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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Loving One Another | December 24, 2021
- Dr. Ed Young: Before we begin today, I want to tell you
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- about some of the things God is doing through the Winning Walk.
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- During our 42 year history of this broadcast,
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- it is truly been a blessing to see what God is doing
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- in the lives of people not only here in the United States,
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- but literally all over the world.
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- It is your support that helps make this ministry possible.
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- As the year draws to a close, your continued support
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- is so vital to us.
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- Now, in just a minute, I want to share with you a story
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- of how your gifts are impacting lives
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- all the way to the Philippine islands.
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- ♪ Theme music ♪
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- Dr. Young: "What do you want from me"?
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- I've been asked that question.
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- You've been asked that question.
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- Just what do you want from me?
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- And sometime, we can use the same verbiage
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- and have totally different meaning.
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- "What do you want from me"?
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- What do you want from me"?
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- "WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME"?
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- And many times, we ask that of God.
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- Maybe not in those words-we say,
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- "God, You know, I've walked the aisle.
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- I've gone through the motions.
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- I think I'm a Christian, but somehow,
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- all my problems have not disappeared.
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- God, what do You want from me"?
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- Let me tell you something, folks:
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- That's not a multiple choice answer.
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- It's not anything obscure or hard to understand,
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- and the old, worn phrases I've heard so many times
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- -"Well, there's a lot in the Bible I don't understand..."
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- That's not your problem or my problem.
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- It's the part we do understand that bothers you and me!
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- Don't, don't cop out on that.
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- We say, "God, what do You want from me"?
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- He's written it down!
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- It's in print!
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- And it's clear, and nowhere is it clearer than
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- in Romans Chapter 12.
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- Let love be without hypocrisy.
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- Abhor, hate what is evil.
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- Cling to what is good.
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- Be devoted to one another in brotherly love."
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- There are four words for love.
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- We talked about that.
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- There's agape.
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- There's "eros," which is romantic love,
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- which is not used in the Bible.
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- And there is "philos, phileo, Philadelphia,"
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- which is a general brotherly love, and there's "storge,"
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- which is family love.
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- In these two Verses, Verse, Verse 9 and 10 right here, you
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- have all three of the words for love used in the New Testament.
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- You have agape -we've already looked at that.
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- That's the first word there.
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- And then you have the word storge there.
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- It starts off, it says, "...and be devoted..."
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- that's storge "...to one another in brotherly love,"
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- and that's phileo.
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- That's like Philadelphia love.
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- Now, so in the body of Christ, Paul has introduced this
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- brotherly love and this otherly love-those who are not in the
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- body of Christ as he begins to teach exactly what brotherly
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- love is, exactly what otherly love is-those who are outside
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- the church, and those who are inside the church.
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- Now inside the church, the word for love there that really is
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- a fabulous word is the word "storge."
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- Now storge means that you love without selecting who you love;
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- that, that you love without any exclusivity.
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- You just love, regardless.
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- You don't pick this one out to love, or pick that out,
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- that one out to love.
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- It's love-it's family love.
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- There are people in your family, in my family, I would never
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- spend any time with, they're so different from you and different
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- from me; it's like they came from another planet, right?
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- And we only relate to them and love them-they think we're
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- weird; we know they're weird,
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- (Audience laughs)
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- and they're in our family!
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- But we love them.
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- And the great thing about it is, we learn to love, not on
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- the basis of their personality, even on the basis of what they
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- like and what they dislike; but we learn to love and accept them
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- regardless, and when we do that in the great diversity of our
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- family, and the great diversity of God's family which we're a
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- part of in the church, we're greatly enriched.
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- I know some people that, that I, I've gotten to know, that I
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- really love and appreciate, and I can tell you, the first
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- four or five times I was around them, I said, "Good night!
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- This-I've got nothing in common here..."
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- but they have greatly enriched my life.
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- You have the same experience.
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- My brother, who's gone to be with the Lord, was a great guy!
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- But I'll tell you, if you gave a variety of 20 things that I want
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- to do and he wanted to do, we would not meet on any horizon.
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- I wonder who his mother and daddy were?
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- I know, I mean, he's my brother; but my point is,
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- we're so different!
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- But I loved him completely!
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- He enriched my life by, by being different, and I hope I enriched
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- his life by being different.
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- Now we're both Christians, see?
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- Now that's, that's the word "storge."
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- So in the body of Christ, we're to be non-discriminating.
