Ed Young - You Need A Cheerleader

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - You Need A Cheerleader | December 27, 2024

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Dr ed young: in 1898, a young student named johnny campbell
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Became the first known cheerleader in the united states
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Of america.
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On the campus of university of minnesota, an athletic contest
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Was taking place, and johnny campbell stood up and led all of
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Those in the stands in a cheer for those who are playing on
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The field.
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He became the first cheerleader.
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We are looking today at a fabulous cheerleader.
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His name was barnabas, and we see that he, all of his life,
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Was constantly leading cheers.
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What happens when al twomay got up to the plate and the crowd is
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Going crazy and they cheer?
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You say, wow, that didn't make any difference.
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Oh, it does.
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Let me tell you what happens, really what happens with our
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Hormones, what happens when cheers go out.
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I want you to look at these two chemicals, if you would.
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Oxytocin.
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Oxytocin is that chemical that happens when a mother is
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Breastfeeding a child.
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Oxytocin is that chemical that happens when a husband and wife
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Are making love.
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It is bonding.
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Oxytocin is what happens when we embrace and we support
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One another.
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It is a sense of belonging.
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Oxytocin goes out from the crowd, it goes to the team, and
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The team in turn returns some oxytocin to us.
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And when this happens, we feel like we belong, we are a part
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Of, we're held, we're cuddled.
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This is a part of what we mean in the church family, that we
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Have koinonia.
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It's family. we support one another.
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I, if i could, i would embrace you, and you would embrace me,
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And this is when oxytocin goes out.
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It's a powerful thing, a powerful ingredient that happens
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In genuine cheerleading.
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Look at the next word there.
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Dopamine.
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Dopamine is that thing that surges through our body when
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We're running, when we're exercising.
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It gets us a feeling of happiness.
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It gives us a feeling of joy.
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And so in the cheering process, dopamine goes out from the
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Audience all the way to those who are on the field.
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Or individually, it goes out, and it is the happiness pill
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That we receive.
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All of this happens when you and i become like barnabas, real
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Genuine cheerleaders.
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Let me tell you something.
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The more cheerleaders you've had in your life, the more secure,
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The more safe, the more gifted you are at this moment in
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Your life.
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I looked back on my life and i said, who is the first
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Cheerleader i can remember?
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I remember being in the ninth grade, history class, sitting on
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The back row with all the bubbas.
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You know the bubbas on the back row.
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See, in my little town, and in most towns and cities today,
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Basically there's the upper end, the country club crowd, and
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There's a lower end, in our town it was masonite
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The hourly workers.
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And what happened was, we had a new teacher named mr. west.
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He came to our high school, he didn't know anybody, he didn't
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Know the town, didn't know the constellation.
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And the second day of class he said, i want all of you to go
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Home and write a paper on any country in the world.
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A little two-page, handwritten paper, that was our assignment.
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So i went home and i wrote a paper.
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I even remember the name of the paper.
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And titled it, russia, colon, sleeping giant.
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That was my paper, little two-page paper.
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[makes soft beeping noises]
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Turned it in.
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Back row, with the bubbas. new teacher.
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He didn't know the constellation, he didn't know
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The grading standard, he didn't know that the highest grade i'd
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Made to that moment was a b, all the rest were down the road he
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Didn't know that.
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[laughter]
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But that day, he said, i read all of your papers, and he said,
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The best paper by far was written by edwin young.
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[laughter]
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Oh, my running mates sorta exed me out, i want you to know
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Right then.
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Those at the front said, who?
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My first cheerleader in school.
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That changed my whole academic future.
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From that experience, through high school, college, graduate
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School, seminary, i got just a little stronger every year
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Academically because i had a cheerleader back there.
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Who said just a simple word to me.
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To my knowledge, i never talked to him, i never dialogued with
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Him, i don't remember anything, but i remember that one moment,
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And it changed my academic life, because of a truly-- you've got
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People like that.
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Mom or dad, brother, sister, friend, aunt, uncle, somebody
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Somewhere along the way.
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Somebody saw something in you that others had not seen.
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And they may have just said a breath of affirmation, just one
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Little slight cheer, and it meant everything to you.
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Barnabas was a cheerleader.
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Now barnabas was a cheerleader he came from the upper end
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Of society.
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So it works both ways, it's not just a matter of haves and
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Have-nots, no no, that's not it.
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Barnabas was from cyprus.
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And first of all barnabas, was a cheerleader for the church.
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Well, how do you know that?
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He sold some property, he became a christian on
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Cyprus, evidently.
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He sold some property and he took all the money from the
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Property he sold and laid it at the feet of the apostles, he
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Knew they needed funding as they started that first church.
