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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 CST.

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And welcome back this week. It's really great

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to be back. We got to miss last

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week a little bit, had some work stuff

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conflicting, and,

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we got a new grandfather with us,

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this week.

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That that's,

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that's always a wonderful thing.

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So, you know, those kind of things do

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come up and they get in the way,

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but, that's alright. That's life. Yeah. It is.

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So how you doing this week, brother Dennis?

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Doing alright, man. Doing alright. So far so

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good. Fantastic.

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Made it through another Monday. Another Monday. Hey

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that's good. And what about Pawpaw over here?

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Yeah. Pawpaw is on cloud 9 guys. I

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tell you.

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We had to just

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kind of let everybody know what's been going

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on. My daughter,

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Tatum,

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well, she has,

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she just had our our first granddaughter,

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this,

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this week and,

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had some few complications to start with.

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And been in the hospital for about a

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week and then,

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and then end ended up in the hospital

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another week in Huntsville.

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One thing led to another though, had some,

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preeclampsia is what Tatum had, gave her high

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blood pressure and a lot of different symptoms

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and different things going on, so,

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so they had to go ahead and induce

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labor

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and at 3034

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and a half weeks

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which, technology man, they,

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medical field has come such a long way,

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still some scary moments

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they told us that

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we got there just in time if it

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had been another week or so that things

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may have been a whole lot different than

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what they were

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but but Tatum is is doing much better

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they finally

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got her blood pressure under control.

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Miller,

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Miller Blake Spears

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is my,

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little girl's,

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grandbaby's name and,

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man, she is I can't even talk about

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it. Out. Get in the bus. She is

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beautiful, man. She is beautiful.

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She is,

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progressing

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so much further,

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than and quicker than we thought. She's still

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in the NICU

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there in Huntsville, but she,

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really the next day after she was in

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there ended up in a step down in

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the NICU. It's still within it,

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and has just got better every day.

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She's been feeding,

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and

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taking a bottle too and

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today

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she got her feeding tube out. They had

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moved it from her mouth to her nose

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so she could feed with Tatum or with

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a bottle

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but then they've moved it out of her

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nose now today

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so she has no feeding tubes or anything

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hooked up to her. You can see all

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of her pretty face now, no tape on

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it.

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She's gaining a little bit of weight back.

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bit especially in the Q babies, but

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gained a little bit of weight back

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and, and just doing a 100% better.

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at probably the latest, the end of the

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week, but maybe even before. So, yeah. Oh,

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that's awesome. Oh, that is fantastic. I had

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to go through NICU twice, actually, with both

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of mine. So I know it's a very

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stressful thing. Yes. Yes. But man, when they

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come home, it's just like, woo. Yeah. Thank

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you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. It's it's definitely

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something to rejoice over. Yeah. She's at £4.6

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right now. She's a little bitty thing. Yeah,

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man. Pretty good. Wow. She is awful small

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but she is still man she is so

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beautiful so beautiful so.

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Well I tell my daughter all the time

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that, you know she got her nickname peanut

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and, it just stuck and and she she

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didn't really care for that and then when

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she got it when we got her the

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puppies that we got, she decided her dog's

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name would be peanut. And I was like,

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that's nice way to get me back there,

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honey. Yeah.

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Yeah. That's awesome. So, yeah, start a new

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job today.

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took a job with,

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with hospice.

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I'm chaplain here in,

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a couple of different covering a couple of

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different counties here in our local area. So,

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getting to do that and, just feel like

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the Lord opened up doors there. So

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still by vocational, still pastoring here at Mountain

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View, but yeah. Man, he's just opened the

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floodgates on you, honey. He did. He did.

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Yeah. That's awesome. But but but you know

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I've I've I've,

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I've let go of a few jobs too.

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So, you know, I've narrowed it down to

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2 now. So that's

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I I I keep saying I I think

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you've,

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got the retirement

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backwards. Yeah. I did. You're supposed to do

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less, not more. No. No.

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I think, we're gonna be having an interesting

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discussion tonight when we talk about, I think

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you guys have suggested the topic of fear.

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discuss.

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I do wanna throw out a few current

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event type stuff.

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Always like to throw those in there and,

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you know, sometimes point out some things that

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as Christians, we need to keep an eye

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on and maybe

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maybe be be ready to speak a little

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truth to people if things go certain directions.

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Man, we have had a wild

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3 weeks in this country Yeah. Since 20th.

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I mean, it has been insane.

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Just everything that's going on.

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things that makes America such a wonderful country

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and that we've always prided ourselves on

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and in a very biblical concept is the

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idea that

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the rule of law applies to everyone equally.

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Whether you're president,

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whether you're a regular plain private citizen,

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everybody's on an equal playing field when you

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go into a courtroom. And if you're not,

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there's a problem.

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And so one of the things that that

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happened was, we, we had a lot of

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pardons that went through the last, w well,

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actually within the first couple of days,

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1500 people that have been arrested for,

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be everything that happened around the Capitol on

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January 6, 2021.

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And he just said, look, every everybody's pardon,

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just just blanket pardon, unconditional,

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which was

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insane because

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I think everyone agrees that there were some

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people that, you know what, I'm sorry, if

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you if you broke out the window, if

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you kicked in the door, if you smacked

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a police officer,

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you belong in jail. I'm sorry. Yeah. But

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you know the the the opponents of the

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people that were there protesting really painted with

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a wide brush and I told somebody the

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other day at work I said the thing

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that's gonna strike me as funny is we're

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gonna find out that there was somebody there

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trying to sell drugs to the protesters.

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Just got an unconditional pardon because he was

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just happened to be in the area that

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day. I said that that kinda stinks, but

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yeah, that's what happens when you go with

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the wide brush to paint everybody. Yeah.

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We you know, one of the things in

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the law is everything. There's a reason attorneys,

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the most frustrating phrase, if you ever talk

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to an attorney or even a police officer

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is, well, it depends.

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It is the, it is so frustrating to

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hear anybody that knows anything about the law.

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They say it depends, it depends, it depends.

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And it's like, well, why can't you just

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tell me? Well because it depends very much

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on the circumstances, the specifics, what's going on

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at that time.

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And anytime that stuff gets thrown out you

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have to take drastic measures. And so I'm

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very glad that that happened. It's nice to

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see a little bit of that focus. Okay

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look we're gonna treat everybody as individuals. Let's

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stop just demonizing everybody that you don't agree

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with.

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But at the same time I'm gonna call

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a little bit of a strike here because

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one unconditional pardon that went through was for

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Ross Ulbrich and that's the guy that ran

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the Silk Road on tour and if you're

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not familiar with that it was Amazon for

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drugs. Yeah. Illegal drugs. And he profited off

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of it and ran it for years and

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he just got a full unconditional pardon.

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And the only reason he got as harsh

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of a sentence, which again, this is one

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of those things just as supposed to be

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equal.

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2 life sentences

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plus 40 years and a $184,000,000

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in fines

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for running a marketplace that he was allowing

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people to do illegal things on. And it's

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like, okay well I can understand the fine.

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That makes sense. He made a lot of

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money off of this.

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2 life sentences

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for not actually doing anything. That that was

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a little excessive. So I understood why the

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pardon was there.

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I would have really preferred to sing that

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one be just we're gonna commute a sentence

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instead of letting this guy because that it

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kinda sends the message of, oh yeah, I'm

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fine with that. And it's like, no, no,

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we're not fine with that.

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And that's one of those things, Christians,

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don't be afraid to say, hey, look, yeah,

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that was excessive, but we're not okay with

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what he did. He he did some bad

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things.

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And on the flip side of that, we

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had 2 police officers, Metro DC officers got

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pardoned full unconditional pardons. And I, these were

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all campaign promises.

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That the reason they got the what the

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reason they were in trouble,

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they had seen a guy driving his moped

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on the sidewalk

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without a helmet. Go to pull him over,

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he runs.

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common thing, happens all the time. He turns

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into an alley, they chase him into the

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alley and partway through the alley they turn

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their lights and siren off.

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And the guy pulls out into traffic and

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gets hit by a car, throws him out

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onto the pavement, smacks his head on the

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pavement.

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They pull up, act like they just came

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upon the scene,

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tried to delete their dashcam footage,

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tried to modify their body cam footage,

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let the driver of the vehicle leave,

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called an ambulance for the guy, and when

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on the phone with them they said, oh,

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he fell off of this moped and hit

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it you know he's got a cut on

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his head. It's like, no, he just hit

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the pavement at like 20 miles an hour.

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Let let, you know, and so they got

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in some trouble for that. And the, the

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big thing that they were really in trouble

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for was the tampering with evidence. That was

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the, the major thing.

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But again, because people are people, the jury

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saw fit to slap them with negligent homicide

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because the guy died.

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And yeah, that was again, a bit excessive.

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I don't think I would go so far

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as saying negligent. They made sure he was

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at least breathing. I mean, there's only so

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much you can do when somebody gets a

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head injury. If you've ever dealt with those,

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they bleed like the Dickens and

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you can't really tell how bad it is.

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So that was a little disappointing to see

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that the, the tampering with evidence just got

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kind of hand waved there. That really, really

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upset me because I don't want to see

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that kind of stuff getting

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encouraged

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and, and hand waved.

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And on the other hand,

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You know, we've had a major change in

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immigration policies, and this is one thing I

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always bring up and talking about fear and

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talking about people being afraid, it is instilled

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a lot of fear in people

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because, you know, he, he has, we've declared,

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an invasion,

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that, that, that was one of his official

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acts. And as part of that, he said,

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look, we're going after, if you're here, you're

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illegal. We found out you're here and you're

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illegally in the country. You, you violated our

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immigration laws. We're removing you.

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And that makes sense

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and the way we're handling it right now

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is if you had some kind of a

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run-in with law enforcement in any way and

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they collected your documents and went, oh you're

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not supposed to be here.

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Out the door you go, you know. Super

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easy, makes sense.

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But outside of that,

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the question becomes how do you identify somebody

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who is not legally in the country? Well

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you have to

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give me your papers.

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And a lot of people are starting to

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get really are very concerned about that. And

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my answer to this is simply this. People

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ask every conservative, everybody that supported Donald Trump.

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Well, now we see how you would have

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acted in Germany in 1930, 1938.

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No.

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If he decides to start going after the

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illegal immigrants by saying everybody has to show

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your paperwork upon request without any suspicion of

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anything,

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Our answer to that is how we would

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have behaved in Germany in 1938.

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So before you go fear mongering, we haven't

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started violating rights yet.

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The moment he does,

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people will get to hear me say, hey

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that needs to stop. I'm not about that.

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I'm not with that. I don't support that.

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No. We have rights and that's what we're

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gonna do. And as Christians we have to

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follow the color of law, the rule of

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law. And we don't need to be afraid

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to stand up and say that. So current

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events, things are going crazy.

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There's a, there's a lot going on. But,

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and the only thing we really have to

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watch out for here, Christians, is do make

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sure you know what the rules are. Make

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sure you know what the laws are. Make

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sure you're staying abreast of that. Because if

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we start crossing those lines

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at that point, hey, we don't wanna make

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the mistake that the Christians in Germany in

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1930 and 40s made where we stayed quiet.

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You know, stand up and just say, hey,

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woah woah

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Hold on. We have rules. Let's let's keep

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following the rules. Let's not start breaking them

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just because we're scared. Yeah. We can't agree

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with somebody just because we felt like he

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was the best person for the job on

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everything that he does. Right. But, you know,

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there's a lot of there's a lot of

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things he's done. I know we don't have

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time to get into it on this but

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there's a lot of things that he's done

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in the last couple of weeks that Only

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about a 100 executive orders. Right. A lot

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of people think that's just,

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him being egotistical,

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you know, and feeding his ego but there's

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a whole lot more depth to a lot

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of it than than that as far as

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our economy goes and, our land and and

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how far it goes, you know, like the

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whole Gulf of America thing. You know, sometimes

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he should word things a little bit different

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and come from a different angle, but, but,

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you know, it it goes a little bit

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deeper than just I wanna rename this gulf,

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you know, and what what what takes place

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there. But anyway, it's all it's all about

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appearances, and it's all about kind of showing

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a stance. And, you know, you know, my,

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my whole thing there is Christians just don't,

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don't cause problems when there's no problems to

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be caused. But Hey, if, if people start

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trying to, to go do an end run

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around, we have a constitution and it's, it's

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very, very well thought out and very carefully

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modified and written.

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And when they start doing an end run

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around that, it's it's time to say wait,

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hold on everybody stop. We've gone too far.

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And

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I say that just because in the spirit

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of

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of avoiding some fear,

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only when people start crossing those lines do

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you have something to be concerned about. If

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we're staying

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within the law and we're staying within the

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Constitution,

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it's nothing to be afraid of. You may

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not like it. It may be uncomfortable and

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I totally get that. I totally get why

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some people say that. Yeah. But, you know,

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don't don't go out calling them out from

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the pulpit at the national prayer meeting.

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Yeah. Yeah. And well, he he he he

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does a lot of bluffing. Yeah. Yeah. But

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tariff stuff, fastest trade war in history. Yeah.

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Between Canada and when it's a Canada was

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settled today, and he's he's he's talking about

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making them the 51st state, stuff like that.

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No. He's just

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he's just like poking them with a sharp

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stick. Yeah. That's the way he negotiates. He

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he does. And the press still doesn't understand

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it. But I want to throw I want

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to throw a little caution out too. I

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I read this article this morning,

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about, you know, we we're seeing a lot

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of countries pulling back from this globalistic mindset

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that we've had for decades

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about, you you know, we've been talking about

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one world this, one world that, and all

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this

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being a single government.

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Well, the Bible describes something a little bit

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different in in ways, and maybe this is

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unfolding in a way that, maybe

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didn't quite understand

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because,

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I just I'm reluctant and I want to

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warn Christians don't put your faith in Donald

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Trump.

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Don't put your faith in Econ Mosque. Don't

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put your faith in a government or That's

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right. Because they may be doing be

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doing the right things that are unfolding the

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end times picture. Absolutely. Because Daniel chapter 7

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tells us about

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a beast that comes out, a 4th beast,

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a 4th kingdom on the earth, and it

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comes out with 10 horns. And this is

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10 kingdoms. Yes. Now imagine one of these

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kingdoms could be

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from Greenland

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all the way over to Alaska, including Canada

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down to the US, Mexico, all the way

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to Panama Canal. Yeah. That could be a

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kingdom that's taking shape right now, one of

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those 10 kingdoms. That's right. And Donald Trump's

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making that happen. He's doing the right things.

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Yeah. But in God's sovereignty, that stuff is

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gonna come back. Sure. Sure. Even

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well, we have bad kings that put things

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in place. We have good kings that put

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things in place. Right. God uses that and

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and he he knows,

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he knows the end result of this thing

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and we know the end result of this

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thing, but how they're set up in between

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there and how God's working that to to,

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to be,

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sometimes we don't recognize it or know. Yeah.

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But we do know, you know, that that

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these 10 kingdoms are gonna be ruled by

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1. Yeah. Right? An antichrist figure is gonna

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be And it's not Donald Trump, and it's

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not Elon Musk. We

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if you know who it is, you missed

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the raptors. That's it. Yeah. You're going. You're

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going. Yeah. That's right.

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That's not that he couldn't

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be alive somewhere right now. And he he

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might be 12 years old. He might be

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20 years old. I don't know. I don't

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even know. He might be 40 something. Sure.

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We don't know. We don't know.

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Yeah. He may be, he may be out

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there consolidating his power over somewhere right now

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and all of that, but it's, it's not,

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he's going to come out of nowhere. Yeah.

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I mean, he's, he's going to kind of

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be a relatively unknown because

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it's going to have to be somebody that

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can easily pull, pull people's attention and if

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if any of the leaders that we have

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now, everybody knows them, everybody has has issues

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with them and all that. It's gonna have

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to be somebody that doesn't have any of

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that baggage. Otherwise, the world won't galvanize around

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them. We know from Daniel that he's he's

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one thing he's he's really not that interested

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in women. Yeah. He's not he's not interested

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in that kind of that

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kind of stuff. He he's not interested in

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anything sexual, period. Yeah. Yeah. And he's very

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charismatic. You know, he's gotta be and very

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very smart. And he is he is not

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Elon Musk.

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He was Not very charismatic. He is someone

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who

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everyone can relate to in some way. Yeah.

