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The Amazing Love of God

Winning Walk with Ed Young

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
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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.
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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,
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and even death.
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It affects the young, the old,the Christian and
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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,
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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
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screen or go online atWinningWalk.org.
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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
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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
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that we have missed the markand by turning from that sin
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and asking Jesus tocome into our lives.
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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
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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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