The Amazing Love of God
July 26, 2020
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The Winning Walk is the international teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young.
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The Amazing Love of God
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- Ed Young: In 1878 somearchaeologists were digging
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- around in the sands of Egypt,and they ran into an obelisk
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- with hieroglyphics written onit, and they translated the
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- hieroglyphics and theydiscovered a civilization,
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- a culture, a nation, thatheretofore nobody knew
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- anything about.
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- And so, as they did in thosedays, the British took this
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- artifact from Egypt andtransported it to London, they
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- named it Cleopatra's Needle,and they erected it by
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- the Thames River.
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- At the same time, someEnglishman said, you know, there
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- may come a day when London willbe flattened, the British Isles
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- will no longer exists, andpeople may wonder what kind of
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- life we had here.
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- So they put together a timevault, buried it under
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- Cleopatra's Needle there by theThames, and they put in it the
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- London phone book, they put init pieces of clothing, they put
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- it in accounts of how they rantheir government.
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- And finally, they were thinkingof all the stuff they could put
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- in, they put some toys in it,they said you know, we need to
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- pick out one religious verse andput it in this time vault so
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- they'll know something aboutwhat we believed.
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- Now, can you imagine a debatethat followed?
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- Which verse, which word,what religion?
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- And they debated it for a longtime until they finally decided
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- on one verse.
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- You could probablyguess what it is.
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- It's the only verse most of uscan quote outside of
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- "Jesus wept."
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- John 3:16.
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- And John 3:16, ladies andgentlemen, is the pivotal verse
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- in the Bible, the Old Testament,the New Testament comes together
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- and in that brief, succinctverse, you have a magnificent
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- summary of Christianity and whatit means to be a Christian.
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- The problem with it is that weall know it, the problem with
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- it, we've become jaded inquoting it, and we've never,
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- most of us, perhaps sat down andlooked at that verse and say,
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- "Lord, what are yousaying to me?
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- What are you sayingto the world?"
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- Every time you come to the wordlove, with few exceptions, the
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- cross is not far away, as youread the Bible, look at it, in
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- the New Testament, you see love,you see the cross, because there
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- is no better demonstration oflove than God dying for us, in
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- Christ, on that cross.
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- And we see with John 3:16,there's a reference to, "If I be
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- lifted up," one verse separatesthat, which John says
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- you must be born againto have eternal life,
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- and then he gives us John 3:16,let's look at it.
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- For God so loved the world, God,omnipotent,
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- omniscient, omnipresent.
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- All the names of God, Adonai,Elohim, all the names of God,
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- all the attributes of God, God.
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- So, by the way, the word sothere is one of those
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- pregnant words.
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- You know what apregnant word is?
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- It's a word that has deepmeaning that you might overlook,
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- you find when you're reading theScripture, you look for a little
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- pregnant words that will growand expand and they mean more
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- than you think they mean,and that's that little word so.
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- Houtos, it means God solavishly, God lavishly loved the
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- world, and God loved the worldmore than anybody has ever loved
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- the world and more than we canunderstand how much he loves
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- the world.
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- God lavishly loves.
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- We say, "We love," it's the wordagape, it's a Greek word means
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- sacrificial love, but let's tryto understand something of the
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- extent of God's Love.
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- Read the book of Hosea,great little book.
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- God tells Hosea to go and marryGomer, she's a beautiful gal,
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- but he said Gomer is going to beunfaithful to you, she's going
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- to commit adultery, and she'sgoing to break your heart,
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- but you go marry her anyway,and Hosea did.
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- It was a study through Hosea'shome life, his marriage, of how
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- the Israelites had fallen awayfrom being obedient to God
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- though God had loved and blessedthem phenomenally.
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- And so it's a pictureof the love of God.
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- Gomer had an affair, Gomer leftHosea, moved in with one man,
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- married him, another man,married him, another man, until
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- finally, she was just livingwith a man of the streets who
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- was just as immoral and decadentas she was, and this man the
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- streets could not even supporther in clothes and food.
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- So God says to Hosea you go andgive support of food and clothes
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- and money to this sorry bum thatis now living with your wife,
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- and don't let your wife knowthat you're the source of her
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- basics that she needs to live.
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- Isn't that something?
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- And Hosea did that, Hosea didthat, but finally, he threw
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- Gomer away, and Gomer ends up onthe slave block, and when they
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- auctioned off slaves inJerusalem in that day, they
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- stripped them naked.
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- You can imagine the disease, thedirt, how she looked, emaciated.
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- She stood there being auctionedoff, the auctioneer said, "What
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- am I bid for this woman?"
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- Somebody said,"Three shekels of gold."
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- Is that all?
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- "Oh, six shekels of gold,"yes, yes.
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- "Seven shekels of gold,"I hear you over there.