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Now, i want to teach you a little church history you're
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Gonna need.
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So hang with me, it's important, and you'll discover it's very,
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Very exciting.
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The first ten years of the history of the church, pentecost
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Forward, basically 99% of those who are part of that first body
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Of christ were completed jews.
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They were jews, who believed that jesus of nazareth was
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The messiah.
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First ten years, it stayed generally right there.
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Jerusalem, judea, probably galilee, a little bit right in
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That geographical place, for ten years.
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And the gospel did not go out to the gentiles.
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Who were the gentiles?
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In the bible, anybody who is not a jew is a gentile.
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Got it?
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So when did the word get to the gentiles?
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Well, the first was when when philip went into samaria and
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Preached to them, and the samaritans came to christ.
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Remember, the samaritans were half-jews, so they were not
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Completely gentiles.
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And then cornelius, who was a centurion, he went to peter with
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His family and said, we want what you've got, you've got
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Jesus, explain that to us.
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And so he was really the first gentile.
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But the first group of people who became christians was there
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At antioch in syria.
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Now imagine that we heard in baghdad of people becoming
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Christians left and right, in baghdad, today.
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We'd say, well, what's goin' on in baghdad?
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Who's preaching, who's evangelizing?
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What's happening?
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We have to send somebody to baghdad to find out what in the
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World's going on down there in that muslim area, wouldn't we?
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This is what happened then.
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And so the church said, men, gentiles, we hear, by great
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Numbers are coming to believe in jesus christ, there in antioch.
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We've gotta send somebody there to find out if it's real, if
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It's genuine.
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And they selected our cheerleader, barnabas.
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Barnabas went to antioch.
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He's blown away.
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He said, my goodness, no, how does this happen?
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How did all these people come to christ?
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And he was overwhelmed, and he said, i really don't know what
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To do.
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And by the way, it says they were first called christians,
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Jesus followers in antioch.
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The word christians means messiah men, messiah women,
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Christ, christos.
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Huh.
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Do you know where we got that name?
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From pagans!
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Jews would not have called us messiah men, messiah women.
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The pagan says those followers of jesus, they are
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Messiah folks. messiah folks.
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First, that name was given by pagans to those of us in that
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Church in antioch.
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A gentile church, of all places on the planet.
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While we're there, let's look at some of the names which we have.
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In the bible, christians are called disciples.
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Disciple comes from being disciplined.
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Primarily it's used in the gospels, also it's mentioned a
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Little bit in acts, but nowhere in the letters of paul, nowhere
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In the rest of the bible, do you find the word disciple.
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Disciples primarily were those who were following jesus, and he
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Was teaching them the disciplines of what it meant to
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Be in his family, what it meant to know him.
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Disciples. disciples.
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And then what's another name?
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We're also called in the bible, saints.
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Did you know if you're in christ, you're a saint?
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Yeah.
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A saint!
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What is that?
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A saint is how god sees you, and how god sees me.
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Because we've received christ, god looks at me and says,
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There's a saint!
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Really? yes.
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We are covered with the righteousness of christ.
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He sees you as a christ, he sees me as a christ, that's the
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Exchanged life.
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So we were called saints, disciples, discipline, being
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Training, mentored by jesus, primarily we were called saints,
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Because god sees us as perfect.
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God the father looks on you, if you know christ, he says,
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There's somebody that's perfect, there's a saint.
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That's how the word's used in the new testament.
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And then he goes on, we're called believers.
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We're called believers in the sense that we look at others and
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We see in them what we have in us.
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We see there are believers.
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As i've traveled the world, in different days i've met people
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That i couldn't speak their language, i didn't know a word
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They were saying, and they were christian.
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So all of a sudden, i was closer to them immediately, because
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They were believers and i was a believer, than i am to my
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Next-door neighbor who's not a believer.
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Immediately. immediately.
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So believers is the general category of what we are.
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Then we're brothers and sisters in christ.
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You're my brother, you're my sister, and that's when all of
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These chemicals worked in the life of the church, which
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Is magnificent.
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As we give out those chemicals in our cheerleading and they
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Return those chemicals to us, that is a wonderful thing,
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We call it koinonia in the body of christ.
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To brothers and sisters.
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They were called witnesses.
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We're to tell the story, that's the outgrowth of who we are
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In christ.
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So we see, under the big title of christians, you've got all
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These other titles that help us understand who we are and what
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We're about.
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Now, we need to understand here about being a christian.
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We have the idea of what is the invitation to come to christ.
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You say, well i am saved.
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I don't know if he's lord of my life, in the bible, the
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Invitation to receive christ comes first of all in lordship.
