Aug. 7, 2024
"Standing Strong in Uncertain Times"
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Join Jimmy and Annette as they discuss how to stand strong in uncertain times and live up in a down world!
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We'll be right back.
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Don't get down when you're seeing 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.
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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 DeNette and we are
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living up in a down world.
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We are living up in a down world.
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We are living up in a down world.
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We are living up in a down world.
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We are living up in a down world.
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We want to welcome you to today's show.
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And hey beautiful over there.
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It's been a minute.
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Oh my goodness.
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More than a minute.
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Like a month.
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It's been about a month.
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We've taken the time off which was really good.
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And we needed to.
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And yeah, it's kind of fun to be back.
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Talk about our month.
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Did some things happen in this world?
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Last year we took
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two months off for a sabbatical.
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This time it was more of a
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you call it a sabbatical refresh.
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I just call it a vacation. All I said
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was every year in July
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we're taking the whole month off as
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vacation. There's nothing Sabbath
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about it because we were busier
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than we were for our Sabbath.
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So I wouldn't even use the word Sabbath.
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But it was good.
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I mean we were able to go to Colorado
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for a week. We went to Naples Florida
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for a week. And I had a million things around the house
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to do. Things to fix.
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We had people working in our home.
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Faucets and lawn mowers.
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It was not a vacation.
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Except for the time we left.
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Not that I'm complaining.
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You sound like you're complaining.
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I do. I know.
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I've only had one cup of coffee.
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I'm working on number two.
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I just took a sip of mine
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for the first time.
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Why are we even doing this podcast?
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Turn it off. Let's start over.
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We probably need to.
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But the thing is,
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if you think about it, you've got to think
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about what a vacation is. It's not just
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to rest. It's to do the things
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that you can't get done
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because of work.
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Who made that?
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Where did you get that definition of a vacation?
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Honey, because that's the thing.
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I thought a vacation was for rest and relaxation.
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It was not always. And to do some fun things.
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No, it's to work around the
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house. I didn't force
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you to work around the house.
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When I get halfway through this cup, I'll mellow out a little bit.
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I'm kidding. I'm totally kidding.
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I enjoyed working
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in the lawnmower in 100 degree weather.
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You only had to do that for one day
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out of...
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Oh my gosh!
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A whole month off.
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I paid the dude for it.
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And one day you had to work
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hard. Not that I'm bitter.
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You sound bitter.
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But you know what?
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The lawnmower got
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worked on. We actually sold it.
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Yay!
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We made enough money
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for our next vacation.
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It's not just some little dinky lawnmower.
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This is like a 54 inch
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zero turn craftsman.
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It has not been used in two years.
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It's like a dragster on the rock.
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You had to make sure that it was
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in perfect condition for
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the new owners.
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And it is in perfect condition.
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So what? You used a couple of days
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of your time. I know.
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And we wanted it to be a blessing to them.
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We did. First of all, he's a veteran.
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So that's a big deal to me
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to make sure that what we give him
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is excellent and is a blessing
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to him and his family. And better than the way we got it.
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Even though we got it new, it looked
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brand new. It's unbelievable.
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So you did good.
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Thank you. You did good.
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It was worth it.
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I didn't like doing it on my vacation.
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I know. But that was just
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a day or two. Having the house
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worked on for a week
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while we were...that was a little bit
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harder. But I mean somebody...
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I wasn't able to flip the switch. Yeah, but somebody
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still has to be there and we still have
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work that we're doing.
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It is what it is.
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But we did Colorado.
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We finally got to rest.
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I felt...well, Colorado...
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That was right before. Was right before.
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And we've talked about it. We already talked
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about that. And we didn't
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really unwind until we
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went to Naples though.
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Totally agree. And that was what?
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Three weeks into this thing? Three weeks in.
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And that was the best
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trip ever. We've never been to
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Naples, Florida before. Never even...
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But I want to go back. I never
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thought that...I mean that wasn't even in my...
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I never
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thought about it. Because it's usually Destin
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or Panama City. Right, right. We like the beach.
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It was phenomenal.
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It was amazing.
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Naomi worked her magic with
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all of our points. So we got to...
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Who's Naomi? You just say that like people know.
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Naomi is Brian's
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Mandale...Pastor Brian Mandale's
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wife. She's my assistant.
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Our assistant. Our assistant. But she
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works more for me than you. Because I
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still end up having to do your stuff.
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But she's so
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amazing with
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juggling points on
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credit cards. Because we have a couple of
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credit cards that we use and pay them off. We use
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them as debit cards. But we
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play the game of points. Points game.
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And we got to stay at the Ritz-Carlton
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for what? Nine days?
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Eight days? Eight days. It was amazing.
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For free. I mean it didn't cost us.
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Other than the resort
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fees and
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whatever food we ate. So...and then our
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flights were free
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because we had points on that. So
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we try to find ways
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to go to really neat places
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and not have to
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pay much out of our pocket. And so...
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The points game now is like what our parents
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used to do with SNH green
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stamps and gold bond stamps. Exactly.
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But now the stakes are a lot
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higher. They are. And we
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hardly ever
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pay for any airline tickets. Because
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we have a Southwest card. So
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it helps. Did your mom
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do the stamps thing? My mother
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did do the stamps. There was an SNH
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stamp store in public Texas
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where I grew up. Piggly Wiggly too
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would take stamps or whatever.
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Or give you stamps. You get stamp books.
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Boy I haven't thought about this
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in decades. But they would be these
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little booklets and you'd get stamps every time
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you bought groceries and you'd fill up your
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books and then you'd cash them in for
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value. You're really aging us. At a store.
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It's real.
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Hey I'm cool. I'm relevant.
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Oh is that right? Yeah. Oh okay.
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I can wear skinny jeans.
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You're so skinny you have
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to wear skinny jeans. All of your jeans
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are skinny jeans. No kidding.
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No. But yeah it was
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a lot of fun. I think
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we so enjoyed it that
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I talked to Naomi
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on our last...
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It was our last night there and I was like
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we're not ready to go home. And she said
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then stay. I've got some points
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I'll share with you and then you can just
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share them back. And I was like oh
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okay I knew you'd think about that. So we stayed what? Three more
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days. We stayed three more days. Two more nights.
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Three days. Three more nights. Three days.
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But we weren't ready and that
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I was kind of surprised when I told you
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that I wasn't ready to go and you said
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then let's stay.
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I was like really? I really
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had to go restful. One of the most
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restful vacations for me personally
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I've ever been on. And you got
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treated like royalty there.
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We did. It was which I never...
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Hence restful. Yeah.
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Because they really take care of you.
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And you really get to rest
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and enjoy
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the beach. It was
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just phenomenal. Of course the beaches,
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the Florida beaches on the golf side
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are just the white sand. They're gorgeous.
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The water's blue. You get to stay on a private beach
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so you're not in the milieu of
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hundreds of people.
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Sharkfest.
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Where the shark frenzy happens. It was just so relaxing.
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And I love the fact that
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you said let's figure it out.
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So I actually looked it up to see how much
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it would say it would have cost us $2,500
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to stay. Yay for points.
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And I was like I don't think
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we're going to do that. I like this points game.
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And so yeah.
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It was great.
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What was great,
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it's always great when you and I
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get to go away together.
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And we do. We do everything
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together. I always say this.
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I wear it out. I know it's not Jimmy and
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Annette. It's not Jimmy or
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Annette. It's Jimmy and Annette.
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And I mean that. And so
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when we get to go away together
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alone by ourselves,
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something amazing happens in our marriage
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and our dynamic. Because we work together
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all the time. But we're
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in a different mindset.
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When you're working together, you're working.
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I mean there's different. I remember
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Jean Haig said to me Sunday,
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she said I'm so glad y'all got to get away
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and got to. And I said you know
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it's really interesting because people think
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because we work together, you know,
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we have this wonderful
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marriage and relationship.
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The problem with it, there is a challenge
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with it. The problem with it is
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that all we talk about is work
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24-7. So we have
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to literally go out
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of town. We can't even just be at our home.
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work at all, thank goodness. But for
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if we're on vacation,
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in Naples, I didn't do
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any work. So I really
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had two weeks vacation. It is literally the most rest
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that I ever see yous when we do
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that. So we both have
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to unplug. It's easier on me because I
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devotional. So to me, that doesn't feel
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like work. It's pleasure
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and it's life-giving to me.
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our vacation. I actually took a week
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year. You literally didn't do it. Yeah,
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unplug the whole time. I thought I did that.
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you said you needed to. I don't remember.
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is that when we can get
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away, it's literally,
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don't know if I've said it recently, but it's
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like driving off the battlefield.
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here's what people don't understand about
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ministry and ministers,
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pastors, being pastors of a church.
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we always have our Sunday bests on, right?
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the church, we're greeting people, we're
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connecting, and it's a perpetual
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party. And I love that.
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we're not with people and in that
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environment, which is most of the time,
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it's warfare.
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and satanic forces. And more so
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now than we have in a long time.
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Because of what's happening. And it's because
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the enemy wants to take us out.
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a pastor and his family is healthy,
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that's a powerful force in today's
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world. It doesn't take much to
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stand above the crowd these days.
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and when you walk with Jesus as on point,
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and God's working and
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moving, the enemy just comes
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out full force.
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people. There's a tendency to think,
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oh, that means you're getting attacked by people.
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I had horrific dreams all night
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last night. I don't even want to share them because they're that
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bad. Yeah, you didn't even tell me what they're
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about. No, I didn't. And I
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it's such spiritual warfare.
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I literally, I woke up
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and then ended up going back to sleep.
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that was the worst dream. And then
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a different dream in a different
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type of spiritual warfare. I'm like,
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so now we're being fought
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in our dreams. I mean, like really
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heavy. Because it's been happening a lot
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lately. And I'm like, golly,
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it's, we're
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in really perilous times.
