How To Make Decisions
January 3, 2021
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The Winning Walk is the international teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young.
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How To Make Decisions
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- Ed Young: Noah was a manof faith, the Bible tells us,
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- and he had a wife.
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- His sons married wives and theyhad a household, a family
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- of faith, which wascountercultural, going
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- in the opposite directionof everybody else on the planet,
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- so judgment came in the formof a flood.
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- The flood waters cameand destroyed everybody,
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- but they had at least 120 years.
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- Genesis 6:3, 120 years to turnback to God.
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- Oh yeah, 'cause that's when Godsaid to Noah, "Go build a boat."
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- Now that's crazy.
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- He was 100 miles from any bodyof water.
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- Nobody had ever seen it rain.
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- Moisture came from the Earth.
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- The first rain that was recordedin history was with the flood
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- waters that came those 40 daysand 40 nights.
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- Here he is building a boat, thisrighteous man, this God-fearing
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- man, this worshiping man,and you can imagine
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- the ridicule.
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- Well, Noah, what are youbuilding there, man?
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- Large proportions, isn't it?
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- By the way, you rememberthe dimensions of the ark?
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- A hundred and fifty feet long,a football and a half long, you
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- know, onto the Super Bowl.
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- I'll give you that most measure.
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- A football and a half long fieldlong, 25 yards wide, 15 yards
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- high.
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- It wasn't for going anywhere.
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- It was for existence.
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- Now, people have studied the artfor many years and some scholars
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- and people who're supposedto know about boats said, you
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- know, "That boat wouldn't float.
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- It couldn't possibly inhabit twoof every kind and keep people
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- alive for all those 40 days, 40nights, et cetera."
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- But now, go to Branson,Missouri, you can see a replica
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- of the ark.
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- Go to other places on the earth,you see the ark has been exactly
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- reconstructed.
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- And now there is common beliefthat what is reported
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- in the Bible that many peoplejust said, "Oh it won't work,"
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- now they see exactly how itcould have worked and it did
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- function.
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- Amazing, isn't it?
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- Noah built that big ol' arkby faith.
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- He got in, the rains came, thenhe floated out there a million
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- miles from nowhere and his boatended up on Mount Ararat.
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- Remember, we climbed up Ararata few months ago?
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- And I can imagine that Noahwalked out of that ark and he
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- looked around.
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- There was nobody, no people, noinhabitants, no landmarks, no
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- nothing.
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- He started over from zip.
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- A lot of people think that Noahexercised more faith
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- after the flood than he didbefore the flood, because what's
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- the first thing Noah did when hegot off the boat?
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- The Bible says he builtan altar.
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- He worshipped in thanksgiving.
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- The ark was salvation, the altarwas transformation.
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- You can be saved and not betransformed.
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- But that's the transformationthat took place as Noah had
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- a new chance to begin lifeon this earth by faith.
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- Noah.
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- Noah.
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- Let me ask you a question.
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- What is faith?
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- How would you define faith?
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- How do you get faith?
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- How do you continue to livein faith?
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- Does faith grow?
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- Can it grow?
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- Does faith decline?
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- What do you do when you loseyour faith?
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- Can you get it back?
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- Is there such a thing as loseyour faith and then reclaiming
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- your faith?
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- We have a lot of questionsabout faith.
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- You go to Hebrews chapter 11,there's a whole chapter
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- on faith.
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- It's the centerpiecein the Bible on faith.
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- It gives us in the openingverses sort of a general
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- definition of faith.
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- Look at Hebrews 11:1-3, "Nowfaith is the substance of things
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- hoped for, the evidenceof things not seen.
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- For by it the elders obtaineda good testimony."
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- And by the way, this is the restof Hebrews.
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- You have a general definitionof faith, and then the rest
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- of the chapter tells us menand women in history who lived
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- by faith in all kindsof circumstances.
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- Then he says a key versein verse 3, "By faith we
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- understand."
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- "Understand" there meanssomething you come to believe
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- by evidence, by proof.
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- "By faith we come to believe weunderstand that the world--
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- the worlds were framedby the Word of God, so that
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- the things which are seen werenot made of things which are
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- visible."
