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February 7, 2021

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ministry of Ed Young.
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Here at Ed Young Television, ourmission is to make the complex
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understand and apply totheir everyday lives.
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And now here is pastor, author,and speaker Pastor Ed Young.
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Pastor Ed Young: Thank youso much for watching today.
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Ed: Today, I'm going to talkabout fishing again.
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Fishing is a popular subjectin the Bible.
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Maybe that's why I like to fish.
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I always tell people fishing isa biblical sport.
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I've been fishing for a longtime.
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I've had the opportunity to evenbe on some fishing shows.
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I know, it's hard to believebut I have.
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A couple of years ago, a cameracrew and I traveled
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to the Bahamas, and we did somevery unusual fishing.
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Check it out.
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♪♪♪
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Ed: Now we're in business baby.
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We're catching sharks in a veryunusual way, a very difficult
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way, which is on a fly rodand a lot of people think how
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can I catch a shark on justa bunch of feathers.
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I got it right here.
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A little bit of chum, a littlebit of blood in the water,
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the sharks show up.
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male: One of my guys bittenby a shark last year.
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Ed: No way.
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male: Oh, yeah, bringingin the boat.
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Ed: Here's a shark comingup about two o'clock.
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See it?
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Hot line.
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Somebody tied a faulty knot,named Ed Young.
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You've gotta have your rightknots.
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It's not easy just to goout and and catch a shark.
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You really have to work at it.
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You have to think about itto entice them to get them
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to take the fly.
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There's shark right here, righthere, see it?
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Shark, shark, spinner shark.
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It's coming.Trying to find the scent.
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Picking up speed as hegets closer.
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He's on it.
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Fish on, yeah baby!Fish on!
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Shark city, USA.
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Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
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Oh, he'll bite the fool-- hecouldn't resist the fly.
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He got it.
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We're gonna turn him back loose,but I'm telling you, he cannot
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resist the temptationof the chum and the fly.
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A shark on a fly rod.
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Ed: Well, what if I told youthat someone's trying to
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catch you?
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What if I told you that someoneis tying a fly just for you
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and the fly is individualized,it's customized.
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And the fly will be presentedto you over and over and then
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what if I told you that thisfisherman wants to catch you,
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to reel you in, to drag youinto the boat.
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Some are like, "Come on man.
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You gotta be kidding me,that's a stretch.
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Someone is fishing for me?"
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Well, the answer is a resoundingyes, because as you look
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at the Scriptures you see Jesuswas all about fishing.
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As I said earlier, Jesus fishedand he said, "Once we become
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followers, we're to fish."
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Jesus fishes for you and me.
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We have a choice either to takethe bait, to get hooked or not.
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Conversely, the devil, that'sright, the devil also
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is fishing.
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He wants to keep you and mefrom discovering this incredible
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purpose, this amazing plan thatGod has for our lives and if we
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could see the agenda that Godhas for us we wouldn't
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believe it.
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We'd be like, "Are you kiddingme?
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It's that amazing?
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It's that awesome?"
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That's the kind of plan that Godhas, so the enemy-- he wants
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to keep us from God's purpose.
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How does he do that?
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Through temptation,through fishing.
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In fact, the whole word,the whole concept of being
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tempted, of being enticed.
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It's a fisherman's term.
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The picturebehind the phraseology
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in the book of James,for example, James chapter 1
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in the original language.
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The term is
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[speaking foreign language]
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That's hard to say.
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[speaking foreign language]
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It means literally to lurea fish from cover to trap
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a fish.
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So yes Jesus is the mastercaster and I would say Satan is
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the caster of disaster, how'bout that?
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Jesus wants to move usfrom death to life.
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The devil wants to move usfrom life to death.
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That's his agenda.
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Now you might be goin' Ed comeon man.
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Are you telling me that youbelieve, that you really believe
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in a dark personal sinisterforce called the devil?
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I mean, you've you've beeneducated.
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You've done Master's work,doctorate work, you're telling
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me you believe that.
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Yes, all you have to do is lookaround and see our world is
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insane.
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Am I the only one?No.
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Look at the genocide.
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Look at the racism.
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Look at the violence.
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How do you explain porn,for example, being a 97 billion
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dollar industry worldwide?
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How do you explain child abuse?
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How do you explain the maritalmayhem and the fragmented
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families?
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How do you explain that?
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A damaged chromosome?
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Your nursery was paintedthe wrong color.
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Your diapers were put ontoo tight.
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No no no.
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It's much more deeper.
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It's much darker than that.
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There is someone calledthe enemy and he has organized
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and he's customized temptations,just for you and for me.
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But we shouldn't run scared.
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We shouldn't go, "Oh no,I just can't live my life,
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because the force is toostrong," and isn't it tempting
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when we're involvedin temptation to say,
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"Well, I'm the onlyone dealing with this.