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- Oh, there's somebody who-he doesn't even like sports!
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- I mean, he, loves butterflies!
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- I mean, I, I'm telling you, but in the body of Christ,
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- it doesn't make any difference!
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- That's storge!
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- That's family love!
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- That's what he's talking about here.
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- And then he tells us exactly what brotherly love is.
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- I'll be rapid...
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- It's a beau, beautiful Verses.
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- He said, "Be devoted to one another.
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- With brotherly love, give preference
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- to one another in honor."
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- We honor one another.
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- We give preference.
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- There, there's no, what, what, what I dislike about
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- preaching more than anything else is having
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- to stand up on this platform.
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- The ideal place, I think for preaching
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- -I ought to be in a hole, looking up.
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- That's where I feel...
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- I'm here only for sight purposes, sound purposes.
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- So we give preference.
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- We, we honor one another.
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- Did you know in the economy of this church, we all own an equal
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- amount of the property and assets of the Second family,
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- if you're a member?
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- You walk today, become a member-you own everything I own.
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- I like that!
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- We rule from the bottom up, not the top down.
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- See that-we honor.
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- We give preference in the body of Christ.
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- "Not lagging behind in diligence; fervent in spirit,
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- serving the Lord."
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- The word "fervent" there means "boiling over."
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- Are you fervent in spirit?
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- Colossians 3 says when you and I go to work in the morning,
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- we should go to work as if we're working for the Lord.
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- God has hired you.
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- Jesus Christ has put you there.
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- We go there with fire and with fervency.
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- That's a part of the contagious brotherly love we have in the
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- church and the witness outside the church.
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- I love when someone's a member of our church and they work for
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- someone-I always expect them to say,
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- "You know, that's the most conscientious person I have.
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- They're on time.
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- They don't look at the clock.
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- They care about things.
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- They're on fire!
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- Boy, I wish I had some more members of your church..."
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- Do you approach work as worship?
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- That's what we're to do.
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- That's what I'm to do.
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- Verse 12: "Rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation,
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- devoted in prayer."
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- In other words, when tribula...
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- the word "tribulation" means "to shake."
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- We all tribulate, don't we?
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- We have problems, challenges, suffering...
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- We fall, we stand.
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- It's wonderful that you have people cheering for you,
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- offering you hope, praying for you, caring for you.
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- Tell you something: You give this body of Christ a chance in
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- whatever your situation is, we'll do everything we can
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- with all we've got to help.
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- Sometimes we can't do everything.
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- Sometimes, it's out of our realm.
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- Sometimes, it's not the realm of the church, but I'll tell
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- you-we'll love you, we'll care for you.
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- Get in a Bible study class.
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- Have a problem pregnancy, and you just watch that class help
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- you with your family when you're put to bed.
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- We do it all the time.
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- Feed, clothe, house, minister, reach out, care for, love,
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- listen to-that's what we do when we're tribulating,
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- and I tribulate, and you tribulate.
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- That's what the body of Christ is.
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- That's brotherly love.
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- Look at Verse 13: "Contributing to the needs of the saints,
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- practicing hospitality."
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- That's a big word, hospitality.
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- That's one of the spiritual gifts.
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- We should be, have hospitality.
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- There should be an openness kind of our relationship,
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- of our time, if possible of our houses where we live.
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- Everything doesn't have to be straight and clean.
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- You don't have to have all the right things to serve...
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- Hospitality.
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- Who had that in the Bible, particularly in Acts?
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- Priscilla and Aquila.
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- Boy, that couple kept Paul in their home.
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- Man, how they were blessed by that.
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- Boy, Paul taught them, loved them.
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- They loved Paul.
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- Man, they had the right Biblical understanding in their lives.
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- I think it was a wonderful place to be with Priscilla an Aquila.
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- I mean that was a home, that was a house!
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- Paul stayed there.
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- When Paul left, Apollos moved in to stay with them.
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- Apollos began to teach.
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- Now Apollos was different from Paul.
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- I think Paul, if he were to teach us, he would talk in very
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- measured, profound tones with deep understanding of the truth
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- and the revelation of God and we would listen on tip-toe to Paul.
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- Whewww!
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- When Apollos would preach-I'm telling you, he was dynamic!
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- He was the Billy Graham of the New Testament!
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- "The Bible says..."
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- Oh, he was something!
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- But as Aquila and Priscilla were listening to Apollos who was a
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- guest in their home, the noticed as he was speaking that
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- he had the baptism of John mixed up
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- with the baptism of Jesus, you know?