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- "Eight," "nine," until finally,Hosea, instructed by God to go
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- and buy back his wife fromthe slave market, he says,
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- "15 shekels of gold."
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- All the other bidders got quiet,but then someone, old good old
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- boy there said, "15 shekels ofgold and a bushel of barley,"
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- and Hosea said, "I bid 15shekels of gold and a bushel and
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- a half of barley," and theauctioneer said, "Sold."
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- And so Hosea came up and coveredhis wife and took her out, and
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- God instructed him to love her,to restore her, to honor her,
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- and to bless her as his wife.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, that's alittle picture of how much God
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- loves each and every one of us.
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- God loves the world,did you get that?
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- Did you know that God loved theAyatollah Khamenei just as much
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- as he loved Mother Teresa?
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- Did you know that?
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- God loved Billy Graham just asmuch as he loved Adolf Hitler,
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- did you know that?
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- God is no respecter of persons,he loves the person drugged out,
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- living on the street as much ashe loves a multizillionaire with
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- 16 different houses and 200airplanes.
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- Understand that God loves thewhole world with no partiality.
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- [congregation applauding]
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- God so loved the world.
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- Now, we got that much,staggering to some.
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- What did he do?
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- How do we know he loves theworld this much?
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- Because he gave his onlybegotten son--and the word gave
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- or give there isa different word.
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- It's not like I give you a gift,here's your birthday,
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- here's a tie.
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- It's not like we give a gift,it's like in the Lord's prayer,
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- "Give us this dayour daily bread."
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- That give there says we haveto have bread in order
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- to stay alive.
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- That's the same wordfor give there.
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- God gave, for God so lovedthe world he gave that which is
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- an absolute necessity for usto live and that is his
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- only begotten son.
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- Now, only begotten is sort of aKing James type Biblical word.
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- It means God gave that which isunique, that which is unlike any
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- other gift.
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- You know what God gave us?
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- Follow me, one third of thetrinity, how about that?
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- God the father, God the son, Godthe Holy Spirit, he gave
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- his son.
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- Who is his son?
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- Not in a biological way.
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- Jesus is God wrapped upin human flesh.
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- God gave his unique,only begotten son.
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- Demonstrating his love, he gavethat son, he offered that son,
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- he allowed that son to enterinto time and space and history.
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- That's magnificent love,supernatural love.
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- "For God so loved the world thathe gave his only begotten son."
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- And here's the one, "Whosoever."
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- That's in the King James,whosoever.
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- Modern translations say whoever,but I think they mess up.
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- They leave off a little Greekword so, and the word so we read
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- before, God so, remember it'slavish?
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- But this word so means anytime,anywhere, anyplace, anytime,
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- any situation, God is alwaysthe God of love.
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- You can't escape God's love, youcan't earn God's love, but you
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- can reject God's love.
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- That's the free will that youand I have, freewill to choose.
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- "He gave his only begotten sonthat whosoever--"
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- anybody, anywhere, anytime--
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- "believes in him will not perishbut have everlasting life."
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- You know how longeverlasting life is?
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- I can tell you.
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- Maybe a few of us have seenthe rock of Gibraltar.
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- I've seen it, gigantic rock,man, people live there,
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- it's something.
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- As long as it would take pigeonto land on Gibraltar--and they
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- got a lot of them there, by theway--and take his beak and
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- begin to rub on that giant,giant rock, as long as it would
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- take him to rub so long thatthat rock became just sand--how
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- much time that would take onenanosecond would've gone by
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- in eternity.
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- That's how long eternity is,it's like forever.
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- "For God so loved the world thathe gave his only unique begotten
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- son that whosoever believes inhim will not perish, but they'll
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- live forever."
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- Quite a verse.
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- Now, that's John 3:16, but youknow Jesus keeps on speaking in
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- verse 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21,five more verses.
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- You know what hashappened to us?
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- We stopped at John 3:16 and wesaid, "Boy, it is the Everest,
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- it is the top," we've forgottento look at those following five
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- verses, and they are a part ofone of the greatest chapters in
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- the Bible, which isJohn chapter 3.
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- And those five verses,you know what they do?
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- They explain John 3:16.
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- So we won't just go over thewords, we'll know exactly
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- what is being taught by the sonof God.
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- So let's look at those verses,they are very, very important,
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- and we're gonna just take a lookat four words, four key words
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- you find in John 3:16.
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- And the first word is world,it's mentioned twice in John 17,
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- and then believe is mentionedthree times in the next verse,
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- and then from there to 21, it'stalking about judgment, it's
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- talking about perishing.
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- Look what we learn from the wordworld, look at John 3:17, "For
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- God did not send the son intothe world to judge the world but
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- that the world might be savedthrough him."
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- What does that say?
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- It says that Jesus came to theworld not to judge us--there
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- will be a day for that in hissecond coming--but he came into
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- the world not to judge us butthat the world through him might
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- be salvaged, restored for thepurpose for which it was made.
