Ed Young - Stuck In A Rut

December 29, 2024 | S25:E1

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Stuck In A Rut | December 29, 2024

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Dr. ed young: you'd be amazed how many times people ask me,
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How you stay so passionate about life?
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How do you stay fired up all the time?
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You seem to have fire in your belly!
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How does that happen?
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Ladies and gentlemen, i decided a long time ago
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That i was going to burn up and not rust out.
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(audience laughing)
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But i can tell you, there's a lot of people here
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Who haven't made that decision.
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I know so many folks that may be 25 or 95,
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But they've just given up on life.
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And you know, they have the idea that,
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Well, i have put a do not disturb sign on my door,
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And i'm going to continue to live the way i'm living,
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And you go through life, boring everybody to death,
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And even boring yourself to death.
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And you can't justify being alive, breathing air,
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Consuming goods, loving me, my, and mine,
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And that's about it.
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Many people get in a rut.
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On the alaska highway, there's a sign up there that says,
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Choose your rut carefully,
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Because you'll be in it for the next 200 miles.
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Are you in a rut?
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Has fire gone out of your life?
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By the way, you know what a rut is.
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It's a grave with both ends kicked out of it.
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And when people begin to say, well, i guess my life is over.
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I'm just gonna live my life just like this,
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And i'm not gonna change.
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When is the last time
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You launched out into something
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That you'd never done before?
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When is the last time you stood up and said,
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I want to volunteer to move in this area?
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How many times have people asked you
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To move out of your comfort zone,
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And you'd said, you know, i've never done that before.
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I just don't know.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you have lost fire in your life.
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What is fire in the bible?
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It's used for many things,
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But primarily, it is a metaphor for god.
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God is like a fire, and when god comes in a life,
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He burns all away that which is extraneous,
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And he gives us life, and purpose, and direction.
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Have you lost your way?
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Are you confused?
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Are you, in a sense caught up in slavery?
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This is the way it is!
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There's no hope for me.
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I can't change.
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I was in the bible museum
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About three weeks ago in washington,
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And the man who put it all together
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Took me into a section there,
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And he was showing me literally thousands of bibles,
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And he said, "look at this shelf.
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"these are bibles, these are bibles
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"that the plantation owners had printed for slaves."
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I said, boy, that's interesting.
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And here's these slave bibles.
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The owners of the slave had them printed for their slaves,
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And i said, what's the difference in this bible,
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Than all the other bibles?
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He said, "well, the slave owners
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"had the book of exodus left out."
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(audience laughing)
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Didn't want the slaves to know that god sets people free!
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God intends for people to be free,
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But i can tell you, you're in a special kind
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Of deadly slavery right now
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If there is no fire of purpose in your life.
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We've been studying solomon.
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He's let us walk inside his life.
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This may have been his memoirs,
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It may have been is autobiography.
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It may have been his spiritual journal,
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But you have to be thrilled when somebody just opens up
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And says, this is the thrust of my life.
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You know what he tells us?
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He says, "this is how you can put
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"the fire of god in your life."
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If, if that fire has gone out,
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If you don't wake up in the morning
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And hear the sound of the trumpets any longer?
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Let me tell you something, i wake up every morning,
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And i wake up winston, and i sing,
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This is the day the lord has made,
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And he's never once complained.
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(audience laughing)
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Is that your life?
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Do you hear the sound of the trumpets in the morning?
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Do you jump out of bed with purpose?
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Is there fire in your belly, to say it theologically?
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Solomon says "this is how you can put fire in your belly."
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And he gives us four proverbs.
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He's a master of proverbs, he's written that book.
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And i want you to listen to these proverbs,
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And if you're sort of fed up with life,
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You know, you're caught up in the same old, same old,
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And it's sort of ho-hum, and i'm gonna hang in till the end.
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And you always say, well, i can't do that because,
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You know, i'm older now,
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And i don't stay up on things like i used to now.
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Let me tell you something.
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I stay away from people like that, i run from them.
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Because they've lost the light of god
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And the fire of god in their life!
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And i've seen 'em at 25,
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I've seen 'em all through the years.
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By the way, there are four or five stages of life.
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There's infancy.
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There's childhood, the teenage years.
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Then there is the young, middle years,
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And then there's middle age, and then there's old age,
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And then there is a you sure look good time.
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(audience laughing)
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But in whatever category you find yourself,
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So many people, i see young people,
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And there is no fire in their life.
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I look at their eyes, and their eyes are glazed over.
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There's no real purpose,
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And they don't understand the meaning of life.
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Solomon says, "you wanna keep fire in your life?"
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He tells us exactly how to do it with four proverbs.
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Look at them! ecclesiastes one, verse one.
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Cast your bread on the surface of the waters,
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And you will find it after many days.
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What is that?
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You cast your bread, your life, your means
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And just throw it out on the surface of waters.