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He's gonna be eccentric. He's gonna be down

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to earth. He's gonna be,

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poetic. He's gonna be artistic.

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He's gonna be attractive,

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even though, like I said, as far as

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the sexual thing,

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that's not gonna be part of it because

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his focus is gonna be on what Satan

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has him doing. Yeah.

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But he's going to be somebody that everybody

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can can look at and say hey yeah

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okay this guy's got the answers. He's

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so well rounded he's so

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so brilliant in so many different

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ways

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that that at the beginning of tribulation

535
00:19:42,380 --> 00:19:43,519
they're gonna say okay,

536
00:19:43,900 --> 00:19:45,579
he's gonna say look I can fix this,

537
00:19:45,579 --> 00:19:46,940
I can fix this. And he does. I

538
00:19:46,940 --> 00:19:48,380
can yeah. And there will be a one

539
00:19:48,380 --> 00:19:49,900
world order, and there will be a one

540
00:19:49,900 --> 00:19:51,519
world money, and there will be,

541
00:19:51,980 --> 00:19:52,720
you know,

542
00:19:53,179 --> 00:19:54,079
a one place.

543
00:19:54,674 --> 00:19:56,774
In the Middle East is gonna be,

544
00:19:57,154 --> 00:19:57,654
and

545
00:19:58,034 --> 00:19:59,014
especially Israel,

546
00:19:59,554 --> 00:20:01,554
is gonna be the central point of everything

547
00:20:01,554 --> 00:20:03,474
that's going on during that time. Yes. You

548
00:20:03,474 --> 00:20:04,914
know, I know we talked about this before.

549
00:20:04,914 --> 00:20:07,315
I don't know if the United States will

550
00:20:07,315 --> 00:20:08,835
play a part in it. I don't see

551
00:20:08,835 --> 00:20:10,170
it anywhere in there, but,

552
00:20:10,809 --> 00:20:12,090
but, you know, I don't I don't know

553
00:20:12,090 --> 00:20:13,690
what kind of party playing it, but but

554
00:20:13,690 --> 00:20:15,850
everybody's gonna be moving and focusing towards the

555
00:20:15,850 --> 00:20:17,210
Middle East because they're gonna have to go

556
00:20:17,210 --> 00:20:18,410
there to eat. They're gonna have to go

557
00:20:18,410 --> 00:20:18,910
there

558
00:20:19,289 --> 00:20:20,809
to find shelter. They're gonna have to go

559
00:20:20,809 --> 00:20:22,730
there to, to be able to take care,

560
00:20:22,730 --> 00:20:25,130
to find clothing and different things like that.

561
00:20:25,130 --> 00:20:27,095
And so yeah. He but he's gonna say,

562
00:20:27,095 --> 00:20:29,414
yeah. You come here. You worship me. You

563
00:20:29,414 --> 00:20:30,394
take this mark,

564
00:20:30,774 --> 00:20:32,694
and you're gonna be okay. Yeah. And that

565
00:20:32,694 --> 00:20:35,174
and that mark is, it's it's gonna look

566
00:20:35,174 --> 00:20:35,734
like just,

567
00:20:36,375 --> 00:20:38,869
brilliant. It it'll be brilliant. I mean, imagine

568
00:20:38,869 --> 00:20:41,029
you never gotta remember another password or a

569
00:20:41,029 --> 00:20:43,190
PIN. Yeah. Right? Absolutely not. That we always

570
00:20:43,190 --> 00:20:44,950
seem to be forgetting. Yeah. It'll be so

571
00:20:44,950 --> 00:20:46,789
convenient, so easy, so You don't have to

572
00:20:46,789 --> 00:20:48,789
remember my wallet. Don't have don't have to

573
00:20:48,789 --> 00:20:51,029
carry my passport with me. No. I can

574
00:20:51,029 --> 00:20:52,230
just walk up and up. This is who

575
00:20:52,230 --> 00:20:54,134
I am. Yeah. And it's just all right

576
00:20:54,134 --> 00:20:56,775
there in the database. Everything. Everything. That's right.

577
00:20:56,775 --> 00:20:58,154
You know and that's the thing. They

578
00:20:58,934 --> 00:21:00,715
the I remember seeing some of the

579
00:21:01,495 --> 00:21:02,795
and there have been countless

580
00:21:03,174 --> 00:21:05,595
movies, novels, that kind of thing written about

581
00:21:06,170 --> 00:21:08,750
the end times and about the the tribulation

582
00:21:08,890 --> 00:21:10,890
and what goes on there. And they always

583
00:21:10,890 --> 00:21:12,589
have these really odd

584
00:21:13,289 --> 00:21:15,769
ideas of how you would pull off a

585
00:21:15,769 --> 00:21:17,289
mark that would do these things. And I

586
00:21:17,289 --> 00:21:19,365
remember I remember there was one back in

587
00:21:19,365 --> 00:21:21,125
the seventies or show and it was literally

588
00:21:21,125 --> 00:21:22,964
they had something inside the palm of their

589
00:21:22,964 --> 00:21:24,164
hand. It's like, no, it says it's on

590
00:21:24,164 --> 00:21:25,525
the back of your hand. Yeah. You know,

591
00:21:25,525 --> 00:21:27,305
and they they got that so wrong. Yeah.

592
00:21:27,525 --> 00:21:29,204
Yeah. And yeah. Back of the hand or

593
00:21:29,204 --> 00:21:29,704
forehead.

594
00:21:30,085 --> 00:21:32,789
And I I will never forget when when

595
00:21:32,789 --> 00:21:34,789
the guys that did the Left Behind series

596
00:21:34,789 --> 00:21:35,929
were talking about it.

597
00:21:36,309 --> 00:21:39,289
And they started talking about this almost holographic

598
00:21:40,630 --> 00:21:42,950
tattoo and people were like, well that doesn't

599
00:21:42,950 --> 00:21:45,085
make any sense. And I'm like, actually, no.

600
00:21:45,085 --> 00:21:47,164
That that's how you store a large amount

601
00:21:47,164 --> 00:21:49,484
of information in a small area is it

602
00:21:49,484 --> 00:21:52,365
has to be a three-dimensional style tattoo. And

603
00:21:52,365 --> 00:21:54,125
it's like, yeah, no, we have those. We

604
00:21:54,125 --> 00:21:56,125
we have QR codes that store this massive

605
00:21:56,125 --> 00:21:58,044
amount of data in a very very tiny

606
00:21:58,044 --> 00:21:58,544
space

607
00:21:58,909 --> 00:22:00,450
and is really easy to read.

608
00:22:01,470 --> 00:22:03,069
And I started looking at that and I

609
00:22:03,069 --> 00:22:05,710
went, wow, yeah, they're they're actually onto something.

610
00:22:05,710 --> 00:22:08,049
And you know a lot of the different

611
00:22:08,109 --> 00:22:10,450
pieces of what will lead to these things,

612
00:22:10,589 --> 00:22:12,349
they've been groundwork been laid for years. We

613
00:22:12,349 --> 00:22:13,250
have the cryptocurrency.

614
00:22:13,789 --> 00:22:15,255
Yeah, and I got a theory, man. I

615
00:22:15,255 --> 00:22:16,615
got to go. You want to hear something

616
00:22:16,615 --> 00:22:18,455
wild? Let's hear something wild. Why not? You

617
00:22:18,455 --> 00:22:19,654
know, once you take the mark of the

618
00:22:19,654 --> 00:22:20,875
beast, you're irredeemable.

619
00:22:21,414 --> 00:22:23,734
You cannot be redeemed. You're done. That's right.

620
00:22:23,734 --> 00:22:26,134
Right. And I believe my my theory, you

621
00:22:26,134 --> 00:22:28,680
know, we got Neuralink going on with with

622
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,759
Elon Musk. It's and and one of the

623
00:22:30,759 --> 00:22:32,440
goals one of the goals that some of

624
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,440
these scientists have is to create, what they

625
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:35,500
call a singularity.

626
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:37,720
Yeah. That the human brain will be connected

627
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,619
to a computer. Yeah. Everybody's brain connected together.

628
00:22:40,884 --> 00:22:42,005
Right. All you gotta do is think of

629
00:22:42,005 --> 00:22:44,325
something to Google it. Right. Right. Just brilliant.

630
00:22:44,325 --> 00:22:46,484
Mhmm. But this makes you less human. It

631
00:22:46,484 --> 00:22:48,724
does. It takes you out of humanity. Yeah.

632
00:22:48,724 --> 00:22:50,085
And I believe this mark of the beast

633
00:22:50,085 --> 00:22:51,765
to be some kind of a biological thing

634
00:22:51,765 --> 00:22:53,684
in your hand or forehead that connects you

635
00:22:53,684 --> 00:22:54,345
to this

636
00:22:54,919 --> 00:22:57,720
thing. Right. Right? Yeah. And and you can't

637
00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,640
be redeemed from it anymore. Well, and here's

638
00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:01,400
done. And here's why you're giving up your

639
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,380
individuality. Sure. Because once you're connected to it,

640
00:23:04,679 --> 00:23:07,160
if you can think of something and and

641
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,720
bring and Google it in your mind, then

642
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,845
guess what else can happen that the reverse

643
00:23:11,845 --> 00:23:14,085
can happen. Exactly. And and and you can

644
00:23:14,085 --> 00:23:16,644
be controlled, your mind can be controlled, your

645
00:23:16,644 --> 00:23:18,724
reality can be controlled. And you'll worship the

646
00:23:18,724 --> 00:23:20,964
image of the beast. Right? That's where. Yeah.

647
00:23:20,964 --> 00:23:22,740
It don't say you worship the beast, It's

648
00:23:22,740 --> 00:23:23,480
worship the image.

649
00:23:24,339 --> 00:23:27,220
It's it's basically you're like possession. Yeah. I

650
00:23:27,220 --> 00:23:29,160
mean, you're you're You know, there was this

651
00:23:29,220 --> 00:23:31,619
phenomenal social experiment several years ago. It led

652
00:23:31,619 --> 00:23:33,460
to actually, there's a couple of variations on

653
00:23:33,460 --> 00:23:35,220
the game, but the original game was called

654
00:23:35,220 --> 00:23:35,720
Werewolf.

655
00:23:36,375 --> 00:23:37,755
And the way the game worked

656
00:23:38,295 --> 00:23:40,455
was you would have a group of people

657
00:23:40,455 --> 00:23:42,375
would get together to play and you would

658
00:23:42,375 --> 00:23:44,455
have somebody to lead the game and make

659
00:23:44,455 --> 00:23:45,595
sure nobody cheated.

660
00:23:45,894 --> 00:23:47,974
And you'd hand out pieces of paper and

661
00:23:47,974 --> 00:23:49,440
there be 2 people that would have a

662
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:50,960
piece of paper that said you're the werewolf.

663
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:52,579
Everybody else was a villager.

664
00:23:54,319 --> 00:23:56,559
And each round everybody would put their heads

665
00:23:56,559 --> 00:23:58,559
down, close their eyes, and the 2 werewolves

666
00:23:58,559 --> 00:24:00,160
would look up and they would kind of

667
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,160
decide on a villager that they're gonna take

668
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,075
out. And they would point to him and

669
00:24:04,075 --> 00:24:06,394
the person running the game go, okay. He'd

670
00:24:06,394 --> 00:24:07,914
wake up and they'd say, okay, this person

671
00:24:07,914 --> 00:24:09,774
over here, you're dead. You're gone.

672
00:24:10,394 --> 00:24:13,115
And then everybody had to vote and figure

673
00:24:13,115 --> 00:24:14,575
out who the werewolves were.

674
00:24:15,115 --> 00:24:17,570
The amazing thing, this was it was literally

675
00:24:17,570 --> 00:24:19,330
a social experiment. Some guy over in Russia

676
00:24:19,330 --> 00:24:20,930
came up, a college student in Russia came

677
00:24:20,930 --> 00:24:22,849
up with it. And what they figured out

678
00:24:22,849 --> 00:24:23,589
was an

679
00:24:24,130 --> 00:24:24,630
uninformed

680
00:24:25,250 --> 00:24:25,750
majority

681
00:24:26,769 --> 00:24:27,269
almost

682
00:24:27,970 --> 00:24:30,095
always lost to an informed

683
00:24:30,795 --> 00:24:31,295
minority.

684
00:24:32,075 --> 00:24:34,494
So 2 people, even in a game of

685
00:24:34,634 --> 00:24:36,634
10 or 20 people, the 2 people that

686
00:24:36,634 --> 00:24:38,474
were the werewolves that knew who the werewolf

687
00:24:38,474 --> 00:24:41,595
was could convince the other people to vote

688
00:24:41,595 --> 00:24:43,615
for somebody else. They controlled the narrative.

689
00:24:43,994 --> 00:24:44,494
Exactly.

690
00:24:44,809 --> 00:24:46,250
So when you think about it in those

691
00:24:46,250 --> 00:24:47,929
terms and you think about, okay, you can

692
00:24:47,929 --> 00:24:49,950
take the whole world, billions of people,

693
00:24:50,730 --> 00:24:51,789
and you control

694
00:24:52,329 --> 00:24:55,390
every piece of information that they receive,

695
00:24:56,250 --> 00:24:58,765
you can manipulate them into doing

696
00:24:59,785 --> 00:25:02,265
absolutely anything. We've seen the last 5 years.

697
00:25:02,265 --> 00:25:03,944
Yeah. Yeah. It's been awful. Well, I mean,

698
00:25:03,944 --> 00:25:05,545
we see it every day. Right? I mean,

699
00:25:05,545 --> 00:25:07,484
the news is nothing but

700
00:25:07,944 --> 00:25:08,444
a

701
00:25:09,144 --> 00:25:12,299
misguided source of information. Yeah. That's a manipulation.

702
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:13,559
And you don't know. You don't want to

703
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,320
what to believe. And then and then, of

704
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,180
course, I know we've talked about it before,

705
00:25:18,039 --> 00:25:19,720
when you talk about AI, we gotta talk

706
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,320
about this in the hospital the other day,

707
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,559
and she goes, don't get dad started on

708
00:25:23,559 --> 00:25:24,525
that. But I mean, you know,

709
00:25:26,125 --> 00:25:28,224
you we don't know what's real right? Right.

710
00:25:28,365 --> 00:25:29,744
I mean you look at a video

711
00:25:30,285 --> 00:25:33,005
and and you can see a uh-uh you

712
00:25:33,005 --> 00:25:34,525
know you can put a shark in a

713
00:25:34,525 --> 00:25:36,869
in a riverbed somewhere. Yeah. A great white

714
00:25:36,950 --> 00:25:38,950
you know, in the Mississippi river and who

715
00:25:38,950 --> 00:25:40,869
say hell there's a and and and it

716
00:25:40,869 --> 00:25:43,029
looks real. Yeah. I mean I mean For

717
00:25:43,029 --> 00:25:45,190
people saying things that they didn't really say.

718
00:25:45,190 --> 00:25:47,269
Right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, just yeah. Being

719
00:25:47,269 --> 00:25:49,684
able to manipulate their mouth. Yeah. Right? They

720
00:25:50,065 --> 00:25:52,785
take Donald Trump and and someone and and

721
00:25:52,785 --> 00:25:55,105
make them say something that looks exactly like,

722
00:25:55,105 --> 00:25:57,184
oh, that's exactly what they said. So from

723
00:25:57,184 --> 00:25:59,265
now on, how can you know what is

724
00:25:59,265 --> 00:26:01,505
real and what is not? What's AI? I

725
00:26:01,505 --> 00:26:03,539
mean, sure. There's there there are people out

726
00:26:03,539 --> 00:26:04,819
there who say, well, you can look at

727
00:26:04,819 --> 00:26:06,579
this and this and this. These these are

728
00:26:06,579 --> 00:26:08,119
the signs that show you that could be

729
00:26:08,419 --> 00:26:11,619
artificial intelligence now, but but come on. Yeah.

