1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: Let us pray. In the beginning was the Word, and 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: the word was with God, and the word was God, 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 1: John one One. Lord, you are your Word. It was 4 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: with you in the beginning, the word was God. Your 5 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: word breathes life into my soul. Your word gives life 6 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 1: to all who read it. Words reveal who we are 7 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: to others. And God send Jesus the Word in flesh 8 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: form to reveal his father's heart to the world. Lord, 9 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,319 Speaker 1: you spoke the world into existence, and all things were 10 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: made by you. It is your word that renews my 11 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 1: mind and refutes old lies, so I can think pure thoughts. 12 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: The more I understand you, the more my faith believes 13 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: in who you are, and the greater the anointing in 14 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: my life. 15 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 2: Amen. 16 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to today's Daily Prayer for more 17 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: inspiration and an incredible message from our feature pastor stay 18 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: tuned to pray dot COM's Sunday service. 19 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 3: Welcome to The Winning Walk with Doctor ed Young. Before 20 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 3: we get to today's message, we want to help you 21 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 3: move forward in your faith with perseverance, power and purpose 22 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 3: by sending you doctor Young's book, The Winning Walk. It 23 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 3: comes as thanks for your gift to help share the 24 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 3: proven truth of God's Word with more people all over 25 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 3: the world through the broadcasts and resources of The Winning Walk. 26 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 3: No one is born with the ability to walk. It 27 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 3: requires practice, coordination, and time. In the same way, nobody 28 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 3: instantly becomes an overcoming Christian. Like all journeys, it requires 29 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 3: proper equipment and preparation. In his book The Winning Walk, 30 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 3: Doctor Young helps you outfit your life with the Word 31 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 3: of God so that you can conquer the spiritual drift 32 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 3: and walk confidently. 33 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 2: In Christ every day. 34 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 3: So be sure to request your copy of The Winning 35 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 3: Walk when you give, just call one eight hundred three 36 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 3: five oh walk one eight hundred three five oh nine 37 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 3: two five five. Now let's get started with today's teaching 38 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 3: from doctor Young. 39 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 4: But I'm told that when all the lights go out, 40 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 4: that the diamond, the Whope diamond, has unusual qualities of brilliance. 41 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 4: And when the lights are out, it shines even brighter 42 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 4: then it was then, even when he was under the lights. 43 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 4: And that's hope. That's hope. We asked the question, what 44 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 4: has happened in America, what's happened around the world. There 45 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 4: is violence, and the answer to violence is more violence. 46 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:59,399 Speaker 4: The cartoon in the New York times pictured. Two men 47 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 4: stand there in Missouri Ferguson, and they were looking at 48 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 4: a burned out business, and one man said, I guess 49 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 4: we showed them. The other man said, yeah, I guess 50 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 4: we did. I used to work there. I don't have 51 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 4: the answers for that, but I don't hear the answers 52 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 4: for that. And the idea that you can get. 53 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 2: This group and that group to come. 54 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 4: Together, communicate more and sing another stands or two of 55 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 4: Kumbaiya is not the answer. I'm not interested in blame 56 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 4: or purpose. I'm interested in. 57 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 2: What is there in our world, in our cities. 58 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 4: That leads to protest and violence, and in the streets 59 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 4: numbering the millions. 60 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 2: Bear. 61 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 4: We need to take a time out and see what 62 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 4: is going on. The Book of Romans, the formal study 63 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 4: ends in the thirteenth chapter. In the fifteenth chapter, in 64 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 4: the thirteenth verse, it talks about hope, hope, hope, hope, 65 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 4: Christian people have hope. The rest are Romans Roman Chapter fifteen, 66 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 4: verse fourteen. 67 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 2: Through the rest of fifteen. All the way through. 68 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 4: Chapter sixteen, Paul is saying goodbye. He's saying, here are 69 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 4: my future plans, and he has two or three prayers, 70 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 4: benedictions written in and he lists a lot of people's 71 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 4: names that he knew, and he loved and encouraged them 72 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 4: and gave them assignments. But he ends up romans saying 73 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 4: that you and I, as men and women in Christ, 74 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,239 Speaker 4: we have hope, and we are to take that hope 75 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 4: and let it expl flowed in the world in which 76 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 4: we live. Listen to this thirteenth verse. It's a powerful 77 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 4: challenge for you and for me. Now, may the God 78 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 4: of Hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, 79 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 4: so that other words, we are filled with joy and peace. 