[Verse]

Winds howl through the narrow lane

But faith lights up the darkened plain

Mile by mile we bravely ride

With God’s goodness as our guide

[Chorus]

Oh we’re finding our way through this wild life

His love shines brighter than the brightest light

When we stumble and fall he holds our hand

Together we’ll find goodness in this land

[Verse 2]

The road may twist and rivers rise

But hope reflects in open skies

Each struggle paints a sacred hue

Life’s a canvas he’s painting

Too

[Chorus]

Oh we’re finding our way through this wild life

His love shines brighter than the brightest light

When we stumble and fall he holds our hand

Together we’ll find goodness in this land

[Bridge]

Through valleys deep through mountains tall

His voice calls soft above it all

No fear can linger no shadow stay

When his grace leads us day by day

[Chorus]

Oh we’re finding our way through this wild life

His love shines brighter than the brightest light

When we stumble and fall he holds our hand

Together we’ll find goodness in this land

Welcome to Finding Our Way

From the transcript...

Nor your ethnicity, education, nor economic status.

They matter nothing. For it is Christ that means everything. As He lives in every one of us. So what he’s saying is, it’s not these physical things that we look at out here—where you come from, what kind of money you’ve got, or anything. It’s the Christ that’s in you. Yeah. That’s everything.

Well, I think in the outworking of the gospel, I think everybody has difficulty as it works its way out into practical life, because we do live in a world where your nationality, your gender, your economics matter. In this world system, who you are, where you’re born, what you have—all that affects your status in this world system, because the kingdom hasn’t affected it.

Yes, but in the kingdom of God, where God rules and reigns and how He relates and sees, it has no bearing. That’s right. It’s Christ. It is Christ, yes. Christ is all. And as this leaven of the true kingdom gets down in us and starts working its way out into the world, these worldly system distinctions start getting less and less over time, because we are slow of heart to believe.

Well, I was going to say, because our belief affects the world in which we live.

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He was a judge, all this kind of stuff. And Jesus says, yeah. He said, you've heard that. That's conclusion of the Old Testament. Then he said, but I say to you. He establishes a new order. The king steps up and says, yeah, that's what you've heard. That's where you've been until now. But now I'm just going to tell you how it really is. Then he says, I say to you, love your enemies. Bless those who curse you. Do good to those who hate you. Yeah. Yeah. And pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his son rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. Okay. Totally different. I like God blessing everybody. Yeah, and then he says, because then you'll be like your father. Because here's what the Father was doing. He's blessing everybody.

Look at it like this, he says. If you love those who love you, do you expect a special reward? Even tax collectors do that, don't they? Yeah.

There's nothing special about you if you're loving somebody that loves you. Are you loving your enemy? Well, yes. It's easy to love those who are easy to love. But is that real love? I mean, that's the thing. Is it real love? It's love in its purest form, which is what you find in Jesus.

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Myself, in particular, I feel like my theology and beliefs—not just biblical, but beliefs in life in general—I’ve always been in a flux, you know, because I’m experiencing life and hopefully I’m learning better. Yeah, that’s… but that’s always been the way.

I think sometimes we think when we’re children going to school and we’re learning, there’s an illusion that when I get to be an adult, learning’s over. But then you realize, no, it’s not. It’s really just the beginning.

And you’re learning how to be a good father as you raise your kids. That’s why you’re such a good grandfather—because you’ve already got one round under your belt, your children. But you’re learning all kinds of things.

I guess this is kind of what I was thinking about when I was saying that. But when we get down to the church house, it’s cut and dried. It’s rigid. This is it. Yeah, we figured it out. This is it. Shut up and believe it. Don’t question it.

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See that vintage cap I got? That thing had to be made in the ’80s. Zach got two big old bags of caps that this guy from Cotton Valley had collected over the years. That was one of them.

I don’t like the way this cap wears.

Yeah?

But that’s not the reason I’m wearing it. You’re just rubbing it in—2019 national champions.

You’re just rubbing it in.

It gets kind of flat on your head.

Well, it’s this curvature of the bill. I just don’t like it much. I’m gonna try that one later, but it clashes with this shirt.

Yeah.

Which might be good—just to clash. I don’t know. That might be a good way. I don’t say I want to view myself that way, but—an individual that clashes with the norm. Because people don’t know how to respond when you just love them.

Well, the One who did that perfectly—they just killed Him.

Yeah… saying I might want to reconsider my choice to clash.

Well, no. Just don’t get shocked when it happens, I guess, is my point.

Oh, I won’t. I’m learning, though, to not let it bother me—the response. Because that’s not why I’m doing it. I’m not doing it for a good response.

I think we all want to be loved.

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Is the spiritual union another union? A union in addition to our carnal union with Christ? Or is it a sharing in the one and only union between God and man brought out in Jesus Christ?

This is a very important question, for if the spiritual union is an additional union, then our salvation depends not only on the finished work of Christ but upon something else as well, which has later to be added on to it before it is real for us.

That was, in fact, the idea taught by Roman Catholics, for example, in their doctrine of baptismal regeneration and ex opere operato sacramental incorporation into Christ. But it is the same idea that is taught also by Protestants in their doctrine of a union with Christ which is effected by faith or by conversion, through which alone what Christ has done for us becomes real for us.

Both these forms of the same error lead to a doctrine of man's cooperation in his own salvation, and so involve a doctrine of conditional grace.

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In Ephesians 1 and 7, since we're now joined to Christ, we've been given the treasures of redemption by His blood—the total cancellation of our sins—all because of the cascading riches of His grace.

Okay, the total cancellation of sins. Sounds like John the Baptist: “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” Well, you know John preached that, but do we really believe that? No. “Oh, you’ve got to do something.” Well, even then, they don’t even believe when they do something, James.

Okay, you may have to edit this out. No.

I have pastored churches for almost 40 years. And for 40 years, I have continually had to counsel people about the forgiveness of sins. I have preached the total, complete forgiveness of sins through Christ and His shed blood—the finished work of the cross—that you are forgiven.

And I’m telling you, James, even the people who would declare themselves as saved, born again, believers, baptized, active, faithful in church, tithers, Bible readers, and prayers do not experience the freedom from the guilt of their sins like they should.