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Ed Young - Building Strong Families

January 9, 2025 | 27:29

Ed Young - Building Strong Families
Pastor Ed Young discusses the importance of the family and how it is under attack in today's woke culture. He highlights the destructive ideology of communism and its aim to destroy the family unit. Drawing from biblical teachings, Pastor Ed emphasizes the need to build our families on the rock-solid foundation of faith in Jesus Christ. He encourages listeners to wake up and stand against the forces that seek to divide and corrupt our society, and offers biblical solutions to combat the challenges we face.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Building Strong Families | January 9, 2025
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  • Pastor ed young: in college, i was taking a course in russian
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  • History, and i'm sure that i read "the communist manifesto,"
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  • Became acquainted with words like bourgeoisie, but i don't
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  • Remember it.
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  • But somebody gave me, about a couple of months ago, two copies
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  • Of that little pamphlet that was written by marx and engels, and
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  • I picked it up.
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  • And i knew the thesis of communism: from each according
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  • To his ability, to each according to his need.
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  • And the thesis sounds utopian and wonderful; the only problem
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  • Is it has never, never worked when it's been tried in history.
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  • In fact, you could easily build a case conservatively that over
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  • 100 million people have lost their lives and been slaughtered
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  • At the foot of that atheistic view of life.
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  • When i read it, i was thumbing it, but in the early pages i
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  • Encountered something that was absolutely breathtaking.
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  • It said simply that for there to be a communistic society,
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  • This is pseudo-utopianism, you had to first of all totally
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  • Obliterate and destroy the family.
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  • First and foremost, get rid of any semblance, any sign of the
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  • Family, we would call it the nuclear family.
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  • You know why it's called nuclear?
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  • It's not for the energy; we connect the
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  • Word nuclear with that.
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  • It is the nucleus, nuclear, of all civilization, the family.
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  • In these revolutionaries's view, as long as the family was
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  • Functioning, and the family was the center of our society and of
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  • Our lives, that would be a foundation upon which could not
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  • Be destroyed, the family.
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  • And then it hit me, you know, god established three
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  • Institutions, we've talked about that: the family first, civil
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  • Government second, and the church third.
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  • So it seemed only natural that, if you want to destroy a
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  • Culture, you destroy the first institution god brought into
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  • Being, begin with marriage.
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  • God performed the ceremony, remember?
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  • Adam and eve.
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  • And we said over and over again, "how does a marriage function?
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  • Leave, cleave, one flesh, no shame."
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  • And before the infamous bite was taken from the apple on the
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  • Tree, if it were an apple, i think it was, already you see
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  • The freedom of choice beginning to deteriorate the four
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  • Principles of marriage.
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  • Leave, in other words, leave all things, all others, all
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  • Other relationships.
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  • Evidently, when eve needed adam more than any other time, when
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  • The serpent, when satan came, adam had somehow left and was
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  • Doing other things.
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  • Cleave, hold onto one another.
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  • Evidently, they were not holding onto one another, already the
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  • Pre-sin activity.
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  • One flesh, one flesh; they were not one, they were acting
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  • Independently, and when eve had eaten the apple, all of a sudden
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  • She gave it to adam, and adam blamed eve, and eve blamed the
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  • Serpent, and both of them blamed god.
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  • You see, already there was a disintegration of the family,
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  • Which was marriage at the core of it.
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  • So here is satan, attacking the family, marriage, through this
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  • "das kapital."
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  • And then we see all the rest of it coming down through "the
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  • Communist manifesto."
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  • And now we see satan's first attack, in all of his agenda,
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  • Was on marriage and the family.
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  • And then i awakened and said, "we're studying woke-ism," which
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  • Is not just an ideology, it's become a religion.
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  • Why, if you don't get in with the program, look at every
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  • Institution in america, and for that matter, almost around the
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  • World today; they are all growing in understanding of
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  • What it means to be woke.
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  • And if you're not woke, i can tell ya, you, in all
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  • Probability, at different rates, you will be canceled.
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  • Yeah, you'll be cancelled.
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  • By the way, they wanted to cancel jesus, remember?
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  • And they did cancel him.
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  • All the institutions of that time and that day said, "crucify
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  • Him," so they cancelled him, and they nailed him to an x-mark of
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  • Cancelization, and satan said, "amen."
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  • By the way, demonic forces use our language, you notice?
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  • Amen, so let it be.
