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Ed Young - God's Role In Salvation

April 22, 2025 | S25:E96

Ed Young - God's Role In Salvation
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - God's Role In Salvation | April 22, 2025
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  • Pastor ed young: one of the greatest verses in the bible,
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  • And there are many of them, is romans chapter 8, verse 31, and
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  • It says, "in light of all this, what do you have to say?
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  • If god be for us, who can be against us?"
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  • I wonder as i say that, "if god be for us," the congregation
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  • Would answer, "who could be against us?"
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  • Okay?
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  • If god is for us--
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  • Congregation: who can be against us?
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  • Pastor ed: and then i'm gonna turn and point at the choir, and
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  • They'll answer: "nobody."
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  • All right, if god be for us--
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  • Congregation: who can be against us?
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  • Nobody.
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  • Pastor ed: that's a gigantic assumption, isn't it?
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  • That's a strong profession of faith.
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  • Do you really believe that?
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  • Do you know not just by faith or assumption, because you've
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  • Always heard it, do you know that it is absolutely,
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  • Positively true?
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  • And that's what we're going to talk about.
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  • The validity of that tremendous, overwhelming statement: if god
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  • Can be for us, who in the world can be against us?
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  • Nobody, nothing.
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  • That's an overwhelming thing, an overwhelming thing.
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  • See, a lot of people say, "i'm a christian because, boy, it's
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  • Exciting," or "i'm a christian because i love to go to church,
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  • And we interact there, and we intermingle there, and we get
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  • Involved and we're--i like that."
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  • "i'm a christian because i know jesus taught the highest
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  • Principles by which mankind can live.
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  • That's why i'm a christian."
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • All that is fine, but we don't become a christian by feeling.
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  • We may accept christ in an emotional moment, feeling need,
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  • Et cetera, et cetera, but that's not enough.
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  • Feeling has to be transferred into fact, into truth, and we
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  • Are a christian because jesus, what he said about himself, is
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  • Absolutely true.
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  • We are a christian because the facts of history, that salvation
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  • History we've talked about, is absolutely true.
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  • So we don't just float around in the ionosphere.
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  • We also have feeling, but our feeling is based on absolute
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  • Fact and absolute truth.
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  • That's the foundation: a valid, alive, functioning, experiential
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  • Christianity based on truth.
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  • Now, we looked at another famous verse in the bible: romans 8:28.
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  • And we love that verse.
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  • Been around church for a while, going through some bottom
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  • Experiences, we love to say, "for we know that all things
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  • Work together for good to those who love the lord and those who
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  • Are the called, according to his purpose."
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  • Now, that's a fabulous claim, a fabulous promise we can step
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  • Into and believe and profess, and it changes everything, but
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  • We need to understand it fully.
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  • For all things.
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  • We need to understand, as christians, we go through all
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  • Things: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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  • How many people i know are supposedly, foolishly, stupidly
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  • Misinformingly, if that's a word, mad at god because god
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  • Took a child, because they have a lifetime health problem,
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  • Because they have served up so many problems, and they have so
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  • Many enemies, and we go on and on and on and on?
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  • We have to understand that all things happen to all people, and
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  • Christians are not excluded.
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  • We are part of all things, why?
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  • We live in a fallen, broken world where evil is rampant, so
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  • We are caught up in all of this.
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  • It's good to say, "boy, as christians, we don't have
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  • Tough times.
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  • Boy, as a christian.
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  • I'll always get a promotion.
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  • I won't lose my job."
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  • A lot of people had the idea because we're christian, we're
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  • Bulletproof and independent from all things that are breaking out
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  • In a fallen, broken world.
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  • That's not true.
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  • All of us could stand up and say, "in my life, this happened.
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  • In my life, this did not happen."
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  • So we're caught up in all things, all things.
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  • Now, i will put a little parentheses over here.
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  • If we live the christian life, genuinely, in obedience, in
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  • Practice, prayer, worship, we run everything by our lives
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  • Through jesus christ, who runs our life, who is our lord and
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  • Savior, we are exempt from a lot of stuff that befalls the world
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  • That does not accept and know jesus.
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  • I give you that.
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  • That's absolutely true, but the same token, we're not exempt
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  • From the whole suffering agenda of the world.
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  • That we have to understand.