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I mean, no one really is dealingwith what I'm dealing with.
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I'm the only one."
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Well, that's not true.
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And then sometimeswe'll say--
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I've said this before,
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"Well, peer pressure.
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I mean, everybodyelse is doing it,
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so I guess I can just join inand do that," and then we'll
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think, "Well, youknow, if I do this,
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no one will know, and if Ifall into this temptation,
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I sort of deserve it.
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You know, life is short.
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You gotta go for it."
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Go with your feelings, right?
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Well, what did I do when Icaught that big lemon shark?
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I did three things and this isa threefold process that we see
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in temptation.
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First of all, I tied a flyseductively.
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I'm going to tie a fly rightnow.
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I love to tie fliesand for those of you who don't
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really know that muchabout fishing, I enjoy all types
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of fishing, but my favorite typeof fishing is fly fishing.
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And when you fly fish, you'recasting the weight of the line.
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If you fish conventionally, likeyou would in a lake or whatever,
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it's the weight of the baitthat propels it out there.
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When I'm thinking about tying,for example, a shark fly, sharks
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love the color red.
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Very seductive color, verysexy color.
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So here's how I tie that flythat caught that shark.
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I'll take the thread and this iscalled a vice.
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And I'll make a thread base.
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The enemy is looking atyour life.
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He's looking at my lifeand going, what can I use?
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What is the best fly to takethat girl out?
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Maybe it's-- I don't know, maybeit's greed.
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I don't know maybe it's, maybeit's priorities, getting your
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priorities all screwed up.
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Or maybe he looks at a guyand goes, Wow a fly.
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So many temptations dealwith the fly when it comes
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to a guy, right?
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That was good.That was good.
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Some of you might get thatlater, but anyway, when I'm
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tying, when I'm tying a sharkfly for example, sharks love
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bright colors.
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Color matters whenyou're fishing.
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It really does.
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Some people would argue that,but I've fished long enough
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and I've asked the right peoplethe right questions long enough
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to know that fish keyin on certain colors.
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So what I'm gonna do when I'mfishing for a shark is this
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shark is going to think this isa piece of sushi.
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I mean, this shark is goingto go, "Wow, I love" it.
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So, what I'll do is I'll tiethese feathers on the hook.
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Fly tying is very theraputic.
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If you don't do it, youlike to fish, just try it.
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You'll like it.
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So I tie this on the hook,
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and that's what the enemy'sdoing right now.
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I mean, God doesn't want usto to be afraid of it but it's
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just the reality and I love howthe Bible keeps it real,
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you know?
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The Bible is a treatise on howto deal with temptation.
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But there's an upsideto temptation that we're gonna
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talk about.
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Yeah, there's a horrendous side,but there's also a tremendous
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side to temptation.
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So I got that fly, that'slooking good.
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A shark would love that.
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And let me see what else.
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Oh, I got to put some flashin the fly.
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You got to have some flash,don't you?
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You do.
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I mean, what's a flywithout flash, what's
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a temptation without flash.
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You've got to have some flashin there.
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It's just like, you get thatshark's attention and that's
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what the Devil does in allof our lives.
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He just gets our attentionand he's like, man just look
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at it.
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I know you wouldn't do it.
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But just look at it.
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I mean, it ain't gonna hurt youto look at it, you know
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and the little flash in there.
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And all right.
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Well, it's pretty, prettyseductive, doesn't it?
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If you're a shark, I'm tellingyou sharks they love this.
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So then I'll tie some knots.
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Boom boom.
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Boom boom, boom boom.
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We're ready to go.
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Right now, that's it.
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Look at that fly.
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Devil himself is tying a flyfor you.
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Why?
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Because you matter so much.
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Why?
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Because you're so amazing.Why?
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Because he knows what's gonnahappen as you continue to do
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what God wants you to do.
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That's why you're feelingtemptation.
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So temptation should tip us off.
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It should be like, Whoa, Imatter that much.
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I mean, my future is thatbright.
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You see that's where the devilis stupid.
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The devil is not omnipresent,but he is organized.
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And he has an organized planto keep us from the best.
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So it starts with the fly.
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He ties the fly seductively.
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Also notice something else thathe does in his process.
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He chums strategically.
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What is chum?
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You saw it.
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You cut some fish up, throw itin the water, and the fish
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will come.
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And pretty much fisherman saywhen you chum
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the big sharks will come.
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Ed: The devil is chummingin your life and mine.
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Just throwing some stuffout there, saying I know, I know
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you wouldn't do it but justthink about it.
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What would it be like to holdher and I know you're married
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but just think about it.
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What would it be like to holdher in your arms.
