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In chains I was bound,

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I was a madman on the run.

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Through the hills

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something with power.

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Truth set me free.

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Truth came to me.

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I once was blind, and now I see

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truth

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set me free.

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Welcome to Tell the Truth, a weekly podcast

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about faith, current events, and life in general

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brought to you from Mountain View Baptist Church

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live every Monday night at 6 pm

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CST.

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And welcome back this week, everyone. It is

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so good to be back, and we've got

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everybody here tonight Yeah. Which we've been, missing

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out just a touch the last several weeks.

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We've had to go down to just 2

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of us, but so nice to have everybody

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back.

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Brother Dennis, how you doing tonight? Doing alright.

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Doing alright.

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Just just it's Monday. You know? We're we're

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getting cranked up. Yeah. Hey. Best way to

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kick off the week is,

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to be doing alright at the beginning of

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the week because, you know, that means that

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you won't be doing too bad at the

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end of the week. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There

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you go. Alright. And brother Brian, how are

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you doing tonight? Doing good. Doing good. Just,

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like, to reiterate what Dennis said, it's Monday,

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and so we're just trying

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to take care of the Monday blues and

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set the tone for the rest of the

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week.

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Alright. And I think tonight,

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brother Brian, you had,

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you had you had the opportunity this weekend

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to speak over

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one of the best men that I've ever

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known. Yeah.

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Uh-uh brother Chet Schenkels.

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He was the 1st pastor I have any

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real memories of here at Mountain View Baptist

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Church.

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I grew up here and, I'm sure we

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had at least 1 or 2 others before

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brother Chet came along, but he's the one

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I remember

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being one of our earliest pastors,

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and,

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always had a word of encouragement. Never never

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once that I made him that he wasn't

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asking me, hey. How's the music going? How

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are you are you still doing this? Are

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you still I mean, all the way up

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until just a few years ago when I

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saw him, and I know he was having

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trouble remembering things. But he knew me, and

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he was asking questions just like he always

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did.

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And one of the things that you did

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at his at the funeral was you talked

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about leaving a legacy. You talked about

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being the building block and not a stumbling

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block to people, and I think we're gonna

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expound on that a little tonight. Yeah. I

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I I mentioned it to Dennis today, and

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he's like, yeah. Let's let's we'll we'll go

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that way. It sounds good. And,

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so yesterday at the funeral, I and just

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and and building up to the funeral, when

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they asked me first of all, when they

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asked me to be a part,

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we are of this funeral, this is my

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wife's granddaddy,

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her dad's dad,

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who's been a a pastor, preacher, been in

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the ministry for over 50 years.

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One of the greatest men of God that

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I've known. I talk about my dad a

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lot. My dad was,

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you know, the biggest spiritual influence in my

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life, and I told him yesterday at the

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funeral,

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I said, I guess. And I don't know

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that this is good that I always do

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this, but I I I guess I compare

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people to dad in a way,

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spiritually, you know, I kept you know what

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kind of person they are. Dad was very

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humble,

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very kind,

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and and just seemed to

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always say the right thing at the right

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time. He was,

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he was slow to speak and,

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you know, he he was quick to listen.

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this is this is something that that brother

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a lot his friends called him Chek. Now

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his grandkids

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called him Beephu,

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and his his grandson, Brian, he expanded on

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that a little bit yesterday,

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of

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kinda where the origin of Beephu come in.

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It's actually kind of a Hebrew origin,

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with a couple of words that are put

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together.

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But, but, anyway,

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I I don't have it all in front

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of me right now, but it basically means

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grandfather, but it's it's it's more than that.

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It's somebody who encompasses all that a grandfather

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is. It,

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somebody who is

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who is, well,

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I guess rounded in in just,

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being there for their kids, for their grandkids,

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for, you know, just just that special person,

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and that's who he was.

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My wife loved him dearly. All of his

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grandkids and his kids loved him dearly.

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I've never seen him,

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or heard him say a harsh word,

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and so I just couldn't think of anything,

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yesterday really more to

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to honor him

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than than

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the life that he's preached.

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He preached his funeral. We say that a

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lot. You know?

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Somebody that lives like that, they preach their

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own funeral.

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And the Lord took me to there's several

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verses that we can go to, and and

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brother Dennis may have several too, but there

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there's several verses that we can go to.

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And the Lord took me to Ephesians chapter

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And and the first part of that, the

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first part of Ephesians chapter 2,

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well, really, the whole the whole chapter of

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Ephesians chapter 2

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is talking about, basically,

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we were

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here, but now, Lord, you've brought us here.

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We were once this, but now we are

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this.

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It's it's about transformation.

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change. It's about rebirth.

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not being the old man but being the

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new man

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and so that's really what what chapter 2

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deals with,

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now don't get me wrong because ultimately, we're

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talking about the lord Jesus Christ here and

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what he's done and how he come before

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us,

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but not just him.

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We have to think about I I'm here

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there's been people before me

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who planted these seeds, who built upon what

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ancestors and people before them. And so verse

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20 in Ephesians chapter 2 says,

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well, let me back up to verse 19.

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Now therefore you are no more strangers and

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foreigners, but fellow citizens

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with the saints

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and of the household of God

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and are built upon the foundation of the

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apostles, the prophets,

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Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone.

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just really being someone who lines up with

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that chief cornerstone because the cornerstone

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is is the most important part of a

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building. Right? It's it's your starting point.

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It's what makes everything else

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line up and be symmetrical and be, you

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know, what the way it's supposed to be

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square.

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Right? And and if you don't have that

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cornerstone and you get away from that cornerstone,

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then you just end up with just going

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every which way but loose.

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so that's that's kinda where the Lord brought

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to as far as his funeral yesterday.

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and the other Brian, his, his grandson, man,

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he preached to us much better message than

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I did, and he just done an awesome

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job. Just the 2 messages, I guess, just

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built upon each other, and we didn't have

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a clue what each other were gonna preach.

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And what the Lord used used both of

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And so, yeah. So so he he built

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a foundation,

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that his kids, that his grandkids,

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that his great grandkids,

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and now,

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almost,

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when when when my daughter Tatum has,

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when she has little Miller in in April

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or March, excuse me,

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great great grandkids, you know, that he's passed

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along. And so, you know, and I said

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that he

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he reminded me

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when I do that comparison that maybe I

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shouldn't do, but he reminded me a lot

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of my dad. He reminded me a lot

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of his humbleness and and his willingness to

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to pour into people and and, so, yeah,

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I just thought a lot of him and

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this got my mind going, you know. We

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we we're gonna leave some things behind. We're

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gonna leave a house maybe. We're gonna leave

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maybe a little bit of money in the

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bank, probably not much. Our kids, you're out

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of luck. But, anyway,

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there's there's things that we're gonna leave behind,

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some clothes that they're probably gonna get rid

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of and take to goodwill,

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but what are you gonna leave behind that's

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substantial? What are you gonna leave behind that's

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everlasting? What are you gonna leave behind that's

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not hay and stubble that's gonna burn up

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one day? And the only thing that we

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can say that we're gonna leave behind that's

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that's everlasting is what we do for Christ,

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and and we pass that down through the

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generations.

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Amen. It makes, it makes, the stuff we

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do all day every day kinda meaningless in

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the in the long run. It really does.

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You know, I used to work with a

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He he used to talk about his legacy,

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and it was about work.

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And I thought, man, that's that's not good.

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You know? After he's been retired a few

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years, he's gonna be forgotten. That's right. Yeah.

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And we wanna go after stuff that's not

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forgotten. Yeah. You know, and it's not it's

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not work. It's not money. It's not fame.

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It's not power. It's not the stuff that

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we have. It's it's

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the stuff that that we allow God to

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grow inside of us. Yeah. Yeah. Amen. Amen.

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You know, the Galatians 5 thing, you know,

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it just always pops up to me, the

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fruit of spirit. Right? That's all the stuff

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that God's trying to grow in us. Yeah.

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live in that stuff, and see somebody yielded

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to God, and that stuff's just blooming inside

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of them. Yeah. It pours out. It does.

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It does. It comes out of of every

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part of them. Yeah.

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Yeah. So I I don't know, man. It's

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just

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I I don't know that I have that

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many people in my life or or, anybody

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that that I can look up to that

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way. You know? I I it's kinda sad,

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I guess. But I wanna be that person.

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Yeah. Amen. You know, that that my son

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can go, mhmm. Yeah. He followed God. He

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he was a Jesus follower. Yeah. Amen. And

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and that's what we should all aspire to.

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Absolutely. Absolutely.

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And and I can count on one hand,

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you know, those people, and and,

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and he just, I was thankful

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and blessed that he was one of them.

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But, yeah, he he you can see it

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in his kids. You can see it in

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in their commitment to Christ, you know,

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and so

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that's that's that's what we're after.

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Proverbs chapter 13 verse 22.

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A good man

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leaveth an inheritance to his children,

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and the wealth of the sinner is laid

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up for the just.

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And and so when you when you first

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read that, you're thinking, okay. He's leaving something

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behind. So has he left them money? Has

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he left them wealth? Has he left them

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a good house?

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But then it goes on to say

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that the wealth of the sinner is laid

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up for the just. In other words,

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their things are monetary. Those those those people

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who didn't follow Christ, that's all they have

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and and you've got generations,

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after generations of dysfunctional rich people. Yeah. Right?

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Absolutely. And I'm not saying there's any there's

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there's a sin to be rich. I'm not

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saying the sin to be wealthy, but what

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I'm saying is you you you look around

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and you see,

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you see these these families that have been

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wealthy for generations,

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but there there there's divorces. There's,

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there's there's infidelity.

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There's,

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there's drunkenness. There's drug used to be. That

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can happen in any family. Don't get me

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wrong. I'm not but but a lot of

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times when that is their only when that's

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their only go or that's their only is

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to is to acquire wealth and

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to pass that wealth down to the next

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generation

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so that they didn't have to work for

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it. You know, a lot of times that

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spoils them, but,

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but it's it's it's not

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it's not eternal. It's nothing that lasts forever.

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No. It brings it brings joy for a

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while. Right? Yeah. And and but you get

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to this point where, well, I'm I'm financially

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independent. You know, I don't need anybody. I

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don't need anything. I've got it made. Right?

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But the win's enough. Exactly. Debt is never

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enough. Yeah. And and you're you end up

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trusting yourself or trusting your money or trusting

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your your situation more than you trust God.

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Yourself or trusting your money or trusting your

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your situation more than you trust God, and

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it leads you to the weeds. It does.

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It really does. It can't be the other

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way. Yeah. And there's there's nothing wrong with

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wanting to leave

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some things behind to make it a little

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easier on the pure thing. That that's a

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good thing. And we're not saying that,

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but goodness, if you have to choose,

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choose to leave godly things behind. Choose to

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leave things

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that point to Christ because all these other

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things we leave, you know, like like y'all

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were saying,

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it it's ephemeral. It's it's not permanent. It

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doesn't last because the thing is you can

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leave your family a mansion or 1,000,000,000 of

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dollars. Mhmm. It's not gonna take but a

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few generations, and that's gonna be gone.

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Those billions you left them

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are gone within a few generations. Even if

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they still have billions, it's a different billions.

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It's not the same. It had to be

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used and be

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spent to make more or else wasted.

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And either way, it's gone. But the things

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of God, the things of Christ,

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they're permanent. They they go with us. They

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they carry us through

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everything we experience in life and knowing where

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to look and and who to look towards.

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You know, I I would much rather my

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kids be able to look back and say,

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you know, I remember those times that dad

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could have been a little bit harsher, could

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have been a little bit rougher, but he

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showed me that love. He showed me that

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grace, and he showed me what love and

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grace was.

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How do I fail at it a lot?

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But I wanna be the person that shows

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that to my kids and lets them know

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this is who, you know, this is the

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love that God shows us. This is the

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love that God gave us for each other

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and for those around us. Amen. We'll preach

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our own funeral while we're alive. Right? That's

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it. That's it.

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Don't make it hard on the preacher. I've

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said that so many times. You know, if

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you live the life that God's given him

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in the direction that God has given you

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to go in, and, and then when you

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get to that point, whoever's gotta preach your

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funeral, whoever's gotta stand over you.

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Somebody asked me yesterday, are you nervous about

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having to preach his funeral? Well, I mean,

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you know, I guess in some ways I

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mean, he was such a great man of

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god, and he and he influenced so many

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people.

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And I certainly did not want to,

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to discredit that in any way or demean

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that or diminish that in any way, you

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know, make it lesser than in any way.

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I wanted to make it what it was,

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and and so I I wanted to make

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sure, you know, that I was following the

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Lord and doing a good job at that.

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But as far as having something to say,

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that was easy. I mean, you know, that

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was easy,

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because this guy had lived it out. This

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guy had given,

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Christ his all. He had he had he

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had raised his family in it. He had,

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he had led his wife in it and

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and, you know, his his,

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his first wife passed away, and then he

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married another lady that was just a great

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woman of God also. And and then he

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continued to lead her in Christ. And, man,

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he was just known

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so many, across the board, so many people.

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I didn't even realize yes till yesterday.

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I mean, I knew he knew a lot

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of people, but, man, I mean,

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it was at Victory Baptist here in in

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Rainesville, and,

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the amount of people that showed up and

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and just, just to support the family. And,

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one at one point during the sermon, I

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I I said, you know, how many people

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in here can say that

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that check shankles, that's what they called him,

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how many peep

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excuse me,

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could say that,

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he touched them in some way or affected

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them in a good way. And, I mean,

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there wasn't there wasn't anybody in there that

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didn't raise their hand. Yeah. You know, that

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was the man he was. It makes it

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easy when you can point to somebody's life

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and say that that's what the gospel looks

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like. Right? Versus versus the other. The the

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opposite end of this thing where there there

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ain't a sign of the gospel anywhere. Yeah.

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You know, that's that's tough. Yeah. You just

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have to share the gospel in a funeral

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like that. Right? That that's all you can

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do. Yeah. That's all you can do. And

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and we both

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still kinda shared the gospel yesterday because there's

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always gonna be people there who need to

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hear it. But Yeah. But it it was

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a

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it was a time, yeah, we were sad.

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He was 90 years old, by the way.

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Yeah. And, and the way he added that

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up, he was 9. He would my wife

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just turned 46. She'll kill me for saying

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that, but my wife just turned 46 and

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and so he told her even in the

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hospital before he died, he was joking around

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and and and she's he said, how old

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are you? And she said, 10. And he

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said, you're older than I am, you know,

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because 64 is 10. That's how he that's

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how he determined that. But he was just

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a funny guy, and he was always joking

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around, but he was always telling the grandkids

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how much he loved them. And,

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but, yeah, I mean, I've I've had funerals

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where I went up to the to the

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to the kids and said, you you know,

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is there any special thing you want me

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to say about your dad or, you know,

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any memories you want me to share? You

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know, I

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don't know. He

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I mean, he he had that boat, and

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he really liked to fish. And,

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you know, he was he was always on

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the water and

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yeah.