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  • So all things, we're involved in all things, christians, work
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  • Together for good.
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  • That's what we have that the world does not have, because god
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  • In his formula of life for those who are his sons and daughters
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  • In all these things, the good, the bad, the ugly, the ups and
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  • The downs, they are working together by a divine, divine
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  • Recipe, a divine formula, that god has for all of his children.
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  • That's a distinctiveness.
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  • All things work together for good to those who love god and
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  • Those who are the called according to his purpose.
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  • We see this lived out in many situations.
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  • A lot of us could stand and say, "man, this was the worst thing
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  • That ever happened."
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  • But that was in a microcosm that was micro in the macro of life,
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  • In the macro of eternity.
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  • All things work together for good to those who love god and
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  • Those who are the called according to his purpose.
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  • Many illustrations of the bible, one i love is lazarus.
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  • What a story.
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  • Lazarus died, close friend of jesus.
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  • Jesus went there four days after he had died.
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  • He'd received a message from martha that, "come quickly,
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  • Lazarus is sick," and when jesus gets there, what does
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  • Martha say?
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  • "if you had been here, he would not have died."
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  • Put jesus on a guilt trip, right?
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  • Yeah.
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  • Read it right, accurately.
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  • "if you'd not been here, and he wouldn't have died."
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  • And jesus, if you read the scripture at that moment, he
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  • Was angry.
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  • Oh yeah.
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  • And he was tearful.
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  • He was angry and he was tearful.
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  • And jesus, then you were to think he would have said, "just
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  • Hold on, gang.
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  • You think this is a bad deal?
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  • Zip it a minute.
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  • I'm gonna bring you back to life.
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  • Just watch this."
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  • He didn't do that.
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  • He wept, why?
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  • Because death is never a good thing.
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  • People--"well, death is just natural."
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  • No, it's not.
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  • Death is not natural.
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  • There's nothing natural about it.
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  • It is evil.
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  • It is wrong.
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  • All have been to face of jesus.
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  • All things work together for good, and he turned around to
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  • That tomb, and i've been right there on that little road where
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  • Lazarus's tomb was in jerusalem, and he says, "lazarus,
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  • Come forth."
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  • And lazarus erupted out of the grave alive.
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  • See, all things in the economy of god, in the eternity of god
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  • Work together for good to love him and those who are called
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  • According to his purpose.
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  • Because we are christians bad ultimately will turn out to be
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  • Good, though we may not see it next week or next year or the
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  • Next decade, but that's the promise that god gives to us as
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  • His children.
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  • And then you see that word "purpose."
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  • Open your bibles, romans chapter 8. i've just about worn out
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  • Three or four bibles with romans 8. you don't see the pages.
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  • I can hardly read the scripture for the notes i put in
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  • The margins.
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  • Romans 8:28.
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  • Now we're ready.
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  • "for we know that god causes all things to work together for good
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  • To those who love god, to those who are called according to his
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  • Purpose, purpose."
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  • We're gonna begin to understand life.
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  • I wonder how many people are walking this earth and you ask
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  • Them the question, "who are you?"
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  • "well, i'm a carpenter.
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  • I'm this."
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  • No, no, no, who are you?
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  • Big question, isn't it?
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  • Can you go through life not having a real, valid answer to
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  • "who are you?"
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  • What about the next one?
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  • Where did you come from?
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  • Or why are you here?
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  • That's purpose.
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  • And where are you going?
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  • Big questions paul deals with right here as we walk through
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  • Romans chapter 8. that's doctrine.
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  • No, that's basic, fundamental belief upon which we build our
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  • Lives and make our lives glorious for him.
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  • Purpose.
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  • He said, "if we are living according to his purpose," what
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  • Is his purpose?
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  • And i'm gonna jump down here and get ahead.
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  • We go--to back and pick up this verse.
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  • Look at verse 29.
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  • We're gonna talk about predestination, but he's--in
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  • Verse 29, he says, "he also predestined us to become--" get
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  • This--"conformed to the image of his son, the image of
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  • His son."
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  • We were all born image of god, right?
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  • Every human being has something of the stigmata of the image of
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  • God in their life, but now we are through a metamorphosis from
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  • My sinful life.
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  • Through a metamorphosis, i am conformed, and i become more and
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  • More like the image of that whom i have turned my life over
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  • To, see?
