Jan. 23, 2025
"An Elephant on Your Chest"
Join Jimmy and Annette as they engage life and culture from a biblical worldview.
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It's an incredible song.
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Don't get down when you see the worst
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because the last will be the first.
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What a day, I'm telling you.
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All things will be new, living up in a down world.
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Yeah, we're living, yeah, we're living,
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living up in a down world.
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Oh.
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This is Jimmy Nanette.
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Yes, I did say Annette.
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She is back again for week two, miracles of miracles.
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There is a God in heaven.
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Oh my goodness.
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Welcome back to the show.
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Wow, I was here last week.
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Well, it was last Saturday actually, we did our broadcast.
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I know, we came up on Saturday,
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but you didn't get it posted till Sunday.
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Right, cause it was a long day.
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It was.
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Yeah, and we went home, we had things to do.
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We sure did.
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I know, you look gorgeous today by the way.
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Cause I got dressed cause I worked today.
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Saturday I was like, no, I don't even want to put makeup on.
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And you had a Bible study you went to.
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I did.
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Ladies Bible study.
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A very tough ladies Bible study.
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Covering a simple book called the book of revelation.
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Apocalyptic literature, kill me now.
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No, I'm just kidding.
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It's hard.
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That's a big one to tackle
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because there's so many different viewpoints
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and different ideas.
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But it doesn't even, we're not even at that point.
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You haven't even got into the views, the different views.
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Cause there's a bunch.
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No, it doesn't.
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I'm grabbing my Bible.
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It's literally expository teaching.
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Wow.
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So you're looking.
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Oh, verse by verse.
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Well, yeah, you're looking back too
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because it correlates with the Old Testament.
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And you really need to know the Old Testament.
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And that is not something that I'm
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just extremely knowledgeable in
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because we've always say we're New Testament believers,
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but we obviously believe in the Old Testament.
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Of course.
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I've studied it as much.
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I'm just now studying
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and I just finished the book of Genesis today.
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I'm gonna start Exodus tomorrow,
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but this is tough.
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This is really.
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We're doing a lot of tough study.
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You're doing that on Thursdays in a ladies Bible study.
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And you said y'all started with how many
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when you started in the fall.
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I think we started with over 60,
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but I don't know how many.
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How many are there now?
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I don't know.
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I have no idea.
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I couldn't count.
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Half?
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I would say at least a quarter have dropped off.
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Yeah, I could see.
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So we have gained a couple of new people.
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Oh, that's good.
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After the break.
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I don't know how they can jump right in.
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Honestly.
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For real.
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Cause that is a.
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It's very tough.
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Jen Wilkins is the teacher.
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And obviously she is very,
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I mean, she says she doesn't even know much,
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but what comes out of her mouth,
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we're all kind of flabbergasted.
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Well, I watched one of the videos
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with you and I was like, whoa,
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this is like seminary level stuff.
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It is.
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I do.
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I feel like I'm in seminary.
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And it's going to take probably,
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cause you do all this days and days worth of homework
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before you even have the video of her teaching.
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And I'm going to literally have to go back through
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and watch all the videos again,
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over and over and over just to get it.
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Well, the Bible does say,
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study to show yourself approved unto God.
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So there you go.
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And it's hard when you're doing other things too,
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cause I'm trying to get into the old Testament.
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And we've got this.
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And then.
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And then Wednesday night,
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we're doing our walking with Jesus discipleship journey,
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which is borderline seminary level.
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It's deep.
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It's theological.
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It's intense.
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It's an hour and a half.
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Pastor Brian brought it last night.
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Oh my gosh.
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So good.
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So good.
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Talking about biblical worldview,
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having a biblical,
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he was talking about the Bible and history
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and how it's impacted and influenced historical things.
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His story.
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I love that.
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I do.
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We've said that for years.
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We have.
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But you know,
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I haven't said it for years too.
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I mean, we used to talk about it being his story.
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All of this is a refresher for us.
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Cause we went through this 20 years ago
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and it rocked our world then
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and it's re-rocking our world now.
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And then now you're going back to the Acts study.
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Yes.
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Exhaustatory.
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Can't wait.
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On Sunday morning.
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I'm like, I'm so, I'm full as a tick.
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I know that sounds-
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That's a bad image.
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It is a bad image,
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but that's the only thing I can think of.
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And it's almost overwhelming.
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So I'm like, wow.
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That's a lot.
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It is a lot.
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Cause I'm doing Exodus now.
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But here's the thing,
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you know how this works.
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Revelation, Acts.
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I'm like, whoa.
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You are like swimming in it.
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And not light stuff.
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This isn't lightweight.
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These are all heavy studies.
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But think about,
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you gotta use your imagery.
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You're full, right?
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I like to use the image of a bucket.
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So your bucket,
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not just your buckets,
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but it's like bring more buckets.
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Cause there's so much going in.
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It's more than one bucket.
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So your buckets are overflowing right now.
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KYBO, right?
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Keep your buckets overflowing.
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But what it's doing,
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it's now you've got the word so in you
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that in any given conversation,
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the word pings, doesn't it?
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But you don't want Revelation coming out of me.
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Believe me.
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That's a wild 10 headed beast.
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Yeah.
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And the woman with the flaming sword struck down.
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We're not even there yet.
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You keep going there and you're scaring me.
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That's cause that's the images of Revelation that I have.
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It's just the wild stuff.
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You know, very, very epic.
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Well the images that we're talking about today
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were very demonic.
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Yeah, some dark, very dark stuff.
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Very dark.
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Speaking of, we live in a world that
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spiritual warfare is a real thing.
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We talked about weird stuff last week on our podcast.
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And that recording was weird stuff.
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So here's, you know,
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we have a road caster duo,
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which is a great unit.
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And normally you either turn it off or turn it on,
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or you just leave it on.
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It just keeps its settings.
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And the pod father, Adam Curry,
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come in and reset our settings
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just to make sure things are right.
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Cause we're having some struggles with it.
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Working great.
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I did a podcast with Rick Green.
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Sounded great.
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But on Saturday when we came in,
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I pulled it up and it just had sounded strange.
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It was overdriven.
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at one point when you're talking back off
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the gain a little bit and it cleared it up a little bit
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and helped made it tolerable.
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But we don't know what caused it.
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Not sure what caused it.
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So Adam came in on Wednesday morning
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just to look at it again and go,
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okay, let's take another look at it
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and figure out what's going on.
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Make sure we got our settings nailed down.
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And it worked perfectly.
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I mean, it was a slight.
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So he didn't even have to do anything.
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No, exactly.
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And he said, he connected the dots.
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He said, well, you talked about weird stuff
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and look what happened.
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You had weird stuff happen while you were recording.
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So there it is.
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It was a lifetime illustration
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or a real life illustration, real time illustration.
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Kidding, yes.
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But so some big things happened this week on Monday.
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What happened Monday?
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Oh, you're so funny.
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Oh yeah.
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Oh yeah, the presidential inauguration
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we've been waiting for.
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A new golden era started and began.
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And I really have hope.
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I have high hopes.
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Which, I turned the TV on early.
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We've never done this before.
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I turned it on early.
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Sorry.
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You usually don't like to watch any TV during the day.
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You like to wait.
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I'm not a TV guy.
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But you were glued.
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We were both glued.
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I think we.
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You turned it on and I was in my office and I heard it.
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I heard it and you were like,
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oh, I wandered through the room.
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And I was like, okay, I'll just sit down for a minute.
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And then it was like, I was hooked.
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I was there.
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I was more anxious about,
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obviously the fact that he was getting inaugurated,
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but what executive orders he was gonna sign that day.
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And which he signed hundreds.
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Oh my gosh.
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It was unbelievable.
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And we were waiting all day,
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to hear the different executive orders,
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which we just loved.
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Some of them that we were very excited about
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was the J-6ers got pardoned.
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He had mentioned in an interview,
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I think in December,
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that he might not pardon all of them.
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That he would pardon the ones that were nonviolent.
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But in his little speech,
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during the whole inauguration day,
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as he was signing,
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he decided to pardon all of them because he realized,
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even if there were people that incited violence,
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they've been in jail for a long time.
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And longer than most criminals get in today's age
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for certain things.
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So he felt like that was worth pardoning everybody.
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I don't know if I agree with that,
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but it was his choice.
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Our main thing is we have some J-6ers in our church.
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And that we're at church Sunday.
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We were excited.
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I was gonna introduce those.
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So I introduced them to the church and we prayed for them,
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but we had Luke Coffey with us.
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Luke, if you're familiar with the J-6 scenario,
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not what you saw on mainstream media, of course,
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or legacy media,
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but what you would have seen in some of the documentaries.
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They skew everything.
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Oh, you think?
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You think?
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So, yeah, sometimes it's not that they lie.
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They just don't tell the whole truth.
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No context.
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Context is king in anything, right?
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And so Luke Coffey was the young man,
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very country boy,
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Texan from Dallas, Fort Worth,
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who when one of the girls got trapped in the tunnel
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and was getting crushed by the crowd,
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as things got escalated at the very beginning,
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him being a good Christian guy, loves Jesus,
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saw a girl in peril.
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He rushes in through the crowd
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and begins to push people away to help her
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because she was literally getting crushed.
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Sadly, she died.
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She lost her life.
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And he grabbed someone's crutch.
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He stood and he held it up.
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There's amazing video on this.
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I mean, clear as a bell.
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Is it a documentary that we watched?
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It's a documentary we watched.
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There's several, but the one we watched was clear.
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I think it was on Epic.
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It was.
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He even said that was probably the Epic.
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He held the crutch up.
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Which they showed the true thing of what happened,
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which is what you're about to say.
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He held the crutch up
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and he started yelling out to the crowd,
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please pray, please pray.
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And then stop, stop, stop.
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Try to calm everybody down.
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So he's holding that crutch up
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and a police officer, a female behind him,
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started hitting him with a club.
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And why was she doing that?
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I think everything got escalated
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and he's holding up a crutch
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and he's yelling something. Was she maybe afraid
339
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that he was gonna do something?
340
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She might have been afraid that he was escalating things
341
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when in fact, it's clear on the video,
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cause you can hear him.
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He's saying, please pray, please pray.
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Stop, stop.
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He was trying to calm things down.
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I think we should watch that again.
347
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I'm curious. I do too.
348
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Especially now, knowing what we know.
349
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So what happened, she started beating him.
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I mean, beating him like with a billy club.
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And he went down.
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And then when all the dust cleared,
353
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they got that girl out of there,
354
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but she died from her injuries
355
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of being crushed and suffocated by the crowd.
356
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And then he was promptly put in jail.
357
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He was arrested.
358
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And then when he went to trial,
359
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this is what I understand.
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The same woman who was beating him
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testified that he didn't even touch me.
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Cause they were trying to get him on an assault charge
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that he assaulted an officer, which is a felony.
364
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And she said no.
365
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She said no.
366
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So why didn't they get her on the assault charge
367
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is what I don't understand.
368
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Well, what's crazy is that
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they indicted him anyway.
370
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They went through and they convicted him.
371
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He spent 56 days in prison or jail,
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56 days in jail slash prison.
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And then now he was supposed to be sentenced.
374
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Right, awaiting sentencing.
375
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But now it got pardoned.
376
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Yeah.
377
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So he doesn't have to go through.
378
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So yeah, that got,
379
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cause his sentencing was gonna be in April of 2025.
380
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And so he was with us in church.
381
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We had-
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Well, let me say this before you go on to the other two.
383
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What I loved about him is he said,
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I have never been in a prison
385
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except to preach the gospel in prison.
386
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Why?
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He did that with his dad.
388
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His dad was a prison minister.
389
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His dad was a prison minister.
390
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So he would go with his dad.
391
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So he said, so this was quite-
392
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He said it's way different.
393
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A challenge to be in there on the other end.
394
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Something interesting had happened on TMZ.
395
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TMZ had actually shown the video
396
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where he stood up and held the crutch in the air.
397
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So they did.
398
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And the prisoners were watching it on the TV
399
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cause their eyes are glued to the TV.
400
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Of the prison that he ended up going to,
401
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or jail or whatever.
402
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Of the prison he went to.
403
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When he went into the prison,
404
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they treated him like a rock star.
405
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They treated him like royalty
406
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because he was actually doing the right thing.
407
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He was trying to help.
408
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So TMZ portrayed it properly.
409
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Well, yeah.
410
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I mean, they portrayed that part
411
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where he's holding the crutch,
412
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telling people to pray, calm down.
413
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And yeah.
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But then the rest of the news,
415
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especially 2020- Mainstream media, legacy media.
416
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All of those, they went nuts.
417
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Of course they did.
418
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We watched some of that.
419
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And we watched how skewed it was.
420
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A lot of it, they had it so skewed
421
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that they had us questioning.
422
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Exactly.
423
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Remember?
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Well, of course.
425
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Cause some of those news.
426
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You only know what you know
427
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and they only tell you what they want you to know
428
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to feed their narrative.
429
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So you're believing that and not knowing.
430
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And it looks terrible the way they set it up.
431
00:13:23,860 --> 00:13:25,340
So getting to know Jenny.
432
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McCombs. McCombs or Jenny Cud.
433
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It was her name before she married Doug.
434
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So she was Jenny Cud when all this happened.
435
00:13:34,620 --> 00:13:36,500
And her and Doug are amazing people.
436
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She has a great ministry.
437
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She's helping people.
438
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They're taking in.
439
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They've built their first tiny home.
440
00:13:42,140 --> 00:13:43,740
They've also got B and B.
441
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And they're putting people up that are J-6ers
442
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who are being released.
443
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And I haven't heard yet.
444
00:13:48,260 --> 00:13:52,460
This is, we're coming to you on Thursday, the 23rd.
445
00:13:52,460 --> 00:13:55,900
I still haven't heard if they released the J-6ers in DC
446
00:13:55,900 --> 00:13:56,740
because a judge was holding them.
447
00:13:56,740 --> 00:13:58,140
Was it DC or New York?
448
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No, it was DC.
449
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Which that's appalling.
450
00:14:01,540 --> 00:14:02,360
It is.
451
00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,660
And they ended up having to get the marshals out.
452
00:14:04,660 --> 00:14:05,500
So I don't know.
453
00:14:05,500 --> 00:14:07,620
I haven't seen a follow-up on that yet.
454
00:14:07,620 --> 00:14:09,140
So I'm curious to check that out.
455
00:14:09,140 --> 00:14:12,060
But anyway, it was nice having Eliel,
456
00:14:12,060 --> 00:14:15,940
J.C., Luke and Jenny in our church on Sunday.
457
00:14:15,940 --> 00:14:16,940
Four J-6ers.
458
00:14:16,940 --> 00:14:18,460
We were able to love on them.
459
00:14:18,460 --> 00:14:19,500
We prayed for them.
460
00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:21,500
Had the whole church turn and pray for them
461
00:14:21,500 --> 00:14:22,580
and lift them up.
462
00:14:22,580 --> 00:14:24,940
And it's a blessing to walk with them
463
00:14:24,940 --> 00:14:27,940
and continue to uphold, you know,
464
00:14:27,940 --> 00:14:29,940
righteousness and truth and justice.
465
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That's our heart.
466
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It's not a political bent.
467
00:14:32,980 --> 00:14:34,700
It's a righteous bent.
468
00:14:34,700 --> 00:14:36,620
It gets portrayed as political,
469
00:14:36,620 --> 00:14:39,500
oh, you're conservative or you get labeled, you're MAGA.
470
00:14:39,500 --> 00:14:42,780
The only MAGA I am is Make America Godly Again.
471
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That's the MAGA I am.
472
00:14:44,460 --> 00:14:46,740
So, but it's interesting how we get lumped
473
00:14:46,740 --> 00:14:48,980
into these categories because it's the way people think.
474
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But really it's not that I'm a Trumpite.
475
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I just want, I voted for the platform
476
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that most align with biblical values.
477
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And so happens to be that.
478
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So anyway, thank God for them.
479
00:15:00,540 --> 00:15:04,380
So another inauguration or a bill that got,
480
00:15:04,380 --> 00:15:07,780
executive order that got put through
481
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was protecting our borders.
482
00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:11,620
And that was very important.
483
00:15:11,620 --> 00:15:16,620
Did you hear that they sent 1,500 troops to the border
484
00:15:17,420 --> 00:15:18,500
yesterday or today?
485
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I think yesterday they arrested nearly 400 criminals.
486
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But they sent criminal illegal.
487
00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:25,500
I read that in the news this morning.
488
00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:27,460
It's good news.
489
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For those of you who don't live in Texas,
490
00:15:29,340 --> 00:15:30,500
we don't just live in Texas.
491
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We live in South Central Texas.
492
00:15:32,780 --> 00:15:35,980
We're less than an hour to San Antonio.
493
00:15:35,980 --> 00:15:38,980
And I gotta tell you, that has been a collection,
494
00:15:38,980 --> 00:15:42,660
a collection place where they have been flocking to.
495
00:15:42,660 --> 00:15:44,620
And also the I-10, which we live close
496
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to the Interstate 10.
497
00:15:45,460 --> 00:15:48,020
And we're fine for those that are wanting
498
00:15:48,020 --> 00:15:49,220
to come over legally.
499
00:15:49,220 --> 00:15:50,540
Absolutely. It's those criminals.
500
00:15:50,540 --> 00:15:54,180
It's the ones that are criminals that we're terrified of.
501
00:15:54,180 --> 00:15:56,340
I'm pro-immigration if you do it the right way.
502
00:15:56,340 --> 00:15:57,380
You go through the channels.
503
00:15:57,380 --> 00:16:00,260
But the illegal, when your first act is illegal
504
00:16:00,260 --> 00:16:01,500
to come in here, there's a problem.
505
00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:03,580
So you're setting a bad precedent.
506
00:16:03,580 --> 00:16:04,900
So, but I'm open.
