Mind Wars

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This is Jimmy and Annette and we are excited to be here.

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We are living up in a down world.

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Do you know you say that every Sunday at church but you never talk about the podcast.

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You just bring that statement up every single Sunday.

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You're going to go there now?

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Well, I just shouldn't you let the church know?

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People might want to hear what you have to say.

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You know what?

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You're right.

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Here's what I need.

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Okay.

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Every pastor needs their pastor's wife either to have a microphone in their hand.

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No, not going to happen.

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Oh, no.

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You know I want that.

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The other thing is-

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Because I need to fix your stories.

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No, we need to get you a dry erase board.

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Oh, is that what I want?

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So like if I get a detail wrong, which happens often, you can just jot that down and then

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can flash it up at me and I'll see it and I can correct myself without the humiliation.

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Right.

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Aren't you hilarious?

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We can make that happen.

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Right.

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Okay.

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We'll see.

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We probably have a dry erase board that'll work.

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No, I want a microphone.

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No, no, no, no.

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Not going to happen.

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I have to fix.

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Okay.

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Yesterday, I didn't tell you this, but you said you were in sixth grade when you were

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telling a story and then you said six years old and I'm like, wow, if you're in the sixth

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grade at six, you're a genius.

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It's just details.

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Details.

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I know.

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But see, I could fix that.

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I could just say, nope, you mean-

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Oh, that would be-

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And then every sermon instead of being 35 minutes long would be 55 minutes long.

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It would be long.

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At least.

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Oh my gosh.

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Okay.

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But we digress.

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This is Jimmy Nanette.

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We are so happy to be here.

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Our dog, Superdog Chevy is with us.

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He's just trying to get comfortable in Nanette's lap right now.

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But like I said, we're living up in the down world.

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It's our podcast and we wanted to start this podcast because we want to help people be

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excited about life even though the world seems to be losing its ever loving mind.

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So how did we just, this'll be just kind of a quick review of last week.

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How did we help ourselves to pull away from all the news and the noise?

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What did we do?

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Well, we turned off the TV.

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Boo-yah.

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I mean, like it's rocket science.

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Right.

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And it's not like we don't have a little, you know, a 13 inch black and white TV.

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We have a 85 inch TV.

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We like TV.

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Yeah.

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We love movies.

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Well, it's funny.

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We get that TV.

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We put it up.

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We have to buy a new media center because, you know, we had a smaller TV.

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Right.

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So we needed a larger one to accommodate it.

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We upgrade.

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We get used to it after about six months and you're like, we need a bigger TV.

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It's not big enough.

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Yeah.

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And you know, I can't even fit another console in there.

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So no, we're going to need a theater projector.

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Now we use YouTube video clips of coffee houses with fire going.

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We turn jazz music, jazz music on.

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That's been, it's been refreshing.

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Very refreshing.

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We have bought back.

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We mentioned this last week, but this is important because some of you actually have written

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in and asked about this.

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And some have even shared their own stories of kind of unplugging and pulling back or

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going off the grid all together.

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But it just has really helped us gain back hours and hours of our time in the evenings

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where our evenings are relaxed.

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And I've noticed this, we're going to bed earlier.

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Have you noticed?

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Yeah.

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I mean, even with the time change.

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Better sleep because we're not worrying about what's going on in the world.

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Even though, I mean, we're not putting our head in the sand.

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No, not at all.

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Not at all.

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We're not dwelling on it.

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And we're not listening to fake news because every news station, that's my soapbox, it's

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all fake.

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You don't know what's real.

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Wait, if it's on the internet, it's real.

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So some people say.

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My granny used to read the National Enquirer.

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And she thought she knew all the stars.

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She called Judge Judy, Judy.

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Like my friend Judy.

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I know.

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She was...

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She would talk about famous people like they were best friends because she read their stories

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in the Enquirer.

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She felt, I mean, literally she acted like she knew everybody she talked about.

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That was how I got introduced to her.

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I'm like, okay.

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And remember when we went into her apartment and she had Judge Judy on and it was so loud.

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Jerry Stringer.

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Oh, that was awesome.

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Oh my gosh.

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I'd never watched that show in my life until I sat in her living room.

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I was forced.

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Oh my gosh.

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Forced to watch it.

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It was torture.

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Why would you even want to...

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I guess that's entertainment for some people.

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We all have enough drama in our life.

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I don't need that.

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I want to watch somebody else's.

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I've got my own...

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I had teenagers in my home.