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  • Jesus had been canceled, but what happened to
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  • That cancellation?
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  • There was a resurrection.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • So we come to this point, we ask the question, does the word of
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  • God have any instruction for us?
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  • Open your bibles to matthew chapter number 7, and you
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  • Couldn't have a better instruction for all of us than
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  • The words of jesus in the sermon on the mount.
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  • Verse 24, following, "whoever hears these words of mine, and
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  • Acts on them, may be compared to a wise man," a wise person, "who
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  • Built his house on rock.
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  • And the rain fell and the floods came, and the winds blew and
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  • Slammed against the house."
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  • Let me tell you something, folks, i like that word
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  • Translated here slammed.
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  • And every marriage, every family, everybody knows about
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  • What it means to be slammed against, slammed against.
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  • "slammed against the house; and yet does not fail,
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  • For it had been founded on the rock."
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  • Ooh, a marriage, a family stands.
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  • The contrast: jesus says, "everyone who hears these words
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  • Of mine, and does not act on them," they just hear, "will be
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  • Like a fool, a foolish man," a foolish person, "who built his
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  • House on sand," huh.
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  • "and the rain fell and the floods came, the winds blew and
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  • Slammed against the house; and it fell--and great was
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  • The fall" of that family that was built on sand.
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  • Let's make this personal, folks.
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  • Is your marriage, your life, single or married or not, is it
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  • Built on sand?
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  • We're talking about the family.
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  • Let me tell you what a marriage, a family built on sand--
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  • A marriage built on sand starts, usually, with a couple's
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  • Being unequally yoked together.
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  • What in the world does that mean?
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  • It means the husband believes one thing about this, the wife
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  • Believes something else about this; it means one is a
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  • Christian, one is not a christian; it means they're
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  • Going in opposite directions, they haven't agreed.
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  • How any marriage can stand when they're reading different rule
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  • Books and different principles, i don't know, but a lot of times
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  • We fall in love on the basis of, we call it love, but it's
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  • Probably more lust.
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  • I'm not against chemistry in relationship.
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  • Sure, that's a part, but marriages that are two
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  • Individuals living by different rule books, it's like playing
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  • Tennis; one person gets two points every time they make a
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  • Point and the other one gets one, and the lines are different
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  • And the rules are different.
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  • And guess what?
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  • That's not gonna be any fun.
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  • You take anything we do, and one side is playing by one book,
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  • Another side playing by another book, and of all things, in
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  • Marriage, the most intimate and sacred of relationships.
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  • So, the unequal yoke.
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  • And in the unequal yoke, and by the way--how to say this?
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  • "oh, you didn't mention this, you didn't get--"
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  • Well, just stay with us, we're in general principles i hope
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  • That you will hear and act and apply.
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  • And then they're unequally yoked, and then what happens?
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  • So many, many times, there's adultery, so many--
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  • Porneia, sexual immorality, there's adultery.
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  • And then, the other reason for divorce, given the bible,
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  • Is desertion.
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  • And boy, that's interpreted far and wide.
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  • Lot of marriages stay together in form but they're really have
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  • Deserted from one another, haven't they?
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  • You do your thing, i'll do my thing.
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  • Oh, we meet once in a while.
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  • So there are the two grounds, and really, you see that in so
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  • Many marriages because they were unequally yoked, different
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  • Principles going in.
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  • And now they get in, and here is adultery and here is desertion,
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  • Not just leaving, but deserted in working together,
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  • Teaming together.
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  • And then all of a sudden there's a divorce.
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  • What is divorce, ladies and gentlemen?
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  • I'll tell you exactly what it is.
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  • When you get married and i get married, two become one, and
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  • Divorce is when that marriage commits suicide.
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  • So here's what happens: suicide takes place, and then sometimes
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  • People get married again feeling they have biblical grounds, and
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  • Many times they do, but they don't change.
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  • They go in with the same kind of twisted view of life and
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  • Marriage and family, and it happens again, and it
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  • Happens again.
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  • And it's always the other person's fault, have
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  • You noticed?
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  • Tragedy. the attack is on the family.
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  • And when this happens, you know what the devil says?
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  • "amen."
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  • Yeah, one of our words, "so let it be, i've won."
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  • And then the product of this tragedy are children, children.
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  • Well, here are children.
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  • What happens to children?
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  • Usually they become a ping pong ball because the husband, the
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  • Daddy, and the mother, they want to make sure the children
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  • Understand that, "i'm right," she's right, he's right."
