "give
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Money to this," "join this," "be a part of this," and we're just
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Surrounded by people calling for time, for influence, for money,
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For energy.
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And how do you and how do i know whom we can trust?
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Good english, in texas, we say, "who we can trust," who can
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We trust?
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Who do we put our confidence in?
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Michael, blind as he was, put his confidence in rosy, sound
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Many voices, "come," "go," "run," "shout," all kind
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Of ideas.
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"this is what you do with your savings," "this is what you do
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With it," all kinda.
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Who do we trust?
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Who do we listen to?
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Now, let's get a little history, go back to
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Postmodernism, postmodernism.
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I read, this summer, a book, interesting, called, "philip and
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Alexander," philip of macedonia, alexander's father, alexander
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The great.
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And in this book, it takes you back to antiquity, to the
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Beginning of the roman empire.
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And i read with great interest how they made decisions, where
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They got their authority, and it was all might makes right, the
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Strongest, survival of the fittest.
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Their religion was everything, everybody.
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It rains, "zeus is happy," it lightnings, "zeus is unhappy."
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And you got all the gods and goddesses, from stoicism to
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Epicureanism; all kinds of temples all over the world.
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And when alexander went out, with all of his decadent living,
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See, they would give children to these potentates as sexual toys.
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When they would conquer an area, they would marry the pharaoh's
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Daughter so they'd control, and they would adopt all the
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Religions, all the idols, all the cults, all the traditions.
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And when they had a problem in the sea, they'd say, "well, we
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Haven't been faithful to the gods of the sea," or the sun, or
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The moon, all of our instincts, that was pre-modernism.
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How did they find their authority?
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They tried to find the god that met the need and that the shame
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Of that moment, and they worshipped that.
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Nobody gave sacrifice, human sacrifice, all kinds of
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Sacrifices, premodernism.
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Modernism, we've talked about it, that came in there through
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The wonderful moment of the enlightenment, the scientific
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Method came into vogue.
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Francis bacon, how do you find truth?
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Truth is revealed by experiment, truth.
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And how do you find truth?
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The five senses, all of them, and then finally you plug in
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Reason, and in this materialistic atmosphere people
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Found answers to all the voices, to all the decisions, all the
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Moral questions.
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They would look into reality.
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Carl sagan asked, "where did all this world come from?"
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He said, "the cosmos is, it always has been, and always
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Will be."
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Well, where does life come from?
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Did you know, for many centuries, they would see raw
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Meat, and maggots would appear on that meat and they'd say,
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"look, the meat, somehow inanimate, creates something
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That's animate."
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That was believed for hundreds of years, folks.
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Pascal threw that out the window.
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But this was the era of modernism.
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In the science areas of today, of education, modernism is
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Dominant, there's little quantum theory atmosphere, you know,
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Einstein discovered the quantum realm, and then you spent the
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Rest of his life as a physicist trying to disprove everything
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He'd found in the quantum area of science.
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Interesting.
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So we have premodernism, ghosts and goblins; we have modernism,
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I've got to see it and i've got to touch it, but all of these
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Atheists and agnostics, they never could explain how you have
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A creation without a creator, and you can't either.
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Then we come to postmodernism, and that's when there are
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No absolutes.
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What is an absolute?
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It's something that is true in all times in all places to all
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People, that is an absolute.
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Now we have postmodernism, there's no absolute truth, it's
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Whatever you want it to be, you just pick a number.
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Therefore, there's no foundation at all, therefore we're out in a
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Constant area of squirrel-ism, and that's where we are today in
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The humanities in our educational process.
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And that's how, when all these voices are calling, we just jump
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Into one of those areas, now, primarily, postmodernism, and
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Say, "well, you know, this is where you find out things."
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So the bottom line, we need, and one of my favorite words if
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You've been around here for a while, is the word discernment.
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Discernment, what is discernment biblically?
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Discernment is the spiritual gifts, discernment is a mark of
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Being led by the holy spirit, it's not an absolute thing, but
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How we need, with all the voices calling for this and that and
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The other, how we need to know and put down and have the
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Ability of discernment.
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A five year-old boy walks in, into kindergarten, he looks and
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Says, "mommy, are we racists?"
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Six year-old girl comes in from school and she says, "mommy, the
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Teacher told me, if i wanted to, i could be a boy."
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Mommy, what are you gonna say to those kids?
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How are you going to communicate to them on their level so they'd
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Understand what's going on in this woke culture?
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How are you going to answer that?
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There's a tremendous book out, little book, "mama
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Bear apologetics."
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You say, "oh, that sounds like another one of those little old
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Books, 'mama bear apologetics.'"
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Let me tell you something, it is written in terms that you can
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Understand, and by the way, if you bump into a word that you
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Don't know what it means, you know what the simplest thing to
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Do is take your cell phone, ask siri, "what does this
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Word mean?"