730
00:26:11,619 --> 00:26:13,059
I mean, it's just getting better and better

731
00:26:13,059 --> 00:26:15,059
and better. Yeah. Yeah. I did. So I

732
00:26:15,059 --> 00:26:16,424
I always edit my

733
00:26:17,045 --> 00:26:19,125
family Christmas photos and things like that when

734
00:26:19,125 --> 00:26:20,805
we do pictures and we ended up skipping

735
00:26:20,805 --> 00:26:23,205
them this year. But most years we'll either

736
00:26:23,205 --> 00:26:23,705
go,

737
00:26:24,724 --> 00:26:26,244
down to like the park or something, take

738
00:26:26,244 --> 00:26:27,625
a picture in front of a tree

739
00:26:28,039 --> 00:26:29,480
and or sometimes we'll do it here in

740
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:30,759
the church if the tree gets set up

741
00:26:30,759 --> 00:26:32,200
early enough, we'll take it out in front

742
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:33,980
of the the Christmas tree out here.

743
00:26:34,519 --> 00:26:35,019
And

744
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,559
I think it was last year's. We had

745
00:26:37,559 --> 00:26:38,839
done out in front of the Christmas tree

746
00:26:38,839 --> 00:26:40,599
here at the church, and I sat down

747
00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:42,605
and I was like, okay. I don't like

748
00:26:42,605 --> 00:26:44,525
the doors, you know, going out into the

749
00:26:44,525 --> 00:26:45,965
fellowship hall being in the picture. And I

750
00:26:45,965 --> 00:26:47,005
don't like this being in the picture. And

751
00:26:47,005 --> 00:26:48,465
I literally go into Photoshop

752
00:26:49,325 --> 00:26:51,025
and without I didn't have to be accurate.

753
00:26:51,164 --> 00:26:53,005
I didn't have to be super specific about

754
00:26:53,005 --> 00:26:54,924
it. I went, take this part right here

755
00:26:54,924 --> 00:26:57,679
and remove it. And Photoshop goes, cool. And

756
00:26:57,679 --> 00:26:59,440
took just a few seconds. Now granted I

757
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,759
have a machine that's built to do stuff

758
00:27:01,759 --> 00:27:02,660
like this, but

759
00:27:03,759 --> 00:27:05,299
goodness when it was done

760
00:27:05,839 --> 00:27:07,859
it looked completely natural.

761
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,115
You could not tell that photo had been

762
00:27:11,115 --> 00:27:13,934
edited manipulated in any way and I'm going

763
00:27:14,394 --> 00:27:16,315
goodness used to now I'm used to doing

764
00:27:16,315 --> 00:27:17,674
that on my green screen and stuff. We

765
00:27:17,674 --> 00:27:19,035
see that all the time with Hollywood. You

766
00:27:19,035 --> 00:27:20,795
know, you have a constant color and you

767
00:27:20,795 --> 00:27:22,234
can get in front of it green blue

768
00:27:22,234 --> 00:27:24,075
whatever and and then you replace it with

769
00:27:24,075 --> 00:27:27,240
another thing. Yeah. And then you get transparent.

770
00:27:28,259 --> 00:27:30,180
And you know, it's one of those things

771
00:27:30,180 --> 00:27:32,279
that's easy to do, but with a just

772
00:27:32,420 --> 00:27:33,320
normal picture

773
00:27:33,779 --> 00:27:35,900
with doors on a wall. And it was

774
00:27:36,019 --> 00:27:37,380
I mean, there's not a lot. I mean,

775
00:27:37,380 --> 00:27:38,740
you guys know how that wall out there

776
00:27:38,740 --> 00:27:40,315
looks. There's not a lot of it. Yeah.

777
00:27:40,315 --> 00:27:42,154
And it was able to extrapolate, oh if

778
00:27:42,154 --> 00:27:44,315
this door wasn't here this is what the

779
00:27:44,315 --> 00:27:46,494
wall would look like. It got it dead

780
00:27:46,555 --> 00:27:48,315
dead on. So if you can see it

781
00:27:48,315 --> 00:27:49,775
and you can hear it,

782
00:27:50,154 --> 00:27:52,075
you're gonna believe it. Yeah. Right? I mean

783
00:27:52,075 --> 00:27:53,914
for the most part most people are gonna

784
00:27:53,914 --> 00:27:55,359
if they see it and hear they're gonna

785
00:27:55,599 --> 00:27:57,279
They have voice generation by the way now.

786
00:27:57,279 --> 00:27:59,039
Yeah. Like I can take a sample of

787
00:27:59,039 --> 00:28:00,720
my voice. In fact, if you have a

788
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,480
one of the newer iPhones, you can literally

789
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:03,919
record a sample of your voice. It takes

790
00:28:03,919 --> 00:28:04,899
about 20 minutes

791
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:06,799
and it gives you a series of of

792
00:28:06,799 --> 00:28:08,099
sentences to say.

793
00:28:08,444 --> 00:28:10,605
And then if something happens and you can't

794
00:28:10,605 --> 00:28:11,804
talk, you can hit a button on your

795
00:28:11,804 --> 00:28:13,404
phone, tap in a thing and say read

796
00:28:13,404 --> 00:28:15,164
this in my voice and it will speak

797
00:28:15,164 --> 00:28:16,384
as you. And it gets

798
00:28:17,005 --> 00:28:19,184
iPhone's not super super good at it,

799
00:28:19,484 --> 00:28:20,924
but you put it on a bigger computer

800
00:28:20,924 --> 00:28:22,605
that has a lot more processing power. Oh

801
00:28:22,605 --> 00:28:25,970
man. But it doesn't sound like this. Exactly.

802
00:28:26,349 --> 00:28:27,890
It sounds supernatural.

803
00:28:28,349 --> 00:28:28,849
Yeah.

804
00:28:30,349 --> 00:28:30,930
Yeah. And

805
00:28:31,549 --> 00:28:33,390
and this is this is Satan's game. This

806
00:28:33,390 --> 00:28:35,470
is Satan's game. It is blur the truth.

807
00:28:35,470 --> 00:28:37,410
It is. Obscure everything, cause

808
00:28:37,710 --> 00:28:38,690
chaos, confusion.

809
00:28:39,070 --> 00:28:39,570
Sure.

810
00:28:39,964 --> 00:28:41,525
And it's it it can be scary for

811
00:28:41,525 --> 00:28:43,724
a while. It is. Yeah. Yeah. And and

812
00:28:43,724 --> 00:28:45,085
and a lot of a lot of what's

813
00:28:45,085 --> 00:28:46,285
gonna be going on, and I know we've

814
00:28:46,285 --> 00:28:48,605
talked about this before. We've we're we're kinda

815
00:28:48,605 --> 00:28:50,125
on the subject of fear that we're gonna

816
00:28:50,125 --> 00:28:51,565
be on, but we're not been even We

817
00:28:51,565 --> 00:28:53,369
hadn't opened that deep. Yeah. We're on it.

818
00:28:53,369 --> 00:28:55,130
Hey. We can Yeah. We check. We can

819
00:28:55,130 --> 00:28:56,190
go from there, but,

820
00:28:57,130 --> 00:29:00,349
but but but Satan's game, the the antichrist

821
00:29:00,570 --> 00:29:01,070
game

822
00:29:01,450 --> 00:29:03,849
is going to be to manipulate. It's gonna

823
00:29:03,849 --> 00:29:06,025
be a lot of smoke and mirrors. You

824
00:29:06,025 --> 00:29:07,625
know? I know we've talked about that before,

825
00:29:07,625 --> 00:29:08,125
but,

826
00:29:08,744 --> 00:29:10,424
you know, he there's there's gonna be some

827
00:29:10,424 --> 00:29:12,345
things that he's gonna have power to do.

828
00:29:12,345 --> 00:29:13,565
That that he's gonna be,

829
00:29:14,184 --> 00:29:16,440
powered by Satan, and and there's a certain

830
00:29:16,519 --> 00:29:18,059
amount of power that Satan has.

831
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,159
But now one one thing that he doesn't

832
00:29:21,159 --> 00:29:23,639
have is the power to give life. Yeah.

833
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,179
And and so

834
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,799
I think that the the wound on his

835
00:29:27,799 --> 00:29:28,299
head,

836
00:29:28,759 --> 00:29:30,599
that seems to be a fatal wound when

837
00:29:30,599 --> 00:29:31,259
the antichrist

838
00:29:31,765 --> 00:29:33,684
dies if it's a gunshot or whatever it

839
00:29:33,684 --> 00:29:34,265
may be,

840
00:29:35,285 --> 00:29:36,825
and he comes back to life,

841
00:29:37,605 --> 00:29:39,285
I I don't think that's gonna be real.

842
00:29:39,285 --> 00:29:40,724
It can't be real because he can't give

843
00:29:40,724 --> 00:29:43,765
himself life you know. So somehow, someway he's

844
00:29:43,765 --> 00:29:44,265
gonna

845
00:29:44,789 --> 00:29:47,110
he's gonna AI it, he's gonna he's gonna

846
00:29:47,110 --> 00:29:49,789
smoke and mirrors it the whole thing and

847
00:29:49,789 --> 00:29:51,910
and and but but on the news, on

848
00:29:51,910 --> 00:29:54,789
the media, on on the radio, wherever people

849
00:29:54,789 --> 00:29:56,630
hear it and listen to it, it's gonna

850
00:29:56,630 --> 00:29:59,269
appear real. Oh goodness, have you seen some

851
00:29:59,269 --> 00:30:01,164
of the Super Bowl performances in the last,

852
00:30:01,164 --> 00:30:02,924
I don't know, 5, 6 years where they

853
00:30:02,924 --> 00:30:03,984
bring in drones?

854
00:30:04,444 --> 00:30:06,304
Yeah. And they literally paint

855
00:30:06,684 --> 00:30:07,904
into the stage

856
00:30:08,764 --> 00:30:11,244
just in the air. Yeah. They are able

857
00:30:11,244 --> 00:30:13,004
to use them with lasers and holographic, you

858
00:30:13,004 --> 00:30:15,910
know, holographic imaging technology and boom, there's another

859
00:30:15,910 --> 00:30:17,750
person on the stage with them that is

860
00:30:17,750 --> 00:30:19,049
not remotely there.

861
00:30:19,590 --> 00:30:20,869
A few years ago when they did the

862
00:30:20,869 --> 00:30:23,509
Dragon with the and it was really cool

863
00:30:23,509 --> 00:30:24,970
looking, but it was like,

864
00:30:25,269 --> 00:30:25,769
boy.

865
00:30:26,230 --> 00:30:27,369
Those are I mean,

866
00:30:27,670 --> 00:30:29,974
and it was thousands of these little and

867
00:30:29,974 --> 00:30:31,494
we're not even talking, like, big drones. We're

868
00:30:31,494 --> 00:30:32,774
not talking about stuff this big. We're talking

869
00:30:32,774 --> 00:30:34,214
about little tiny drones. They're, like, that big.

870
00:30:34,214 --> 00:30:36,154
They're, like, they're, like, 6, 8 inches across

871
00:30:36,294 --> 00:30:38,694
at most. Yeah. Tiny little things, and I

872
00:30:38,694 --> 00:30:40,294
just take thousands of them and tie them

873
00:30:40,294 --> 00:30:42,299
together, and, oh, here. They shine the lights

874
00:30:42,299 --> 00:30:43,419
and they do the stuff and boop there

875
00:30:43,419 --> 00:30:44,480
you go. You got a picture.

876
00:30:45,419 --> 00:30:46,480
There were TVs.

877
00:30:47,339 --> 00:30:49,179
I don't know if you remember remember these.

878
00:30:49,179 --> 00:30:51,359
Probably probably not because they were fairly rare.

879
00:30:51,579 --> 00:30:54,140
But back in the, I guess, early nineties,

880
00:30:54,140 --> 00:30:56,234
they literally had TVs that would project

881
00:30:56,554 --> 00:30:58,255
the picture into the air,

882
00:30:59,434 --> 00:31:01,194
and would have a limited range. You had

883
00:31:01,194 --> 00:31:02,234
to have it in a dark room to

884
00:31:02,234 --> 00:31:03,835
do it, but it wasn't projecting onto a

885
00:31:03,835 --> 00:31:06,234
wall or onto anything else. It was literally

886
00:31:06,234 --> 00:31:08,650
just floating in the air. And it it

887
00:31:08,650 --> 00:31:10,329
was really good and that was in the

888
00:31:10,329 --> 00:31:12,490
90s without all the technology we have now.

889
00:31:12,490 --> 00:31:14,250
Yeah, yeah. I mean you think about it

890
00:31:14,250 --> 00:31:17,210
now it's like goodness we're already getting so

891
00:31:17,210 --> 00:31:19,049
close to that. How hard would it be

892
00:31:19,049 --> 00:31:19,549
in

893
00:31:20,744 --> 00:31:23,404
10 years, 15 years, 20 years out?

894
00:31:23,785 --> 00:31:25,305
Oh yeah, let's tie this thing together and

895
00:31:25,305 --> 00:31:26,424
we're gonna make it look like I just

896
00:31:26,424 --> 00:31:27,865
got shot on that stage and boom and

897
00:31:27,865 --> 00:31:30,105
it's just like if you watch the Spider

898
00:31:30,105 --> 00:31:32,025
man movie where they did the holograms and

899
00:31:32,025 --> 00:31:33,964
stuff with that whole system and everything.

900
00:31:34,789 --> 00:31:36,390
You know, there you got it. Hey, we

901
00:31:36,390 --> 00:31:39,029
just faked this guy's death in 30 seconds

902
00:31:39,029 --> 00:31:41,690
on that stage, and it looked totally believable.

903
00:31:41,829 --> 00:31:43,589
Yeah. Yeah. I've always been curious about, you

904
00:31:43,589 --> 00:31:46,390
know, Revelation 13 talks about, causes all great

905
00:31:46,390 --> 00:31:47,990
and small to worship the image of the

906
00:31:47,990 --> 00:31:49,904
beast. And that's it's always been kinda curious

907
00:31:49,904 --> 00:31:51,984
to me, you know. I've always, for years,

908
00:31:51,984 --> 00:31:53,904
I've thought of everybody's gathered around the television

909
00:31:53,904 --> 00:31:55,664
worshiping somebody, you know. But Yeah. But with

910
00:31:55,664 --> 00:31:57,904
the technology we have now, man, and if

911
00:31:57,904 --> 00:31:59,424
and if this mark of the beast turns

912
00:31:59,424 --> 00:32:00,884
out the way I think it will,

913
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,559
It might be just right here in your

914
00:32:02,559 --> 00:32:04,480
mind. It might be, you know, it could

915
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,500
be. Yeah. It could be. Well, you think

916
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,380
about augmented reality and the way that works

917
00:32:09,839 --> 00:32:11,220
just today with the glasses.

918
00:32:11,519 --> 00:32:14,025
It's literally just an extra image floating here

919
00:32:14,085 --> 00:32:15,684
in in your line of sight that you

920
00:32:15,684 --> 00:32:17,125
can look at without having to move your

921
00:32:17,125 --> 00:32:19,045
eyes too much. And that way everybody in

922
00:32:19,045 --> 00:32:20,585
the entire world was starlink.

923
00:32:20,884 --> 00:32:23,125
You know, did did they not, just just

924
00:32:23,125 --> 00:32:24,964
really nail the name of the world wide

925
00:32:24,964 --> 00:32:25,464
web?

926
00:32:25,765 --> 00:32:26,964
Mhmm. Oh, yeah. We're in the middle of

927
00:32:26,964 --> 00:32:27,944
a web. Right.

928
00:32:29,179 --> 00:32:31,419
Around us in space. It is. Yeah. It

929
00:32:31,419 --> 00:32:33,900
is. It is. Anyway, we we all not

930
00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:35,579
we all not be scared. I hope nobody

931
00:32:35,579 --> 00:32:37,660
listening is scared of this stuff because we're

932
00:32:37,660 --> 00:32:38,859
not you're not gonna be here if you're

933
00:32:38,859 --> 00:32:41,179
a believer. That's right. You know? And so

934
00:32:41,179 --> 00:32:42,994
we gotta we gotta trust God.

935
00:32:43,375 --> 00:32:44,894
He's got this, and he's sovereign, and he's

936
00:32:44,894 --> 00:32:46,815
told us what's gonna happen. That's right. He's

937
00:32:46,815 --> 00:32:48,575
he's got his plan, and we have to

938
00:32:48,575 --> 00:32:49,634
trust that God

939
00:32:49,934 --> 00:32:51,075
knows what he's doing

940
00:32:51,615 --> 00:32:52,974
and that he that he is who he

941
00:32:52,974 --> 00:32:54,414
said he was. Yeah. And I mean, if

942
00:32:54,414 --> 00:32:56,230
we believe that God created all this, then

943
00:32:56,230 --> 00:32:57,750
we believe he's sovereign over it, that he's

944
00:32:57,750 --> 00:32:58,809
master over it.