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That's all I...

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Oh my gosh.

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That was enough drama, wasn't it?

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Right.

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We've had a great week.

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I mean, we've had a busy week.

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Oh my God.

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Okay.

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But you know what?

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I have to say this.

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I have to stop you right now.

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Okay.

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Because yesterday you told the church to go to hell.

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Are you sure about that?

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Yes.

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You actually told...

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I didn't say them to go...

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No, no, no.

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I said, let's go to hell.

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Let's go to hell.

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That's a little different for all you listeners.

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I'm doing a series called Heaven in the Real World.

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And after doing several weeks of just talking about the glory of heaven and what's coming,

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which is really amazing.

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It's really helping me in a lot of ways.

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I really felt led by the Holy Spirit and by my wife with these conversations, AKA Holy

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Spirit 2.0.

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But we've been having...

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We have conversations about everything.

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We talk about the Lord.

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Well, you had me do all your research.

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Yeah, I had...

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Not all, but I do a lot of your research for you.

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We're both watching different things.

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We're looking at things, using our Logos Bibles.

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Man, that's just...

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That program's amazing.

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So, we're digging and researching.

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Two heads are better than one.

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But we started talking about the need...

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We need to talk about hell.

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I mean, two of the things the church talks the least about, it seems like these days,

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is heaven.

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And definitely, we don't talk about hell.

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It's like the massive...

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Not unless you're a fire and brimstone preacher in the Baptist Church or Pentecostal.

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Not that.

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Not that.

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Really?

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What is it?

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Not me.

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I mean, I'm a pastor.

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I live out in a down world.

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I mean, I came up with that in college.

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So, anyway...

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But you know what?

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It doesn't scare me because I know where I'm going.

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Exactly.

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So, if you're a Christian and you're following Christ, and you know, a lot of people think

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that just because they believe or they go to church, that's enough.

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Right.

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No.

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You have to live for Him.

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You have to release your life to Him.

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And I mean, literally, it's not just...

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I mean, even the demons know who Jesus is.

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They believe.

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I know.

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The Bible says they know who He is, they believe, and yet they tremble.

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Yeah.

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Because they don't know Him in a saving way.

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They don't have faith in Him, trust in Him, and all that.

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So yeah, so we felt like we needed to talk about it.

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It's like a massive elephant in the room in church.

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You know, it's interesting.

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The atmosphere, when I started talking about hell, well, first I said, let's all...

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Y'all ready to go to hell, something like that.

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And I got a few snickers, and it's like the air got sucked out of the room.

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The barometric pressure went to Him.

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Although, the first service, there was a little bit more...

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There was more energy in the first service.

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Energy in the second service?

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It was like, whoa.

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I think everybody was worried they're going to hell.

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Well, I mean, we had this great bumper video for the...

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In fact, y'all should go look at it.

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It's online.

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It's at bridgefbg.com.

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It's on YouTube.

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Yeah, that video was great.

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Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas.

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And all of our videos are there.

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They're on our front page of our website, bridgefbg.com.

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Go check it out.

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And we showed this great bumper video that was kind of a man on the street thing where

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they went and interviewed men and women on the street and said, so what do you think

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hell is?

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Who do you think goes to hell?

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And they stuck a microphone in their face, and the answers were just all over the map.

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It was crazy.

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And so that was a perfect segue into saying, you know, we just don't know what we're talking

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about.

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There's such a wide variety of beliefs and thoughts about hell.

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Because people think that if you're good, you won't go to hell.

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And that's not...

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I can be...

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God is a good God.

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He would never send a good person to hell.

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He wouldn't send people.

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But He doesn't send people to hell.

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He doesn't.

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We send ourselves to hell.

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That's the myth that I busted yesterday.

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Oh my God.

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Well, I don't even think you went there yet.

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Well, I went there in one of the services, but I'm going to really go there in the next

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and part two, that God doesn't send anybody to hell.

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We go to hell by choice, by our refusal to accept the gift that's been extended to us.

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Now, we can get into it.

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We're not going to dive into the leads on some of this.

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Maybe next week we could.

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I mean, I think it's really important.

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But just so you know, I'm not a hellfire and brimstone kind of guy.

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I'm Mr. Positive, the glass is always half full.

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No, my glass is running over most of the time.

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Yours is always running over.

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My leaky buckets are overflowing.

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So I'm a very positive individual.

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It's hard for you to preach on it, but then...

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I was nervous, to be honest.