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  • And this is the first born among the brethren.
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • The bible is revolutionary in all the so-called gender
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  • Arguments in which we find ourselves enmeshed in today.
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  • It is revolutionary.
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  • They're not jew or gentile, male or female, bond or free.
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  • There's not anybody from this background or this race.
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  • We are all one in jesus christ, and the first born, paul,
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  • Amazingly contradicts this whole understanding of society in the
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  • First century.
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  • What was that understanding?
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  • That understanding was when a father died, half the
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  • Inheritance will be given to the eldest son, and the daughters
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  • And the other sons were second-class citizens,
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  • Particularly the females.
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  • But what does paul says?
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  • Paul says when we're in christ, this metamorphosis takes place,
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  • And we're conformed to the image of the son, as of the first
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  • Born, and then male and female, and all of us would come under
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  • The category of being first born.
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  • We all get the inheritance, and we've already seen the
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  • Inheritance also is the part of the inheritance of jesus
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  • Christ himself.
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  • So he blows away all the supposedly masculinity in
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  • The bible.
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  • We're all first born.
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  • We all are inherited.
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  • We're all in christ.
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  • We're all in the family of god, and there's absolute
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  • Equality there.
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  • So let's look at this.
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  • This is our purpose.
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  • Don't get lost.
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  • This is our purpose: "being conformed to the image of his
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  • Son, so that he would be the firstborn of many brethren."
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  • Now, we're gonna look at what god did.
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  • Five things, read any commentary, they'll talk about
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  • Five chains of truth, and here we get into heavy
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  • Theological water.
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  • First of all, look at what he says, the first link in
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  • That chain.
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  • He says, "for those whom he foreknew."
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  • He foreknew.
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  • You foreknow something, you know it in advance, is that
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  • Not right?
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  • You foreknow, you fore--he foreknew--you know in advance,
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  • And here is the theological dilemma of the ages, and i'm not
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  • Gonna solve it this morning.
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  • There's one view you can find in the bible that is taught that if
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  • You are elected by god, bang, that's how you get salvation.
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  • If you haven't been elected by god, you do not get salvation.
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  • Salvation comes by the choice of god in every life.
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  • There's another view in the bible that says, oh no,
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  • Whosoever will may come to god and come to christ.
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  • So here's the challenge will-- you have.
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  • Is your salvation and my salvation based on by being
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  • Elected by god, or is your salvation and my salvation based
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  • Upon free will, the choice that we've made?
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  • Both of those are biblical truths.
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  • How can that be?
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  • Free will, we chose christ.
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  • We get inside.
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  • We see we were elected to be in the family of god before time
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  • Began, and we see the word there.
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  • "we have been foreknown by god."
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  • It means that god knows the choices we're gonna make, and
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  • God knows ahead of time, he is omniscient.
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  • Certainly, he would know the choices we're gonna make.
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  • That's simply what this is saying.
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  • So you're talking about with election; you're talking about
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  • The armenians, free will; the calvinists, you've been elected
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  • By god.
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  • It's like arguing about the chicken and the egg.
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  • Which came first?
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  • I don't know.
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  • Nobody knows.
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  • It doesn't matter.
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  • The important thing is that we're in christ.
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  • We're in christ, and that's the whole truth about it, and he
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  • Foreknew that we would be in christ.
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  • So what has god done about our salvation?
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  • Remember who we are.
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  • We're discovering our purpose.
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  • What's he done?
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  • And these five chains of truth that tells us what god has done,
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  • He has for known us.
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  • He has known us before we receive life in this world.
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  • He knew this because he is omniscient, not only have we
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  • Been foreknown, but also we have--look at the next phrase--
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  • We know it.
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  • We have been predestined, predestined.
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  • "pre-" also means before, and "destined" has to do
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  • With destination.
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  • We know that we have come to christ, and he knew that it was
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  • Preknown, known to him, and now we know he knew our
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  • Ultimate destination.
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  • He knew we'd have free will, and also we've been told--let me
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  • Tell you what i do.
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  • I keep nominating people, and they keep getting elected.
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  • That's all i know.
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  • I nominate 'em, i share christ, and god keeps electing 'em.
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  • I think that's how it works practically in evangelism and
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  • Practically coming to know new life, and we have been
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  • Predestined, in the sense, god knows, as he's omniscient, what
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  • Our destination is going to be.