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Let me tell you, you take bread
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And put it in a plastic container, and it'll mold.
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You put it in the refrigerator, and it'll become dry.
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I've discovered that in recent days.
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(audience laughing)
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And so, what do you do with bread?
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Solomon says, "you wanna keep fire in your life?
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"you just cast it out on the water."
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And you'll be amazed what will happen.
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It will come back to you, many days later,
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Buttered, i believe.
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(audience laughing)
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And some people, they're so close.
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He's talking about living a life that is generous.
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Somebody says, "make all you can,
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Can all you can, and sit on the can."
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In other words, don't share. don't become generous.
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But solomon says, "just cast your bread on the water."
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By the way, this is another way
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Of expressing the golden rule.
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Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you.
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What does that mean?
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It means whatever you need, that's what you give.
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Does anybody here have any need?
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You have anything you want, or you down,
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Or what do you need?
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Need somebody to encourage you?
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Guess what, encourage others.
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Try it!
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"cast some bread on the water."
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That's what solomon says.
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And then he gives us another parable
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That is just as powerful and practical as that.
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Verse two, "divide your portion to the seven,
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"or even to the eight,
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"for you do not know what misfortune may occur on earth."
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What is he saying there?
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Don't put all of your eggs in one basket!
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That's what he's saying.
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You drop the basket, you lose all your eggs!
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What does that mean?
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It means diversify.
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Don't let one rejection,
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Or one broken heart destroy your life.
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I know a young woman who said,
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"you know, i've never met my soul mate.
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"i thought that i had, and i lost him,
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"and oh, i'll never be happy for the rest of my life."
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The whole thing about soul mate is a myth, folks!
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It's a myth!
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It's not, i can only marry one person.
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Where do you get that in the bible?
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Now i believe in covenant marriage,
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Don't misunderstand or misinterpret this.
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But by the same token, just because this didn't work out,
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Your life's not destroyed.
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I see teenagers, well,
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I didn't get accepted to that college.
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Therefore, i don't know if i want to go to school anymore.
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You see, there a lot you have to divert.
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket
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And say, this must work for me, or i'm gonna be miserable!
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How foolish is that kind of thinking?
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Solomon says you want to keep fire in your life,
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If this door closes, god may open a window.
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If this window is raining, you can't go there,
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He may find you a backward way.
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In other words, believe in the providence of god!
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God's running this world, ladies and gentlemen!
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Nobody else is, don't believe anything you read,
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And when you and i try to run the world,
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I try it once in a while, and i quickly resign!
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(audience laughing)
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The providence of god is working,
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So we don't put all of our eggs in one basket, or one thing.
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By the way, that's what happened to the ship, the titanic.
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In about 1912, this beautiful ship,
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Most expensive ship ever made,
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On its maiden voyage, who's who was on board,
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And they advertised, this ship cannot be sunk!
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And they put all of their stock in the steel of the hull.
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How it was put together as a catacomb,
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And they had five different chambers
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That were air tight that gravitated
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To 16 different steel chambers,
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And they said, "if something would penetrate
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"one of these airtight chambers, it would seal itself
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"and the ship would still stay afloat."
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They put all their eggs in that kind of engineering,
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That kind of thinking.
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Therefore, they came to icebergs,
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They said, "full steam ahead, this ship can't be sunk!"
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And they ran into an iceberg,
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It pierced one of those airtight
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Steel compartments in the hull.
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They said, "well, the rest of them,
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"they haven't been penetrated."
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But what they didn't know was,
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When they pierced this, the water pressure and the power,
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They had steel horizontally around the ship,
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But when it pierced this,
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The water was forced with power
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And came down in the other areas of the ship vertically,
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And they went down to the bottom of the ocean.
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They put all their eggs in the basket of pride,
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We're invincible, we can't go down.
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What is solomon saying?
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He says, "cast your bread on the water!
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"watch what happens, invest in life, in people,
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"in things that make a difference."
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And then he says, "don't put all your eggs in one basket."
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The he comes and gives us another parable,
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And by the way, put these things in practice,
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Fire will come back in your life, purpose in your life.
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Verse three following,
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"if the clouds are full, they pour out rain upon the earth,
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"and whether a tree falls."
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What's he saying here, by the way,
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You're gonna see is don't put off to tomorrow
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What you can do today.
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He's saying, "nike, victory, do it now!"
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And he says, and he moves on, "south, or toward the north,
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"whether the tree falls, where it lies.
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"he who watches the wind will not sow,
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"and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.
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"just as you do not know the path of the wind
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"and how the bones are formed
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"in the womb of a pregnant woman,
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"so you do not know the activity of god,
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"who makes all things."
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What is he saying here?
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He is saying if you want fire to come in your life,
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You have to understand and realize
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That you're not in control of all of this.