507
00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:07,820
I mean, I think America should be the land of dreams.
508
00:16:07,820 --> 00:16:11,340
It should bring your harass, your haggle.
509
00:16:11,340 --> 00:16:14,500
I mean, as long as it's done right, I'm good with that.
510
00:16:14,500 --> 00:16:18,500
So a third one that is really huge on our heart,
511
00:16:18,500 --> 00:16:21,660
and this is biblical, and that is two genders.
512
00:16:21,660 --> 00:16:22,940
I knew you were gonna go there.
513
00:16:22,940 --> 00:16:23,780
Two genders.
514
00:16:23,780 --> 00:16:24,660
I so agree.
515
00:16:24,660 --> 00:16:27,860
I was so thankful when he made that declaration.
516
00:16:27,860 --> 00:16:28,700
Yes.
517
00:16:28,700 --> 00:16:29,540
President Trump.
518
00:16:29,540 --> 00:16:32,860
Feels good to say President Trump and ex-President Biden.
519
00:16:32,860 --> 00:16:34,060
Yes, it does.
520
00:16:34,060 --> 00:16:35,420
Ex-VP, Kamala.
521
00:16:35,420 --> 00:16:38,380
Although, you know, after hearing the letter
522
00:16:38,380 --> 00:16:43,380
that he wrote to Trump, most people don't believe
523
00:16:43,980 --> 00:16:45,340
that he actually wrote it,
524
00:16:45,340 --> 00:16:48,020
or someone else dictated it to him.
525
00:16:48,020 --> 00:16:51,780
But my, what I'm hoping and praying for
526
00:16:51,780 --> 00:16:56,300
is that maybe he had an epiphany of who God is,
527
00:16:56,300 --> 00:16:59,100
because that's what we all should be praying for.
528
00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:00,700
We all should be praying for that.
529
00:17:00,700 --> 00:17:04,300
And so, the fact that he wrote that letter to him,
530
00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:06,940
which you explained to me had some good things in there.
531
00:17:06,940 --> 00:17:07,780
It did, yeah.
532
00:17:07,780 --> 00:17:09,220
That was impressive.
533
00:17:09,220 --> 00:17:10,740
That, I don't know.
534
00:17:10,740 --> 00:17:11,580
It was short, but it was big.
535
00:17:11,580 --> 00:17:13,220
Gives me a glimmer of hope, I don't know.
536
00:17:13,220 --> 00:17:15,020
We've been praying for their salvation.
537
00:17:15,020 --> 00:17:16,660
We want people to be born again.
538
00:17:16,660 --> 00:17:17,500
That's our heart.
539
00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:18,620
Because we're not here to bash.
540
00:17:18,620 --> 00:17:20,260
No, we're here to build up.
541
00:17:20,260 --> 00:17:21,780
We're living up in a down world.
542
00:17:21,780 --> 00:17:23,740
We are here to tell the truth
543
00:17:23,740 --> 00:17:26,020
and what's happening in the world.
544
00:17:26,020 --> 00:17:29,100
But we as Christians, it is our obligation.
545
00:17:29,100 --> 00:17:34,100
This is our privilege to pray for unbelievers, period.
546
00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:36,180
I don't care if they're murderers
547
00:17:36,180 --> 00:17:37,860
or if they're ex-presidents.
548
00:17:37,860 --> 00:17:39,980
We are called to pray for them.
549
00:17:39,980 --> 00:17:42,780
And our world will be a better place
550
00:17:42,780 --> 00:17:44,740
if Christians do what they're called to do.
551
00:17:44,740 --> 00:17:46,020
And that's pray.
552
00:17:46,020 --> 00:17:49,780
And disciple one another.
553
00:17:49,780 --> 00:17:51,580
Make disciples, yeah.
554
00:17:51,580 --> 00:17:53,780
Because if you don't teach people what the Bible says,
555
00:17:53,780 --> 00:17:56,020
how do you know how to live it out?
556
00:17:56,020 --> 00:17:56,900
Exactly.
557
00:17:56,900 --> 00:18:00,060
So speaking of that, let me segue into something.
558
00:18:00,060 --> 00:18:02,420
So I was thinking about how the last four years
559
00:18:02,420 --> 00:18:05,540
have just been in a very real sense, nightmarish.
560
00:18:05,540 --> 00:18:06,940
I mean, since COVID.
561
00:18:06,940 --> 00:18:07,780
Economy.
562
00:18:07,780 --> 00:18:09,420
And then the economy tanking.
563
00:18:09,420 --> 00:18:13,780
And then wokeism, the virus, the woke virus
564
00:18:13,780 --> 00:18:15,740
just infected our culture.
565
00:18:15,740 --> 00:18:16,580
Unbelievable.
566
00:18:16,580 --> 00:18:19,140
Through the last administration and the things.
567
00:18:19,140 --> 00:18:21,620
I mean, when you've got some of your top leaders
568
00:18:21,620 --> 00:18:24,180
in the nation, cross-dressing and transing
569
00:18:24,180 --> 00:18:26,820
and using different pronouns and all that.
570
00:18:26,820 --> 00:18:28,780
And you're like, you're supposed to be the leader
571
00:18:28,780 --> 00:18:29,620
of the military.
572
00:18:29,620 --> 00:18:31,620
You're supposed to be the leader of the health department.
573
00:18:31,620 --> 00:18:34,780
You're supposed to be the leader, the secretary of state.
574
00:18:34,780 --> 00:18:35,780
All these different things.
575
00:18:35,780 --> 00:18:39,860
And there are men in women's clothes or in bondage clothes.
576
00:18:39,860 --> 00:18:44,340
I mean, sick, sick stuff trying to normalize this stuff.
577
00:18:44,340 --> 00:18:47,820
And the whole world is screaming no.
578
00:18:47,820 --> 00:18:49,940
A very small percentage of people are going,
579
00:18:49,940 --> 00:18:50,860
yes, finally.
580
00:18:50,860 --> 00:18:53,940
But most of us are going, this is insanity.
581
00:18:53,940 --> 00:18:56,620
And we had to put up with that for four years.
582
00:18:56,620 --> 00:19:01,620
But what that did, it heaped a lot of stress on people.
583
00:19:01,780 --> 00:19:03,420
I mean, we came out of COVID.
584
00:19:03,420 --> 00:19:05,380
Then we have a scary administration.
585
00:19:05,380 --> 00:19:08,220
Then everything goes left and off the cliff.
586
00:19:08,220 --> 00:19:11,500
Think about the trauma, cultural trauma
587
00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:13,220
that we had coming out of COVID.
588
00:19:13,220 --> 00:19:16,020
Then we go right into this administration.
589
00:19:16,020 --> 00:19:19,020
Many people that I trust and believe,
590
00:19:19,020 --> 00:19:23,260
believe that the election was absolutely stolen in 2020.
591
00:19:23,260 --> 00:19:25,900
When you look at statistics and facts and video,
592
00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:30,020
and we've looked at a lot of that, it's like, yeah, yeah.
593
00:19:30,020 --> 00:19:31,260
There's no way it wasn't.
594
00:19:31,260 --> 00:19:32,580
But I'm so glad.
595
00:19:32,580 --> 00:19:35,780
But let me finish the statement.
596
00:19:35,780 --> 00:19:39,580
But what it did is through our world into pandemonium,
597
00:19:39,580 --> 00:19:44,060
I mean, disruption across the globe, wars broke out.
598
00:19:44,060 --> 00:19:47,340
I mean, people taking advantage of the scene.
599
00:19:47,340 --> 00:19:50,500
Then you've had mass immigration all over the world.
600
00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:53,580
I mean, Paris, France is disaster.
601
00:19:53,580 --> 00:19:56,380
London looks like a bomb hit the place.
602
00:19:56,380 --> 00:19:58,180
And even some of our beautiful cities
603
00:19:58,180 --> 00:20:01,060
like Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York,
604
00:20:01,060 --> 00:20:02,820
they all, they're like tent cities
605
00:20:02,820 --> 00:20:04,900
in the streets and parks.
606
00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:07,180
I mean, in the fentanyl, I mean,
607
00:20:07,180 --> 00:20:10,840
you can go down the list on how off the cliff things went.
608
00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,580
But what it did, it created a massive trauma,
609
00:20:13,580 --> 00:20:15,940
a massive cultural stress.
610
00:20:15,940 --> 00:20:18,740
So on Monday, when I was sharing with somebody
611
00:20:18,740 --> 00:20:21,020
what I felt on Monday, I said,
612
00:20:21,020 --> 00:20:23,100
while on one hand I felt jubilation,
613
00:20:23,100 --> 00:20:26,580
but I think the bigger feeling I had was relief.
614
00:20:26,580 --> 00:20:28,780
Just like a weight had come off my,
615
00:20:28,780 --> 00:20:31,460
like I had bricks on my chest.
616
00:20:31,460 --> 00:20:33,420
So let's talk a minute about where-
617
00:20:33,420 --> 00:20:34,780
Well, and let me say this.
618
00:20:35,980 --> 00:20:38,620
I cried when Trump won.
619
00:20:38,620 --> 00:20:41,100
You cried during his inauguration.
620
00:20:41,100 --> 00:20:43,700
I did, and I did not see it coming.
621
00:20:43,700 --> 00:20:46,700
I literally did not expect that.
622
00:20:46,700 --> 00:20:49,140
It was when he was going through his speech.
623
00:20:49,140 --> 00:20:52,900
His speech, whoever wrote it was genius.
624
00:20:52,900 --> 00:20:55,820
Well, he was enumerating and everything he was saying
625
00:20:55,820 --> 00:20:57,340
are the things we've been talking about
626
00:20:57,340 --> 00:20:59,500
and praying about, even as a church,
627
00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:01,380
things I've been talking about from the pulpit
628
00:21:01,380 --> 00:21:04,300
to our church to train, educate, teach,
629
00:21:04,300 --> 00:21:06,020
and get them prepared.
630
00:21:06,020 --> 00:21:08,020
And he's enumerating everything
631
00:21:08,020 --> 00:21:10,300
that almost felt like three months ago
632
00:21:10,300 --> 00:21:11,940
we were gonna lose it.
633
00:21:11,940 --> 00:21:14,420
And so, I mean, it had already gone off the cliff
634
00:21:14,420 --> 00:21:16,500
in terms of culture and what was being approved.
635
00:21:16,500 --> 00:21:18,660
So it almost felt like, oh no,
636
00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:21,260
what if this doesn't happen?
637
00:21:21,260 --> 00:21:24,140
Of course it did and hallelujah and oh my gosh.
638
00:21:24,140 --> 00:21:26,860
And so I did a podcast with Rick Green
639
00:21:26,860 --> 00:21:28,180
from the Patriot Academy.
640
00:21:28,180 --> 00:21:32,100
It was on his, it's called The Tavern this last week.
641
00:21:32,100 --> 00:21:32,940
And-
642
00:21:32,940 --> 00:21:36,140
Which were you able to get it on our Godcaster yet?
643
00:21:36,140 --> 00:21:38,220
I'm waiting for Faith to call Ratt Green
644
00:21:38,220 --> 00:21:39,060
and get that done.
645
00:21:39,060 --> 00:21:40,460
I bet she hasn't, so-
646
00:21:40,460 --> 00:21:41,300
You need to remind her.
647
00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:42,140
That's our daughter, by the way.
648
00:21:42,140 --> 00:21:43,460
Daughter, we love her.
649
00:21:43,460 --> 00:21:45,940
So I need to remind her to do that though.
650
00:21:45,940 --> 00:21:48,260
So if I do that, I'll let y'all know,
651
00:21:48,260 --> 00:21:50,780
because it's really, I think it'll be enlightening as well.
652
00:21:50,780 --> 00:21:53,100
There's a couple of J6ers on there right before me.
653
00:21:53,100 --> 00:21:53,940
And then-
654
00:21:53,940 --> 00:21:55,100
He has a great podcasting point.
655
00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:56,580
He is so good.
656
00:21:56,580 --> 00:21:57,620
He is so good.
657
00:21:57,620 --> 00:22:00,580
I mean, he's considered America's constitutional expert.
658
00:22:00,580 --> 00:22:03,100
So I mean, he is like the man and he's in our church.
659
00:22:03,100 --> 00:22:05,660
I mean, he's such a great brother in Christ.
660
00:22:05,660 --> 00:22:07,620
So I was doing that with him
661
00:22:07,620 --> 00:22:10,780
and we were talking about everything that had happened,
662
00:22:10,780 --> 00:22:11,940
everything we'd gone through.
663
00:22:11,940 --> 00:22:14,100
And I kept saying, it's the same thing I've said
664
00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:15,340
from the beginning.
665
00:22:15,340 --> 00:22:16,740
We don't have a political problem.
666
00:22:16,740 --> 00:22:18,020
We have a spiritual problem.
667
00:22:18,020 --> 00:22:20,260
And this is, unless we get that right
668
00:22:20,260 --> 00:22:21,820
and get our hearts realigned,
669
00:22:21,820 --> 00:22:24,700
we're just gonna repeat the same stuff over and over.
670
00:22:24,700 --> 00:22:26,220
History will repeat itself.
671
00:22:26,220 --> 00:22:28,900
Trump was in office before,
672
00:22:28,900 --> 00:22:31,460
and then we as a church became complacent
673
00:22:31,460 --> 00:22:32,300
and just let him-
674
00:22:32,300 --> 00:22:33,340
We got lazy because we thought,
675
00:22:33,340 --> 00:22:34,820
oh, we're in the golden age.
676
00:22:34,820 --> 00:22:36,220
And we cannot do that now.
677
00:22:36,220 --> 00:22:40,980
So this is one of my roles as a pastor, educator, teacher
678
00:22:40,980 --> 00:22:43,740
to make sure that our church doesn't get lulled
679
00:22:43,740 --> 00:22:45,820
into a false sense of security
680
00:22:45,820 --> 00:22:48,100
and a false sense of, hey, peace and safety,
681
00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:49,060
peace and safety.
682
00:22:49,060 --> 00:22:50,060
You know what the Bible says
683
00:22:50,060 --> 00:22:51,660
when they say peace and safety,
684
00:22:51,660 --> 00:22:52,700
that's when the end comes.
685
00:22:52,700 --> 00:22:56,020
So I wanna make sure that we don't just end up
686
00:22:56,020 --> 00:22:57,300
in a hammock on a spring day.
687
00:22:57,300 --> 00:22:59,580
So we got a war to wage.
688
00:22:59,580 --> 00:23:02,900
So anyway, all that, here's where I wanted to go with it.
689
00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:05,020
And I wanna get your take on it.
690
00:23:05,020 --> 00:23:08,020
So there were times when we were watching the news
691
00:23:08,020 --> 00:23:10,940
or reading the news or watching a documentary
692
00:23:10,940 --> 00:23:12,740
and we would just,
693
00:23:12,740 --> 00:23:15,140
I mean, you could feel your blood pressure rising.
694
00:23:15,140 --> 00:23:19,220
I could feel it at times where I was so in angst,
695
00:23:19,220 --> 00:23:21,200
so stressed over this.
696
00:23:22,660 --> 00:23:24,500
What do we share with people?
697
00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:28,220
Cause it doesn't have to be because of an election or that.
698
00:23:29,100 --> 00:23:30,900
I'm gonna talk about in stress in general.
699
00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:34,700
Where do you go to when you have one of those moments
700
00:23:34,700 --> 00:23:38,020
where you just hit the wall and you just feel the weight?
701
00:23:38,020 --> 00:23:39,980
We talk about weight on our chest,
702
00:23:39,980 --> 00:23:42,020
that feeling in your gut and your chest
703
00:23:42,020 --> 00:23:44,540
that felt like an elephant sitting on my chest.
704
00:23:44,540 --> 00:23:46,820
Where do you go with that?
705
00:23:46,820 --> 00:23:50,820
Well, I did feel that way
706
00:23:50,820 --> 00:23:54,300
when I was constantly looking at the news
707
00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:55,340
and couldn't let go.
708
00:23:55,340 --> 00:23:58,380
This is before you began looking at the news
709
00:23:58,380 --> 00:24:01,400
and it was eating me up because I was allowing that
710
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,620
to take over what I know in my heart,
711
00:24:03,620 --> 00:24:05,820
who God is and what he wants to do.
712
00:24:05,820 --> 00:24:09,220
And so I obviously, I had to turn it off and say,
713
00:24:09,220 --> 00:24:11,020
God, I know this is,
714
00:24:11,020 --> 00:24:13,660
I need your help in bringing peace back to my life
715
00:24:13,660 --> 00:24:18,660
because it was giving me such unrest and such angst,
716
00:24:20,260 --> 00:24:25,260
like you said, stress that I could hardly function
717
00:24:25,660 --> 00:24:30,660
because you began to, as a believer, we have hope.
718
00:24:30,660 --> 00:24:35,660
We have hope in a future, as the word says.
719
00:24:35,940 --> 00:24:39,300
And we know that this is not our home, but temporarily.
720
00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:42,700
We get to promote to heaven,
721
00:24:42,700 --> 00:24:45,660
but we have to live in this fallen world.
722
00:24:45,660 --> 00:24:48,020
We have to live in all of this that's going on,
723
00:24:48,020 --> 00:24:52,940
but we have to also know that God wants to give us peace
724
00:24:52,940 --> 00:24:56,740
and comfort in the midst of our stress.
725
00:24:56,740 --> 00:24:59,420
And so you have to have enough fortitude to say,
726
00:24:59,420 --> 00:25:01,300
you know what, I need to turn this off.
727
00:25:01,300 --> 00:25:03,900
This is, if it's taking over your life
728
00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:08,820
and you're not able to be a believing believer,
729
00:25:08,820 --> 00:25:10,620
as we've talked about in the past,
730
00:25:11,580 --> 00:25:13,860
then you've got to make some changes.