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Yeah. You know, just

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silence, you know. I mean,

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and it's just like, well,

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so I'm like Eunice. I I wanna be

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that man. You know? I want to be

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that man. Not so that not so that

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somebody can talk really good about me at

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my funeral but but so that so that

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they can

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they can have they can understand why was

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he like that. Well he was like that

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because not cause he was good because going

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back to Ephesians 2, you know, going back

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to the scripture that I read before,

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I mean, again, you were once here.

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Verse 3 says among whom also we had

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our conversation in times past in the lust

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of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the

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flesh and of the mind, and were by

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nature the children of wrath even as others.

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But God Right. Who is rich in mercy

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for his great love wherewith he loved us

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even when we were dead in our sins

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hath quickened us together with Christ,

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and by grace you are saved. And so

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it gives us this contrast. It gives us

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this this two sided coin of this is

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who I used to be, but that's not

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who I am anymore. You know? And that's

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what I want my kids to see.

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I'm honest with them. Hey, this is who

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I used to be, but that's not who

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I am anymore. Right. And this is who

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I want you to see. This is the

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path I want you to see me walk.

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And I wanna be able to say to

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you like Paul was bold enough to say,

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hey, follow me and do this, and you're

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gonna be okay. Yeah. Yeah. And it's kinda

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but it's gotta be real though. Right? I

533
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mean, there's so many Christians out there that

534
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just want to have a lot of people

535
00:19:16,250 --> 00:19:17,865
at their funeral, it seems like. You know?

536
00:19:18,184 --> 00:19:18,984
But it's

537
00:19:19,865 --> 00:19:21,464
I I don't I don't hesitate to call

538
00:19:21,464 --> 00:19:22,365
anybody phony,

539
00:19:22,904 --> 00:19:24,345
but there are a lot of Pharisees out

540
00:19:24,345 --> 00:19:25,704
there, you know, a lot of folks that

541
00:19:25,704 --> 00:19:27,304
that pretend to be more righteous than they

542
00:19:27,304 --> 00:19:29,065
really are, but it this has got has

543
00:19:29,065 --> 00:19:30,424
got to be real, and you can tell

544
00:19:30,424 --> 00:19:32,585
when somebody's really got a walk of Christ.

545
00:19:32,585 --> 00:19:35,279
Genuinely. Yeah. It's it's their motives are pure,

546
00:19:35,279 --> 00:19:37,919
and everything's just just seems right. You know?

547
00:19:37,919 --> 00:19:40,019
We can discern that sometimes. Absolutely.

548
00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:42,900
Absolutely. I I don't know. I don't know.

549
00:19:43,599 --> 00:19:45,039
That's where I wanna be. I I I

550
00:19:45,039 --> 00:19:47,359
wanna I want people I wanna be able

551
00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:49,279
to look back and go, how how many

552
00:19:49,279 --> 00:19:53,065
lives did Jesus touch through me? Mhmm. Right?

553
00:19:53,065 --> 00:19:55,224
Right. Right. And and not just I forced

554
00:19:55,224 --> 00:19:57,965
it on somebody. Yeah. Yeah. Amen. Amen.

555
00:19:58,424 --> 00:20:00,105
Well, when I go back to, you know,

556
00:20:00,105 --> 00:20:01,785
a few weeks ago, I used the phrase

557
00:20:01,785 --> 00:20:04,599
that, you know, you had Saul that thought

558
00:20:04,599 --> 00:20:05,099
himself

559
00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:05,980
righteous.

560
00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:08,599
Saul was sinner that truly believed he was

561
00:20:08,599 --> 00:20:10,839
right he was a righteous man. Probably a

562
00:20:10,839 --> 00:20:13,000
jerk. Right. And, oh, yeah. He was probably

563
00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,505
not Yeah. The nicest person. I I mean,

564
00:20:15,505 --> 00:20:16,944
when you read about the things that he

565
00:20:16,944 --> 00:20:18,724
took part in, the things that he was

566
00:20:18,865 --> 00:20:20,964
very happy to do for the, for the,

567
00:20:21,184 --> 00:20:22,484
the religious leaders

568
00:20:22,785 --> 00:20:25,204
there in Jerusalem at the time in persecuting

569
00:20:25,265 --> 00:20:25,765
Christians.

570
00:20:26,785 --> 00:20:29,184
And then he, then when he becomes Paul,

571
00:20:29,184 --> 00:20:30,565
when Christ comes along,

572
00:20:31,039 --> 00:20:31,940
breaks him down,

573
00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:33,220
remolds him,

574
00:20:33,759 --> 00:20:34,960
the man that comes out on the other

575
00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:36,880
side says, oh man, there's none of us

576
00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,599
righteous. Yeah. My righteousness is just filthy rags.

577
00:20:39,599 --> 00:20:40,819
This man that truly

578
00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:41,940
viewed himself

579
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,019
as being the best of the best,

580
00:20:44,484 --> 00:20:46,085
I'm where God wants me to be. I'm

581
00:20:46,085 --> 00:20:47,684
doing the things God wants me to do.

582
00:20:47,684 --> 00:20:49,224
I am I am

583
00:20:49,764 --> 00:20:50,264
going

584
00:20:50,644 --> 00:20:52,984
to go wherever God wants me to go.

585
00:20:53,125 --> 00:20:55,204
And then he met God and went, oh,

586
00:20:55,204 --> 00:20:57,684
I'm nothing. Yeah. I was I was wrong.

587
00:20:57,684 --> 00:20:59,764
That's true. Yeah. I mean, that's and that

588
00:20:59,764 --> 00:21:01,900
is that's the that is part of our

589
00:21:01,900 --> 00:21:03,660
legacy. It is. Being able to look at

590
00:21:03,660 --> 00:21:05,259
our kids and look at our family and

591
00:21:05,259 --> 00:21:06,700
look at our friends and say, look. This

592
00:21:06,700 --> 00:21:08,000
is the person I was.

593
00:21:08,299 --> 00:21:11,340
I thought myself righteous. I thought myself something

594
00:21:11,340 --> 00:21:11,840
great.

595
00:21:12,394 --> 00:21:13,674
And then I met a man that proved

596
00:21:13,674 --> 00:21:14,974
to me that I was nothing,

597
00:21:15,514 --> 00:21:17,115
and it is only through him that we

598
00:21:17,115 --> 00:21:19,115
are great. Yeah. And every time the Lord

599
00:21:19,115 --> 00:21:21,274
changed somebody's names in the Bible from Abraham

600
00:21:21,274 --> 00:21:21,934
to Abraham,

601
00:21:23,194 --> 00:21:24,335
he was he was

602
00:21:24,679 --> 00:21:26,599
he was showing that contrast. He was showing,

603
00:21:26,599 --> 00:21:28,200
okay. You were here, but now I'm gonna

604
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:29,640
take you and I'm gonna I'm gonna bring

605
00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,079
you to here. Yeah. You got a new

606
00:21:31,079 --> 00:21:32,440
name. We got a new name waiting on

607
00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,119
us. Yes. We do. That's awesome. Amen. I

608
00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:35,019
hate my name.

609
00:21:36,279 --> 00:21:39,065
But my name's it's it's bold. It's it's

610
00:21:39,065 --> 00:21:41,464
dirty. It's it's rotten. Right. Yeah. We get

611
00:21:41,464 --> 00:21:42,825
a new name, and that that says a

612
00:21:42,825 --> 00:21:43,325
lot.

613
00:21:44,024 --> 00:21:46,424
And, I mean, even here, even before we

614
00:21:46,424 --> 00:21:48,264
get our new names, you know, it it

615
00:21:48,744 --> 00:21:50,424
was it second Timothy that tells us that

616
00:21:50,424 --> 00:21:52,284
we are new creatures? We are new creations.

617
00:21:52,750 --> 00:21:53,250
Sure.

618
00:21:54,269 --> 00:21:56,429
And that within Christ, we are we are

619
00:21:56,429 --> 00:21:57,569
made new. And

620
00:21:58,190 --> 00:21:59,650
we have to be willing

621
00:22:00,190 --> 00:22:01,630
to tell people that. We have to be

622
00:22:01,630 --> 00:22:03,069
willing to say that and show it and

623
00:22:03,069 --> 00:22:04,909
live it. Live it. And that that's the

624
00:22:04,909 --> 00:22:07,089
thing. It's that living it part because,

625
00:22:07,775 --> 00:22:09,214
you know, you heard that, you know, a

626
00:22:09,214 --> 00:22:11,234
picture is worth a 1,000 words.

627
00:22:12,575 --> 00:22:14,255
Well, let's not worry about the picture. Let's

628
00:22:14,255 --> 00:22:16,674
worry about what people are experiencing.

629
00:22:17,134 --> 00:22:19,534
The experience of you is worth all the

630
00:22:19,534 --> 00:22:22,210
writing, all the pictures, all the the things

631
00:22:22,210 --> 00:22:23,669
that can be said about you,

632
00:22:24,049 --> 00:22:26,149
and what we want to do

633
00:22:27,250 --> 00:22:29,329
and strive to do. And and part of

634
00:22:29,329 --> 00:22:29,829
our

635
00:22:30,529 --> 00:22:32,630
growth as Christians is coming to the realization

636
00:22:32,690 --> 00:22:34,630
that salvation is the easy part.

637
00:22:35,375 --> 00:22:37,955
Everything after that is striving to be more

638
00:22:38,095 --> 00:22:41,455
like him. Yeah. And and we I think

639
00:22:41,455 --> 00:22:43,795
sometimes that as Christians, we tend to

640
00:22:44,815 --> 00:22:46,494
we kinda let that fall by the wayside

641
00:22:46,494 --> 00:22:47,315
a little bit

642
00:22:47,849 --> 00:22:48,349
because,

643
00:22:48,650 --> 00:22:50,250
you know, it's real easy to talk about

644
00:22:50,250 --> 00:22:52,109
all these things and make our checklists.

645
00:22:52,890 --> 00:22:54,890
You know, Christ didn't have a checklist. His

646
00:22:54,890 --> 00:22:57,130
checklist was, I need to go and witness.

647
00:22:57,130 --> 00:22:58,170
I need to go and tell. I need

648
00:22:58,170 --> 00:22:59,289
to go and preach. I need to go

649
00:22:59,289 --> 00:23:01,164
and tell these people why why this is

650
00:23:01,164 --> 00:23:02,684
wrong, and I need to show them. And

651
00:23:02,684 --> 00:23:05,644
then he lived it every single day. Yeah.

652
00:23:05,644 --> 00:23:08,684
And and his his his disciples once after

653
00:23:08,684 --> 00:23:10,525
the resurrection now I'm gonna be honest. I

654
00:23:10,525 --> 00:23:12,045
mean, he preached on this or

655
00:23:12,525 --> 00:23:14,205
Scott preached on this a little bit Sunday

656
00:23:14,205 --> 00:23:15,825
about Peter and how he was.

657
00:23:16,150 --> 00:23:18,470
Prior to the resurrection, Peter was still pretty

658
00:23:18,470 --> 00:23:20,410
rough even though he had walked with Christ

659
00:23:20,630 --> 00:23:22,390
every day. I mean, he cut a man's

660
00:23:22,390 --> 00:23:24,309
ear off when they showed up to to

661
00:23:24,309 --> 00:23:25,130
arrest Jesus,

662
00:23:25,750 --> 00:23:27,109
and he was still a little bit rough

663
00:23:27,109 --> 00:23:27,769
and tumble.

664
00:23:28,454 --> 00:23:29,835
And then after the resurrection,

665
00:23:31,255 --> 00:23:33,015
man. Yeah. I mean, he was out there,

666
00:23:33,015 --> 00:23:34,534
and he was going, okay. It's Christ. It's

667
00:23:34,534 --> 00:23:36,855
Christ. It's Christ. It's Christ, guys. It's Christ.

668
00:23:36,855 --> 00:23:37,355
Yeah.

669
00:23:37,894 --> 00:23:39,034
Amen. Amen.

670
00:23:39,894 --> 00:23:40,394
Yep.

671
00:23:41,950 --> 00:23:43,490
So we Matthew,

672
00:23:44,029 --> 00:23:44,850
chapter 5,

673
00:23:45,309 --> 00:23:46,210
verse 16,

674
00:23:46,910 --> 00:23:48,910
let your light so shine before men that

675
00:23:48,910 --> 00:23:50,930
they may see your good works and glorify

676
00:23:51,070 --> 00:23:52,529
your father which is in heaven.

677
00:23:53,230 --> 00:23:54,049
Just another,

678
00:23:55,265 --> 00:23:57,525
really, a verse about legacy. Right? I mean,

679
00:23:57,585 --> 00:24:00,384
let your light shine so that, what you're

680
00:24:00,384 --> 00:24:02,544
leaving behind or what they're following, you can

681
00:24:02,544 --> 00:24:04,704
light, basically, your light in their way. And

682
00:24:04,704 --> 00:24:06,144
I think that's what we're supposed to do

683
00:24:06,144 --> 00:24:07,605
to our children, to our coworkers,

684
00:24:08,740 --> 00:24:10,679
to to our friends, to family,

685
00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:13,960
whoever it may be. We should be shining

686
00:24:14,259 --> 00:24:16,099
a light in the darkness because there's so

687
00:24:16,099 --> 00:24:18,500
much darkness out there. There's plenty enough room

688
00:24:18,660 --> 00:24:20,954
Yeah. For for people who are who are

689
00:24:20,954 --> 00:24:22,794
not shining a light at all and they're

690
00:24:22,794 --> 00:24:23,855
stumbling around.

691
00:24:24,315 --> 00:24:26,095
And and if I'm in the darkness

692
00:24:26,554 --> 00:24:28,875
and my kids are following me and I

693
00:24:28,875 --> 00:24:30,714
trip up, guess what? They're gonna trip up

694
00:24:30,714 --> 00:24:32,554
over me. And that was kind of my

695
00:24:32,554 --> 00:24:34,794
thing yesterday. You know, either you're a stumbling

696
00:24:34,794 --> 00:24:36,335
block or you're a building block.

697
00:24:37,009 --> 00:24:38,470
You're either someone who,

698
00:24:39,169 --> 00:24:42,630
who who that, you're following the chief cornerstone

699
00:24:43,490 --> 00:24:45,889
and and your life is something that can

700
00:24:45,889 --> 00:24:49,190
be built upon, that there's a solid foundation

701
00:24:49,409 --> 00:24:51,625
that your kids can can look at and

702
00:24:51,625 --> 00:24:53,625
say okay I can I can follow this,

703
00:24:53,625 --> 00:24:55,484
I can do the things that dad done,

704
00:24:55,704 --> 00:24:57,305
and and maybe I can do them even

705
00:24:57,305 --> 00:24:57,805
better,

706
00:24:58,904 --> 00:25:01,065
but he gave me something to follow? He

707
00:25:01,065 --> 00:25:03,085
gave me something to to,

708
00:25:03,545 --> 00:25:04,525
to go after,

709
00:25:04,900 --> 00:25:06,740
And that that's that's just what I want.

710
00:25:06,740 --> 00:25:08,519
I want I want that for my kids.

711
00:25:08,980 --> 00:25:11,160
I I want that that legacy

712
00:25:12,259 --> 00:25:15,220
of Christ in me to live on. Not

713
00:25:15,220 --> 00:25:15,960
of Brian,

714
00:25:16,339 --> 00:25:18,099
but of Christ in me. I want them

715
00:25:18,099 --> 00:25:20,444
to look and say, you know what, man?