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You have to come to realize
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Some very practical words of truth about life
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And where it comes from,
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And there's a capriciousness there.
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There's a unsteadiness there.
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And then he talks about in verse number six,
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"sow your seed in the morning
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"and do not be idle in the evening,
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"for you to do not know whether morning
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"or evening sowing will succeed,
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"or whether both of them alike will be good."
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He's saying very simply here
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That we just sow seed bountifully.
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We, say in corinthians chapter number nine said,
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"just sow bountifully."
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If you sow bountifully, you may have a bountiful harvest.
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If you sow sparingly, not much is going to come up.
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So he's talking about the fundamental law
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Of sowing and reaping.
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And we just delay, we say,
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Well, it's not the right time for me to do that.
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We put this off, we put that off, we procrastinate it.
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Solomon said, "do it now!
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"what are you waiting for? "decide now!"
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I read about a georgia farmer,
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And he was in an old shack, and a car pulled up.
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A man asked for directions,
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And the farmer gave him directions,
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And the man said, "well, how's your cotton crop coming?"
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He said, "uh, i ain't planted no cotton this year."
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He said, "why?"
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He said, "boll weevils."
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Okay.
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He said, "tell me how your corn crop is doing?"
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He said, "i ain't planting no corn this year."
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He said, "why?"
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"well, they said we're not gonna have much rain."
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He said, "what about your potatoes?"
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He said, "i didn't plant any potatoes."
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"why?" "potato bugs."
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He said, "what did you plant?"
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He said, "i didn't plant anything.
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"i'm playing it safe!"
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(audience laughing)
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Some people take their whole life and they play it safe.
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Listen, there's never a perfect time
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For anything that we're trying to decide on.
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Some people have the idea, well,
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I can't decide about christ.
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I can't decide about the church.
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I'm just gonna wait and see until my life is perfect,
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I get a lot of moral things straightened out,
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And i have new understanding about being a christian.
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Ravi zacharias was speaking at the harvard veritas forum,
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And he simply presented jesus christ, biblical truth.
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God revealed himself to man,
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And he talked about christ in you
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Will give you a new life at harvard.
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When he got through, one student lifted his hand.
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He said, "i believe all religions are the same."
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He said, "i believe there are many paths
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"that go up to the top of the mountain,
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"and it doesn't matter which path you take,
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"as long as you're sincere,
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"we'll all reap the top together."
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He said, "i believe all religions are the same."
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And ravi said, "hmm, you're right.
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"all religions are the same,
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"except for the nature and character of god,
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"the identity and a definition of man,
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"except for ethics, right and wrong,
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"except for the understanding of cosmology, the universe."
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He said, "except for sexuality,
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"except for suffering, except for relationships."
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He said, "except for your eternal destiny heaven or hell."
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He said, "oh, just with those few little minor things,
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"you're right, all religions are the same."
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(audience laughing)
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Let me tell you something.
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He who was at the top of the mountain
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Made a path down to the bottom of the mountain and came
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Where we are, and provided a way through christmas,
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And calvary, and easter that we can go back up that path,
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Up the mountain, and that is a simple
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Definition of jesus christ and of christianity!
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(audience applauding)
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Well, you know, i just,
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I don't know about all of these things.
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You wanna stay there with the fire of your life
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Getting dimmer, and dimmer, and dimmer,
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And finally, it just blurs out into oblivion?
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Solomon says, "you want fire, purpose, passion in your life?
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"these parables will point you right to it!"
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And he says, "don't put off to tomorrow
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"what you need to do today."
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Oh, i'm gonna decide about god and christ some day.
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Now is the time of your salvation!
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Now is the time to put it together.
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Now is the time to step out and take that wonderful,
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Confident leap of faith!
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And then he comes to the end,
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And he does a fabulous thing here.
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The last, the last proverb he gives us,
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You find in verse seven following.
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He says simply, "let the good times roll."
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You like that one, don't you?
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Christians are to let the good times roll,
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And fire comes back when we cast our bread on the water,
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It comes back buttered.
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Man, that brings fire back to us every single time.
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And then, when we don't put
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All of our eggs in one basket, we've diversified,
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As god works, and leads, and moves with his spirit
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Providentially in your heart and in my life.
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That'll put fire back within us. and then we have the thing,
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Don't put off to tomorrow, do it today.
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Do it today, nike!
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Nike, now, do it now!
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And then the results of that,
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We can let the good times roll!
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Now how does this operate?
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Look at it.
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In verse seven, "the light is pleasant."
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You're in the light.
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"it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
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"indeed, if a man should live many years,
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"let him rejoice in them all."
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And here's our first word.
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He says, "let him remember."
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Look at verse nine, "and rejoice, and let him remove."