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in this world. Now, there's a good side
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to that. The good news
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to that, or the good thing about that
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is that's how we know
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we're over the target. Yes. That's
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how we know that we're moving the needle
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in the things of God and the things of
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the kingdom is when we
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are under this barrage of mostly
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mental, emotional,
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spiritual attack. It can be physical
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too. I mean, because sometimes your health
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drops down. You're going, wait, this is
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inexplicable. I'm doing great. I'm
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eating right and taking care of myself.
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whatever. You know, there's things that happen.
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just you stepped off the edge of
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something, off the pool or the stairs
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or something. But
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I know
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when we're really in the zone,
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when we're
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getting flack. And when I say
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flack, I mean mental, emotional,
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spiritual. Sometimes it's through
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folks, but that's very rare. That's
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not even the main thing.
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So anyway, we're definitely over the
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target right now. And you know, spiritual warfare,
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it can happen. It can happen
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with people, but it can definitely happen
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in your dreams. It can happen
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in your thought. Oh, your thought.
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The battlefield of the mind. The battlefield of the mind.
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down places that you used
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to go down maybe before you were
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saved. And it can
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just be a barrage
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of thoughts on your mind and just take
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you over. That's uncanny. I was
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actually thinking of the word barrage. Really?
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Well, we're watching
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some series on World War II
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right now that are fascinating.
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We're documentary nerds.
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and we're going back in.
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But that word barrage
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is such a
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clear word.
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It's a defining word. And that is exactly
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what it is. It's like the Luftwaffe
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of Germany. You know,
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they were the kings of the skies.
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would come in and just give everything
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they had on a certain point.
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is. The enemy doesn't fight fair.
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I mean, Hitler didn't get his ideas
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from Jesus on how to fight
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war. He got them from the enemy
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for sure. I mean, he was demonic and
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satanic. And there was all kinds of occult stuff
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surrounding him and his inner
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circle. Particularly
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Himmler and who was that other guy?
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Gorring? Gorring was dark.
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stuff. But you know, if you don't
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study what happened in the past,
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we're destined to repeat it,
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which we are right now.
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you and I both are on the same page
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and feel like let's go back.
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Let's see. Let's read.
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and read books and get
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familiarized with what
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has happened because
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we need to know
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so that when we see
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any kind of
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resemblance of that going on
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in history, we'll know where it came from.
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enemy based.
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were watching a documentary on Robert
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Bobby
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Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy for President
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is the name of the documentary. Fascinating.
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Like four parts. Four or five.
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interesting, I kept thinking as we were, as
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I show the footage from the 60s,
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particularly the 60s and
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early 70s, you know, the riots
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in the streets, the burning of buildings,
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the campuses
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going nuts over the Vietnam War.
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I told you, I said, it hasn't
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changed a bit. We've not
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progressed. We've not grown from.
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We've not learned from history.
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I wrote this to, I actually
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posted this, but I also sent it to Steve
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Maxwell and another pastor.
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May we never forget
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the original intent
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of our founding fathers.
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If we forget, revise
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or erase our history,
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we are doomed to repeat it.
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others have used that, you know, if
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we forget our history, we're doomed to repeat it.
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So I spun off of that because
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we got to get back to the original
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intent of our founding fathers.
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this quote from Patrick Henry. This has become
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one of my favorite quotes.
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It cannot be emphasized too strongly
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or too often that this
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great nation was founded not by
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religionists, but by Christians,
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not on religion,
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but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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That was Patrick Henry.
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One of my favorite quotes from our founding
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fathers, bringing that clarifying
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and defining word of this is
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what this is founded upon.
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And what I'm finding
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and you're finding that as we
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move back toward that and try
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to direct others back toward it,
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that's where the fire comes. That's when
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the enemy says, oh, no, you don't.
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No, you don't.
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No, no. This country has
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progressed beyond those ancient teachings.
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That's old
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news, old history.
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Those are days gone by.
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I said this to Tommy
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who works with us. He's part of our
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staff. Just a few minutes ago
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when we were talking about, he was talking about the sermon from yesterday
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or from Sunday.
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And I said, you know, here's what happened
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to me. The revelation I got was
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that America was not a good
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idea that God blessed.
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America was a God idea that
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we have a responsibility to steward.
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And we've not stewarded it
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well, at least in our generation.
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So those of us that are waking up to this
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are saying, we got to get
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back to the original intent.
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We've become more evil-minded.
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Oh, my goodness.
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The world has spun out.
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If you think about it, back in the days
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of Abraham, Noah, and all, I mean,
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back in the Old Testament,
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those kings were evil.
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I mean,
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Like I said, nothing's changed.
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It's the same. It goes back
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to the same things. The pride of
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life. Yes.
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The lust for power.
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The lust for money and
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prestige and position.
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Greed. All of
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those things are still so
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at play, which tells
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me humanity is not
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advancing, which tells me we need a Savior.
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We need a real king,
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not an earthly king. We need a heavenly
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king. We need our heavenly Father.
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And so let me just run
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quickly through what's happened in the last
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few months since we kind of leaned into this.
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On Thursday, June
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27, President Biden and ex-President
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Donald Trump,
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former President Donald Trump, met
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for their first scheduled debate.
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As expected, it was a disaster
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for Biden. Which I think we talked about
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on our last show. Yeah, we may have touched on that.
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On July 13th, so things
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started to progress. On July 13th,
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former President of the
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United States, Donald Trump, survived an assassination
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attempt while addressing
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a crowd at a campaign rally
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near Butler, Pennsylvania.
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Now, I'm not going to go into detail. Everybody's
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seen the footage on that.
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I think the thing that's
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interesting to note is how Google
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throttled anybody who was trying
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I don't know if they're doing it now because they got outed on
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it because I noticed there was a shift
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in it because I've been testing it.
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That if you were to Google Trump
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assassination attempt or, you know,
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Butler, Pennsylvania is Trump,
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the first three things
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that came up on Google when I
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Googled it,
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I put in, this is literally what I
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put in, attempted
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Trump
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assassination attempt.
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Those three. Yeah. And the
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first three articles, first things
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that came up were all about
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Kamala Harris. Had nothing
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to do with Trump. Nothing to do with what
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I just Googled. And that got
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discovered. It got outed on social media.
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Everyone's talking about it.
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I think they shifted that because
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I went back and did it again after all
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that happened and sure enough all the Trump stuff
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came up. So I think they got busted.
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They got caught. But that's what's happening
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are these big tech companies
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that are woke, that are far
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radical leftists. They're
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operating off of Marxist and Socialist
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ideology. They're throttling
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stuff. Yeah, they are. And, you know,
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when Elon Musk took
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over, you know, bought Twitter and then it became
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X, you know, I had my questions about
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is this a good move? But you
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know what? Right now,
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that's one of the only main
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platforms where you can still say what you
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want to say. And he's
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saying some stuff too. He
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has become a Trump backer because he
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sees what's happening and he sees where
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things are going. Which is interesting. I think
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he grew up...
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He's South African.
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Elon is? Yeah, that's
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his background. Didn't he say something about
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or his parents
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Christian? I'm not sure about that.
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I was wondering where he's getting...where his values
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came from. Right. Because he's got
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the right values.
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Well, he's articulating some things.
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Recently in an interview with Jordan
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Peterson, he talked about
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how he's kind of a
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cultural Christian. Peterson was
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pressing him actually. I'm proud of
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Jordan. I go Jordan. It was good.
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Pressing him in a good way, not a bad way, but a good way
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to think through what he believes and
655
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try to get him to articulate his beliefs.
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It was a great interview. Check it out on YouTube.
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Just put in...it's
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everywhere. Elon Musk, Jordan Peterson, it's there.
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We watched it. It was fascinating.
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But he used this...
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I'm kind of a cultural Christian.
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But hey, you know what? He's making strides.
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It's kind of like Joe Rogan would say something
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similar to that where he's
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Christian-ish.
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But that's still not going to get you in heaven.
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That's the thing. People think
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because I'm good.
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Because I do the right things.
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I vote for the right person.
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I even read my Bible
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over now and then. I know
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some stories in the Bible.
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But that's enough. I've been to church on occasion.
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Or I've been to church my whole life.
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Yeah, that's true too.
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People think that's enough. And it's not.
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It's about a true relationship
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with God. You've heard this.
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I even seared this on Sunday that
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in the average human
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there's a space between
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the middle of your brain and the middle of your heart is 18 inches.
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I've heard that forever.
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But there are people who miss
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heaven, who miss eternity,
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who miss salvation
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and knowing God on a personal basis
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by 18 inches.
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Can you imagine getting to the
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end of all of this and realizing
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in your head
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you were like, yeah, I believe God's good guy.
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I believe Jesus was a real person.
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That's awesome. Yay. Yay. Go church.
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But you never
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actually embrace the free gift of
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salvation that He offered. My gosh.
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By 18 inches. That's going to
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be a wake up call. And we hear that all the time.
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Well, I'm a good person. Oh, I know.
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So God's not going to let a good person.
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What's not about that? No.
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No. It's just not. And it's not about
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being nice.
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So that was on
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July 13th, assassination attempt.
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That was a good little springboard and some other things.
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But these are important things. And then
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under pressure from top Democratic party figures
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President Joe Biden announced his
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call from the 2024 presidential race
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on July 21st,
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2024.
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And I said this
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comment, if you read the definition of a
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political coup, this was
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textbook. Yeah. And then
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in the wake of that he endorsed Kamala
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Harris. And the media
721
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who has
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butchered Kamala Harris from the
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I mean, because she's a joke. She's a
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meme waiting to happen every time she
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opens her mouth. They did a
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complete 180. Yeah.
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And all of a sudden she's a rock star.