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You felt convinced that you have to go there.

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I did.

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I had this energy and this passion because I believe that the reason we need to talk

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about is because we love people and we don't want them to go there.

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And so that just got Annette and I...

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We've just been batting all this around for weeks now.

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But also another thing came up that we started talking about, and this is something we feel

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like maybe it'll help our listeners as they think in terms of just doing life daily.

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Because our whole point of doing this podcast is to make faith real for the rest of us.

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I mean, let's just bring it down to where we live.

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And so we were thinking in terms of this idea...

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Joyce Meyer wrote a book years ago called, Battlefield of the Mind.

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Grace Chapel.

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It was a Calvary Chapel Church.

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Pastor Steve Berger and his wife, Sarah, wonderful leaders.

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He was doing a series called Mind Wars.

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Remember that?

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Yes, that was really good.

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It was real similar.

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It was real that the battlefield for our lives is not out there where you work.

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It's not even in your home.

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It's in your mind.

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It's in your mind.

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And so we wanted to talk about that a little bit because our minds are constantly under

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I mean, let me just ask you Annette, do you ever get mind wars when you look in the mirror

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in the morning and get up?

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That's probably my biggest mind war.

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So tell me about that.

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Especially as I age.

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Well, the mirror talks back to me.

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You're freaking gorgeous.

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No, but I'm...

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And I love you by the way.

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Thank you.

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I love you too, baby.

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I didn't steal that from Adam Curry.

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I'm telling you.

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I love you.

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No, no.

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It's for real.

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Oh, Adam, I knew this was going to happen this week after hearing your podcast last week,

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but that's okay.

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I believe you.

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And I know you do.

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I'm going to tell you that now.

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No, no.

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When I...

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Oh my gosh.

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Here we go.

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Well, Adam said he's going to get you some more sound effects, so I'm ready for you to

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do that.

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I'm like totally excited.

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We're going to have a whole new bank of sound effects we can play with.

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Right.

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Okay.

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Let's go back to what we were talking about.

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Anyway, every time I look in the mirror, and especially as I age, the enemy will tell

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me things.

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You're worthless.

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You're ugly.

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You've got too many wrinkles.

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You're not young anymore.

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I mean, which I'm not, but...

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Isn't that...

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Boy, that's not just females though.

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It's a recording that plays every day, and I believe it plays for everybody, but it's

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what I'm doing.

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I'm not doing it for the audience.

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I'm doing it for the audience.

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I'm doing it for the audience.

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I'm doing it for the audience.

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I'm doing it for the audience.

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I'm doing it for the audience.

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I believe it plays for everybody, but it's what you do with it.

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I literally have to get it out of my mind, start quoting some scriptures that I know.

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Let's talk about that.

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Wow.

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Wow.

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This is weird.

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30 years of wow.

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We finished just the sentences, and we interrupt each other a lot.

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There are some scriptures, so let's talk about that.

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I looked up some scriptures because I think in terms of what it means...

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If our mind is where the battlefield is, then it only stands to reason that what we put

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into our mind or what we allow into our mind, into our thinking, into our processes, can

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actually impact and affect and inform what we say and do, right?

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We need to start with what's going in.

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Listen to the scripture.

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You'll know this one, Annette.

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Romans 12, 2.

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You know this one well.

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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that

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by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

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Let's go back to the principle.

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I like the New Living version of that.

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New Living translation says this.

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It says the first part's almost the same, so I'm going to read it like that.

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It's the second part.

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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by changing the way you think.

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The way you think.

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I love that.

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The NLT.

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I love that translation for those of you who are interested in translations.

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Very casual and colloquial, but still very sound and a good translation.

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I highly recommend the NLT.

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How do you change the way you think?

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You change the way you think by renewing your mind.

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Now you've got to go back to how do you renew your mind?

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It's by what you put in.

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It's almost like, I remember being in class in college and we were learning early programming

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on computers.

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Oh my gosh.

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That was hilarious.

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I mean like very early stuff.

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We're talking back in the 80s when basic, basic, basic programming.

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I mean it was called basic.

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But I remember our professor always saying, you're going to get out of this machine, this

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computer, what you put into it.

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Put into it, of course.

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Whatever you put in is what you get back.

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If it doesn't work, it's because you put something in that threw off the program or didn't work

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with the program or you didn't write the right code or the right language.

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So I always thought about that in terms of my spiritual life, that whatever I put in,

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that's what's going to come out.