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We are to have a rear-view mirror
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If we let the good times roll,
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And look back and remember what we've learned in the past,
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Who we've met in the past,
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The great experiences of the past, the good,
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The bad, the different, the ugly, and the past.
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We are to remember that, that prepares us to celebrate,
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Prepares us to rejoice.
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He says, "young man, during your childhood,
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"and in your heart, be pleasant during the days
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"of young manhood and follow the impulses of your heart,
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"and the desires of your eyes,
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"and you know that god will bring you
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"judgment for these things."
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Very interesting passage there.
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He's saying we are to rejoice.
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There are things that we see that we can appreciate,
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We can rejoice in.
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He said there's things we can't see,
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That's the passion of our heart,
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But said remember within this, there is the judgment of god.
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Other words, we have to be rejoicing
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And celebrating within the parameters of god.
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Whoever told people that we as christians
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Can't have fun and enjoy life?
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I don't know where we get that.
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And then the final thing,
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He says you remove some things for your life as you rejoice.
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Let me tell you,
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If you put poison in your mind, what you read,
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And you poison your eyes, what you see, pornography,
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That's so prevalent, and you put poison in your mouth
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With various kinds of addictions,
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And all of a sudden, you put enough poison in you,
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Or i put enough poison in me,
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We wonder, why am i not healthy?
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I wonder why i'm not healthy?
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You see, that has to become out of us.
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That's what the fire of god does.
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We invite christ to come in our lives.
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He has to remove a lot of trash,
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And the best way to get trash is to set it on fire,
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And that's what the holy spirit does
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When he enters your life and enters my life.
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That gives us the ability to rejoice!
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Re-joy, joy, joy, joy!
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(audience applauding)
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Cliff barrows, long time personal friend,
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Member of my church,
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Led music for billy graham for many years.
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Did more than that.
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He was one of the leading administrators and entrepreneur
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In the billy graham evangelistic association
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From the very beginning.
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Someone asked billy graham,
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"who's the greatest christians you've ever known?"
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He said, "my wife, ruth, and cliff barrows."
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My son, cliff, is named after cliff.
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We don't have any musicians in our family,
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But i think because of that, he became a musician,
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I don't even understand that.
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But cliff told me a story.
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He said, "when i was a young teenager."
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He said, "my dad took me to yosemite national park."
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He said, "it was a memorable experience."
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He said, "a forest ranger took a tour group around."
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He said, "he took us all over that park.
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"told us the history, all the animals,
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"the beauty, the valley, the trees."
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He said, "it was a wonderful day i spent, touring yosemite."
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And he said, "when it got to the end of the day,
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"he took us to a place called glacier point."
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And he said, "we had our tour group there,
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"and he explained to us."
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He said, "there on a mountain, a cliff."
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He said, "it was 1,000 feet high."
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He said, "you'll notice all those coals that are glowing?"
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It was getting almost dark.
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He said, "men have been up there on that cliff
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"burning logs and wood all day long."
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He said, "you, those coals lined up
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"all the top of that mountain."
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He said, "i want to show you something
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"when the sun goes down."
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And sure enough, in a few minutes, the sun went down.
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Everything got dark except for those glowing coals
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Up there at the top of that cliff.
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And then all of a sudden,
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A voice came down from the top and said, "are you ready?"
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And said, down there, his guide looked up and said,
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"we are ready!
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"let the fire fall!"
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And cliff said these men began to shovel
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Over those coals on that cliff.
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He said the minute they hit the cold air,
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They exploded into flames,
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And said, "we were looking at a wall of fire
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"about 100 yards wide, and 1,000 miles down!"
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He said, "we, no one said a word."
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He said, "we stood there in awe,
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"and wonder, and amazement."
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And he said, "no one knew what to do,
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"because looking at that wall of fire."
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(gentle piano music)
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He said, "we thought only of almighty god."
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Let the fire fall!
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Ed young: let me ask you a question.
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How long has it been since you got excited
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About something in your daily walk with the lord?
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Be honest.
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If your answer is well, too long,
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Let me challenge you to climb out of that rut.
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God will help you, and he will provide that wake-up call
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You need to begin to truly live each day to its fullest.
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Wake up in the morning under the sound of the trumpets!
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Boy, that would be great, wouldn't it?
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Let me advise and help you to take that first step.
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Ed young: we have all felt alone.
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Even jesus experienced loneliness during his time
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On earth.
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But god did not create us to live in
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A constant state of loneliness.
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We need community and fellowship
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With others for our emotional and physical well-being.
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Listen, if you are experiencing loneliness today,
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We have created a booklet
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That will help you overcome the lonely seasons in your life.
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Within these pages, you'll find some practical steps to overcome
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Loneliness and to live in fellowship with others.
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Call today and experience freedom from the
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Prison of loneliness.
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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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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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Of god's proven truth.
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Ed Young - Stuck In A Rut

December 29, 2024 | S25:E1

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