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- Each one of us, we're salvagedin this life, and we're saved
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- in eternity.
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- He came so that through him wemight be okay, salvaged.
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- Now, have you heard somebodysay, "How can a God of love send
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- anybody to hell?"
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- Let me remind you biblically,theologically, God never sends
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- anybody to hell.
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- He never does that.
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- Jesus has died for all yourtrash and all of my trash so
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- that if we choose to go to hell,God doesn't send us, we've got
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- to go over the body that he hasprovided, he has died for us so
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- we will never condemn ourselvesto eternal separation from God.
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- Isn't that beautiful?
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- He came into the world toredeem, to save.
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- We know there's creation,there's the fall, and
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- there's redemption.
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- He came in the redemption motifto salvage us now and to save us
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- in eternity.
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- So we looked at the word worldthat helps us understand the
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- word world in John 3:16, andthen we see the word believe,
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- look at it.
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- John 3:18, "He that believes inhim is not judged, he who does
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- not believe has been judgedalready because he has not
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- believed in the name of the onlybegotten of the father."
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- What is that about?It's about to believe.
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- People are going believeon the Lord Jesus Christ.
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- What does believe mean?
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- Well, I'd have to knowall the facts.
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- A lot of us know the facts,is that enough?
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- To believe, three times in oneverse Jesus said believe, what
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- in the world does believe mean?
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- I believe, what do you believe?
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- What does it mean to believe?
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- In the New Hebrides Islandsway down in the South Pacific,
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- a missionary went thereby name of John Paton.
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- Now, for 2.000 years, virtuallyno one visited the New Hebrides,
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- and it was an isolated place inthe world, but Paton went there
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- as a missionary, and he wastrying to introduce the natives
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- to God and to Christ, which theyknew nothing about.
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- So he realized he'd have to havea bible and translate a bible
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- and take their language and findthe words and write a Bible so
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- they'd have a writtenunderstanding of what it meant
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- to be a son anda daughter of God.
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- So he listened to them as theywould speak and he would pick up
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- words from their language and hewould realize that matches the
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- word in the Bible, but hecouldn't find a word for faith
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- or word for believe.
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- Now, if you're translating theBible and you don't find a word
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- for faith and believe, I don'tknow how you'll get along.
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- So he kept listening andlistening, couldn't find a word
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- for believe.
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- Finally, one day, he and anotherIndian man, they went out
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- hunting, they went way up in themountains, they shot a big deer,
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- and he took that deer and theyput it on a pole and they made
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- their way laboriously, four orfive hours down those mountain
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- trails carrying that big deer.
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- And finally, they moved to thebeach home where the missionary
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- lived and they went there andthey dropped the pole and the
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- deer, and the native went overand just fell into a chair on
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- the porch, and he said, "It isso good to be stretched out here
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- and rest."
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- It is so good to be stretchedout here and rest.
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- And the missionary, John Paton,says, "I've got my word."
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- He said that in the language ofNew Hebrides, it is so good to
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- be stretched out here and rest,he said that's my word
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- for believe.
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- For God so loved the world thathe gave his only begotten son
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- that whoever stretches out onJesus and rests shall be saved.
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- It's to put our full trust inhim, to believe his atoning
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- death for us, to understand he'sgiven to us the genius of life,
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- it's a stretch-out fully on him.
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- That's to believe,that's to believe.
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- Whoever believes in him.
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- Oh, that's a big word.
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- And then the last word, we havethe last three verses here, is
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- the word perish, or we'd say theword judgment.
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- Look at it, verse 19, "This isthe judgment that the light has
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- come into the world."
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- What is the light of the world?
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- It's Jesus, Jesus came and helighted up the world.
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- "Has come into the world, andmen loved the darkness rather
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- than the light, for their deedswere evil.
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- So everyone who does evil hatesthe light and does not come to
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- the light for fear that hisdeeds will be exposed.
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- But he who practices the truthcomes to the light so that his
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- deeds may be manifested ashaving been wrought in God."
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- What is that about?
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- It says that Jesus came and gavelight in the world, but the
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- world enjoys darkness.
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- What is darkness?
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- The absence of light.
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- "As long as Jesus was not in theworld, the light in the world
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- was dim, but Jesus cameand gave light."
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- And what happens when you putlight down in a hole?
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- Watch all the roaches run.
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- Jesus is the light of the world.
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- He came to cast out darknessindividually in your life and in
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- my life, and wherever we go andwherever he goes, he casts
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- out darkness.
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- Darkness is the absence oflight, and God came and
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- gave light.
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- And therefore where light comes,he came not to judge or condemn,
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- he came to turn on the lights.
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- And he's biddingfor every one of us.
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- We're all on the auction block,have you noticed?
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- And God in Jesus Christis bidding for us.