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- In other words--by the way,the scientists came
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- up with the Big Bang.
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- Remember the Big Bang?
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- Said Bang, the world cameinto being.
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- There it is right therein Hebrews, is it not?
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- The world was made by Godout of things that were not
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- seen, and boom, there'san explosion and now there are
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- things that are seen.
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- And this gives us understanding.
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- Let's talk about faith.
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- Three levels.
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- Three levels of faith.
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- Now, they're all sort of subsetshere, but let me tell you
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- a basic understanding of faith.
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- First of all, faith is reason.
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- It's reason.
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- It's understanding.
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- It's reason.
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- And then on top of reason, faithis belief.
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- And on top of belief, there iscommitment.
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- And then you have faith isreason, and then reason leads
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- to belief, and belief leadsto commitment.
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- And then with those three, youhave certainty.
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- You see a lot of people tryto move from reason
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- to certainty.
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- I'm goin' to figure all thisout.
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- I'm going to work through it,then I'm going to be certain.
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- It never works like that.
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- Reason is the base.
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- It moves to belief, then itmoves to commitment, and then
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- hopefully it comes to certainty.
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- Up 'til that point, it's alltentative.
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- It's all, "I hope."
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- It's perhaps.
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- It's experimental.
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- Let me tell you something.
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- Except in math, every decisionyou make, every decision I make,
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- comes by way of faith.
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- Therefore if somebody might say,"Well, you know, I don't need
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- faith.
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- I don't--I don't thinkabout those things," every
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- decision, every choice we makeabout everything on the planet
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- comes by the way of faith.
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- You say, "Well, is itpractical?"
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- How practical is that?
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- If we can't do anything,accomplish anything, make any
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- decision without faith, that'spretty practical, isn't it?
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- So let's seek to understandfaith from the very, very
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- beginning.
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- When you decide who you wantyour plumber to be, it's a faith
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- decision.
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- You decide who you wantto marry, faith decision.
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- You decide, if you need surgery,who your surgeon is going to be,
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- a faith decision.
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- Pretty important, wouldn't yousay?
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- Well, how's this work?
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- Let's take a plumber.
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- Alright, you got pipes that arerusted all over your house.
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- Need to get a plumber.
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- So you go and use what?
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- Reason.Reason.
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- Try to find a plumber who cando this.
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- You use your mind, you useunderstanding, reason, and then
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- you move to belief.
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- Then you say, "You know, Ibelieve enough, I've
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- investigated enough, and I havereason that this would be my
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- plumber.
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- Now I believe he will do it."
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- And then you commit and you givehim the job.
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- And once it is completed, allthose process is sorta
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- tentative.
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- It's sort of, you know, I don'tknow, but when it's completed
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- and it works, you havecertainty.
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- Picking a mate.
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- A lot of people are not married.
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- You know why?
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- They think they movedfrom reason to certainty.
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- Oh, I'm going to figure all thisout.
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- She's the right one.
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- He's the right one.
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- Bang, bang, I'm certain now.
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- No, no, no, it startedwith reason, then you go
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- through a belief.
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- You begin to put it together.
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- And then you make a commitment,which may be engagement.
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- And then when you say, "I do,"and he says, or he says, "I
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- will," there is the certaintythat comes.
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- Faith has three basic steps.
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- You don't move from reasonto certainty.
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- Let's take a surgeon.
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- Your GP says you need surgery.
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- You go and try to picka surgeon.
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- You use reason, right?
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- Good idea.
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- You use reason.
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- And then reasonably you think,"This is a person that can
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- do it."
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- Then you have a certain beliefabout methodology and how it
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- will be done.
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- And then you make a commitment.
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- In that commitment, you lieon the table.
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- Put that thing over.
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- Count backwards to whatever.
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- That's pretty committed,isn't it?
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- Huh?Huh?
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- Commitment.
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- And then following the surgery,things go well, and then you
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- have what?
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- Certainty.Certainty.
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- So faith isn't just something,well, pie in the sky over there.
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- Faith isn't something that wesay, "Well, Christians have
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- faith and non-Christians don'thave faith."