80 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 4: Why so that you may abound and hope by the 81 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 4: power of the Holy Spirit. The joy and peace we 82 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 4: have in Christ is to overflow the joy and peace 83 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 4: in the lives of others. Let's prepare for the teaching 84 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 4: of the book. 85 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 2: Father. 86 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 4: We kneel, hands and hearts and minds before you, asking 87 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 4: that you will speak and challenge us and move among us. 88 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,559 Speaker 4: And may we hear your words, not for anybody else, 89 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 4: but as for each and every one of us. You speak, Father, 90 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 4: by the power of your spirit. Let me get out 91 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 4: of the way, is our prayer in Jesus' name. 92 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 2: Amen. 93 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 4: It was the best of times, it was the worst 94 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 4: of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was 95 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 4: the age of foolishness. It was a season of light. 96 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 4: It was the season of darkness. It was the spring 97 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 4: of hope. It was the winter of despair. We had 98 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 4: everything before us, We have nothing before us. 99 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:49,239 Speaker 2: We were all going to heaven. No, we were all 100 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 2: going the other way to hell. 101 00:06:53,640 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 4: Opening words of Charles Dickens, A tale of two cities. 102 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 2: One city was Paris. 103 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 4: They had a revolution, heads were cut off, there was division, 104 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 4: there was war, there was violence, there was all kinds 105 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 4: of corruption exploding in Paris. It spilled off into France. 106 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 4: It was the darkest of ours. The other city in 107 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 4: the second part of the tale was London. Not perfect, 108 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 4: but they had a spirit of Christ and God and 109 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 4: redimtion and hope in the lives of people. So there's 110 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 4: two different cities, and there's a tale of two different cities. 111 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 4: We live in a city metropolitan Houston, Texas. My what 112 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 4: a city, What a moment in which for you and I. 113 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 2: To be alive. 114 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 4: Various cities in the history of mankind, perhaps no city 115 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 4: before has been so privileged and blessed as we are 116 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 4: now in Houston. Look at where we are in Houston. 117 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 4: Houston has the number one wealthiest zip code in Texas 118 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 4: with a medium income average income two hundred and forty 119 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty one dollars per person. 120 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 2: We have that zip code. 121 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 4: The metropolity of Houston, and it's not River Oaks, it's 122 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 4: West u. 123 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 2: Interesting. 124 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 4: Houston has four of the top ten wealthiest zip codes 125 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 4: in the entire state of Texas. Houston area housing start 126 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 4: rates climbed to twenty eight thousand, nine hundred and ninety 127 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 4: this year, showing growth for the last eight quarters. Houston 128 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 4: is designated as the top real estate market for investment 129 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 4: and development for twenty fifteen. Forest Magazine says Houston is 130 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 4: the top big city where self employment opportunity is growing 131 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 4: the fastest. This fall, FORLLS Magazine declared Houston the best 132 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 4: city for jobs. American Express commissioned study declared Houston the 133 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 4: best metro area. 134 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 2: For women owned firms by revenue. 135 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 4: Houston has the most college graduates over age twenty five 136 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 4: per capita. 137 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 2: New York Times. 138 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 4: Listed Houston as one of the top destinations for college graduates. 139 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 4: Houston in twenty fourteen is the best city for young entrepreneurs. 140 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 4: Princeton reviewed designated Rice University is offering college students the 141 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 4: best quality of life among US colleges. This is the 142 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 4: best one. U Haul declared Houston as a number one 143 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 4: destination for reclocation moves, and last, but not least, Forbes 144 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 4: declared Houston among the top coolest cities to. 145 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 2: Thrive in America. 146 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 4: We've got the cool factor, ladies and gentlemen. 147 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 2: A tale of two cities. 148 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:29,440 Speaker 4: That's one city, Urban Houston, Metropolitan Houston, downtown, midtown, suburban 149 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 4: areas of Houston. 