731
00:25:13,860 --> 00:25:15,140
And so that's what I had to do.
732
00:25:15,140 --> 00:25:16,580
That's why I don't know as much.
733
00:25:16,580 --> 00:25:19,860
You tell me some things, but it's not overtaking your life.
734
00:25:19,860 --> 00:25:24,300
You get enough, just enough to kind of know what's going on
735
00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:26,540
so that you can address it or whatever.
736
00:25:26,540 --> 00:25:30,300
For me, it had become, I was consumed
737
00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:33,860
and I did not like how I was feeling
738
00:25:33,860 --> 00:25:37,020
and how it was just, it was making me feel depressed
739
00:25:37,020 --> 00:25:38,900
because I know what the word says.
740
00:25:38,900 --> 00:25:42,780
And the word is the opposite of what the world says.
741
00:25:42,780 --> 00:25:44,860
And he's our overcomer.
742
00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:49,900
We don't overcome, he overcomes for us.
743
00:25:49,900 --> 00:25:53,660
And so I had to come to a realization
744
00:25:53,660 --> 00:25:57,420
that this was taking me down a path of who I was
745
00:25:57,420 --> 00:26:00,020
before Christ, not after.
746
00:26:00,020 --> 00:26:02,420
And so that's what I did.
747
00:26:02,420 --> 00:26:04,700
So the first thing, and I like that you pushed away.
748
00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:05,540
I had to push away.
749
00:26:05,540 --> 00:26:07,180
It's literally, we're sitting at a table right now
750
00:26:07,180 --> 00:26:08,620
so I just have that picture in my mind,
751
00:26:08,620 --> 00:26:09,860
just pushing back. You have to use your hands
752
00:26:09,860 --> 00:26:10,700
because you talk with your hands.
753
00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:12,780
I do talk with my hands, absolutely.
754
00:26:12,780 --> 00:26:15,300
Push back, you push back from the table and say,
755
00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:17,740
you know what, I need to back away from this
756
00:26:17,740 --> 00:26:22,020
because this is taking me down a rabbit hole,
757
00:26:22,020 --> 00:26:23,940
as we say, or a dark hole.
758
00:26:23,940 --> 00:26:25,460
And so you push back.
759
00:26:25,460 --> 00:26:26,660
And I had to do the same.
760
00:26:26,660 --> 00:26:28,380
I had to limit my intake.
761
00:26:28,380 --> 00:26:30,700
But you still needed to know enough to at least,
762
00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:31,940
and tell me what was going on.
763
00:26:31,940 --> 00:26:34,380
I kind of had to go on an information diet,
764
00:26:34,380 --> 00:26:36,300
a media diet and say, you know what,
765
00:26:36,300 --> 00:26:37,660
I'm gonna have some, but I'm not.
766
00:26:37,660 --> 00:26:42,220
But you needed to get the correct media information.
767
00:26:42,220 --> 00:26:46,020
Which is tricky in this world is to get good information.
768
00:26:46,020 --> 00:26:48,580
And so what I did is I compiled,
769
00:26:48,580 --> 00:26:50,740
in fact, I have it on the newsletter,
770
00:26:50,740 --> 00:26:51,820
subscribe to our newsletter.
771
00:26:51,820 --> 00:26:54,220
I've got a list of water,
772
00:26:54,220 --> 00:26:57,660
somewhat trusted media outlets that could help you.
773
00:26:57,660 --> 00:27:01,460
And this was given to me by a very sound, sharp
774
00:27:01,460 --> 00:27:03,540
history professor who gave me these.
775
00:27:03,540 --> 00:27:05,820
And so I've just got them on the newsletter.
776
00:27:05,820 --> 00:27:06,820
You can subscribe to that.
777
00:27:06,820 --> 00:27:10,660
Just go to livingupandadownworld.com and subscribe.
778
00:27:10,660 --> 00:27:13,660
And I put that out every time we do a podcast,
779
00:27:13,660 --> 00:27:16,060
probably right before or right after we do the podcast.
780
00:27:16,060 --> 00:27:18,460
So you'll have a heads up that there's one posted.
781
00:27:18,460 --> 00:27:20,540
So that's on there and that might help you
782
00:27:20,540 --> 00:27:22,300
find some trusted outlets.
783
00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:26,100
But beyond that, okay, so we go on a diet basically.
784
00:27:26,100 --> 00:27:27,380
We say you gotta limit our intake
785
00:27:27,380 --> 00:27:29,060
because this has taken me into a dark place.
786
00:27:29,060 --> 00:27:32,220
I don't like what this is doing in my life.
787
00:27:32,220 --> 00:27:34,420
What was another thing that you did during that time?
788
00:27:34,420 --> 00:27:35,620
Where else do you go?
789
00:27:35,620 --> 00:27:38,220
Okay, so you push back from the information,
790
00:27:38,220 --> 00:27:39,820
but what do you do now with the stress,
791
00:27:39,820 --> 00:27:41,220
the weight that you're feeling?
792
00:27:41,220 --> 00:27:43,420
Well, you have to give it to the Lord.
793
00:27:43,420 --> 00:27:44,380
Which is what I had to do.
794
00:27:44,380 --> 00:27:46,300
And I had to say, I need you to fill me up
795
00:27:46,300 --> 00:27:47,580
with the right things.
796
00:27:47,580 --> 00:27:51,020
The things that are going to bring me peace and joy.
797
00:27:51,020 --> 00:27:51,860
I love that.
798
00:27:51,860 --> 00:27:54,700
And in fact, I want to go to a scripture
799
00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:57,540
because for me, I thought you would just go straight
800
00:27:57,540 --> 00:28:00,220
to the word, that's usually what you're...
801
00:28:00,220 --> 00:28:01,580
So I'm going there.
802
00:28:01,580 --> 00:28:03,460
Okay, which word?
803
00:28:03,460 --> 00:28:05,060
There's so many scriptures.
804
00:28:05,060 --> 00:28:07,540
There's so many, but I wanna go to Philippians
805
00:28:07,540 --> 00:28:08,860
because I wanna share something.
806
00:28:08,860 --> 00:28:11,420
I actually woke up with this verse on my mind,
807
00:28:11,420 --> 00:28:12,260
which was interesting.
808
00:28:12,260 --> 00:28:13,660
Well, right now, Revelation is just going through my...
809
00:28:13,660 --> 00:28:14,500
No kidding.
810
00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:15,340
I know, yeah.
811
00:28:15,340 --> 00:28:17,180
Like, don't go to Revelation if you're stressed.
812
00:28:17,180 --> 00:28:19,220
No, no, no, no.
813
00:28:19,220 --> 00:28:20,740
It's the end of the world.
814
00:28:20,740 --> 00:28:21,580
So listen to this.
815
00:28:21,580 --> 00:28:23,620
Unless you read the very end where we win, yeah.
816
00:28:23,620 --> 00:28:24,460
Because he wins.
817
00:28:24,460 --> 00:28:26,300
Philippians four, I love this.
818
00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:27,580
This is such a go-to.
819
00:28:27,580 --> 00:28:29,220
Think of those things that are...
820
00:28:29,220 --> 00:28:30,260
Yeah, yeah.
821
00:28:30,260 --> 00:28:32,460
So let me start with this, the top part.
822
00:28:32,460 --> 00:28:34,860
It says, this is Philippians four, chapter six.
823
00:28:34,860 --> 00:28:36,820
It says, do not be anxious about anything.
824
00:28:36,820 --> 00:28:38,140
Four verse six.
825
00:28:38,140 --> 00:28:40,260
Four verse six, yeah, thank you.
826
00:28:40,260 --> 00:28:42,660
Chapter four, verse six.
827
00:28:42,660 --> 00:28:44,020
Do not be anxious about anything
828
00:28:44,020 --> 00:28:46,660
but in everything by prayer and supplication.
829
00:28:46,660 --> 00:28:49,580
So you went to the Lord, you start talking to God.
830
00:28:49,580 --> 00:28:53,020
With thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
831
00:28:53,020 --> 00:28:54,460
So he invites us to come and say,
832
00:28:54,460 --> 00:28:55,980
hey, what's your request?
833
00:28:55,980 --> 00:28:56,820
What have you got?
834
00:28:56,820 --> 00:28:58,980
Well, Lord, this is, I'm tanking on this.
835
00:28:58,980 --> 00:28:59,820
It's eating me up.
836
00:28:59,820 --> 00:29:00,980
I'm stressed.
837
00:29:00,980 --> 00:29:02,740
Literally, we talked in those terms
838
00:29:02,740 --> 00:29:05,340
that this is eating me from the inside out.
839
00:29:05,340 --> 00:29:06,660
Are one of the things.
840
00:29:06,660 --> 00:29:08,980
And for me, because I'm such a justice person.
841
00:29:08,980 --> 00:29:10,380
Oh, it's killing you.
842
00:29:10,380 --> 00:29:13,260
Just hearing all this is just like, yeah.
843
00:29:13,260 --> 00:29:15,020
Because right is right and wrong is wrong
844
00:29:15,020 --> 00:29:16,100
and there is no gray area.
845
00:29:16,100 --> 00:29:16,940
I have peace now.
846
00:29:16,940 --> 00:29:17,780
I don't have any of that.
847
00:29:17,780 --> 00:29:18,620
I know you do.
848
00:29:18,620 --> 00:29:20,980
And I did before the inauguration too
849
00:29:20,980 --> 00:29:22,820
because of what you're talking about right now.
850
00:29:22,820 --> 00:29:23,820
And we do, we had that conversation.
851
00:29:23,820 --> 00:29:24,660
Now look at verse seven.
852
00:29:24,660 --> 00:29:26,940
And the peace of God which surpasses all understanding
853
00:29:26,940 --> 00:29:29,940
will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
854
00:29:29,940 --> 00:29:33,180
So man, right there, just the promise of peace
855
00:29:33,180 --> 00:29:36,420
that guards, guards your heart, guards your mind, right?
856
00:29:36,420 --> 00:29:38,420
So those are pretty familiar with that.
857
00:29:38,420 --> 00:29:40,540
And it's something, it's a go-to for me, obviously.
858
00:29:40,540 --> 00:29:43,020
I pray that constantly with people
859
00:29:43,020 --> 00:29:44,260
because that's where people,
860
00:29:44,260 --> 00:29:46,100
when people come up for prayer,
861
00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:47,460
that's what they want more than anything.
862
00:29:47,460 --> 00:29:48,620
They don't know what they want
863
00:29:48,620 --> 00:29:51,500
because they're trying to articulate their issues.
864
00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:53,460
That's kind of why I wanted to go here today
865
00:29:53,460 --> 00:29:56,340
because let's talk about collective stress.
866
00:29:56,340 --> 00:29:57,180
Yeah.
867
00:29:57,180 --> 00:30:00,340
Let's talk about traumatic, cultural stress,
868
00:30:00,340 --> 00:30:01,740
cultural trauma.
869
00:30:01,740 --> 00:30:05,140
Verse eight, this is what I woke up pinging in my mind
870
00:30:05,140 --> 00:30:07,300
and I wasn't even sure why exactly.
871
00:30:07,300 --> 00:30:11,340
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable,
872
00:30:11,340 --> 00:30:13,820
whatever is just, whatever is pure,
873
00:30:13,820 --> 00:30:16,860
whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable,
874
00:30:16,860 --> 00:30:18,580
if there is any excellence,
875
00:30:18,580 --> 00:30:21,220
if there is anything worthy of praise,
876
00:30:21,220 --> 00:30:23,940
think about these things.
877
00:30:23,940 --> 00:30:27,300
And so he's saying, it's replacement theory
878
00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:31,060
where you literally have to replace all that dark stuff.
879
00:30:31,060 --> 00:30:32,300
So I mean, wherever you are
880
00:30:32,300 --> 00:30:34,340
and you're listening to this show right now,
881
00:30:34,340 --> 00:30:36,820
first of all, thank you for being with us.
882
00:30:36,820 --> 00:30:38,660
But if you're feeling that weight,
883
00:30:38,660 --> 00:30:42,220
we often describe it as an elephant on our chest, right?
884
00:30:42,220 --> 00:30:46,060
You just, you feel stress in your body and it's visceral.
885
00:30:46,060 --> 00:30:49,060
I mean, it impacts your physical body.
886
00:30:49,060 --> 00:30:50,100
And if that's where you are,
887
00:30:50,100 --> 00:30:52,980
I want to invite you to go to Philippians 4
888
00:30:52,980 --> 00:30:54,380
verses six through eight.
889
00:30:54,380 --> 00:30:57,300
What I love about Philippians is it's the book of joy.
890
00:30:57,300 --> 00:30:58,140
It is.
891
00:30:58,140 --> 00:30:59,100
So you can read the whole book
892
00:30:59,100 --> 00:31:02,060
and you will feel lighter than you were.
893
00:31:02,060 --> 00:31:04,740
You will feel weight lifted off
894
00:31:04,740 --> 00:31:06,620
and it just gives you a sense of peace.
895
00:31:06,620 --> 00:31:08,340
And that's true.
896
00:31:08,340 --> 00:31:12,580
Paul loved the Christian believers in Philippi
897
00:31:12,580 --> 00:31:13,980
is the place where it was.
898
00:31:13,980 --> 00:31:16,260
He just had a great affinity for them
899
00:31:16,260 --> 00:31:18,420
and a great joy about them.
900
00:31:18,420 --> 00:31:19,540
Apparently, you know how it is,
901
00:31:19,540 --> 00:31:21,220
you can go into different groups of people
902
00:31:21,220 --> 00:31:23,460
and some just, man, you just walk in,
903
00:31:23,460 --> 00:31:26,380
you go, oh my gosh, you know, feels like home
904
00:31:26,380 --> 00:31:28,420
or it feels good to be with this group of people.
905
00:31:28,420 --> 00:31:30,780
We have people around us like that all the time.
906
00:31:30,780 --> 00:31:32,180
So thankful.
907
00:31:32,180 --> 00:31:36,220
But he also talks about replacing those negative thoughts.
908
00:31:36,220 --> 00:31:37,060
What is it exactly called?
909
00:31:37,060 --> 00:31:38,380
It's called stinking thinking.
910
00:31:38,380 --> 00:31:39,380
Every thought captive.
911
00:31:39,380 --> 00:31:40,620
Yes, yes.
912
00:31:40,620 --> 00:31:42,580
To the obedience of Christ.
913
00:31:42,580 --> 00:31:45,220
And I don't care how long you've walked with God,
914
00:31:45,220 --> 00:31:47,140
whether you're a brand new believer
915
00:31:47,140 --> 00:31:48,260
or you've walked with him 40 years.
916
00:31:48,260 --> 00:31:50,980
I'm sure Billy Graham had to do this on a daily basis.
917
00:31:50,980 --> 00:31:52,100
We all do.
918
00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:52,940
Absolutely.
919
00:31:52,940 --> 00:31:54,980
Because different things impact us
920
00:31:54,980 --> 00:31:57,780
and inform our thinking.
921
00:31:57,780 --> 00:31:59,220
And so my encouragement is,
922
00:31:59,220 --> 00:32:00,820
as we were talking about the show today,
923
00:32:00,820 --> 00:32:04,260
is how can we help people give them tools
924
00:32:04,260 --> 00:32:05,980
for lifting this weight off of them?
925
00:32:05,980 --> 00:32:08,700
And just because we have a new president
926
00:32:09,940 --> 00:32:13,820
and he's saying the things we wanted to hear,
927
00:32:13,820 --> 00:32:15,940
doing the things we wanted him to do,
928
00:32:16,940 --> 00:32:20,180
there is still, we're still in a fallen world
929
00:32:20,180 --> 00:32:24,860
and we can't just, again, just walk around going,
930
00:32:24,860 --> 00:32:26,260
peace, peace, like you said.
931
00:32:26,260 --> 00:32:30,020
I mean, there's still a force out there
932
00:32:30,020 --> 00:32:32,660
that wants to take the Christians out.
933
00:32:33,980 --> 00:32:35,540
The enemy wants to take us out.
934
00:32:35,540 --> 00:32:37,180
He wants to take our joy away.
935
00:32:37,180 --> 00:32:39,340
So he'll come at us in a different way.
936
00:32:39,340 --> 00:32:41,020
So we have to be on guard.
937
00:32:41,020 --> 00:32:43,020
And that's where Ephesians 6 comes in,
938
00:32:43,020 --> 00:32:47,020
where we have to have ourself guarded up
939
00:32:48,380 --> 00:32:51,220
so that, armored up, excuse me,
940
00:32:51,220 --> 00:32:55,580
so that we'll be on guard when the enemy tries to come
941
00:32:55,580 --> 00:32:58,060
because he's gonna come in a different way now.
942
00:32:58,060 --> 00:32:59,060
You know what I mean?
943
00:32:59,060 --> 00:33:00,340
So all the Christians are like,
944
00:33:00,340 --> 00:33:04,020
okay, all the ones who voted and very happy,
945
00:33:04,020 --> 00:33:06,380
but this is where we don't let our guard down.
946
00:33:06,380 --> 00:33:10,220
This is where we have to literally put that armor on.
947
00:33:10,220 --> 00:33:11,740
And so-
948
00:33:11,740 --> 00:33:14,660
Let me read that passage out of Ephesians.
949
00:33:14,660 --> 00:33:16,180
Finally be strong in the Lord
950
00:33:16,180 --> 00:33:17,980
and then the strength of his might.
951
00:33:17,980 --> 00:33:18,820
Not ours.
952
00:33:18,820 --> 00:33:19,660
There's the key.
953
00:33:19,660 --> 00:33:21,260
It's his strength, not ours.
954
00:33:21,260 --> 00:33:23,860
Put on, that means you gotta literally put it on.