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And I've said this for years and I don't think I stole this from anybody, but if I did, sorry.

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I said it five times so it's mine now.

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But I think I've said this for years.

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You leak out what you're full of.

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It's the same principle.

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That's all it is.

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I was a youth pastor by the way for 14 years.

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So a lot of my isms come from those youth ministry days.

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You're still a youth pastor.

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I'm totally a youth pastor.

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I'm 61 years of age.

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But I'm trying to help people wrap their mind around principles that in terms they can remember.

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That's why I say these silly isms, Pastor Jay isms, we used to call them or still do.

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But this is one that's really powerful and it is you leak out what you're full of, therefore

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you got to be careful what you're filling yourself up with.

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And so this principle garbage in, garbage out.

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Remember that?

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GIGO.

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Whatever you put in, garbage in and you get garbage out.

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Here's another scripture that's really powerful in terms of this.

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It says, this is Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12.

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Ephesians 6, that's like the warfare passage.

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So listen to this.

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For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities,

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against the cosmic powers over this present darkness.

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Ooh, heebie-jeebies.

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Against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

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I mean that's literally saying, look, this isn't about who's on the other side of the

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aisle politically speaking.

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A Republican or a Democrat or an independent or someone who's on the other side of the

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pond, Putin or Russian.

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We want to make people our enemies, but the truth is that no human being is actually our

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enemy.

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There are forces at work, spiritual forces that are bigger than that.

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So when we talk about mind wars, then you got to think in terms of maybe I'm not my

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worst enemy.

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Maybe that thought did not come from me or maybe the fear over China taking over America

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someday or Russia or Red Dawn or whatever happening that maybe that's not what I should

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be afraid of.

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Maybe there's something bigger going on than just people.

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What does that speak to you?

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Yeah, I agree with that.

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The thing is, is we're always going to be bombarded with thoughts because we still live

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in this world.

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But what I found is as a Christian, when I began to memorize the word, I realized I don't

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have to dwell on those thoughts.

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And once I dwell, that's where the problem comes in.

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But when I just let it go and just get it out of my mind and think of what's that scripture

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that talks about thinking on things that are lovely and what is that?

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Oh yeah, yeah.

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That would be Philippians chapter four, which is things that are good and noble.

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Yes, yes.

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And that's where I have to go.

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I just want to allow myself to dwell on those negative thoughts.

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That's really good.

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I was looking on here on this Bible program, I just looked up these scriptures online.

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Here's another one talking in terms of how do we fight these mind wars?

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Okay, these thoughts are coming into us.

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So how do we deal with them?

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Well, here's the thing.

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The thoughts that come to us, if they're not the truth, that means they're a lie.

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There's no such thing as a half truth.

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So it's either the truth or a lie.

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It may be a spin on the truth that sounds almost true.

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And I remember hearing John Eldredge talk about this, and you probably remember this

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from captivating.

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I went to the boot camp up in Colorado with a group of guys and John Eldredge, who's a

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great minister in his own right, he's also a therapist.

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He was talking about how we make agreements with these thoughts that come in our mind.

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It's almost like if you make a covenant or a contract.

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So I remember pulling up a picture.

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I was teaching this principle about agreements.

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So this negative thought comes in your mind.

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You're so worthless.

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Nobody cares about you.

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Nobody cares about your podcast.

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Nobody cares that you're a pastor.

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All this stuff that comes into my mind, by the way, it happens to me as much as you,

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maybe more because the position I hold, I get attacked a lot.

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Probably because you have a public position.

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Get a lot of those mental attacks.

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And what happens is, I have a choice when those thoughts come into my mind.

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I can either arrest them, and the biblical word for that is a rebuke, means to arrest

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or stop them, or I can get into agreement with them.

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It's like I make a covenant with the enemy.

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One time I was teaching on this principle, back when we did Wednesday night services

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or study four or five years ago before COVID.

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I was teaching the principle and I found this picture online.

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I just Googled pictures and found this.

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It was a picture of like a devil hand shaking the hand of a regular person.

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Oh, that's right.

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I mean, it was so well done.

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Very high definition.

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Because you're making agreement with the enemy.

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Oh my gosh.

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It was like, this is what we're doing when we just take those thoughts and welcome them

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in.

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And you may remember this principle about the seed, dropping the seed to the ground.

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Why don't you share that?

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Well, the principle is, let's just say for instance, when I was married before, one of

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the major- You were married before?

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Yes, honey, for about almost 14 years.

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Shocking all.