716
00:25:20,984 --> 00:25:22,605
There's some people who changed,

717
00:25:23,304 --> 00:25:25,224
because of dad, and I wanna be I

718
00:25:25,224 --> 00:25:27,005
can remember at my dad's funeral.

719
00:25:28,184 --> 00:25:28,684
And

720
00:25:29,544 --> 00:25:31,625
I've talked about this before, but I can

721
00:25:31,625 --> 00:25:32,764
remember at his funeral,

722
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:34,859
just

723
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,399
tons of people walking up telling me the

724
00:25:37,399 --> 00:25:39,259
same story. Hey. You know, your dad,

725
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,159
you know, he was this and he was

726
00:25:41,159 --> 00:25:42,519
this and he said this to me and

727
00:25:42,519 --> 00:25:44,599
he was always the same everywhere he went

728
00:25:44,599 --> 00:25:46,599
and, you know, the I told you the

729
00:25:46,599 --> 00:25:47,295
story about

730
00:25:47,855 --> 00:25:49,535
the the the lady who got saved in

731
00:25:49,535 --> 00:25:51,075
his Sunday school class that,

732
00:25:51,535 --> 00:25:54,335
sent him sent the flowers or the wreath

733
00:25:54,335 --> 00:25:56,734
at at, at the funeral that said I

734
00:25:56,734 --> 00:25:58,654
was alive. It was changed, you know, Sunday

735
00:25:58,654 --> 00:25:59,634
school 1977.

736
00:26:01,055 --> 00:26:03,960
That I mean, those are what dad dad

737
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:05,480
was a he was a smart guy. He

738
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:06,700
was electrical engineer.

739
00:26:07,799 --> 00:26:09,259
You know, he he

740
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,559
he was he was a great employee for

741
00:26:11,559 --> 00:26:13,799
the for the, co op that he worked

742
00:26:13,799 --> 00:26:15,865
for. You know, he could he was a

743
00:26:15,865 --> 00:26:18,345
great numbers guy. He could draft. He was

744
00:26:18,424 --> 00:26:20,265
I mean, he had so many different talents.

745
00:26:20,265 --> 00:26:21,704
He could he could work on the engine.

746
00:26:21,704 --> 00:26:22,744
He could build a house. I mean, he

747
00:26:22,744 --> 00:26:24,044
was just that type of guy

748
00:26:24,825 --> 00:26:26,525
and so much smarter than me,

749
00:26:26,904 --> 00:26:29,319
but but that's not the things people are

750
00:26:29,319 --> 00:26:31,720
gonna remember. No. That's not what I remember.

751
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,720
I mean, I I think about those things

752
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:35,160
and the and the things that he taught

753
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,579
me, but but what I remember most

754
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,025
are are the are the god ly things

755
00:26:40,025 --> 00:26:41,164
that dad just imputed into me and

756
00:26:42,984 --> 00:26:43,132
and in my life. Well, that's the thing,

757
00:26:43,132 --> 00:26:43,784
I guess, with with, people who aren't saved

758
00:26:43,784 --> 00:26:45,144
and don't have saved parents and then just

759
00:26:45,144 --> 00:26:47,384
don't know any of this stuff is that's

760
00:26:47,384 --> 00:26:49,065
really all they got to hang on to.

761
00:26:49,065 --> 00:26:50,505
You know, my dad was an awesome mechanic

762
00:26:50,505 --> 00:26:51,865
or my dad was a great fisherman or

763
00:26:52,424 --> 00:26:52,924
Yeah.

764
00:26:55,339 --> 00:26:57,420
All these different things. And and, man, it's

765
00:26:57,420 --> 00:26:57,920
just

766
00:26:58,940 --> 00:27:01,339
when you start comparing it to eternity, it's

767
00:27:01,339 --> 00:27:03,579
so empty. Yeah. It is. It really is

768
00:27:03,579 --> 00:27:04,640
sad, isn't it? It

769
00:27:05,180 --> 00:27:05,920
is. It's sad.

770
00:27:06,380 --> 00:27:07,099
It's sad,

771
00:27:07,660 --> 00:27:09,420
that it's sad that you look back and

772
00:27:09,420 --> 00:27:10,974
say, well, I know.

773
00:27:11,355 --> 00:27:13,755
What am I gonna say? Yeah. I mean,

774
00:27:13,755 --> 00:27:15,355
like you said, you just end up at

775
00:27:15,355 --> 00:27:17,755
those type funerals. You end up you just

776
00:27:17,755 --> 00:27:19,515
share the gospel and comfort the family. I

777
00:27:19,515 --> 00:27:21,195
mean, that's that's that's all you can do

778
00:27:21,195 --> 00:27:23,994
during that time. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Step

779
00:27:23,994 --> 00:27:26,190
on some toes pretty hard in the process.

780
00:27:26,809 --> 00:27:28,909
You know? But it's gotta be done.

781
00:27:29,369 --> 00:27:30,589
It's gotta be done.

782
00:27:30,970 --> 00:27:33,130
If we withhold the gospel, that's not loving

783
00:27:33,130 --> 00:27:35,369
one another. No. Right? It's gotta be in

784
00:27:35,369 --> 00:27:36,909
truth. It's gotta be in love.

785
00:27:37,375 --> 00:27:39,054
But, yeah. I had to preach a funeral

786
00:27:39,054 --> 00:27:40,494
like that a couple of years ago, and

787
00:27:40,494 --> 00:27:42,974
it was just it's awful. Yeah. Yeah. It'd

788
00:27:42,974 --> 00:27:44,654
be interesting. You know, you got somebody that

789
00:27:44,654 --> 00:27:46,974
stands up. Somebody stood up before me and

790
00:27:46,974 --> 00:27:48,894
told all these wild stories, and I'm like,

791
00:27:48,894 --> 00:27:50,815
ugh. Yeah. What do you do with that?

792
00:27:50,815 --> 00:27:52,894
You know? Yeah. And and I just get

793
00:27:52,894 --> 00:27:54,799
up and have to start preaching the gospel.

794
00:27:55,259 --> 00:27:58,059
Yeah. And and hardly anybody shakes my hand

795
00:27:58,059 --> 00:27:59,579
on the way out, you know? It's like

796
00:27:59,819 --> 00:28:00,319
Yeah.

797
00:28:00,619 --> 00:28:02,940
Yeah. They'd rather hear about What am I

798
00:28:02,940 --> 00:28:05,980
supposed to say? Right. Yeah. They'd they'd rather

799
00:28:05,980 --> 00:28:07,875
hear about Dave's fight in a bar somewhere,

800
00:28:07,875 --> 00:28:09,474
you know? Yeah. I mean, I'm not even

801
00:28:09,474 --> 00:28:11,794
saying that that person that they they busted

802
00:28:11,794 --> 00:28:13,554
hell wide open. I I didn't say that,

803
00:28:13,554 --> 00:28:15,554
but Right. At the same time, I'm not

804
00:28:15,554 --> 00:28:18,450
saying anything about them having angel wings or,

805
00:28:18,529 --> 00:28:20,130
you know, or any of this other stuff

806
00:28:20,130 --> 00:28:21,589
that other people are talking about.

807
00:28:22,690 --> 00:28:24,069
Yeah. The truth is,

808
00:28:25,809 --> 00:28:27,730
but but these people are mourning, man, and

809
00:28:27,730 --> 00:28:30,309
they're they're hopeless. I mean, there's no comforting

810
00:28:30,849 --> 00:28:33,269
people like that. That's right. That's right. Yeah.

811
00:28:35,515 --> 00:28:36,015
And

812
00:28:36,714 --> 00:28:38,315
and our kids, of course, we've talked about

813
00:28:38,315 --> 00:28:40,474
being we've talked about the whole father thing,

814
00:28:40,474 --> 00:28:42,634
and our kids are they're watching us, you

815
00:28:42,634 --> 00:28:44,634
know? No matter what age they are, they're

816
00:28:44,634 --> 00:28:45,134
looking

817
00:28:45,434 --> 00:28:47,595
they're looking to dad. They're looking to see

818
00:28:47,595 --> 00:28:49,355
what he does. They're looking to see where

819
00:28:49,355 --> 00:28:50,190
he goes, and

820
00:28:50,750 --> 00:28:52,109
and you can see the dads who

821
00:28:52,990 --> 00:28:54,690
you know there's a lot of dads that,

822
00:28:55,950 --> 00:28:58,369
that come in late and and hey

823
00:28:58,990 --> 00:29:00,990
if the Lord changes you late in life,

824
00:29:00,990 --> 00:29:03,389
look don't don't look back. Just do what

825
00:29:03,389 --> 00:29:05,389
you need to do now. From that point

826
00:29:05,389 --> 00:29:05,889
on,

827
00:29:06,565 --> 00:29:08,725
build on that and and God will make

828
00:29:08,725 --> 00:29:11,125
up the time. Right? It's like it's like

829
00:29:11,125 --> 00:29:12,404
the parable of the,

830
00:29:12,725 --> 00:29:14,484
of the workers, you know, one who came

831
00:29:14,484 --> 00:29:14,984
in,

832
00:29:16,965 --> 00:29:19,125
late in the day and and the Lord

833
00:29:19,125 --> 00:29:20,965
paid him the same same amount as he

834
00:29:20,965 --> 00:29:22,750
did the person that started that morning

835
00:29:23,049 --> 00:29:24,890
and, you know, but but God you need

836
00:29:24,890 --> 00:29:26,650
to think that that it's him that's gonna

837
00:29:26,650 --> 00:29:28,330
give the increase and it's him that's gonna

838
00:29:28,330 --> 00:29:29,150
work it out.

839
00:29:29,690 --> 00:29:32,009
And so and so don't be discouraged by

840
00:29:32,009 --> 00:29:34,330
that, but then there's dads who who start

841
00:29:34,330 --> 00:29:36,490
out maybe right and somewhere along the way,

842
00:29:36,490 --> 00:29:38,775
they they drift off or they get in,

843
00:29:38,775 --> 00:29:40,934
you know, they go off on on in

844
00:29:40,934 --> 00:29:43,115
the left field on the wrong path. And,

845
00:29:43,654 --> 00:29:45,015
now I just I just wanna if we

846
00:29:45,015 --> 00:29:47,115
could speak to you dads today, you know,

847
00:29:47,255 --> 00:29:49,414
it's not just you. Right? Right. It's not

848
00:29:49,414 --> 00:29:51,095
just you. Maybe you got hurt in church.

849
00:29:51,095 --> 00:29:53,220
Maybe there was there was some big thing

850
00:29:53,220 --> 00:29:55,140
that happened, some blow up, and it caused

851
00:29:55,140 --> 00:29:57,940
you to to to say, I don't want

852
00:29:57,940 --> 00:30:00,259
any part of that anymore, but it's not

853
00:30:00,259 --> 00:30:02,099
just about you. In fact, it's all about

854
00:30:02,099 --> 00:30:02,599
Jesus.

855
00:30:03,220 --> 00:30:05,059
And then we gotta think about our kids,

856
00:30:05,059 --> 00:30:06,825
you know. What are you giving them to

857
00:30:06,825 --> 00:30:08,825
follow? Where are you going? Are you telling

858
00:30:08,825 --> 00:30:11,224
them, hey. When life gets tough, we just

859
00:30:11,224 --> 00:30:13,065
go. You know, we just go the other

860
00:30:13,065 --> 00:30:14,984
way or are you gonna say let's stay

861
00:30:14,984 --> 00:30:17,640
with this thing because it's worth it? Every

862
00:30:17,799 --> 00:30:18,619
single trial

863
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,320
and tribulation and hard time that we go

864
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:21,820
through,

865
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,519
lead your family through it so that they

866
00:30:24,519 --> 00:30:25,960
know that it's worth it on the other

867
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:27,099
side. Absolutely.

868
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,160
Absolutely. And those guys that come late, man,

869
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,420
it it reminds me of Philippians 3 where,

870
00:30:33,244 --> 00:30:35,565
where Paul says, one thing I do, forgetting

871
00:30:35,565 --> 00:30:37,484
what lies behind and reaching forward to what

872
00:30:37,484 --> 00:30:39,644
lies ahead. Amen. I press on toward the

873
00:30:39,644 --> 00:30:41,325
goal for the prize of the upward call

874
00:30:41,325 --> 00:30:43,565
of God in Christ Jesus. Yeah. Forget what

875
00:30:43,565 --> 00:30:45,404
lies behind. That's right. I like the I

876
00:30:45,404 --> 00:30:47,549
like the analogy to golf. Right? If you're

877
00:30:47,549 --> 00:30:49,149
thinking about your last shot, you're gonna make

878
00:30:49,149 --> 00:30:50,349
another bad shot. I see it. You're just

879
00:30:50,349 --> 00:30:52,990
gonna keep compounding, you know? It's worse worse

880
00:30:52,990 --> 00:30:54,029
till you throw in your clubs in the

881
00:30:54,029 --> 00:30:56,190
lake. Yeah. But but and it's the same

882
00:30:56,190 --> 00:30:58,109
with the Christian walk. You you gotta forget

883
00:30:58,109 --> 00:31:00,029
that mistake and move on knowing that God's

884
00:31:00,029 --> 00:31:02,684
grace is sufficient. It is. Keep pushing. Amen.

885
00:31:02,845 --> 00:31:03,345
Amen.

886
00:31:04,365 --> 00:31:04,865
Proverbs

887
00:31:05,884 --> 00:31:06,384
1426

888
00:31:07,485 --> 00:31:09,644
is another one. There's so many different ones,

889
00:31:09,644 --> 00:31:10,144
but,

890
00:31:10,605 --> 00:31:11,105
1426,

891
00:31:12,045 --> 00:31:13,805
in the fear of the Lord is strong

892
00:31:13,805 --> 00:31:14,305
confidence,

893
00:31:15,230 --> 00:31:17,869
and his children shall have a place of

894
00:31:17,869 --> 00:31:19,250
refuge. So in other words,

895
00:31:19,950 --> 00:31:21,869
what you're building and what you're doing in

896
00:31:21,869 --> 00:31:24,029
your life is is giving your is giving

897
00:31:24,029 --> 00:31:25,869
your kids a place to go. It's showing

898
00:31:25,869 --> 00:31:27,330
them where to go. Yeah.

899
00:31:27,805 --> 00:31:29,325
Hey. Where did dad go when he had

900
00:31:29,325 --> 00:31:31,164
trouble? He went to the Lord. Hey. Where

901
00:31:31,164 --> 00:31:32,684
did dad go when he was trying to

902
00:31:32,684 --> 00:31:34,445
make a decision? He went to the Lord.

903
00:31:34,445 --> 00:31:36,045
Hey. Where did dad go when he didn't

904
00:31:36,045 --> 00:31:37,325
know what to do? He went to the

905
00:31:37,325 --> 00:31:40,205
Lord. Whatever it may be, and you're showing

906
00:31:40,205 --> 00:31:42,480
your kids this place of refuge, this place

907
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,019
of rest, this place of,

908
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,039
take my yoke upon you. My, you know,

909
00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:48,880
my my yoke is easy and my burden

910
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:49,539
is light.