150 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 2: That's one city. 151 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 4: But we've got another city. We've got the inner City. 152 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, the inner City. Well we know about, we 153 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 4: heard about it, used to have been there. And we 154 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 4: have a flight from the inner city. We call it 155 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 4: white flight. Oh no, it's white flight, it's black flight, 156 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 4: it's brown flight. Anybody who's in the inner City, they 157 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 4: fly out as soon as they can get out. It's 158 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 4: flight by all flight leaving behind Blake. Let's see how 159 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 4: this looks nationally, if you would look at your screen, 160 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 4: US spends six hundred billion on welfare programs for just one. 161 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 2: Hundred and fifty five billion. 162 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 4: Now we send spend six hundred billion but just one 163 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 4: hundred and fifty five billion, we could establish subsidize employment 164 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 4: programs in private sector, something like Works Progress Administration that 165 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 4: would employ eleven million dependent people. See that WPA Works 166 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 4: Project Administration. My daddy in the depression had a little 167 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 4: bitty service station lost. 168 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:48,559 Speaker 2: The station lost everything. 169 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 4: There was not food on the table, and my daddy 170 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 4: worked for the WPA, the government. He was ashamed of 171 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 4: it because my daddy was the hardest working man you 172 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 4: have ever met in your natural life, bar none. If 173 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:07,079 Speaker 4: you can find someone, I challenge you to do it. 174 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 4: But he was so embarrassed, but he worked for the 175 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 4: WPA so food could be on the table. 176 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,079 Speaker 2: Something like that can help. 177 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 4: Nineteen sixty five US poverty rate was fifteen point two percent, 178 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 4: with twenty million people living below the poverty mind now 179 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 4: that a forcannot back. In nineteen sixty only zero point 180 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 4: sixty five percent of working age population received disability checks. 181 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 4: But today the poverty rate is vertus the same fifteen 182 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 4: point one percent, with more than forty million in that category, 183 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:49,439 Speaker 4: fifteen million children living in poverty. And we have spent 184 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:54,559 Speaker 4: since then over sixteen trillion to try. 185 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 2: To alleviate the problem. 186 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 4: Today five point six percent of working age populage received 187 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,199 Speaker 4: disability checks. 188 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 2: So here we are. 189 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 4: That's nationally. This is where we are nationally. Not a 190 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 4: pretty picture. Now, let's look in Houston. Let's look right here. 191 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 4: Let's look in Harris County. That's the best way to 192 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 4: look at it. Fatherless cast a shadow of fear. Three 193 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 4: hundred forty three thousand, six hundred and forty seven out 194 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 4: of one million, one hundred and eighty four thousand, nine 195 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 4: hundred and eighty eight children in Harris County live with 196 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 4: single mothers. 197 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 2: To get that, single mothers. 198 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 4: Poverty cast a shadow of fear eight hundred and eighteen 199 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 4: out of four million, three hundred and thirty six, eight 200 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 4: hundred and fifty three that's population of Harris County. People 201 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 4: of Harris County live below the poverty line one out 202 00:13:54,960 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 4: of four. Broken educational system, lack of not as cast 203 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 4: a shadow of fear. Almost a million, nine hundred and 204 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 4: ten thousand, seven hundred and thirty nine Harris County adult 205 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 4: residents can't read. 206 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 2: One out of every four adults in our area can 207 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 2: not read. Did you get that? 208 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 4: Abuse and neglect cast a shadow fear twenty five thousand, 209 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 4: four hundred and thirty eight child abuse and neglect reports filed. 210 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 2: In Harris County. 211 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 4: Nineteen eight hundred and thirty four are listen to this. 212 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 4: Seventy eight percent of the perpetrators of parents eighteen thy 213 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 4: fifty three are Seventy one percent of these parents were unmarried. 214 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 4: Fifty two percent of victims were female ages. 215 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 2: One to three. 216 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,479 Speaker 4: Gang rue cast a shadow of fear. Forty one thousand 217 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 4: registered gang members we know about. 218 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 2: There are others we know about. In Houston. 219 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 4: Gangs are connected, of course, to the drug trade. 220 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 2: We're going and on. 221 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 4: Because there's a tale of two cities. In every city 222 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 4: in America, there's a tale of two. 223 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 2: Cities, and therefore there is. 224 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 4: Illiteracy, illegitimacy, immorality, depression, desponsing, disponsing, fear, and find there's hopelessness. 