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  • Not a perfect illustration.
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  • Let's say you're in new york, and you were setting sail on the
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  • Ship that was destined to go to london.
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  • How many of you have been on a cruise?
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  • Lift your hand.
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  • You have my sympathy anyway, but you have a lot of choices on
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  • That cruise.
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  • They tell me, "been to all kind of places, different places to
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  • Eat, different thing--" you make all of these choices, and that's
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  • Free will, but i'll tell you, where is that ship gonna end up?
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  • London.
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  • So i think that helps us understand we have predestined,
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  • And in our predestination, we make a lot of choices, and by
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  • The way, we make bad choices.
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  • Christians make bad choices.
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  • Sometimes we're fools, we're foolish, right?
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  • Sometimes we filled with ego and pride.
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  • That's right.
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  • Now, god's gonna have a tough time taking all those departures
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  • From his way and turning out them to be good, but he somehow
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  • Even can do that, but you see, we're predestined in the sense
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  • We know our destination: london.
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  • Our destination is heaven.
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  • Our destination is these areas of life, but in the meantime, we
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  • Have free will on this earth.
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  • We make decisions day by day by day, and what's the next thing?
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  • Two things.
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  • We've been preknown.
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  • We've been predestined.
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  • Look at the next one in your bible.
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  • It says we have been called.
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  • How important.
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  • "those he predestined he also called, called."
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  • There are two kinds of call that god places on us.
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  • The first call is a general call.
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  • "come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and i will
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  • Give you rest."
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  • That's a general call to follow christ.
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  • We have a big call to follow christ, and that's a
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  • General thing.
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  • That's the whole area i think of, of natural faith.
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  • We look at the world, we see it was created by god, and god
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  • Sends out a general call to us to come to him, to believe in
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  • Him, and that's a general, broad call that he gives to anybody
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  • And everybody.
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  • That's a general call, but then there is a specific call.
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  • The theologians call it a personal call.
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  • Now, that's difference.
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  • The general call says, "whosoever, we'll let him come,
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  • For god so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son.
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  • Whoever believes in him will not per--" that's general calls he
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  • Gives us, but the specific call comes is when we receive him.
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  • The general call is an external thing.
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  • The specific call becomes a personal, internal thing.
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  • See the difference?
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  • There's a general call to come to christ.
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  • There's an whole thing, a lot of "i'm a christian, i've
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  • Accepted the general call.
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  • You know, i've joined the church.
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  • I've been through all the rituals, and i'm sort of here
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  • And there and yawn in church," but somehow it hasn't become
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  • Personal and specific.
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  • It doesn't determine how i think, the decisions i make, how
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  • My life operates.
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  • We're talking about the modus operandi of god.
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  • That's what this is.
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  • We're seeing how we are saved, and we're seeing how we can come
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  • To the idea that all things work together for good to those who
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  • Love the lord, those who are the called, according to his
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  • Purpose, and we've seen what his purpose is.
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  • We're to conform to the image of his son day by day.
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  • By the way, that's sanctification.
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  • That's sanctification.
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  • We didn't mention here, but it's implied, and then we have this
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  • General call, and then we have this very specific call upon our
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  • Lives, very personal, and we call, and that is when salvation
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  • Becomes fabulous, genuine.
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  • It's verified, and then something else he's done.
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  • Look at the next over these five words.
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  • He says, "and whom he called, he also justified."
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  • Justified, justification.
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  • Read in romans chapter 1 through 4. it's all about justification.
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  • We're saved by faith, not by works, and therefore we are
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  • Justified before god.
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  • What does it mean to be justified?
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  • It means god is our judge.
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  • He looks at you and me who are in christ.
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  • He sees the righteousness of christ.
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  • We made a great deal.
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  • We've given jesus christ our old life, and he's given us his
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  • New life.
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  • We've given him our unrighteousness, and he has
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  • Infused, with you and me, his righteousness.
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  • Therefore, when god looks on you and me, he sees perfection.
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  • We've been justified, and we know there's no condemnation.
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  • That's the last phrase here: no condemnation in christ jesus
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  • Because the price has already been paid for your sin and my
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  • Sin, and therefore we are justified by faith, but faith
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  • Isn't the big thing.
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  • We have the idea, "if i had bigger faith or smaller faith.