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And bingo, it's there, and you won't be dumb the whole life
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When you read things you don't understand.
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Little secret, don't tell everybody that.
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So here we have this little book, "mama bear apologetics."
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"apologetics?
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Well, how do you apologize?"
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No, it's from 1 peter, it talks about, "we have to be able to
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Defend, defend our faith."
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So if somebody asks, "why do you believe this?
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How do you know this?"
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And that's a big, old pregnant word we talked
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About, epistemology.
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"oh, i don't like that word."
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It means, "how do you know that you know?"
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"i know this, i know that, how do you know that?"
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So here is "mama bear apologetics" trying to answer
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The most profound questions you'll ever be asked.
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I remember, i must've been, i'm guessing seven years old, and i
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Asked my mom, "who made god?"
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"oh, that's a childish question."
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No, that's one of the most profound questions any human
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Being could ever ask, so we'd better be prepared.
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Mama bear apologetics, read it, it'll help mama bears to do what
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They must do in our broken culture, it's to give sane,
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Commonsense answers to all the confusion and woke-ness we're
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Surrounded with.
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I know about mama bears, i lived in the mountains of north
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Carolina for over five years, we had black bears up there, i've
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Been bear hunting.
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Thank goodness i didn't see one, but i'll tell you something, you
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Know anything about black bears and most bears, when they have
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Cubs, well, that mama bear will give her life in a skinny new
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York minute to protect those clubs.
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A mama bear is one of the most vicious-vicious animals on the
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Earth when the cubs are there.
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The cubs are born in hibernation, she has one or two,
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Or sometimes four, and that mama bear sticks for those cubs.
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See, the cubs, bear cubs are not like normal animals, normal
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Animals develop by instinct, not the bear family.
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In the bear family, the mama bear has to teach those cubs by
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Example where to find food, where to find water, how to
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Protect themselves.
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Usually, they hover down in the bottom, if they can find a white
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Pine tree in their area of control, and they will bed
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Down there.
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So if mama is ever out foraging for food the cubs can be there,
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And she taught them how to climb up that pine tree and be safe.
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Mama bears, parents, you'd better be like that bear mama
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Handles those cubs; if not, you're gonna wake up and say,
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"what happened to our kids?"
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Now what about papa bear?
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Papa bear is gone, he doesn't participate in any way, shape or
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Form or fashion with the bringing up of those cubs.
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Hopefully, prayerfully, some papa bears will not follow the
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Example of the animal bear, but in the meantimes, mama bear,
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You'd better be able to answer those most difficult questions
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In ways that they can understand in a judeo-christian
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Biblical framework.
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If not, you're gonna lose those children.
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Read the book, it talks about discernment.
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Discernment is able to determine what is right, what is wrong,
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What is good, what is bad, what is expedient now and what will
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Be expedient in the future.
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It's the ability to discern.
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We had better learn how to discern, and mama bears teach
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Their little cubs how to discern, and we better practice
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In our lives.
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Because remember the basic fundamental truth, our children,
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We can require them to do what we require them to do until they
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Get to be teenagers, and then they begin to do what you do and
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What i do.
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Have you noticed that?
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We can't have to speak it, we have to seek to live it.
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So discernment.
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All the voices, "where do i go?
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What do i do? time, money, what i do?
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Who do we trust?
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How do we get our value system?
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Where do we find those absolutes we can stand on that'll always
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Be absolute?"
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Discernment.
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And then in our woke culture, in comes a woke trojan horse.
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Remember the trojan horse?
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The greeks were sieging troy, and they couldn't get through
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The walls, and troy was holding out.
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But a greek carpenter, really of sculpture, he made this trojan
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Horse out of four different types of wood, it was a
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Magnificent piece of art.
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It was 10 feet high, it had all the curves of a beautiful horse,
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And they present it at the gates of troy and said, "this is for
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The king of troy."
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And whenever they opened the gate, they took that horse in,
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Whew, it was a work of art.
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And the king would have put it right in the middle of his
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Palace, and it is a fabulous thing, this is a greek
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Carpenter's sculpture, they've given us a beautiful horse.
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And you know what happened.
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When it got dark, inside that horse there were two or three
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Elite greek soldiers and they came out, opened the gate, and
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Bang, troy was destroyed.
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A trojan horse has come into the united states of america, into
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Our culture.
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And guess what that horse has brought into our world?
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You'd never guess, a new dictionary.
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Whoa, just a new dictionary?
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Yeah, because apart of selling us on the woke-ness of today,
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Words have to change their meaning, phrases have to
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Be re-done.
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You want to argue with me?
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Well, if you're a phd in philosophy, there's no match, i
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Surrender, you win.
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But if in this argument, you'll let me define all the words
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We're gonna use and you let me put the parameters down of where
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We're going to argue, i could out-argue, out-bait anybody on
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The planet in any subject, if i could define the words and if i
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Can put the scope of the debate.