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I know. That's what's... I mean, the people
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that were... And there's video
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of newscasters
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and what not saying these disparaging
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things about her. And now
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they're just, oh, she's the greatest thing
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since sliced bread. All that is
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is the media machine. All
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that is is the political industrial complex
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going into work, kicking into
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high gear to get their girl
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elected. And don't buy
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it. Don't believe it.
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Don't believe what you see. Right.
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Or what you hear. Let me just say this
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just as a caveat. I tell my church
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this all the time. I'll tell anybody I'm
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talking to. You do not vote
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for a
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party and you do not vote
748
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for an individual. Right. Who
749
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cares? You know, I'm
750
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not electing my next elder
751
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here. I'm not voting for my next elder.
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I'm not voting for a pastor for a church.
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I'm voting for a leader
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who has proven and shown
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that they will stand up and fight.
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That they will, that they are
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strong enough to
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convince the Soviet Union
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to back off.
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To shut down the war in
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Ukraine. Right. To
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secure the borders of
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our nation, particularly our southern borders
764
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right now, which we're the
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number of sick, demented,
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evil
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criminals that are coming over our border
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because of the Biden administration
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right now is insane.
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It's insanity.
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The fentanyl problem right now in
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Arizona is killing. Last year over
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100,000 people died
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from fentanyl overdoses.
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It's unreal.
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100,000.
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There's not that many cities
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over 100,000 people.
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So full city of people died
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because of fentanyl. That's coming over
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particularly Arizona.
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Thank God, Governor Abbott
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in Texas is beginning to shut things
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down. They just want a court case where
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we're able to keep up the border,
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these border barriers that
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it turned, the Biden administration
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sued. And by the way,
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has anyone still said why they're doing
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this? I know. I told you, you should just
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write Chip Roy and find out
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what is his take on that.
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Tell me the bottom line. Why?
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And we know it's votes. We know
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that. But why
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are they not saying that
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on the news? Why are they not saying
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this is why
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we are
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pivoting?
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I mean, they're not.
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No one is saying it out loud. That's what I'm
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frustrated about is like, would somebody
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just tell me why and how legally
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he can do this? You know,
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I thought the president didn't have that kind
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of power, you know, the
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executive branch. So anyway,
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a lot of questions obviously,
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you know, and who knows, the world's
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insane. Remember what our
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friend said years ago, when you're in
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sin, you're insane.
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When you're in sin, you're
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insane. And right now the world
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is in sin, and so it is insanity.
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It's crazy down there.
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So next one, Kamala Harris
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officially accepted the Democratic nomination
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for president on Friday, August 2nd.
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Boo. The Democratic
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National Committee, the DNC,
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held a virtual roll call.
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This is interesting. A virtual
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roll call vote
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to select their presidential nominee,
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which began on August 1st.
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On August 2nd, she secured enough
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delegate votes to become the Democratic
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presidential nominee.
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No party, no convention,
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no vote.
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From people. The people had already
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nominated Joe
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Biden and said, you know,
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millions of votes. We want Joe Biden as our next
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nominee. And their own
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party betrayed
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them, went behind their back,
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and without the people's
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approval did this.
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This is the party that
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is saying, you know, talking about how
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everybody is a threat to democracy.
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Parents that care about their children's
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education in public school are a
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threat to democracy. Police
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officers, you know, who
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have in God we trust on their car, are a
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threat to democracy. People who read
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the Bible are a threat to democracy.
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People who believe that
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God gave
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the rights, the equal rights to
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this country and is
856
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the governing, they're a
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threat to democracy. Well, you
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bet we're a threat to democracy because
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this country isn't a democracy.
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I'm about to get on my soap box.
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I'm about to put my black robe on from
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the Black Robe Regiment.
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In the spirit of John Peter
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Mueller. But this
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country was never a democracy.
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Democracy is mob rule.
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Democracy means the majority
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rules. That's not, this is a
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constitutional republic. We
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are represented by the Electoral
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College and by representatives.
872
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We're a representative government.
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And so when you hear
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people say they're a threat
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00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000
to democracy you should say, yes,
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indeed they are and they need to be because
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a democracy is a dangerous
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government. Our founding fathers
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understood that and that's why
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they set it up as a constitution. We
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operate under the rule of law by
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the constitution and the bill of
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rights. And that's, that
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is our guide.
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And anybody tells you anything
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different, they don't know their history
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or they're lying through their teeth.
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Most people don't know. I was going to say
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most people just don't know because
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we have been
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so far removed from it that we have
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to go back and review
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our history because
894
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,000
you just forget. You forget
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because you're about the day to day
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in the future and you don't think back.
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One of the best
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things I've done recently is
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go back and reread the Declaration of
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Independence. When I read
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that it lit me up and I,
902
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there has been several times when I've been
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reading it and I start to weep. I mean
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it gets on me because I realize
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I've played a role
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in my complacency
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and my apathy and my indifference.
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This is on me.
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I don't want to take responsibility
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for my part. Anybody running for office
911
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should memorize it.
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Oh my gosh. Anybody. Or at least
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have it in front of them so that they're
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constantly looking at it.
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We hold these truths to be self
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evident. I mean we've been given
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these rights from our
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nature's God and the God of nature.
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I mean we're going to give our
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lives, our fortunes, and
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our sacred honor. I mean these are
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things, these ought to be phrases that
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we know by heart.
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Just like we know scripture
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because they're reminders that
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God is in charge.
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And this is, we get our
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rights from Him. But
929
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it was said on
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the MSNBC commentator
931
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made this big bold declaration
932
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and she said, you mean to tell
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me these Christians,
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these people think that God
935
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gave them the right
936
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to the government for this
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00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000
country? If that's you, then you're
938
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a threat to democracy. Well you know
939
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,000
what? I am a threat to democracy.
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Because democracy is
941
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demonic and will not work.
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It'll be mob rule and it can be
943
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even more
944
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000
manipulated than the system we have
945
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,000
which is being manipulated right now.
946
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So I'm not even going to go into
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the Olympics lunacy
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from the sick opening
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ceremony celebration of debauchery
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and evil.
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From that to the approval of a new
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00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,000
category sports. Again it just shows you how far
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we've gone.
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We're not on a slippery
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00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000
slope. We have fallen off the cliff. And if
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Christians think that's okay,
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that's a big problem. I have a big
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problem with any church or any
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00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000
pastor or any individual who thinks
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00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,000
it's okay. And
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I would question, I would question
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00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,000
their faith. I would too. Because
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00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,000
we've got to be real. We've got to
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stop being nice. And we've got to
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00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,000
begin to call out what's going
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00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,000
on in the spirit of the prophets
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who would speak into culture
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and say this is wrong.
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We've moved away from God
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00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,000
and we've got to get back. And I
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00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,000
would take it a step further and say we've got to get back
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00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,000
to God's word as
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the basis for everything we do.
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And if we don't, we
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will go over the cliff and we'll look
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00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,000
like Europe. We're already
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dangerously there. Again it's the Christians.
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We have capitulated
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to the world and we're not any
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different. We don't look any different
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than the world and that's where we have
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00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,000
a problem. That's why people don't
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00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000
take us seriously. This is why people
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00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,000
aren't coming to Christ. It's on our
985
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,000
watch. It's on our watch. But we,
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so many Christians believe
987
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,000
that that's the pastor's
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00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,000
job. It's not the pastor, it's the
989
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,000
pastor's job to equip but it's our job
990
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,000
to be the salt and light in the
991
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,000
world. Along with the pastors
992
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we're all in it together. The
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pastors are
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00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,000
to
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00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000
help you divide the word
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00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,000
of God. Help you understand
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00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,000
the word of God. To inspire, to motivate,
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00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,000
to encourage. To encourage you to
999
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,000
get in the word for yourself.
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00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,000
They're not the end all. No. They're
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00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000
the ones saying, check me up
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00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000
on what I'm saying. You do
1003
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the research. People don't want to do that.
1004
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,000
But don't
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take my word for it. Read for yourself.
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00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000
Ask God to give you
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00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,000
revelation of the word
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00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000
and then let's go win the world.
1009
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,000
But we've just,
1010
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,000
I don't know what's happened.
1011
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,000
I literally don't know what's happened. Well we got complacent.
1012
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,000
You know, I mean
1013
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000
we have a whole gap generation
1014
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,000
where digital technology
1015
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,000
just came in
1016
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,000
right on the heels of the last war
1017
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,000
and our generation
1018
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,000
didn't have to fight for this.
1019
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,000
And so we got lazy. We got complacent.
1020
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,000
We became indifferent.
1021
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,000
And we lost our voice in the public
1022
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,000
square. And so now
1023
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,000
we're paying the price.
1024
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,000
But here's the thing. We have to ask ourselves,
1025
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,000
is it hopeless? And I say, no
1026
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,000
it is not. It may look daunting.
1027
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,000
But you know what?
1028
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,000
Everything in history
1029
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,000
that was won for the good
1030
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,000
costs something.
1031
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,000
And so to have
1032
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,000
hope and believe that change can come
1033
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,000
is going to cost the price.
1034
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000
And this is where we have to get off
1035
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,000
of our, as I say, our Blessed Assurance
1036
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,000
and get moving again
1037
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,000
and get involved in the processes.
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Starting with
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00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,000
voting. We got to, if you're
1040
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,000
not registered to vote and you're listening to
1041
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,000
this podcast. And you're a Christian.
1042
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,000
My gosh. Specifically. Get off
1043
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,000
your Blessed Assurance and go register
1044
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,000
to vote. It's so simple.
1045
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,000
You can go online at gov.org.
1046
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,000
I mean it's
1047
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,000
or.gov. I mean government, I forget
1048
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,000
what it is. Just Google.
1049
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,000
I hate even saying
1050
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,000
Google at this point. But anyway
1051
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,000
look up how to register to vote.