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- He had a little theological problem, and so when they went
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- home, they must have sat down and said, "Apollos, let me tell
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- you what you're missing and you don't get...."
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- and they walked through that with him.
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- Apollos, I believe, got it.
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- And then, through the hospitality of that home, other
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- people came and came to know Christ, and had it,
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- and shared it-the hospitality just flows,
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- generation to generation, person to person, individual to
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- individual, couple to couple, fam...
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- That's hospitality in the body of Christ!
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- Ah!
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- We're going to show that hospitality to a thousands of
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- people here at Christmas.
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- We call it "Angels of Light."
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- By the way, a lot of people still think that we're
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- the angels that serve.
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- Oh, no, the angels are coming!
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- The angels are coming.
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- Alright!
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- Where are we?
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- We're talking about love.
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- We're talking about brotherly love in the church.
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- Now we move into another area.
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- This is the real tough area.
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- It's "otherly" love.
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- It's love outside the church.
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- What does it look like?
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- The word is "blessed" in Verse 14.
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- We pray for those who do what?
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- Persecute you.
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- Are you doing a good job with that?
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- Are you really-you pray, "Lord, send fire down on the rascal!
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- I'm telling..."
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- (Audience laughs).
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- Are you really praying, "Lord bless, be with,
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- guide, speak to that person who persecutes you"?
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- See, there, there are three kinds of people that bother us.
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- Some people just don't like you and don't like me.
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- I don't know-they just don't.
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- That's it!
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- Okay?
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- Got to pray for them.
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- There are some people who've hurt us,
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- and in different ways, they've hurt us.
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- Maybe they knew it, maybe they didn't know it.
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- Maybe they didn't intentionally-I don't know, but
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- they've hurt us, and then other people who persecute us.
- 00:12:42.885 --> 00:12:45.454
- Man, they just stay after it.
- 00:12:45.454 --> 00:12:46.956
- "Man, let me tell you about him.
- 00:12:46.956 --> 00:12:48.424
- Let me tell you about Ed Young.
- 00:12:48.424 --> 00:12:49.859
- Eh, eh, eh, eh...."
- 00:12:49.859 --> 00:12:51.360
- I mean, rumors are rampant, by the way, around this place.
- 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:55.898
- Heh, it is so interesting...
- 00:12:55.898 --> 00:12:57.466
- You can't kill the rumor that I fly around in a helicopter.
- 00:12:57.466 --> 00:13:01.270
- You can't kill it!
- 00:13:01.270 --> 00:13:02.238
- (Audience laughs).
- 00:13:02.238 --> 00:13:03.405
- And when I mention it now, somebody will leave and say,
- 00:13:03.405 --> 00:13:05.241
- "Yeah, he said he flew around..."
- 00:13:05.241 --> 00:13:06.675
- Uh-uh!
- 00:13:06.675 --> 00:13:08.510
- I've tried to fight that for years...
- 00:13:08.510 --> 00:13:10.312
- I really did.
- 00:13:10.312 --> 00:13:11.347
- Now when somebody says, "Well, are you flying..."?
- 00:13:11.347 --> 00:13:13.249
- "Oh yes!
- 00:13:13.249 --> 00:13:14.049
- We've got 5 helicopters!"
- 00:13:14.049 --> 00:13:15.384
- (Audience laughs).
- 00:13:15.384 --> 00:13:17.186
- You can't kill this stuff, folks, and to me, that's a
- 00:13:17.186 --> 00:13:20.856
- kind of persecution, a discount, what we're about.
- 00:13:20.856 --> 00:13:24.426
- Anyway, so we've got dif-so we have to pray for people.
- 00:13:24.426 --> 00:13:27.363
- That's a part of what we do, those outside the church.
- 00:13:27.363 --> 00:13:30.266
- Verse 15 says: "Rejoice with those who rejoice;
- 00:13:30.266 --> 00:13:33.235
- weep with those who weep."
- 00:13:33.235 --> 00:13:34.603
- By the way, the order of that Verse, I think, is important.
- 00:13:34.603 --> 00:13:38.173
- It's harder to rejoice with those who rejoice,
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- than weep with those who weep.
- 00:13:40.676 --> 00:13:42.344
- Sometimes they rejoice, and they're rejoicing so much,
- 00:13:42.344 --> 00:13:45.614
- we get a little envious.
- 00:13:45.614 --> 00:13:49.451
- We get a little envious...
