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How To Win The Culture War

Winning Walk with Ed Young

November 22, 2020

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The Winning Walk is the international teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young.

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How To Win The Culture War

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Ed Young: We are in a culturalwar.
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You might ask, "What isculture?"
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Culture is everything that's inyou and in me and everything
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that's around you and around me.
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It is our environment.
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It is the air we breathe.
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It's the people we associatewith.
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It's our family.
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It's a multiplicity of worldviews.
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This is the atmosphere.
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This is the environment in whichwe live.
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It is our culture.
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And we are in a cultural warright this moment worldwide, but
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especially in the United Statesof America.
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In 1970s, I read a book by AlvinToffler, entitled
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"Future Shock."
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He was responding to the radicalchanges that took place in the
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1960s, so therefore in the '70s,Toffler's thesis was that the
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culture is changing so rapidlythat human beings can't keep up.
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It was moving, he would say, atthe speed of sound.
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If that were true in the 1970s,what's happening to our
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culture today?
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It's moving at the speed oflight.
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Man, things are changing sorapidly.
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Who in the world can keep up?
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There's a word yesterday we usedin our vocabulary, and now if
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you use that word, you'recanceled.
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So we live in a rapidly-movingculture.
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Now, some would say our cultureis drifting.
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It's just drifting.
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No, our culture is not drifting,ladies and gentlemen.
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Our culture is being driven.
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It's being driven by whatforces?
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Silicone Valley, Hollywood, LasVegas, Wall Street, Washington.
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It is being driven by oureducational world.
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It is be driven by ourentertainment world.
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It's being driven by ourcorporate world.
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It's being driven by our digitalworld.
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These are many things that aredriving us in our culture to
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move into a brand new culture.
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And what is the basic premisebehind all of this?
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You know, you read a newsarticle and that's fine, but
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that may not be the primaryarticle.
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The truth of that article may bewhat's called a shadow article,
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a shadow reality.
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Behind that article, behind thatevent, there's a shadow event.
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What is happening in ourculture?
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What is the ultimate goal of ourculture?
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The basic thrusts of the culturewar we're in is simply to
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eliminate God from every aspectof life, keep God inside the
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stained glass and the steel, butby all means, don't let him
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get out.
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That is a shadow agenda whichreally is the primary thesis of
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those who are humanists andsecularists and those who would
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take God out of the UnitedStates of America.
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If you don't see that, take theblinders off.
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This is the basic background,the shadow of the cultural war
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in which we're in.
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Now, if we're serious about thiswar, it's not gonna be satisfied
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totally through elections.
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We are going to have to get inthe battle, those who are
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genuine followers of JesusChrist.
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The cultural Christians, they'vealready run away.
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They'll not be coming back.
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You just book it.
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So what are we to do?
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If we are serious in the warthat we have, what are we to do?
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What is our role?
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What do we do?
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I think we have to doindividually and therefore
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collectively, we're gonna haveto first of all speak love.
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And then the second thing wehave to do, we're going to have
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to teach truth.
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And the third thing, we're gonnahave to live pure.
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Speak love.
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The verse that everybody almostcan quote--everybody can quote,
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"Jesus wept," but also most ofus can quote John 3:16.
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Let's see what he says briefly.
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"For God so loved the culture,"the world.
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"God so loved the culture thathe gave his only Son," that
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divinity visited the world, theincarnation, "that whosoever,"
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anybody, anywhere, anybackground, any understanding,
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"whosoever believes in him,they'll not perish.
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They will live forever, andforever, and forever."
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That's what that teaches andthat is what this world needs
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first and foremost.
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We are going to have to speaklove.
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God is love.
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We've got to speak that love.
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So how do we introduce people tohim who helps you and me make
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sense out of life?
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And that's the Lord JesusChrist.
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How do we do that?
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First of all, we have tounderstand that the leading
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symptom of our spiritualsickness is death.
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That's the first symptom thatwe're spiritually ill.
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It's death.
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Jesus came into the world toconquer death and he's the only
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person who ever conquered death.
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Now, therefore, what's the causeof death?
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The cause of death is sin.
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What is sin?
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It's violating the principles ofGod that's built in all of
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creation and is taught in thebook.
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Sin is a cause of death.
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Sin separates us.
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Sin is the great separator.
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Sin separates our soul from God.
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Let me remind you for the 523rdtime of what your soul is.
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Your soul and my soul iseverything that's not flesh.
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Everything that is not of thisbody about you and about me,
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that's your soul and that's mysoul.
