Living Out the Master's Manifesto, Part 3

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Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef

Michael Youssef, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Sermons, Bible Study, Theology, Health & Fitness, Jesus, Mental Health, Preaching, Bible, Spirituality, Religion, Holy Spirit, Ltw, Leading The Way

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🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Have you been feeling like your witness isn't very effective? Have you been inconsistent with your time of Bible study or prayer? Serving God always and everywhere is not easy, but Dr. Michael Youssef says that praise can help. Dr. Youssef describes praise as "the fuel that makes us effective." Praise creates a stronger desire for God and enables us to serve Him and to trust Him more completely. Praise improves your prayer life, and it helps you to overcome Satan and the challenges you're facing. Learn how praise can make all the difference in your life through this five-part teaching series Empowered by Praise.

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0:00.0	I'm sure some of you are going to be somewhat surprised and others may be even shocked to hear me say what I'm going to say.
0:08.0	But I want you to be patient because I have an explanation.
0:13.0	I want to tell you that our greatest challenge today as the Church of Jesus Christ and even as a society is not immorality.
0:24.9	Immorality is not the most dangerous threat that is facing us today.
0:31.7	Immorality is not the greatest challenge that is challenging our Christian conviction.
0:37.6	Immorality is not all that worrisome difficulty that we are facing today.
0:44.2	Let me explain.
0:46.3	Immorality says, break the moral standards.
0:51.6	Break the moral absolutes.
1:00.3	Break the moral code. break the moral norm. And I have to confess to you, even a blind person can probably sense something that is broken. And that is
1:07.0	why I said immorality is not the most dangerous thing.
1:12.0	But what is the most dangerous thing that we're facing today is our morality.
1:17.7	Our morality says nothing about breaking the moral absolutes.
1:23.1	Our morality says there is no such thing as moral standards. There is no such thing as moral
1:30.7	absolutes. And that is far more dangerous than immorality. And that's what we're facing today.
1:40.7	What we're seeing is that our culture and the media and some in the education system and in the courts and some of the legislators seem to have conspired together to tell the people today is that it is up to each individual to decide his or her moral standards or absolutes.
2:00.0	Not only that, but there are pressure groups. his or her moral standards or absolutes.
2:07.5	Not only that, but there are pressure groups that are working within the education system,
2:13.8	that there seem to be hell-bent on ramming this amorality down the children's throat.
2:22.6	I believe with all my heart that the very fiber that has weaved Western civilization together was made of biblical and moral absolutes.
2:27.7	That the very foundation upon which Western civilization was built is the God of the Bible being a moral God and that he is the author of moral absolutes.
2:39.2	It's the very essence of Western technological development was extracted from the nectar of God's moral standards and God's moral laws.
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