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- No, we all have the same amountof faith.
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- The difference is what you putyour faith in, what I put my
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- faith in.
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- For example, let's look at--goback through and talked
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- about reason, understanding.
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- That's where we start.
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- Scientists normally operateby faith.
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- Scientists do not discovera whole lot of things
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- through inductive reasoning.
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- What is that?
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- They don't say, "Well, I seethis over here and I see that
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- over there, and I understandthat molecule over there,
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- and this works over here,"and they put all this together
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- inductively and they cometo a conclusion, something that
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- works, something that'saccurate.
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- Normally that's not the wayscience works.
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- Science works with a faithassumption, with a thesis,
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- with an idea and a concept,and then this is deductive
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- reasoning.
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- They begin to deduce from thatevidence as to whether or not
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- that faith assumption isaccurate.
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- Science operates by faithprimarily.
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- And so we look at the universe.
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- Godless people say, Boy,the universe came together
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- by chance.
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- It just all came by accident,by atoms coming together,
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- like in some primeval momentbillions of years ago.
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- It just evolved.
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- Let me tell you something.
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- To say this universe cametogether by chance is
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- like saying there wasan explosion in a print shop
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- and out produced the Webster'sUnabridged Dictionary.
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- Man, what are the odds of that?
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- Explosion in a print shopand you have a dictionary
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- perfectly put together, what arethe odds in that?
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- Ladies and gentlemen, the oddsof that happening are less than
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- the odds that this universewould come together
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- without a designer.
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- Abraham Lincoln--I said itrecently.
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- Abraham Lincoln says, "You goto outer space, you look back
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- on the earth, you may bean atheist."
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- He said, "You stand on the earthand look at outer space," he
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- said, "you can't be an atheist."
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- So the idea that all of thiscame--for example, decisions
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- in your life, faith choices thatwe make, what if you think that
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- you came into being by chance,that all human beings are here
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- by chance?
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- We came from some primeval mudpuddle there.
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- We came here by chance.
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- By chance something that wasinorganic became organic
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- by chance.
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- If you believe that you're hereby chance or if you are here
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- because you have been designedby a designer, what
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- a difference.
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- By design or chance?
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- That makes all the differencein the world on how we make
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- decisions every day of our life.
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- What's right, what's wrong, whatwill work, what will not work,
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- and these are faith decisions.
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- So faith is reason.
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- Reason.
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- The idea to say, "Well, youknow, I don't have faith that
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- you have in the church."
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- People here who are notChristians, somebody stand
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- up and tell how Jesus Christcame in their life and changed
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- everything, gave them a freshnew beginning, a new outlook
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- on life, and there's a freshnessthere they'd never had.
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- Somebody who's not a Christiansay, "Boy, you know I wish I
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- could believe that, but I don'thave enough faith."
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- If somebody from Mars camedown to this earth and we
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- explain to themabout procreation, how we
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- cooperate with God and producelife, and the martian would say,
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- "I can't even imagine that.
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- We procreate by the exchangingof earwax."
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- They have no frame of reference.
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- You see, we think people who seesomeone who comes to Christ have
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- a new life, they backup and say, "I have no frame
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- of reference for that.
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- I wish I had faith like that."
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- We all have the same amountof faith, ladies and gentlemen.
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- It's just what we put our faithin.
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- And when someone puts theirfaith into something other than
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- Jesus Christ, and that occupiesthe core and the center of their
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- life, therefore it's no wonderthat they have trouble
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- believing.
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- We all have the same amountof faith.
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- All, we have the sameprogressiveness.
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- This is development from reason,to belief, to commitment,
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- and then to certainty.
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- That's how it works.
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- Someone who says, "I just--Ijust need more faith," let me
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- tell you something.
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- Let's talk about securityof believers, for example.
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- Once saved, always saved.
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- Oh, we Baptists love that one.
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- Why do we believe that?
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- It's taught in the Bible.
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- But let's say it another way.
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- Let's say, for example, howare we saved?
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- If we're saved by doing goodand not doing evil, we can lose
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- our salvation, couldn't we?
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- If that's how we're saved, it'sbecause when we begin to do evil
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- and not good, we'd be lost.