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  • I need more faith."
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  • No, faith is sort of faith.
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  • I don't know if it's quantitative there.
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  • A lot of people said, "oh, if you had enough faith--" no,
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  • Faith is not the question.
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  • We have faith, god has given us faith, and he knows exactly how
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  • We can use that faith or not use that faith.
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  • This goes back to the election.
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  • This goes back to the calvinists and got to the armenians.
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  • He's given us faith by our free will.
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  • We can use that faith or not do that faith.
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  • If we use that faith, we are safe.
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  • We are right with god.
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  • That's the word.
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  • And therefore we are justified, and sanctification is built in
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  • This, by the way, because we're justified, we enjoy growing up
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  • In the lord jesus christ, and then finally, we are glorified.
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  • Look at this last word.
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  • He also glorified us, glorified.
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  • Remember the word "glory" means weight?
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  • It means there will come a day when you and i will
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  • Be heavyweights.
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  • We'll weigh something with god.
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  • We'll weigh something with heaven, and that glorification
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  • Begins now, and it's interesting, in the tense of
  • 00:23:30.721 --> 00:23:35.092
  • These words, "glorified" is present tense.
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  • -- it's present tense.
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  • In other words, in a sense, we are already being glorified.
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  • As we have gone through the metamorphosis and we are being
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  • Conformed to the image of jesus christ, there's a touch of glory
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  • In us now, so we have these five chains tells us what god has
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  • Done so that we can know that we're saved, that we're, no, in
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  • His family, and god has done all of this for us.
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  • There's those five fabulous things, and then we come to that
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  • Tremendous verse that we already claimed, remember?
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  • Right up front and just a few seconds ago, all things work
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  • Together for good to those who love the lord and those who are
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  • Called according to his purpose.
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  • Micro, phew, tough, but christians in god's hands
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  • Back row.
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  • Phew, it will be and is magnificent.
  • 00:24:43.727 --> 00:24:48.566
  • Male announcer: trials are woven into the very fabric of life.
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  • When we least expect it, storms can come and turn our lives
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  • Upside down, they can come crashing like waves on our
  • 00:24:57.675 --> 00:25:01.812
  • Finances, our health, and our relationships.
  • 00:25:01.812 --> 00:25:05.716
  • So how do we weather these storms and turn the trials
  • 00:25:05.716 --> 00:25:08.652
  • Of life into triumphs?
  • 00:25:08.652 --> 00:25:11.121
  • In his booklet, "hope in the storms of life,"
  • 00:25:11.121 --> 00:25:14.224
  • Dr. ed young looks at how the apostle paul, though beaten,
  • 00:25:14.224 --> 00:25:18.095
  • Robbed and shipwrecked, found great joy in life, a joy that
  • 00:25:18.095 --> 00:25:22.800
  • Our heavenly father wants to fill your life.
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  • Pastor ed: what is the greatest chapter in the bible?
  • 00:25:50.527 --> 00:25:53.864
  • When you consider that there are 66 books in the bible, selecting
  • 00:25:53.931 --> 00:25:58.769
  • A single chapter, one to designate as the greatest is a
  • 00:25:58.769 --> 00:26:03.240
  • Difficult task.
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  • A lot of people have different opinions, but romans 8, in my
  • 00:26:05.142 --> 00:26:08.278
  • Opinion, is the goat chapter: the greatest of all time.
  • 00:26:08.278 --> 00:26:12.583
  • It covers just 39 verses, but is the abcs of christianity.
  • 00:26:12.583 --> 00:26:17.821
  • Where romans 7 shows us what happens we try to live the
  • 00:26:17.821 --> 00:26:21.692
  • Christian life by our own power, romans 8 gives us the divine
  • 00:26:21.692 --> 00:26:26.897
  • Formula for living life as god plans, as god intends.
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  • It tells us what it means to receive christ, to be in christ,
  • 00:26:32.236 --> 00:26:36.273
  • And explain what it looks like to live a successful, victorious
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  • Life, walking with the lord.
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  • Now, as we study this great chapter together, i trust that
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  • These messages will encourage you and strengthen you in your
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  • Daily walk with the lord.
  • 00:26:50.621 --> 00:26:52.690
  • Before i go today, if you need to speak with someone about how
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  • You can have this relationship with god through christ that is
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