945
00:32:59,190 --> 00:33:00,869
And it's just a matter of faith. And

946
00:33:00,869 --> 00:33:02,230
he didn't tell us this stuff to scare

947
00:33:02,230 --> 00:33:04,470
us, right? Imagine if we were going through

948
00:33:04,470 --> 00:33:05,589
our day to day right now and we

949
00:33:05,589 --> 00:33:06,230
didn't have,

950
00:33:06,710 --> 00:33:09,029
the like the last part of Daniel and

951
00:33:09,029 --> 00:33:09,293
Revelation, we didn't have these end time prophecies,

952
00:33:09,293 --> 00:33:09,557
we'd never heard of them. We'd probably be

953
00:33:09,557 --> 00:33:10,410
scared. Yeah. And

954
00:33:11,025 --> 00:33:14,144
We'd never heard of them. We'd probably be

955
00:33:14,144 --> 00:33:16,305
scared. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and he's he's

956
00:33:16,305 --> 00:33:18,384
just stuff to comfort us. He did. He

957
00:33:18,384 --> 00:33:20,144
did. Yeah. And that's what the whole book

958
00:33:20,144 --> 00:33:22,144
of Revelation is. It brings comfort to us.

959
00:33:22,144 --> 00:33:22,884
Right? Yeah.

960
00:33:23,345 --> 00:33:25,585
Blessed are those who read it. Right? Yeah.

961
00:33:25,585 --> 00:33:26,910
And and understand it. So,

962
00:33:27,470 --> 00:33:29,090
the Holy Spirit gives us understanding

963
00:33:29,470 --> 00:33:31,390
and and we we look at it and

964
00:33:31,390 --> 00:33:33,390
we we read the rest of the Bible

965
00:33:33,390 --> 00:33:34,910
with it. We read Daniel. We read the

966
00:33:34,910 --> 00:33:36,509
other verses that back it up that tell

967
00:33:36,509 --> 00:33:38,609
us that we're not gonna be here.

968
00:33:38,910 --> 00:33:41,710
Mhmm. That the Holy Spirit with the church

969
00:33:41,710 --> 00:33:43,285
is gonna be taken out. You know, we

970
00:33:43,285 --> 00:33:45,285
read those verses and we find comfort in

971
00:33:45,285 --> 00:33:48,244
those and also should drive us to tell

972
00:33:48,244 --> 00:33:50,025
other people about Jesus. Yeah.

973
00:33:50,484 --> 00:33:52,164
So that they're so that they're not fearing

974
00:33:52,164 --> 00:33:54,025
because fear fear,

975
00:33:55,045 --> 00:33:57,625
causes chaos. Fear causes Yeah.

976
00:33:58,190 --> 00:33:58,690
I

977
00:33:58,990 --> 00:34:00,450
mean, fear causes war.

978
00:34:00,990 --> 00:34:02,670
All all It does. All the things that

979
00:34:02,670 --> 00:34:04,609
we've ever seen that just completely

980
00:34:05,230 --> 00:34:06,849
come on way on through history,

981
00:34:08,110 --> 00:34:10,269
started with with some type of fear. Somebody

982
00:34:10,269 --> 00:34:12,030
was afraid that somebody was gonna do this

983
00:34:12,030 --> 00:34:13,994
or somebody was gonna do that. And, of

984
00:34:13,994 --> 00:34:15,755
course, you know, 2nd Timothy said that he

985
00:34:15,755 --> 00:34:17,514
didn't give us a spirit to figure out,

986
00:34:17,514 --> 00:34:20,255
but the power and love and sound mind.

987
00:34:20,394 --> 00:34:20,894
Yeah.

988
00:34:21,194 --> 00:34:23,614
And, and we can only find that through

989
00:34:23,755 --> 00:34:25,755
through the Holy Spirit of God. Right? I

990
00:34:25,755 --> 00:34:26,255
mean,

991
00:34:26,714 --> 00:34:29,070
look, and some of you, I here, I

992
00:34:29,070 --> 00:34:30,989
wanna say this to you. Are you gonna

993
00:34:30,989 --> 00:34:31,650
be afraid?

994
00:34:32,510 --> 00:34:35,070
Sure. Yeah. I mean, if you're if you're

995
00:34:35,070 --> 00:34:36,610
human, you're gonna be afraid.

996
00:34:37,150 --> 00:34:38,750
And, you know, I don't want you to

997
00:34:38,750 --> 00:34:40,829
sit back and just just have a guilt

998
00:34:40,829 --> 00:34:42,670
complex about some of the fear that we

999
00:34:42,670 --> 00:34:43,489
have. I mean,

1000
00:34:44,255 --> 00:34:46,015
when you look at something, when you're when

1001
00:34:46,015 --> 00:34:46,914
you're in daughters,

1002
00:34:47,375 --> 00:34:47,875
in

1003
00:34:48,414 --> 00:34:51,055
in preterm labor and and and she's got

1004
00:34:51,055 --> 00:34:53,315
a baby coming that you're worried about,

1005
00:34:53,934 --> 00:34:55,855
and there's a difference between worry and fear

1006
00:34:55,855 --> 00:34:57,614
too. But Yeah. I'll tell you this. This

1007
00:34:57,695 --> 00:34:59,139
you know, I I was praying for I've

1008
00:34:59,139 --> 00:35:00,820
been praying for Tatum. I've been praying for

1009
00:35:00,820 --> 00:35:03,239
Miller for the last couple of weeks. And

1010
00:35:04,099 --> 00:35:05,699
and, and and when I was at when

1011
00:35:05,699 --> 00:35:07,239
we were in the hospital in Huntsville,

1012
00:35:08,340 --> 00:35:09,780
you know, there was some worry. There was

1013
00:35:09,780 --> 00:35:12,039
some concern there, I would say, you know,

1014
00:35:12,375 --> 00:35:12,875
But,

1015
00:35:13,414 --> 00:35:16,135
but I really wasn't fearful because I just

1016
00:35:16,135 --> 00:35:16,795
had this

1017
00:35:17,175 --> 00:35:19,195
peace that settled down in my heart.

1018
00:35:19,574 --> 00:35:21,434
And I told Tatum that. I said,

1019
00:35:21,815 --> 00:35:23,735
I'm not just telling you this to comfort

1020
00:35:23,735 --> 00:35:24,875
you, but the Lord

1021
00:35:25,175 --> 00:35:27,910
has told me you're gonna be okay.

1022
00:35:28,450 --> 00:35:29,829
She's gonna be okay.

1023
00:35:30,130 --> 00:35:31,670
And that that settled

1024
00:35:31,970 --> 00:35:34,849
the fear. That settled the anxiety. That settled

1025
00:35:34,849 --> 00:35:37,170
the the the worry that was in my

1026
00:35:37,170 --> 00:35:37,670
heart.

1027
00:35:38,555 --> 00:35:40,315
And it was hard sometimes for that little

1028
00:35:40,315 --> 00:35:42,715
mama to to grab a hold of that,

1029
00:35:42,715 --> 00:35:44,515
you know. She was scared. She told me

1030
00:35:44,555 --> 00:35:46,015
she said, dad, she said,

1031
00:35:46,954 --> 00:35:48,474
she said, I didn't I I at one

1032
00:35:48,474 --> 00:35:49,835
point, I didn't know if I was gonna

1033
00:35:49,835 --> 00:35:51,239
make it to have her. She said you

1034
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,079
know she said I was so worried about

1035
00:35:53,159 --> 00:35:54,599
I mean her blood pressure on the bottom

1036
00:35:54,599 --> 00:35:55,659
went up to 113

1037
00:35:56,119 --> 00:35:56,619
and

1038
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,239
at one point in time and you know

1039
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,800
she was, she was just she had some

1040
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,360
fear in there but, but man God settled

1041
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,305
all that. Boy, she was a trooper. I

1042
00:36:06,305 --> 00:36:08,344
I keep talking about my grandbaby and my

1043
00:36:08,344 --> 00:36:09,005
my daughter.

1044
00:36:09,465 --> 00:36:11,864
But, and she she was so strong through

1045
00:36:11,864 --> 00:36:13,784
that, and I just seen God work through

1046
00:36:13,784 --> 00:36:16,525
her. Well, and there that's the difference between

1047
00:36:17,079 --> 00:36:17,579
fear

1048
00:36:18,119 --> 00:36:21,400
and being anxious. Yeah. Right? We we we

1049
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,480
will be afraid. You will have times like

1050
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,339
that. That's something that is a perfectly

1051
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:27,579
rational Yeah. Logical

1052
00:36:28,119 --> 00:36:28,619
fear

1053
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,319
because you you know all the things that

1054
00:36:31,319 --> 00:36:33,444
can go wrong and it's like, oh man

1055
00:36:33,444 --> 00:36:35,525
and and you're praying for it but you

1056
00:36:35,525 --> 00:36:37,464
have faith you have trust in God

1057
00:36:37,844 --> 00:36:38,344
versus

1058
00:36:38,644 --> 00:36:39,385
the world

1059
00:36:39,764 --> 00:36:41,284
all they can do is be anxious for

1060
00:36:41,284 --> 00:36:43,364
it. I hear people tie this whole fear

1061
00:36:43,364 --> 00:36:44,804
thing in and I've heard it said a

1062
00:36:44,804 --> 00:36:46,905
lot of times I've heard preachers say it

1063
00:36:47,690 --> 00:36:49,869
You know it says fear not 365

1064
00:36:51,130 --> 00:36:51,630
times.

1065
00:36:52,170 --> 00:36:54,170
Well, the first time I heard that I

1066
00:36:54,170 --> 00:36:56,329
thought I gotta fact check this. Yeah. You

1067
00:36:56,329 --> 00:36:57,869
know? Because I mean

1068
00:36:58,329 --> 00:36:59,230
if it's true,

1069
00:36:59,930 --> 00:37:02,085
I'll use it. You know? But it it's

1070
00:37:02,085 --> 00:37:03,545
not true. I I counted

1071
00:37:04,965 --> 00:37:06,644
them. I went back. I found it anyway,

1072
00:37:06,644 --> 00:37:08,804
but but it's not but but that doesn't

1073
00:37:08,804 --> 00:37:10,724
matter. And most of those fear nots were

1074
00:37:10,724 --> 00:37:13,284
from angels showing up where and you had

1075
00:37:13,284 --> 00:37:15,065
a perfectly rational, logical

1076
00:37:15,525 --> 00:37:17,465
I'm seeing a thing that is so

1077
00:37:17,820 --> 00:37:19,820
out of this world. I can't describe it.

1078
00:37:19,820 --> 00:37:21,059
And that angel is saying you don't have

1079
00:37:21,059 --> 00:37:22,619
to worry about this. Yeah. Don't be afraid.

1080
00:37:22,619 --> 00:37:25,280
It's yeah. Yeah. But but here's the thing.

1081
00:37:25,660 --> 00:37:27,599
It doesn't matter if he says it 365

1082
00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:30,140
times. If God says fear not one time

1083
00:37:30,300 --> 00:37:33,105
One time. Don't fear. Yeah. Amen? Exactly. Yeah.

1084
00:37:33,105 --> 00:37:35,045
Yeah. You can trust him in that. Absolutely.

1085
00:37:35,184 --> 00:37:37,184
It's like in the Psalm 27. The Lord

1086
00:37:37,184 --> 00:37:39,025
is my light and my salvation. Whom shall

1087
00:37:39,025 --> 00:37:41,265
I fear? That's right. Amen. The Lord is

1088
00:37:41,265 --> 00:37:43,025
the defense of my life. Whom shall I

1089
00:37:43,025 --> 00:37:43,925
dread? Amen.

1090
00:37:44,304 --> 00:37:46,589
Amen. And, man, that's so easy to forget

1091
00:37:46,589 --> 00:37:47,869
this stuff in your day to day, though.

1092
00:37:47,869 --> 00:37:48,849
You know? It really

1093
00:37:49,230 --> 00:37:51,069
is. And fear and once fear grips you,

1094
00:37:51,069 --> 00:37:52,589
but fear is something that God built into

1095
00:37:52,589 --> 00:37:54,190
us. Right? I mean, there's a fight or

1096
00:37:54,190 --> 00:37:56,109
flight for a reason. You know? It's we

1097
00:37:56,109 --> 00:37:58,984
preserve ourselves and we preserve, our our families

1098
00:37:58,984 --> 00:38:01,905
and and fear has a place. It does.

1099
00:38:01,905 --> 00:38:04,224
But man, you cannot let it trump your

1100
00:38:04,224 --> 00:38:06,545
faith. No. It cannot it cannot be your

1101
00:38:06,545 --> 00:38:08,065
driving force. Yeah.

1102
00:38:08,625 --> 00:38:11,184
And, and and again that's going back to

1103
00:38:11,184 --> 00:38:12,659
a lot of the chaos. That's what

1104
00:38:13,299 --> 00:38:15,299
when when fear becomes your driving force and

1105
00:38:15,299 --> 00:38:17,400
it becomes chaos because you don't think rationally.

1106
00:38:17,460 --> 00:38:17,960
Yeah.

1107
00:38:18,260 --> 00:38:21,000
You act out of fear instead of rationalism,

1108
00:38:21,859 --> 00:38:23,380
and and you do things that you wouldn't

1109
00:38:23,380 --> 00:38:25,480
normally do and and man,

1110
00:38:26,179 --> 00:38:26,760
I mean

1111
00:38:27,574 --> 00:38:29,034
you know a lot of a lot of

1112
00:38:29,174 --> 00:38:30,394
suicide rates,

1113
00:38:31,414 --> 00:38:33,674
of the suicide rates that we hear about,

1114
00:38:33,734 --> 00:38:35,335
a lot of those things are caused from

1115
00:38:35,335 --> 00:38:37,514
fear in people's hearts and minds, you know.

1116
00:38:37,574 --> 00:38:39,594
Fear of the unknown, fear of

1117
00:38:39,974 --> 00:38:42,949
fear of being locked, fear of being rejected,

1118
00:38:44,130 --> 00:38:45,030
fear of being

1119
00:38:45,409 --> 00:38:45,909
sick,

1120
00:38:46,769 --> 00:38:48,309
you know, you get a cancer diagnosis

1121
00:38:48,610 --> 00:38:50,550
and you know something like that,

1122
00:38:50,849 --> 00:38:52,710
and and and people people

1123
00:38:53,010 --> 00:38:53,750
will interactively

1124
00:38:54,984 --> 00:38:57,484
and sadly take their own lives because,

1125
00:38:58,184 --> 00:39:00,184
they've had some type of fear that just

1126
00:39:00,184 --> 00:39:02,984
overcomes them. And that's what God's saying. Don't

1127
00:39:02,984 --> 00:39:06,425
let fear overcome you because I've already overcome

1128
00:39:06,425 --> 00:39:09,304
fear. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Well, and and when

1129
00:39:09,304 --> 00:39:12,260
we let fear guide our decisions, you know,

1130
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,480
they always say when, when you hear people

1131
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,640
talking about making good financial decisions, they say,

1132
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,320
you know, take a day and sleep on

1133
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,480
it. Yeah. Don't make any decision until you've

1134
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,340
slept on it until you've thought about it.

1135
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,034
But yet it's that way with anything. If

1136
00:39:25,034 --> 00:39:27,114
you're, if you're worried about something, if something's

1137
00:39:27,114 --> 00:39:28,255
concerning to you,

1138
00:39:28,715 --> 00:39:31,215
take some time to step back

1139
00:39:31,835 --> 00:39:34,074
and don't make decisions out of fear because

1140
00:39:34,074 --> 00:39:35,675
God didn't give us the spirit of fear.

1141
00:39:35,675 --> 00:39:37,034
He gave us the, you know, he gave

1142
00:39:37,034 --> 00:39:38,954
us a spirit of peace. He gave us

1143
00:39:38,954 --> 00:39:40,210
that, that,

1144
00:39:40,530 --> 00:39:42,769
ability to step back from these things. And

1145
00:39:42,769 --> 00:39:43,269
again,

1146
00:39:43,730 --> 00:39:45,670
that that's one of those things that you,

1147
00:39:45,809 --> 00:39:46,869
you don't have

1148
00:39:47,329 --> 00:39:49,989
in the absence of Christ. You can't fully

1149
00:39:50,050 --> 00:39:52,369
disengage these things because like you say, fight

1150
00:39:52,369 --> 00:39:55,315
or flight, it's built it's bone deep. Yeah.