225 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 2: You say, what are they doing? 226 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 4: Did you see interviews of those who are in the streets, 227 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 4: says say, while you're here, they couldn't give you a 228 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 4: coherent answer. I'm just here because there was a hopelessness 229 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 4: in the inner city and a helplessness in the inner city, 230 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 4: and it's stacked up generation at the generation at the generation, 231 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 4: and you. 232 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 2: Got two extremes. 233 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 4: You got one extreme that says, let's throw more money 234 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 4: at those people. 235 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 2: And let's just throw more money. There are the extremes. 236 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 4: Let's take all the money away, let. 237 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 2: Them go to work. You got a problem. 238 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 4: Most of them have a felon among the males there, 239 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 4: and they can't get a job because they have a record. 240 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 4: Two extremes, take away all the money, throw them are money. 241 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 2: Both are radically wrong. Now what are we to do? 242 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 4: Two cities? Tail of two cities right here, right here 243 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 4: where we live, right here, in the cities around the world. 244 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 4: A tale of two cities. Some people just say, oh, 245 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 4: just give up and on your it's not a hope. 246 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 4: Let me tell you something. What we've got is Christian people, folks. 247 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 4: First of all, we have the commands of God, and 248 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 4: we have the promises of God. 249 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 2: And in life that without. 250 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 4: The communication of God, let me tell you there are 251 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:10,160 Speaker 4: some redemptive answers. Now, let's start right here. Good place 252 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 4: to start with the book, is it not? The book always. 253 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:16,199 Speaker 2: Gets us in. It gets me in trouble. 254 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 4: If it doesn't get you in trouble, you're not reading 255 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 4: it properly. Chapter fifteen, the Bible says, now, we who 256 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 4: are strong. That's all of us here. We're in urban America. 257 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 4: We're the top side. We're the strong. Oh yeah, every 258 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 4: one of us. We're the strong ought to bear the 259 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 4: weakness of those without strength, and not just please ourselves 260 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 4: the strong, or to bear the weakness of the weak. 261 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 2: That's a good place to start. 262 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 4: What else with each of us is to please his 263 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 4: neighbor for his good to his advocation, we're not to 264 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:01,679 Speaker 4: please ourselves. We are to please is the week to 265 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,719 Speaker 4: his edification. Edifocation means that they're to be edified, and 266 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 4: they're edified when you and I are educated, we begin 267 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 4: to understand. Then we can build up. I understand it. 268 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 2: Just hold on. 269 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 4: I thought I did too, but I can tell you 270 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 4: I understand it better. Edification. We're not just to please ourselves. 271 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 4: You're not going to find your life by just serving 272 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 4: your life edification. We're to be a part of the 273 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:39,199 Speaker 4: edification process of the week of the week Verse three. 274 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,919 Speaker 4: For even Christ did not please himself. For as it 275 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 4: is written, the approaches of those who approach you fell 276 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 4: on me. We are to identify with his boy. If 277 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 4: I were in the inner city, let me tell you something. 278 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 4: A few escape but a precious, precious few escape. If 279 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:00,159 Speaker 4: you're in there in the city at ioware in the 280 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 4: inner city. 281 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 2: Let me tell you there's oppression. There's generation acted, generation 282 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 2: acted generation. 283 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 4: There's no easy way out of the trap, no easy 284 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 4: way out of the trap. Let me tell you that 285 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 4: we got to identify. Put on those shoes for a while, 286 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 4: go down and look, walk around. 287 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 2: Different universe. 288 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 4: Verse four for whatever was written in earlier times were 289 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 4: written for our instructions. So that perseverance and the encouragement 290 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 4: of the scriptures. 291 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 2: We might have. 292 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 4: Oh that may the God who gives you and me 293 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 4: perseverance and encouragement grant to you of the same mind 294 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 4: of Christ that, according to Jesus Christ, we've been given 295 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 4: perseverance and encouragement. We're to go and give perseverance and 296 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 4: encouragement to the weak. 297 00:19:54,920 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 2: Tail up two cities. One city, Oh ah, there's that 298 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:02,719 Speaker 2: other city. 299 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 4: Oh housing, you can't get property, house, it's so expensive 300 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 4: around here. Let me take it some places in that 301 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 4: second city. You can buy all the property you want, 302 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 4: and houses you want from miles and miles and miles, 303 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:23,360 Speaker 4: and apartment you want from miles and miles and miles. 