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- We were saved by doing goodand not evil.
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- Now we can be lost by doingevil, not good, right?
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- But we're not saved by doinggood, by works.
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- We're saved by the grace of Godin Jesus Christ.
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- Therefore, we are eternallysecure.
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- And we--when we wander awayfrom God in Christ and we slide
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- back, because we are in Christ,we know that, and our faith
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- begins to operate, and we feellike someone who is no longer
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- at home in this life.
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- We become a bomb.
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- You know what a bomb is?
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- A bomb is something that,in the center, in the core,
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- there is a compound that isunstable.
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- That's the reason it's a bomb.
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- And if your life and my lifethere's a compound that is
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- unstable, we haven't blown up,but we will blow up.
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- We're bombs.
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- In the center of your lifeand my life, when there's God
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- and Jesus Christ, he gives usstability.
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- Stability.
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- And we understand thisthrough reason
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- and through belief.
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- You see, as Christians, we lookback on the facts of history.
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- You and I can believe thatChristmas is real.
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- God visited this earth in humanflesh, incarnation.
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- You can believe that.
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- We can believe that Jesus diedon the cross for all your
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- garbage and my garbage.
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- We can believe that, oursubstitute.
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- We can believe that God raisedhim from the dead.
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- We can believe that,the resurrection, Easter.
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- But you can believe that, but itreally doesn't become yours
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- until that which happensin the past affects how we live
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- in the present.
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- In other words, we have to liveon the basis of our--
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- of the gospel, on the basisof what Jesus has done.
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- Now, Peter and Paul were broughtup as Jews, right?
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- And they were taught thata Gentile--and a Gentile is
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- anybody who's not a Jewin the Bible.
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- If you--you're either a Jewor a non-Jew.
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- If you're a non-Jew, you'rea Gentile.
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- And Peter and Paul were taughtthat Gentiles could never know
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- God.
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- Why?
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- Because their pedigreeand because of their practice.
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- Their pedigree, a Gentile is notfrom Abraham.
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- A Jew's pedigree isfrom Abraham.
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- A Gentile's practice is notkeeping the law, a Jew's
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- practice is keeping the law.
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- Therefore, Gentile could neverknow God.
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- But you read the book of Acts,there is Peter over there and he
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- gets with Cornelius who wasa Gentile, a centurion.
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- And he tells Cornelius about Godin Christ, and zip, Cornelius,
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- a Gentile, accepts Jesus Christand becomes a Christian.
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- There's a problem.
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- Peter had no problem.
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- He saw that this Gentile hadbecome a Christian.
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- He saw that the performanceof Jesus was put in his life,
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- the pedigree of Jesus was putin his life, so he was
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- a Christian.
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- So Peter went over thereand loved eating breakfast
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- with him, and he fell in lovewith bacon.
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- He lies to Jesus.
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- And Peter just loved the waythe Gentiles ate, but some big
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- shots from Jerusalem came.
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- Some of the family of Jamesthere in the strict Judaism, who
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- believe you had to take allthe practices of Jew after you
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- receive Christ as Messiah,and they saw that Peter was
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- eating with the Gentiles.
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- They heard about it, so whilethey were there, Peter didn't
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- eat with Cornelius anymore.
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- He did without bacon.
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- Paul, in Galatians chapter 2, hefaced Peter with this hypocrisy.
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- He said, "Pete, if theseGentiles are really Christians
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- and you've been told thateverything is clean, don't
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- change how you live, becausethose who come who haven't
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- yet caught up with what it meansto be born again and a child
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- of God."
- 00:19:54.516 --> 00:19:55.617
- He looked in Peter's faceand pointed it out to him.
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- This is what happens to us,ladies and gentlemen.
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- We know all these factshistorically, but we have
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- to take them and incorporatethat into our lives and discover
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- this is how we then live.
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- Oh, I'm burdened with my sin.
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- I can't handle this.
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- We have to live on the basis oursin has been covered
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- by the blood of Christ.
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- We are forgiven.
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- Don't let that beat youdown and keep you down.
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- Live on the basis of that.