1151
00:39:55,315 --> 00:39:57,014
Yeah. It's built into it.

1152
00:39:57,394 --> 00:39:58,914
Hey, if you ever want to know what

1153
00:39:58,914 --> 00:39:59,494
that is,

1154
00:40:00,194 --> 00:40:01,795
have a small child that you're trying to

1155
00:40:01,795 --> 00:40:03,394
keep from doing things that's going to get

1156
00:40:03,394 --> 00:40:05,474
them hurt. You will know exactly what that

1157
00:40:05,474 --> 00:40:07,315
fight or flight feels like. You see them

1158
00:40:07,315 --> 00:40:09,460
go to do something that adrenaline rush hits,

1159
00:40:09,460 --> 00:40:11,220
and you can move faster than you ever

1160
00:40:11,220 --> 00:40:13,780
thought Yep. And manage to grab that child

1161
00:40:13,780 --> 00:40:16,500
without doing any damage to them Yeah. Quicker

1162
00:40:16,500 --> 00:40:19,380
than you ever believed possible. Yeah. First time

1163
00:40:19,380 --> 00:40:20,820
I ever saw my daughter go to take

1164
00:40:20,820 --> 00:40:22,739
a swan dive off of a piece of

1165
00:40:22,739 --> 00:40:23,720
playground equipment.

1166
00:40:24,394 --> 00:40:24,894
Yeah.

1167
00:40:25,755 --> 00:40:27,034
Right out of the air. We used to

1168
00:40:27,034 --> 00:40:29,195
play on monkey bars, man. We had Yeah.

1169
00:40:29,195 --> 00:40:31,375
Crazy. I love what, what God told,

1170
00:40:31,835 --> 00:40:32,335
Joshua.

1171
00:40:33,034 --> 00:40:35,835
And, Joshua 1 verse 9 says, have I

1172
00:40:35,835 --> 00:40:36,809
not commanded you

1173
00:40:37,289 --> 00:40:38,430
be strong and courageous?

1174
00:40:38,809 --> 00:40:40,730
Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the

1175
00:40:40,730 --> 00:40:42,890
Lord your God is with you wherever you

1176
00:40:42,890 --> 00:40:46,090
go. Yeah. Man, we just gotta remember that.

1177
00:40:46,090 --> 00:40:47,610
Right? And in this in this day and

1178
00:40:47,610 --> 00:40:49,289
age, you know, the end times are approaching

1179
00:40:49,289 --> 00:40:50,809
fast. I mean, it's right here at the

1180
00:40:50,809 --> 00:40:52,625
door, and people's hearts are gonna fail them

1181
00:40:52,625 --> 00:40:54,885
from fear during the 7 years tribulation.

1182
00:40:55,984 --> 00:40:57,744
We don't need to be like that. We

1183
00:40:57,744 --> 00:40:59,425
need to look forward to this and and

1184
00:40:59,505 --> 00:41:01,105
but the fear that's all around us is

1185
00:41:01,105 --> 00:41:03,045
like a cloud a lot of times. Yeah.

1186
00:41:03,264 --> 00:41:05,425
The the unbelievers are scared to death of

1187
00:41:05,425 --> 00:41:07,880
something all the time. That's right. Well, and

1188
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:09,800
and here's the here's the missing piece for

1189
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,059
unbelievers and why they're so afraid.

1190
00:41:14,039 --> 00:41:16,280
The love of God is not in their

1191
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:16,780
lives

1192
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:17,660
and

1193
00:41:18,599 --> 00:41:21,000
first John 4:18 there is no fear in

1194
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:21,500
love

1195
00:41:21,974 --> 00:41:24,375
but perfect love cast out fear for fear

1196
00:41:24,375 --> 00:41:27,175
has to do with punishment. Whosoever fears has

1197
00:41:27,175 --> 00:41:28,155
not been perfect

1198
00:41:28,775 --> 00:41:31,755
in love. So so that you know when

1199
00:41:31,815 --> 00:41:32,795
he loves us

1200
00:41:33,095 --> 00:41:35,730
then it cast out that fear. It replaces

1201
00:41:35,730 --> 00:41:37,730
fear with love. When you know that someone

1202
00:41:37,730 --> 00:41:39,030
loves you, you get comfortable.

1203
00:41:39,329 --> 00:41:41,329
Right? And I'm not saying that's it's a

1204
00:41:41,329 --> 00:41:44,210
good comfort. Not comfortable that you get complacent

1205
00:41:44,210 --> 00:41:46,849
or you're staying in one place, but comfortable

1206
00:41:46,849 --> 00:41:48,449
in the fact that you feel safe, that

1207
00:41:48,449 --> 00:41:50,414
you feel loved, that you feel okay, you

1208
00:41:50,414 --> 00:41:52,675
feel that no matter what comes your way,

1209
00:41:52,974 --> 00:41:55,855
hey I'm alright. You know? Yeah. When people

1210
00:41:55,855 --> 00:41:57,315
go through things in life,

1211
00:41:58,255 --> 00:41:59,695
you know, there there's some things that are

1212
00:41:59,695 --> 00:42:00,675
worse than death.

1213
00:42:01,535 --> 00:42:03,954
You know, you get betrayed by somebody.

1214
00:42:06,569 --> 00:42:08,809
Somebody does you wrong that you thought cared

1215
00:42:08,809 --> 00:42:09,309
about

1216
00:42:09,690 --> 00:42:11,289
you so much, you know, and and you

1217
00:42:11,289 --> 00:42:12,969
find out they're a different person than what

1218
00:42:12,969 --> 00:42:14,969
you thought they were. You know, there's things

1219
00:42:14,969 --> 00:42:17,049
like that that that will just tear you

1220
00:42:17,049 --> 00:42:18,429
down and tear you apart.

1221
00:42:18,795 --> 00:42:20,554
But think about the opposite of that when

1222
00:42:20,554 --> 00:42:22,315
you know that somebody loves you and they're

1223
00:42:22,315 --> 00:42:24,074
faithful to you and and you can trust

1224
00:42:24,074 --> 00:42:25,135
them and you can,

1225
00:42:25,594 --> 00:42:27,194
you can feel safe with them and you

1226
00:42:27,194 --> 00:42:29,194
know that there's no there's no other place

1227
00:42:29,194 --> 00:42:31,534
in this world like it with them. Yeah.

1228
00:42:32,099 --> 00:42:32,599
Then

1229
00:42:33,460 --> 00:42:34,900
death doesn't scare you.

1230
00:42:35,300 --> 00:42:37,860
You know, life doesn't scare you because you're

1231
00:42:37,860 --> 00:42:39,940
in that comfort zone. You're in that place

1232
00:42:39,940 --> 00:42:42,099
of love that casts out fear. Yeah. That

1233
00:42:42,099 --> 00:42:43,940
that's that fear of death, I think, gets

1234
00:42:43,940 --> 00:42:45,300
a lot of people. You know, it drives

1235
00:42:45,300 --> 00:42:47,264
the pharmaceutical industry. It drives

1236
00:42:48,944 --> 00:42:50,944
health care industry in general. You know, it

1237
00:42:50,944 --> 00:42:52,804
is people are scared of dying. And

1238
00:42:53,105 --> 00:42:54,464
man, that is not the worst thing can

1239
00:42:54,464 --> 00:42:57,444
happen to a believer. No. No. No. Absolutely

1240
00:42:57,664 --> 00:43:00,484
not. No. That's the beginning of something

1241
00:43:00,949 --> 00:43:03,349
awesome. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and that

1242
00:43:04,389 --> 00:43:06,309
and we're we're scared of so many different

1243
00:43:06,309 --> 00:43:08,650
things. Yeah. You know, I mean, we gosh.

1244
00:43:09,029 --> 00:43:10,309
I mean, what if we if we don't

1245
00:43:10,309 --> 00:43:11,589
have something to be afraid of, we'll find

1246
00:43:11,589 --> 00:43:13,289
something to be afraid of. Oh, yeah.

1247
00:43:14,069 --> 00:43:15,905
We we we go see scary movies all

1248
00:43:15,905 --> 00:43:17,445
the time. Right? Just to be scared.

1249
00:43:18,065 --> 00:43:20,164
Yeah. We go go people Yeah.

1250
00:43:20,945 --> 00:43:21,764
Horror movies

1251
00:43:22,385 --> 00:43:24,784
and and books and things like that are

1252
00:43:24,784 --> 00:43:26,545
some of the biggest sellers. Yeah. You know

1253
00:43:26,545 --> 00:43:28,304
what I mean? They they make 1,000,000 and

1254
00:43:28,304 --> 00:43:31,150
1,000,000 of dollars and 1,000,000,000 of dollars. Yeah.

1255
00:43:31,150 --> 00:43:31,650
And

1256
00:43:32,030 --> 00:43:34,269
it's like, why? Yeah. It it's man, it's

1257
00:43:34,269 --> 00:43:36,510
demonic. It is demonic. And it's feeding right

1258
00:43:36,510 --> 00:43:38,349
into this end times thing again. Right? Yeah.

1259
00:43:38,349 --> 00:43:40,670
That stuff's gonna come to life. Yeah. I'll

1260
00:43:40,670 --> 00:43:42,510
I'll say this while we're talking about that.

1261
00:43:42,510 --> 00:43:44,590
Stay away from that stuff. Yeah. Stay away

1262
00:43:44,590 --> 00:43:46,369
from those demonic movies, those

1263
00:43:46,985 --> 00:43:48,285
those movies about

1264
00:43:50,105 --> 00:43:50,605
demons

1265
00:43:51,545 --> 00:43:54,105
and and how man some the The Omen

1266
00:43:54,105 --> 00:43:56,025
and some of those old movies like that.

1267
00:43:56,025 --> 00:43:59,144
Good gracious alive. I mean that those things

1268
00:43:59,144 --> 00:44:02,329
are so demonic and so you're inviting

1269
00:44:02,710 --> 00:44:06,250
right demonic spirits into your home. You're dividing

1270
00:44:07,030 --> 00:44:09,530
or inviting a demonic spirit into your house

1271
00:44:09,829 --> 00:44:11,510
when you watch that stuff and you start

1272
00:44:11,510 --> 00:44:14,090
thinking about it and say because look

1273
00:44:14,550 --> 00:44:16,264
okay ghosts are not

1274
00:44:16,724 --> 00:44:17,224
real.

1275
00:44:17,525 --> 00:44:19,125
Not not in the form that we that

1276
00:44:19,125 --> 00:44:20,984
we look at in a movie right.

1277
00:44:21,444 --> 00:44:23,125
If there if there's some kind of if

1278
00:44:23,125 --> 00:44:25,045
there's some kind of ghostly figure in your

1279
00:44:25,045 --> 00:44:27,764
house it's a demonic figure. That's right. It's

1280
00:44:27,764 --> 00:44:30,484
not. That's right. It's not Casper. It's not

1281
00:44:30,484 --> 00:44:33,420
some ghost officer. Maybe it is a demonic

1282
00:44:33,420 --> 00:44:33,920
figure.

1283
00:44:34,300 --> 00:44:36,539
And, you know, same thing with with, you

1284
00:44:36,539 --> 00:44:38,860
know, we talked about this before. Ouija boards

1285
00:44:38,860 --> 00:44:39,360
and,

1286
00:44:39,900 --> 00:44:41,039
you know, soothsayers

1287
00:44:41,420 --> 00:44:41,920
and,

1288
00:44:42,460 --> 00:44:43,199
and Psychics.

1289
00:44:43,647 --> 00:44:46,034
Psychics letting people read your palm, all that

1290
00:44:46,034 --> 00:44:47,014
stuff. Horoscopes.

1291
00:44:47,315 --> 00:44:47,815
Horoscopes,

1292
00:44:48,114 --> 00:44:50,675
man. Everybody I mean, I hear Christians all

1293
00:44:50,675 --> 00:44:52,835
the time. Hey. I'm a, you know, I'm

1294
00:44:52,835 --> 00:44:54,755
a Sagittarius or whatever it is. Yeah. I

1295
00:44:54,755 --> 00:44:56,675
mean, that's it. I'm like, no. No. Stay

1296
00:44:56,675 --> 00:44:59,920
away from those signs. Yeah. Run. Run from

1297
00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:02,000
them. Yeah. I mean, those the Bible warns

1298
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,400
against that stuff. And, and all it does

1299
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:05,940
is just bring more demonic,

1300
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,760
activity into your life that you you definitely

1301
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:11,199
don't need. Yeah. I think you never believe

1302
00:45:11,199 --> 00:45:13,285
we ought to have a house cleansing. Yeah.

1303
00:45:13,285 --> 00:45:16,005
People got those dream catchers. They got all

1304
00:45:16,005 --> 00:45:18,405
kinds of junk like that laying around. Yeah.

1305
00:45:18,405 --> 00:45:20,405
That is is just inviting it in. It

1306
00:45:20,405 --> 00:45:22,485
is. Yeah. Yeah. It is. And, you know,

1307
00:45:22,485 --> 00:45:24,210
that's one of the things, you know, I

1308
00:45:26,130 --> 00:45:27,269
I've never understood

1309
00:45:28,130 --> 00:45:29,269
when that shift happened, but,

1310
00:45:30,369 --> 00:45:32,130
you know, I remember growing up, there were

1311
00:45:32,130 --> 00:45:33,889
there were scary movies and stuff. Right? You

1312
00:45:33,889 --> 00:45:35,889
had stuff Friday 13th. Some of those that

1313
00:45:35,889 --> 00:45:37,809
were just older guy. Yeah. Well, you had

1314
00:45:37,809 --> 00:45:40,125
that. That was very much about demonic forces,

1315
00:45:40,204 --> 00:45:41,405
but then you had these others that were

1316
00:45:41,405 --> 00:45:43,644
just about some crazy guy. Yeah. You know,

1317
00:45:43,644 --> 00:45:45,085
some crazy guy is going around doing stuff

1318
00:45:45,085 --> 00:45:46,284
and people are trying to get away from

1319
00:45:46,284 --> 00:45:47,324
him and, you know, catch him in the

1320
00:45:47,324 --> 00:45:49,184
end or whatever. You know, Psycho,

1321
00:45:49,565 --> 00:45:51,164
the original Psycho movie. You know, that that

1322
00:45:51,164 --> 00:45:53,769
was a horrifying movie. The birds from Alfred

1323
00:45:53,769 --> 00:45:56,509
Hitchcock. Some of his stuff was absolutely terrifying.

1324
00:45:57,289 --> 00:45:59,289
And somehow we shifted from that where it

1325
00:45:59,289 --> 00:46:00,269
wasn't anything

1326
00:46:00,889 --> 00:46:03,449
evil. It was just a jump scare would

1327
00:46:03,449 --> 00:46:04,429
startle you,

1328
00:46:04,889 --> 00:46:05,389
and

1329
00:46:05,769 --> 00:46:07,605
then all of a sudden we shift into

1330
00:46:07,764 --> 00:46:10,885
stuff that every single one that gets made

1331
00:46:10,885 --> 00:46:13,284
in the last, I don't know, 25 years

1332
00:46:13,284 --> 00:46:13,784
probably

1333
00:46:14,244 --> 00:46:16,025
is about either ghosts,

1334
00:46:16,405 --> 00:46:16,905
witches,

1335
00:46:17,445 --> 00:46:17,945
demons,

1336
00:46:18,724 --> 00:46:21,670
spirits. Scroll through Netflix and see how much

1337
00:46:21,670 --> 00:46:23,989
of this stuff is just demonic garbage. See,

1338
00:46:23,989 --> 00:46:25,910
like, well, in the world. Witchcraft. I mean,

1339
00:46:25,910 --> 00:46:27,750
we're feeding this stuff to our kids. Well,

1340
00:46:27,750 --> 00:46:30,469
Casper ain't no friendly ghost. Yeah. Right? Right.