1052
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,000
It's so simple. You can do it
1053
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000
easily online.
1054
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,000
We're doing our voter registration drive
1055
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,000
in our church. I think starting this next
1056
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,000
week. Every church should be doing that.
1057
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000
Every church should be doing that. We should be registering
1058
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,000
believers who will
1059
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000
get out and vote for the platform
1060
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,000
that is most aligned with biblical values.
1061
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,000
And so get out and vote.
1062
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,000
There's other things that can be done
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00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,000
as well. First of all we want you to vote.
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00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,000
But we also want you to
1065
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I got a few things here.
1066
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,000
To suit up and show up. I love what
1067
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,000
Colby Wilt said. He's the
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Texas
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00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,000
director of Citizens
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00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,000
Defending Freedom. He said
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suit up and show up.
1072
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,000
Pastor Ron Lewis out in North Carolina
1073
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,000
says it this way. He says live
1074
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,000
holy and show up. And I say let's put those two
1075
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together. Live holy.
1076
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Suit up and show up.
1077
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Live holy.
1078
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,000
Suit up and show up.
1079
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,000
What does that mean show up? That means
1080
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,000
attention. Why not go
1081
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,000
to a city council meeting and just listen?
1082
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,000
And while you're listening pray
1083
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,000
that the Holy Spirit will invade
1084
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,000
that space. And that a spirit
1085
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,000
of revival will come on those public
1086
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,000
servants. We call them leaders.
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00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,000
But they're really public servants.
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And we need a spirit of revival to fall on our
1089
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public servants. Our elected officials.
1090
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So go show up.
1091
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000
Suit up. Live holy. Suit up.
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00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,000
Show up. And I always say this.
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Leave your
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torch and your pitchfork
1095
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,000
at home.
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00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,000
Don't go in
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00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,000
fighting half cocked. Not knowing
1098
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,000
what's going on. Not really understanding
1099
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,000
the issues. You go in
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00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,000
in a different spirit.
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00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,000
And you bring the presence of God
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into those spaces.
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00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,000
Show up at a school board
1104
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,000
meeting. Again not to fight.
1105
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,000
But to see
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really get a sense of what's going on.
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How about having a conversation
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with a school board member instead of
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cutting their head off.
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How about finding out what they're about.
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How about praying for them by
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name on a regular basis.
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This goes for every arena.
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Another one is
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volunteer to serve at the Patriot Academy.
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That's local to us obviously.
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Volunteer to work as an election official.
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You can become an election officer.
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It's a simple training
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where you can help
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out with elections.
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And we have
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the president of our
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local Republican
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party goes to
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our church. Bruce
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Coleman. Wonderful, wonderful guy.
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Bruce Campbell. Great guy.
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And you can
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sign up and get involved in that.
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And I always say this. Educate yourself
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and question everything
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you see and hear on
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mainstream legacy media.
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And then here's the last one.
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Don't think someone else will do it.
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Someone else will step up.
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This is on us.
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This is our time.
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So anyway I want to give one quote.
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Enter the risk arena.
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Totally trusting in God because of our love
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for Him. This is the grind.
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The Bible calls it being
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conformed to the image of his son.
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Steve Maxwell who is the co-founder
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of Citizens Defending Freedom.
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Well we've had an amazing time.
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I mean I hope you've gotten something
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out of this today.
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One of the things I want to leave with you
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is just a scripture
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and it's this.
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In Mark chapter 8 verse 27
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Now Jesus and his disciples
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went out to the towns of Caesarea, Philippi
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that's just north of the
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Sea of Galilee.
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And on the road he
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asked his disciples saying to them,
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Who do men say that I am?
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So they answered John the
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Baptist but some say Elijah and others
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one of the prophets. He said to
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them and this is the question I would pose
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but who do you say that I
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am? I love that.
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Why is that profound?
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Why do you think that question hits and lands
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so hard? Because I think that's a question that we all
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need to ask ourselves.
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Who is he really?
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Who is he really? Is he just a
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teacher? Is he someone
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that's historical?
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That someone you've read about or heard
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about but that's
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all. You don't know anything
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about him. Most people don't.
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Most people really don't know a lot
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about him.
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Unless you've really studied
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the word and what I love right
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now is we're, I'm
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reading, I'm almost through with every
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one of the gospels. I'm reading
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Luke
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right now. I'm in Luke
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too. Not Luke chapter 2
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but I'm in Luke as well. I am too.
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Luke chapter 2. I love Luke.
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But I've already read all the other ones and
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I'm so enjoying
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reading the gospels
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and understanding more
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who Jesus is through the gospels.
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Through the lens of the
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apostles. I'm
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reading them over and over and over and
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it's just
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what I love about the chosen
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two.
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You see Matthew
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and John and
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you,
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when I'm reading those
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books I see them.
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Even though it's not real
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but it gives me context.
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I am so
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enjoying reading it because
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every time I read it I get
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something else out of it. I get
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a nugget that I haven't received
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before. That's what I love about the word of God
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is you can read the same thing over
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and over and over and receive something
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new every time.
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But yes I think
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that we all need to
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know who Jesus is. We need to ask
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ourselves that question. Who
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is Jesus to us?
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If we can't answer that
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in a
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way that shows relationship
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then we need to question
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who He really is. We need
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to question do I really
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have that relationship with Him?
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Do I really have it?
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Or is it just someone I
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know of?
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There's a big difference between
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a husband and a friend.
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A big difference.
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When you were my friend
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before you were my husband
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I knew bits and pieces
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about you.
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When you became my husband
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I know everything
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about you. I know the most
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intimate areas
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of your life because you've shared
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those with me.
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I've shared those with you. There's an
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intimacy that you and I have now
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that we did not have when we
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were boyfriend and girlfriend.
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That's a difference. Is He your boyfriend
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or is He your husband?
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Think about that.
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That just came off the top
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of my head.
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It's the intimate
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knowledge that you can only have with someone
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that is your husband,
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that is your wife,
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that is your
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soulmate that you're spending
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the rest of your life with, that you've
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00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,000
intertwined everything. We've intertwined
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every area of our life.
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That's what Jesus wants
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of us.
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I love that you day lighted that question, who is
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Jesus to you?
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That really is the question of the day.
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I posed that question to both
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services on Sunday.
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I've changed the way I do altar calls.
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I used to do it secret, man, like secret
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ballot. You can just pull out a card
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and check the box.
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But what I'm finding
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is that if we will not stand
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in a room full of people who care
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about you and who are cheering you on
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and who are for you,
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when it's the safest, there is
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no way we'll stand
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out there.
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In the Baptist Church where I came up as a young,
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I was 18 years of age,
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the preacher
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would have you come forward.
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You'd walk the aisle.
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Man, so many churches have done
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away with that. There's no cost.
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The cost for me when I walk
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the aisle, the
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last week of my senior year of high
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school was all the students that knew
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me. They knew
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how wild I was. They knew
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that wild kid. They watched
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me from the back of the church get up
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and walk all the way down
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and tell Pastor Reese
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that I wanted to be saved. I want Jesus
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in my life. I think people are afraid
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that they're going to blow it or mess up so they don't
1304
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want to stand up because they don't want
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to look bad if they do. Because
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it is a process. Spoiler
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alert, we are going to blow it. We are
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because we're human.
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But our goal
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is to live the best
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we can and to always keep
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Him as Lord so that we
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don't blow it. And that's the
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00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,000
power of the Holy Spirit
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is to empower us
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not to blow it.
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He empowers us.
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But we have to do
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our part. We don't just become robots.
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Oh, we're Christians. That's why it's called
1321
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a walk. Exactly.
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You walk with Him. It's a process.
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And it is a learning curve.
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Hey baby, stop bumping
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the table. Oh, sorry. I believe
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that if we
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You're preaching. I know. Sorry.
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If we would see
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and help people see
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that when they're standing up they're not saying
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their perfection. They're saying
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now I'm going to do my best
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through God's help to become
1334
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the person He's called me to be.
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That's what being a Christian is.
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And on Sunday when I made that call
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and I made it hard I said
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I want you to stand to your feet. If you prayed the prayer
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to say I want Jesus to be the
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center of my life. I've given my heart. I want
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to be saved. I want to be born again. I want you to stand
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to your feet. People stood.
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First service one person.
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Talk about courageous.
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And she wasn't a young. She was
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an adult. One adult stood.
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And I thought
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my good Lord bless her.
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Oh Lord bless her.
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I went over and said something to her
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at the end. And then
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in the second service a lot of people
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stood. And I just thought
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you know what? If they'll stand in here
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and be seen
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then they're going to stand out there.
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So kudos to everybody who gave
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their heart to Christ who said yes.
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They answered the question who
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is Jesus to me. They answered
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the question. He's now my Lord. He's
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now my Savior. It was a beautiful
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time. Well
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it's been a minute since we've done a
1365
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podcast. I think the one thing
1366
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,000
I would want to say is if you do appreciate
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we invite you to go to our website
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livingupinadownworld.com
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Go there and check it out. I write a daily blog
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slash devotional. It's on there.
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They're all listed. You can just click
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on it. It says blog. Go there.
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And it's just a very short two
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to three sentences or
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small paragraphs. And daily
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word and it will encourage you
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00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,000
and we want you to get in the word. And this is
1378
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one way you can get in the word.
1379
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Also we have all of our archives.
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This is number 70 by the way.
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Wow. Yeah. Episode 70.
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And that will be
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on there as you're hearing
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Anything to wrap it up baby? No I think
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that's good. I would just
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pose the question. Who
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girl. When you're
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spiritual hubba hubba. I'm always
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spiritual what are you saying?
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we're out. We are living up in the
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down world. Would you do the same?
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What a day I'm telling you.
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This is Jimmy DeNette and we are
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We are living up in a down world.