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I know.

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I was in a very dysfunctional relationship where we were not kind to one another.

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That's just putting it very kindly.

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But I was being told things about who I am to my ex-husband.

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My- was making a lot of very negative comments, calling me names and so forth.

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I just don't want to go into the details of it.

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But what happened back then was I internalized it and I began to agree with everything he

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said that by the time we met, after I went through my divorce and went through counseling

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and by the time I met you, you were saying all these kind and beautiful things that were

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so opposite of what I had heard from him, even from my past childhood.

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And I had to learn, you pretty much taught me the word of God and what it said.

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And I had to learn that when a seed gets put into your hand, whether good or bad, you can

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take that seed and if it's good, you put it in your heart and you can dwell on that and

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you can overcome things.

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00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:27,280
But the thing is, a lot of times we'll dwell on a seed that's bad because we're just prone

517
00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:31,440
to that as humans to go negative.

518
00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:37,800
And then we have the opportunity to turn it over and let it go.

519
00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:39,520
And that's one of the things that you taught.

520
00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:40,920
Where did you get that principle from?

521
00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:41,920
Do you remember?

522
00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:42,920
I don't even remember.

523
00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:44,720
I'm a hundred years old, so it's hard to remember.

524
00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:45,720
Don Finto.

525
00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:46,720
Probably Don Finto.

526
00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:47,720
I think it was Don Finto.

527
00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:48,720
It might have been Don.

528
00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:49,720
He taught us other things like that.

529
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:57,060
But taking that, see whatever, like if someone calls you a name or something that's not who

530
00:20:57,060 --> 00:21:02,160
you are, you take your hand and you just turn it over and you say, no, I don't take that.

531
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,720
You don't do it right in front of them.

532
00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:04,720
No.

533
00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:05,720
As you're walking.

534
00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,120
And I have literally walked away from conversations.

535
00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:13,840
This may help somebody here where whenever someone says something derogatory or whether

536
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:18,500
it's somebody or a thought, either way, whether it's a mind war either way, somebody says

537
00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:23,100
something that slanders you or you overhear somebody putting you down or whatever, it's

538
00:21:23,100 --> 00:21:25,480
such a mind war to begin with.

539
00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:31,400
And the principle is this, is that those are seeds and you can either plant a seed or you

540
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,040
can just drop it to the ground and move on.

541
00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,880
But the choice is yours whether you're going to receive that seed into the soil of your

542
00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:42,820
heart, into the soil of your life, or you're going to throw it down on the ground.

543
00:21:42,820 --> 00:21:46,900
And so whoever it was that taught us that, it might have been Don, whoever.

544
00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:51,920
But the idea was you put your hand out and literally I do this physically.

545
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:56,880
And I may be walking away from a conversation where something was said to me, and trust

546
00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:01,560
me it happens as a pastor, we get all kinds of crazy stuff.

547
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,800
We love people and it's a good thing that we do because sometimes people say the craziest

548
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,120
things.

549
00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:10,400
And remember that show, Kids Say the Darnest Things?

550
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:11,840
That's really dating myself there.

551
00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,960
But people, Christians say the craziest things where you're going, I can't believe it's

552
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:16,960
come out of their mouth.

553
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,760
They don't even know they just sliced it in half.

554
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:25,800
But what I do is I take my hand and as I'm walking off, I just, just one smooth motion,

555
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,160
they don't even know what I'm doing.

556
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:33,680
I'm literally turning my hand over and dropping those seeds to the ground and refuse to let

557
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:39,040
the enemy use another, maybe even a good person who didn't even mean it, but just weren't

558
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,880
thinking in what they were saying because words matter.

559
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,580
And the battlefield mind really comes around words.

560
00:22:45,580 --> 00:22:49,080
So I walk away from those conversations or from those kinds of things.

561
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:53,560
And I just literally turn my hand over as though I'm dropping them to the ground.

562
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,360
So back to words, what we say matters.

563
00:22:57,360 --> 00:22:59,380
Our words are powerful.

564
00:22:59,380 --> 00:23:01,400
Our words are like power containers.

565
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:07,160
Well, think about what we say to children when they're young and we call them, well,

566
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:08,920
I don't, I've never done this.

567
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:10,960
I hope I've never done this.

568
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:16,400
Called my child stupid or instead of saying you did a stupid thing, which I don't even

569
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:17,400
like that, honestly.

570
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,040
All they hear is stupid.

571
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,160
And boy, think about what that does to them.

