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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Promise | December 22, 2024
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- Dr. ed young: before we begin today,
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- I want to tell you about some of the things god is doing
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- Through "the winning walk."
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- During our 44 year history of this broadcast,
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- It has truly been a thrill to see lives changed
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- Not only here in the united states
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- But literally all around the world.
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- It is your support that helps make this ministry possible.
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- As the year draws to a close,
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- Your continued support is so vital to us.
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- Now stay tuned,
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- In just a few minutes, i want to share with you
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- A story of how your gifts and your prayers
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- Are impacting the lives of people,
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- Literally, no exaggeration, all over the world.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ lord most holy, lord most holy, ♪
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- ♪ we worship and adore you, ♪
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- ♪ o, holy child of heaven. ♪
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- ♪ o god incarnate, ♪
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- ♪ one with the holy spirit ♪
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- ♪ and with the father. ♪
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- ♪ we lift our songs of grace to thee, ♪
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- ♪ redeeming love has set us free. ♪
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- ♪ for christ has been victorious ♪
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- ♪ and he will reign ♪
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- ♪ eternally ♪
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- ♪ the son of god, ♪
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- ♪ our hope, our great redeemer, ♪
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- ♪ the prince of glory.
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- ♪ we lift our songs of praise to thee, ♪
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- ♪ redeeming love has set us free. ♪
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- ♪ we lift our souls of praise to thee, ♪
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- ♪ redeeming love has set us free ♪
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- ♪ eternally ♪
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- ♪ christ is born. christ is born. ♪
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- ♪ christ is born. ♪
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- ♪ we lift our songs of praise to thee, ♪
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- ♪ redeeming love has set us free. ♪
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- ♪ we long for heaven and for his return. ♪
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- ♪ we long for heaven and his return. ♪
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- ♪ redeeming love has set us free ♪
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- ♪ eternally ♪
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- ♪ christ is born. christ is born. ♪
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- ♪ christ is born. ♪
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- ♪ we lift our songs of praise to thee, ♪
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- ♪ redeeming love has set us free. ♪
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- ♪ christ is born, ♪
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- ♪ christ is born. ♪♪
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- Dr. ed young: we begin the new year in just a few days.
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- Some of us will go to the supermarket and as you'll go
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- Out the supermarket, you'll see there inevitably those
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- Newspaper, journals there
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- And they'll have predictions, remember?
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- And they'll have all the prognosticators,
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- The futurists, the would-be prophets,
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- The gurus, and they'll be speaking and saying,
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- "this is what's gonna happen in the middle east,
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- In the stock market, in the various leaders of the country."
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- And they'll make all these predictions, right?
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- We've seen this for years and years.
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- Now, those of us who've been around for a while,
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- We get to be highly skeptical.
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- Some of them are outrageous, some of them we can almost
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- Figure out for ourselves, but we get skeptical in saying,
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- "you know i can't buy in all that."
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- I remember years ago a very prominent pastor in this area,
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- Stood up prior to the new year and said,
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- "god has given me ten prophecies that will take
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- Place in the next 12 months."
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- And he rattled off those ten prophecies that god
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- Had given to him with great ministerial prophetic unction.
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- At the end of the year he stood up and he said,
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- "you remember those prophecies that god gave me to me?
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- Here they are, and seven of them came true."
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- Well, i told this dear friend if they were from god,
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- Ten would have come true.
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- All the soothsayers that are running around with dreams
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- And visions, you always have to sit down and
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- Measure them by the book, the book.
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- Prediction, promises.
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- The day before yesterday, i was in this bible and i have a
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- Hundred bibles, it seems like, that always are like this.
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- I don't have just one, and i have a bunch of
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- Them that are like this.
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- And i happened to look in the back and i saw something
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- I never seen before.
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- There's a whole list of prophecies in the new testament
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- That are available for you and for me and
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- They're over 70 of them.
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- Now, don't be fooled by somebody who says,
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- "here's this prophecy in the bible.
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- You claim it for yourself."
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- A lot of the promises and prophecies are in that day
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- And in that time for a specific purpose.
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- All the promise in the bible, not available for you and for
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- Me, understand that.
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- I've written a little book on this subject.
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- It's got a rainbow on the front of it.