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  • And they so many times try to over-spoil, and do, and love
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  • Those little children who've gone through the divorce because
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  • "i want you to know your daddy loves you more than your mother
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  • Loves you," and you beat the children up.
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  • What happens to the children?
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  • They have lost the model, the pattern of what god intends for
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  • Family, and how children ought to be brought up, they've
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  • Lost it.
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  • The children are out there in never-never land, and they're
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  • Looking for authority and principle and understanding, and
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  • Usually mom and dad in divorce, they don't want to
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  • Discipline very much, or she'll side with him, or he'll side
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  • With her, right?
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  • I'm telling you just the way it is, ladies and gentlemen.
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  • So the children, then, are looking for some course, and
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  • Where do they go?
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  • Usually they go into the schools of education, right?
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  • They go into the classroom, and they're looking for a father or
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  • A mother or a mentor, somebody who cares, somebody who will
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  • Listen, somebody even who will discipline.
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  • You go to a public school today in our city, in our counties, in
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  • Our america, and about, i don't know what percentage, an
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  • Overwhelming percentage of them, they'll be taught the
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  • Woke agenda.
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  • They even have teachers at large who go through to teach the
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  • Teachers how to teach woke-ness to the children without mom and
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  • Dad ever finding out.
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  • Oh yes, they're all over the country, they're specialists.
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  • And then our children are there, they're looking for voices.
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  • And i recently heard about a teacher, i think it was in
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  • Dallas, in the sixth grade, she discovered 90% of her children
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  • In the sixth grade could not read simple sentences with any
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  • Semblance of understanding.
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  • She went to the principal, or head of school, then to the
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  • School board, and told them, and they took a survey, and sure
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  • Enough, only about 80% of them could read with any semblance
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  • Of understanding.
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  • And the school board said, "don't you tell anybody, don't
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  • You do anything," just promote them right up.
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  • Therefore, they can't read with the understanding, so they have
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  • To listen and be indoctrinated in woke-ism in the classroom.
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  • Now, if a couple is prosperous enough to send your son or
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  • Daughter to an independent private school--many, many times
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  • With great sacrifice.
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  • If they attend a school that is approved by the national
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  • Association of independent schools, and by the way, i would
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  • Say most of the prestigious schools in this city are
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  • Approved by this particular group and get their
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  • Accreditation there.
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  • If your son or daughter happens to be there, this is true across
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  • America by the way, when they go in, they sign something called a
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  • Certificate of cooperation.
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  • Follow me.
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  • And when a mom or dad signs this, it simply says that the
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  • Mom or dad will not try to interject what they believe or
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  • What they think in the educational process.
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  • "mom and dad, you stay out of this.
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  • When you take your child or your child gets up here 8 o'clock
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  • In the morning, they stay 'til 3 or 4 o'clock in the
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  • Afternoon, they belong to us, and don't you get involved
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  • In that."
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  • If you do, says this statement up front, your child can be
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  • Dismissed by the board, and none of your money will be refunded.
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  • Welcome to russia, that's where we are.
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  • And when you build your family on sand, when the wind, the
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  • Rains, when all of this is flung against your family, god says
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  • That family will not stand.
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  • And many of us could give testimony to that, many of us
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  • Can say, "i understand that."
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  • Many of us will say, in fact, "that's where i am, i get that."
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  • But then jesus goes on to say, "but if you build your family on
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  • Rock," on the rock, where does that phrase come from?
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  • Caesarea philippi.
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  • Jesus took the apostles out, way up at the headwaters of the
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  • Jordan river.
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  • I've been there, beautiful spot, pristine.
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  • And at the headwaters, jesus sat down with his apostles, he began
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  • To teach them, preparing them for the storm and the winds and
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  • The rains, and all the 1st century woke-ism they would have
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  • To deal with.
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  • And finally, he asked, "well guys, who do people say that
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  • I am?"
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  • Oh, you get the public opinion, this, that and the other.
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  • He said, "who do you say that i am?"
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  • Whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
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  • Peter says, "you're the christ, you're the messiah, you're the
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  • One the old testament has promised, you are god in human
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  • Flesh, fulfilling all prophesy, to instruct us and give us the
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  • Way of salvation now and salvation forever.
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  • You are the messiah."
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  • How did jesus respond?
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  • He said, "peter, flesh and blood didn't tell you this," you
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  • Didn't come to it by logic, "the holy spirit led you to
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  • Say this."