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- He says, "I bid my son, I puthim there, I love him and he
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- loves you."
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- He's providing for your life tobe alive and to be a light to
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- the world.
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- Twas battered and scarred andthe auctioneer thought it
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- scarcely worth his while towaste much time on the old
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- violin, but he held it up with asmile, "What am I bidding,
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- good folk?"
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- He cried, "Who will startthe bidding for me?
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- A dollar, only two?Who'll make it three?
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- Oh, $3 once, $3 twice,going for only 3."
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- But no, from the room far back,a gray-haired man came forward
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- and picked up the bowand tightened the strings
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- on the old violin.
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- He played a melody pure andsweet, as sweet as the
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- angel sings.
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- The music ceased and theauctioneer, with a voice that
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- was quiet and low, said, "Now,what am I bid for the
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- old violin?"
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- And he held it up with a bow,"A thousand dollars, $2.000?
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- Who'll make it three?
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- $3.000 once, $3.000 twice,going and gone," cried he.
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- The people cheered,but some of them cried.
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- We do not quite understandwhat changed its worth.
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- Quick came the reply, "The touchof the master's hand."
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- And many a man with life out oftune is battered and torn with
- 00:23:13.014 --> 00:23:16.384
- sin is auctioned cheap to thethoughtless crowd much like that
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- old violin.
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- A bowl of pottage, a glass ofwine, a game, and he travels on,
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- he's going once, he's goingtwice, he's almost gone, but the
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- master comes and the foolishcrowd can never quite understand
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- the worth of a soul, and thechange that's wrought by the
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- touch of the master's hand.
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- male announcer: Pain, loss,hardship, why does God allow bad
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- things to happen to good people?
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- In his series, "Overcoming ToughTimes," Dr. Ed Young helps us
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- understand the purposeof suffering in our lives.
- 00:24:01.229 --> 00:24:03.965
- Ed Young: Suffering isabsolutely inevitable,
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- it's a part of everyone's life.
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- We see it all around us inillness, betrayal, abuse,
- 00:24:08.436 --> 00:24:11.640
- and even death.
- 00:24:11.673 --> 00:24:13.708
- It affects the young, the old,the Christian and
- 00:24:13.742 --> 00:24:15.810
- the non-Christian.
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- We simply cannot escape it,but we can overcome it.
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- In the book of Job, we seea man who was an expert,
- 00:24:20.949 --> 00:24:24.386
- Phi Beta Kappa, on suffering.
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- He suffered the loss of hischildren, his health, and his
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- wealth, and in studying Job'slife, you and I can find God's
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- answers to how to overcome toughtimes in our own lives.
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- male announcer: To get thisseries, call the number on your
- 00:24:40.702 --> 00:24:43.305
- screen or go online atWinningWalk.org.
- 00:24:43.338 --> 00:24:47.108
- Ed Young: What isour greatest need?
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- It is to know God and to beconfident that he also knows us.
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- We're not truly ready to live orready to die until we know for
- 00:24:58.186 --> 00:25:01.823
- sure that we are officially inGod's family.
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- Well, how do you do that?
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- By recognizing and realizingthat you and I are sinners and
- 00:25:09.197 --> 00:25:13.735
- that we have missed the markand by turning from that sin
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- and asking Jesus tocome into our lives.
- 00:25:18.273 --> 00:25:22.077
- He doesn't just straighten us upand straighten us out, he cleans
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- us up and keeps on cleaning usup day after day after day.
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- Then he gives you the assurancethat you are a child of God in
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- the family of God, a member ofhis supernatural family.
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- Listen, if the Holy Spirit isleading you to take a moment
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- and pray this simple prayerafter me.
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- Now, it's not my prayer,it's your prayer directly to
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- the Father.
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- It will be the first stepto becoming brand new
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- inside and out.
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- As he leads, would you pray thisprayer after me?
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- Dear heavenly Father, I've beenaway from you, and now I want to
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- come home to you.
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- I want a new life, I want aclean life, I wanna be forgiven.
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- And Lord, right now I confess toyou all of that stuff that is
- 00:26:22.704 --> 00:26:28.476
- fouled up my life, sin.
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- And right now, heavenly Father,I turn away from all that sin,"
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- that's right, just pray it.
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- "And right now I ask JesusChrist to come and fill up my
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- life with himself and give me anew life inside that will be
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- expressed outside, that's right.
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- In Jesus's name.
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- Listen, if you prayed thatsimple prayer sincerely, call
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- the number on your screen, andwe'd be delighted to hear from
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- you and to rejoice with youabout the decision you just
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- made, and we will begin toexplain it, and it'll come alive
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- and you'll see how eternallyvaluable it is.
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- And let me personally, also,thank you for watching today,
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- and please join us next weekright here on "The Winning Walk"
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- with Jesus Christ.
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