911
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,160
We've got to show them that. Yeah. They

912
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,299
don't I mean, you know,

913
00:31:53,679 --> 00:31:55,679
especially when if you're showing it when they're

914
00:31:55,679 --> 00:31:56,559
young, I mean, that's

915
00:31:57,625 --> 00:31:59,704
we can't count on someone else to show

916
00:31:59,704 --> 00:32:01,865
our children the right way. We we can't

917
00:32:01,865 --> 00:32:02,924
count on the pastor,

918
00:32:03,304 --> 00:32:05,404
the church, the Sunday school teacher.

919
00:32:05,704 --> 00:32:07,464
That shouldn't be who we're counting on. A

920
00:32:07,464 --> 00:32:08,904
lot of I think a lot of people

921
00:32:08,904 --> 00:32:11,720
use the church and its leadership as a

922
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,359
crutch and say, well, you know, I take

923
00:32:14,359 --> 00:32:16,279
my kids to church. I don't exactly live

924
00:32:16,279 --> 00:32:17,960
like I'm supposed to, but, you know, they

925
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,240
got I make sure my kids are in

926
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,559
church every week and I make sure no.

927
00:32:21,559 --> 00:32:24,044
No. You're the front line. That's it. That's

928
00:32:24,044 --> 00:32:26,365
it. And when they're old, they will depart

929
00:32:26,365 --> 00:32:27,825
from it because they're thinking,

930
00:32:28,684 --> 00:32:30,605
dad never done this. Why should I? If

931
00:32:30,605 --> 00:32:32,044
it was if it didn't do him any

932
00:32:32,044 --> 00:32:33,404
good, why is it gonna do me any

933
00:32:33,404 --> 00:32:34,144
good? Exactly.

934
00:32:34,524 --> 00:32:35,024
Exactly.

935
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,919
I was looking for a a I know

936
00:32:38,919 --> 00:32:39,419
that

937
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,640
that that Paul had a had a son

938
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,819
in the faith. Yeah. His name was Timothy.

939
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,559
Yeah. And he had a lot of encouragement

940
00:32:45,559 --> 00:32:47,880
for Timothy, you know. And that he he

941
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,960
really he's he's the one pretty much that

942
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,804
that Paul tells, do what I'm doing. Yeah.

943
00:32:53,025 --> 00:32:55,345
Yeah. Yeah. And and the encouragement he gives

944
00:32:55,345 --> 00:32:57,204
to Timothy is just such a huge thing.

945
00:32:57,984 --> 00:32:58,804
Amen. Amen.

946
00:33:00,464 --> 00:33:00,964
Joel,

947
00:33:01,904 --> 00:33:03,365
1 verse 3,

948
00:33:04,065 --> 00:33:05,984
it basically says tell it to your children.

949
00:33:05,984 --> 00:33:07,880
Let your children children tell it to their

950
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,700
children and their children to the next generation.

951
00:33:10,759 --> 00:33:11,986
Yeah. You know, it's just

952
00:33:12,413 --> 00:33:13,960
it it it what you're affecting

953
00:33:15,159 --> 00:33:17,019
your your legacy with Christ

954
00:33:17,799 --> 00:33:20,119
and what you're leaving behind, your inheritance that

955
00:33:20,119 --> 00:33:21,179
you're leaving behind

956
00:33:21,559 --> 00:33:22,299
in Christ

957
00:33:22,625 --> 00:33:25,205
will last so much longer than any monetary

958
00:33:25,585 --> 00:33:28,305
value that you're ever gonna have. Absolutely. Any

959
00:33:28,305 --> 00:33:29,045
any money,

960
00:33:29,505 --> 00:33:31,505
because as like Dollar said, in a few

961
00:33:31,505 --> 00:33:33,825
generations, it's gonna it's gonna pay their out.

962
00:33:33,825 --> 00:33:35,684
It's gonna be gone, but man,

963
00:33:36,809 --> 00:33:40,089
building that legacy and and and just continuing

964
00:33:40,089 --> 00:33:42,250
to pour Jesus into your kids and your

965
00:33:42,250 --> 00:33:42,750
grandkids,

966
00:33:43,929 --> 00:33:45,929
so that they have something to stand on

967
00:33:45,929 --> 00:33:48,329
for the next generation, the next generation. I

968
00:33:48,329 --> 00:33:49,710
hope the lord comes back.

969
00:33:50,115 --> 00:33:52,055
Yeah. Before I have great grandkids.

970
00:33:53,315 --> 00:33:54,375
But, man,

971
00:33:54,755 --> 00:33:56,755
you know, if we don't know. We don't

972
00:33:56,755 --> 00:33:58,295
know the hour of the day, so

973
00:33:59,394 --> 00:34:00,595
I I want them to have something to

974
00:34:00,595 --> 00:34:03,075
stand on. You know, I I sitting here

975
00:34:03,075 --> 00:34:05,490
talking about all of this, the the 2

976
00:34:05,490 --> 00:34:07,650
funerals that I I think of is is

977
00:34:07,650 --> 00:34:09,269
now brother Chek's funeral

978
00:34:09,730 --> 00:34:11,429
and brother Edwin Dean's funeral.

979
00:34:11,889 --> 00:34:13,269
You know, I I remember

980
00:34:13,969 --> 00:34:14,949
both of them.

981
00:34:16,050 --> 00:34:17,909
Like I said, the earlier, the encouragement,

982
00:34:18,289 --> 00:34:20,309
the constant lifting up, there was,

983
00:34:20,755 --> 00:34:23,554
there was always an encouraging word, always something

984
00:34:23,554 --> 00:34:25,394
to just kind of make you step back

985
00:34:25,394 --> 00:34:27,155
and go, wow. And let me tell you

986
00:34:27,155 --> 00:34:28,994
something. As I got older and wasn't doing

987
00:34:28,994 --> 00:34:31,474
the things they were asking me about Yeah.

988
00:34:31,474 --> 00:34:34,079
Yeah. I'm going, I feel kinda bad for

989
00:34:34,079 --> 00:34:36,480
not keeping that up because, hey, there was

990
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,319
somebody out there, at least one person that

991
00:34:38,319 --> 00:34:40,559
was interested Yeah. In this, you know, thing

992
00:34:40,559 --> 00:34:41,539
that I was doing.

993
00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:44,259
But, brother Edwin, I have never

994
00:34:44,799 --> 00:34:45,859
known anyone

995
00:34:46,799 --> 00:34:47,779
that was just

996
00:34:48,275 --> 00:34:51,875
a peacemaker. Oh, yeah. Everywhere he went. Every

997
00:34:51,875 --> 00:34:54,755
situation. It didn't matter how bad. It didn't

998
00:34:54,755 --> 00:34:57,635
matter how much people were arguing. It didn't

999
00:34:57,635 --> 00:34:58,135
matter

1000
00:34:58,675 --> 00:35:00,690
how awful the sit he would just he

1001
00:35:00,690 --> 00:35:02,289
would sit down and say, okay, let's let's

1002
00:35:02,289 --> 00:35:04,289
just calm down a minute. Let's take a

1003
00:35:04,289 --> 00:35:06,389
minute. Let's talk about this. Let's let's

1004
00:35:06,690 --> 00:35:08,289
look at it. Let's figure out what we

1005
00:35:08,289 --> 00:35:10,369
can do. And just he was so calm

1006
00:35:10,369 --> 00:35:12,550
about it. And I thought, man,

1007
00:35:13,170 --> 00:35:14,744
what a legacy. Yeah.

1008
00:35:15,305 --> 00:35:17,065
What a legacy. I don't know. And and

1009
00:35:17,065 --> 00:35:18,905
I mean, you know, that that's a family

1010
00:35:18,905 --> 00:35:20,265
member. I've never even heard his kids say

1011
00:35:20,265 --> 00:35:22,105
that it was particularly, you know, different at

1012
00:35:22,105 --> 00:35:23,244
home growing up.

1013
00:35:23,625 --> 00:35:25,545
Yeah. I mean, you know, yeah, he disciplined

1014
00:35:25,545 --> 00:35:27,305
us, but it wasn't like he didn't come

1015
00:35:27,305 --> 00:35:29,625
in swinging a tire on anybody either, you

1016
00:35:29,625 --> 00:35:32,340
know? And I'm like, man,

1017
00:35:33,519 --> 00:35:33,679
where

1018
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,400
that is what we want. That is what

1019
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,880
you want to leave for people to remember

1020
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:40,639
because you like you say, you don't wanna

1021
00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:42,719
show up the preacher at your funeral looking

1022
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:43,539
at you going,

1023
00:35:44,585 --> 00:35:46,605
man, I can't I can't say this person's

1024
00:35:47,065 --> 00:35:48,664
sitting in heaven. They never never made a

1025
00:35:48,664 --> 00:35:50,664
profession of faith. Yeah. They never lived it.

1026
00:35:50,664 --> 00:35:52,344
They never they never talked to anybody about

1027
00:35:52,344 --> 00:35:54,045
it. They never said, I'm saved.

1028
00:35:55,670 --> 00:35:58,809
Yeah. I mean and I I cannot imagine

1029
00:35:58,950 --> 00:35:59,849
having to go

1030
00:36:00,789 --> 00:36:03,289
to someone's funeral and not know

1031
00:36:04,630 --> 00:36:06,010
not know. I mean,

1032
00:36:06,390 --> 00:36:08,070
I don't even remember that I've ever been

1033
00:36:08,070 --> 00:36:10,170
to a funeral where I didn't I knew,

1034
00:36:10,325 --> 00:36:12,085
and I knew the person had at some

1035
00:36:12,085 --> 00:36:14,805
point said, I am saved, and had at

1036
00:36:14,805 --> 00:36:16,965
least some fruits to show for it. Man,

1037
00:36:16,965 --> 00:36:18,885
I remember the very first funeral I ever

1038
00:36:18,885 --> 00:36:21,385
did. It was I was a train wreck.

1039
00:36:21,845 --> 00:36:23,485
And I got a call on Sunday morning.

1040
00:36:23,485 --> 00:36:24,819
I was about to go preach at one

1041
00:36:24,819 --> 00:36:26,839
of the churches up, near Trenton,

1042
00:36:27,139 --> 00:36:28,739
and and my pastor, Tom, said, meet me

1043
00:36:28,739 --> 00:36:29,719
at the funeral home.

1044
00:36:30,019 --> 00:36:31,539
And so I met him over there, and

1045
00:36:31,539 --> 00:36:33,299
and there were, there was some people from

1046
00:36:33,299 --> 00:36:35,059
out of town. There there was somebody who

1047
00:36:35,059 --> 00:36:36,339
died, and they were out of town, and

1048
00:36:36,339 --> 00:36:36,900
there was, like,

1049
00:36:37,619 --> 00:36:39,375
3 people with him. And,

1050
00:36:39,914 --> 00:36:42,155
and, me and the pastor were standing there

1051
00:36:42,155 --> 00:36:43,914
by the casket while they came for the

1052
00:36:43,914 --> 00:36:44,655
last viewing.

1053
00:36:45,275 --> 00:36:46,875
And, one of them just fell out on

1054
00:36:46,875 --> 00:36:49,454
the floor. I've she just fell out sobbing

1055
00:36:49,515 --> 00:36:51,695
her eyes out. Just it was horrible.

1056
00:36:52,299 --> 00:36:54,299
And and, the the funeral home director couldn't

1057
00:36:54,299 --> 00:36:55,359
get her off the floor.

1058
00:36:55,739 --> 00:36:58,299
It was she was just wiped out, and

1059
00:36:58,299 --> 00:37:00,299
and my my pastor just kinda elbowed me

1060
00:37:00,299 --> 00:37:02,719
and said that's what hopelessness looks like. Yeah.

1061
00:37:02,779 --> 00:37:04,664
Yeah. Well, and what how are you how

1062
00:37:04,664 --> 00:37:06,905
are you supposed to feel? Yeah. When when

1063
00:37:06,905 --> 00:37:08,525
there is when you think

1064
00:37:09,065 --> 00:37:11,385
and you've lived your whole life believing when

1065
00:37:11,385 --> 00:37:12,364
it ends here,

1066
00:37:12,824 --> 00:37:15,864
it's over. Yeah. Yeah. There's nothing else. Yeah.

1067
00:37:15,864 --> 00:37:18,265
Yeah. When that's what you believe, I'm like,

1068
00:37:18,265 --> 00:37:18,765
goodness.

1069
00:37:19,089 --> 00:37:21,089
Even worse are the people that go, yeah.

1070
00:37:21,089 --> 00:37:22,609
I believe in God. Yeah. I believe in

1071
00:37:22,609 --> 00:37:24,609
heaven. I believe in hell, but I'm just

1072
00:37:24,609 --> 00:37:26,530
not worried about it. Yeah. I mean, I've

1073
00:37:26,530 --> 00:37:28,069
actually met people

1074
00:37:28,530 --> 00:37:30,469
that would say that, and I'm like

1075
00:37:30,849 --> 00:37:32,530
Man, the world's full of them right now.

1076
00:37:32,530 --> 00:37:35,114
It's nobody cares. Cares. No. You know? You

1077
00:37:35,114 --> 00:37:36,335
know, I I as

1078
00:37:36,635 --> 00:37:37,835
as as great a man as my dad

1079
00:37:37,835 --> 00:37:39,054
was, I I remember

1080
00:37:40,315 --> 00:37:41,755
when my uncle died, I was,

1081
00:37:43,114 --> 00:37:45,594
11th grade, I think. He lived in Michigan.

1082
00:37:45,594 --> 00:37:46,255
He was,

1083
00:37:47,059 --> 00:37:49,079
he was a boilermaker. He was an inspector

1084
00:37:49,380 --> 00:37:51,300
at that time and and so he would

1085
00:37:51,300 --> 00:37:54,179
go in and into these big vats that

1086
00:37:54,179 --> 00:37:55,000
they were building

1087
00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:58,019
and inspect their welds and all. Well he

1088
00:37:58,019 --> 00:37:59,625
had went into to he

1089
00:37:59,945 --> 00:38:02,025
he had went into this big vat and

1090
00:38:02,025 --> 00:38:03,405
stepped into it, and

1091
00:38:04,425 --> 00:38:06,184
for some reason, there was some type of

1092
00:38:06,184 --> 00:38:08,505
gas that was that was trapped inside of

1093
00:38:08,505 --> 00:38:09,005
there,

1094
00:38:09,465 --> 00:38:09,965
and,

1095
00:38:10,505 --> 00:38:13,164
so he was smothered by that and

1096
00:38:15,210 --> 00:38:18,409
no no clean air to breathe and and

1097
00:38:18,409 --> 00:38:20,889
collapsed in there and then and died inside

1098
00:38:20,889 --> 00:38:21,609
that vat.

1099
00:38:22,329 --> 00:38:24,170
And I can remember he was he was,

1100
00:38:24,409 --> 00:38:25,469
he was the youngest,

1101
00:38:25,849 --> 00:38:27,550
that was my my aunt.