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We are living up in a down world.
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We are living up in a down world.
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We are living up in a down world.
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We want to welcome you to today's show.
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And hey beautiful over there.
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It's been a minute.
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Oh my goodness.
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More than a minute.
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Like a month.
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It's been about a month.
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We've taken the time off which was really good.
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And yeah, it's kind of fun to be back.
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Talk about our month.
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Did some things happen in this world?
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Last year we took
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two months off for a sabbatical.
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you call it a sabbatical refresh.
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I just call it a vacation. All I said
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was every year in July
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we're taking the whole month off as
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vacation. There's nothing Sabbath
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about it because we were busier
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than we were for our Sabbath.
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So I wouldn't even use the word Sabbath.
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But it was good.
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I mean we were able to go to Colorado
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for a week. We went to Naples Florida
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for a week. And I had a million things around the house
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to do. Things to fix.
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Faucets and lawn mowers.
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It was not a vacation.
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Except for the time we left.
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Not that I'm complaining.
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You sound like you're complaining.
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I do. I know.
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I've only had one cup of coffee.
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I'm working on number two.
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I just took a sip of mine
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for the first time.
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Why are we even doing this podcast?
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Turn it off. Let's start over.
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We probably need to.
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if you think about it, you've got to think
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about what a vacation is. It's not just
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to rest. It's to do the things
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that you can't get done
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because of work.
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Who made that?
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Honey, because that's the thing.
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I thought a vacation was for rest and relaxation.
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It was not always. And to do some fun things.
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house. I didn't force
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you to work around the house.
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When I get halfway through this cup, I'll mellow out a little bit.
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I'm kidding. I'm totally kidding.
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I enjoyed working
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in the lawnmower in 100 degree weather.
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out of...
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I paid the dude for it.
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hard. Not that I'm bitter.
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worked on. We actually sold it.
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for our next vacation.
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zero turn craftsman.
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in perfect condition for
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the new owners.
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of your time. I know.
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to make sure that what we give him
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is excellent and is a blessing
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to him and his family. And better than the way we got it.
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brand new. It's unbelievable.
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It was worth it.
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I didn't like doing it on my vacation.
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I know. But that was just
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a day or two. Having the house
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worked on for a week
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while we were...that was a little bit
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harder. But I mean somebody...
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I wasn't able to flip the switch. Yeah, but somebody
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still has to be there and we still have
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work that we're doing.
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We finally got to rest.
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I felt...well, Colorado...
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really unwind until we
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went to Naples though.
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trip ever. We've never been to
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Naples, Florida before. Never even...
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thought that...I mean that wasn't even in my...
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thought about it. Because it's usually Destin
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or Panama City. Right, right. We like the beach.
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It was amazing.
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Naomi worked her magic with
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all of our points. So we got to...
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Who's Naomi? You just say that like people know.
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Naomi is Brian's
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Mandale...Pastor Brian Mandale's
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wife. She's my assistant.
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Our assistant. Our assistant. But she
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works more for me than you. Because I
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still end up having to do your stuff.
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juggling points on
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credit cards. Because we have a couple of
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credit cards that we use and pay them off. We use
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them as debit cards. But we
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play the game of points. Points game.
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for what? Nine days?
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fees and
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whatever food we ate. So...and then our
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flights were free
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because we had points on that. So
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we try to find ways
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to go to really neat places
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and not have to
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pay much out of our pocket. And so...
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The points game now is like what our parents
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used to do with SNH green
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stamps and gold bond stamps. Exactly.
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higher. They are. And we
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hardly ever
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pay for any airline tickets. Because
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we have a Southwest card. So
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it helps. Did your mom
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do the stamps thing? My mother
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did do the stamps. There was an SNH
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stamp store in public Texas
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where I grew up. Piggly Wiggly too
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would take stamps or whatever.
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in decades. But they would be these
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little booklets and you'd get stamps every time
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you bought groceries and you'd fill up your
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books and then you'd cash them in for
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value. You're really aging us. At a store.
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It's real.
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Hey I'm cool. I'm relevant.
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Oh is that right? Yeah. Oh okay.
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I can wear skinny jeans.
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You're so skinny you have
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to wear skinny jeans. All of your jeans
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are skinny jeans. No kidding.
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a lot of fun. I think
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we so enjoyed it that
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on our last...
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It was our last night there and I was like
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we're not ready to go home. And she said
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then stay. I've got some points
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I'll share with you and then you can just
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share them back. And I was like oh
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okay I knew you'd think about that. So we stayed what? Three more
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days. We stayed three more days. Two more nights.
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I was kind of surprised when I told you
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that I wasn't ready to go and you said
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then let's stay.
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I was like really? I really
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had to go restful. One of the most
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restful vacations for me personally
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I've ever been on. And you got
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treated like royalty there.
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We did. It was which I never...
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Hence restful. Yeah.
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the beach. It was
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just phenomenal. Of course the beaches,
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the Florida beaches on the golf side
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are just the white sand. They're gorgeous.
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Sharkfest.
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you said let's figure it out.
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it would say it would have cost us $2,500
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to stay. Yay for points.
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we're going to do that. I like this points game.
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It was great.
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What was great,
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it's always great when you and I
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get to go away together.
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together. I always say this.
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I wear it out. I know it's not Jimmy and
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Annette. It's not Jimmy or
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when we get to go away together
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alone by ourselves,
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something amazing happens in our marriage
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and our dynamic. Because we work together
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all the time. But we're
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in a different mindset.
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and got to. And I said you know
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it's really interesting because people think
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because we work together, you know,
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marriage and relationship.
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to literally go out
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of town. We can't even just be at our home.
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when we go step out of town,
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work. I mean we literally, that's the
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work at all, thank goodness. But for
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if we're on vacation,
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in Naples, I didn't do
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any work. So I really
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had two weeks vacation. It is literally the most rest
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that I ever see yous when we do
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that. So we both have
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to unplug. It's easier on me because I
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always do my daily devotions.
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devotional. So to me, that doesn't feel
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like work. It's pleasure
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and it's life-giving to me.
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our vacation. I actually took a week
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off, a little over a week.
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year. You literally didn't do it. Yeah,
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unplug the whole time. I thought I did that.
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you said you needed to. I don't remember.
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is that when we can get
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away, it's literally,
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don't know if I've said it recently, but it's
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like driving off the battlefield.
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here's what people don't understand about
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ministry and ministers,
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pastors, being pastors of a church.
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we always have our Sunday bests on, right?
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the church, we're greeting people, we're
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connecting, and it's a perpetual
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party. And I love that.
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we're not with people and in that
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environment, which is most of the time,
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it's warfare.
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and satanic forces. And more so
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now than we have in a long time.
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Because of what's happening. And it's because
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the enemy wants to take us out.
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a pastor and his family is healthy,
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that's a powerful force in today's
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world. It doesn't take much to
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stand above the crowd these days.
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and when you walk with Jesus as on point,
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and God's working and
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moving, the enemy just comes
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out full force.
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people. There's a tendency to think,
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oh, that means you're getting attacked by people.
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last night. I don't even want to share them because they're that
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bad. Yeah, you didn't even tell me what they're
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about. No, I didn't. And I
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it's such spiritual warfare.
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and then ended up going back to sleep.
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that was the worst dream. And then
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a different dream in a different
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type of spiritual warfare. I'm like,
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so now we're being fought
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in our dreams. I mean, like really
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heavy. Because it's been happening a lot
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lately. And I'm like, golly,
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it's, we're
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in really perilous times.
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in this world. Now, there's a good side
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to that. The good news
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to that, or the good thing about that
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is that's how we know
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we're over the target. Yes. That's
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how we know that we're moving the needle
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in the things of God and the things of
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the kingdom is when we
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are under this barrage of mostly
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mental, emotional,
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spiritual attack. It can be physical
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too. I mean, because sometimes your health
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drops down. You're going, wait, this is
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inexplicable. I'm doing great. I'm
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eating right and taking care of myself.
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whatever. You know, there's things that happen.
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just you stepped off the edge of
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something, off the pool or the stairs
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or something. But
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when we're really in the zone,
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when we're
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getting flack. And when I say
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flack, I mean mental, emotional,
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spiritual. Sometimes it's through
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folks, but that's very rare. That's
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not even the main thing.
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target right now. And you know, spiritual warfare,
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it can happen. It can happen
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with people, but it can definitely happen
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in your dreams. It can happen
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in your thought. Oh, your thought.
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The battlefield of the mind. The battlefield of the mind.
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down places that you used
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to go down maybe before you were
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saved. And it can
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just be a barrage
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of thoughts on your mind and just take
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you over. That's uncanny. I was
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actually thinking of the word barrage. Really?
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some series on World War II
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right now that are fascinating.
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We're documentary nerds.
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and we're going back in.
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is such a
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clear word.
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It's a defining word. And that is exactly
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what it is. It's like the Luftwaffe
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of Germany. You know,
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they were the kings of the skies.
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would come in and just give everything
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they had on a certain point.
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is. The enemy doesn't fight fair.
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from Jesus on how to fight
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war. He got them from the enemy
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for sure. I mean, he was demonic and
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satanic. And there was all kinds of occult stuff
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surrounding him and his inner
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circle. Particularly
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Himmler and who was that other guy?
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stuff. But you know, if you don't
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study what happened in the past,
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we're destined to repeat it,
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which we are right now.
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you and I both are on the same page
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and feel like let's go back.
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Let's see. Let's read.
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and read books and get
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familiarized with what
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has happened because
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we need to know
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so that when we see
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any kind of
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resemblance of that going on
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in history, we'll know where it came from.
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enemy based.
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were watching a documentary on Robert
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Bobby
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Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy for President
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is the name of the documentary. Fascinating.
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Like four parts. Four or five.