955
00:33:23,860 --> 00:33:25,820
Put on the whole armor of God
956
00:33:25,820 --> 00:33:26,820
that you may be able to stand
957
00:33:26,820 --> 00:33:28,460
against the schemes of the devil
958
00:33:28,460 --> 00:33:30,980
for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,
959
00:33:30,980 --> 00:33:32,980
but against the rulers, against the authorities,
960
00:33:32,980 --> 00:33:35,980
against the cosmic powers over this present darkness,
961
00:33:35,980 --> 00:33:39,340
against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
962
00:33:39,340 --> 00:33:42,500
Therefore, take up the whole armor of God and list it out.
963
00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:44,620
So there's another passage that you can go to
964
00:33:44,620 --> 00:33:46,420
to get some help in this.
965
00:33:46,420 --> 00:33:48,140
And no matter what you're battling,
966
00:33:48,140 --> 00:33:51,220
whether it's stress or fear of the unknown
967
00:33:51,220 --> 00:33:55,500
or anxiety of the future or whatever's on you right now,
968
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:59,300
could be somebody criticized you, judged you, berated you,
969
00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:00,940
whatever you're going through
970
00:34:00,940 --> 00:34:03,180
or you're living with disappointment.
971
00:34:03,180 --> 00:34:06,300
Always understand there is a source behind the source.
972
00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:08,220
There's a story behind the story
973
00:34:08,220 --> 00:34:09,700
and you gotta see these things in 3D.
974
00:34:09,700 --> 00:34:13,220
So there's something nefarious driving that.
975
00:34:13,220 --> 00:34:14,620
So here's a passage you can go to,
976
00:34:14,620 --> 00:34:17,020
Ephesians chapter six, verse 10,
977
00:34:17,020 --> 00:34:21,220
and literally read through that and then do what it says.
978
00:34:21,220 --> 00:34:23,740
Be strong in the strength of his might.
979
00:34:23,740 --> 00:34:24,580
Confess to God.
980
00:34:24,580 --> 00:34:27,660
Simply say, God, I'm feeling weak right now.
981
00:34:27,660 --> 00:34:28,820
Just be honest.
982
00:34:28,820 --> 00:34:29,660
God can take it.
983
00:34:29,660 --> 00:34:31,180
Trust me, he's got big shoulders.
984
00:34:31,180 --> 00:34:32,340
He can take it.
985
00:34:32,340 --> 00:34:34,700
Just let him know, hey, I'm struggling with this.
986
00:34:34,700 --> 00:34:35,700
I need your help.
987
00:34:36,940 --> 00:34:37,780
That's good.
988
00:34:37,780 --> 00:34:38,620
I did that to you on purpose.
989
00:34:38,620 --> 00:34:39,460
No, you did.
990
00:34:39,460 --> 00:34:40,660
You settled back in your chair like,
991
00:34:40,660 --> 00:34:41,500
oh, he's gonna get on a roll.
992
00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:42,340
I was just gonna let you get on a roll.
993
00:34:42,340 --> 00:34:43,580
He's gonna get on a roll.
994
00:34:43,580 --> 00:34:44,940
Preacher's gotta preach.
995
00:34:44,940 --> 00:34:46,700
I gave an awkward pause on purpose.
996
00:34:46,700 --> 00:34:47,540
No, it's good.
997
00:34:47,540 --> 00:34:48,500
Get you back on the mic.
998
00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:49,460
It's good.
999
00:34:49,460 --> 00:34:51,700
Yeah, but isn't that where people live though?
1000
00:34:51,700 --> 00:34:53,940
I mean, most of the people we talk to
1001
00:34:53,940 --> 00:34:57,340
are always under some kind of pressure.
1002
00:34:57,340 --> 00:34:59,380
Something's going on
1003
00:34:59,380 --> 00:35:02,420
and it would be nice to say, well, that's unusual,
1004
00:35:02,420 --> 00:35:04,700
but truthfully, life is rough.
1005
00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:05,820
Life is hard, right?
1006
00:35:05,820 --> 00:35:06,660
It is.
1007
00:35:06,660 --> 00:35:09,580
So anyway, we can help you and encourage you in that.
1008
00:35:09,580 --> 00:35:12,780
Go to Ephesians 6, starting in verse 10
1009
00:35:12,780 --> 00:35:15,060
and go through basically verse 17
1010
00:35:15,060 --> 00:35:18,380
and that's the armor of God and put on the armor of God.
1011
00:35:18,380 --> 00:35:19,700
Let it strengthen you.
1012
00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:21,420
And I come back to this often.
1013
00:35:21,420 --> 00:35:23,340
I've said this before on the show,
1014
00:35:23,340 --> 00:35:26,980
but there's some things that bear repeating often
1015
00:35:26,980 --> 00:35:30,140
because we have short term and selective memory.
1016
00:35:30,140 --> 00:35:30,980
Do we?
1017
00:35:30,980 --> 00:35:31,820
Yeah.
1018
00:35:31,820 --> 00:35:33,020
Hello, what'd you say?
1019
00:35:33,020 --> 00:35:34,020
Yes, of course.
1020
00:35:34,020 --> 00:35:37,780
And so, hey, also I wanna recommend a podcast
1021
00:35:37,780 --> 00:35:38,820
for people to listen to.
1022
00:35:38,820 --> 00:35:42,820
It's called Curry and the Keeper by Adam and Tina Curry.
1023
00:35:42,820 --> 00:35:44,060
Listen, we love these guys.
1024
00:35:44,060 --> 00:35:44,900
They are truly-
1025
00:35:44,900 --> 00:35:46,460
If you really wanna laugh.
1026
00:35:46,460 --> 00:35:47,300
For real.
1027
00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:48,460
Listen to yesterday's episode.
1028
00:35:48,460 --> 00:35:49,300
Oh, it was great.
1029
00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:50,140
I listened to half of it.
1030
00:35:50,140 --> 00:35:51,540
I told her I laughed so hard.
1031
00:35:51,540 --> 00:35:54,580
I was just like, I laughed at her laughing at him
1032
00:35:54,580 --> 00:35:56,740
because they went on and on about his hoodies
1033
00:35:56,740 --> 00:35:57,580
and I thought that was really funny.
1034
00:35:57,580 --> 00:35:58,820
I didn't even get to that part yet.
1035
00:35:58,820 --> 00:36:00,940
So you gave me a spoiler alert.
1036
00:36:00,940 --> 00:36:03,420
So go to Curry and the Keeper.
1037
00:36:03,420 --> 00:36:04,940
You can look them up online easily
1038
00:36:04,940 --> 00:36:06,140
and find them on Fountain and you can find them
1039
00:36:06,140 --> 00:36:06,980
on any platform.
1040
00:36:06,980 --> 00:36:08,140
We wouldn't be here if it weren't for them.
1041
00:36:08,140 --> 00:36:10,780
So we're obviously going to promote-
1042
00:36:10,780 --> 00:36:13,180
Not that we wouldn't be born like physically.
1043
00:36:13,180 --> 00:36:15,100
Oh no, but you're doing a podcast.
1044
00:36:15,100 --> 00:36:17,140
Yeah, I know, I'm just being silly.
1045
00:36:17,140 --> 00:36:18,420
But we love those guys.
1046
00:36:18,420 --> 00:36:20,020
So thankful for Adam and Tina.
1047
00:36:20,020 --> 00:36:24,420
Truly, truly our best friends and just a God thing
1048
00:36:24,420 --> 00:36:27,620
of bringing our lives together and walking together.
1049
00:36:27,620 --> 00:36:29,820
So big news for Adam Curry.
1050
00:36:29,820 --> 00:36:31,740
He's going to be on a show, but I'm not going to talk
1051
00:36:31,740 --> 00:36:33,380
about it because he didn't disclose it.
1052
00:36:33,380 --> 00:36:34,220
Did he?
1053
00:36:34,220 --> 00:36:35,060
Did he later?
1054
00:36:35,060 --> 00:36:35,900
By accident.
1055
00:36:35,900 --> 00:36:36,940
Really?
1056
00:36:36,940 --> 00:36:37,940
I see, haven't got there.
1057
00:36:37,940 --> 00:36:39,460
I got 30 minutes in.
1058
00:36:39,460 --> 00:36:41,660
He said on a show, I can't disclose it.
1059
00:36:41,660 --> 00:36:44,340
And then he said, he made a comment
1060
00:36:44,340 --> 00:36:48,340
about wearing a hoodie when he goes on Joe Rogan.
1061
00:36:48,340 --> 00:36:50,140
Oh, how funny.
1062
00:36:50,140 --> 00:36:51,620
So the cat's out of the bag.
1063
00:36:51,620 --> 00:36:53,500
Yeah, he didn't give any details.
1064
00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:56,580
He just kind of went over it real quick.
1065
00:36:56,580 --> 00:37:00,620
That is funny.
1066
00:37:00,620 --> 00:37:02,340
It was funny because she said, oh my gosh,
1067
00:37:02,340 --> 00:37:06,100
you just let the cat out of the bag.
1068
00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:08,980
And I thought he would say, what are you talking about?
1069
00:37:08,980 --> 00:37:14,300
Try to smooth it over like it didn't really say it.
1070
00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:16,580
Because he's been on there before.
1071
00:37:16,580 --> 00:37:19,100
But yeah, she kind of ran that for him.
1072
00:37:19,100 --> 00:37:21,580
I'm super excited for him being on that platform.
1073
00:37:21,580 --> 00:37:23,860
It's such a huge platform.
1074
00:37:23,860 --> 00:37:27,620
Curious as to what questions he's going to be asked.
1075
00:37:27,620 --> 00:37:29,740
Because he said they don't really talk about it.
1076
00:37:29,740 --> 00:37:31,740
They just do what we do.
1077
00:37:31,740 --> 00:37:33,980
They just sit down and talk.
1078
00:37:33,980 --> 00:37:35,780
And so it'll be interesting to hear.
1079
00:37:35,780 --> 00:37:36,860
I can't wait to hear it.
1080
00:37:36,860 --> 00:37:37,700
It's going to be great.
1081
00:37:37,700 --> 00:37:39,380
Be praying for Adam on that.
1082
00:37:39,380 --> 00:37:41,980
He's also speaking at the National Religious Broadcasting
1083
00:37:41,980 --> 00:37:43,780
Convention next week.
1084
00:37:43,780 --> 00:37:44,660
That's a big deal.
1085
00:37:44,660 --> 00:37:45,260
It's an annual.
1086
00:37:45,260 --> 00:37:45,940
In a couple weeks.
1087
00:37:45,940 --> 00:37:47,660
Yeah, it's a huge annual convention.
1088
00:37:47,660 --> 00:37:50,100
And so he's doing a couple of different things there.
1089
00:37:50,100 --> 00:37:56,660
He's doing an onstage thing with John Fuller from Focus
1090
00:37:56,660 --> 00:37:57,460
on the Family.
1091
00:37:57,460 --> 00:37:59,900
He's going to do a fireside chat type deal.
1092
00:37:59,900 --> 00:38:01,460
And so I'm excited about that.
1093
00:38:01,460 --> 00:38:03,940
Also, I'm going to be starting a new podcast.
1094
00:38:03,940 --> 00:38:06,540
But it's going to be sort of in line with this.
1095
00:38:06,540 --> 00:38:09,340
In other words, it'll still be living up and down world.
1096
00:38:09,340 --> 00:38:13,180
But it'll be specific to conversations and fireside chat.
1097
00:38:13,180 --> 00:38:13,980
For names.
1098
00:38:13,980 --> 00:38:15,620
And then Tina spanked you.
1099
00:38:15,620 --> 00:38:16,740
And some gave me some names.
1100
00:38:16,740 --> 00:38:18,220
And said, no, no, no.
1101
00:38:18,220 --> 00:38:19,380
That's a bad marketing.
1102
00:38:19,380 --> 00:38:21,340
She spanked Adam, not me.
1103
00:38:21,340 --> 00:38:23,100
Then Adam shared that with me.
1104
00:38:23,100 --> 00:38:24,980
Yeah, mentioning that.
1105
00:38:24,980 --> 00:38:28,300
Because she said, just keep it living up and down world.
1106
00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:30,100
And then this is the interview.
1107
00:38:30,100 --> 00:38:31,100
So I'll do interviews.
1108
00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:32,940
So I'm super excited.
1109
00:38:32,940 --> 00:38:34,140
Yeah, I've already, I mean, of course,
1110
00:38:34,140 --> 00:38:35,180
Adam going to have Adam on.
1111
00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:36,380
That'll be a great chat.
1112
00:38:36,380 --> 00:38:38,500
And then I'm going to have Rick Green on real soon.
1113
00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:41,060
Because man, he's just such an expert on what's
1114
00:38:41,060 --> 00:38:41,980
going on culturally.
1115
00:38:41,980 --> 00:38:43,340
And I really want him to be there.
1116
00:38:43,340 --> 00:38:45,020
And I've got a whole list of people
1117
00:38:45,020 --> 00:38:47,460
I've already put in my mind that I want to get on the show
1118
00:38:47,460 --> 00:38:48,180
and get in here.
1119
00:38:48,180 --> 00:38:49,420
I'm excited about it.
1120
00:38:49,420 --> 00:38:50,060
Oh, it's easy.
1121
00:38:50,060 --> 00:38:50,620
On the schedule.
1122
00:38:50,620 --> 00:38:53,220
No, that's the easy part, to get people in here.
1123
00:38:53,220 --> 00:38:55,620
So anyway, hey, we love you guys.
1124
00:38:55,620 --> 00:38:57,860
Go to livingupandadownworld.com.
1125
00:38:57,860 --> 00:38:58,500
Check it out.
1126
00:38:58,500 --> 00:38:59,620
Subscribe.
1127
00:38:59,620 --> 00:39:01,460
And got a couple people to thank.
1128
00:39:01,460 --> 00:39:03,180
I just want to say thank you for people
1129
00:39:03,180 --> 00:39:06,660
that have been faithful to encourage us in giving.
1130
00:39:06,660 --> 00:39:08,900
And by the way, this is episode number 88.
1131
00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:09,380
Yes.
1132
00:39:09,380 --> 00:39:10,420
Yeah, double eights.
1133
00:39:10,420 --> 00:39:11,460
Isn't that great?
1134
00:39:11,460 --> 00:39:13,780
But I want to thank Steve for his gift to us.
1135
00:39:13,780 --> 00:39:16,500
And man, he also sent me a great letter last week.
1136
00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:18,820
And I just really appreciate him.
1137
00:39:18,820 --> 00:39:21,460
Thanks to Julie for her gift as well.
1138
00:39:21,460 --> 00:39:22,960
And of course, to Adam the Podfather,
1139
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:26,500
Curry for always his faithful donations of Satoshis.
1140
00:39:26,500 --> 00:39:27,620
We so appreciate it.
1141
00:39:27,620 --> 00:39:29,540
And also, just notes.
1142
00:39:29,540 --> 00:39:30,500
I mean, we get notes.
1143
00:39:30,500 --> 00:39:31,380
We get encouragement.
1144
00:39:31,380 --> 00:39:34,020
And there's not a week that goes by that some ages come up
1145
00:39:34,020 --> 00:39:34,780
to us in church.
1146
00:39:34,780 --> 00:39:37,380
And they know more about our lives than we know sometimes.
1147
00:39:37,380 --> 00:39:40,820
People that I wouldn't even know that come up and say,
1148
00:39:40,820 --> 00:39:42,380
I'll listen to your podcast.
1149
00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:44,140
It's so great, actually.
1150
00:39:44,140 --> 00:39:46,300
I've gotten a lot of good feedback from that interview.
1151
00:39:46,300 --> 00:39:47,620
I did with Jenny as well.
1152
00:39:47,620 --> 00:39:52,500
So go back two episodes to, I think it's 86.
1153
00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:54,340
It says it on the episode.
1154
00:39:54,340 --> 00:39:55,860
Yeah, yeah.
1155
00:39:55,860 --> 00:39:58,260
I showed it to someone last night.
1156
00:39:58,260 --> 00:39:59,340
Go and listen to that.
1157
00:39:59,340 --> 00:40:01,340
That interview with her where she tells her story
1158
00:40:01,340 --> 00:40:04,220
as a J6er and what she's gone through and what she's doing.
1159
00:40:04,220 --> 00:40:05,620
First of all, it'll encourage you.
1160
00:40:05,620 --> 00:40:07,260
But it'll also inform you.
1161
00:40:07,260 --> 00:40:08,460
And so let that happen.
1162
00:40:08,460 --> 00:40:10,340
So thanks again for being with us.
1163
00:40:10,340 --> 00:40:11,620
We love you guys.
1164
00:40:11,620 --> 00:40:13,460
Hey, we're out of here.
1165
00:40:13,460 --> 00:40:14,500
I'm getting hungry.
1166
00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:15,220
It's lunchtime.
1167
00:40:15,220 --> 00:40:15,700
Me too.
1168
00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:16,220
Let's go.
1169
00:40:16,220 --> 00:40:17,460
Thanks, Browyn.
1170
00:40:17,460 --> 00:40:19,180
Thanks for being on the show, Damon and Ann.
1171
00:40:19,180 --> 00:40:20,500
It's always good to have you.
1172
00:40:20,500 --> 00:40:22,980
Glad that you could come for the interview today.
1173
00:40:22,980 --> 00:40:24,060
Fireside chat.
1174
00:40:24,060 --> 00:40:26,860
So hopefully I can get you back on the program someday.
1175
00:40:26,860 --> 00:40:27,420
Someday.
1176
00:40:27,420 --> 00:40:27,940
Someday.
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We'll see.
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00:40:28,540 --> 00:40:29,900
Hey, love you.
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We are out of here.
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Keep living up in a down world.
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I mean, you got a life.
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It's an incredible song.
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Don't get down when you see the worst
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because the last will be the first.