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It's everything that's notflesh.
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It's your heart, your emotions,your will, who you are,
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your personality.
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And that soul is made in theimage of God, as this body is,
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and that soul is made and willlive forever.
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Sin separates your soul and mysoul from God.
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Death separates your body and mybody from our soul.
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You follow me?
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So Jesus came into the world todeal with two problems that are
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very closely related: theproblem of sin and the problem
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of death.
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How did he deal with sin?
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He lived a perfect life.
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And in that cosmic transaction,he took upon himself all of your
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sin, and all of my sin, and allof my shame, and all of
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my garbage.
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He took that upon himself.
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And when he became sin, Jesuswho was perfect became sin,
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what happened?
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The Father turned away from him.
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Divinity turned away fromDivinity.
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Can you think about that?
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Because Jesus took all of ourstuff on him and the Father
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turned away.
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And Jesus said, "My God, my God,why have you turned away?
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Why have you sold me out?
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Why have you forsaken me?"
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What a big price.What a big price.
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But it was on that cross the sinproblem was taken care of.
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It was taken care of for you andfor me.
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Also, what about the problem ofdeath?
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We know the story.
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We know Easter.
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Jesus, dead three days, threenights.
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The Father resurrected him.
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And now, that perfect soul thathe had was united with a
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resurrection body, a body thatis made for eternity and
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for heaven.
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And so now, the sin problem thatwe have and the death problem
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that we have is taken care of byJesus Christ.
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What a fabulous, fabulous wordwe are to relate.
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A word of love, a word of newlife, and we called it being
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born again.
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We call it the process ofpropitiation, if you want a
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theological word.
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It means that we have on ourheaven suit and our
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earthly suit.
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It is a fabulous thing.
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The twin problems of sin anddeath were satisfied by Jesus
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Christ on the cross and with theresurrection, and that covers
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all of us.
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Now, now, this is speaking love.
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Now, how do we apprehend that?
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The Bible says, "Believe on theLord Jesus Christ and you shall
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be saved."
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What does it mean to believe?
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Exactly what I've said.
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Exactly what the Bible teaches.
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We believe, and what triggersthat belief?
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That is our faith.
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When we're aware of our sin, weconfess our sin, we repent, we
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turn away from our sin, and thenfaith, we receive him into
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our life.
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We unzip our heart and our lifeand we put Jesus in, and he
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comes in with his Spirit.
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And in your life and my life,there is a garden there in which
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we grow up to be men and womenwho walk with the Lord Jesus
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Christ in this broken culture.
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Man, that's a message.
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That's how we speak love.
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It's a fabulous thing and that'sthe first thing we need to do in
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this broken world.
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We have to learn how to speakthat language of the love of God
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for all humanity.
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That's the first step.
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What's the next thing we do?
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Not only to speak love, we haveto teach truth.
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How do you teach truth?
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First of all, we'd better try toembody truth in our own life.
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Jesus says, "I am the way."
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He said, "I am truth," so wealready are embodying him.
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How do we teach that truth?
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What's our problem?
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Why are we not teaching truth inour culture?
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It's because of sloth.
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Sloth?
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Boy, that surprises me.
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I thought sloth was being lazy.
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Now, one thing you can say aboutus in America, there's not many
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people that are lazy.
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Boy, we are going, we are going,we are doing.
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Sloth?
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There are seven deadly classicsins and one of them is sloth.
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And the classic definition ofsloth is the loss of an appetite
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for God.
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You got that?
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And we're slothful with our ownbusyness.
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Come on, let's go.
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Let's get up.
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Because we know there's thatGod-shaped vacuum in our heart.
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You can put anything in thatGod-shaped vacuum of this world
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and it'll never satisfy.
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You can't satisfy that vacuumwith anything else.
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So we put a little thin sheerover that God-shaped vacuum and
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we don't get too close to itbecause we're busy, because we
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are filled up with recreationand fun, or whatever it is.
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We read, we study, we go, wewatch, we move, we travel.
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See, we're tryin' to fill upthis slothfulness in our heart
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because we're not living andwe're not teaching truth.
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Pascal said there are threekinds of people in the world.
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He said there are those who seekand find.
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He said they're reasonable andhappy people.
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He said those who seek and donot find, they are reasonable,
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but they're still unhappy.
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He said those who do not seekand do not find, that's the
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slothful group.
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They're not hot, they're notcold, they're just apathetic.
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He says they're unreasonable andthey're unhappy.