1102
00:38:28,215 --> 00:38:29,815
My dad had an older sister, and then

1103
00:38:29,815 --> 00:38:31,195
he was the youngest brother,

1104
00:38:31,815 --> 00:38:34,315
and he was several years younger than dad.

1105
00:38:35,095 --> 00:38:36,535
And, and so we had to go to

1106
00:38:36,535 --> 00:38:38,075
Michigan for that funeral.

1107
00:38:39,255 --> 00:38:39,494
And,

1108
00:38:40,375 --> 00:38:40,875
man,

1109
00:38:41,175 --> 00:38:42,715
you you talking about a

1110
00:38:43,389 --> 00:38:45,969
a a dry funeral and but I'll never

1111
00:38:46,190 --> 00:38:47,010
guys I'll

1112
00:38:47,309 --> 00:38:50,130
never forget this. It's etched in my mind

1113
00:38:50,349 --> 00:38:51,789
and I know my dad had shared the

1114
00:38:51,789 --> 00:38:53,389
gospel with him before. I know that he

1115
00:38:53,389 --> 00:38:55,070
had talked to him but there was so

1116
00:38:55,070 --> 00:38:57,155
much distance you know, they didn't talk a

1117
00:38:57,155 --> 00:38:59,235
lot. They, you know, they they didn't they

1118
00:38:59,235 --> 00:39:00,994
weren't as close as they were when they

1119
00:39:00,994 --> 00:39:01,894
were kids and,

1120
00:39:03,635 --> 00:39:06,195
because of divorce and my dad's, my my

1121
00:39:06,195 --> 00:39:07,494
dad's mom and dad,

1122
00:39:08,429 --> 00:39:10,510
Dad lived more with his dad, and he

1123
00:39:10,510 --> 00:39:12,750
lived more with with with his mom, you

1124
00:39:12,750 --> 00:39:14,909
know, and so just a lot of distance

1125
00:39:14,909 --> 00:39:16,289
between them through the years.

1126
00:39:16,829 --> 00:39:18,829
No hard feelings or anything like that. He

1127
00:39:18,829 --> 00:39:19,809
loved him, but

1128
00:39:20,555 --> 00:39:22,015
but I remember dad,

1129
00:39:23,114 --> 00:39:25,114
I've only seen now my dad I've seen

1130
00:39:25,114 --> 00:39:27,275
my dad get emotional, but I've never seen

1131
00:39:27,275 --> 00:39:28,494
him get that emotional.

1132
00:39:29,195 --> 00:39:31,914
I mean, he he basically just laid on

1133
00:39:31,914 --> 00:39:34,250
top of the casket or or just put

1134
00:39:34,250 --> 00:39:35,849
his head down on top of the casket

1135
00:39:35,849 --> 00:39:36,589
and said,

1136
00:39:37,130 --> 00:39:38,889
god, I hope you were saved. I hope

1137
00:39:38,889 --> 00:39:40,409
you were saved. I hope you were saved.

1138
00:39:40,409 --> 00:39:41,230
And I thought,

1139
00:39:42,889 --> 00:39:44,889
wow. I mean, here's his brother. Here's his

1140
00:39:44,889 --> 00:39:47,130
brother laying here. Here's here's this man of

1141
00:39:47,130 --> 00:39:49,085
god who who shares the gospel

1142
00:39:49,385 --> 00:39:51,644
with everybody and who lives the gospel out

1143
00:39:51,784 --> 00:39:53,864
in front of everybody, but this is his

1144
00:39:53,864 --> 00:39:54,684
brother and

1145
00:39:55,144 --> 00:39:57,385
and he doesn't know, you know, whether he

1146
00:39:57,385 --> 00:39:59,864
ever accepted Christ or not. As far as

1147
00:39:59,864 --> 00:40:02,260
he knew, he he hadn't. Man.

1148
00:40:02,819 --> 00:40:04,819
And, and it broke him. I mean, I

1149
00:40:04,819 --> 00:40:07,159
remember that so well. It broke him.

1150
00:40:08,179 --> 00:40:09,940
And gosh, I mean, it's it's it is.

1151
00:40:09,940 --> 00:40:10,679
It's it's,

1152
00:40:11,619 --> 00:40:13,799
dad had the hope of Christ,

1153
00:40:14,735 --> 00:40:16,994
but there again was that feeling of hopelessness

1154
00:40:17,135 --> 00:40:17,635
because

1155
00:40:18,414 --> 00:40:19,775
he didn't know if he'll ever he don't

1156
00:40:19,775 --> 00:40:21,375
know if he'll ever see his brother again.

1157
00:40:21,375 --> 00:40:22,275
Yeah. You know?

1158
00:40:23,135 --> 00:40:25,454
And then of course, I don't know, no,

1159
00:40:25,454 --> 00:40:27,420
I guess it's not really funny, but it

1160
00:40:27,420 --> 00:40:28,400
is. You know, I've

1161
00:40:29,339 --> 00:40:31,179
pastored in the last 18 years. You've been

1162
00:40:31,179 --> 00:40:32,539
in a lot of different funerals, a lot

1163
00:40:32,539 --> 00:40:34,300
of different places, and I think I may

1164
00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:36,079
have told this on here before, but,

1165
00:40:37,420 --> 00:40:37,739
but,

1166
00:40:38,380 --> 00:40:40,460
I've done a funeral for for someone who

1167
00:40:41,015 --> 00:40:42,375
it was one of those, hey.

1168
00:40:43,015 --> 00:40:44,074
We need a pastor.

1169
00:40:44,454 --> 00:40:45,594
Hey. I know someone.

1170
00:40:46,695 --> 00:40:49,175
You know, uncle's brother's cousin knew me and

1171
00:40:49,175 --> 00:40:51,974
said, hey. Let's get him. So so I

1172
00:40:51,974 --> 00:40:54,215
I agreed to do the funeral, and, and

1173
00:40:54,215 --> 00:40:55,994
I I'll never forget when the

1174
00:40:56,489 --> 00:40:58,409
funeral director came up to me and he

1175
00:40:58,409 --> 00:41:00,010
was giving me the order of service and

1176
00:41:00,010 --> 00:41:01,210
he said, okay. He said,

1177
00:41:02,010 --> 00:41:03,070
we're gonna do,

1178
00:41:04,170 --> 00:41:05,230
we're gonna do

1179
00:41:05,610 --> 00:41:07,869
this song and you'll read the obituary,

1180
00:41:09,224 --> 00:41:12,025
and then after the Aussie song then you'll

1181
00:41:12,025 --> 00:41:13,964
do the message. That was all I wanted.

1182
00:41:14,264 --> 00:41:15,404
And I thought, the

1183
00:41:16,105 --> 00:41:18,664
the what? And he said, yeah, the the

1184
00:41:18,664 --> 00:41:19,884
Aussie song and,

1185
00:41:20,505 --> 00:41:21,164
it was

1186
00:41:21,829 --> 00:41:23,829
it could have been worse. It was mama,

1187
00:41:23,829 --> 00:41:24,730
I'm coming home,

1188
00:41:25,030 --> 00:41:25,530
but

1189
00:41:25,829 --> 00:41:28,010
but you know it's not what you expect

1190
00:41:28,230 --> 00:41:30,570
at at at the funeral, you know. And

1191
00:41:30,710 --> 00:41:31,929
and, and this

1192
00:41:32,630 --> 00:41:34,309
again, it was one of those it was

1193
00:41:34,309 --> 00:41:35,829
one of those times and one of those

1194
00:41:35,829 --> 00:41:36,809
places where,

1195
00:41:37,325 --> 00:41:38,945
you know, nobody in the family,

1196
00:41:39,805 --> 00:41:41,985
if they had Jesus, they didn't they didn't

1197
00:41:42,365 --> 00:41:43,005
they didn't,

1198
00:41:43,325 --> 00:41:45,405
it didn't come out. And, it was it's

1199
00:41:45,405 --> 00:41:47,585
a lot of sadness and hopelessness there.

1200
00:41:48,525 --> 00:41:50,680
It's it's awful. It's awful. And and that's

1201
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,500
when that's that's when that's the great equalizer.

1202
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:55,559
It is. Yeah. It's when you die, and

1203
00:41:55,559 --> 00:41:57,880
and everybody sees your life laid out. Yeah.

1204
00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,420
Right? Yeah. Mhmm.

1205
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,260
If you're listening and you don't know Jesus,

1206
00:42:03,965 --> 00:42:05,505
I'm begging you. Amen.

1207
00:42:06,125 --> 00:42:08,864
You've got you've got to get that relationship

1208
00:42:09,085 --> 00:42:09,585
straight.

1209
00:42:11,164 --> 00:42:13,965
Your family's dependent on it. Everybody that loves

1210
00:42:13,965 --> 00:42:16,684
you is dependent on it, and and and

1211
00:42:16,684 --> 00:42:18,144
don't leave them without hope.

1212
00:42:20,599 --> 00:42:21,099
And

1213
00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:23,420
and if you're saved,

1214
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,280
and and you've gotten away from the Lord

1215
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:26,940
and you,

1216
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,200
and you're living a different life or a

1217
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,360
life that's contrary to who Jesus is, then,

1218
00:42:33,905 --> 00:42:35,905
and you've got kids, you've got family, you

1219
00:42:35,905 --> 00:42:37,425
got a wife, you got people who are

1220
00:42:37,425 --> 00:42:38,324
watching you,

1221
00:42:39,025 --> 00:42:40,784
come back to him, come back to him.

1222
00:42:40,784 --> 00:42:42,864
He he's he's right there with open arms

1223
00:42:42,864 --> 00:42:44,385
you know and he's ready to take you

1224
00:42:44,385 --> 00:42:46,545
back and realize that you're not the only

1225
00:42:46,545 --> 00:42:48,144
person. Hey you may be saved and going

1226
00:42:48,144 --> 00:42:50,410
to heaven but your kids may be splitting

1227
00:42:50,410 --> 00:42:52,110
hell wide open because

1228
00:42:52,570 --> 00:42:54,570
of the legacy that you haven't left. Yeah,

1229
00:42:54,570 --> 00:42:57,210
it's the prodigal son story, right? You're still

1230
00:42:57,210 --> 00:42:57,789
a son.

1231
00:42:58,250 --> 00:43:00,410
Just come home. Come home. You know, the

1232
00:43:00,410 --> 00:43:01,929
prodigal son wanted to come home and say,

1233
00:43:01,929 --> 00:43:03,769
well, I can at least be a slave.

1234
00:43:03,769 --> 00:43:05,684
Yeah. Yeah. No. No.

1235
00:43:06,065 --> 00:43:07,904
You're you're gonna get the finest robe, the

1236
00:43:07,904 --> 00:43:09,505
the ring put on your hand, the fatted

1237
00:43:09,505 --> 00:43:11,344
calf killed. He's gonna be running towards you

1238
00:43:11,344 --> 00:43:12,944
to welcome you home. Yeah. I mean, and

1239
00:43:12,944 --> 00:43:15,424
that that's the the amazing part of that

1240
00:43:15,424 --> 00:43:15,924
story

1241
00:43:16,625 --> 00:43:17,844
is how filthy

1242
00:43:18,224 --> 00:43:19,684
and how far down

1243
00:43:20,230 --> 00:43:22,730
the prodigal had fallen. I mean, he was

1244
00:43:22,869 --> 00:43:24,410
in the trough with the pigs

1245
00:43:24,869 --> 00:43:26,250
trying to get his supper

1246
00:43:26,550 --> 00:43:27,690
out of the scraps

1247
00:43:28,070 --> 00:43:31,190
that were probably half rotten Nasty. And nasty

1248
00:43:31,190 --> 00:43:33,025
and gross. And, I mean, if you've ever

1249
00:43:33,025 --> 00:43:34,945
seen a pig sty, there's a reason we

1250
00:43:34,945 --> 00:43:36,784
use that term for a nasty place because

1251
00:43:36,784 --> 00:43:37,605
it is just

1252
00:43:37,905 --> 00:43:38,804
filthy. Mhmm.

1253
00:43:39,585 --> 00:43:41,264
And then he gets up after that and

1254
00:43:41,264 --> 00:43:42,565
goes, you know,

1255
00:43:42,945 --> 00:43:45,059
even the servants from my dad's house were

1256
00:43:45,059 --> 00:43:46,739
treated better than this and had more than

1257
00:43:46,739 --> 00:43:48,519
this, so I'll I'll just go do that.

1258
00:43:48,660 --> 00:43:50,579
And he goes thinking dad is gonna be

1259
00:43:50,579 --> 00:43:53,079
so mad. And I mean, it took that

1260
00:43:53,219 --> 00:43:54,900
for him to finally reach the point that

1261
00:43:54,900 --> 00:43:56,180
he was willing to go home and say,

1262
00:43:56,180 --> 00:43:57,940
well, I was wrong. Yeah. Because I mean,

1263
00:43:57,940 --> 00:43:59,619
he had basically told his father, I wish

1264
00:43:59,619 --> 00:44:01,594
you were dead. Give me my inheritance.

1265
00:44:02,295 --> 00:44:03,894
And I mean, here he is thinking, dad,

1266
00:44:03,894 --> 00:44:05,815
there's no way he's gonna accept me back,

1267
00:44:05,815 --> 00:44:08,614
but maybe, just maybe, he'll let me just

1268
00:44:08,614 --> 00:44:10,534
tend to the sheep or something. Yeah. I

1269
00:44:10,534 --> 00:44:12,295
mean, that's that's all that's going through his

1270
00:44:12,295 --> 00:44:13,590
head, and he shows up

1271
00:44:14,550 --> 00:44:16,550
and sees his dad running down the road

1272
00:44:16,550 --> 00:44:17,289
to him.

1273
00:44:18,070 --> 00:44:19,750
And I I look back at that story,

1274
00:44:19,750 --> 00:44:21,849
and I'll read that, and I go, man.

1275
00:44:22,150 --> 00:44:23,930
And that's how God is to us.

1276
00:44:24,309 --> 00:44:26,230
When we turn around and start heading back,

1277
00:44:26,230 --> 00:44:27,769
you look up, he's running.

1278
00:44:28,105 --> 00:44:29,864
Yeah. And that was something that a a

1279
00:44:29,864 --> 00:44:31,625
full grown man did not do in that

1280
00:44:31,625 --> 00:44:33,224
day and age. Right? No. Yeah. Pull up

1281
00:44:33,224 --> 00:44:35,385
your robe Yeah. And take off sprinting. Like

1282
00:44:35,385 --> 00:44:37,465
a kid to the father. Yeah. Yeah. And

1283
00:44:37,465 --> 00:44:39,945
then there he was just just absolutely no

1284
00:44:40,105 --> 00:44:42,420
he he what couldn't even wait for him.