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interesting, I kept thinking as we were, as
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I show the footage from the 60s,
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particularly the 60s and
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early 70s, you know, the riots
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in the streets, the burning of buildings,
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the campuses
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going nuts over the Vietnam War.
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I told you, I said, it hasn't
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changed a bit. We've not
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progressed. We've not grown from.
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I wrote this to, I actually
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posted this, but I also sent it to Steve
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Maxwell and another pastor.
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May we never forget
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the original intent
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of our founding fathers.
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or erase our history,
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we are doomed to repeat it.
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others have used that, you know, if
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we forget our history, we're doomed to repeat it.
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we got to get back to the original
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intent of our founding fathers.
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this quote from Patrick Henry. This has become
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one of my favorite quotes.
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It cannot be emphasized too strongly
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or too often that this
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great nation was founded not by
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religionists, but by Christians,
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not on religion,
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but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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That was Patrick Henry.
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fathers, bringing that clarifying
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and defining word of this is
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what this is founded upon.
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and you're finding that as we
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move back toward that and try
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to direct others back toward it,
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that's where the fire comes. That's when
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the enemy says, oh, no, you don't.
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No, you don't.
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No, no. This country has
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progressed beyond those ancient teachings.
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news, old history.
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Those are days gone by.
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And we're like, oh, no, we're going back.
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I said this to Tommy
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who works with us. He's part of our
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staff. Just a few minutes ago
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when we were talking about, he was talking about the sermon from yesterday
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or from Sunday.
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And I said, you know, here's what happened
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to me. The revelation I got was
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that America was not a good
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idea that God blessed.
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America was a God idea that
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we have a responsibility to steward.
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And we've not stewarded it
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well, at least in our generation.
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So those of us that are waking up to this
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are saying, we got to get
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back to the original intent.
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We've become more evil-minded.
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Oh, my goodness.
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The world has spun out.
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If you think about it, back in the days
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of Abraham, Noah, and all, I mean,
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back in the Old Testament,
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those kings were evil.
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I mean,
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Like I said, nothing's changed.
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It's the same. It goes back
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to the same things. The pride of
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life. Yes.
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The lust for power.
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The lust for money and
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prestige and position.
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Greed. All of
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those things are still so
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at play, which tells
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me humanity is not
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advancing, which tells me we need a Savior.
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We need a real king,
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not an earthly king. We need a heavenly
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king. We need our heavenly Father.
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And so let me just run
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quickly through what's happened in the last
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few months since we kind of leaned into this.
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On Thursday, June
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27, President Biden and ex-President
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Donald Trump,
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former President Donald Trump, met
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for their first scheduled debate.
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As expected, it was a disaster
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for Biden. Which I think we talked about
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on our last show. Yeah, we may have touched on that.
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On July 13th, so things
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started to progress. On July 13th,
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former President of the
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United States, Donald Trump, survived an assassination
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attempt while addressing
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a crowd at a campaign rally
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near Butler, Pennsylvania.
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Now, I'm not going to go into detail. Everybody's
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seen the footage on that.
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I think the thing that's
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interesting to note is how Google
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throttled anybody who was trying
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I don't know if they're doing it now because they got outed on
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it because I noticed there was a shift
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in it because I've been testing it.
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That if you were to Google Trump
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assassination attempt or, you know,
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Butler, Pennsylvania is Trump,
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the first three things
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that came up on Google when I
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Googled it,
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I put in, this is literally what I
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put in, attempted
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Trump
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assassination attempt.
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Those three. Yeah. And the
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first three articles, first things
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that came up were all about
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Kamala Harris. Had nothing
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to do with Trump. Nothing to do with what
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I just Googled. And that got
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discovered. It got outed on social media.
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Everyone's talking about it.
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I think they shifted that because
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I went back and did it again after all
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that happened and sure enough all the Trump stuff
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came up. So I think they got busted.
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They got caught. But that's what's happening
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are these big tech companies
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that are woke, that are far
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radical leftists. They're
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operating off of Marxist and Socialist
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ideology. They're throttling
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stuff. Yeah, they are. And, you know,
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when Elon Musk took
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over, you know, bought Twitter and then it became
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X, you know, I had my questions about
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is this a good move? But you
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know what? Right now,
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that's one of the only main
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platforms where you can still say what you
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want to say. And he's
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saying some stuff too. He
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has become a Trump backer because he
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sees what's happening and he sees where
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things are going. Which is interesting. I think
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he grew up...
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He's South African.
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Elon is? Yeah, that's
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his background. Didn't he say something about
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or his parents
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Christian? I'm not sure about that.
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I was wondering where he's getting...where his values
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came from. Right. Because he's got
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the right values.
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Well, he's articulating some things.
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Recently in an interview with Jordan
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Peterson, he talked about
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how he's kind of a
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cultural Christian. Peterson was
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pressing him actually. I'm proud of
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Jordan. I go Jordan. It was good.
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Pressing him in a good way, not a bad way, but a good way
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to think through what he believes and
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try to get him to articulate his beliefs.
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It was a great interview. Check it out on YouTube.
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Just put in...it's
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everywhere. Elon Musk, Jordan Peterson, it's there.
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We watched it. It was fascinating.
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But he used this...
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I'm kind of a cultural Christian.
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But hey, you know what? He's making strides.
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It's kind of like Joe Rogan would say something
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similar to that where he's
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Christian-ish.
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But that's still not going to get you in heaven.
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That's the thing. People think
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because I'm good.
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Because I do the right things.
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I vote for the right person.
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I even read my Bible
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over now and then. I know
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some stories in the Bible.
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But that's enough. I've been to church on occasion.
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Or I've been to church my whole life.
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Yeah, that's true too.
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People think that's enough. And it's not.
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It's about a true relationship
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with God. You've heard this.
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I even seared this on Sunday that
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in the average human
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there's a space between
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the middle of your brain and the middle of your heart is 18 inches.
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I've heard that forever.
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But there are people who miss
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heaven, who miss eternity,
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who miss salvation
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and knowing God on a personal basis
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by 18 inches.
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Can you imagine getting to the
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end of all of this and realizing
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in your head
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you were like, yeah, I believe God's good guy.
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I believe Jesus was a real person.
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That's awesome. Yay. Yay. Go church.
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But you never
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actually embrace the free gift of
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salvation that He offered. My gosh.
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By 18 inches. That's going to
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be a wake up call. And we hear that all the time.
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Well, I'm a good person. Oh, I know.
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So God's not going to let a good person.
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What's not about that? No.
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No. It's just not. And it's not about
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being nice.
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So that was on
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July 13th, assassination attempt.
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That was a good little springboard and some other things.
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But these are important things. And then
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under pressure from top Democratic party figures
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President Joe Biden announced his
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call from the 2024 presidential race
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on July 21st,
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2024.
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And I said this
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comment, if you read the definition of a
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political coup, this was
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textbook. Yeah. And then
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in the wake of that he endorsed Kamala
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Harris. And the media
721
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who has
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butchered Kamala Harris from the
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I mean, because she's a joke. She's a
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meme waiting to happen every time she
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opens her mouth. They did a
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complete 180. Yeah.
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And all of a sudden she's a rock star.
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I know. That's what's... I mean, the people
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that were... And there's video
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of newscasters
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and what not saying these disparaging
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things about her. And now
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they're just, oh, she's the greatest thing
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since sliced bread. All that is
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is the media machine. All
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that is is the political industrial complex
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going into work, kicking into
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high gear to get their girl
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elected. And don't buy
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it. Don't believe it.
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Don't believe what you see. Right.
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Or what you hear. Let me just say this
743
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just as a caveat. I tell my church
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this all the time. I'll tell anybody I'm
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talking to. You do not vote
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for a
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party and you do not vote
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for an individual. Right. Who
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cares? You know, I'm
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not electing my next elder
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here. I'm not voting for my next elder.
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I'm not voting for a pastor for a church.
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I'm voting for a leader
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who has proven and shown
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that they will stand up and fight.
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That they will, that they are
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strong enough to
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convince the Soviet Union
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to back off.
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To shut down the war in
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Ukraine. Right. To
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secure the borders of
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our nation, particularly our southern borders
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right now, which we're the
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number of sick, demented,
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evil
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criminals that are coming over our border
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because of the Biden administration
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right now is insane.
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It's insanity.
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The fentanyl problem right now in
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Arizona is killing. Last year over
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100,000 people died
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from fentanyl overdoses.
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It's unreal.
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100,000.
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There's not that many cities
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over 100,000 people.
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So full city of people died
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because of fentanyl. That's coming over
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particularly Arizona.
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Thank God, Governor Abbott
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in Texas is beginning to shut things
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down. They just want a court case where
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we're able to keep up the border,
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these border barriers that
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it turned, the Biden administration
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sued. And by the way,
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has anyone still said why they're doing
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this? I know. I told you, you should just
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write Chip Roy and find out
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what is his take on that.
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Tell me the bottom line. Why?
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And we know it's votes. We know
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that. But why
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are they not saying that
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on the news? Why are they not saying
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this is why
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we are
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pivoting?
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I mean, they're not.
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No one is saying it out loud. That's what I'm
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frustrated about is like, would somebody
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just tell me why and how legally
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he can do this? You know,
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I thought the president didn't have that kind
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of power, you know, the
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executive branch. So anyway,
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a lot of questions obviously,
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you know, and who knows, the world's
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insane. Remember what our
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friend said years ago, when you're in
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sin, you're insane.
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When you're in sin, you're
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insane. And right now the world
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is in sin, and so it is insanity.
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It's crazy down there.
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So next one, Kamala Harris
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officially accepted the Democratic nomination
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for president on Friday, August 2nd.
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Boo. The Democratic
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National Committee, the DNC,
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held a virtual roll call.
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This is interesting. A virtual
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roll call vote
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to select their presidential nominee,
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which began on August 1st.