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Romans, clear word, chapter 10, "if you confess with your lips
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That jesus is lord and believe in your heart that god has
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Raised him from the dead, then you are saved."
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We have the idea, we come to christ, we walked the aisle,
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We're saved, we're baptized, and then we work on lordship.
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The invitation the bible is always lord jesus christ.
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Remember, it's the lord jesus christ.
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We come to christ, you know what we're saying?
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We're saying, i want jesus to run my life, to call my shots,
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To help me make every decision, to be the center of my life.
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That's the invitation.
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And following the invitation to let him run your life instead of
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Running my own life or you running your own life.
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Then the salvation process takes place, and the biblical term
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Is sanctification.
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Receive him as lord, then the savior comes, and then the
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Salvation comes, here and of course in the future.
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First called christians there.
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Here's barn, overwhelmed with all these gentiles, he said,
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I've got to get help.
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I need somebody to come help me put this together.
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Just for example, let's just say that god said to you, man, all
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These people are brand-new gentile christians, i want you
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To take and make a church out of them.
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Oh, what am i gonna do?
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I need help!
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And old barn began to think and pray, well, who could help me?
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And then we see he not only was a cheerleader for the church,
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He's a cheerleader for paul.
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Paul.
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Can you imagine what paul was thinking?
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I thought about that.
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Paul must have been thinking, you know, god has dressed me up
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To be the evangelist to the jews.
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I'm equipped like nobody on the planet to tell the jews that
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Jesus is the son of god, and to see them come to faith in jesus.
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He said, i am surely the evangelist of the jews.
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But that didn't happen, they'd rejected him.
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Now he's at tarsus.
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Barnabas goes down and said, paul, guess what?
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At antioch,
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Gentiles, they've come to christ, and i want you to be an
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Evangelist to the gentiles!
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And we know that's exactly what he became.
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And my, the world has never seen anyone like the apostle before
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Or since.
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Because barnabas went and got him back.
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Put him back in the game, not where he thought he'd be, but
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Where god had planned him to be.
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The greatest missionary who's ever walked on this planet.
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Now, what happened?
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Well, barnabas and paul decided to go out and tell the whole
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World about jesus.
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First missionary journey.
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They took with him a guy named john mark, a nephew of barnabas.
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Young guy.
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And john mark went with them.
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And they got to perga, and they were goin' into pamphylia, a
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District there that was rough sledding, a dangerous thing, and
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John mark said, i've had enough of this missionary stuff.
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It sounded glamorous in jerusalem, but out in the field,
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I mean, it's really something.
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So john mark leaves, leaves barnabas and paul, he goes back
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Home in jerusalem.
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They go to the second missionary journey, they're spreading out
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There, they're moving the gospel out, they're establishing
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Churches all through turkey, all through asia minor.
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And then they're going out again, and barnabas says, i want
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To take john mark with us.
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Paul said, no way!
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Man, he turned away, he went back home, we needed him, we
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Can't count on him.
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And barnabas said, oh, yes, i think he's growing, he needs to
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Go with us.
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And so barnabas and paul got in a dispute, and one went one
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Way as a missionary, one went another way.
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Paul took silas with him, barnabas took john mark
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With him.
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Time goes by, paul is in prison in rome, and he knows that
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Timothy is coming to visit him, and he says, by the way, tim,
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When you come, i want you to go and bring john mark with you, he
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Really would comfort me.
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Isn't that something?
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Second chance barnabas, cheerleader for john mark.
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Incidentally, sometime in the bible, when you get to the
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Second book of the new testament, you'll run right into
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The writing of this same john mark.
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Barnabas was a cheerleader for the church, a cheerleader for
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Paul, a cheerleader for john mark.
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Now you and i, are you a cheerleader?
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Are you pumping that hormone, oxytocin,
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Into the life of people?
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Making them belong? accepted?
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Are you a cheerleader and you're pumping into them some of
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That dopamine?
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Giving joy and happiness? do you do that?
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When you do that, it comes back to you, it's like bread and
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Water, it comes back.
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We need to be a cheerleader, we need to be a cheerleader
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For life.
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For life.
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We need to be a cheerleader for marriage.
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For marriage.
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Somehow our all-wise supreme court doing absolutely legal
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Gymnastics have tried to redefine marriage, and they
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Found it somehow, i think, in the 14th amendment, and nobody
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Who can read and write or knows anything about law can find
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Anything there, but evidently they found it.
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So now we are seeing an effort to redefine marriage.
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There is no such thing as gay marriage.
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Marriage is something.
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It's not only defined by the bible, it's defined by the
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History of civilization for thousands of years.