1341
00:46:30,469 --> 00:46:33,670
And and just everywhere on Netflix is some

1342
00:46:33,670 --> 00:46:35,750
kind of evil something or other. Yeah. And

1343
00:46:35,750 --> 00:46:37,214
and and I guess that maybe is what

1344
00:46:37,214 --> 00:46:39,135
it is is it started with stuff that

1345
00:46:39,135 --> 00:46:39,635
wasn't

1346
00:46:40,094 --> 00:46:42,255
terribly scary because it started with Casper. You

1347
00:46:42,255 --> 00:46:44,094
know, it's it's not scary. It's just a

1348
00:46:44,094 --> 00:46:45,934
fun little movie. I remember watching it growing

1349
00:46:45,934 --> 00:46:48,094
up, the hocus pocus movies. I remember watching

1350
00:46:48,094 --> 00:46:50,349
those growing up. Yeah. The Harry Potter and

1351
00:46:50,349 --> 00:46:51,710
most of it well, some of the later

1352
00:46:51,710 --> 00:46:53,789
ones getting pretty scary. Right in the background.

1353
00:46:53,789 --> 00:46:55,710
But, yeah, I mean, you had stuff like

1354
00:46:55,710 --> 00:46:58,190
that. It wasn't anything, and then it just

1355
00:46:58,190 --> 00:47:00,269
develops and develops and develops and becomes more

1356
00:47:00,269 --> 00:47:02,190
and more serious. Well, even the Harry Potter

1357
00:47:02,190 --> 00:47:02,690
movies

1358
00:47:02,989 --> 00:47:04,050
and the books too,

1359
00:47:04,805 --> 00:47:07,204
they start out very benign. They're they're kind

1360
00:47:07,204 --> 00:47:09,045
of funny. They've got some funny moments. It's

1361
00:47:09,045 --> 00:47:09,864
kinda cute.

1362
00:47:10,244 --> 00:47:11,845
And then by the time you get about

1363
00:47:11,845 --> 00:47:13,364
halfway through, it starts getting a little bit

1364
00:47:13,364 --> 00:47:15,125
more serious. There's still a little bit more

1365
00:47:15,125 --> 00:47:16,724
darker. Yeah. And by the time you get

1366
00:47:16,724 --> 00:47:18,805
to the end of it, it is dark.

1367
00:47:18,805 --> 00:47:21,460
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that that series ends

1368
00:47:21,460 --> 00:47:23,559
on such a dark note with

1369
00:47:23,860 --> 00:47:26,180
with I mean, now granted good good triumphing

1370
00:47:26,180 --> 00:47:28,180
over evil, that's great, but the the level

1371
00:47:28,180 --> 00:47:30,260
of death and destruction and all of that

1372
00:47:30,260 --> 00:47:32,180
is like But but and and that's what

1373
00:47:32,180 --> 00:47:33,860
that's what Hollywood is these days though. You

1374
00:47:33,860 --> 00:47:36,094
know, they pitch good versus evil, but the

1375
00:47:36,094 --> 00:47:38,414
good is always not very good. Right. You

1376
00:47:38,414 --> 00:47:40,175
know, it's almost like evil against evil. You

1377
00:47:40,175 --> 00:47:42,094
know, just less evil. Right. You know, I

1378
00:47:42,094 --> 00:47:43,695
go back I go back and I reference

1379
00:47:43,695 --> 00:47:45,695
things like the Lord of the Rings and,

1380
00:47:46,894 --> 00:47:49,640
the Chronicles of Narnia. Yeah. You know, yeah,

1381
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:51,640
there there is good, but the good is

1382
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:52,380
the ultimate

1383
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:55,880
good. It's not just about, well, the good

1384
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,200
of man. No, it's this, you know, in

1385
00:47:58,200 --> 00:47:59,880
in the Chronicles of Narnia, it's Aslan coming

1386
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:01,260
in saying, no, you're not good.

1387
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:02,940
I'm good. And

1388
00:48:03,554 --> 00:48:05,875
I'm gonna win this. You're just here to

1389
00:48:05,875 --> 00:48:08,034
watch. Yeah. You know, at the end he

1390
00:48:08,034 --> 00:48:10,135
just comes in and okay, no, we're done.

1391
00:48:10,514 --> 00:48:12,355
I'm I'm not fighting. There's no battle to

1392
00:48:12,355 --> 00:48:14,514
be fought. There's no war to to go

1393
00:48:14,514 --> 00:48:17,010
into here. All of those evil forces

1394
00:48:17,809 --> 00:48:18,469
are losing.

1395
00:48:18,769 --> 00:48:20,929
And I'm like, goodness, where did we you

1396
00:48:20,929 --> 00:48:22,289
go back. Again, the Lord of the Rings,

1397
00:48:22,289 --> 00:48:23,570
you go back to that one. And again,

1398
00:48:23,570 --> 00:48:26,289
it's about this ultimate good that says, no

1399
00:48:26,289 --> 00:48:27,989
no no, I'm using

1400
00:48:28,929 --> 00:48:31,275
these people that are just little people. They're

1401
00:48:31,275 --> 00:48:33,835
nothing special. And I'm going to use them

1402
00:48:33,835 --> 00:48:34,574
to have

1403
00:48:35,275 --> 00:48:38,234
this guiding will from outside. And again, Tolkien

1404
00:48:38,234 --> 00:48:39,295
was very, very,

1405
00:48:41,434 --> 00:48:42,494
non obvious

1406
00:48:42,954 --> 00:48:43,855
in his writings.

1407
00:48:44,155 --> 00:48:44,271
But he was constantly referencing this higher power,

1408
00:48:44,271 --> 00:48:44,974
this higher will that was

1409
00:48:56,219 --> 00:48:57,359
ultimate evil. It wasn't

1410
00:48:57,984 --> 00:48:59,664
just a perversion of good. It wasn't the

1411
00:48:59,664 --> 00:49:02,224
ultimate evil. It wasn't the opposite. It was

1412
00:49:02,224 --> 00:49:04,304
just a perversion of all things good. And

1413
00:49:04,304 --> 00:49:06,405
the same thing with The Chronicles of Narnia.

1414
00:49:06,704 --> 00:49:08,304
The evil at the end is just a

1415
00:49:08,304 --> 00:49:08,804
perversion

1416
00:49:09,344 --> 00:49:10,724
of that which is good.

1417
00:49:11,429 --> 00:49:13,510
But no, yeah, like you say, the the

1418
00:49:13,510 --> 00:49:17,210
good in movies today is barely even recognizable

1419
00:49:17,349 --> 00:49:19,050
for me. Yeah. What what is it really?

1420
00:49:19,190 --> 00:49:20,869
And we let we let this stuff in

1421
00:49:20,869 --> 00:49:22,869
our homes, like you said brother, is is

1422
00:49:22,869 --> 00:49:25,184
just we just open the door. We do.

1423
00:49:25,184 --> 00:49:27,585
Let it fly open. I can remember some

1424
00:49:27,585 --> 00:49:28,085
buddies,

1425
00:49:28,785 --> 00:49:30,805
getting a Ouija board when we were

1426
00:49:31,184 --> 00:49:33,985
like, you know, 16, 17 years old, you

1427
00:49:33,985 --> 00:49:36,385
know, and playing around with that thing. And

1428
00:49:36,385 --> 00:49:37,905
I was like, I don't have anything to

1429
00:49:37,905 --> 00:49:39,449
do with that. But, you know,

1430
00:49:40,329 --> 00:49:42,670
And and I remember them talking about Corsair

1431
00:49:42,730 --> 00:49:44,329
who knows if they, you know, if it

1432
00:49:44,329 --> 00:49:45,849
did or didn't. We're talking about it moving.

1433
00:49:45,849 --> 00:49:47,070
I said well if it is

1434
00:49:47,530 --> 00:49:49,210
you better you better throw that thing away.

1435
00:49:49,210 --> 00:49:50,650
You better burn it right now. Yeah. You

1436
00:49:50,650 --> 00:49:51,150
know?

1437
00:49:51,690 --> 00:49:53,609
They still sell those things in toy stores.

1438
00:49:53,609 --> 00:49:55,454
Yeah. They'll sell it on the game aisle.

1439
00:49:55,675 --> 00:49:57,434
Yeah. Walmart. Yeah. It's a game. Yeah. It's

1440
00:49:57,434 --> 00:49:59,034
a game. And I'm like They used to.

1441
00:49:59,034 --> 00:50:01,114
I know they used to. Yeah. Yeah. And

1442
00:50:01,114 --> 00:50:01,934
it's crazy.

1443
00:50:02,315 --> 00:50:04,315
Tarot cards. You you you can literally walk

1444
00:50:04,315 --> 00:50:06,155
into they're all on the game aisle. Tarot

1445
00:50:06,155 --> 00:50:08,319
cards, Ouija boards, all that stuff. Last time

1446
00:50:08,319 --> 00:50:09,599
I was there, I remember seeing them and

1447
00:50:09,599 --> 00:50:10,579
I was just like,

1448
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:12,719
why? Why are these stacked up as though

1449
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:14,480
it's something fun to do? There's nothing fun

1450
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,799
about that. Yeah. And and and this and

1451
00:50:16,799 --> 00:50:19,679
as we pay ours, pay the way if

1452
00:50:19,679 --> 00:50:21,695
we pay for getting scared. Right? Or we

1453
00:50:21,695 --> 00:50:23,215
go to movies and pay for all this

1454
00:50:23,215 --> 00:50:25,215
stuff. Yeah. And and as we get scared

1455
00:50:25,215 --> 00:50:27,215
on this one, we we just start leading

1456
00:50:27,215 --> 00:50:29,394
lives of fear. Mhmm. Yeah. It just

1457
00:50:29,934 --> 00:50:32,175
it it grows. It does. It grows because

1458
00:50:32,175 --> 00:50:34,175
that demonic activity is all around us and

1459
00:50:34,175 --> 00:50:35,960
we're paying attention to it. Yeah. Hey. And

1460
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:37,420
and I'll tell you something. Parents,

1461
00:50:38,119 --> 00:50:38,780
pay attention

1462
00:50:39,159 --> 00:50:40,539
to what your kids

1463
00:50:40,839 --> 00:50:41,579
are watching.

1464
00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:44,359
Pay attention to what they're reading, the the

1465
00:50:44,359 --> 00:50:45,900
stuff they're listening to.

1466
00:50:46,519 --> 00:50:49,400
Pay attention. Keep your eyes open and and

1467
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:49,784
just

1468
00:50:51,304 --> 00:50:53,065
just spot check things every once in a

1469
00:50:53,065 --> 00:50:54,684
while because I have seen

1470
00:50:55,065 --> 00:50:56,905
people that I respect, people that I love

1471
00:50:56,905 --> 00:50:57,405
dearly,

1472
00:50:58,105 --> 00:51:00,525
and I find out that they were they're

1473
00:51:00,585 --> 00:51:02,664
huge fans of all these things and I'm

1474
00:51:02,664 --> 00:51:03,164
like,

1475
00:51:03,900 --> 00:51:05,599
I'm sorry. You're letting your teenagers

1476
00:51:06,699 --> 00:51:08,460
watch this stuff. You're letting these kids that

1477
00:51:08,460 --> 00:51:09,599
are super impressionable.

1478
00:51:10,380 --> 00:51:12,539
You go and you watch the TV shows

1479
00:51:12,539 --> 00:51:15,179
about the vampires and the, the, all these,

1480
00:51:15,179 --> 00:51:15,679
these

1481
00:51:16,219 --> 00:51:17,279
demonic things.

1482
00:51:18,284 --> 00:51:19,804
And what do they always have? One of

1483
00:51:19,804 --> 00:51:21,565
them's a good guy, one of them's a

1484
00:51:21,565 --> 00:51:23,484
bad guy, and and it's about this girl

1485
00:51:23,484 --> 00:51:24,764
picking between the good one and the bad

1486
00:51:24,764 --> 00:51:26,364
one, or it's about a guy picking between

1487
00:51:26,364 --> 00:51:27,885
the female good one and bad one. And

1488
00:51:27,885 --> 00:51:28,545
I'm like,

1489
00:51:29,005 --> 00:51:31,089
they're both gonna kill her. Yeah. They're they're

1490
00:51:31,089 --> 00:51:33,170
both murderers that are out to kill this

1491
00:51:33,170 --> 00:51:35,109
girl Yeah. At the end of the day,

1492
00:51:35,489 --> 00:51:38,130
and you're encouraging your kids. But it's not

1493
00:51:38,130 --> 00:51:40,050
only and and not only the scary stuff

1494
00:51:40,050 --> 00:51:41,349
that they read, and especially

1495
00:51:41,969 --> 00:51:44,474
a lot of young women and mothers

1496
00:51:44,775 --> 00:51:47,175
are pulled into these love stories and these

1497
00:51:47,175 --> 00:51:49,494
romance stories and it's just smut. Yeah. Oh,

1498
00:51:49,494 --> 00:51:52,315
yeah. It's smut. It is it is

1499
00:51:53,574 --> 00:51:55,494
mommy porn or whatever you wanna call it,

1500
00:51:55,494 --> 00:51:56,969
you know. I mean, used to be a

1501
00:51:56,969 --> 00:52:00,170
harlequin. I mean yeah I mean harlequin romance.

1502
00:52:00,170 --> 00:52:02,989
Yeah yeah yeah you know but but

1503
00:52:04,250 --> 00:52:06,909
they're they're they're reading these romance novels

1504
00:52:07,690 --> 00:52:11,095
and and they're I mean dirty stuff in

1505
00:52:11,095 --> 00:52:11,914
there you know,

1506
00:52:12,375 --> 00:52:14,135
the sex scenes and all these things that

1507
00:52:14,135 --> 00:52:16,235
are going on in inside those books

1508
00:52:16,615 --> 00:52:18,855
and and then of course then you've got

1509
00:52:18,855 --> 00:52:21,894
this ideal of of what what love is

1510
00:52:21,894 --> 00:52:24,549
supposed to be that's portrayed in this book

1511
00:52:24,549 --> 00:52:26,869
and these young girls are are taking it

1512
00:52:26,869 --> 00:52:28,789
from that and going man I want to

1513
00:52:28,789 --> 00:52:30,789
find a guy like this you know. Yeah.

1514
00:52:30,789 --> 00:52:33,349
And Fabio don't exist. Right? You know. And

1515
00:52:33,349 --> 00:52:34,869
that's where I was where I was kind

1516
00:52:34,869 --> 00:52:36,824
of going with that. I look back at

1517
00:52:36,824 --> 00:52:38,105
I'll just say the name of the show,

1518
00:52:38,105 --> 00:52:39,964
The Vampire Diaries. Yeah. Right?

1519
00:52:40,425 --> 00:52:43,065
That entire show is about this girl that

1520
00:52:43,065 --> 00:52:45,224
ends up becoming a vampire. She ends up

1521
00:52:45,224 --> 00:52:46,284
dead Yeah.

1522
00:52:46,585 --> 00:52:47,804
By the end of the series.

1523
00:52:48,105 --> 00:52:49,164
And I'm like,

1524
00:52:51,329 --> 00:52:53,589
you're letting your teenage daughters

1525
00:52:54,049 --> 00:52:56,049
watch this and what do they do? They

1526
00:52:56,049 --> 00:52:57,889
discuss which one of these 2, which one

1527
00:52:57,889 --> 00:52:59,809
of these guys, which one's the good, which

1528
00:52:59,809 --> 00:53:01,009
one's the one that I want. Well this

1529
00:53:01,009 --> 00:53:02,289
one's kind of a bad boy, but he

1530
00:53:02,289 --> 00:53:04,130
makes these choices and he becomes good in

1531
00:53:04,130 --> 00:53:05,190
the end. And I'm like

1532
00:53:05,505 --> 00:53:06,164
if you

1533
00:53:06,545 --> 00:53:08,304
dated, if your daughter were to date a

1534
00:53:08,304 --> 00:53:10,545
guy like one of those guys is, you

1535
00:53:10,545 --> 00:53:12,385
would be out there with a shotgun meeting

1536
00:53:12,385 --> 00:53:14,724
him in the yard A wooden stake. Saying,

1537
00:53:14,944 --> 00:53:17,264
son, you're gonna leave right now. I'm about

1538
00:53:17,264 --> 00:53:18,545
to fill you full. Well, you just gave

1539
00:53:18,545 --> 00:53:20,065
away the ending, man. I was gonna read

1540
00:53:20,065 --> 00:53:20,565
that.