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On August 2nd, she secured enough
829
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delegate votes to become the Democratic
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presidential nominee.
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No party, no convention,
832
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no vote.
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From people. The people had already
834
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nominated Joe
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Biden and said, you know,
836
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millions of votes. We want Joe Biden as our next
837
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nominee. And their own
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party betrayed
839
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them, went behind their back,
840
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and without the people's
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approval did this.
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This is the party that
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is saying, you know, talking about how
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everybody is a threat to democracy.
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Parents that care about their children's
846
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education in public school are a
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threat to democracy. Police
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officers, you know, who
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have in God we trust on their car, are a
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threat to democracy. People who read
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the Bible are a threat to democracy.
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People who believe that
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God gave
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the rights, the equal rights to
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this country and is
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the governing, they're a
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threat to democracy. Well, you
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bet we're a threat to democracy because
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this country isn't a democracy.
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I'm about to get on my soap box.
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I'm about to put my black robe on from
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the Black Robe Regiment.
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In the spirit of John Peter
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Mueller. But this
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country was never a democracy.
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Democracy is mob rule.
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Democracy means the majority
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rules. That's not, this is a
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constitutional republic. We
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are represented by the Electoral
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College and by representatives.
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We're a representative government.
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And so when you hear
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people say they're a threat
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00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000
to democracy you should say, yes,
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indeed they are and they need to be because
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a democracy is a dangerous
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government. Our founding fathers
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understood that and that's why
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they set it up as a constitution. We
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operate under the rule of law by
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the constitution and the bill of
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rights. And that's, that
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is our guide.
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And anybody tells you anything
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different, they don't know their history
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or they're lying through their teeth.
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Most people don't know. I was going to say
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most people just don't know because
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we have been
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so far removed from it that we have
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to go back and review
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our history because
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you just forget. You forget
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because you're about the day to day
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in the future and you don't think back.
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One of the best
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things I've done recently is
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go back and reread the Declaration of
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Independence. When I read
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that it lit me up and I,
902
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there has been several times when I've been
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reading it and I start to weep. I mean
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it gets on me because I realize
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I've played a role
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in my complacency
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and my apathy and my indifference.
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This is on me.
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I don't want to take responsibility
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for my part. Anybody running for office
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should memorize it.
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Oh my gosh. Anybody. Or at least
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have it in front of them so that they're
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constantly looking at it.
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We hold these truths to be self
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evident. I mean we've been given
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these rights from our
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nature's God and the God of nature.
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I mean we're going to give our
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lives, our fortunes, and
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our sacred honor. I mean these are
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things, these ought to be phrases that
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we know by heart.
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Just like we know scripture
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because they're reminders that
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God is in charge.
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And this is, we get our
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rights from Him. But
929
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it was said on
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the MSNBC commentator
931
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made this big bold declaration
932
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and she said, you mean to tell
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me these Christians,
934
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these people think that God
935
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gave them the right
936
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to the government for this
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00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000
country? If that's you, then you're
938
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a threat to democracy. Well you know
939
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,000
what? I am a threat to democracy.
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Because democracy is
941
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demonic and will not work.
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It'll be mob rule and it can be
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even more
944
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000
manipulated than the system we have
945
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which is being manipulated right now.
946
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So I'm not even going to go into
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the Olympics lunacy
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from the sick opening
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ceremony celebration of debauchery
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and evil.
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From that to the approval of a new
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category sports. Again it just shows you how far
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we've gone.
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We're not on a slippery
955
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000
slope. We have fallen off the cliff. And if
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Christians think that's okay,
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that's a big problem. I have a big
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problem with any church or any
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00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000
pastor or any individual who thinks
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00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,000
it's okay. And
961
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,000
I would question, I would question
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00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,000
their faith. I would too. Because
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00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,000
we've got to be real. We've got to
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stop being nice. And we've got to
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begin to call out what's going
966
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,000
on in the spirit of the prophets
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who would speak into culture
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and say this is wrong.
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We've moved away from God
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00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,000
and we've got to get back. And I
971
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,000
would take it a step further and say we've got to get back
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00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,000
to God's word as
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the basis for everything we do.
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And if we don't, we
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00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000
will go over the cliff and we'll look
976
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like Europe. We're already
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dangerously there. Again it's the Christians.
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We have capitulated
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to the world and we're not any
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different. We don't look any different
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than the world and that's where we have
982
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,000
a problem. That's why people don't
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00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000
take us seriously. This is why people
984
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,000
aren't coming to Christ. It's on our
985
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,000
watch. It's on our watch. But we,
986
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,000
so many Christians believe
987
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,000
that that's the pastor's
988
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,000
job. It's not the pastor, it's the
989
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,000
pastor's job to equip but it's our job
990
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,000
to be the salt and light in the
991
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,000
world. Along with the pastors
992
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,000
we're all in it together. The
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pastors are
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00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,000
to
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00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000
help you divide the word
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00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,000
of God. Help you understand
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00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,000
the word of God. To inspire, to motivate,
998
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,000
to encourage. To encourage you to
999
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,000
get in the word for yourself.
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00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,000
They're not the end all. No. They're
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00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000
the ones saying, check me up
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00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000
on what I'm saying. You do
1003
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the research. People don't want to do that.
1004
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But don't
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take my word for it. Read for yourself.
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00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000
Ask God to give you
1007
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revelation of the word
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00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000
and then let's go win the world.
1009
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,000
But we've just,
1010
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I don't know what's happened.
1011
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,000
I literally don't know what's happened. Well we got complacent.
1012
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,000
You know, I mean
1013
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000
we have a whole gap generation
1014
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,000
where digital technology
1015
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,000
just came in
1016
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,000
right on the heels of the last war
1017
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and our generation
1018
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,000
didn't have to fight for this.
1019
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,000
And so we got lazy. We got complacent.
1020
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,000
We became indifferent.
1021
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,000
And we lost our voice in the public
1022
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,000
square. And so now
1023
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,000
we're paying the price.
1024
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,000
But here's the thing. We have to ask ourselves,
1025
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,000
is it hopeless? And I say, no
1026
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,000
it is not. It may look daunting.
1027
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,000
But you know what?
1028
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,000
Everything in history
1029
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,000
that was won for the good
1030
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,000
costs something.
1031
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,000
And so to have
1032
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,000
hope and believe that change can come
1033
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,000
is going to cost the price.
1034
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000
And this is where we have to get off
1035
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of our, as I say, our Blessed Assurance
1036
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,000
and get moving again
1037
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and get involved in the processes.
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Starting with
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voting. We got to, if you're
1040
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,000
not registered to vote and you're listening to
1041
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,000
this podcast. And you're a Christian.
1042
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,000
My gosh. Specifically. Get off
1043
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,000
your Blessed Assurance and go register
1044
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,000
to vote. It's so simple.
1045
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,000
You can go online at gov.org.
1046
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,000
I mean it's
1047
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,000
or.gov. I mean government, I forget
1048
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,000
what it is. Just Google.
1049
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,000
I hate even saying
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00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,000
Google at this point. But anyway
1051
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,000
look up how to register to vote.
1052
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,000
It's so simple. You can do it
1053
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000
easily online.
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We're doing our voter registration drive
1055
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in our church. I think starting this next
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week. Every church should be doing that.
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Every church should be doing that. We should be registering
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believers who will
1059
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000
get out and vote for the platform
1060
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,000
that is most aligned with biblical values.
1061
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And so get out and vote.
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00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,000
There's other things that can be done
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as well. First of all we want you to vote.
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But we also want you to
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I got a few things here.
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To suit up and show up. I love what
1067
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Colby Wilt said. He's the
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Texas
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director of Citizens
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Defending Freedom. He said
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suit up and show up.
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Pastor Ron Lewis out in North Carolina
1073
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says it this way. He says live
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holy and show up. And I say let's put those two
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together. Live holy.
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Suit up and show up.
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Live holy.
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Suit up and show up.
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What does that mean show up? That means
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attention. Why not go
1081
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to a city council meeting and just listen?
1082
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And while you're listening pray
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that the Holy Spirit will invade
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that space. And that a spirit
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of revival will come on those public
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servants. We call them leaders.
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But they're really public servants.
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And we need a spirit of revival to fall on our
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public servants. Our elected officials.
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So go show up.
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Suit up. Live holy. Suit up.
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Show up. And I always say this.
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Leave your
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torch and your pitchfork
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at home.
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Don't go in
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fighting half cocked. Not knowing
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what's going on. Not really understanding
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the issues. You go in
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in a different spirit.
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And you bring the presence of God
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into those spaces.
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Show up at a school board
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meeting. Again not to fight.
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But to see
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really get a sense of what's going on.
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How about having a conversation
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00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,000
with a school board member instead of
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cutting their head off.
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00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,000
How about finding out what they're about.
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00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,000
How about praying for them by
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00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,000
name on a regular basis.
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00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,000
This goes for every arena.
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00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Another one is
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00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,000
volunteer to serve at the Patriot Academy.
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00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,000
That's local to us obviously.
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00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,000
Volunteer to work as an election official.
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00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,000
You can become an election officer.
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00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,000
It's a simple training
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where you can help
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00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,000
out with elections.
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00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,000
And we have
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the president of our
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00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,000
local Republican
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00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,000
party goes to
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00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,000
our church. Bruce
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00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,000
Coleman. Wonderful, wonderful guy.
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00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,000
Bruce Campbell. Great guy.
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00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,000
And you can
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sign up and get involved in that.
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00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,000
And I always say this. Educate yourself
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00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,000
and question everything
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00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,000
you see and hear on
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00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,000
mainstream legacy media.
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00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,000
And then here's the last one.
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00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,000
Don't think someone else will do it.
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00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,000
Someone else will step up.
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00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,000
This is on us.