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What a day, I'm telling you.
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All things will be new, living up in a down world.
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Yeah, we're living, yeah, we're living,
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living up in a down world.
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Oh.
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This is Jimmy Nanette.
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Yes, I did say Annette.
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She is back again for week two, miracles of miracles.
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There is a God in heaven.
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Oh my goodness.
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Welcome back to the show.
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Wow, I was here last week.
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Well, it was last Saturday actually, we did our broadcast.
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I know, we came up on Saturday,
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but you didn't get it posted till Sunday.
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Right, cause it was a long day.
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It was.
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Yeah, and we went home, we had things to do.
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We sure did.
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I know, you look gorgeous today by the way.
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Cause I got dressed cause I worked today.
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Saturday I was like, no, I don't even want to put makeup on.
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And you had a Bible study you went to.
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I did.
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Ladies Bible study.
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A very tough ladies Bible study.
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Covering a simple book called the book of revelation.
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Apocalyptic literature, kill me now.
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No, I'm just kidding.
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It's hard.
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That's a big one to tackle
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because there's so many different viewpoints
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and different ideas.
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But it doesn't even, we're not even at that point.
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You haven't even got into the views, the different views.
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Cause there's a bunch.
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No, it doesn't.
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I'm grabbing my Bible.
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It's literally expository teaching.
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Wow.
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So you're looking.
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Oh, verse by verse.
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Well, yeah, you're looking back too
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because it correlates with the Old Testament.
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And you really need to know the Old Testament.
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And that is not something that I'm
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just extremely knowledgeable in
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because we've always say we're New Testament believers,
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but we obviously believe in the Old Testament.
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Of course.
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I've studied it as much.
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I'm just now studying
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and I just finished the book of Genesis today.
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I'm gonna start Exodus tomorrow,
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but this is tough.
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This is really.
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We're doing a lot of tough study.
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You're doing that on Thursdays in a ladies Bible study.
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And you said y'all started with how many
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when you started in the fall.
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I think we started with over 60,
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but I don't know how many.
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How many are there now?
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I don't know.
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I have no idea.
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I couldn't count.
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Half?
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I would say at least a quarter have dropped off.
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Yeah, I could see.
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So we have gained a couple of new people.
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Oh, that's good.
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After the break.
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I don't know how they can jump right in.
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Honestly.
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For real.
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Cause that is a.
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It's very tough.
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Jen Wilkins is the teacher.
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And obviously she is very,
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I mean, she says she doesn't even know much,
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but what comes out of her mouth,
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we're all kind of flabbergasted.
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Well, I watched one of the videos
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with you and I was like, whoa,
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this is like seminary level stuff.
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It is.
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I do.
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I feel like I'm in seminary.
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And it's going to take probably,
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cause you do all this days and days worth of homework
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before you even have the video of her teaching.
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And I'm going to literally have to go back through
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and watch all the videos again,
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over and over and over just to get it.
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Well, the Bible does say,
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study to show yourself approved unto God.
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So there you go.
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And it's hard when you're doing other things too,
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cause I'm trying to get into the old Testament.
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And we've got this.
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And then.
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And then Wednesday night,
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we're doing our walking with Jesus discipleship journey,
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which is borderline seminary level.
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It's deep.
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It's theological.
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It's intense.
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It's an hour and a half.
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Pastor Brian brought it last night.
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Oh my gosh.
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So good.
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So good.
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Talking about biblical worldview,
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having a biblical,
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he was talking about the Bible and history
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and how it's impacted and influenced historical things.
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His story.
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I love that.
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I do.
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We've said that for years.
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We have.
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But you know,
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I haven't said it for years too.
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I mean, we used to talk about it being his story.
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All of this is a refresher for us.
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Cause we went through this 20 years ago
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and it rocked our world then
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and it's re-rocking our world now.
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And then now you're going back to the Acts study.
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Yes.
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Exhaustatory.
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Can't wait.
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On Sunday morning.
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I'm like, I'm so, I'm full as a tick.
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I know that sounds-
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That's a bad image.
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It is a bad image,
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but that's the only thing I can think of.
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And it's almost overwhelming.
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So I'm like, wow.
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That's a lot.
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It is a lot.
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Cause I'm doing Exodus now.
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But here's the thing,
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you know how this works.
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Revelation, Acts.
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I'm like, whoa.
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You are like swimming in it.
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Yeah.
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And not light stuff.
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This isn't lightweight.
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No.
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These are all heavy studies.
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But think about,
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you gotta use your imagery.
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You're full, right?
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I like to use the image of a bucket.
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So your bucket,
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not just your buckets,
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but it's like bring more buckets.
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Cause there's so much going in.
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It's more than one bucket.
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So your buckets are overflowing right now.
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KYBO, right?
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Right.
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Keep your buckets overflowing.
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Right.
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But what it's doing,
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it's now you've got the word so in you
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that in any given conversation,
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the word pings, doesn't it?
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But you don't want Revelation coming out of me.
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Believe me.
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That's a wild 10 headed beast.
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Yeah.
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And the woman with the flaming sword struck down.
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We're not even there yet.
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You keep going there and you're scaring me.
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That's cause that's the images of Revelation that I have.
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It's just the wild stuff.
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You know, very, very epic.
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Well the images that we're talking about today
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were very demonic.
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Yeah, some dark, very dark stuff.
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Very dark.
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Speaking of, we live in a world that
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spiritual warfare is a real thing.
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We talked about weird stuff last week on our podcast.
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And that recording was weird stuff.
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So here's, you know,
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we have a road caster duo,
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which is a great unit.
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or you just leave it on.
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It just keeps its settings.
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come in and reset our settings
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just to make sure things are right.
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Cause we're having some struggles with it.
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Working great.
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I did a podcast with Rick Green.
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Sounded great.
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But on Saturday when we came in,
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I pulled it up and it just had sounded strange.
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It was overdriven.
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at one point when you're talking back off
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the gain a little bit and it cleared it up a little bit
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and helped made it tolerable.
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But we don't know what caused it.
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Not sure what caused it.
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So Adam came in on Wednesday morning
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just to look at it again and go,
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okay, let's take another look at it
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and figure out what's going on.
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Make sure we got our settings nailed down.
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And it worked perfectly.
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I mean, it was a slight.
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So he didn't even have to do anything.
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No, exactly.
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And he said, he connected the dots.
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He said, well, you talked about weird stuff
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and look what happened.
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You had weird stuff happen while you were recording.
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So there it is.
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It was a lifetime illustration
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or a real life illustration, real time illustration.
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Kidding, yes.
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But so some big things happened this week on Monday.
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What happened Monday?
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Oh, you're so funny.
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Oh yeah.
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Oh yeah, the presidential inauguration
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we've been waiting for.
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A new golden era started and began.
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And I really have hope.
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I have high hopes.
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Which, I turned the TV on early.
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We've never done this before.
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I turned it on early.
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Sorry.
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You usually don't like to watch any TV during the day.
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You like to wait.
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I'm not a TV guy.
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But you were glued.
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We were both glued.
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I think we.
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You turned it on and I was in my office and I heard it.
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I heard it and you were like,
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oh, I wandered through the room.
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And I was like, okay, I'll just sit down for a minute.
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And then it was like, I was hooked.
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I was there.
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I was more anxious about,
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obviously the fact that he was getting inaugurated,
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but what executive orders he was gonna sign that day.
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And which he signed hundreds.
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Oh my gosh.
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It was unbelievable.
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And we were waiting all day,
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to hear the different executive orders,
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which we just loved.
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Some of them that we were very excited about
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was the J-6ers got pardoned.
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He had mentioned in an interview,
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I think in December,
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that he might not pardon all of them.
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That he would pardon the ones that were nonviolent.
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But in his little speech,
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during the whole inauguration day,
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as he was signing,
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he decided to pardon all of them because he realized,
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even if there were people that incited violence,
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they've been in jail for a long time.
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And longer than most criminals get in today's age
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for certain things.
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So he felt like that was worth pardoning everybody.
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I don't know if I agree with that,
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but it was his choice.
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Our main thing is we have some J-6ers in our church.
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And that we're at church Sunday.
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We were excited.
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I was gonna introduce those.
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So I introduced them to the church and we prayed for them,
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but we had Luke Coffey with us.
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Luke, if you're familiar with the J-6 scenario,
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not what you saw on mainstream media, of course,
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or legacy media,
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but what you would have seen in some of the documentaries.
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They skew everything.
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Oh, you think?
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You think?
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So, yeah, sometimes it's not that they lie.
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They just don't tell the whole truth.
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No context.
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Context is king in anything, right?
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And so Luke Coffey was the young man,
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very country boy,
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Texan from Dallas, Fort Worth,
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who when one of the girls got trapped in the tunnel
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and was getting crushed by the crowd,
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as things got escalated at the very beginning,
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him being a good Christian guy, loves Jesus,
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saw a girl in peril.
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He rushes in through the crowd
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and begins to push people away to help her
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because she was literally getting crushed.
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Sadly, she died.
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She lost her life.
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And he grabbed someone's crutch.
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He stood and he held it up.
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There's amazing video on this.
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I mean, clear as a bell.
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Is it a documentary that we watched?
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It's a documentary we watched.
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There's several, but the one we watched was clear.
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I think it was on Epic.
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It was.
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He even said that was probably the Epic.
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He held the crutch up.
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Which they showed the true thing of what happened,
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which is what you're about to say.
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He held the crutch up
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and he started yelling out to the crowd,
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please pray, please pray.
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And then stop, stop, stop.
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Try to calm everybody down.
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So he's holding that crutch up
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and a police officer, a female behind him,
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started hitting him with a club.
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And why was she doing that?
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I think everything got escalated
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and he's holding up a crutch
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and he's yelling something. Was she maybe afraid
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that he was gonna do something?
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She might have been afraid that he was escalating things
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when in fact, it's clear on the video,
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cause you can hear him.
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He's saying, please pray, please pray.
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Stop, stop.
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He was trying to calm things down.
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I think we should watch that again.
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I'm curious. I do too.
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Especially now, knowing what we know.
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So what happened, she started beating him.
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I mean, beating him like with a billy club.
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And he went down.
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And then when all the dust cleared,
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they got that girl out of there,
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but she died from her injuries
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of being crushed and suffocated by the crowd.
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And then he was promptly put in jail.
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He was arrested.
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And then when he went to trial,
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this is what I understand.
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The same woman who was beating him
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testified that he didn't even touch me.
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Cause they were trying to get him on an assault charge
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that he assaulted an officer, which is a felony.
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And she said no.
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She said no.
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So why didn't they get her on the assault charge
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is what I don't understand.
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Well, what's crazy is that
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they indicted him anyway.
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They went through and they convicted him.
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He spent 56 days in prison or jail,
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56 days in jail slash prison.
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And then now he was supposed to be sentenced.
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Right, awaiting sentencing.
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But now it got pardoned.
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Yeah.
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So he doesn't have to go through.
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So yeah, that got,
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cause his sentencing was gonna be in April of 2025.
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And so he was with us in church.
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We had-
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Well, let me say this before you go on to the other two.
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What I loved about him is he said,
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I have never been in a prison
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except to preach the gospel in prison.
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Why?
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He did that with his dad.
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His dad was a prison minister.
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His dad was a prison minister.
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So he would go with his dad.
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So he said, so this was quite-
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He said it's way different.
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A challenge to be in there on the other end.
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Something interesting had happened on TMZ.
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TMZ had actually shown the video
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where he stood up and held the crutch in the air.
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So they did.
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And the prisoners were watching it on the TV
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cause their eyes are glued to the TV.
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Of the prison that he ended up going to,
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or jail or whatever.
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Of the prison he went to.
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When he went into the prison,
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they treated him like a rock star.
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They treated him like royalty
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because he was actually doing the right thing.
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He was trying to help.
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So TMZ portrayed it properly.
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Well, yeah.
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I mean, they portrayed that part
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where he's holding the crutch,
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telling people to pray, calm down.
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And yeah.
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But then the rest of the news,
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especially 2020- Mainstream media, legacy media.
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All of those, they went nuts.
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Of course they did.
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We watched some of that.
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And we watched how skewed it was.
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A lot of it, they had it so skewed
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that they had us questioning.
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Exactly.
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Remember?
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Well, of course.
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Cause some of those news.
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You only know what you know
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and they only tell you what they want you to know
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to feed their narrative.
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So you're believing that and not knowing.
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And it looks terrible the way they set it up.
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So getting to know Jenny.
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McCombs. McCombs or Jenny Cud.
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It was her name before she married Doug.
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So she was Jenny Cud when all this happened.
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And her and Doug are amazing people.
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She has a great ministry.
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She's helping people.
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They're taking in.
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They've built their first tiny home.
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They've also got B and B.
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And they're putting people up that are J-6ers
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00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:46,780
who are being released.
443
00:13:46,780 --> 00:13:48,260
And I haven't heard yet.
444
00:13:48,260 --> 00:13:52,460
This is, we're coming to you on Thursday, the 23rd.
445
00:13:52,460 --> 00:13:55,900
I still haven't heard if they released the J-6ers in DC
446
00:13:55,900 --> 00:13:56,740
because a judge was holding them.
447
00:13:56,740 --> 00:13:58,140
Was it DC or New York?
448
00:13:58,140 --> 00:13:59,660
No, it was DC.
449
00:13:59,660 --> 00:14:01,540
Which that's appalling.
450
00:14:01,540 --> 00:14:02,360
It is.
451
00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,660
And they ended up having to get the marshals out.
452
00:14:04,660 --> 00:14:05,500
So I don't know.
453
00:14:05,500 --> 00:14:07,620
I haven't seen a follow-up on that yet.
454
00:14:07,620 --> 00:14:09,140
So I'm curious to check that out.
455
00:14:09,140 --> 00:14:12,060
But anyway, it was nice having Eliel,
456
00:14:12,060 --> 00:14:15,940
J.C., Luke and Jenny in our church on Sunday.
457
00:14:15,940 --> 00:14:16,940
Four J-6ers.
458
00:14:16,940 --> 00:14:18,460
We were able to love on them.
459
00:14:18,460 --> 00:14:19,500
We prayed for them.
460
00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:21,500
Had the whole church turn and pray for them
461
00:14:21,500 --> 00:14:22,580
and lift them up.
462
00:14:22,580 --> 00:14:24,940
And it's a blessing to walk with them
463
00:14:24,940 --> 00:14:27,940
and continue to uphold, you know,
464
00:14:27,940 --> 00:14:29,940
righteousness and truth and justice.
465
00:14:29,940 --> 00:14:31,060
That's our heart.
466
00:14:31,060 --> 00:14:32,980
It's not a political bent.
467
00:14:32,980 --> 00:14:34,700
It's a righteous bent.
468
00:14:34,700 --> 00:14:36,620
It gets portrayed as political,
469
00:14:36,620 --> 00:14:39,500
oh, you're conservative or you get labeled, you're MAGA.
470
00:14:39,500 --> 00:14:42,780
The only MAGA I am is Make America Godly Again.
471
00:14:42,780 --> 00:14:44,460
That's the MAGA I am.
472
00:14:44,460 --> 00:14:46,740
So, but it's interesting how we get lumped
473
00:14:46,740 --> 00:14:48,980
into these categories because it's the way people think.
474
00:14:48,980 --> 00:14:51,300
But really it's not that I'm a Trumpite.
475
00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:54,260
I just want, I voted for the platform
476
00:14:54,260 --> 00:14:56,780
that most align with biblical values.
477
00:14:56,780 --> 00:14:58,220
And so happens to be that.
478
00:14:58,220 --> 00:15:00,540
So anyway, thank God for them.
479
00:15:00,540 --> 00:15:04,380
So another inauguration or a bill that got,
480
00:15:04,380 --> 00:15:07,780
executive order that got put through
481
00:15:07,780 --> 00:15:09,900
was protecting our borders.
482
00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:11,620
And that was very important.
483
00:15:11,620 --> 00:15:16,620
Did you hear that they sent 1,500 troops to the border
484
00:15:17,420 --> 00:15:18,500
yesterday or today?
485
00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:22,140
I think yesterday they arrested nearly 400 criminals.
486
00:15:22,140 --> 00:15:23,900
But they sent criminal illegal.
487
00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:25,500
I read that in the news this morning.
488
00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:27,460
It's good news.
489
00:15:27,460 --> 00:15:29,340
For those of you who don't live in Texas,
490
00:15:29,340 --> 00:15:30,500
we don't just live in Texas.
491
00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:32,780
We live in South Central Texas.
492
00:15:32,780 --> 00:15:35,980
We're less than an hour to San Antonio.
493
00:15:35,980 --> 00:15:38,980
And I gotta tell you, that has been a collection,
494
00:15:38,980 --> 00:15:42,660
a collection place where they have been flocking to.
495
00:15:42,660 --> 00:15:44,620
And also the I-10, which we live close
496
00:15:44,620 --> 00:15:45,460
to the Interstate 10.
497
00:15:45,460 --> 00:15:48,020
And we're fine for those that are wanting
498
00:15:48,020 --> 00:15:49,220
to come over legally.
499
00:15:49,220 --> 00:15:50,540
Absolutely. It's those criminals.
500
00:15:50,540 --> 00:15:54,180
It's the ones that are criminals that we're terrified of.
501
00:15:54,180 --> 00:15:56,340
I'm pro-immigration if you do it the right way.
502
00:15:56,340 --> 00:15:57,380
You go through the channels.
503
00:15:57,380 --> 00:16:00,260
But the illegal, when your first act is illegal
504
00:16:00,260 --> 00:16:01,500
to come in here, there's a problem.
505
00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:03,580
So you're setting a bad precedent.
506
00:16:03,580 --> 00:16:04,900
So, but I'm open.
507
00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:07,820
I mean, I think America should be the land of dreams.