1285
00:44:42,579 --> 00:44:44,819
Saw him coming. It's my son that was

1286
00:44:44,819 --> 00:44:46,500
gone. And I mean and even his brothers

1287
00:44:46,500 --> 00:44:48,659
that got so upset about, well, you didn't

1288
00:44:48,659 --> 00:44:50,579
kill the the best calf for us, and

1289
00:44:50,579 --> 00:44:52,179
you didn't give us these big feasts and

1290
00:44:52,179 --> 00:44:53,539
stuff. And he's like, well, you've been here

1291
00:44:53,539 --> 00:44:55,239
enjoying this the whole time, but

1292
00:44:55,539 --> 00:44:57,319
your brother that has been lost,

1293
00:44:57,824 --> 00:44:59,585
he's home. And that's something for us to

1294
00:44:59,585 --> 00:45:00,945
remember too. What did he tell that oldest

1295
00:45:00,945 --> 00:45:02,144
son and said, all that I have is

1296
00:45:02,144 --> 00:45:04,545
yours. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All that he has

1297
00:45:04,545 --> 00:45:06,945
is ours. Yeah. Exactly. That's exactly right. That's

1298
00:45:06,945 --> 00:45:09,844
exactly right. And we forget that sometimes because,

1299
00:45:10,089 --> 00:45:12,650
you know, in that story, the oldest son,

1300
00:45:12,650 --> 00:45:14,989
the other son, the son that stayed,

1301
00:45:16,329 --> 00:45:17,849
everybody looks at him and it's like, oh,

1302
00:45:17,849 --> 00:45:19,210
yeah. I mean, he must have been the

1303
00:45:19,210 --> 00:45:21,449
good son. Not really because if you think

1304
00:45:21,449 --> 00:45:22,125
about it,

1305
00:45:22,525 --> 00:45:25,264
he had split his inheritance between them already.

1306
00:45:25,485 --> 00:45:26,864
Yeah. And he wasn't dead.

1307
00:45:27,244 --> 00:45:28,844
Yeah. So he took just as much as

1308
00:45:28,844 --> 00:45:30,684
the other guy did. He just took what

1309
00:45:30,684 --> 00:45:32,364
he had and went away and he took

1310
00:45:32,364 --> 00:45:34,445
what he had and stayed. So really they

1311
00:45:34,445 --> 00:45:36,605
had taken something from their father that wasn't

1312
00:45:36,605 --> 00:45:39,059
meant to be theirs yet And then there

1313
00:45:39,059 --> 00:45:42,340
was so much jealousy in in in him

1314
00:45:42,340 --> 00:45:44,420
coming home. And guys, if you're there and

1315
00:45:44,420 --> 00:45:46,260
you're saved and you're doing a good job

1316
00:45:46,260 --> 00:45:48,099
and you're and you're where you need to

1317
00:45:48,099 --> 00:45:49,780
be and you're being the dad you need

1318
00:45:49,780 --> 00:45:51,720
to be and and you see

1319
00:45:52,235 --> 00:45:54,315
someone that you that you love or that

1320
00:45:54,315 --> 00:45:56,474
you love and you see them come back

1321
00:45:56,474 --> 00:45:57,054
to Jesus,

1322
00:45:57,675 --> 00:46:00,094
celebrate that. Yeah. Yeah. Right?

1323
00:46:00,474 --> 00:46:02,815
I mean, be a be a be excited

1324
00:46:02,875 --> 00:46:05,195
about what God has done and don't be

1325
00:46:05,195 --> 00:46:07,515
don't be jealous or don't be envious or

1326
00:46:07,515 --> 00:46:09,820
don't be doubtful of what God's done in

1327
00:46:09,820 --> 00:46:11,019
their life. It reminds me of a lot

1328
00:46:11,019 --> 00:46:12,539
of Christians like I was saying earlier that

1329
00:46:12,539 --> 00:46:14,139
are that are just kinda, you know, this

1330
00:46:14,139 --> 00:46:16,460
outward Christians, you know. It's like it's not

1331
00:46:16,460 --> 00:46:18,139
from the heart. Yeah. It's not from the

1332
00:46:18,139 --> 00:46:20,079
heart. It's like it I'm religious.

1333
00:46:20,684 --> 00:46:23,344
Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. And I'm mad when somebody

1334
00:46:23,644 --> 00:46:25,405
comes back and takes part of my religion,

1335
00:46:25,405 --> 00:46:27,485
you know, because they should be punished. Right.

1336
00:46:27,485 --> 00:46:29,585
Right? Kind of stuff. It's like, no.

1337
00:46:30,125 --> 00:46:31,985
You're missing the point. Yeah.

1338
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,000
Is what you have real? Yeah. Is it

1339
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,112
genuine? Are you getting fruit growing in there?

1340
00:46:37,112 --> 00:46:38,920
I see it. I see it. Well, and

1341
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:40,599
and, you know, and and I know that

1342
00:46:40,599 --> 00:46:42,280
that Christ, when he told a lot of

1343
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,039
these parables, he was aiming a lot of

1344
00:46:44,039 --> 00:46:44,539
that

1345
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:45,579
at the Pharisees,

1346
00:46:46,235 --> 00:46:48,155
at Sadducees, at all these people that were

1347
00:46:48,235 --> 00:46:50,635
again, they they were sinners that thought they

1348
00:46:50,635 --> 00:46:52,795
were righteous. Because they were sad, you see?

1349
00:46:52,795 --> 00:46:53,614
Yeah. Yeah.

1350
00:46:54,235 --> 00:46:56,875
Exactly. Sure. And and he was aiming all

1351
00:46:56,875 --> 00:46:57,855
this at them

1352
00:46:58,155 --> 00:46:59,755
in a lot of these parables that he

1353
00:46:59,755 --> 00:47:02,179
told because he was trying to tell, you

1354
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,239
you're children of God. I mean, the

1355
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,440
you gotta remember what they all knew which

1356
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:09,519
tribe they came from? They knew that they

1357
00:47:09,519 --> 00:47:12,639
were chosen? These religious leaders, they knew. Yeah.

1358
00:47:12,639 --> 00:47:14,420
God chose us

1359
00:47:15,375 --> 00:47:16,114
to observe

1360
00:47:16,494 --> 00:47:18,894
his law and observe the ceremonies and do

1361
00:47:18,894 --> 00:47:20,755
these things that he's called us to do.

1362
00:47:20,894 --> 00:47:23,054
And Christ in that story has told them,

1363
00:47:23,054 --> 00:47:25,614
you've got it. You've got everything that the

1364
00:47:25,614 --> 00:47:26,994
father has for you,

1365
00:47:27,349 --> 00:47:29,429
and now He sent one more thing for

1366
00:47:29,429 --> 00:47:31,670
you, and you're rejecting it. And that's the

1367
00:47:31,670 --> 00:47:33,429
thing you've been looking for. It's the thing

1368
00:47:33,429 --> 00:47:34,329
that the prophets

1369
00:47:34,789 --> 00:47:37,769
have been prophesying for all these years, and

1370
00:47:37,909 --> 00:47:39,750
now that it's here you're gonna say, well

1371
00:47:39,750 --> 00:47:41,929
this ain't it. And they're gonna kill him.

1372
00:47:42,174 --> 00:47:43,694
Yeah. Just like they did the prophet. Yeah.

1373
00:47:43,694 --> 00:47:45,375
And I and I think in There were

1374
00:47:45,375 --> 00:47:45,875
madducees.

1375
00:47:46,734 --> 00:47:48,654
Yes. Or And I think of this the

1376
00:47:48,654 --> 00:47:49,295
story of,

1377
00:47:49,855 --> 00:47:50,835
what was the

1378
00:47:51,214 --> 00:47:52,894
the priest's name that came to him by

1379
00:47:52,894 --> 00:47:53,394
night,

1380
00:47:54,335 --> 00:47:56,494
Nicodemus Yeah. I think that came to him

1381
00:47:56,494 --> 00:47:58,539
by night and tried to hide it from

1382
00:47:58,539 --> 00:47:59,900
the others that he was even talking to

1383
00:47:59,900 --> 00:48:01,260
him. And as he starts questioning him, you

1384
00:48:01,260 --> 00:48:02,940
know, it starts out he's very skeptical. And,

1385
00:48:02,940 --> 00:48:04,380
oh, man. This is this is just a

1386
00:48:04,380 --> 00:48:05,980
bunch of hooey. This guy's claiming things that

1387
00:48:05,980 --> 00:48:07,659
he shouldn't be claiming, and I'm gonna catch

1388
00:48:07,659 --> 00:48:09,099
him here. And he starts talking to him

1389
00:48:09,099 --> 00:48:10,875
and questioning him. And and then before he

1390
00:48:10,875 --> 00:48:12,474
realized that he's sitting there agreeing with him

1391
00:48:12,635 --> 00:48:15,114
Yeah. He's going, uh-oh. And you know there

1392
00:48:15,114 --> 00:48:16,554
was a moment there where that poor old

1393
00:48:16,554 --> 00:48:18,255
guy had to think, wait a minute.

1394
00:48:19,114 --> 00:48:21,035
I I came out here to to lay

1395
00:48:21,035 --> 00:48:23,340
accusations at this man to trip you up,

1396
00:48:23,420 --> 00:48:25,500
and suddenly he's making me feel like I've

1397
00:48:25,500 --> 00:48:27,579
done something wrong. And something he did too

1398
00:48:27,579 --> 00:48:29,900
is he he sent, Nicodemus back to go

1399
00:48:29,900 --> 00:48:32,140
study his bible again. And he did. Don't

1400
00:48:32,140 --> 00:48:34,460
you know these things? Yeah. And, oh, you

1401
00:48:34,460 --> 00:48:36,700
know you know just the way that story

1402
00:48:36,700 --> 00:48:38,724
reads, Nicodemus went back and he was yanking

1403
00:48:38,724 --> 00:48:41,204
those scrolls out, and he probably spent days

1404
00:48:41,204 --> 00:48:43,364
where everybody's going, what is he doing? He's

1405
00:48:43,364 --> 00:48:45,045
like, I gotta read guys. I gotta read.

1406
00:48:45,045 --> 00:48:46,644
I gotta figure this out. And then he

1407
00:48:46,644 --> 00:48:49,045
started connecting the dots. You know, that's what

1408
00:48:49,045 --> 00:48:51,160
Nicodemus done. He's like, oh,

1409
00:48:51,539 --> 00:48:53,539
okay. Yeah. That's what they were talking about.

1410
00:48:53,539 --> 00:48:55,860
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's he's that he's

1411
00:48:55,860 --> 00:48:56,599
that delicate,

1412
00:48:57,140 --> 00:48:59,059
you know, person. He's the he's he's the

1413
00:48:59,059 --> 00:49:01,460
lamb that slain. All these things begin to

1414
00:49:01,460 --> 00:49:03,059
come back and he began to connect the

1415
00:49:03,059 --> 00:49:05,074
dots. This is Jesus that they're talking to.

1416
00:49:05,074 --> 00:49:07,394
And we we don't really know what happened

1417
00:49:07,394 --> 00:49:09,394
to him after that because we're only shown

1418
00:49:09,394 --> 00:49:11,234
that one story in the scripture about it,

1419
00:49:11,234 --> 00:49:12,375
but Jewish tradition

1420
00:49:12,994 --> 00:49:13,494
has

1421
00:49:14,355 --> 00:49:16,514
he didn't entirely turn away from Christ when

1422
00:49:16,514 --> 00:49:17,994
it was all over. Did he show it?

1423
00:49:18,034 --> 00:49:18,775
At the end,

1424
00:49:19,139 --> 00:49:19,639
John

1425
00:49:20,019 --> 00:49:21,940
3. John 3 is where he but, you

1426
00:49:21,940 --> 00:49:24,579
know, Jewish tradition actually holds that he kinda

1427
00:49:24,579 --> 00:49:27,460
shows up after everything's over, and he's going,

1428
00:49:27,460 --> 00:49:27,960
guys,

1429
00:49:28,339 --> 00:49:30,279
I kinda think y'all might have messed up.

1430
00:49:30,819 --> 00:49:31,639
Yeah. Yeah.

1431
00:49:32,085 --> 00:49:34,405
Yeah. And I mean, he wasn't he wasn't

1432
00:49:34,405 --> 00:49:36,644
looked favorably upon, but there there are stories

1433
00:49:36,644 --> 00:49:38,744
of him from after the

1434
00:49:39,204 --> 00:49:41,364
the escape from the Romans. He he shows

1435
00:49:41,364 --> 00:49:44,244
up, in John 19. John 19. Pulling when

1436
00:49:44,244 --> 00:49:45,844
they're pulling Jesus off the cross, him and

1437
00:49:45,844 --> 00:49:48,460
Joseph of Arimathea. That's right. It says in

1438
00:49:48,460 --> 00:49:50,619
39 verse 39, Nicodemus who had first come

1439
00:49:50,619 --> 00:49:52,380
to him by night also came bringing a

1440
00:49:52,380 --> 00:49:54,219
mixture of myrrh and aloes about a 100

1441
00:49:54,219 --> 00:49:56,539
pounds weight. So he gives us the indication

1442
00:49:56,539 --> 00:49:58,780
that he accepted him Yeah. It does. As

1443
00:49:58,780 --> 00:50:00,699
who he was, or he wouldn't have done

1444
00:50:00,699 --> 00:50:02,164
that. Yeah. And like I say, I I

1445
00:50:02,164 --> 00:50:03,925
just know that I've heard the stories from

1446
00:50:03,925 --> 00:50:05,684
people who were who were Jewish that talk

1447
00:50:05,684 --> 00:50:06,184
about

1448
00:50:06,565 --> 00:50:08,585
the this this rabbi, Nicodemus,

1449
00:50:08,885 --> 00:50:11,525
that after Christ, and and it kinda caused

1450
00:50:11,525 --> 00:50:13,284
a stir because he was he was telling

1451
00:50:13,284 --> 00:50:15,684
people he that was him. Yeah. That was

1452
00:50:15,684 --> 00:50:17,889
him, and they didn't like it. But he

1453
00:50:17,889 --> 00:50:19,730
was so he was one of those people

1454
00:50:19,730 --> 00:50:21,170
that was kinda in that position where he

1455
00:50:21,170 --> 00:50:22,929
could get by with saying that because he

1456
00:50:22,929 --> 00:50:24,530
didn't again, he was a he was a

1457
00:50:24,530 --> 00:50:26,289
little bit of a politician. He knew how

1458
00:50:26,289 --> 00:50:27,570
to say it in a way that didn't

1459
00:50:27,570 --> 00:50:30,045
stir up too much trouble. Yeah. But, yeah,

1460
00:50:30,045 --> 00:50:32,525
there's every indication in that that one verse

1461
00:50:32,525 --> 00:50:35,324
kinda makes it clear. Hey. He he accepted

1462
00:50:35,324 --> 00:50:37,405
this. Mhmm. And then like I say, you

1463
00:50:37,405 --> 00:50:39,164
have the stories of him afterward where he

1464
00:50:39,164 --> 00:50:40,684
was just like he was out there and

1465
00:50:40,684 --> 00:50:42,284
he was going, okay. We're not we're we're

1466
00:50:42,284 --> 00:50:44,045
not and people talk about him like he

1467
00:50:44,045 --> 00:50:46,820
was different. Yeah. He because he was kinda

1468
00:50:46,820 --> 00:50:49,059
like a nobody in the in the annals

1469
00:50:49,059 --> 00:50:51,300
of of Jewish history. And then all of

1470
00:50:51,300 --> 00:50:52,739
a sudden, he comes out, and he's this

1471
00:50:52,739 --> 00:50:54,739
person that they all know his name. Well,

1472
00:50:54,739 --> 00:50:56,340
he's a lot like a lot of people

1473
00:50:56,340 --> 00:50:57,000
are today.