304 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 4: A Tale of two cities, then what else? Verse seven. 305 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 4: Therefore accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us. 306 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:35,959 Speaker 4: To the glory of God, we were accepted, we are 307 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 4: accepted him. 308 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 2: And he was on to say. 309 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 4: Jesus was a servant of the Jews and to serve 310 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 4: of the gentiles. That's verse eight all the way through 311 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:47,639 Speaker 4: verse twelve. Now Verse thirteen says that may the God 312 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 4: of Hope fill you with all joy and peace. Believing 313 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 4: so that we read it, you will abound in the 314 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 4: hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. 315 00:20:58,800 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 2: So you say, how in the. 316 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 4: World can I accept this? How in the world can 317 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 4: I bear the worden of the week? 318 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:07,920 Speaker 2: We can do the only basis of love. 319 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:17,399 Speaker 4: Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells 320 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 4: me so. Little ones to him be along. They are weak, 321 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:32,120 Speaker 4: but he is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus 322 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 4: loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. For the Bible tells 323 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 4: me so a lot of me, there isn't it. Children 324 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 4: of that age who sing that song need that heart, 325 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 4: don't they that Jesus loves me and we build that 326 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 4: in our children. 327 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 2: They need that. 328 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 4: But it gets kind of bad when we begin to 329 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:06,640 Speaker 4: shave and put on some lipstick. And we're not that obvious, 330 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 4: but we're still like that, you know, still so narciss city. 331 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 2: I woke up this. 332 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,639 Speaker 4: Morning, did you know. I didn't even think about or 333 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 4: care how you look today. But I to just tire 334 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 4: go this suit. 335 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:29,200 Speaker 2: That's all about me right now. I'm not worried about 336 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 2: what you don't have a lunch. I'm worried about what 337 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:35,640 Speaker 2: I'm going to have a lunch. I don't care what 338 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 2: you eat. 339 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 4: I got my own stuff fear, And that's how tragically 340 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 4: we live. And you've got the outer city in the 341 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 4: inner city. It's a tale of two cities, the tale 342 00:22:55,880 --> 00:23:01,400 Speaker 4: of two lifestyles. God has given us instruction and command 343 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 4: as to what we are to do. 344 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 2: You say, where and where are we been? 345 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 4: Oh? 346 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,159 Speaker 2: In the outer city there is great hope. 347 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 4: Look at all these buildings going up, looking allway, look 348 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 4: at that. 349 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:14,360 Speaker 2: I can't believe. 350 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 4: Ba. In the inner city, the buildings boar. In the 351 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:24,640 Speaker 4: inner city, the buildings are falling down because there are 352 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 4: no buildings. It's just slums and ghetto that moves from 353 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 4: here to there to yond. About thirty years ago now, 354 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 4: three or four of the guys the church took me 355 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 4: down to the then the Toyota Senate to see a 356 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 4: closed circuit prize fight. I don't remember who's fighting. I 357 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 4: don't worry this Foreman or Fraser or Ali or. 358 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 3: You've been listening to the winning Walk with Doctor ed Young. 359 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 4: We're stored to me the joy of Thy salvation that 360 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 4: sustained me with a willing spirit, Psalm fifty one to twelve. 361 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 4: God never gives up on his children. I'm grateful for that. 362 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 4: I wonder how many of us might admit I thought 363 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 4: God had given up on media. There was a moment 364 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 4: when I'd gotten so far away that I no longer 365 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 4: felt the intimacy I once had with God. But He 366 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 4: just kept on pursuing me and help me we capture 367 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:29,640 Speaker 4: lost ground. How grateful we should be for this basic truth. 368 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 4: God boots to bring his children back to himself, regardless 369 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 4: of how far they have retreated or how much ground 370 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,360 Speaker 4: they may have surrendered. God is that hound of heaven 371 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,640 Speaker 4: who keeps calling us to come back home to him. 372 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 4: And where sin abounds, the good news is that's where grace. 373 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:57,479 Speaker 2: All the more abounds. Come home. Come home. 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