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But Pascal says the second groupwill become the first group one
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day, because Jesus says, "If youseek, you'll find."
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Now, it's interesting that a lotof people think they're seeking
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God, but they're not findingGod.
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You know the problem usually iswe seek him with some
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fine print.
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We're tryin' to make a deal withGod.
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How 'bout that?
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I've worked out this thing.
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I have people say, "Oh, I'veworked out my own deal
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with God."
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How foolish and stupid can youget?
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Dealing with the Almighty,"Well, God--" listen, we seek
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when we open up, when we'retransparent, when we're
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truthful, when we can be seenthrough.
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That's what a true seeker does.
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And those who seek like that,they always find and
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they're reasonable.
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They always get to be happybecause we discover when we seek
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and when we find God, wediscover all the time he'd been
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really seeking you and seekingme.
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Seeking you and seeking me.
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We are to teach truth.
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Truth.
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Especially we'd better learn howto do it in our families, in our
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families, our sons and ourdaughters.
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We'd better learn how to teachtruth there.
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In a Seattle newspaper in thelast couple of weeks, an English
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professor who teaches atNorthwestern University, I think
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it's in Evanston, Illinois,wrote an op-ed article.
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And this professor said, "I'm ahumanist.
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I'm a secularist."
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Basically he was saying, I'mgodless.
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But he says, "We see it all thetime up here."
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He said, "Parents will taketheir children and they'll
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unpack their children, get tothem in their dorms.
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They'll hug and they'll cry, andthey'll get in their vehicle and
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they'll drive off."
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And then this is what he said,"Then those kids are mine."
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He said, "Then we've got them,"in the article, "four years."
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And what happens in that fouryears?
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A breakdown of any understandingof God, of conservatism, of
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morality, as they are invadedwith all kind of wild
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pluralistic ideologies.
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And so many times, our childrencome back after we've paid
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$40.000-$50.000 a year for theireducation, they come back empty
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and godless.
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He said, "Then they're mine."
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We had better teach truth.
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Speak love, teach truth.
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The third thing we need to do,we have to live pure.
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Well, that's a good one.
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Anybody here want to see God?
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Would you like to really seeGod, see him in the flesh, see
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him literally?
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How do you do it?
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I have in my hands somethingcalled a life straw.
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Has anybody ever seen one ofthese before?
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Lift your hand.
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A life straw.
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Two or three people, okay.
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More than that.
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I'd never seen one.
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A life straw is an amazingthing.
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Every year, between 5 and 6million people on this earth die
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because they have drunk waterthat was not pure, contaminated
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water, all kind of it kind of--between 5 and 6 million die.
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Two and a half to three millionchildren die every year from
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drinking contaminated water.
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This little thing right here,you could put it in contaminated
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water, whatever it is, and youcan suck through it and this
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purifies that water until it'ssafe to drink.
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Isn't that an amazing littlething?
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Amazing little thing.
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Now, in the culture in which welive that is so polluted,
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disease-filled, wouldn't it bewonderful if you and I somehow
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could purify our lives and drinkwater like Jesus offered to the
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woman at the well that's pure,where you won't have to be
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thirsty again?
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if wecould do that?
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How do we do that?
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I'll tell you how you do it.
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You wake up in the morning withthe Lord Jesus Christ.
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You go to bed at night with theLord Jesus Christ.
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The little chorus said, "In themorning I see his face.
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In the evening is for my trace.
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In the darkness, oh his voice Iknow.
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I see Jesus everywhere I go."
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Blessed are the pure in heart,for they shall seek God.
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That's the kind of life we needto live.
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Now, I got to this point in mypreparation and I said, "You
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know, anybody whospeaks love, mmm,
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teaches truth, and lives pure,
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man, that's the kinda person wewant our sons and daughters
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to marry.
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That's the kind of person wewant to work for.
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That's the kind of person we'dlike to work for.
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That's the kind of person wethink will make a tremendous
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difference in our culture."
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We're going to seek out people,we want to be with people, we
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want to have friends withpeople.
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Who in the world could findanything wrong with somebody who
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genuinely, man, speaks love, andteaches truth, and lives a
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pure, clean, moral life?
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Boy, wouldn't that be something?
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Boy, that would really changeeverything.
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The whole culture would applaudus.
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Wrong.Wrong.
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That kind of life is swimmingcounter-stream of the culture in
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which we find ourselves becauseAmerica is not
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just post-Christian.
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America now is anti-Christian.
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If you haven't picked that up,welcome back from Mars.