- 00:13:49.451 --> 00:13:52.721
- To genuinely rejoice with people, we learn how to do that.
- 00:13:52.721 --> 00:13:57.726
- It's easy to weep with people who weep, isn't it?
- 00:13:57.726 --> 00:14:01.697
- Man, we want to get in there with them.
- 00:14:01.697 --> 00:14:03.198
- We just weep.
- 00:14:03.198 --> 00:14:04.166
- We don't have any words of wisdom-we just weep.
- 00:14:04.166 --> 00:14:06.068
- But to rejoice with success, that challenges us.
- 00:14:06.068 --> 00:14:09.171
- So we know how to rejoice with those who rejoice-man, it's
- 00:14:09.171 --> 00:14:12.608
- easy-not that's pleasant, to weep with those who weep.
- 00:14:12.608 --> 00:14:16.378
- The order there's important.
- 00:14:16.378 --> 00:14:17.513
- This is that "otherly" love.
- 00:14:17.513 --> 00:14:19.281
- Look at Verse 16: "Be of the same mind toward one another.
- 00:14:19.281 --> 00:14:23.052
- Do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly.
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- Do not be wise in your own estimation."
- 00:14:26.221 --> 00:14:29.058
- It is our mind-our mind has been renewed.
- 00:14:29.058 --> 00:14:32.261
- Now we're not haughty any more.
- 00:14:32.261 --> 00:14:33.729
- Now we now we belong to God.
- 00:14:33.729 --> 00:14:35.631
- Now we know He's renewing us.
- 00:14:35.631 --> 00:14:37.633
- Look at Verse 18.
- 00:14:37.633 --> 00:14:39.034
- "If possible, so far as it depends on you,
- 00:14:39.034 --> 00:14:41.837
- be at peace with all men."
- 00:14:41.837 --> 00:14:44.640
- You see, we've come to Christ.
- 00:14:44.640 --> 00:14:46.008
- We're no longer self-righteous, and hopefully,
- 00:14:46.008 --> 00:14:49.144
- we are less being self-centered.
- 00:14:49.144 --> 00:14:52.247
- Self-righteousness and self-centeredness is your
- 00:14:52.247 --> 00:14:55.150
- problem and my problem.
- 00:14:55.150 --> 00:14:56.251
- This helps us.
- 00:14:56.251 --> 00:14:58.320
- This helps us when we pray for those who persecute us.
- 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:02.791
- And then it really gets tough here.
- 00:15:02.791 --> 00:15:05.260
- It says, "Never take your own revenge,
- 00:15:05.260 --> 00:15:09.698
- but leave room for the wrath of God."
- 00:15:09.698 --> 00:15:14.670
- You know what that Verse means?
- 00:15:14.670 --> 00:15:15.804
- You know what God's saying to you and me in that Verse?
- 00:15:15.804 --> 00:15:18.974
- "Don't sit in My seat!"
- 00:15:18.974 --> 00:15:21.343
- That's what God's saying.
- 00:15:21.343 --> 00:15:24.013
- "Well, you don't know what they did..."
- 00:15:24.013 --> 00:15:25.481
- Nope!
- 00:15:25.481 --> 00:15:26.448
- God says, "I got it."
- 00:15:26.448 --> 00:15:28.083
- "Well, let me..."
- 00:15:28.083 --> 00:15:28.817
- "Nope!
- 00:15:28.817 --> 00:15:29.551
- I got it!"
- 00:15:29.551 --> 00:15:30.386
- "I'm not gonna speak to them..."
- 00:15:30.386 --> 00:15:31.487
- "Nope, I got it."
- 00:15:31.487 --> 00:15:34.690
- God says, "Don't sit in my seat.
- 00:15:34.690 --> 00:15:37.593
- I'm in charge of this thing.
- 00:15:37.593 --> 00:15:39.595
- You just are to pray.
- 00:15:39.595 --> 00:15:41.163
- You're to seek to forgive.
- 00:15:41.163 --> 00:15:42.865
- You're to seek to bring about reconciliation.
- 00:15:42.865 --> 00:15:45.134
- You're to seek to listen.
- 00:15:45.134 --> 00:15:46.635
- You're to seek to be different, because if we do not do this,
- 00:15:46.635 --> 00:15:49.371
- they have control on us as long as that is that thorn of
- 00:15:49.371 --> 00:15:52.941
- bitterness, that thorn of hatred, that thorn of
- 00:15:52.941 --> 00:15:55.811
- desire-even when the bottom falls out of their life,
- 00:15:55.811 --> 00:15:59.348
- we don't say, "Ha-ha-eh, eh, eh, eh, boy...