572
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,760
It is that word that's a seed that goes in.

573
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:32,560
But then it germinates and germinates until they become angry with the world and with,

574
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,880
you know, and just reeks habit in their heart.

575
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:37,360
But it starts in the mind.

576
00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:39,120
This is where the mind war is happening.

577
00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:40,920
And I know that you are listening.

578
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,840
I'm sure you're resonating with us because things happen to you.

579
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:49,560
Sometimes it's just walking by a mirror and your first thought is you are, you just look

580
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:50,760
terrible.

581
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:51,800
You look old.

582
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,560
You look tired.

583
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:54,560
That's always a fun one.

584
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,160
When somebody says you look tired, are you okay?

585
00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,840
And you know, I was until you said that I'm feeling tired.

586
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:08,480
I mean, again, the power of words and us learning how to manage our words and, and be careful

587
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:09,880
with our words.

588
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,000
And here's another principle.

589
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,320
The more you mature in Christ, and really I would even say it like this, the more you

590
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:23,360
grow in your, in the grace and the power and the anointing that's on your life as you mature,

591
00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:27,640
actually your words carry more authority and weight as you mature.

592
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:31,880
And so there's even a sense where we need to be even more selective in what we say and

593
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:38,000
how we, how we speak things and weigh our words carefully because they can either take

594
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,600
somebody out or they can lift somebody up.

595
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:41,600
Right?

596
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:42,760
So other scriptures.

597
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:43,760
Here's another one.

598
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,120
And this is a, again, it has to do with mind wars.

599
00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:47,520
It has to do with the enemy.

600
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:51,480
James chapter four, verse seven, I want to bounce this off of you.

601
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:56,920
Submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you.

602
00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,120
The key is the first thing.

603
00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:01,440
Submit yourselves to God first.

604
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:06,160
Oh, I thought it was just you just bow up and resist the mean old devil.

605
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:07,160
Isn't that funny?

606
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:14,880
How we, we automatically go to the second part of the scripture and miss what God says.

607
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:15,880
Submit yourself to me.

608
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:16,880
You nailed it.

609
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,000
I don't think we can resist the devil without submitting ourselves first.

610
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,000
We can't.

611
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,000
We think we can.

612
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,040
And then we, to go toe to toe with the one who knows you better than you know yourself,

613
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,200
the enemy, it's not going to end well for you.

614
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:30,200
Exactly.

615
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:31,200
Yeah.

616
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,840
Well, this is just a few of the things that, that are peeing around in us and we want to

617
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:35,960
help you.

618
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,840
We want to invite you to write in.

619
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:42,800
If you have questions about faith, questions about your walk with God, you can find us

620
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,480
at livingupinadownworld.com.

621
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,920
Living up in a down world.com.

622
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,160
All you have to do is type that in, go there.

623
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:53,580
You can reach us there.

624
00:25:53,580 --> 00:25:58,820
You can, my Twitter feeds on the very front there, my daily devotionals, it's called blog

625
00:25:58,820 --> 00:25:59,820
on there.

626
00:25:59,820 --> 00:26:03,980
You can click on those and every day I post a daily devotional that I write fresh.

627
00:26:03,980 --> 00:26:04,980
It's hot off the press.

628
00:26:04,980 --> 00:26:05,980
How long have you been doing that now?

629
00:26:05,980 --> 00:26:06,980
About 18 years.

630
00:26:06,980 --> 00:26:07,980
I've got thousands.

631
00:26:07,980 --> 00:26:15,160
I've got just on my own database journal over 4,000 of those that I've written.

632
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,280
I should compile those into a Devo book.

633
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:18,880
That'd be a volume.

634
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:19,960
Many have said that.

635
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,720
So but anyway, you can, you can read our daily devotionals.

636
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:28,840
You can listen to the podcast right there, right off of livingupinadownworld.com.

637
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:29,840
So do that.

638
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:31,240
You having a cough attack over there?

639
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:32,240
You okay?

640
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:33,240
I know the Hamlet, that'll help.

641
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:39,000
One, one thousand, two, one thousand.

642
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:44,480
But anyway, so we want to invite you to go to that page and there's, you can write us,

643
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,600
you can ask questions, you can leave a review.

644
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:47,600
That would be awesome.

645
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:48,600
You can also subscribe.

646
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:49,600
Only if it's good.

647
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,560
If it's bad, well, we're just going to throw the seed down.