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I mean, what would it belike to be with him.
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I know you wouldn't do itbut what would it be like to lie
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and to exaggerate to makethe extra a bit of money.
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And just I know you wouldn't doit, just think about what would
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it be like to cheat at school.
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I mean, you don't have to studyas much and I mean, just I know
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you wouldn't do it but-- He'schumming.
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He's chumming.
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And then notice something else.
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I gotta have my fly rightout for this.
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Watch out.
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He then casts aggressively.
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The devil's a caster, man.
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See if I get this fly here.
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Oh, yeah here comes.
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He's casting.
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Watch out.
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He casts.
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He cast.
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The devil does.
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So we see somebody's patient.
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You see somebody, he's like,"Okay, okay.
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Yeah father of three yeah, and Iknow, it's kinda crazy at home.
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So I'll tell you what I'm gonnado.
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I'm going to put that attractivecoworker at the office.
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I know, you won't do anything,but--" And he fishes, right?
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He fishes.
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He casts.
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He casts accurately, he castsaggressively.
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He'll do all sorts of casts,backhand casts.
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Boom.
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He'll do short casts.
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Boom.
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And sometimes they'll dothe long cast.
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But he's casting.
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He's patient.
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It's like it's okay.
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It's okay.
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I know you wouldn't do it.
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In your position you wouldn't dothat but I mean, just you know,
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it's just gonna be out thereand-- Temptation.
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Isn't it funny, we don'tlike to talk about temptation.
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It's kind of a negative subject.
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It's like, wow, I mean, I cameto church today, and you're
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talkin' about temptation.
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It's a doggy downer, man,doesn't really feel good.
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Well, we're going to seethe good side.
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The positive side of temptation.
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There is a horrendous sideand there is a tremendous side
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to temptation.
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What is tempting you right now?
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Who is tempting you right now?
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Think about that temptation.
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Now if you're away from God,you're not going to really feel
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the pull of temptation.
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Because the enemy has youand he's not really messing
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with you that much.
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He's like man that girl'salready hooked.
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He's already hooked.
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Did you notice the shark?
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When I hooked a shark, the sharkdidn't know he was hooked
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for a while.
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I mean that shark took the fly.
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He's like, "Oh boy, free sushi."
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He's gone and you can tell itby the way sharks swim.
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And suddenly, thoughafter a while he feels
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the force.
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He feels the steel.
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And he starts thrashingand splashing.
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What happens when we're hookedwith temptation?
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What happens when I've beenhooked with temptation?
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Oh I've gotten away.
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No one will know.
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And some of you right nowthinking, Man, I've been doin'
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what you're saying.
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I've been cheating on my spouse.
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I've been messing around.
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You know my priorities are allyou know jacked up.
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I've been living this lie.
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I've been lying a lotand everything is cool.
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You know, I'm making a lotof money.
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I'm successful.
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I'm the man.
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I'm the girl.
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Think about that shark.
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Everything's fine.
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Had the feathers in his mouth.
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He thought it was sushi.
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Everything is cool.
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He's just swimming in the warmBahamian waters.
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All of a sudden...
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Hooked.
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Then you have thrashingand splashing.
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You had the collateral damage,don't you?
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You're at people, situations.
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Unlike me, you know when I catcha fish, I release the fish.
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The devil, what does he do?
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Takes the fish.
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Calls the taxidermist.
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And he has an impressive trophyroom, all these believers
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caught...
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Amen.
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Well, the Bible says in Jameschapter 1, now James is the half
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brother of Jesus, so here's whatI love about the book of James.
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Think about this.
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You can't fool your family.
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I mean, this is Jesus' brother.
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Radically a follower of hisbrother Jesus and here's what
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he says.
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"Let nobody say when they'retempted, 'Oh God is
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tempting me.'"
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On social media, what do we do?We love to tag people.
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Well, the Bible says don't tagGod with temptation.
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God does not tempt anyone.
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The devil tempts us to make usdo wrong.
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God tests us tomake us...strong.
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That's the deal.
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So God cannot tempt, why?
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Why can't God tempt?
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Because God cannoteven entertain evil.
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So for God to tempt youor me would be for God
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to cease being God.
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The enemy does it.
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And James just breaks it down,say breaks it down.
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I love it.
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Breaks it down.
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He breaks it down.
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He gets even more specificinto the process.
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Verse 14, each one.
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I told you it wasindividualized.
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Each one.
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There's a fly being tiedfor you.
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"Each one you and me is temptedwhen he is dragged away, enticed
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and battled."
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Again, there's our word
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[speaking foreign language].
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The word I talkedabout in the introductory
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remarks.
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To lure a fish, to draw a fishout of cover.
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When the illicit desire isconceived, it gives birth
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to sin.