- 00:15:59.348 --> 00:16:02.017
- They got theirs!
- 00:16:02.017 --> 00:16:04.420
- I knew it would happen..."
- 00:16:04.420 --> 00:16:06.021
- See, when we love with our head and our lips and our heart,
- 00:16:06.021 --> 00:16:11.260
- see, we don't try to play God and sit in His seat.
- 00:16:11.260 --> 00:16:14.196
- He'll take care.
- 00:16:14.196 --> 00:16:15.731
- He will establish justice.
- 00:16:15.731 --> 00:16:18.000
- He will handle it.
- 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:19.168
- We don't have to.
- 00:16:19.168 --> 00:16:20.836
- But we have another role?
- 00:16:20.836 --> 00:16:22.137
- What do we do?
- 00:16:22.137 --> 00:16:23.338
- Man, Paul tells us.
- 00:16:23.338 --> 00:16:24.540
- It gets tougher and tougher for me...
- 00:16:24.540 --> 00:16:26.809
- I don't know about you -to do this.
- 00:16:26.809 --> 00:16:28.510
- He says, "Vengeance is mine.
- 00:16:28.510 --> 00:16:29.812
- I will repay."
- 00:16:29.812 --> 00:16:31.580
- We don't pay back, says the Lord.
- 00:16:31.580 --> 00:16:34.383
- "But if your enemy is hungry, feed him."
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- Poison.
- 00:16:40.055 --> 00:16:41.190
- No, no, no.
- 00:16:41.190 --> 00:16:42.124
- Feed him.
- 00:16:42.124 --> 00:16:43.058
- (Audience laughs).
- 00:16:43.058 --> 00:16:45.327
- "If he is thirsty..."
- 00:16:45.327 --> 00:16:47.596
- tell him you're out of water.
- 00:16:47.596 --> 00:16:49.264
- No-"...give him a drink; for in so doing, you heap
- 00:16:49.264 --> 00:16:53.836
- burning coals on his head."
- 00:16:53.836 --> 00:16:55.704
- Now it's very clear here, really,
- 00:16:55.704 --> 00:16:58.740
- except the burning coals problem...
- 00:16:58.740 --> 00:17:00.976
- We are to find ways to feed to nourish these
- 00:17:00.976 --> 00:17:04.713
- who despitefully used us.
- 00:17:04.713 --> 00:17:07.783
- We're to find ways to offer them cheering and nurture when
- 00:17:07.783 --> 00:17:12.721
- they're hungry or they're thirsty.
- 00:17:12.721 --> 00:17:14.823
- Now the burning coals on their head, we kind of like that part;
- 00:17:14.823 --> 00:17:19.161
- but see, this has a different meaning.
- 00:17:19.161 --> 00:17:21.396
- By the way, every commentary on this Verse
- 00:17:21.396 --> 00:17:23.632
- will give you a different meaning.
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- Every one of them.
- 00:17:25.300 --> 00:17:26.468
- You read them, they're so wild, it's a paraphrase, a quote
- 00:17:26.468 --> 00:17:29.037
- from Proverbs, by the way, and, and I think it means that
- 00:17:29.037 --> 00:17:32.641
- when you do this, it's like a tradition they had in the Middle
- 00:17:32.641 --> 00:17:36.011
- East, that if someone was repenting, they would go and
- 00:17:36.011 --> 00:17:41.150
- they would take and put a container and put burning coals
- 00:17:41.150 --> 00:17:44.219
- in that, and they would walk in the night with those burning
- 00:17:44.219 --> 00:17:47.990
- coals, and you could see them walking and little flames,
- 00:17:47.990 --> 00:17:50.492
- fire from the coals.
- 00:17:50.492 --> 00:17:51.827
- You would say, "There goes Edwin Young.
- 00:17:51.827 --> 00:17:55.531
- He's repenting.
- 00:17:55.531 --> 00:17:56.665
- See those burning coals on his head?
- 00:17:56.665 --> 00:17:59.067
- And what Paul is saying, if we feed, if we nourish, if we help,
- 00:17:59.067 --> 00:18:03.405
- if we cheerlead, those who've just treated us like rats-man,
- 00:18:03.405 --> 00:18:09.244
- it's putting, it may lead them to repentance.