1474
00:50:57,380 --> 00:50:58,684
You know, let let's

1475
00:50:59,144 --> 00:51:00,765
say just your average church,

1476
00:51:01,864 --> 00:51:05,224
they they've been doing these things the same

1477
00:51:05,224 --> 00:51:06,525
way for generations.

1478
00:51:07,144 --> 00:51:09,224
This is what granddaddy did. This is what

1479
00:51:09,224 --> 00:51:11,545
grandpa, you know, grandma did. This is how

1480
00:51:11,545 --> 00:51:13,920
they done it. Yep. And then and then

1481
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:15,059
somebody comes along

1482
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:16,900
and they're not doing it wrong.

1483
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,099
They may be doing it different. They may

1484
00:51:20,159 --> 00:51:21,679
say it different. They may look at it

1485
00:51:21,679 --> 00:51:23,679
different. They may play it different, you know.

1486
00:51:23,679 --> 00:51:26,255
Mhmm. And and and you see those things

1487
00:51:26,255 --> 00:51:28,655
spark a a revival. You see those things

1488
00:51:28,655 --> 00:51:31,454
spark excitement in people's lives, but then you

1489
00:51:31,454 --> 00:51:33,614
still got people over there crossing their arms

1490
00:51:33,614 --> 00:51:34,894
and saying, I tell you what, we ain't

1491
00:51:34,894 --> 00:51:36,735
gonna accept that because they make the way

1492
00:51:36,735 --> 00:51:39,375
granddaddy is. Wearing a hat in church. Yeah.

1493
00:51:39,375 --> 00:51:40,559
Yep. Yeah.

1494
00:51:41,739 --> 00:51:42,799
Well, you know, I

1495
00:51:43,339 --> 00:51:45,420
you know, I've talked about that I I

1496
00:51:45,420 --> 00:51:48,139
spent years down at, the Alabama School of

1497
00:51:48,139 --> 00:51:48,960
Gospel Music,

1498
00:51:50,299 --> 00:51:52,539
learning from people that that have sang gospel

1499
00:51:52,539 --> 00:51:53,760
music their whole lives.

1500
00:51:54,434 --> 00:51:56,594
And one of the craziest stories I've ever

1501
00:51:56,594 --> 00:51:57,094
heard

1502
00:51:57,394 --> 00:51:57,894
was

1503
00:51:58,434 --> 00:52:00,515
they actually had a meeting one time talking

1504
00:52:00,515 --> 00:52:02,755
about what are we gonna do about this

1505
00:52:02,755 --> 00:52:04,215
new music that's coming out.

1506
00:52:04,835 --> 00:52:06,055
This stuff is ungodly.

1507
00:52:06,594 --> 00:52:07,974
It is just not right.

1508
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,719
And a little old man, Leroy Abernathy was

1509
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:13,579
his name. You can look up. He's

1510
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:16,039
very, very prolific songwriter. If you go look

1511
00:52:16,039 --> 00:52:17,880
at any books, you'll find some of his,

1512
00:52:18,119 --> 00:52:20,920
anything from the sixties, you'll find his his

1513
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:22,780
songs in there. He was amazing.

1514
00:52:23,534 --> 00:52:25,614
From the forties was writing. So he was

1515
00:52:25,614 --> 00:52:27,054
not a young man at this point when

1516
00:52:27,054 --> 00:52:28,675
he had the they had this conversation.

1517
00:52:29,534 --> 00:52:31,054
And he sat down and he looked at

1518
00:52:31,054 --> 00:52:32,335
them all and he said, here's the deal,

1519
00:52:32,335 --> 00:52:34,355
guys. He said, you're gonna do nothing.

1520
00:52:34,894 --> 00:52:36,260
And, all these

1521
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:39,599
gospel song leaders and the composer, what do

1522
00:52:39,599 --> 00:52:40,960
you mean we're gonna do nothing? We gotta

1523
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:42,400
be saying something. We gotta be putting a

1524
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,260
stop to this. And he went, nah, guys.

1525
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,199
He said, here's the thing. That which God

1526
00:52:47,199 --> 00:52:49,280
rejects and that which is unholy and that

1527
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,360
which is not worth anything, it'll be forgotten

1528
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:53,425
about in a year. Yeah. But those things

1529
00:52:53,425 --> 00:52:54,945
that are of God and those things that

1530
00:52:54,945 --> 00:52:56,945
actually glorify Him and those things that He

1531
00:52:56,945 --> 00:52:59,505
has blessed will remain whether you want it

1532
00:52:59,505 --> 00:53:01,105
to or not. So the best thing you

1533
00:53:01,105 --> 00:53:03,179
can do is just keep your mouth closed.

1534
00:53:03,179 --> 00:53:04,780
Amazing Grace was a new song at one

1535
00:53:04,780 --> 00:53:06,300
time. It was. And that that was one

1536
00:53:06,300 --> 00:53:08,059
of the things and somebody said the same

1537
00:53:08,059 --> 00:53:10,460
thing, you know. That was that was some

1538
00:53:10,460 --> 00:53:13,339
self righteous somebody that said, tell you what,

1539
00:53:13,339 --> 00:53:15,260
that's not the same tune that we sing

1540
00:53:15,260 --> 00:53:17,679
music to. That's devil's music. Yeah.

1541
00:53:18,234 --> 00:53:19,914
I I gotta wonder though, begin back the

1542
00:53:19,914 --> 00:53:22,074
next thing. If he I'd like I wanna

1543
00:53:22,074 --> 00:53:24,074
ask him this in heaven if he's there.

1544
00:53:24,074 --> 00:53:24,974
I hope he's there.

1545
00:53:26,394 --> 00:53:28,954
Did he watch Isaiah 53 play out in

1546
00:53:28,954 --> 00:53:30,974
real life? Yeah. Yeah.

1547
00:53:31,420 --> 00:53:33,659
Yeah. Exactly. The suffering servant chapter. That's it.

1548
00:53:33,659 --> 00:53:34,880
Oh, man. Yeah.

1549
00:53:35,260 --> 00:53:37,019
Because he might have seen that play out

1550
00:53:37,019 --> 00:53:39,900
exactly like it's written. Yeah. The tender plant

1551
00:53:39,900 --> 00:53:42,059
that you know. Yeah. He he seen that.

1552
00:53:42,059 --> 00:53:43,659
Yeah. The grave of the sign with wicked

1553
00:53:43,659 --> 00:53:44,880
man, rich man.

1554
00:53:45,434 --> 00:53:48,235
Yeah. Yeah. That's step by step. There's no

1555
00:53:48,235 --> 00:53:50,074
doubt. There's no doubt. I I think and

1556
00:53:50,074 --> 00:53:52,235
I think that's probably again, when he told

1557
00:53:52,235 --> 00:53:53,914
him to go back and study it, he's

1558
00:53:53,914 --> 00:53:56,394
like, okay. And then you're right. He probably

1559
00:53:56,394 --> 00:53:58,155
watched it play out. He probably watched it

1560
00:53:58,155 --> 00:54:00,050
play. And I'll tell you another thing before

1561
00:54:00,050 --> 00:54:01,489
we I know we're getting short on time,

1562
00:54:01,489 --> 00:54:01,989
but,

1563
00:54:03,730 --> 00:54:05,409
we we we put a lot of emphasis

1564
00:54:05,409 --> 00:54:07,650
on men and men being this and leaving

1565
00:54:07,650 --> 00:54:09,809
this legacy and and and and being that

1566
00:54:09,809 --> 00:54:11,170
man of God that they need to be.

1567
00:54:11,170 --> 00:54:12,230
And then it's absolutely

1568
00:54:12,735 --> 00:54:14,735
the ball falls in our court, man, to

1569
00:54:14,735 --> 00:54:16,335
be that. Right? To be that for our

1570
00:54:16,335 --> 00:54:18,355
children, to be that spiritual leader. But,

1571
00:54:19,055 --> 00:54:20,195
it doesn't take,

1572
00:54:20,894 --> 00:54:22,355
it doesn't take the,

1573
00:54:22,735 --> 00:54:23,235
responsibility

1574
00:54:23,695 --> 00:54:26,760
of of of you ladies either away from

1575
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,160
from being that to your, to your children

1576
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,079
and to the other ladies and the people

1577
00:54:31,079 --> 00:54:33,640
around you, whoever may look at you. Right?

1578
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:36,280
And and being that being that woman of

1579
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:36,780
God

1580
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,500
and being responsible with the gospel,

1581
00:54:40,105 --> 00:54:42,525
that he's given you and leaving that legacy

1582
00:54:42,585 --> 00:54:44,425
because, I mean, how many times do you

1583
00:54:44,425 --> 00:54:46,744
hear people saying, man, I I wish I

1584
00:54:46,744 --> 00:54:48,425
could just I got a song, you know,

1585
00:54:48,425 --> 00:54:50,025
if I could hear my mother pray again.

1586
00:54:50,025 --> 00:54:52,184
I mean, we we we see and think

1587
00:54:52,184 --> 00:54:53,989
about that a lot of times that people

1588
00:54:53,989 --> 00:54:56,230
had all the they had these godly young

1589
00:54:56,230 --> 00:54:59,109
ladies or these godly women in their life,

1590
00:54:59,109 --> 00:54:59,849
these godly,

1591
00:55:00,550 --> 00:55:02,630
older ladies in their life that would just

1592
00:55:02,630 --> 00:55:03,849
made a huge difference.

1593
00:55:04,309 --> 00:55:05,609
And, and Paul

1594
00:55:06,574 --> 00:55:07,795
talks about that,

1595
00:55:08,255 --> 00:55:09,454
to Timothy Yeah.

1596
00:55:09,934 --> 00:55:12,414
In second Timothy in chapter 5 and and

1597
00:55:12,414 --> 00:55:15,454
he's he's he's he's talking to Timothy and

1598
00:55:15,454 --> 00:55:17,775
he says, when I when I call to

1599
00:55:17,775 --> 00:55:18,275
remembrance

1600
00:55:18,654 --> 00:55:19,394
the unfeigned

1601
00:55:19,694 --> 00:55:22,550
faith that is in thee, which dwelt first

1602
00:55:22,550 --> 00:55:25,210
in thy grandmother Lewis and thy mother Eunice,

1603
00:55:25,429 --> 00:55:28,010
and I am persuaded that in thee also.

1604
00:55:28,230 --> 00:55:30,309
So, you know, I I don't know what

1605
00:55:30,309 --> 00:55:30,710
kind of,

1606
00:55:31,989 --> 00:55:34,710
dad that Timothy had, but we definitely see

1607
00:55:34,710 --> 00:55:36,469
what kind of grandmother and mother that he

1608
00:55:36,469 --> 00:55:37,755
had that made a

1609
00:55:38,234 --> 00:55:40,795
difference in this man of God's life. Right?

1610
00:55:40,795 --> 00:55:42,494
I mean, so that's that's huge.

1611
00:55:42,795 --> 00:55:45,275
So I don't want to to diminish in

1612
00:55:45,275 --> 00:55:46,094
any way,

1613
00:55:46,634 --> 00:55:49,194
how God uses our mothers, how God uses

1614
00:55:49,194 --> 00:55:52,154
you ladies out there, and and that you

1615
00:55:52,154 --> 00:55:55,210
are to leave that same godly legacy as

1616
00:55:55,210 --> 00:55:57,289
well, man. And think about it when a

1617
00:55:57,289 --> 00:55:59,470
man and woman, when a mother and father

1618
00:55:59,769 --> 00:56:02,890
do that together. Yeah. Oh my gosh. What

1619
00:56:02,890 --> 00:56:03,470
a impact.

1620
00:56:03,849 --> 00:56:04,590
You see,

1621
00:56:04,970 --> 00:56:06,650
when you look at it, you see those

1622
00:56:06,650 --> 00:56:09,335
kids following and, you know, going into ministry

1623
00:56:09,335 --> 00:56:11,255
themselves. And, I mean, it's just,

1624
00:56:12,375 --> 00:56:15,014
it's huge. It's huge. Yeah. The impact and

1625
00:56:15,014 --> 00:56:17,335
and the, the long lasting effect that it

1626
00:56:17,335 --> 00:56:19,514
has on a man and woman of God

1627
00:56:19,655 --> 00:56:22,809
who leave behind something that their kids and

1628
00:56:22,809 --> 00:56:25,369
their grandkids and the generations can stand on.

1629
00:56:25,369 --> 00:56:27,210
There's a lot of stories out there about

1630
00:56:27,210 --> 00:56:30,889
godly grandmothers. Yeah. Amen. Godly grandmothers praying for

1631
00:56:30,889 --> 00:56:33,289
their kids and their grandkids. Yes. And and

1632
00:56:33,289 --> 00:56:35,289
and Paul also, you know, talking to Timothy,

1633
00:56:35,289 --> 00:56:37,050
I finally found it in 2nd Timothy chapter

1634
00:56:37,050 --> 00:56:37,784
2. He says

1635
00:56:38,264 --> 00:56:40,664
he says, you therefore, my son, be strong

1636
00:56:40,664 --> 00:56:42,444
in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

1637
00:56:42,744 --> 00:56:44,344
The things which you have heard from me

1638
00:56:44,344 --> 00:56:46,664
in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these

1639
00:56:46,664 --> 00:56:48,505
2 faithful men who will be able to

1640
00:56:48,505 --> 00:56:51,300
teach others also. Yeah. So pass it down.

1641
00:56:51,300 --> 00:56:53,539
Yeah, man. Amen. Don't don't don't let it

1642
00:56:53,539 --> 00:56:54,039
stop.

1643
00:56:54,500 --> 00:56:55,160
And and Paul,

1644
00:56:55,460 --> 00:56:57,140
you know, in all of his letters, he

1645
00:56:57,140 --> 00:56:59,780
encourages the church to keep keep doing what

1646
00:56:59,780 --> 00:57:02,180
I'm doing. What keep keep doing what I've

1647
00:57:02,180 --> 00:57:04,660
started. What you know, this good work that's

1648
00:57:04,660 --> 00:57:06,954
began and you don't let it fall. Don't

1649
00:57:06,954 --> 00:57:08,875
let it don't let it burn out, but

1650
00:57:08,875 --> 00:57:11,034
just keep it going. And, you know, I

1651
00:57:11,034 --> 00:57:12,234
I thought of a I thought of a

1652
00:57:12,234 --> 00:57:13,614
family a minute ago.