508
00:16:07,820 --> 00:16:11,340
It should bring your harass, your haggle.
509
00:16:11,340 --> 00:16:14,500
I mean, as long as it's done right, I'm good with that.
510
00:16:14,500 --> 00:16:18,500
So a third one that is really huge on our heart,
511
00:16:18,500 --> 00:16:21,660
and this is biblical, and that is two genders.
512
00:16:21,660 --> 00:16:22,940
I knew you were gonna go there.
513
00:16:22,940 --> 00:16:23,780
Two genders.
514
00:16:23,780 --> 00:16:24,660
I so agree.
515
00:16:24,660 --> 00:16:27,860
I was so thankful when he made that declaration.
516
00:16:27,860 --> 00:16:28,700
Yes.
517
00:16:28,700 --> 00:16:29,540
President Trump.
518
00:16:29,540 --> 00:16:32,860
Feels good to say President Trump and ex-President Biden.
519
00:16:32,860 --> 00:16:34,060
Yes, it does.
520
00:16:34,060 --> 00:16:35,420
Ex-VP, Kamala.
521
00:16:35,420 --> 00:16:38,380
Although, you know, after hearing the letter
522
00:16:38,380 --> 00:16:43,380
that he wrote to Trump, most people don't believe
523
00:16:43,980 --> 00:16:45,340
that he actually wrote it,
524
00:16:45,340 --> 00:16:48,020
or someone else dictated it to him.
525
00:16:48,020 --> 00:16:51,780
But my, what I'm hoping and praying for
526
00:16:51,780 --> 00:16:56,300
is that maybe he had an epiphany of who God is,
527
00:16:56,300 --> 00:16:59,100
because that's what we all should be praying for.
528
00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:00,700
We all should be praying for that.
529
00:17:00,700 --> 00:17:04,300
And so, the fact that he wrote that letter to him,
530
00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:06,940
which you explained to me had some good things in there.
531
00:17:06,940 --> 00:17:07,780
It did, yeah.
532
00:17:07,780 --> 00:17:09,220
That was impressive.
533
00:17:09,220 --> 00:17:10,740
That, I don't know.
534
00:17:10,740 --> 00:17:11,580
It was short, but it was big.
535
00:17:11,580 --> 00:17:13,220
Gives me a glimmer of hope, I don't know.
536
00:17:13,220 --> 00:17:15,020
We've been praying for their salvation.
537
00:17:15,020 --> 00:17:16,660
We want people to be born again.
538
00:17:16,660 --> 00:17:17,500
That's our heart.
539
00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:18,620
Because we're not here to bash.
540
00:17:18,620 --> 00:17:20,260
No, we're here to build up.
541
00:17:20,260 --> 00:17:21,780
We're living up in a down world.
542
00:17:21,780 --> 00:17:23,740
We are here to tell the truth
543
00:17:23,740 --> 00:17:26,020
and what's happening in the world.
544
00:17:26,020 --> 00:17:29,100
But we as Christians, it is our obligation.
545
00:17:29,100 --> 00:17:34,100
This is our privilege to pray for unbelievers, period.
546
00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:36,180
I don't care if they're murderers
547
00:17:36,180 --> 00:17:37,860
or if they're ex-presidents.
548
00:17:37,860 --> 00:17:39,980
We are called to pray for them.
549
00:17:39,980 --> 00:17:42,780
And our world will be a better place
550
00:17:42,780 --> 00:17:44,740
if Christians do what they're called to do.
551
00:17:44,740 --> 00:17:46,020
And that's pray.
552
00:17:46,020 --> 00:17:49,780
And disciple one another.
553
00:17:49,780 --> 00:17:51,580
Make disciples, yeah.
554
00:17:51,580 --> 00:17:53,780
Because if you don't teach people what the Bible says,
555
00:17:53,780 --> 00:17:56,020
how do you know how to live it out?
556
00:17:56,020 --> 00:17:56,900
Exactly.
557
00:17:56,900 --> 00:18:00,060
So speaking of that, let me segue into something.
558
00:18:00,060 --> 00:18:02,420
So I was thinking about how the last four years
559
00:18:02,420 --> 00:18:05,540
have just been in a very real sense, nightmarish.
560
00:18:05,540 --> 00:18:06,940
I mean, since COVID.
561
00:18:06,940 --> 00:18:07,780
Economy.
562
00:18:07,780 --> 00:18:09,420
And then the economy tanking.
563
00:18:09,420 --> 00:18:13,780
And then wokeism, the virus, the woke virus
564
00:18:13,780 --> 00:18:15,740
just infected our culture.
565
00:18:15,740 --> 00:18:16,580
Unbelievable.
566
00:18:16,580 --> 00:18:19,140
Through the last administration and the things.
567
00:18:19,140 --> 00:18:21,620
I mean, when you've got some of your top leaders
568
00:18:21,620 --> 00:18:24,180
in the nation, cross-dressing and transing
569
00:18:24,180 --> 00:18:26,820
and using different pronouns and all that.
570
00:18:26,820 --> 00:18:28,780
And you're like, you're supposed to be the leader
571
00:18:28,780 --> 00:18:29,620
of the military.
572
00:18:29,620 --> 00:18:31,620
You're supposed to be the leader of the health department.
573
00:18:31,620 --> 00:18:34,780
You're supposed to be the leader, the secretary of state.
574
00:18:34,780 --> 00:18:35,780
All these different things.
575
00:18:35,780 --> 00:18:39,860
And there are men in women's clothes or in bondage clothes.
576
00:18:39,860 --> 00:18:44,340
I mean, sick, sick stuff trying to normalize this stuff.
577
00:18:44,340 --> 00:18:47,820
And the whole world is screaming no.
578
00:18:47,820 --> 00:18:49,940
A very small percentage of people are going,
579
00:18:49,940 --> 00:18:50,860
yes, finally.
580
00:18:50,860 --> 00:18:53,940
But most of us are going, this is insanity.
581
00:18:53,940 --> 00:18:56,620
And we had to put up with that for four years.
582
00:18:56,620 --> 00:19:01,620
But what that did, it heaped a lot of stress on people.
583
00:19:01,780 --> 00:19:03,420
I mean, we came out of COVID.
584
00:19:03,420 --> 00:19:05,380
Then we have a scary administration.
585
00:19:05,380 --> 00:19:08,220
Then everything goes left and off the cliff.
586
00:19:08,220 --> 00:19:11,500
Think about the trauma, cultural trauma
587
00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:13,220
that we had coming out of COVID.
588
00:19:13,220 --> 00:19:16,020
Then we go right into this administration.
589
00:19:16,020 --> 00:19:19,020
Many people that I trust and believe,
590
00:19:19,020 --> 00:19:23,260
believe that the election was absolutely stolen in 2020.
591
00:19:23,260 --> 00:19:25,900
When you look at statistics and facts and video,
592
00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:30,020
and we've looked at a lot of that, it's like, yeah, yeah.
593
00:19:30,020 --> 00:19:31,260
There's no way it wasn't.
594
00:19:31,260 --> 00:19:32,580
But I'm so glad.
595
00:19:32,580 --> 00:19:35,780
But let me finish the statement.
596
00:19:35,780 --> 00:19:39,580
But what it did is through our world into pandemonium,
597
00:19:39,580 --> 00:19:44,060
I mean, disruption across the globe, wars broke out.
598
00:19:44,060 --> 00:19:47,340
I mean, people taking advantage of the scene.
599
00:19:47,340 --> 00:19:50,500
Then you've had mass immigration all over the world.
600
00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:53,580
I mean, Paris, France is disaster.
601
00:19:53,580 --> 00:19:56,380
London looks like a bomb hit the place.
602
00:19:56,380 --> 00:19:58,180
And even some of our beautiful cities
603
00:19:58,180 --> 00:20:01,060
like Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York,
604
00:20:01,060 --> 00:20:02,820
they all, they're like tent cities
605
00:20:02,820 --> 00:20:04,900
in the streets and parks.
606
00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:07,180
I mean, in the fentanyl, I mean,
607
00:20:07,180 --> 00:20:10,840
you can go down the list on how off the cliff things went.
608
00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,580
But what it did, it created a massive trauma,
609
00:20:13,580 --> 00:20:15,940
a massive cultural stress.
610
00:20:15,940 --> 00:20:18,740
So on Monday, when I was sharing with somebody
611
00:20:18,740 --> 00:20:21,020
what I felt on Monday, I said,
612
00:20:21,020 --> 00:20:23,100
while on one hand I felt jubilation,
613
00:20:23,100 --> 00:20:26,580
but I think the bigger feeling I had was relief.
614
00:20:26,580 --> 00:20:28,780
Just like a weight had come off my,
615
00:20:28,780 --> 00:20:31,460
like I had bricks on my chest.
616
00:20:31,460 --> 00:20:33,420
So let's talk a minute about where-
617
00:20:33,420 --> 00:20:34,780
Well, and let me say this.
618
00:20:35,980 --> 00:20:38,620
I cried when Trump won.
619
00:20:38,620 --> 00:20:41,100
You cried during his inauguration.
620
00:20:41,100 --> 00:20:43,700
I did, and I did not see it coming.
621
00:20:43,700 --> 00:20:46,700
I literally did not expect that.
622
00:20:46,700 --> 00:20:49,140
It was when he was going through his speech.
623
00:20:49,140 --> 00:20:52,900
His speech, whoever wrote it was genius.
624
00:20:52,900 --> 00:20:55,820
Well, he was enumerating and everything he was saying
625
00:20:55,820 --> 00:20:57,340
are the things we've been talking about
626
00:20:57,340 --> 00:20:59,500
and praying about, even as a church,
627
00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:01,380
things I've been talking about from the pulpit
628
00:21:01,380 --> 00:21:04,300
to our church to train, educate, teach,
629
00:21:04,300 --> 00:21:06,020
and get them prepared.
630
00:21:06,020 --> 00:21:08,020
And he's enumerating everything
631
00:21:08,020 --> 00:21:10,300
that almost felt like three months ago
632
00:21:10,300 --> 00:21:11,940
we were gonna lose it.
633
00:21:11,940 --> 00:21:14,420
And so, I mean, it had already gone off the cliff
634
00:21:14,420 --> 00:21:16,500
in terms of culture and what was being approved.
635
00:21:16,500 --> 00:21:18,660
So it almost felt like, oh no,
636
00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:21,260
what if this doesn't happen?
637
00:21:21,260 --> 00:21:24,140
Of course it did and hallelujah and oh my gosh.
638
00:21:24,140 --> 00:21:26,860
And so I did a podcast with Rick Green
639
00:21:26,860 --> 00:21:28,180
from the Patriot Academy.
640
00:21:28,180 --> 00:21:32,100
It was on his, it's called The Tavern this last week.
641
00:21:32,100 --> 00:21:32,940
And-
642
00:21:32,940 --> 00:21:36,140
Which were you able to get it on our Godcaster yet?
643
00:21:36,140 --> 00:21:38,220
I'm waiting for Faith to call Ratt Green
644
00:21:38,220 --> 00:21:39,060
and get that done.
645
00:21:39,060 --> 00:21:40,460
I bet she hasn't, so-
646
00:21:40,460 --> 00:21:41,300
You need to remind her.
647
00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:42,140
That's our daughter, by the way.
648
00:21:42,140 --> 00:21:43,460
Daughter, we love her.
649
00:21:43,460 --> 00:21:45,940
So I need to remind her to do that though.
650
00:21:45,940 --> 00:21:48,260
So if I do that, I'll let y'all know,
651
00:21:48,260 --> 00:21:50,780
because it's really, I think it'll be enlightening as well.
652
00:21:50,780 --> 00:21:53,100
There's a couple of J6ers on there right before me.
653
00:21:53,100 --> 00:21:53,940
And then-
654
00:21:53,940 --> 00:21:55,100
He has a great podcasting point.
655
00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:56,580
He is so good.
656
00:21:56,580 --> 00:21:57,620
He is so good.
657
00:21:57,620 --> 00:22:00,580
I mean, he's considered America's constitutional expert.
658
00:22:00,580 --> 00:22:03,100
So I mean, he is like the man and he's in our church.
659
00:22:03,100 --> 00:22:05,660
I mean, he's such a great brother in Christ.
660
00:22:05,660 --> 00:22:07,620
So I was doing that with him
661
00:22:07,620 --> 00:22:10,780
and we were talking about everything that had happened,
662
00:22:10,780 --> 00:22:11,940
everything we'd gone through.
663
00:22:11,940 --> 00:22:14,100
And I kept saying, it's the same thing I've said
664
00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:15,340
from the beginning.
665
00:22:15,340 --> 00:22:16,740
We don't have a political problem.
666
00:22:16,740 --> 00:22:18,020
We have a spiritual problem.
667
00:22:18,020 --> 00:22:20,260
And this is, unless we get that right
668
00:22:20,260 --> 00:22:21,820
and get our hearts realigned,
669
00:22:21,820 --> 00:22:24,700
we're just gonna repeat the same stuff over and over.
670
00:22:24,700 --> 00:22:26,220
History will repeat itself.
671
00:22:26,220 --> 00:22:28,900
Trump was in office before,
672
00:22:28,900 --> 00:22:31,460
and then we as a church became complacent
673
00:22:31,460 --> 00:22:32,300
and just let him-
674
00:22:32,300 --> 00:22:33,340
We got lazy because we thought,
675
00:22:33,340 --> 00:22:34,820
oh, we're in the golden age.
676
00:22:34,820 --> 00:22:36,220
And we cannot do that now.
677
00:22:36,220 --> 00:22:40,980
So this is one of my roles as a pastor, educator, teacher
678
00:22:40,980 --> 00:22:43,740
to make sure that our church doesn't get lulled
679
00:22:43,740 --> 00:22:45,820
into a false sense of security
680
00:22:45,820 --> 00:22:48,100
and a false sense of, hey, peace and safety,
681
00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:49,060
peace and safety.
682
00:22:49,060 --> 00:22:50,060
You know what the Bible says
683
00:22:50,060 --> 00:22:51,660
when they say peace and safety,
684
00:22:51,660 --> 00:22:52,700
that's when the end comes.
685
00:22:52,700 --> 00:22:56,020
So I wanna make sure that we don't just end up
686
00:22:56,020 --> 00:22:57,300
in a hammock on a spring day.
687
00:22:57,300 --> 00:22:59,580
So we got a war to wage.
688
00:22:59,580 --> 00:23:02,900
So anyway, all that, here's where I wanted to go with it.
689
00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:05,020
And I wanna get your take on it.
690
00:23:05,020 --> 00:23:08,020
So there were times when we were watching the news
691
00:23:08,020 --> 00:23:10,940
or reading the news or watching a documentary
692
00:23:10,940 --> 00:23:12,740
and we would just,
693
00:23:12,740 --> 00:23:15,140
I mean, you could feel your blood pressure rising.
694
00:23:15,140 --> 00:23:19,220
I could feel it at times where I was so in angst,
695
00:23:19,220 --> 00:23:21,200
so stressed over this.
696
00:23:22,660 --> 00:23:24,500
What do we share with people?
697
00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:28,220
Cause it doesn't have to be because of an election or that.
698
00:23:29,100 --> 00:23:30,900
I'm gonna talk about in stress in general.
699
00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:34,700
Where do you go to when you have one of those moments
700
00:23:34,700 --> 00:23:38,020
where you just hit the wall and you just feel the weight?
701
00:23:38,020 --> 00:23:39,980
We talk about weight on our chest,
702
00:23:39,980 --> 00:23:42,020
that feeling in your gut and your chest
703
00:23:42,020 --> 00:23:44,540
that felt like an elephant sitting on my chest.
704
00:23:44,540 --> 00:23:46,820
Where do you go with that?
705
00:23:46,820 --> 00:23:50,820
Well, I did feel that way
706
00:23:50,820 --> 00:23:54,300
when I was constantly looking at the news
707
00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:55,340
and couldn't let go.
708
00:23:55,340 --> 00:23:58,380
This is before you began looking at the news
709
00:23:58,380 --> 00:24:01,400
and it was eating me up because I was allowing that
710
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,620
to take over what I know in my heart,
711
00:24:03,620 --> 00:24:05,820
who God is and what he wants to do.
712
00:24:05,820 --> 00:24:09,220
And so I obviously, I had to turn it off and say,
713
00:24:09,220 --> 00:24:11,020
God, I know this is,
714
00:24:11,020 --> 00:24:13,660
I need your help in bringing peace back to my life
715
00:24:13,660 --> 00:24:18,660
because it was giving me such unrest and such angst,
716
00:24:20,260 --> 00:24:25,260
like you said, stress that I could hardly function
717
00:24:25,660 --> 00:24:30,660
because you began to, as a believer, we have hope.
718
00:24:30,660 --> 00:24:35,660
We have hope in a future, as the word says.
719
00:24:35,940 --> 00:24:39,300
And we know that this is not our home, but temporarily.
720
00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:42,700
We get to promote to heaven,
721
00:24:42,700 --> 00:24:45,660
but we have to live in this fallen world.
722
00:24:45,660 --> 00:24:48,020
We have to live in all of this that's going on,
723
00:24:48,020 --> 00:24:52,940
but we have to also know that God wants to give us peace
724
00:24:52,940 --> 00:24:56,740
and comfort in the midst of our stress.
725
00:24:56,740 --> 00:24:59,420
And so you have to have enough fortitude to say,
726
00:24:59,420 --> 00:25:01,300
you know what, I need to turn this off.
727
00:25:01,300 --> 00:25:03,900
This is, if it's taking over your life
728
00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:08,820
and you're not able to be a believing believer,
729
00:25:08,820 --> 00:25:10,620
as we've talked about in the past,
730
00:25:11,580 --> 00:25:13,860
then you've got to make some changes.
731
00:25:13,860 --> 00:25:15,140
And so that's what I had to do.