- 00:18:09.244 --> 00:18:12.681
- It may lead them to see what's going on.
- 00:18:12.681 --> 00:18:15.317
- It may lead them to see the problems they created.
- 00:18:15.317 --> 00:18:17.519
- It may then lead to see how they've been vicious or unfair
- 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:20.389
- toward you, and, I think that's exactly what this means.
- 00:18:20.389 --> 00:18:23.992
- And then, it ends up saying something that's way,
- 00:18:23.992 --> 00:18:27.663
- way out of line.
- 00:18:27.663 --> 00:18:30.732
- We've got to do all this as Christians to those who are
- 00:18:30.732 --> 00:18:33.702
- outside the church-otherly love.
- 00:18:33.702 --> 00:18:37.206
- Now he says, don't return evil for evil.
- 00:18:37.206 --> 00:18:40.108
- Return, overcome evil with good.
- 00:18:40.108 --> 00:18:42.077
- How in the world do you overcome evil with good?
- 00:18:42.077 --> 00:18:45.180
- He's already told us.
- 00:18:45.180 --> 00:18:46.548
- But now he tells us this is how we do it.
- 00:18:46.548 --> 00:18:49.952
- How do we do that?
- 00:18:49.952 --> 00:18:52.087
- How do we love like this?
- 00:18:52.087 --> 00:18:54.489
- This agape love, this storge love, this Philadelphia
- 00:18:54.489 --> 00:18:58.560
- -how in the name of the planet do we do it?
- 00:18:58.560 --> 00:19:02.164
- Where do we get the stuff to do it?
- 00:19:02.164 --> 00:19:05.000
- We just try harder?
- 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:06.401
- That won't do it, will it?
- 00:19:06.401 --> 00:19:08.136
- We're just determined?
- 00:19:08.136 --> 00:19:09.071
- That won't do it.
- 00:19:09.071 --> 00:19:10.772
- Where do we get the stuff?
- 00:19:10.772 --> 00:19:12.841
- All the way in Romans 12, the very first Verse
- 00:19:12.841 --> 00:19:18.280
- -very first Verse.
- 00:19:18.280 --> 00:19:19.681
- He said, "By the mercies of God."
- 00:19:19.681 --> 00:19:23.418
- It is the mercies of God in your life and in my life that gives
- 00:19:23.418 --> 00:19:27.623
- us the ability to have this kind of brotherly love in the church,
- 00:19:27.623 --> 00:19:32.427
- and this kind of otherly love outside the church, even when
- 00:19:32.427 --> 00:19:35.664
- we're despitefully used and abused, and Paul is simply
- 00:19:35.664 --> 00:19:39.534
- blowing up and explaining what Jesus has already taught,
- 00:19:39.534 --> 00:19:43.839
- primarily, in the Sermon on the Mount, isn't he?
- 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:46.208
- Mercies of God.
- 00:19:46.208 --> 00:19:47.976
- What is that?
- 00:19:47.976 --> 00:19:52.547
- You read in Matthew Chapter 18, Jesus told a story about the
- 00:19:52.547 --> 00:19:56.218
- mercies of God.
- 00:19:56.218 --> 00:19:57.986
- Here's a king, and one of his servants owed him
- 00:19:57.986 --> 00:20:01.790
- several million dollars.
- 00:20:01.790 --> 00:20:03.725
- The king went to him and said, "Repay me!"
- 00:20:03.725 --> 00:20:05.727
- The servant said he couldn't.
- 00:20:05.727 --> 00:20:07.129
- He said, "I'm gonna put you in jail..."
- 00:20:07.129 --> 00:20:09.197
- and the servant said, "Have mercy!"
- 00:20:09.197 --> 00:20:11.066
- And the king forgave him for a debt of several million dollars,
- 00:20:11.066 --> 00:20:14.403
- ten thousand talents.
- 00:20:14.403 --> 00:20:16.171
- Now people read that and say, "Well, it, nobody know a servant
- 00:20:16.171 --> 00:20:19.041
- couldn't owe a king several million dollars.
- 00:20:19.041 --> 00:20:21.276
- I mean, that doesn't make sense."
- 00:20:21.276 --> 00:20:22.744
- It could if that servant happened to be over one of
- 00:20:22.744 --> 00:20:26.415
- the providences in the kingdom.
- 00:20:26.415 --> 00:20:28.350
- Hey-he was a big-time guy,
- 00:20:28.350 --> 00:20:30.185
- to owe that kind of money to the king.