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- But there are plenty of prophecies and promises here
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- That we need to claim that have your name on them
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- And have my name on them.
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- And you read the promises in the bible and they get wilder
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- And wilder when you look at it in retrospect.
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- Adam and eve, kicked out of the garden.
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- As they went out of the garden and the fire was set
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- Up and the angels to protect anyone going back in,
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- A prophecy, a promise came and said,
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- "i'm gonna send a man that's gonna enable you
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- To get back in the garden."
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- And adam and eve said, "after what we've done?
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- No way." and then what happened moses?
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- Moses first 40 years of his life, he was god's somebody.
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- The next 40 years of his life, he was god's nobody.
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- And then we see as he is as estranged out there,
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- Guilty of murdering an egyptian.
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- He is wanted dead or alive.
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- God appears to him in a burning bush.
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- Remember the amazing thing about that bush?
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- It burned and it was not consumed and a lot of people
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- Said, "boy, that must be really an amazing bush."
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- No, listen, when god's in a bush, any old bush will do.
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- Remember that.
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- And god spoke to moses out of that bush and said,
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- "moe, you're the guy that's to lead all the israelites out of
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- Captivity as slaves in egypt."
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- And moses said, "but, but, but, but,
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- Lord, i, you know i don't talk very well and my brother,
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- Aaron, is so articulate and so, so, handsome.
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- He may can do it but i'm--there's a
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- Price on my head."
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- God says, "no moe, you're the one i promised to lead
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- My people out of the land of slavery."
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- Oh wow, a promise. moses of all people, oh wow.
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- And what about david?
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- David was a nobody in his nation,
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- A nobody in his tribe, a nobody in his family,
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- And samuel went ready to anoint a king and went through all the
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- Tall, strong, handsome brothers of david and he asked his
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- Father, "man, don't you have another son?"
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- Said, "oh, i got this little freckled faced guy out there
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- That's sort of the runt, the outcast of the family.
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- He just looks after sheep."
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- Remember, a sheepherder
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- Was the lowest vocation you could have.
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- Lowest vocation, bottom of the line.
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- Samuel says, "let me see him," and he laid hands on david and
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- Told david he would be the king and he would
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- Make a great godly nation.
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- David must have thought, you know,
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- Samuel must be losing it.
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- So, now the theist said, "in the old prophet here,
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- What kind of promise prediction is that?"
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- Look at the book of isaiah, you want to read
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- Some wild stuff about the messiah.
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- Bruised our iniquities. by his stripes we're healed.
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- Suffering would be the plight of the promise anointed long
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- Anticipated son of god entering into time,
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- And space, and history.
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- Man, that's the craziest thing. "isaiah, what's wrong with you?
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- You've been a godly man."
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- Wow, you want to get a real wow promise?
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- Here is innocent pure little mary,
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- A teenager in bethlehem.
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- She's promised to a man espoused and this angel appears as pure
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- Innocent teenager and says, "you're pregnant,
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- Not by a human being as you know but by the holy spirit because
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- You are to be the mother of the promised
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- Living emmanuel god with us."
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- Can you imagine?
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- Way back in the backwoods of bethlehem,
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- This little innocent, pure, teenage girl
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- Hearing a promise like that?
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- It was just outrageous. and what about joseph?
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- The soon-to-be husband of this little mary,
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- Here his pure little bride-to-be is pregnant
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- And he says, "what in the world?"
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- And an angel come and says, "joe,
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- Let me tell ya, you're gonna be the surrogate
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- Father because mary's pregnant by the holy spirit,
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- Not by a human being, and you're to be the surrogate
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- Father of the son of the living god fulfilling hundreds
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- Of prophecies in the bible."
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- I mean, you see how wild all this is, folks?
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- All these promises you'd read them and hear them and say,
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- "man, that's the most outrageous,
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- Over-the-top, wildest, you know, impossible thing."
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- And what about jesus himself? he said, "i'll be crucified.
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- I'll come back from the dead."
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- And so they said, "let's get this lunatic out of the way,"
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- And they fulfilled his own prophecy by crucifying him
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- And god raised him from the dead.
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- Just think about that.
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- Jesus, so we look back at all these promises,
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- Adam and eve back in the garden, promise kept, check.
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- Moses, promise kept, check. david, promise yes, check.