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- That's a part of the beliefsystem that we have.
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- And then finally, lookat the last thing we see here.
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- Yeah, we're talking about faith,reason, belief, doctrine, what
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- we have.
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- Then there comes commitment.
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- Commitment.
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- Commitment.
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- You walk on the edge of a cliff,slippery rocks, and you slide,
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- and you start falling down thatcliff hundreds of feet below.
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- And as you're sliding down, yousee ahead a branch sticking
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- up out of the cliff.
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- You're going to slide rightby that branch.
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- How much faith is going to takefor you to grab hold of that
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- branch?
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- Huh?
- 00:21:06.988 --> 00:21:08.657
- "Oh, it's got--" no, it's gonnatake--no, it's not gonna take
- 00:21:08.690 --> 00:21:14.229
- hardly any faith, is it, whenyou're sliding down that cliff,
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- to grab that branch.
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- But once you grab that branch,that's a little faith that you
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- have, but that branch, in itsstrength, will hold you
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- up and save you.
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- When we extend our hand to JesusChrist, we extend our hand
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- to him, he grabs us and he putsin you and me his pedigree.
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- He's the Son of God.
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- Is that a pretty good familyto be in?
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- He puts in you and me hispractice, a life of perfection.
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- Is that enough for you and me?
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- And therefore that gives ussalvation.
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- Faith.Faith.
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- Faith.
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- It works everywhere, when we'reon top of our game, when we're
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- in the bottom of our game.
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- Faith.
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- What is it?
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- Faith.
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- How do we get it?
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- Faith.
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- We can't lose it.
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- Once we're in Christ and Christis within us, and then we can
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- handle whatever life putsin for of us on our plate.
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- And that is the certainty ofour faith.
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- We see it works.
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- It applies.
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- It keeps us going.
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- It sees us through.
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- Chicago Fire was in, I think,1871.
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- I'm not sure.
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- In that fire, Horatio Spaffordwas a lawyer, owned property
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- in Chicago, very wealthy,and everything he had was
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- wiped out.
- 00:22:48.023 --> 00:22:49.991
- He sent his wife and four littledaughters to London to go
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- to a D. L. Moody crusade,
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- to try to havea moment of getting over their
- 00:22:57.899 --> 00:23:00.702
- tremendous loss.
- 00:23:00.735 --> 00:23:02.804
- On that voyage from New Yorkto London, middle
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- of the Atlantic, the shipwent down.
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- All four daughters were lost.
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- Anna was saved.
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- Somehow she was on a board,and when she regained
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- consciousness, she lookedaround, all four of her
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- daughters had drowned.
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- When she found safety there, wasrescued, she sent a telegram
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- back to her husband who wascoming over later to be
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- with them.
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- And it said simply, "Saved,alone.
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- What am I to do?"
- 00:23:40.775 --> 00:23:43.378
- Horatio Spafford wentover there, joined his wife,
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- and they saw and were ledto believe that God had
- 00:23:47.249 --> 00:23:50.218
- a special calling fortheir life.
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- And so they moved to Jerusalem,and they bought this house,
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- which is now a hotel, and theybegan to take in orphans.
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- They began to take in streetpeople.
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- They began to feed, and love,and share with those people,
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- Jews and Muslims, the LordJesus Christ.
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- And they did that for the restof their life.
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- And on the way over, HoratioSpafford asks the ship he was
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- on to stop over the spot wherehis four little daughters had
- 00:24:20.982 --> 00:24:26.021
- drowned months before.
- 00:24:26.054 --> 00:24:28.456
- And there he wrote, "It Is Wellwith My Soul."
- 00:24:28.490 --> 00:24:34.829
- "Peace like a river, attendethmy day."
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- Good things.
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- "Sorrow when like sea,billows roll."
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- Bad things.
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- Said, "Whatever, whatever,whatever the cost, thou has
- 00:24:43.805 --> 00:24:49.110
- taught me to say, it is well, itis well with my soul."
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- That, ladies and gentlemen, isfaith in action.
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- Ed: It is not always easy tokeep track
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- of all God does foryou and for me.
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- so you can remember what God hasdone in your life.
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