648
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,040
It's like mama said, if you have anything good to say, don't say anything at all.

649
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,680
So anyway, leave a positive review there.

650
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:00,680
And so do that.

651
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,840
So that helps us to know.

652
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,840
And then also on there, you can subscribe to the podcast so that when we generate a

653
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:12,840
new podcast, which is usually every, every Monday and then I work, produce it and then

654
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,160
it gets out on either late Monday night, Tuesday morning.

655
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,760
And that way you'll always know when they're coming.

656
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,760
So we'd love to have you be a part of that.

657
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,760
I do want to just share some good stuff here.

658
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,440
I mean, I think we might want to keep this conversation going for the next time, but

659
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:31,200
I want to share some things just as a source of encouragement and say thanks, Sir Brian

660
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:32,200
with an I.

661
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,800
Why do you say Sir Brian?

662
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,160
Because that's what his name is on Fountain.

663
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:43,680
Fountain, by the way, is a great app that you can use and you can actually do value

664
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,520
for value on Fountain.

665
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,520
So like if you like something, can boost it.

666
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,160
You can do a boost to Graham where you can write a note to us and say, Hey, that was

667
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:52,160
awesome.

668
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:56,020
And then here's 70,000 sats or a million, however many you want to give.

669
00:27:56,020 --> 00:28:01,040
It's all Bitcoin stuff, but that's a good way to actually say, wow, I value what you're

670
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,400
doing and I appreciate this.

671
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:03,920
This is helping me.

672
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:10,520
And Sir Brian with an I, I mean, just the other day, five hours ago, 33,443 sats.

673
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:15,760
I mean, and he says this, looking forward to another dose of excellence from Dame Annette.

674
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,360
Oh, and her sidekick, Pastor Castor.

675
00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:19,800
Did he really say that?

676
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,360
He did say that.

677
00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:26,600
See, you're outpacing me there, which is exactly how I planned this.

678
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:31,280
Another person wrote very cool, a servant silence is their name and they, they're either

679
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,720
on Castamatic or fountain love your show.

680
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:35,720
Bless you guys.

681
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,760
And that's 3,300 sats on there for that.

682
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,360
Thank you so much.

683
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:45,720
Somebody named Adam Curry, Adam's awesome.

684
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,160
He's like our greatest supporter.

685
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,160
Thank you, Adam.

686
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:49,160
We love you.

687
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,400
And Tina, by the way, they're in Jamaica, Mon.

688
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:52,680
Can you believe that?

689
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:57,760
I'm having a little pictures and texts and I'm trying not to commit the sin of envy,

690
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,800
but I had to pray that off of me.

691
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:04,480
I had to text her just now and say, it's okay to eat calories.

692
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:05,480
Don't count.

693
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:10,600
You know, when you're on vacation, yeah, Adam took his portable podcasting unit and he's

694
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,040
still doing all of like four of his shows.

695
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:14,040
Go anywhere.

696
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:15,040
It's crazy.

697
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:16,040
Yes.

698
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:20,520
So Adam, Adam sent us a 33,000 sats and that's just part of it.

699
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:25,460
He's really been a great supporter Tuesdays are so good with a new podcast from Pastor

700
00:29:25,460 --> 00:29:27,400
Jimmy and Damonette.

701
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,340
So Adam and Tina, we love you guys.

702
00:29:29,340 --> 00:29:30,340
We so value.

703
00:29:30,340 --> 00:29:32,040
I'm kind of already wishing they were back.

704
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,240
I know they just got there, but I miss those guys.

705
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:39,560
So anyway, be sure and tune into their podcast, Curry and the Keeper.

706
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,800
It has become so it's really what inspired us.

707
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:48,280
I mean, when we, a friend wrote us from Chicago and said, Hey, this couple, Adam and Tina

708
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,720
Curry are talking about you on the, on their podcast.

709
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:51,720
I'm like, what?

710
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:52,720
Who's Adam and Tina Curry?

711
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,920
And then we got to know them and turns out they lived in our town.

712
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,920
Tina had become in our church and it just turned into a great friend story.

713
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:02,520
That's just being, the chapters are being written right now.

714
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:06,600
And then as we were talking and getting to know each other, we were just raving about

715
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,960
their, I love their, their podcasts and they were like, well, you should do one too.

716
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,280
And we're like, well, okay, we will.

717
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,840
And just, man, in a very short amount of time, we were up and running.

718
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:20,600
So, and this is number 11, by the way, I know double digits.