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- Isaiah yes, absolutely, check. jesus, absolutely, check.
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- So, if we read the bible, and we say,
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- You know, all these promises have been verified,
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- We've checked them off.
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- By the way, people say that's biblical history,
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- It is, but it's also secular history.
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- There has never been a historical statement written
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- In this bible that has been disproven by our archaeologist,
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- By anthropologists, by historians,
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- All through the many, many years.
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- Think about that.
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- This also is true history, true revelation.
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- And when you read all these promises,
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- And they have been verified, they have been kept,
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- You know, it would lead you to believe,
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- If you think logically, that the promises that have not yet been
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- Fulfilled have not yet come to pass,
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- They're gonna come to pass.
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- Wouldn't you think that when you've got
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- A perfect track record?
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- And this christmas, i have just one promise out of all of those
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- Wicked claim that i want it to be the promise you claim
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- And the promise i claim, just one promise.
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- It's found in the book of james.
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- Somebody said the book of james should be named in your face
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- 'cause i see people whining around saying,
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- "lord, where's the lord of the bible?
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- I just can't understand. it's above me."
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- Read the book of james.
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- It is clear, plain, direct, unabridged,
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- Right over the middle of the plate.
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- Read james.
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- If you have any problem understanding that,
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- You call me because you need to go back to the fourth grade and
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- Work on your reading skills.
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- And in the book of james, we find this promise that i want us
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- To claim this christmas.
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- And it's in the context of a tremendous study that
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- James is giving us here.
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- James is saying that we are guilty of being adulterous.
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- We're guilty of adultery.
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- In other words, he said when you receive jesus christ and
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- You receive the gift of god and his salvation,
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- Then we are married to jesus who is the bridegroom,
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- That is the metaphor used.
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- We are married to him and we're married to his agenda
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- And his kingdom, and we're not married to the world.
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- And james is saying, our problem is we're facing both ways.
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- We are in the world, but we're not of the world.
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- We want the world's agenda and the world's program as well as
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- We think we can keep god's agenda and god's
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- Will and program.
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- And he says, you're facing both ways.
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- There's duplicity in you, and it would be someone
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- Who is a christian schizophrenic.
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- "oh, i love god, his kingdom, his will,
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- But boy i love this world and the agenda that it has."
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- And he says you're guilty of adultery
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- Because you have received christ.
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- He is our bridegroom, is he not? that's the church.
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- We were the bride of christ, and it's a
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- Beautiful figure involved.
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- Then he talks about we've received grace.
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- The first stanza of grace is we confess sin,
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- Turn from sin, receive jesus christ as savior,
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- And the one that gets us is lord.
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- "oh, i wanted to be my savior," but he says you
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- Have to be savior and lord.
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- Lord means that he is commander
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- And chief of your life.
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- He runs it all.
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- So, there's this war going on that we have received amazing
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- Grace and then there in a couple of verses before the one we
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- Claimed this promise, james talks about you receive also,
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- Listen to this, a greater grace, a greater grace.
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- What is that greater grace?
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- It means that when you are despondent because you're in
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- Christ and christ is in you, and the holy spirit is working
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- In your life, he gives a greater grace.
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- He says that when you have lost that which is most dear and
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- Precious to you, he comes and gives you a greater grace.
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- When you're upset vocationally, he gives you a greater grace.
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- In other words, grace is like water.
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- You go to niagara falls, the water is flowing down,
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- Millions and millions of water it flows down.
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- It goes to the lowest point, does it not?
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- We receive christ and then the lowest point in my life or in
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- Your life, grace comes and fills all
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- Those low points in our life.
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- That's that greater grace that's available to us.
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- And then we come to the promise i want us to claim.
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- I want you to look at it in james chapter 4, verse 8.
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- It says here it is, "draw near to god,
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- And he will draw near to you.
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- Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your heart,
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- You double minded."
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- Here's the promise, draw near to god this christmas,
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- He'll draw near to you.
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- Just that simple. "well, i don't know."
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- But he gives the qualifications, have to
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- Have clean hands and a pure heart.
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- Clean hands is the outward part of your life,
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- The outward part of my life.
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- A pure heart is the inward part of your life,
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- An inward part.
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- And we draw near to god, we can't draw to near god.
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- He can't draw near to us unless we have clean
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- Hands and pure hearts.