1541
00:53:20,930 --> 00:53:22,769
No. I'm kidding. But I mean but what

1542
00:53:22,930 --> 00:53:25,090
it was you know, what what's the guy's

1543
00:53:25,090 --> 00:53:27,090
name in the in the vampire? Oh, it

1544
00:53:27,090 --> 00:53:27,590
was

1545
00:53:27,970 --> 00:53:29,809
Stefan and Damien, I think were their names.

1546
00:53:29,809 --> 00:53:31,970
Oh, anyway. One of one of those one

1547
00:53:31,970 --> 00:53:34,450
of those vampire shows that yeah. I think

1548
00:53:34,450 --> 00:53:35,970
I've told you this before, but I mean,

1549
00:53:35,970 --> 00:53:36,494
I actually

1550
00:53:36,894 --> 00:53:38,914
was counseling with a couple who said

1551
00:53:39,695 --> 00:53:41,795
I wish my husband could be like

1552
00:53:42,255 --> 00:53:42,755
whoever

1553
00:53:43,535 --> 00:53:44,655
the oh it was probably the trail of

1554
00:53:44,655 --> 00:53:46,335
the person was in that probably the older

1555
00:53:46,335 --> 00:53:47,875
one the true blood stuff.

1556
00:53:48,175 --> 00:53:49,949
I remember there were tons of women

1557
00:53:50,429 --> 00:53:52,510
all about that. Are you serious? I mean

1558
00:53:52,510 --> 00:53:54,429
this is a number 1 it's a fictional

1559
00:53:54,429 --> 00:53:56,829
character. Number 2 it's a vampire who's a

1560
00:53:56,829 --> 00:53:58,909
dead person that's come back to life. I

1561
00:53:58,909 --> 00:54:01,949
mean you know this is this is evil

1562
00:54:01,949 --> 00:54:02,324
and

1563
00:54:02,804 --> 00:54:05,065
And the relationship is always abusive.

1564
00:54:06,005 --> 00:54:08,885
The relationship is always abusive. That's what blows

1565
00:54:08,885 --> 00:54:10,025
my mind. It is

1566
00:54:10,405 --> 00:54:10,905
never

1567
00:54:11,605 --> 00:54:14,505
ever ever, oh this guy got brought back

1568
00:54:14,724 --> 00:54:16,380
and be, you know,

1569
00:54:17,099 --> 00:54:19,519
shunned all that and became something totally different.

1570
00:54:19,900 --> 00:54:21,359
It's straight up abuse.

1571
00:54:21,819 --> 00:54:24,219
And it's I'm like any woman that says,

1572
00:54:24,219 --> 00:54:26,059
oh, I wish my husband was like one

1573
00:54:26,059 --> 00:54:27,980
of these guys. I'm like, you want to

1574
00:54:27,980 --> 00:54:30,219
manipulate you and abuse you and treat you

1575
00:54:30,219 --> 00:54:32,474
like garbage? And and ultimately kill you and

1576
00:54:32,474 --> 00:54:35,534
ultimately end up turning you into

1577
00:54:35,914 --> 00:54:38,734
being like him. I'm like, that's your ideal

1578
00:54:39,434 --> 00:54:39,934
partner.

1579
00:54:41,114 --> 00:54:42,474
I don't get it. And it's just a

1580
00:54:42,474 --> 00:54:43,694
statement. It's everything.

1581
00:54:44,315 --> 00:54:46,014
And you go back into those other

1582
00:54:46,469 --> 00:54:48,309
books and stuff, the the 50 Shades of

1583
00:54:48,309 --> 00:54:50,630
Grey that was all the rage for years.

1584
00:54:50,630 --> 00:54:52,630
Oh gosh. Yeah. I'll never forget when a

1585
00:54:52,630 --> 00:54:53,130
woman

1586
00:54:54,070 --> 00:54:57,429
who had she was involved with her church.

1587
00:54:57,429 --> 00:54:58,949
She did counseling for cup work with the

1588
00:54:58,949 --> 00:55:00,869
pastor doing counseling. She would counsel with the

1589
00:55:00,869 --> 00:55:01,369
women

1590
00:55:01,944 --> 00:55:03,784
And she said, she finally told one of

1591
00:55:03,784 --> 00:55:05,224
the ladies one time because she was all

1592
00:55:05,224 --> 00:55:07,005
about those books. She said, you know,

1593
00:55:07,625 --> 00:55:08,844
it was real exciting

1594
00:55:09,784 --> 00:55:11,385
until I was in a relationship with a

1595
00:55:11,385 --> 00:55:13,704
guy like that. And it turns out when

1596
00:55:13,704 --> 00:55:15,224
she was younger, she'd actually been in a

1597
00:55:15,224 --> 00:55:16,444
relationship with a guy

1598
00:55:17,929 --> 00:55:19,876
like the guy in the book. And she

1599
00:55:19,876 --> 00:55:21,469
said, I feared for my wife every

1600
00:55:21,929 --> 00:55:22,429
single

1601
00:55:22,809 --> 00:55:23,309
day.

1602
00:55:23,769 --> 00:55:25,710
And she said, so you think it's exciting.

1603
00:55:26,089 --> 00:55:27,609
You do not want to be involved in

1604
00:55:27,609 --> 00:55:30,250
this. And again, it's just demonic. And that

1605
00:55:30,250 --> 00:55:33,644
one was based off of, the twilight series.

1606
00:55:33,644 --> 00:55:35,325
Yeah. That was a twilight That's what I

1607
00:55:35,325 --> 00:55:37,585
was trying to think of. Oh, no. Yeah.

1608
00:55:37,805 --> 00:55:39,325
I can't remember their names. I can't remember.

1609
00:55:39,325 --> 00:55:42,224
Edward? Edward. That was it. Yeah. But Eddie.

1610
00:55:43,644 --> 00:55:45,329
But, I mean, do you know I called

1611
00:55:45,329 --> 00:55:47,170
the whole 50 shade to gray out years

1612
00:55:47,170 --> 00:55:48,769
ago on Facebook, and I had a lot

1613
00:55:48,769 --> 00:55:50,930
of women come against me on that one.

1614
00:55:50,930 --> 00:55:52,610
I stopped because that's what I said. I

1615
00:55:52,610 --> 00:55:54,849
said, this is nothing but mommy porn right

1616
00:55:54,849 --> 00:55:56,930
here. Yeah. You know? And this is I

1617
00:55:56,930 --> 00:55:59,590
mean, we're we're we're glorifying this stuff,

1618
00:56:00,835 --> 00:56:02,675
and and yet you would you you would

1619
00:56:02,835 --> 00:56:04,835
if you've caught your husband over here watching

1620
00:56:04,835 --> 00:56:06,355
some stuff that you knew he didn't need

1621
00:56:06,355 --> 00:56:07,575
to watch and he don't,

1622
00:56:09,075 --> 00:56:10,594
you could believe it. You're right. But you're

1623
00:56:10,594 --> 00:56:12,434
gonna sit down and watch this. Right. Basically

1624
00:56:12,434 --> 00:56:14,675
what it is. That's hypocritical. And that's that's

1625
00:56:14,675 --> 00:56:16,880
all it is. Yeah. All it is. And

1626
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:17,380
it

1627
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:20,640
again, it leads to that. You know, you

1628
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:22,420
you wanna know what leads to fear?

1629
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,599
It's breaking down those walls. It's breaking down

1630
00:56:25,599 --> 00:56:27,920
those barriers that we have that God gives

1631
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:30,635
us as Christians Yeah. Between us and our

1632
00:56:30,635 --> 00:56:32,474
emotions, and we start letting our emotions run

1633
00:56:32,474 --> 00:56:34,635
us. I mean, would girls rather date Satan

1634
00:56:34,635 --> 00:56:37,114
or Jesus? Right. Yeah. Yeah. Right. I mean

1635
00:56:37,434 --> 00:56:39,355
And and, I know we're getting I know

1636
00:56:39,434 --> 00:56:40,875
Boy, we've gone far feet. I know we're

1637
00:56:40,875 --> 00:56:42,980
getting off subject here, but but while we're

1638
00:56:42,980 --> 00:56:45,300
on while we're on the the topic of

1639
00:56:45,300 --> 00:56:47,780
these of these movies and especially these movies

1640
00:56:47,780 --> 00:56:50,500
like like 50 Shades of Grey and all

1641
00:56:50,500 --> 00:56:52,579
this stuff that's, you know, that come along

1642
00:56:52,579 --> 00:56:54,280
several years ago like that,

1643
00:56:55,655 --> 00:56:57,974
When you watch those, and I mean, you're

1644
00:56:57,974 --> 00:56:59,355
sitting there watching them together,

1645
00:56:59,655 --> 00:57:01,815
do you realize you're bringing someone else into

1646
00:57:01,815 --> 00:57:04,775
your bedroom? Oh yeah. Mhmm. Yeah. You're bringing

1647
00:57:04,775 --> 00:57:06,695
someone else into your bedroom when you do

1648
00:57:06,695 --> 00:57:09,190
that, you know. And it's not good. Not

1649
00:57:09,190 --> 00:57:11,210
good. That, it's not good for your relationship.

1650
00:57:11,269 --> 00:57:12,410
It's not good for

1651
00:57:12,789 --> 00:57:13,269
your,

1652
00:57:13,750 --> 00:57:14,809
for your faithfulness,

1653
00:57:15,910 --> 00:57:18,070
to each other. And Same same for men.

1654
00:57:18,070 --> 00:57:19,510
I mean, and either And that's what I'm

1655
00:57:19,510 --> 00:57:21,430
saying. I mean, because because what happens is

1656
00:57:21,430 --> 00:57:22,655
a lot of them, the guys are like,

1657
00:57:22,655 --> 00:57:24,094
hey, I'll watch that with you, you know,

1658
00:57:24,094 --> 00:57:25,954
and then and then you need to, and

1659
00:57:26,014 --> 00:57:28,114
and it's not it's not good. It's just

1660
00:57:28,335 --> 00:57:30,094
it's One more graphic than the other. Right.

1661
00:57:30,094 --> 00:57:32,335
And you can and yep. Yeah. And, and

1662
00:57:32,335 --> 00:57:32,835
and

1663
00:57:33,214 --> 00:57:35,775
you get this ungodly mindset. I mean, it's

1664
00:57:35,775 --> 00:57:38,460
a slow fade. Right? You watch this, You

1665
00:57:38,460 --> 00:57:40,219
say, well, if that's not bad, so let's

1666
00:57:40,219 --> 00:57:42,059
just watch this. Well, that's not bad. So

1667
00:57:42,059 --> 00:57:44,139
let's watch this. Let's do this. You know?

1668
00:57:44,139 --> 00:57:45,900
And the next thing you know, there's no

1669
00:57:45,900 --> 00:57:48,159
telling where you are. And anything that diminishes

1670
00:57:48,219 --> 00:57:50,699
your spouse is big trouble. Yeah. Big trouble.

1671
00:57:50,699 --> 00:57:52,059
If you start looking at, well, I wish

1672
00:57:52,059 --> 00:57:53,340
she was like this or I wish she

1673
00:57:53,340 --> 00:57:55,635
would do that or yeah. It's big trouble.

1674
00:57:55,635 --> 00:57:57,715
It is. And by the way, to throw

1675
00:57:57,715 --> 00:57:59,015
this out there for people,

1676
00:57:59,635 --> 00:58:01,954
the way that I I have a lot

1677
00:58:01,954 --> 00:58:03,335
of knowledge on these things,

1678
00:58:03,795 --> 00:58:05,015
there's plot synopsis

1679
00:58:05,394 --> 00:58:06,614
Yeah. For every

1680
00:58:07,179 --> 00:58:09,659
single book written today. You can go look

1681
00:58:09,659 --> 00:58:11,340
up and you can find out the names

1682
00:58:11,340 --> 00:58:13,280
of the main characters. You can find out

1683
00:58:13,340 --> 00:58:14,320
what they do.

1684
00:58:14,619 --> 00:58:17,179
You can find out the overall description of

1685
00:58:17,179 --> 00:58:17,920
the plot

1686
00:58:18,219 --> 00:58:20,094
and the main events that take place and

1687
00:58:20,094 --> 00:58:21,855
the same. And when it comes to movies

1688
00:58:21,855 --> 00:58:23,614
and TV shows, especially if they have a

1689
00:58:23,614 --> 00:58:25,474
large following, you can learn

1690
00:58:25,934 --> 00:58:27,855
everything without having to turn on a single

1691
00:58:27,855 --> 00:58:29,695
episode. Focus on the family's got a really

1692
00:58:29,695 --> 00:58:32,355
good source. They do. Is it unplugged or

1693
00:58:32,735 --> 00:58:33,315
plugged in?

1694
00:58:33,769 --> 00:58:35,449
It's either unplugged or plugged in. I can't

1695
00:58:35,449 --> 00:58:37,230
remember. It's one of those but you can

1696
00:58:37,289 --> 00:58:39,230
you can go to focus on the family.org

1697
00:58:39,769 --> 00:58:41,150
I think it is and you can

1698
00:58:41,449 --> 00:58:42,349
check out those,

1699
00:58:43,289 --> 00:58:45,050
and those are reviews. Those are reviews on

1700
00:58:45,050 --> 00:58:47,069
there and and they'll tell you all the

1701
00:58:47,130 --> 00:58:49,150
all the bad parts all the good parts

1702
00:58:49,394 --> 00:58:51,554
everything you know listed on there so and

1703
00:58:51,554 --> 00:58:53,155
they do it they do that without having

1704
00:58:53,155 --> 00:58:54,994
to spoil anything so if it's something where

1705
00:58:54,994 --> 00:58:56,275
you're thinking you might want to watch it

1706
00:58:56,275 --> 00:58:57,875
oh I drove my kids crazy and say

1707
00:58:57,875 --> 00:58:58,355
hey dad

1708
00:58:59,074 --> 00:59:00,195
so and so's want me to go to

1709
00:59:00,195 --> 00:59:01,655
the movies and watch this movie

1710
00:59:02,019 --> 00:59:03,460
I know you're gonna look it up, so

1711
00:59:03,460 --> 00:59:04,119
go ahead.

1712
00:59:04,420 --> 00:59:05,860
And I would I mean, I'd get on

1713
00:59:05,860 --> 00:59:07,640
focus on the family, and I would look

1714
00:59:07,860 --> 00:59:09,539
and I would see, like, okay. Is this

1715
00:59:09,539 --> 00:59:11,460
something that I want my daughter watching? You

1716
00:59:11,460 --> 00:59:13,640
know, is this something that that my teenage

1717
00:59:13,780 --> 00:59:14,925
child needs to be,

1718
00:59:15,405 --> 00:59:17,324
taking in. You know I know I can't

1719
00:59:17,324 --> 00:59:19,244
be there. They may go to the movies

1720
00:59:19,244 --> 00:59:20,684
and say they're gonna watch this and watch

1721
00:59:20,684 --> 00:59:22,864
something else. I can't do anything about that

1722
00:59:23,324 --> 00:59:25,184
unless I catch them. But

1723
00:59:25,965 --> 00:59:26,465
but,

1724
00:59:27,244 --> 00:59:28,765
but you know I can at least say

1725
00:59:28,765 --> 00:59:31,199
no that you know you're that's that's not

1726
00:59:31,199 --> 00:59:32,559
something I want you to be. Not my

1727
00:59:32,559 --> 00:59:35,039
house. Right. Right. That's it. Yeah. I'm not

1728
00:59:35,039 --> 00:59:36,719
giving you the okay to do this. Exactly.

1729
00:59:36,719 --> 00:59:38,000
And you're gonna have to go behind my

1730
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:39,760
back if you do it. Yeah. Yeah. Hey.

1731
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:41,599
Hey. Let's let's let's talk about a good

1732
00:59:41,599 --> 00:59:43,360
fear for a minute. Yeah. The fear of

1733
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:45,219
the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Amen.

1734
00:59:45,414 --> 00:59:47,654
Amen. Right. Yes. It is. Is fear. It

1735
00:59:47,654 --> 00:59:49,414
is. And this is fear. This is fear.

1736
00:59:49,414 --> 00:59:50,795
It's not, it's not

1737
00:59:51,094 --> 00:59:53,594
shaking in your boots, scared to death, trembling,

1738
00:59:53,894 --> 00:59:55,654
hiding in a corner kind of fear. This

1739
00:59:55,654 --> 00:59:57,269
is not and for a believer, this is

1740
00:59:57,429 --> 00:59:59,510
a fear of respect that you have for

1741
00:59:59,510 --> 01:00:01,530
your father. Abba father. Yes.