- 00:20:30.185 --> 00:20:32.154
- And therefore, for the king to forgive, it meant that the whole
- 00:20:32.154 --> 00:20:35.791
- province may have economic problems, didn't it?
- 00:20:35.791 --> 00:20:39.795
- And then, in the story Jesus told, the guy who'd been
- 00:20:39.795 --> 00:20:43.899
- forgiven millions of dollars of debt by the king, finds a fellow
- 00:20:43.899 --> 00:20:48.103
- servant who owed him a hundred dollars-couple of hundred bucks.
- 00:20:48.103 --> 00:20:51.707
- Said, "Hey, hey-you owe me!
- 00:20:51.707 --> 00:20:53.175
- Pay me back now!"
- 00:20:53.175 --> 00:20:53.942
- He said, "I can't do it.
- 00:20:53.942 --> 00:20:54.776
- Give me time."
- 00:20:54.776 --> 00:20:55.610
- He said, "I'm not gonna give you time."
- 00:20:55.610 --> 00:20:56.578
- He put him in jail.
- 00:20:56.578 --> 00:20:58.780
- The guy who'd been forgiven millions put in jail a fellow
- 00:20:58.780 --> 00:21:02.084
- servant who owed him a few hundred.
- 00:21:02.084 --> 00:21:05.220
- Somebody told the king about it, about this ungrateful,
- 00:21:05.220 --> 00:21:10.258
- unmerciful servant he'd forgiven the big bucks, and the king
- 00:21:10.258 --> 00:21:13.462
- says, "Go get that rascal, and you put him in jail!"
- 00:21:13.462 --> 00:21:16.631
- And then the last Verse of this is the scary Verse as we read
- 00:21:16.631 --> 00:21:21.303
- this parable in Matthew 18.
- 00:21:21.303 --> 00:21:22.938
- Then Jesus says, "My Heavenly Father, who al,
- 00:21:22.938 --> 00:21:27.175
- will also do the same to you if each of you does
- 00:21:27.175 --> 00:21:30.879
- not forgive his brother from the heart."
- 00:21:30.879 --> 00:21:38.120
- "Oh, I forgive my mind..."
- 00:21:38.120 --> 00:21:39.221
- Oh no.
- 00:21:39.221 --> 00:21:39.921
- "I told him I forgive..."
- 00:21:39.921 --> 00:21:40.756
- No.
- 00:21:40.756 --> 00:21:41.490
- From your heart.
- 00:21:41.490 --> 00:21:42.824
- That's scary to me.
- 00:21:42.824 --> 00:21:45.293
- Doesn't it scare you?
- 00:21:45.293 --> 00:21:47.429
- How, how are you doing with that one?
- 00:21:47.429 --> 00:21:49.865
- God the Father is not going to forgive us.
- 00:21:49.865 --> 00:21:51.967
- He's not going to be merciful to us
- 00:21:51.967 --> 00:21:53.568
- unless we're merciful toward others.
- 00:21:53.568 --> 00:21:55.137
- Therefore, when I realize the great mercy he has demonstrated
- 00:21:55.137 --> 00:21:58.206
- to me, and the mercy he's demonstrated to you, how easy it
- 00:21:58.206 --> 00:22:01.710
- is to forgive all these others, whatever they've done.
- 00:22:01.710 --> 00:22:06.381
- That gives us the capacity to love like this.
- 00:22:06.381 --> 00:22:11.319
- Doorbell ring, rang.
- 00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:15.457
- Mother went to the door.
- 00:22:15.457 --> 00:22:18.660
- Two policemen standing there.
- 00:22:18.660 --> 00:22:23.098
- They explained to her, her 16 year old son
- 00:22:23.098 --> 00:22:25.066
- had been shot and killed...
- 00:22:25.066 --> 00:22:27.269
- Some kind of drug altercation.
- 00:22:27.269 --> 00:22:31.006
- They found the young man that killed him.
- 00:22:31.006 --> 00:22:33.575
- He was 18.
- 00:22:33.575 --> 00:22:35.410
- She went to the trial.
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- Found guilty.
- 00:22:37.712 --> 00:22:39.314
- Sentences, 25 years in prison.
- 00:22:39.314 --> 00:22:43.151
- This mother, through prayer, because she's a wonderful
- 00:22:43.151 --> 00:22:45.587
- Christian, she began to write this young man who killed her
- 00:22:45.587 --> 00:22:49.925
- son, and then she asked for permission to go and visit him.