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- Do something for me very simply, would you look at
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- Your hands just in your lap?
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- Just look at your hands.
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- I'm gonna pray a prayer, i hope it's a prayer for all of us.
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- Dear heavenly father, we here in this gathered family today pray
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- That you will forgive us when our hands have not been clean.
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- We come before you now asking your holy spirit to wash our
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- Hands all that is external to our lives,
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- Where we go, how we think, what we see,
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- The duplicity that's there, the dishonesty,
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- The deception, lord, wash the external part of our life.
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- Wash our hands now.
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- Oh lord, thank you for cleansing me on the outside,
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- Forgiving me on the outside.
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- Lord, thank you for making these hands clean.
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- And now would you take those hands that the holy spirit has
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- Cleansed and put them over your heart?
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- Would you do that, just take your hands
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- Put them over your heart?
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- And this is our prayer, lord jesus christ,
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- Purify our motives.
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- Purify our agenda.
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- Purify us inside so that we just naturally respond and make wise
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- Choices and decisions because there's a passion in
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- Our life more than anything else to follow you and follow
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- Your will and your purpose.
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- Oh lord, purify this heart. purify our hearts.
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- Now, i want you to look at me.
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- Let me tell you something, if we prayed that prayer and asked for
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- His cleansing, the grace of god had already been there in
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- Forgiveness and in salvation, now we pray
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- That prayer, we ask for his cleansing, all has been
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- Forgiven on the outside.
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- Then we prayed that prayer and asked for purity of heart,
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- God begins to purify our motives on the inside and
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- We're not double minded.
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- See, the rest of that verse.
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- Now, we can draw near to god and he,
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- Because we have clean hands, he's cleansed our hands.
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- Because we have pure hearts, he's purified our hearts.
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- Now he'll draw near to you and near to me.
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- And at christmas, there's a tenderness there in all of us
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- That makes us available, and susceptible,
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- And open to being near to god and being thrilled as
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- He comes near to us.
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- We've received that gift of christmas.
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- Let me get real, real, real, real practical.
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- All of us, most of us, have given and received
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- Gift cards, have we not?
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- I don't want a show of hands, how many of us have gift cards.
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- Don't tell me.
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- Then we say, "i don't know what happened to them.
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- I don't know where they are. i didn't cash them in myself."
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- How about 43% of us, according to all studies.
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- We have the gift of jesus christ.
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- Most of us have received him, but we have a double agenda
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- In the world and we haven't cashed in the joy,
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- The radiance, the purity, the feeling of being clean,
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- Of walking before him.
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- We haven't utilized ourself of all that's
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- Available this christmas.
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- It'll begin to happen when we keep our hands clean,
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- Our hearts pure, because this christmas he'll draw near
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- To you as you draw near to him.
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- And that will be a christmas, that will be a christmas that
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- Will change everything.
- 00:24:57.909 --> 00:25:01.279
- Ed young: we have all felt alone.
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- Even jesus experienced loneliness during his time
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- On earth.
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- But god did not create us to live in
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- A constant state of loneliness.
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- We need community and fellowship
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- With others for our emotional and physical well-being.
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- Listen, if you are experiencing loneliness today,
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- We have created a booklet
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- Ed young: what a thrill it is to be able to share the truth
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- Of god's word with those who need it the most.
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- Those who are hungry for answers in life.
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- Recently i met a couple,
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- Andrea and tiffany, who live in a small town
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- In eastern switzerland, a long way from us.
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- Tiffany regularly watched the winning walk on youtube
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- And as he listened to what the bible had to say about
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- Building a godly marriage, his eyes were opened
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- And he saw he wasn't the husband that god called
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- And designed him to be.
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- So they continued to watch each week,
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- And andrea soon realized that he wasn't even a christian.
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- He missed it, so invited jesus christ to come into his
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- Life and they had seen their marriage transform.
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- It has caught fire. isn't that a great story?
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- It's because of your financial gifts that we're able to take
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- The good news of christ to reach people all around the world.
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- Let me personally thank you for supporting
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- "the winning walk."
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- And i believe the best is yet to be as we look forward to this
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- Brand-new year of touching the world with jesus christ.
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- Thank you for your partnership to reach more people with the
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- Timeless truth of god's word.
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