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A man and a woman.
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It does not need, and cannot have, a modifier, gay marriage.
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There's no such thing.
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By the way, there's no such thing as traditional marriage.
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Ooh!
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No, no, no marriage is a thing.
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You see, what we've let the liberals do,
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They have defined the terms in the debate that we're having.
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And you let me define the terms in the argument you and i are
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Having, it doesn't matter what's right and what's wrong, i'll win
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Every time if i defined the terms.
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There's no such thing as traditional marriage.
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When you take your kids to the zoo, you don't say, now there's
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A porcupine, and there's a traditional porcupine.
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[laughter]
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A porcupine is a porcupine, and marriage is marriage between a
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Man and a woman.
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[applause]
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Now, we have to, in our culture,
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Not try to out-pious everybody,
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Not say, boy, this sin is worse than that one.
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We have to learn how to speak the truth in love, and we have
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To be cheerleaders.
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But our cheerleading has to be based on truth.
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People that just go and say, boy, that's fine, i'm for you,
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You're the smartest, most wonderful person i've ever met
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In the world, i've never had a friend.
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I mean, watch out for those folks.
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They're cheering for you, but it's not based on truth.
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We have to do that, to base it on truth.
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And we have to see these who are destroying their life, they're
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Destroying their life.
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They're goin' against basic anatomy.
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They're going against the way god has created us, god has
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Formed us.
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God hadn't made a mistake when he makes a man a man and a woman
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A woman.
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God didn't get confused with gender selection.
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We have to realize, this is god's plan and accept it and
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Understand it.
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Sometime it calls for chastity, sometime it calls for
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Relationships, but we have to cheer on the basis of truth.
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And those who are going in the opposite direction, we have to
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Say humbly, the health challenges that are here, the
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Social challenges that are here, the fact when anybody, anywhere,
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Anyplace, you and me, go against the basic principles of this
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Universe and of god, they're always, their very life and
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Existence is in jeopardy.
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There's a couple, they were dating, they went to carlsbad
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Cavern, and he was a photographer, he had an
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Expensive camera and he prided himself on taking snapshots of
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Sunrise and sunset.
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They were in carlsbad cavern and he went over there and he was
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Taking a picture of the sunset, and he was so exacting with the
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Camera, it was a selfie, he wanted himself in it, and he
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Kept backing up and moving, trying to get the right angle,
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And behind him was a deep cavern, a drop-off.
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And his girlfriend was watching him, he was focusing and moving,
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And she saw that if he kept moving he was going to go over
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The cliff, but she didn't say anything.
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He kept moving until, finally, whoosh, he went over the side.
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Rescue workers came, pulled him out.
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Broken back, arm, neck, concussion, in the hospital.
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Oh, five or six days go by, he's all wrapped up, bandages up, all
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Strapped up, feet in the air, and she comes in and he says,
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Why didn't you tell me i was nearing the edge?
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I slowly walked over there.
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Why didn't you tell me?
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She said, you know, i know that you're so serious about
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Photography, and you have the exact way you want to do things,
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And i saw you setting that camera and getting yourself in
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It and she said, i knew you'd be upset, you'd be upset if i
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Warned you about what you were doing.
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We have to be prayed up and have to learn how to
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Warn people about what they're doing,
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The choices they're making, the decisions that will totally
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Affect everything about their life.
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Become a cheerleader.
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Okay?
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The world needs cheerleaders.
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Become a cheerleader.
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Become a cheerleader.
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Become a cheerleader.
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Become a barnabas, and we'll change the world, we'll change
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The world.
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Ed young: we have all felt alone.
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Even jesus experienced loneliness during his time
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On earth.
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But god did not create us to live in
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A constant state of loneliness.
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We need community and fellowship
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With others for our emotional and physical well-being.
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Listen, if you are experiencing loneliness today,
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Prison of loneliness.
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Ed young: without barnabas, the lives of the apostle paul
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And john mark would have been very, very different.
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Paul needed barnabas to cheer for him,
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To say, "get in the game and fulfill what god has prepared
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For you to do."
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And john mark, listen, he messed up.
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He needed a second chance for a meaningful life that barnabas
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Told him about.
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Do you have someone like barnabas to cheer for you in
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Your christian life?
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If not, ask god to put someone in your life who can become that
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Cheerleader for you.
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And as you grow in your faith, we should become, you should
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Become a encourager for someone in the circle of your influence.
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You wanna make a difference?
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You can begin by just saying, "well done.
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Stay in there.
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I'm on your team.
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I applaud you."
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Ed Young - You Need A Cheerleader

December 27, 2024 | S

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