1653
00:57:14,394 --> 00:57:16,315
And, Tyler, you were mentioning something a minute

1654
00:57:16,315 --> 00:57:17,934
ago that made me think about it. But,

1655
00:57:18,474 --> 00:57:20,340
but, you know, a lot of times a

1656
00:57:20,340 --> 00:57:22,500
lot of times you can do all that

1657
00:57:22,500 --> 00:57:24,739
you can do as a as a as

1658
00:57:24,739 --> 00:57:26,260
a man of God or as a woman

1659
00:57:26,260 --> 00:57:28,920
of God and still your children may stumble,

1660
00:57:28,980 --> 00:57:31,059
you know. I mean my dad done it

1661
00:57:31,140 --> 00:57:33,059
my parents done everything right and I got

1662
00:57:33,059 --> 00:57:35,085
away from the Lord, but thank god I

1663
00:57:35,085 --> 00:57:37,264
I came back to him. But, you know,

1664
00:57:38,125 --> 00:57:40,545
when you when you pour that over them,

1665
00:57:41,085 --> 00:57:42,625
the chances of them

1666
00:57:42,925 --> 00:57:45,085
following that path and going the right way

1667
00:57:45,085 --> 00:57:46,844
are much greater than they are if you

1668
00:57:46,844 --> 00:57:47,965
don't. Right? Yeah.

1669
00:57:48,525 --> 00:57:51,079
But I've also seen that next generation,

1670
00:57:51,780 --> 00:57:52,920
there'll be a breakdown

1671
00:57:53,220 --> 00:57:55,400
there. And in that next generation,

1672
00:57:56,980 --> 00:58:00,019
the their their their children don't follow the

1673
00:58:00,019 --> 00:58:01,320
lord. They don't follow,

1674
00:58:02,180 --> 00:58:05,635
Christ and and so then their children, get

1675
00:58:05,635 --> 00:58:08,054
farther away and their children get farther away,

1676
00:58:08,514 --> 00:58:10,275
and and and man, it's just it's a

1677
00:58:10,275 --> 00:58:12,034
huge generation gap and it and it

1678
00:58:12,835 --> 00:58:14,674
but it only takes one to bring it

1679
00:58:14,674 --> 00:58:17,315
back around, you know, so so be that

1680
00:58:17,315 --> 00:58:19,335
person. Listen, if you've had generations

1681
00:58:19,875 --> 00:58:21,559
of unfaithfulness to God,

1682
00:58:22,019 --> 00:58:24,340
if you've had generations of of of men

1683
00:58:24,340 --> 00:58:26,660
and women in your life that that haven't

1684
00:58:26,660 --> 00:58:29,539
followed the Lord, but God's calling you. Right?

1685
00:58:29,539 --> 00:58:30,280
And then

1686
00:58:30,900 --> 00:58:33,140
you be the one who breaks that that

1687
00:58:33,140 --> 00:58:34,360
generational curse.

1688
00:58:34,744 --> 00:58:36,664
Amen. And I will I will say this

1689
00:58:36,664 --> 00:58:38,684
that, you know, we we point out

1690
00:58:39,704 --> 00:58:41,945
we we so often talk about men and

1691
00:58:41,945 --> 00:58:42,445
dads.

1692
00:58:42,905 --> 00:58:44,344
Part of that is because the 3 of

1693
00:58:44,344 --> 00:58:46,824
us are men and dads. So we we

1694
00:58:46,824 --> 00:58:49,539
have a different perspective on that. And, yes,

1695
00:58:49,539 --> 00:58:50,760
ladies, it is

1696
00:58:51,299 --> 00:58:51,799
essential

1697
00:58:52,819 --> 00:58:55,859
that you get behind your husband Yeah. And

1698
00:58:55,859 --> 00:58:56,760
follow him

1699
00:58:57,139 --> 00:59:00,019
in his this spiritual journey. Follow him as

1700
00:59:00,019 --> 00:59:02,454
he's following Christ. Now, man, it's on you.

1701
00:59:02,454 --> 00:59:03,514
It's on us

1702
00:59:03,815 --> 00:59:04,315
100%.

1703
00:59:04,695 --> 00:59:06,074
It is our responsibility

1704
00:59:07,094 --> 00:59:09,414
to be following in Christ if we expect

1705
00:59:09,414 --> 00:59:11,335
our wives and our children to follow us.

1706
00:59:11,335 --> 00:59:13,675
Yeah. Absolutely. It's a 100% on us.

1707
00:59:13,974 --> 00:59:16,394
We have to do that. But ladies,

1708
00:59:17,070 --> 00:59:19,730
we need you. We need that support.

1709
00:59:20,110 --> 00:59:22,030
Because there are times, because I'm gonna tell

1710
00:59:22,030 --> 00:59:24,269
you something, the reason you're supposed to follow

1711
00:59:24,269 --> 00:59:26,289
us is we're out here taking the brunt

1712
00:59:26,590 --> 00:59:29,309
of what's coming. We're taking the the the

1713
00:59:29,309 --> 00:59:32,375
the arrows, we're taking that those breakdowns like

1714
00:59:32,515 --> 00:59:34,914
like brother Scott did Sunday when you surround

1715
00:59:34,914 --> 00:59:36,775
each other. That's right. And as as

1716
00:59:37,315 --> 00:59:39,635
men and men, we need to surround each

1717
00:59:39,635 --> 00:59:40,375
other, but

1718
00:59:40,675 --> 00:59:41,735
we need our wives

1719
00:59:42,275 --> 00:59:45,369
behind us kinda helping push us along sometimes.

1720
00:59:45,670 --> 00:59:47,750
Right. Yeah. Because those arrows and all of

1721
00:59:47,750 --> 00:59:50,150
that that damage that we take that Satan

1722
00:59:50,150 --> 00:59:52,309
throws our way, it starts wearing and it

1723
00:59:52,309 --> 00:59:54,789
starts getting hard to walk. Yeah. So ladies

1724
00:59:54,789 --> 00:59:55,610
don't discount

1725
00:59:56,150 --> 00:59:58,094
how important it is, but let me tell

1726
00:59:58,094 --> 00:59:59,954
you something I have watched

1727
01:00:00,414 --> 01:00:02,034
over and over and over.

1728
01:00:03,775 --> 01:00:05,855
Men, if you're not out there doing it,

1729
01:00:05,855 --> 01:00:07,695
your wife can be doing it. And if

1730
01:00:07,695 --> 01:00:09,554
you're not out there in front leading,

1731
01:00:10,219 --> 01:00:12,219
the chances of those kids falling and the

1732
01:00:12,219 --> 01:00:13,920
chances of those kids not

1733
01:00:14,380 --> 01:00:15,659
getting up and following this, and you can

1734
01:00:15,659 --> 01:00:17,099
think, well, I don't have to go to

1735
01:00:17,099 --> 01:00:20,059
church. It's just not necessary. Hey. I've been

1736
01:00:20,059 --> 01:00:22,059
there. Yeah. I've been there. I've done that.

1737
01:00:22,059 --> 01:00:23,739
Yeah. And I'll tell you, a godly wife

1738
01:00:23,739 --> 01:00:26,105
is like gold, buddy. I tell you. Because

1739
01:00:26,105 --> 01:00:28,425
because when I'm down, she she pulls me.

1740
01:00:28,425 --> 01:00:30,425
When she's down, I pull her. That's right.

1741
01:00:30,425 --> 01:00:32,364
That's why it takes both of you. Yeah.

1742
01:00:32,984 --> 01:00:34,284
Yeah. Amen. Amen.

1743
01:00:34,585 --> 01:00:38,179
But, yeah, let's let's remember this this legacy

1744
01:00:38,179 --> 01:00:40,339
that we wanna leave for our families, for

1745
01:00:40,339 --> 01:00:41,079
our friends.

1746
01:00:41,460 --> 01:00:43,699
If if you're not married, if you don't

1747
01:00:43,699 --> 01:00:46,019
have kids yet, the legacy for your friends,

1748
01:00:46,019 --> 01:00:48,500
the legacy for your parents, the legacy for

1749
01:00:48,500 --> 01:00:49,859
people that know you. And if you are

1750
01:00:49,859 --> 01:00:52,099
married and you have kids, the legacy for

1751
01:00:52,099 --> 01:00:53,239
your children because

1752
01:00:53,914 --> 01:00:56,474
that's something that goes along with striving to

1753
01:00:56,474 --> 01:00:59,994
be more like Christ every single day. And

1754
01:00:59,994 --> 01:01:02,554
that's the reason we do it. The advantage

1755
01:01:02,554 --> 01:01:03,375
of it is

1756
01:01:03,755 --> 01:01:05,675
when our time comes, our kids can go,

1757
01:01:05,675 --> 01:01:07,755
man, my dad was a man of God.

1758
01:01:07,755 --> 01:01:08,734
Man, my woman

1759
01:01:09,090 --> 01:01:11,329
My my my mother was a woman of

1760
01:01:11,329 --> 01:01:13,730
God, and she I watched them pray, and

1761
01:01:13,730 --> 01:01:15,410
I heard them praying, and I heard them

1762
01:01:15,410 --> 01:01:17,590
calling out my name. And I remember them

1763
01:01:17,890 --> 01:01:19,170
when we go to bed at night, they

1764
01:01:19,170 --> 01:01:20,610
would sit down and pray with us every

1765
01:01:20,610 --> 01:01:23,035
night. And it was it was genuine and

1766
01:01:23,035 --> 01:01:24,715
it was real, and they called out to

1767
01:01:24,715 --> 01:01:26,875
God. That's what we want our kids to

1768
01:01:26,875 --> 01:01:28,715
see and to say and to be able

1769
01:01:28,715 --> 01:01:30,015
to live because

1770
01:01:30,394 --> 01:01:32,555
that's what's gonna keep when we step away.

1771
01:01:32,555 --> 01:01:33,994
Like you say, brother Brian, I've been there.

1772
01:01:33,994 --> 01:01:35,535
I've been the one that stepped away.

1773
01:01:36,449 --> 01:01:37,889
And if it hadn't been for a praying

1774
01:01:37,889 --> 01:01:39,170
mom and dad, I don't know that I'd

1775
01:01:39,170 --> 01:01:40,070
have made it back.

1776
01:01:40,530 --> 01:01:41,730
I mean, it would have been really easy

1777
01:01:41,730 --> 01:01:43,909
to just say I'm done. Yeah.

1778
01:01:44,449 --> 01:01:46,050
But there comes a point where you have

1779
01:01:46,050 --> 01:01:48,369
to realize that that it is through God

1780
01:01:48,369 --> 01:01:49,889
and it is through his grace and it

1781
01:01:49,889 --> 01:01:52,275
is through the power of Jesus that is

1782
01:01:52,275 --> 01:01:54,114
in us, that is around us, that is

1783
01:01:54,114 --> 01:01:56,514
provided to us, that we can come back

1784
01:01:56,514 --> 01:01:58,675
and that we can come home. Never forget

1785
01:01:58,675 --> 01:02:00,434
that and never let it slow you down,

1786
01:02:00,434 --> 01:02:03,234
Christians. We are all praying for each other

1787
01:02:03,234 --> 01:02:05,175
every day and lifting each other up.

1788
01:02:05,809 --> 01:02:07,570
Brother Brian, you wanna pray us out tonight?

1789
01:02:07,570 --> 01:02:08,070
Absolutely.

1790
01:02:08,690 --> 01:02:09,829
Lord, we love you.

1791
01:02:10,289 --> 01:02:12,070
God, we're so thankful that,

1792
01:02:13,250 --> 01:02:14,869
you left the greatest

1793
01:02:15,250 --> 01:02:15,750
legacy,

1794
01:02:16,849 --> 01:02:19,590
that could ever be followed. Lord, you built,

1795
01:02:20,775 --> 01:02:22,315
the church upon yourself.

1796
01:02:22,934 --> 01:02:23,755
God, you

1797
01:02:24,214 --> 01:02:26,454
are that solid rock. You are that chief

1798
01:02:26,454 --> 01:02:29,114
cornerstone that keeps us in line, that,

1799
01:02:29,574 --> 01:02:31,574
that that keeps us going in the right

1800
01:02:31,574 --> 01:02:34,319
direction. And so look, God, let us continue

1801
01:02:34,380 --> 01:02:37,280
on that. Lord, what the, the prophets and,

1802
01:02:37,819 --> 01:02:40,299
and the disciples and apostles, lord god, what

1803
01:02:40,299 --> 01:02:40,799
they

1804
01:02:42,059 --> 01:02:42,559
built,

1805
01:02:42,859 --> 01:02:44,940
continue to build the church bone. Lord, I

1806
01:02:44,940 --> 01:02:45,434
pray

1807
01:02:45,914 --> 01:02:47,215
right now that we,

1808
01:02:47,594 --> 01:02:49,434
as men of God, as women of God,

1809
01:02:49,434 --> 01:02:51,295
would continue to build upon that,

1810
01:02:51,835 --> 01:02:52,335
Lord,

1811
01:02:52,715 --> 01:02:54,335
that that no other foundation,

1812
01:02:55,195 --> 01:02:56,255
would would stand,

1813
01:02:56,954 --> 01:02:59,035
but but the rock, the solid rock of

1814
01:02:59,035 --> 01:03:01,260
Jesus. Lord, I pray for those,

1815
01:03:01,660 --> 01:03:03,039
those men who are struggling.

1816
01:03:03,420 --> 01:03:05,099
God, I pray that you would give them

1817
01:03:05,099 --> 01:03:06,539
help. I pray that you'd put the right

1818
01:03:06,539 --> 01:03:08,140
people in front of them, God, so that

1819
01:03:08,140 --> 01:03:08,960
they could become,

1820
01:03:09,660 --> 01:03:10,940
the man that they need to be. I

1821
01:03:10,940 --> 01:03:12,539
pray for those who are lost, who don't

1822
01:03:12,539 --> 01:03:13,454
know what it's like,

1823
01:03:13,934 --> 01:03:15,535
God, to walk in the light. I pray

1824
01:03:15,535 --> 01:03:17,614
that we would be an example to them

1825
01:03:17,614 --> 01:03:19,375
and that they might be an example to

1826
01:03:19,375 --> 01:03:21,715
the generations to come, Lord God, through coming

1827
01:03:21,855 --> 01:03:22,755
to know Jesus.

1828
01:03:23,614 --> 01:03:25,769
Lord, I pray for those who are who

1829
01:03:25,769 --> 01:03:27,469
are sick and afflicted and,

1830
01:03:27,849 --> 01:03:30,409
God, the the the prayer request, Lord God,

1831
01:03:30,409 --> 01:03:31,789
seemed to be innumerable,

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today, with the with the things that are

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going on around us, but, God, you know

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our every

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need. And, Lord, I I am so thankful

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today that this world,

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it's not my home.

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But, lord god, I I pray that you'll

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use me while I'm here until you bring

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us home to glory. Lord, we thank you

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for this podcast. We ask you that you

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bless,

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Tyler and Dennis, god, and their families. And,

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lord, that you just hold,

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hold them tight and and give them just

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a a great word to continue to speak

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to the people around them.

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Lord, we just pray for that listener that's

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struggling today. And, God, we we praise you

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and lift you up in all that's said

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and done. And we ask this in Jesus

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name. Amen. Amen.

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Special thank you to Carter Pridemore, Brian Harris,

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Waverly Henderson,

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Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Bartain for our

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theme song, truth set Me Free.

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I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio.

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We hope you can join us live next

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Monday at 6 PM CST.

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Thank you for listening. But truth found me

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there.

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It was in my darkest

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hour.

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I traded my black heart for joy, for

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something real, something with power.

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Truth set me free.