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You say, "Well, how do you knowthat?"
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Did Jesus speak love?
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Hmm.
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Did Jesus teach truth?
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Did Jesus live pure?
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What in the world happened tohim?
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Huh.
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You see, on that Passoverexperience, the Sanhedrin, the
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Supreme Court of Israel-- and bythe way, Israel by far was the
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most godly nation on the earthin the days of Jesus, period.
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No nation was more godly.
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They knew about sin.
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They had the sacrificial system.
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They knew about the miraculousleadership in their life.
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They knew they were called byGod.
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They were the most godly peopleon earth and they lived in their
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theocracy by the principles ofthe Old Testament, interpreted
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with the--et cetera.
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That's how they lived.
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That's how the Supreme Court,the Sanhedrin operated.
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But did you know Jesus who livedthe kind of life we're talking
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about, the Supreme Courtsomehow-- I guess it was
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postmodernism way back there inthe 1st century-- found him
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guilty, right?
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You know the Bible a little bit.
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Found him guilty, Supreme Court.
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Reinterpreted the law.
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Well, on top of that, thepresident would be Pilate, who
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was the commander in chief,represented Rome.
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Pilate found no problem withhim.
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He said, "This is an innocentman."
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But Pilate had pressure fromRome and pressure from the
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Jewish leadership.
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And Pilate said, "Well, youknow, I hand him over."
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Pressure.
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What about the people?
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Well, on Sunday when Jesus camein riding on the donkey on Palm
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Sunday, man, they waved palmbranches and they said,
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"Hosanna, Hosanna!
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Blessed is he that comes in thename of the Lord.
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This may be the Messiah.
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Hosanna!"
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That was on Sunday.
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To show how divided the peoplewere in Israel, on Thursday they
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said, "Crucify him!
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Crucify!"
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Sunday, "Hosanna!"
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Thursday, "Crucify!"
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The division we see of thepeople represented today by our
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own House and Senate.
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They get divided.
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Not a perfect parallel, but Ithink we see it.
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I think we see it.
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Speak love, mmm, teach truth,live pure.
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And ladies and gentlemen, blood,sweat, and tears will begin to
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battle in our cultural war.
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And guess what?
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Jesus told us ever, ever soclearly.
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John chapter 15, Jesus isspeaking.
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Listen to this.
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Jesus says, "If the world," theculture, "hates you, you know
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that it hated me before it hatedyou," huh.
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"If you were of the culture,the culture would
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love its own," hmm.
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Yet because you are not of theculture," countercultural
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lifestyle, "but I chose you outof the culture, therefore the
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culture hates you.
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Remember the word that I said toyou: 'A servant is not greater
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than his master.'
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If they," the culture of theworld, "persecuted me," said
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Jesus, "they will also persecuteyou."
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Want to sign up for the battlewe're in?
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Get ready, blood, sweat, tears,to be persecuted.
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male announcer: For a limitedtime, Dr. Ed Young would like to
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send you a copy of his sermonseries, "Culture Clash."
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Ed Young: Ladies and gentlemen,we are in a war.
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male announcer: There's a battlegoing on for the moral fabric of
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our culture.
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The church, marriage, truth, andlife itself are all under attack
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by those who wish to remove Godfrom our world.
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Ed Young: They're seeking toredefine everything in
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our culture.
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male announcer: So how do westand strong in our faith and
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help turn the tide when ourculture seems lost?
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In his series, "Culture Clash,"Dr. Ed Young gives us the
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answers from God's Word to themoral crisis we face today.
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These uncompromising messageswill challenge you to stand up
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and help win our culture back toGod.
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To get the series, "CultureClash," call the number on your
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It's our gift to you for yourfinancial support of "The
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Ed Young: In the battle for theheart, soul, and mind of
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America, what do we do?
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We learned today that we are tospeak love, teach truth,
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live pure.
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You may be saying to yourself,"These instructions and beyond
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anything I can live up to," andI wholeheartedly agree with you.
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But as children of God, we havethe capacity to live this kind
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of countercultural lifestyle.
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He will restore in us that kindof passion we need.
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He will place in us, each of us,the kind of heart we need.
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And he will be with us just ashe promised, today, tomorrow,
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and for all eternity.
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Call the number on your screen.
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Godly men and women are waitingto talk with you and pray with
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you as you stand against theculture in which you and I live.
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Let me personally thank you forwatching.
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Please make plans to join usnext time as together we take on
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another step on the winningwalk, walking upstream against
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the culture of 2020.
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