719
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:21,600
Can you believe it?

720
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:22,600
Wow.

721
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,080
So, you know, we'll have a thousand before you know it in the can.

722
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:26,080
So what?

723
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:27,080
Okay.

724
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:31,920
So anyway, I just want to just give a big shout out to Curry and the Keeper go to fountain

725
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,760
castamatic, either value for value.

726
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,180
They have a website as well, but go and listen to their show.

727
00:30:38,180 --> 00:30:41,520
They do their show every couple of weeks, twice a month.

728
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:42,520
And they're a hoot.

729
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:43,880
You'll just spend most of your time laughing.

730
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,800
I'm ready for them to do it four days a week.

731
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:46,800
Me too.

732
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:47,800
And Tina, let's get this going.

733
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:49,320
She doesn't have enough to talk about.

734
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:54,360
I'm thinking if I were married to Adam Curry, I would have plenty to laugh and talk about.

735
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:55,360
No doubt.

736
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:56,360
Oh my goodness.

737
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:57,360
What an interesting company.

738
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:58,360
I pull up to an intersection.

739
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,840
It's spring break and I pull up on Main Street here in Fredericksburg, Texas.

740
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,920
And there are thousands of people already in the morning.

741
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:11,200
I mean, that just spring break jams our town and thousands and thousands of guests and

742
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,200
tourists.

743
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,880
And so I was crossing Main Street right by Market Plots.

744
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:16,920
It's our big park downtown.

745
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:23,520
I just had coffee with somebody and I've turned on the podcast and they are going on and on.

746
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,760
And I'm laughing so hard.

747
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,040
Because he's talking about what he wants for his baptism.

748
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:29,480
He's talking about his baptism.

749
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:33,280
He wants LED lights at the baptistry.

750
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,360
He wants me to play a solo on the guitar and rock out.

751
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:37,360
He is hilarious.

752
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,680
He wants to meet with the production team to give us some help about production to really

753
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:42,680
make this a big affair.

754
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,880
This is pretty big for Adam Curry to get baptized.

755
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:47,440
You know, that is really cool.

756
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,960
So for all of our listeners, be praying for Adam and Tina.

757
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,680
They're growing in their faith and they're on a great journey.

758
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:55,840
We're just walking with them and just enjoying the journey.

759
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,880
And you can watch it April 12th that evening.

760
00:31:58,880 --> 00:31:59,880
It'll be online.

761
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:00,880
We'll be streaming it.

762
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:01,880
Yeah, we'll be streaming it.

763
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:02,880
We're doing a night of worship.

764
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,280
So we have a full night of worship and then we're going to have baptisms.

765
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,760
We've got a lot of people signed up to be baptized.

766
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:08,760
We sure do.

767
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,000
It's really cool what God's doing.

768
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,880
So yeah, so anyway, we want to share those updates.

769
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,960
We also have other people that have written into the website just asking questions.

770
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,080
So do write us, livingupinadownworld.com.

771
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,140
Ask questions about your faith and the faith journey.

772
00:32:22,140 --> 00:32:24,840
We want to walk with you and help you in this journey.

773
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,800
Annette, any closing thoughts on this mind war thing?

774
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:28,840
Oh gosh.

775
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,480
There's so much to say, but I think we need to put it off till next week.

776
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,480
Do you think Chevy has any closing thoughts?

777
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:35,480
I think Chevy.

778
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:36,480
It's like...

779
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:37,480
Yeah, just keep rubbing my belly.

780
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:38,480
Yeah, exactly.

781
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:39,480
Good to go.

782
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:40,640
All right folks, we love you.

783
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,160
Thank you again for being with us.

784
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:43,980
We so appreciate you.

785
00:32:43,980 --> 00:32:45,680
We really are having a great time.

786
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,360
We look forward to this time.

787
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,000
Chevy really looks forward to this time.

788
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,440
I mean, when I was setting the chairs up, he was already like getting excited.

789
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:52,680
It's like he knows what's about to happen.

790
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:53,680
He knows what's about to happen.

791
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:54,680
Smart dog.

792
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:55,680
But we're here to walk with you.

793
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,360
We're here to help you on your faith journey, here to help you walk with Christ.

794
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:04,680
And so any way we can do that, through answering questions, through just the dialogue, we're

795
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:05,680
here for you.

796
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:10,760
So this week, I got a challenge for you, make it your aim to live up in a down world.

797
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:11,760
Goodbye.

798
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:40,040
Hey, everyone.