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00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,000
This is our time.
1140
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000
So anyway I want to give one quote.
1141
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Enter the risk arena.
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00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,000
Totally trusting in God because of our love
1143
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,000
for Him. This is the grind.
1144
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,000
The Bible calls it being
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00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,000
conformed to the image of his son.
1146
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,000
Steve Maxwell who is the co-founder
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00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000
of Citizens Defending Freedom.
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00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,000
Well we've had an amazing time.
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00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000
I mean I hope you've gotten something
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00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,000
out of this today.
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00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,000
One of the things I want to leave with you
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00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,000
is just a scripture
1153
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,000
and it's this.
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00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,000
In Mark chapter 8 verse 27
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00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,000
Now Jesus and his disciples
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00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,000
went out to the towns of Caesarea, Philippi
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00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,000
that's just north of the
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00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,000
Sea of Galilee.
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00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,000
And on the road he
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00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,000
asked his disciples saying to them,
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00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000
Who do men say that I am?
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00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,000
So they answered John the
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00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,000
Baptist but some say Elijah and others
1164
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,000
one of the prophets. He said to
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00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000
them and this is the question I would pose
1166
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000
but who do you say that I
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00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000
am? I love that.
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00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,000
Why is that profound?
1169
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,000
Why do you think that question hits and lands
1170
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,000
so hard? Because I think that's a question that we all
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00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,000
need to ask ourselves.
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00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,000
Who is he really?
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00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,000
Who is he really? Is he just a
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00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
teacher? Is he someone
1175
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,000
that's historical?
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00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,000
That someone you've read about or heard
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00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,000
about but that's
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00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,000
all. You don't know anything
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00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,000
about him. Most people don't.
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00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,000
Most people really don't know a lot
1181
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,000
about him.
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00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,000
Unless you've really studied
1183
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,000
the word and what I love right
1184
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,000
now is we're, I'm
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00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,000
reading, I'm almost through with every
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00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,000
one of the gospels. I'm reading
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00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,000
Luke
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00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,000
right now. I'm in Luke
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00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,000
too. Not Luke chapter 2
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00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,000
but I'm in Luke as well. I am too.
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00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,000
Luke chapter 2. I love Luke.
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00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,000
But I've already read all the other ones and
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00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,000
I'm so enjoying
1194
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,000
reading the gospels
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00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,000
and understanding more
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00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000
who Jesus is through the gospels.
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00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,000
Through the lens of the
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apostles. I'm
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reading them over and over and over and
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it's just
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00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,000
what I love about the chosen
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00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,000
two.
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00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000
You see Matthew
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and John and
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00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,000
you,
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when I'm reading those
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books I see them.
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00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,000
Even though it's not real
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but it gives me context.
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00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,000
I am so
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00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,000
enjoying reading it because
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every time I read it I get
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00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,000
something else out of it. I get
1214
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,000
a nugget that I haven't received
1215
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,000
before. That's what I love about the word of God
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is you can read the same thing over
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00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,000
and over and over and receive something
1218
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,000
new every time.
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But yes I think
1220
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,000
that we all need to
1221
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,000
know who Jesus is. We need to ask
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00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,000
ourselves that question. Who
1223
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,000
is Jesus to us?
1224
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If we can't answer that
1225
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000
in a
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00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,000
way that shows relationship
1227
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,000
then we need to question
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00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,000
who He really is. We need
1229
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,000
to question do I really
1230
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,000
have that relationship with Him?
1231
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,000
Do I really have it?
1232
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,000
Or is it just someone I
1233
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,000
know of?
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00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,000
There's a big difference between
1235
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000
a husband and a friend.
1236
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,000
A big difference.
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When you were my friend
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00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,000
before you were my husband
1239
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,000
I knew bits and pieces
1240
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,000
about you.
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00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000
When you became my husband
1242
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,000
I know everything
1243
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,000
about you. I know the most
1244
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000
intimate areas
1245
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,000
of your life because you've shared
1246
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,000
those with me.
1247
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000
I've shared those with you. There's an
1248
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,000
intimacy that you and I have now
1249
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,000
that we did not have when we
1250
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,000
were boyfriend and girlfriend.
1251
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,000
That's a difference. Is He your boyfriend
1252
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,000
or is He your husband?
1253
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,000
Think about that.
1254
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,000
That just came off the top
1255
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,000
of my head.
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00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,000
It's the intimate
1257
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,000
knowledge that you can only have with someone
1258
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,000
that is your husband,
1259
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,000
that is your wife,
1260
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,000
that is your
1261
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,000
soulmate that you're spending
1262
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,000
the rest of your life with, that you've
1263
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,000
intertwined everything. We've intertwined
1264
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,000
every area of our life.
1265
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,000
That's what Jesus wants
1266
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,000
of us.
1267
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,000
I love that you day lighted that question, who is
1268
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,000
Jesus to you?
1269
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,000
That really is the question of the day.
1270
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,000
I posed that question to both
1271
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,000
services on Sunday.
1272
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,000
I've changed the way I do altar calls.
1273
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,000
I used to do it secret, man, like secret
1274
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,000
ballot. You can just pull out a card
1275
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,000
and check the box.
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00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,000
But what I'm finding
1277
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,000
is that if we will not stand
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00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,000
in a room full of people who care
1279
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,000
about you and who are cheering you on
1280
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,000
and who are for you,
1281
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,000
when it's the safest, there is
1282
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,000
no way we'll stand
1283
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,000
out there.
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00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,000
In the Baptist Church where I came up as a young,
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00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,000
I was 18 years of age,
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the preacher
1287
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would have you come forward.
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00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,000
You'd walk the aisle.
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00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,000
Man, so many churches have done
1290
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,000
away with that. There's no cost.
1291
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,000
The cost for me when I walk
1292
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,000
the aisle, the
1293
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,000
last week of my senior year of high
1294
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,000
school was all the students that knew
1295
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,000
me. They knew
1296
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,000
how wild I was. They knew
1297
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,000
that wild kid. They watched
1298
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,000
me from the back of the church get up
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00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,000
and walk all the way down
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00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,000
and tell Pastor Reese
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00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,000
that I wanted to be saved. I want Jesus
1302
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,000
in my life. I think people are afraid
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00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,000
that they're going to blow it or mess up so they don't
1304
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,000
want to stand up because they don't want
1305
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,000
to look bad if they do. Because
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00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,000
it is a process. Spoiler
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00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,000
alert, we are going to blow it. We are
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00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,000
because we're human.
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But our goal
1310
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,000
is to live the best
1311
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,000
we can and to always keep
1312
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,000
Him as Lord so that we
1313
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,000
don't blow it. And that's the
1314
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,000
power of the Holy Spirit
1315
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,000
is to empower us
1316
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,000
not to blow it.
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00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,000
He empowers us.
1318
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,000
But we have to do
1319
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,000
our part. We don't just become robots.
1320
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,000
Oh, we're Christians. That's why it's called
1321
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,000
a walk. Exactly.
1322
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,000
You walk with Him. It's a process.
1323
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,000
And it is a learning curve.
1324
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,000
Hey baby, stop bumping
1325
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,000
the table. Oh, sorry. I believe
1326
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that if we
1327
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,000
You're preaching. I know. Sorry.
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If we would see
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and help people see
1330
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,000
that when they're standing up they're not saying
1331
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,000
their perfection. They're saying
1332
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,000
now I'm going to do my best
1333
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,000
through God's help to become
1334
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,000
the person He's called me to be.
1335
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,000
That's what being a Christian is.
1336
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,000
And on Sunday when I made that call
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00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,000
and I made it hard I said
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I want you to stand to your feet. If you prayed the prayer
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to say I want Jesus to be the
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00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,000
center of my life. I've given my heart. I want
1341
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,000
to be saved. I want to be born again. I want you to stand
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00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,000
to your feet. People stood.
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00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,000
First service one person.
1344
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,000
Talk about courageous.
1345
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,000
And she wasn't a young. She was
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an adult. One adult stood.
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And I thought
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00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,000
my good Lord bless her.
1349
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,000
Oh Lord bless her.
1350
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I went over and said something to her
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00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,000
at the end. And then
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00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,000
in the second service a lot of people
1353
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,000
stood. And I just thought
1354
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you know what? If they'll stand in here
1355
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,000
and be seen
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00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,000
then they're going to stand out there.
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So kudos to everybody who gave
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their heart to Christ who said yes.
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They answered the question who
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is Jesus to me. They answered
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the question. He's now my Lord. He's
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now my Savior. It was a beautiful
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time. Well
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it's been a minute since we've done a
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podcast. I think the one thing
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I would want to say is if you do appreciate
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we invite you to go to our website
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livingupinadownworld.com
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Go there and check it out. I write a daily blog
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slash devotional. It's on there.
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They're all listed. You can just click
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on it. It says blog. Go there.
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And it's just a very short two
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to three sentences or
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small paragraphs. And daily
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word and it will encourage you
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and we want you to get in the word. And this is
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one way you can get in the word.
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Also we have all of our archives.
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This is number 70 by the way.
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Wow. Yeah. Episode 70.
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And that will be
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on there as you're hearing
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this. Of course it's on there but all the archives
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are there too. So go to our and leave a review.
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Write us a note. We'd love to
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hear from you. Where you're from. What you're up to.
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If you have any questions spiritually speaking
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we're here to encourage you on the
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journey and help you to fight the good
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fight of faith for God's glory.
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Anything to wrap it up baby? No I think
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that's good. I would just
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pose the question. Who
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is Jesus to you?
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And really ponder that. Ponder
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that question over the week.
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And decide
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is he enough? I love you
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girl. When you're
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spiritual hubba hubba. I'm always
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spiritual what are you saying?
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Alright folks
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we're out. We are living up in the
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down world. Would you do the same?
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God bless you. We love you.