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And therefore, what happens in classrooms today, where so many
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Redefinitions of words and phrases, most students
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Are quiet.
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They don't say anything, they're afraid they'll use the wrong
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Pronoun, they're afraid they'll use a word that's been thrown
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Out the window, that's antiquated under the new
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Dictionary that we live under.
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That's what the trojan horse had brought us.
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Let me give you just a little bit of this.
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Jesus accepts everyone.
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Jesus was a refugee, jesus does not build walls that keep people
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From him.
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People need to live their truth.
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A real christian accepts everyone and applauds
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Their position.
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And then they take words like committed felon is a
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Justice-involved person;
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Ex-cons, a returning resident,
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Oh yeah; a parolee, a person under supervision.
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Hey, this isn't mythology, i'm not from mars, i'm from right
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Here in river city, right here in the united states of america,
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And this is what is happening to us.
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And two words they have most abused is the word love and the
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Word truth, love and truth.
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Love without truth is mushy,
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Truth without love is cold, and
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They try to take those words away from us, but they must
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Always go together covered in grace.
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Now, do you remember when jesus was going to jerusalem, and he
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Had his apostles with him and they came to a samaritan city?
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And the samaritan city rebuked them, evidently harmed them, and
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Threw them out.
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And james and john said, "lord, do you want me to call down
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Lightning on them?"
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I've felt like that.
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And jesus said, "no, i'm in the salvation business, i'm in the
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Salvation business.
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Let's move on out."
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Now folks, we have to stand, stand for truth, vote not for
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Elephants or donkeys.
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Vote for individuals who will really change the diseased
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Culture in which we live.
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The question is, whom can we trust?
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Whom can we trust?
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We'd better stay close to biblical living, godly living,
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Daily in our devotional time, and in the weekend in the body
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Of christ, so we can put our trust in the lord god almighty
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And him alone.
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Oh-oh-oh-oh, we forgot about rosy.
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Yeah, there was michael, holding onto rosy, and then all the
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Lights went out in the building.
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Boy, they were screaming and hollering, "we can't see."
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Debris was falling, dust and dirt were everywhere, and rosy
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Never broke stride.
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And now because it was total darkness, michael was just like
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Everybody else, though he'd been born blind, and he just
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Followed rosy.
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And a group started falling rosy, glass was coming, dust
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Was coming.
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Rosy led michael and a group of people
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Down 1,463 steps.
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It took an hour to get there, and when they got there, there
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Were all kind of voices going on.
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Man, stay inside, don't go outside, go up the elevator,
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Don't take the stairs.
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Rosy never broke stride, the minute she left the 78th floor
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She never broke stride, michael stayed right, 'cause michael put
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His trust in rosy, and the little group following put their
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Trust in rosy.
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And rosy immediately went outside when the police were
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Staying inside, and when they went outside, michael said he
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Heard what sounded like a mighty freight train and mighty waters
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Falling because the second tower now had fell.
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There was dirt, filth, smoke, cries, death, people jumping out
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Of rooms way up there in the buildings.
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There, at that moment, was a member of our church, yeah, dr.
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Sean boutros was a plastic surgeon doing his residency
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There in new york.
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He got on his motorcycle and drove right there, and was one
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Of the first physicians there, and he cared for i don't know
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How many people and saved i don't know how many lives.
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He can tell you what was going on, voices, shouting, cries,
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Nowhere to go.
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Rosy never broke stride, rosie never broke stride.
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And finally, when all this was falling and nobody could see and
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They were inhaling in their lugs, rosy suddenly went down
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Some steps and took them down there underground where there
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Were the trains, and suddenly the air was clean.
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And rosy walked around the other side, and 31 people, who
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Followed rosy, they trusted rosy, they were saved.
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"trust in the lord with all your heart, lean not upon your own
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Understanding," but upon god's understanding, and what does
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It say?
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"he will direct your path."
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Basic, simple, doable empowered
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By the holy spirit, and somehow,
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In all the shouts and all the half-truths, mixed-up truths,
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All the noise and debris, the lord god and his holy spirit
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Will lead us, if we put our full trust in him.
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Male announcer: as a thank you for your support of
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Us, to protect us, and provide the direction we so
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Desperately need.
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The relationship between a shepherd and a sheep is a
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Beautiful one.
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He calls each and every one by name.
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They follow him because they know his voice.
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We need to take time to be quiet enough or long enough to hear
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The still small voice of our shepherd and lord.
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Today, we can ask god to give us the discernment we need to
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Determine what is true, what is right, what is good, but you
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Have to be willing to trust him.
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To pray for you.
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And thank you for watching today.
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I look forward to our time together next time as we take
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Another exciting step on the "winning walk" with
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Jesus christ.
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - Worship in the Wilderness

November 6, 2025 | 29:0

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