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When sin has run its course, itgives birth to death.
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Here's what's interestingabout life.
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And especially about temptation.
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We choose our choices, but wedon't choose our consequences.
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So we have to rely on Godto give us the wisdom to look
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past the hook, to look pastthe cast, to the consequences
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and that is this partof temptation.
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But then James continuesin verse 16.
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Don't be misled.
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In other words, don't be fooledby this sexy looking fly.
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By the chum in the water,by this accurate caster called
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the devil.
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Don't be misled.
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Every good thing, and everyperfect gift is from above.
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And you'll see, from the fatherof lights.
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And then verse 18, and here'ssome good news.
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We're gonna, we're kindof turning it here.
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"It was of his own will that hegave us birth by the word
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of truth, so that we would bea kind of firstfruits of his
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creatures."
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I love that.
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I have a birthday.
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Write this down.
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I'm joking.
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March 16, that's my birthday.
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I didn't have anything to dowith my birthday.
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My parents just got together.
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Nine months earlier and I wasborn.
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I had nothing to do with mybirth, nor did you.
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That's my first birthday.
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My second birthday occurred whenI was younger and I became
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a follower of Christ.
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I was born again.
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You've heard that phrase before,born again.
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What does that mean?
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Well, here's how you're bornagain.
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The word of God and the spiritof God get together and because
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of that we have a new birth.
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And I just told you the secretof dealing with temptation, one
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of the secrets.
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How do I deal with temptation?
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It seems like, man I can't dealwith it.
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It's too strong.
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It's too powerful.
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Sing happy birthday.
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Not your first birthday, yoursecond birthday.
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And hopefully you've hada second birthday, because if
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you get a second birthday,that's your spiritual birth.
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And because we're born again,we're born again into the family
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of God.
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We can tap into his power, hisinheritance.
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God will always give usthe strength and the power
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from the inside out to look pastthe cast, to look past the bait,
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to see the consequencesand to swim the way God wants us
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to swim.
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So that's that's a positivething.
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So when you feel thattemptation, when you see that
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temptation, when that fly isgoing by, just go, happy
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birthday to me.
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Remember that second birthday?
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Remember who you are becausereally my last name is not
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Ed Young.
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Young, young, no no.
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It's Ed Young Christian.
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That's my name because I'min the family of God.
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So that's a handle.
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Another handle is, rememberthis?
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You're not alone in yourtemptation.
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You're not by yourselfand that's why in the Bible,
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when it talks about the church.
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You know Christianity is nota solo sport.
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In the Bible it always talksabout one another, one another,
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one another, one another, oneanother, one another, because we
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rely on each other.
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Revealing what you're goin'through, revealing your feeling,
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you could say, is the beginningof healing.
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And usually if I've thoughtabout something I'm going
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through and I'm thinkinglike man I don't want to say it,
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if I say it they'll think I'mhorrible, but when I say it
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to some trusted people, they'relike, "Wow dude.
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I going through the same thing.
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I'm glad you said that."
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Because God wants us to grow.
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He wants us to develop.
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He doesn't want sin to develop.
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You know what happens when sinis full grown, it leads
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to death.
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When we are full grown, it leadsto life, adventure, excitement,
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but I love James, man he keepsit real.
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It's not easy to livethe Christian life.
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It's not a cake walk.
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But we have to realize you'renot alone.
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1 Corinthians 10:13, "Notemptation has overtaken you
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except what is commonto mankind."
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There it is.
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And God is faithful.
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He will not let you be temptedbeyond what you can bear.
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Here's something else.
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Remember your birthday.
00:24:50.669 --> 00:24:52.003
You're not alone.
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Number three, you're neverthe underdog, never.
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Ever.
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You can never say I justcouldn't take it.
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Oh my gosh.
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It was too strong.
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Oh I just no no no.
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We can't say that.
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We can't play the victim.
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Obviously, we have to use ourmind, we have to use our wisdom.
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If you ever talk to pilots,pilots will talk about payload.
00:25:14.793 --> 00:25:18.330
There's a payload, a capacitythat a plane can carry for it
00:25:18.330 --> 00:25:22.801
to take off and to fly.
00:25:22.801 --> 00:25:25.503
God is a payload God.
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He will never put too much on usthat we cannot take off and fly
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above the temptation.
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I love that.I love that.
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Remember your birthday.
00:25:35.880 --> 00:25:37.215
You're not alone.
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You're never the underdog, nomatter what you're dealing with.
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Here's somethin' else.
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There will always be anescape route.
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Always when it comesto temptation, but when you're
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tempted, when, not if, notmaybe.
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No no, when you're tempted, itwill also provide a way
00:25:50.328 --> 00:25:53.898
out so you can, say with me,endure it.
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We can endure it.
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