732
00:25:15,140 --> 00:25:16,580
That's why I don't know as much.
733
00:25:16,580 --> 00:25:19,860
You tell me some things, but it's not overtaking your life.
734
00:25:19,860 --> 00:25:24,300
You get enough, just enough to kind of know what's going on
735
00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:26,540
so that you can address it or whatever.
736
00:25:26,540 --> 00:25:30,300
For me, it had become, I was consumed
737
00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:33,860
and I did not like how I was feeling
738
00:25:33,860 --> 00:25:37,020
and how it was just, it was making me feel depressed
739
00:25:37,020 --> 00:25:38,900
because I know what the word says.
740
00:25:38,900 --> 00:25:42,780
And the word is the opposite of what the world says.
741
00:25:42,780 --> 00:25:44,860
And he's our overcomer.
742
00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:49,900
We don't overcome, he overcomes for us.
743
00:25:49,900 --> 00:25:53,660
And so I had to come to a realization
744
00:25:53,660 --> 00:25:57,420
that this was taking me down a path of who I was
745
00:25:57,420 --> 00:26:00,020
before Christ, not after.
746
00:26:00,020 --> 00:26:02,420
And so that's what I did.
747
00:26:02,420 --> 00:26:04,700
So the first thing, and I like that you pushed away.
748
00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:05,540
I had to push away.
749
00:26:05,540 --> 00:26:07,180
It's literally, we're sitting at a table right now
750
00:26:07,180 --> 00:26:08,620
so I just have that picture in my mind,
751
00:26:08,620 --> 00:26:09,860
just pushing back. You have to use your hands
752
00:26:09,860 --> 00:26:10,700
because you talk with your hands.
753
00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:12,780
I do talk with my hands, absolutely.
754
00:26:12,780 --> 00:26:15,300
Push back, you push back from the table and say,
755
00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:17,740
you know what, I need to back away from this
756
00:26:17,740 --> 00:26:22,020
because this is taking me down a rabbit hole,
757
00:26:22,020 --> 00:26:23,940
as we say, or a dark hole.
758
00:26:23,940 --> 00:26:25,460
And so you push back.
759
00:26:25,460 --> 00:26:26,660
And I had to do the same.
760
00:26:26,660 --> 00:26:28,380
I had to limit my intake.
761
00:26:28,380 --> 00:26:30,700
But you still needed to know enough to at least,
762
00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:31,940
and tell me what was going on.
763
00:26:31,940 --> 00:26:34,380
I kind of had to go on an information diet,
764
00:26:34,380 --> 00:26:36,300
a media diet and say, you know what,
765
00:26:36,300 --> 00:26:37,660
I'm gonna have some, but I'm not.
766
00:26:37,660 --> 00:26:42,220
But you needed to get the correct media information.
767
00:26:42,220 --> 00:26:46,020
Which is tricky in this world is to get good information.
768
00:26:46,020 --> 00:26:48,580
And so what I did is I compiled,
769
00:26:48,580 --> 00:26:50,740
in fact, I have it on the newsletter,
770
00:26:50,740 --> 00:26:51,820
subscribe to our newsletter.
771
00:26:51,820 --> 00:26:54,220
I've got a list of water,
772
00:26:54,220 --> 00:26:57,660
somewhat trusted media outlets that could help you.
773
00:26:57,660 --> 00:27:01,460
And this was given to me by a very sound, sharp
774
00:27:01,460 --> 00:27:03,540
history professor who gave me these.
775
00:27:03,540 --> 00:27:05,820
And so I've just got them on the newsletter.
776
00:27:05,820 --> 00:27:06,820
You can subscribe to that.
777
00:27:06,820 --> 00:27:10,660
Just go to livingupandadownworld.com and subscribe.
778
00:27:10,660 --> 00:27:13,660
And I put that out every time we do a podcast,
779
00:27:13,660 --> 00:27:16,060
probably right before or right after we do the podcast.
780
00:27:16,060 --> 00:27:18,460
So you'll have a heads up that there's one posted.
781
00:27:18,460 --> 00:27:20,540
So that's on there and that might help you
782
00:27:20,540 --> 00:27:22,300
find some trusted outlets.
783
00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:26,100
But beyond that, okay, so we go on a diet basically.
784
00:27:26,100 --> 00:27:27,380
We say you gotta limit our intake
785
00:27:27,380 --> 00:27:29,060
because this has taken me into a dark place.
786
00:27:29,060 --> 00:27:32,220
I don't like what this is doing in my life.
787
00:27:32,220 --> 00:27:34,420
What was another thing that you did during that time?
788
00:27:34,420 --> 00:27:35,620
Where else do you go?
789
00:27:35,620 --> 00:27:38,220
Okay, so you push back from the information,
790
00:27:38,220 --> 00:27:39,820
but what do you do now with the stress,
791
00:27:39,820 --> 00:27:41,220
the weight that you're feeling?
792
00:27:41,220 --> 00:27:43,420
Well, you have to give it to the Lord.
793
00:27:43,420 --> 00:27:44,380
Which is what I had to do.
794
00:27:44,380 --> 00:27:46,300
And I had to say, I need you to fill me up
795
00:27:46,300 --> 00:27:47,580
with the right things.
796
00:27:47,580 --> 00:27:51,020
The things that are going to bring me peace and joy.
797
00:27:51,020 --> 00:27:51,860
I love that.
798
00:27:51,860 --> 00:27:54,700
And in fact, I want to go to a scripture
799
00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:57,540
because for me, I thought you would just go straight
800
00:27:57,540 --> 00:28:00,220
to the word, that's usually what you're...
801
00:28:00,220 --> 00:28:01,580
So I'm going there.
802
00:28:01,580 --> 00:28:03,460
Okay, which word?
803
00:28:03,460 --> 00:28:05,060
There's so many scriptures.
804
00:28:05,060 --> 00:28:07,540
There's so many, but I wanna go to Philippians
805
00:28:07,540 --> 00:28:08,860
because I wanna share something.
806
00:28:08,860 --> 00:28:11,420
I actually woke up with this verse on my mind,
807
00:28:11,420 --> 00:28:12,260
which was interesting.
808
00:28:12,260 --> 00:28:13,660
Well, right now, Revelation is just going through my...
809
00:28:13,660 --> 00:28:14,500
No kidding.
810
00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:15,340
I know, yeah.
811
00:28:15,340 --> 00:28:17,180
Like, don't go to Revelation if you're stressed.
812
00:28:17,180 --> 00:28:19,220
No, no, no, no.
813
00:28:19,220 --> 00:28:20,740
It's the end of the world.
814
00:28:20,740 --> 00:28:21,580
So listen to this.
815
00:28:21,580 --> 00:28:23,620
Unless you read the very end where we win, yeah.
816
00:28:23,620 --> 00:28:24,460
Because he wins.
817
00:28:24,460 --> 00:28:26,300
Philippians four, I love this.
818
00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:27,580
This is such a go-to.
819
00:28:27,580 --> 00:28:29,220
Think of those things that are...
820
00:28:29,220 --> 00:28:30,260
Yeah, yeah.
821
00:28:30,260 --> 00:28:32,460
So let me start with this, the top part.
822
00:28:32,460 --> 00:28:34,860
It says, this is Philippians four, chapter six.
823
00:28:34,860 --> 00:28:36,820
It says, do not be anxious about anything.
824
00:28:36,820 --> 00:28:38,140
Four verse six.
825
00:28:38,140 --> 00:28:40,260
Four verse six, yeah, thank you.
826
00:28:40,260 --> 00:28:42,660
Chapter four, verse six.
827
00:28:42,660 --> 00:28:44,020
Do not be anxious about anything
828
00:28:44,020 --> 00:28:46,660
but in everything by prayer and supplication.
829
00:28:46,660 --> 00:28:49,580
So you went to the Lord, you start talking to God.
830
00:28:49,580 --> 00:28:53,020
With thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
831
00:28:53,020 --> 00:28:54,460
So he invites us to come and say,
832
00:28:54,460 --> 00:28:55,980
hey, what's your request?
833
00:28:55,980 --> 00:28:56,820
What have you got?
834
00:28:56,820 --> 00:28:58,980
Well, Lord, this is, I'm tanking on this.
835
00:28:58,980 --> 00:28:59,820
It's eating me up.
836
00:28:59,820 --> 00:29:00,980
I'm stressed.
837
00:29:00,980 --> 00:29:02,740
Literally, we talked in those terms
838
00:29:02,740 --> 00:29:05,340
that this is eating me from the inside out.
839
00:29:05,340 --> 00:29:06,660
Are one of the things.
840
00:29:06,660 --> 00:29:08,980
And for me, because I'm such a justice person.
841
00:29:08,980 --> 00:29:10,380
Oh, it's killing you.
842
00:29:10,380 --> 00:29:13,260
Just hearing all this is just like, yeah.
843
00:29:13,260 --> 00:29:15,020
Because right is right and wrong is wrong
844
00:29:15,020 --> 00:29:16,100
and there is no gray area.
845
00:29:16,100 --> 00:29:16,940
I have peace now.
846
00:29:16,940 --> 00:29:17,780
I don't have any of that.
847
00:29:17,780 --> 00:29:18,620
I know you do.
848
00:29:18,620 --> 00:29:20,980
And I did before the inauguration too
849
00:29:20,980 --> 00:29:22,820
because of what you're talking about right now.
850
00:29:22,820 --> 00:29:23,820
And we do, we had that conversation.
851
00:29:23,820 --> 00:29:24,660
Now look at verse seven.
852
00:29:24,660 --> 00:29:26,940
And the peace of God which surpasses all understanding
853
00:29:26,940 --> 00:29:29,940
will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
854
00:29:29,940 --> 00:29:33,180
So man, right there, just the promise of peace
855
00:29:33,180 --> 00:29:36,420
that guards, guards your heart, guards your mind, right?
856
00:29:36,420 --> 00:29:38,420
So those are pretty familiar with that.
857
00:29:38,420 --> 00:29:40,540
And it's something, it's a go-to for me, obviously.
858
00:29:40,540 --> 00:29:43,020
I pray that constantly with people
859
00:29:43,020 --> 00:29:44,260
because that's where people,
860
00:29:44,260 --> 00:29:46,100
when people come up for prayer,
861
00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:47,460
that's what they want more than anything.
862
00:29:47,460 --> 00:29:48,620
They don't know what they want
863
00:29:48,620 --> 00:29:51,500
because they're trying to articulate their issues.
864
00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:53,460
That's kind of why I wanted to go here today
865
00:29:53,460 --> 00:29:56,340
because let's talk about collective stress.
866
00:29:56,340 --> 00:29:57,180
Yeah.
867
00:29:57,180 --> 00:30:00,340
Let's talk about traumatic, cultural stress,
868
00:30:00,340 --> 00:30:01,740
cultural trauma.
869
00:30:01,740 --> 00:30:05,140
Verse eight, this is what I woke up pinging in my mind
870
00:30:05,140 --> 00:30:07,300
and I wasn't even sure why exactly.
871
00:30:07,300 --> 00:30:11,340
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable,
872
00:30:11,340 --> 00:30:13,820
whatever is just, whatever is pure,
873
00:30:13,820 --> 00:30:16,860
whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable,
874
00:30:16,860 --> 00:30:18,580
if there is any excellence,
875
00:30:18,580 --> 00:30:21,220
if there is anything worthy of praise,
876
00:30:21,220 --> 00:30:23,940
think about these things.
877
00:30:23,940 --> 00:30:27,300
And so he's saying, it's replacement theory
878
00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:31,060
where you literally have to replace all that dark stuff.
879
00:30:31,060 --> 00:30:32,300
So I mean, wherever you are
880
00:30:32,300 --> 00:30:34,340
and you're listening to this show right now,
881
00:30:34,340 --> 00:30:36,820
first of all, thank you for being with us.
882
00:30:36,820 --> 00:30:38,660
But if you're feeling that weight,
883
00:30:38,660 --> 00:30:42,220
we often describe it as an elephant on our chest, right?
884
00:30:42,220 --> 00:30:46,060
You just, you feel stress in your body and it's visceral.
885
00:30:46,060 --> 00:30:49,060
I mean, it impacts your physical body.
886
00:30:49,060 --> 00:30:50,100
And if that's where you are,
887
00:30:50,100 --> 00:30:52,980
I want to invite you to go to Philippians 4
888
00:30:52,980 --> 00:30:54,380
verses six through eight.
889
00:30:54,380 --> 00:30:57,300
What I love about Philippians is it's the book of joy.
890
00:30:57,300 --> 00:30:58,140
It is.
891
00:30:58,140 --> 00:30:59,100
So you can read the whole book
892
00:30:59,100 --> 00:31:02,060
and you will feel lighter than you were.
893
00:31:02,060 --> 00:31:04,740
You will feel weight lifted off
894
00:31:04,740 --> 00:31:06,620
and it just gives you a sense of peace.
895
00:31:06,620 --> 00:31:08,340
And that's true.
896
00:31:08,340 --> 00:31:12,580
Paul loved the Christian believers in Philippi
897
00:31:12,580 --> 00:31:13,980
is the place where it was.
898
00:31:13,980 --> 00:31:16,260
He just had a great affinity for them
899
00:31:16,260 --> 00:31:18,420
and a great joy about them.
900
00:31:18,420 --> 00:31:19,540
Apparently, you know how it is,
901
00:31:19,540 --> 00:31:21,220
you can go into different groups of people
902
00:31:21,220 --> 00:31:23,460
and some just, man, you just walk in,
903
00:31:23,460 --> 00:31:26,380
you go, oh my gosh, you know, feels like home
904
00:31:26,380 --> 00:31:28,420
or it feels good to be with this group of people.
905
00:31:28,420 --> 00:31:30,780
We have people around us like that all the time.
906
00:31:30,780 --> 00:31:32,180
So thankful.
907
00:31:32,180 --> 00:31:36,220
But he also talks about replacing those negative thoughts.
908
00:31:36,220 --> 00:31:37,060
What is it exactly called?
909
00:31:37,060 --> 00:31:38,380
It's called stinking thinking.
910
00:31:38,380 --> 00:31:39,380
Every thought captive.
911
00:31:39,380 --> 00:31:40,620
Yes, yes.
912
00:31:40,620 --> 00:31:42,580
To the obedience of Christ.
913
00:31:42,580 --> 00:31:45,220
And I don't care how long you've walked with God,
914
00:31:45,220 --> 00:31:47,140
whether you're a brand new believer
915
00:31:47,140 --> 00:31:48,260
or you've walked with him 40 years.
916
00:31:48,260 --> 00:31:50,980
I'm sure Billy Graham had to do this on a daily basis.
917
00:31:50,980 --> 00:31:52,100
We all do.
918
00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:52,940
Absolutely.
919
00:31:52,940 --> 00:31:54,980
Because different things impact us
920
00:31:54,980 --> 00:31:57,780
and inform our thinking.
921
00:31:57,780 --> 00:31:59,220
And so my encouragement is,
922
00:31:59,220 --> 00:32:00,820
as we were talking about the show today,
923
00:32:00,820 --> 00:32:04,260
is how can we help people give them tools
924
00:32:04,260 --> 00:32:05,980
for lifting this weight off of them?
925
00:32:05,980 --> 00:32:08,700
And just because we have a new president
926
00:32:09,940 --> 00:32:13,820
and he's saying the things we wanted to hear,
927
00:32:13,820 --> 00:32:15,940
doing the things we wanted him to do,
928
00:32:16,940 --> 00:32:20,180
there is still, we're still in a fallen world
929
00:32:20,180 --> 00:32:24,860
and we can't just, again, just walk around going,
930
00:32:24,860 --> 00:32:26,260
peace, peace, like you said.
931
00:32:26,260 --> 00:32:30,020
I mean, there's still a force out there
932
00:32:30,020 --> 00:32:32,660
that wants to take the Christians out.
933
00:32:33,980 --> 00:32:35,540
The enemy wants to take us out.
934
00:32:35,540 --> 00:32:37,180
He wants to take our joy away.
935
00:32:37,180 --> 00:32:39,340
So he'll come at us in a different way.
936
00:32:39,340 --> 00:32:41,020
So we have to be on guard.
937
00:32:41,020 --> 00:32:43,020
And that's where Ephesians 6 comes in,
938
00:32:43,020 --> 00:32:47,020
where we have to have ourself guarded up
939
00:32:48,380 --> 00:32:51,220
so that, armored up, excuse me,
940
00:32:51,220 --> 00:32:55,580
so that we'll be on guard when the enemy tries to come
941
00:32:55,580 --> 00:32:58,060
because he's gonna come in a different way now.
942
00:32:58,060 --> 00:32:59,060
You know what I mean?
943
00:32:59,060 --> 00:33:00,340
So all the Christians are like,
944
00:33:00,340 --> 00:33:04,020
okay, all the ones who voted and very happy,
945
00:33:04,020 --> 00:33:06,380
but this is where we don't let our guard down.
946
00:33:06,380 --> 00:33:10,220
This is where we have to literally put that armor on.
947
00:33:10,220 --> 00:33:11,740
And so-
948
00:33:11,740 --> 00:33:14,660
Let me read that passage out of Ephesians.
949
00:33:14,660 --> 00:33:16,180
Finally be strong in the Lord
950
00:33:16,180 --> 00:33:17,980
and then the strength of his might.
951
00:33:17,980 --> 00:33:18,820
Not ours.
952
00:33:18,820 --> 00:33:19,660
There's the key.
953
00:33:19,660 --> 00:33:21,260
It's his strength, not ours.
954
00:33:21,260 --> 00:33:23,860
Put on, that means you gotta literally put it on.