- 00:22:49.925 --> 00:22:52.961
- He said, "Absolutely not.
- 00:22:52.961 --> 00:22:53.929
- I don't want to see you."
- 00:22:53.929 --> 00:22:55.330
- She asked again.
- 00:22:55.330 --> 00:22:56.164
- "I don't want to see you."
- 00:22:56.164 --> 00:22:57.432
- Over a period of time, finally he said, "Okay.
- 00:22:57.432 --> 00:22:59.401
- Come one time, but that's it."
- 00:22:59.401 --> 00:23:02.037
- So she came, and this young man in prison for these years
- 00:23:02.037 --> 00:23:06.575
- saw something in Mary, the mother of the boy
- 00:23:06.575 --> 00:23:09.411
- that he'd killed that he'd never seen before.
- 00:23:09.411 --> 00:23:12.113
- He saw forgiveness.
- 00:23:12.113 --> 00:23:13.048
- He saw love.
- 00:23:13.048 --> 00:23:14.282
- He saw a desire for him to get his life straightened out while
- 00:23:14.282 --> 00:23:16.818
- he was in prison, and finally,
- 00:23:16.818 --> 00:23:18.520
- she led him to Christ after a series of visits.
- 00:23:18.520 --> 00:23:21.323
- He moved away from the gang element in prison
- 00:23:21.323 --> 00:23:23.725
- and got with a Christian group.
- 00:23:23.725 --> 00:23:25.760
- God began to do things in his life.
- 00:23:25.760 --> 00:23:27.729
- He served 17 years, and then he was eligible for parole, and
- 00:23:27.729 --> 00:23:32.834
- finally, the parole was granted, and he walked out of prison.
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- He went in a thug, 17 years before.
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- Now he comes out a man, and he had no one there for him.
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- He didn't know anybody.
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- All of his contacts, all of his family-he didn't know what in
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- the world happened to them.
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- The only person he knew was Mary,
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- the mother of the boy he'd killed.
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- So he called her.
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- She was thrilled!
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- He went to her, and he said, "I can't get a job.
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- I've got a record."
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- Said, "I can't have a place to live.
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- I can't sign any lease..."
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- and she took care of it and saw that he got a room,
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- right next door to where she lived.
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- In fact, the room was in a little playground area now,
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- where her son had played a little boy, and now his murderer
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- was living in a little room right there where
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- the playground used to be.
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- And Mary took that young man, got him a job.
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- She arranged for him to go to college, and he began to move
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- through life and became a wonderful, wonderful Christian
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- man, and Mary and this murderer became close, close friends.
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- By the way, his name was Israel.
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- The power to show mercy comes when we realize the mercy that
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- Christ has shown to us!
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- Woman: I always question myself: What contribution,
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- what difference do I make in front of my friends?
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- The title of his TV program is The Winning Walk,
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- so I said, 'I can do this through Christ'.
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- Pastor Ed Young encouraged me to go to my church,
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- also on a regular basis and to fellowship with other
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- Christians as well - to be a witness.
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- To make a statement that
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- my badge is Jesus.
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- I am Christian. I am a Christian.
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- Ed: What a blessing it is to be able to share the truth
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- of God's word with those who need it most.
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- It is because of your financial gifts, my financial gifts,
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- That we are able to take the good news of Jesus Christ
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- literally to the ends of the Earth.
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- As we near the end of the year,
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- It's a crucial time for the ministry or the Winning Walk
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- as we seek to close out this year strong.
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- To make that possible,
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- we're praying for an outpouring of support
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- to meet a lofty $600.000 goal by December 31st.
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- Let me tell you how we're going to get there:
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- Anything that you and I give up to $75.000 will be matched.
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- if I give $1.000, $5.000, $10.000 -
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- that amount will be matched.
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- So when I give X amount, you give X amount,
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- as we're able, as we're equipped to do it - it is doubled.
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- What a moment to expand the ministry of the Winning Walk
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- into areas that have never really heard
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- or understood the plain truth of how to become a
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- man or woman or a teenager made brand new by Jesus Christ.
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- I'm asking you to pray and to give generously knowing that
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- your gift will go twice as far to reach even more people
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- than ever before.
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- And let me personally thank you for supporting
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- The Winning Walk - this ministry.
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- I believe the best is yet to be
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- as we look forward to this brand new year.
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- ♪♪♪
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