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  • And on peter's profession of faith, not on peter, "on your
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  • Profession of faith," said jesus, "i will build my church,"
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  • My body of activity in the world, "my church."
  • 00:18:06.808 --> 00:18:12.247
  • And he says, "the gates of hell will not prevail against
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  • My church."
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  • But the church has to be the church.
  • 00:18:18.253 --> 00:18:21.156
  • In other words, the gates of hell can't keep the church out.
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  • The problem is, the church has been so dead and complacent,
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  • They haven't even tried to get in.
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  • You and the church can be complicit in all of this.
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  • We just join up, "i'm just part of it now.
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  • You know, i don't want to go against the streams of history."
  • 00:18:42.544 --> 00:18:46.114
  • What a stupid statement.
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  • "well, i'm just complicit."
  • 00:18:48.350 --> 00:18:50.319
  • A lot of churches, a lot of people are complicit, "oh yeah,
  • 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:52.821
  • I oughta get with the program, i want to get with the program,"
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  • And lot are complacent.
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  • "oh man, i don't want to rock the boat, i don't wanna get in
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  • An argument, i don't want to stir up any problem, i'm gonna
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  • Just keep complacent."
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  • And we take the same advice that sam rayburn gave to john kennedy
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  • When they won the house.
  • 00:19:11.573 --> 00:19:12.908
  • Mr. kennedy asked, "well, what can i do up here in congress?"
  • 00:19:12.908 --> 00:19:15.510
  • And rayburn said, "well, you wanna get along, you go along."
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  • Washingtonian philosophy that is deadly then and deadly today.
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  • So you're either complicit, you've joined in, or you're
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  • Complacent, or you're courageous.
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  • Are you tired of stooping, folks?
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  • If there's ever a time in history, it is the time for
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  • God's people to stand now.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • A church built, a family built on sand will not survive when
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  • The storms come, but built on that profession of faith in
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • And by the way, let me just tell you something.
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  • A lot of people can tell you about, "you know, i've had an
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  • Experience with jesus."
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  • I've had experiences with jesus.
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  • You know the thing about experience with jesus?
  • 00:20:49.104 --> 00:20:52.240
  • It comes and goes, oh yeah, it's subjective.
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  • I had an experience with jesus.
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  • Boy, it happened at beach retreat, it happened
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  • On a mountain, it happened in church, it happened in sunday
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  • School, it happened-- i had an experience with jesus.
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  • That's all great, i've had a lot of experience with jesus, many
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  • Of you have, but i can tell you something: that's not enough,
  • 00:21:10.392 --> 00:21:16.064
  • Because an experience of jesus is subjective.
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  • You can't debate with me about my experience with jesus, i
  • 00:21:21.169 --> 00:21:24.172
  • Can't debate with you, but i'll tell you what, when the storms
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  • Come, you'd better have more than just a subjective number of
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  • Experiences with jesus, you'd better have the fact of jesus.
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  • You see, facts are objective.
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  • We better have the life of jesus, and his teaching, which
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  • We're able to follow when we're in christ, empowered by the holy
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  • Spirit, and we better understand the crucifixion of jesus, and
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  • The resurrection of jesus.
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  • Those are facts, that's objectivity.
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  • And ladies and gentlemen, you can call yourself christian till
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  • You're blue in the face.
  • 00:22:01.810 --> 00:22:03.578
  • Say, "ah, i had an experience with jesus, i walked down the
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  • Aisle, i was baptized, i was confirmed, i had a membership to
  • 00:22:05.814 --> 00:22:08.884
  • This, i taught a class."
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  • Doesn't mean a different in the world, that is words, that is
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  • Subjectivity; unless your experience of jesus is based
  • 00:22:13.255 --> 00:22:17.325
  • Upon objective truth, and that will be there forever, and
  • 00:22:17.325 --> 00:22:23.165
  • Is undebatable.
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  • And if you run around and say, "boy, i love jesus, but i don't
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  • Like his church."
  • 00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:34.743
  • Oh, that's like saying, "i love to swim, and i got a pool in my
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  • Backyard, but i never jump in."
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  • "man, i love to go to the mountains, and i have many
  • 00:22:43.185 --> 00:22:46.021
  • Chances to go, but you know, i just hardly ever go."
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  • Does that make sense to anybody?
  • 00:22:50.225 --> 00:22:53.161
  • Does that ring true?