955
00:33:23,860 --> 00:33:25,820
Put on the whole armor of God
956
00:33:25,820 --> 00:33:26,820
that you may be able to stand
957
00:33:26,820 --> 00:33:28,460
against the schemes of the devil
958
00:33:28,460 --> 00:33:30,980
for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,
959
00:33:30,980 --> 00:33:32,980
but against the rulers, against the authorities,
960
00:33:32,980 --> 00:33:35,980
against the cosmic powers over this present darkness,
961
00:33:35,980 --> 00:33:39,340
against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
962
00:33:39,340 --> 00:33:42,500
Therefore, take up the whole armor of God and list it out.
963
00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:44,620
So there's another passage that you can go to
964
00:33:44,620 --> 00:33:46,420
to get some help in this.
965
00:33:46,420 --> 00:33:48,140
And no matter what you're battling,
966
00:33:48,140 --> 00:33:51,220
whether it's stress or fear of the unknown
967
00:33:51,220 --> 00:33:55,500
or anxiety of the future or whatever's on you right now,
968
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:59,300
could be somebody criticized you, judged you, berated you,
969
00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:00,940
whatever you're going through
970
00:34:00,940 --> 00:34:03,180
or you're living with disappointment.
971
00:34:03,180 --> 00:34:06,300
Always understand there is a source behind the source.
972
00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:08,220
There's a story behind the story
973
00:34:08,220 --> 00:34:09,700
and you gotta see these things in 3D.
974
00:34:09,700 --> 00:34:13,220
So there's something nefarious driving that.
975
00:34:13,220 --> 00:34:14,620
So here's a passage you can go to,
976
00:34:14,620 --> 00:34:17,020
Ephesians chapter six, verse 10,
977
00:34:17,020 --> 00:34:21,220
and literally read through that and then do what it says.
978
00:34:21,220 --> 00:34:23,740
Be strong in the strength of his might.
979
00:34:23,740 --> 00:34:24,580
Confess to God.
980
00:34:24,580 --> 00:34:27,660
Simply say, God, I'm feeling weak right now.
981
00:34:27,660 --> 00:34:28,820
Just be honest.
982
00:34:28,820 --> 00:34:29,660
God can take it.
983
00:34:29,660 --> 00:34:31,180
Trust me, he's got big shoulders.
984
00:34:31,180 --> 00:34:32,340
He can take it.
985
00:34:32,340 --> 00:34:34,700
Just let him know, hey, I'm struggling with this.
986
00:34:34,700 --> 00:34:35,700
I need your help.
987
00:34:36,940 --> 00:34:37,780
That's good.
988
00:34:37,780 --> 00:34:38,620
I did that to you on purpose.
989
00:34:38,620 --> 00:34:39,460
No, you did.
990
00:34:39,460 --> 00:34:40,660
You settled back in your chair like,
991
00:34:40,660 --> 00:34:41,500
oh, he's gonna get on a roll.
992
00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:42,340
I was just gonna let you get on a roll.
993
00:34:42,340 --> 00:34:43,580
He's gonna get on a roll.
994
00:34:43,580 --> 00:34:44,940
Preacher's gotta preach.
995
00:34:44,940 --> 00:34:46,700
I gave an awkward pause on purpose.
996
00:34:46,700 --> 00:34:47,540
No, it's good.
997
00:34:47,540 --> 00:34:48,500
Get you back on the mic.
998
00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:49,460
It's good.
999
00:34:49,460 --> 00:34:51,700
Yeah, but isn't that where people live though?
1000
00:34:51,700 --> 00:34:53,940
I mean, most of the people we talk to
1001
00:34:53,940 --> 00:34:57,340
are always under some kind of pressure.
1002
00:34:57,340 --> 00:34:59,380
Something's going on
1003
00:34:59,380 --> 00:35:02,420
and it would be nice to say, well, that's unusual,
1004
00:35:02,420 --> 00:35:04,700
but truthfully, life is rough.
1005
00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:05,820
Life is hard, right?
1006
00:35:05,820 --> 00:35:06,660
It is.
1007
00:35:06,660 --> 00:35:09,580
So anyway, we can help you and encourage you in that.
1008
00:35:09,580 --> 00:35:12,780
Go to Ephesians 6, starting in verse 10
1009
00:35:12,780 --> 00:35:15,060
and go through basically verse 17
1010
00:35:15,060 --> 00:35:18,380
and that's the armor of God and put on the armor of God.
1011
00:35:18,380 --> 00:35:19,700
Let it strengthen you.
1012
00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:21,420
And I come back to this often.
1013
00:35:21,420 --> 00:35:23,340
I've said this before on the show,
1014
00:35:23,340 --> 00:35:26,980
but there's some things that bear repeating often
1015
00:35:26,980 --> 00:35:30,140
because we have short term and selective memory.
1016
00:35:30,140 --> 00:35:30,980
Do we?
1017
00:35:30,980 --> 00:35:31,820
Yeah.
1018
00:35:31,820 --> 00:35:33,020
Hello, what'd you say?
1019
00:35:33,020 --> 00:35:34,020
Yes, of course.
1020
00:35:34,020 --> 00:35:37,780
And so, hey, also I wanna recommend a podcast
1021
00:35:37,780 --> 00:35:38,820
for people to listen to.
1022
00:35:38,820 --> 00:35:42,820
It's called Curry and the Keeper by Adam and Tina Curry.
1023
00:35:42,820 --> 00:35:44,060
Listen, we love these guys.
1024
00:35:44,060 --> 00:35:44,900
They are truly-
1025
00:35:44,900 --> 00:35:46,460
If you really wanna laugh.
1026
00:35:46,460 --> 00:35:47,300
For real.
1027
00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:48,460
Listen to yesterday's episode.
1028
00:35:48,460 --> 00:35:49,300
Oh, it was great.
1029
00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:50,140
I listened to half of it.
1030
00:35:50,140 --> 00:35:51,540
I told her I laughed so hard.
1031
00:35:51,540 --> 00:35:54,580
I was just like, I laughed at her laughing at him
1032
00:35:54,580 --> 00:35:56,740
because they went on and on about his hoodies
1033
00:35:56,740 --> 00:35:57,580
and I thought that was really funny.
1034
00:35:57,580 --> 00:35:58,820
I didn't even get to that part yet.
1035
00:35:58,820 --> 00:36:00,940
So you gave me a spoiler alert.
1036
00:36:00,940 --> 00:36:03,420
So go to Curry and the Keeper.
1037
00:36:03,420 --> 00:36:04,940
You can look them up online easily
1038
00:36:04,940 --> 00:36:06,140
and find them on Fountain and you can find them
1039
00:36:06,140 --> 00:36:06,980
on any platform.
1040
00:36:06,980 --> 00:36:08,140
We wouldn't be here if it weren't for them.
1041
00:36:08,140 --> 00:36:10,780
So we're obviously going to promote-
1042
00:36:10,780 --> 00:36:13,180
Not that we wouldn't be born like physically.
1043
00:36:13,180 --> 00:36:15,100
Oh no, but you're doing a podcast.
1044
00:36:15,100 --> 00:36:17,140
Yeah, I know, I'm just being silly.
1045
00:36:17,140 --> 00:36:18,420
But we love those guys.
1046
00:36:18,420 --> 00:36:20,020
So thankful for Adam and Tina.
1047
00:36:20,020 --> 00:36:24,420
Truly, truly our best friends and just a God thing
1048
00:36:24,420 --> 00:36:27,620
of bringing our lives together and walking together.
1049
00:36:27,620 --> 00:36:29,820
So big news for Adam Curry.
1050
00:36:29,820 --> 00:36:31,740
He's going to be on a show, but I'm not going to talk
1051
00:36:31,740 --> 00:36:33,380
about it because he didn't disclose it.
1052
00:36:33,380 --> 00:36:34,220
Did he?
1053
00:36:34,220 --> 00:36:35,060
Did he later?
1054
00:36:35,060 --> 00:36:35,900
By accident.
1055
00:36:35,900 --> 00:36:36,940
Really?
1056
00:36:36,940 --> 00:36:37,940
I see, haven't got there.
1057
00:36:37,940 --> 00:36:39,460
I got 30 minutes in.
1058
00:36:39,460 --> 00:36:41,660
He said on a show, I can't disclose it.
1059
00:36:41,660 --> 00:36:44,340
And then he said, he made a comment
1060
00:36:44,340 --> 00:36:48,340
about wearing a hoodie when he goes on Joe Rogan.
1061
00:36:48,340 --> 00:36:50,140
Oh, how funny.
1062
00:36:50,140 --> 00:36:51,620
So the cat's out of the bag.
1063
00:36:51,620 --> 00:36:53,500
Yeah, he didn't give any details.
1064
00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:56,580
He just kind of went over it real quick.
1065
00:36:56,580 --> 00:37:00,620
That is funny.
1066
00:37:00,620 --> 00:37:02,340
It was funny because she said, oh my gosh,
1067
00:37:02,340 --> 00:37:06,100
you just let the cat out of the bag.
1068
00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:08,980
And I thought he would say, what are you talking about?
1069
00:37:08,980 --> 00:37:14,300
Try to smooth it over like it didn't really say it.
1070
00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:16,580
Because he's been on there before.
1071
00:37:16,580 --> 00:37:19,100
But yeah, she kind of ran that for him.
1072
00:37:19,100 --> 00:37:21,580
I'm super excited for him being on that platform.
1073
00:37:21,580 --> 00:37:23,860
It's such a huge platform.
1074
00:37:23,860 --> 00:37:27,620
Curious as to what questions he's going to be asked.
1075
00:37:27,620 --> 00:37:29,740
Because he said they don't really talk about it.
1076
00:37:29,740 --> 00:37:31,740
They just do what we do.
1077
00:37:31,740 --> 00:37:33,980
They just sit down and talk.
1078
00:37:33,980 --> 00:37:35,780
And so it'll be interesting to hear.
1079
00:37:35,780 --> 00:37:36,860
I can't wait to hear it.
1080
00:37:36,860 --> 00:37:37,700
It's going to be great.
1081
00:37:37,700 --> 00:37:39,380
Be praying for Adam on that.
1082
00:37:39,380 --> 00:37:41,980
He's also speaking at the National Religious Broadcasting
1083
00:37:41,980 --> 00:37:43,780
Convention next week.
1084
00:37:43,780 --> 00:37:44,660
That's a big deal.
1085
00:37:44,660 --> 00:37:45,260
It's an annual.
1086
00:37:45,260 --> 00:37:45,940
In a couple weeks.
1087
00:37:45,940 --> 00:37:47,660
Yeah, it's a huge annual convention.
1088
00:37:47,660 --> 00:37:50,100
And so he's doing a couple of different things there.
1089
00:37:50,100 --> 00:37:56,660
He's doing an onstage thing with John Fuller from Focus
1090
00:37:56,660 --> 00:37:57,460
on the Family.
1091
00:37:57,460 --> 00:37:59,900
He's going to do a fireside chat type deal.
1092
00:37:59,900 --> 00:38:01,460
And so I'm excited about that.
1093
00:38:01,460 --> 00:38:03,940
Also, I'm going to be starting a new podcast.
1094
00:38:03,940 --> 00:38:06,540
But it's going to be sort of in line with this.
1095
00:38:06,540 --> 00:38:09,340
In other words, it'll still be living up and down world.
1096
00:38:09,340 --> 00:38:13,180
But it'll be specific to conversations and fireside chat.
1097
00:38:13,180 --> 00:38:13,980
For names.
1098
00:38:13,980 --> 00:38:15,620
And then Tina spanked you.
1099
00:38:15,620 --> 00:38:16,740
And some gave me some names.
1100
00:38:16,740 --> 00:38:18,220
And said, no, no, no.
1101
00:38:18,220 --> 00:38:19,380
That's a bad marketing.
1102
00:38:19,380 --> 00:38:21,340
She spanked Adam, not me.
1103
00:38:21,340 --> 00:38:23,100
Then Adam shared that with me.
1104
00:38:23,100 --> 00:38:24,980
Yeah, mentioning that.
1105
00:38:24,980 --> 00:38:28,300
Because she said, just keep it living up and down world.
1106
00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:30,100
And then this is the interview.
1107
00:38:30,100 --> 00:38:31,100
So I'll do interviews.
1108
00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:32,940
So I'm super excited.
1109
00:38:32,940 --> 00:38:34,140
Yeah, I've already, I mean, of course,
1110
00:38:34,140 --> 00:38:35,180
Adam going to have Adam on.
1111
00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:36,380
That'll be a great chat.
1112
00:38:36,380 --> 00:38:38,500
And then I'm going to have Rick Green on real soon.
1113
00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:41,060
Because man, he's just such an expert on what's
1114
00:38:41,060 --> 00:38:41,980
going on culturally.
1115
00:38:41,980 --> 00:38:43,340
And I really want him to be there.
1116
00:38:43,340 --> 00:38:45,020
And I've got a whole list of people
1117
00:38:45,020 --> 00:38:47,460
I've already put in my mind that I want to get on the show
1118
00:38:47,460 --> 00:38:48,180
and get in here.
1119
00:38:48,180 --> 00:38:49,420
I'm excited about it.
1120
00:38:49,420 --> 00:38:50,060
Oh, it's easy.
1121
00:38:50,060 --> 00:38:50,620
On the schedule.
1122
00:38:50,620 --> 00:38:53,220
No, that's the easy part, to get people in here.
1123
00:38:53,220 --> 00:38:55,620
So anyway, hey, we love you guys.
1124
00:38:55,620 --> 00:38:57,860
Go to livingupandadownworld.com.
1125
00:38:57,860 --> 00:38:58,500
Check it out.
1126
00:38:58,500 --> 00:38:59,620
Subscribe.
1127
00:38:59,620 --> 00:39:01,460
And got a couple people to thank.
1128
00:39:01,460 --> 00:39:03,180
I just want to say thank you for people
1129
00:39:03,180 --> 00:39:06,660
that have been faithful to encourage us in giving.
1130
00:39:06,660 --> 00:39:08,900
And by the way, this is episode number 88.
1131
00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:09,380
Yes.
1132
00:39:09,380 --> 00:39:10,420
Yeah, double eights.
1133
00:39:10,420 --> 00:39:11,460
Isn't that great?
1134
00:39:11,460 --> 00:39:13,780
But I want to thank Steve for his gift to us.
1135
00:39:13,780 --> 00:39:16,500
And man, he also sent me a great letter last week.
1136
00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:18,820
And I just really appreciate him.
1137
00:39:18,820 --> 00:39:21,460
Thanks to Julie for her gift as well.
1138
00:39:21,460 --> 00:39:22,960
And of course, to Adam the Podfather,
1139
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:26,500
Curry for always his faithful donations of Satoshis.
1140
00:39:26,500 --> 00:39:27,620
We so appreciate it.
1141
00:39:27,620 --> 00:39:29,540
And also, just notes.
1142
00:39:29,540 --> 00:39:30,500
I mean, we get notes.
1143
00:39:30,500 --> 00:39:31,380
We get encouragement.
1144
00:39:31,380 --> 00:39:34,020
And there's not a week that goes by that some ages come up
1145
00:39:34,020 --> 00:39:34,780
to us in church.
1146
00:39:34,780 --> 00:39:37,380
And they know more about our lives than we know sometimes.
1147
00:39:37,380 --> 00:39:40,820
People that I wouldn't even know that come up and say,
1148
00:39:40,820 --> 00:39:42,380
I'll listen to your podcast.
1149
00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:44,140
It's so great, actually.
1150
00:39:44,140 --> 00:39:46,300
I've gotten a lot of good feedback from that interview.
1151
00:39:46,300 --> 00:39:47,620
I did with Jenny as well.
1152
00:39:47,620 --> 00:39:52,500
So go back two episodes to, I think it's 86.
1153
00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:54,340
It says it on the episode.
1154
00:39:54,340 --> 00:39:55,860
Yeah, yeah.
1155
00:39:55,860 --> 00:39:58,260
I showed it to someone last night.
1156
00:39:58,260 --> 00:39:59,340
Go and listen to that.
1157
00:39:59,340 --> 00:40:01,340
That interview with her where she tells her story
1158
00:40:01,340 --> 00:40:04,220
as a J6er and what she's gone through and what she's doing.
1159
00:40:04,220 --> 00:40:05,620
First of all, it'll encourage you.
1160
00:40:05,620 --> 00:40:07,260
But it'll also inform you.
1161
00:40:07,260 --> 00:40:08,460
And so let that happen.
1162
00:40:08,460 --> 00:40:10,340
So thanks again for being with us.
1163
00:40:10,340 --> 00:40:11,620
We love you guys.
1164
00:40:11,620 --> 00:40:13,460
Hey, we're out of here.
1165
00:40:13,460 --> 00:40:14,500
I'm getting hungry.
1166
00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:15,220
It's lunchtime.
1167
00:40:15,220 --> 00:40:15,700
Me too.
1168
00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:16,220
Let's go.
1169
00:40:16,220 --> 00:40:17,460
Thanks, Browyn.
1170
00:40:17,460 --> 00:40:19,180
Thanks for being on the show, Damon and Ann.
1171
00:40:19,180 --> 00:40:20,500
It's always good to have you.
1172
00:40:20,500 --> 00:40:22,980
Glad that you could come for the interview today.
1173
00:40:22,980 --> 00:40:24,060
Fireside chat.
1174
00:40:24,060 --> 00:40:26,860
So hopefully I can get you back on the program someday.
1175
00:40:26,860 --> 00:40:27,420
Someday.
1176
00:40:27,420 --> 00:40:27,940
Someday.
1177
00:40:27,940 --> 00:40:28,540
We'll see.
1178
00:40:28,540 --> 00:40:29,900
Hey, love you.
1179
00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:31,460
We are out of here.
1180
00:40:31,460 --> 00:40:32,860
Keep living up in a down world.
1181
00:40:32,860 --> 00:40:47,660
I mean, you got a life.