  • 00:22:53.161 --> 00:22:55.564
  • That's hearing and professing, that's subjectivity; but
  • 00:22:55.564 --> 00:22:59.868
  • Objectivity is, "man, that's just where i want to be, and to
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  • Whom i want to belong."
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  • Built on the rock, solid rock, which is jesus christ, that's
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  • What has to be in a marriage and a family, if it is not only to
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  • Survive, but it is to thrive, and it is to sing.
  • 00:23:20.989 --> 00:23:26.294
  • So, a family built on sand, slammed, slammed, crumbles;
  • 00:23:26.294 --> 00:23:35.704
  • A family built on rock, slammed, stands.
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  • What's the difference?
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  • The foundation, the foundation.
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  • Over 80 times in the bible, the word foundation is mentioned,
  • 00:23:48.517 --> 00:23:51.953
  • Over 80 times.
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  • And jesus says it's the foundation, is it sand or rock?
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  • I go to your house, your home, one room, 700 rooms, doesn't
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  • Make any difference.
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  • When i go in, i look at the decor, and i look at, you know,
  • 00:24:04.733 --> 00:24:07.669
  • Just casual, how you live, and it's comfortable, it's fine.
  • 00:24:07.669 --> 00:24:10.705
  • I don't--you don't go in and say, "i want to show you my
  • 00:24:10.705 --> 00:24:13.108
  • Foundation--my house, lookie here."
  • 00:24:13.108 --> 00:24:16.878
  • But what's the most important thing?
  • 00:24:16.878 --> 00:24:20.081
  • It's the unseen foundation, ladies and gentlemen.
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  • And we don't notice we have a foundation until cracks begin to
  • 00:24:23.852 --> 00:24:27.055
  • Come, maybe a fissure begins to come, and somehow the house
  • 00:24:27.055 --> 00:24:31.826
  • Begins to tilt a little bit.
  • 00:24:31.826 --> 00:24:34.796
  • You say, "my goodness, i have foundational problems."
  • 00:24:34.796 --> 00:24:40.335
  • A lot of people need not just to hear what christ is saying to us
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  • Today in this woke culture, we need to awaken and check our
  • 00:24:45.407 --> 00:24:49.377
  • Foundation, our faithfulness, our discipline, our walk, our
  • 00:24:49.377 --> 00:24:54.749
  • Abc christianity that is based, certainly on experience with
  • 00:24:54.749 --> 00:24:59.387
  • Jesus, don't misunderstand that, but it based on the fact
  • 00:24:59.387 --> 00:25:03.525
  • Of jesus.
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  • That's objective truth.
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  • On objective truth, we can have a wonderful, emotional,
  • 00:25:07.495 --> 00:25:10.799
  • Life-changing experiences.
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  • Pastor ed: for far too long, the church has been asleep.
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  • It's time we wake up.
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  • While we've been silent, a godless culture has begun
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  • Dismantling our country and our world.
  • 00:25:24.679 --> 00:25:27.082
  • The foundations of the body of christ have been eroded.
  • 00:25:27.082 --> 00:25:30.452
  • We're being divided by gender, race, and social class.
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  • Our families are under attack and our children are being
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  • Corrupted and confused.
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  • It's time for god's family to stand up against this
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  • Woke culture.
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  • In "the church awake," we will discover biblical solutions as
  • 00:25:44.032 --> 00:25:47.669
  • We battle the forces that are ripping our country apart.
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  • It's my prayer that through biblical truth will find the
  • 00:25:51.806 --> 00:25:55.610
  • Strength and courage we need to awaken the united states
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  • Of america.
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  • Pastor ed: jesus gave us clear instructions in the sermon on
  • 00:26:11.393 --> 00:26:14.062
  • The mount.
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  • He said if you want a home that is built on a solid foundation,
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  • One that can withstand the storms that will inevitably
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  • Come, you must be a wise individual who builds his house
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  • Upon the rock, which is jesus christ.
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  • We not only hear his words, but we put them into practice in our
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  • Daily lives.
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  • This is the beginning of building a foundation that
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  • Will stand.
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  • Listen, we want to help and encourage you and your family
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  • Right now, today.
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  • Take a moment, call the number on your screen.
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  • How you can stand in our world.
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  • Families, we have resources just for you.
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  • And let me again personally thank you for watching.
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  • I look forward to our time together again next week as we
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  • Take another step on the winning walk with jesus christ.
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  • ♪♪♪
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