1742
01:00:01,989 --> 01:00:03,670
Abba father just like you would for your

1743
01:00:03,670 --> 01:00:05,510
earthly father. You've got to respect. When he

1744
01:00:05,510 --> 01:00:07,269
get when he gets mad, you pay attention,

1745
01:00:07,269 --> 01:00:09,909
buddy. Yeah. But he loves you. Yes. He

1746
01:00:09,909 --> 01:00:12,309
does. But there's always that respect, that fear

1747
01:00:12,309 --> 01:00:14,065
there. Amen. He loves us and he want

1748
01:00:14,224 --> 01:00:16,305
he wants good things for us. Yeah. And

1749
01:00:16,305 --> 01:00:18,385
he has good things planned. That's right. Yeah.

1750
01:00:18,385 --> 01:00:20,465
That's right. Plans for good, not for real.

1751
01:00:20,465 --> 01:00:22,864
You know? Yeah. But for an unbeliever, it's

1752
01:00:22,864 --> 01:00:24,465
a terrible thing to fall in the hands

1753
01:00:24,465 --> 01:00:26,305
of the living God. It is. That's right.

1754
01:00:26,305 --> 01:00:28,720
You better be full of fear. And and

1755
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:30,740
and like I said earlier in in Revelation,

1756
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:32,900
people's hearts are gonna fail them for fear.

1757
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:35,780
Yeah. It's like a father protecting his children

1758
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:37,519
for those. That's right. You know? And you

1759
01:00:37,519 --> 01:00:39,280
think about that or you look at it

1760
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:40,180
in that aspect.

1761
01:00:40,559 --> 01:00:43,474
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You better fear my father

1762
01:00:43,474 --> 01:00:44,994
if you mess with my children with his

1763
01:00:44,994 --> 01:00:45,815
children. That's right.

1764
01:00:46,195 --> 01:00:48,835
Yeah. Yeah. You know, everybody always does. They

1765
01:00:48,835 --> 01:00:51,635
they talk about the how how moms can

1766
01:00:51,635 --> 01:00:53,235
really just turn into a bear. And I'm

1767
01:00:53,235 --> 01:00:55,635
like, y'all have never seen a dad that

1768
01:00:55,635 --> 01:00:58,130
gets pushed too far ahead. You? Because I

1769
01:00:58,130 --> 01:00:59,890
have seen that and it is not a

1770
01:00:59,890 --> 01:01:01,329
pretty thing and you don't want to be

1771
01:01:01,329 --> 01:01:03,430
on the receiving end of it because dads

1772
01:01:04,130 --> 01:01:05,190
don't hold back

1773
01:01:05,650 --> 01:01:08,230
very, very well. We're meant to be protectors.

1774
01:01:09,170 --> 01:01:11,250
And when we get pushed, it's like, okay.

1775
01:01:11,250 --> 01:01:13,324
It'll get violent. Yeah. That's right. It's like

1776
01:01:13,324 --> 01:01:15,324
all bets are off. You're now threatening my

1777
01:01:15,324 --> 01:01:17,405
family. You're threatening my children. You're threatening my

1778
01:01:17,405 --> 01:01:19,324
wife. I'll tell you something. You you have

1779
01:01:19,324 --> 01:01:21,405
a child that gets hurt and you there's

1780
01:01:21,405 --> 01:01:22,924
things that go through your head. But Oh,

1781
01:01:22,924 --> 01:01:24,210
yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

1782
01:01:24,769 --> 01:01:26,449
And I mean, and I mean, we do,

1783
01:01:26,449 --> 01:01:28,690
we have the ability, you know, we're, you

1784
01:01:28,690 --> 01:01:30,769
know, as Christians, God gives us the ability

1785
01:01:30,769 --> 01:01:32,630
to overcome anything that's over,

1786
01:01:32,929 --> 01:01:34,150
you know, overreacting

1787
01:01:34,609 --> 01:01:36,849
or going too far, taking it beyond the

1788
01:01:36,849 --> 01:01:38,929
law. And then trusting in him to take

1789
01:01:38,929 --> 01:01:40,614
care of that. Yep. That's where you have

1790
01:01:40,614 --> 01:01:42,135
to go to because if you don't you

1791
01:01:42,135 --> 01:01:43,015
will be

1792
01:01:44,135 --> 01:01:46,055
you'll go across the board. But at the

1793
01:01:46,055 --> 01:01:47,894
same time, He also gives us the ability

1794
01:01:47,894 --> 01:01:49,015
that if we're in the middle of a

1795
01:01:49,015 --> 01:01:50,934
situation, we have to make a choice. Sometimes

1796
01:01:50,934 --> 01:01:53,175
we have to protect and We're not afraid

1797
01:01:53,175 --> 01:01:54,555
to. Defend. No.

1798
01:01:55,369 --> 01:01:55,869
Yeah.

1799
01:01:56,329 --> 01:01:58,170
And that but, yeah, the the fear of

1800
01:01:58,170 --> 01:02:01,210
God, it it's it's all about respect. It's

1801
01:02:01,210 --> 01:02:02,510
all about reverence

1802
01:02:02,809 --> 01:02:05,130
and reverie. And I I love how some

1803
01:02:05,130 --> 01:02:07,949
some translations will use the word revere

1804
01:02:08,410 --> 01:02:10,244
Yeah. Because I think we we've lost

1805
01:02:10,644 --> 01:02:12,565
the meaning of fear in that sense. I

1806
01:02:12,565 --> 01:02:14,485
like how it was rare, hallowed be thy

1807
01:02:14,485 --> 01:02:14,985
name.

1808
01:02:15,445 --> 01:02:18,164
Yeah. Yeah. To view him as holy and

1809
01:02:18,164 --> 01:02:19,385
righteous and perfect.

1810
01:02:19,765 --> 01:02:22,260
And Abba. Man, ain't that crazy? Yeah. Daddy.

1811
01:02:22,500 --> 01:02:24,679
The almighty God of the universe wants to

1812
01:02:25,300 --> 01:02:26,440
He wants that relationship

1813
01:02:26,820 --> 01:02:29,000
with us. Yeah. Amen. I mean,

1814
01:02:29,460 --> 01:02:30,599
I watched I watched

1815
01:02:31,940 --> 01:02:33,079
I watched Blake,

1816
01:02:33,460 --> 01:02:34,199
my son-in-law.

1817
01:02:35,715 --> 01:02:36,215
I

1818
01:02:37,635 --> 01:02:39,735
I probably told this on here before, but

1819
01:02:40,675 --> 01:02:43,155
Blake first come around, you know, we always

1820
01:02:43,155 --> 01:02:44,675
joke, you know, because I said I said,

1821
01:02:44,675 --> 01:02:46,614
now who's that thug right there, you know?

1822
01:02:47,875 --> 01:02:50,055
Picture that that Tatum sent me, but,

1823
01:02:50,780 --> 01:02:52,800
I have watched that young man grow,

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and I have watched him

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01:02:55,179 --> 01:02:57,039
blossom, and I have watched his

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01:02:57,340 --> 01:03:01,119
his his attitude and everything about him change.

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And I looked at him the other day,

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01:03:03,914 --> 01:03:05,215
and I said thank you

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01:03:05,675 --> 01:03:08,235
for loving her, taking care of her. You've

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01:03:08,235 --> 01:03:09,934
been great, you know, this week.

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01:03:10,315 --> 01:03:13,135
And I watched him just I mean, whatever

1832
01:03:13,835 --> 01:03:16,075
whatever Tatum said she needed, he was Johnny

1833
01:03:16,075 --> 01:03:18,380
on the spot. Now watch him hold that

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01:03:18,380 --> 01:03:19,360
newborn baby

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and

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and and feed her and and and take

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01:03:22,780 --> 01:03:24,619
care of her and help change diapers, you

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01:03:24,619 --> 01:03:26,780
know, and and do all the stuff that

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01:03:27,019 --> 01:03:27,519
look.

1840
01:03:28,220 --> 01:03:30,460
Being a dad is more than just being

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01:03:30,460 --> 01:03:32,635
a provider. Right there or or there's more

1842
01:03:32,635 --> 01:03:33,934
to provide than wealth.

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01:03:34,635 --> 01:03:35,135
It's

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01:03:35,514 --> 01:03:37,594
it's it's helping your mate. Right? I mean,

1845
01:03:37,594 --> 01:03:39,194
hey, those kids are as much yours as

1846
01:03:39,194 --> 01:03:41,614
they are anybody else's, and man, I just

1847
01:03:41,835 --> 01:03:43,454
I I I've watched him

1848
01:03:43,769 --> 01:03:45,769
grow into this man that he is now

1849
01:03:45,769 --> 01:03:47,690
and and starting now to be the father

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01:03:47,690 --> 01:03:49,150
that I know he's gonna be,

1851
01:03:49,690 --> 01:03:51,530
good at. He already has been, and, man,

1852
01:03:51,530 --> 01:03:53,769
it's just it's something else. Yeah. Yeah. And

1853
01:03:53,769 --> 01:03:56,250
he he, he understands God's love for us

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01:03:56,250 --> 01:03:58,010
even better now, don't he? Oh, yeah. When

1855
01:03:58,010 --> 01:03:59,505
you have that first baby in your arms,

1856
01:03:59,505 --> 01:04:01,344
man, it's like, oh, I get it now.

1857
01:04:01,344 --> 01:04:03,105
We walk back there together. We can't

1858
01:04:03,984 --> 01:04:05,664
when you go into the NICU, we we

1859
01:04:05,664 --> 01:04:07,444
either have to go with Blake or Tatum.

1860
01:04:07,664 --> 01:04:08,944
They have to take one of us back

1861
01:04:08,944 --> 01:04:10,224
there. You know, we can't go back there

1862
01:04:10,224 --> 01:04:12,239
without him. And so Blake and I were

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01:04:12,239 --> 01:04:14,559
back there, and and, and I I looked

1864
01:04:14,559 --> 01:04:16,320
at her, and I I was watching her

1865
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:18,800
just moving, you know, this this little bitty

1866
01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:20,960
bitty thing, you know, that doesn't weigh just

1867
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:22,820
a little over £4 and

1868
01:04:23,119 --> 01:04:25,039
and and this little human that come out

1869
01:04:25,039 --> 01:04:25,860
of my daughter.

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01:04:26,315 --> 01:04:27,275
And and and,

1871
01:04:28,235 --> 01:04:29,595
and I looked at Blake and I said,

1872
01:04:29,595 --> 01:04:31,595
I don't see how anybody I don't see

1873
01:04:31,595 --> 01:04:32,414
how anybody

1874
01:04:32,875 --> 01:04:34,414
could say there's not a God.

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01:04:35,275 --> 01:04:38,155
Uh-uh. I mean, just just this created being

1876
01:04:38,155 --> 01:04:40,710
that that can think and move and

1877
01:04:41,329 --> 01:04:44,230
and grow and oh, man. Just just,

1878
01:04:44,690 --> 01:04:46,710
how could you say there is no God?

1879
01:04:46,769 --> 01:04:48,130
And he said, yeah. And I don't see

1880
01:04:48,130 --> 01:04:49,510
how anybody could ever

1881
01:04:50,289 --> 01:04:52,210
not have anything to do with that little

1882
01:04:52,210 --> 01:04:55,114
thing or or or abandoned them. He said,

1883
01:04:55,175 --> 01:04:56,535
and he looked at me and he said

1884
01:04:56,535 --> 01:04:58,775
it'll never be me. And I know that

1885
01:04:58,775 --> 01:05:00,954
it won't, you know, but but that's just

1886
01:05:01,055 --> 01:05:03,494
the that's how our father is to us.

1887
01:05:03,494 --> 01:05:06,295
Right? Yeah. He doesn't abandon us. He doesn't

1888
01:05:06,295 --> 01:05:08,470
leave us. In fact, the Bible says he

1889
01:05:08,470 --> 01:05:10,869
he won't leave us nor forsake us. Right.

1890
01:05:11,590 --> 01:05:14,150
And and and he nurtures us and cares

1891
01:05:14,150 --> 01:05:16,950
for us and and and gives us good

1892
01:05:16,950 --> 01:05:19,349
things. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's who he

1893
01:05:19,349 --> 01:05:21,535
is. I I love one of my favorite

1894
01:05:21,535 --> 01:05:23,394
descriptions of talking about

1895
01:05:23,775 --> 01:05:25,775
the first time a father holds a child,

1896
01:05:25,775 --> 01:05:28,035
and and the question was, did you feel

1897
01:05:28,255 --> 01:05:31,215
the universe shift a little? Yeah. Yeah. Because

1898
01:05:31,215 --> 01:05:33,394
that's what it is. It's everything just kinda

1899
01:05:33,900 --> 01:05:35,920
turns on its side for a second because

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01:05:36,059 --> 01:05:37,440
you realize, oh, wow.

1901
01:05:37,900 --> 01:05:38,880
I remember thinking,

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01:05:39,339 --> 01:05:40,559
man, I get it, Lord.

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01:05:40,859 --> 01:05:41,760
Yeah. Yeah.

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01:05:42,299 --> 01:05:44,940
I I no matter what this child does

1905
01:05:44,940 --> 01:05:46,780
or doesn't do, I love this child, and

1906
01:05:46,780 --> 01:05:48,859
it's my own. It's my flesh and blood.

1907
01:05:48,859 --> 01:05:50,534
That it, for me,

1908
01:05:51,394 --> 01:05:53,635
I can remember I remember when Tatum was

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01:05:53,635 --> 01:05:55,875
born and Brenda, but, you know, same feeling,

1910
01:05:55,875 --> 01:05:57,655
but for me and

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01:05:58,114 --> 01:05:59,094
I was adopted,

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01:05:59,715 --> 01:06:01,554
and, I was I was just, like, 2

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01:06:01,554 --> 01:06:03,074
months less and 2 months old when I

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01:06:03,074 --> 01:06:05,670
was adopted, but so not like I have

1915
01:06:05,670 --> 01:06:07,369
memory of being anywhere else.

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01:06:07,989 --> 01:06:08,489
But

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01:06:09,750 --> 01:06:12,789
and and and my adopted parents are are

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01:06:12,789 --> 01:06:15,349
more my parents than anybody could ever be.

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01:06:15,590 --> 01:06:17,349
I mean, I've never thought of them any

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01:06:17,349 --> 01:06:19,635
other way, so I don't wanna diminish that

1921
01:06:19,715 --> 01:06:20,375
at all

1922
01:06:21,155 --> 01:06:22,775
but there was something about

1923
01:06:23,235 --> 01:06:23,735
when

1924
01:06:24,994 --> 01:06:27,315
I picked up Tatum that first time and

1925
01:06:27,315 --> 01:06:27,974
I thought

1926
01:06:28,594 --> 01:06:31,474
this is part of me. Yeah. This is

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01:06:31,474 --> 01:06:32,775
part of me.

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01:06:33,074 --> 01:06:34,295
I've never had

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01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:37,319
anyone, like, part of my flesh and blood.

1930
01:06:37,319 --> 01:06:38,699
I've never known anyone

1931
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:41,079
that had the same blood flowing flowing through

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01:06:41,079 --> 01:06:42,920
them that I did, and this is this

1933
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:45,239
is this little creation right here is part

1934
01:06:45,239 --> 01:06:47,319
of me, and I was just it's just

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01:06:47,319 --> 01:06:47,819
overwhelming.

1936
01:06:48,199 --> 01:06:49,179
Yeah. It is.

1937
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:51,394
Yeah. Yeah. And I I tell you, you

1938
01:06:51,394 --> 01:06:53,474
know, that's that's awesome to hear about Blake.

1939
01:06:53,474 --> 01:06:55,155
I mean, he's a good guy. He's a

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01:06:55,155 --> 01:06:55,795
good guy. And,

1941
01:06:56,355 --> 01:06:59,155
and and for any any young man that

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01:06:59,235 --> 01:07:01,715
that's married and has a baby or has

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01:07:01,715 --> 01:07:02,215
children,

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01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:04,519
the the best piece of advice I think

1945
01:07:04,519 --> 01:07:05,960
I've ever heard in my life is the

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01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:07,559
best thing you can do for your kids

1947
01:07:07,559 --> 01:07:10,440
is to love their mama. Yeah. Amen. That's

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01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:13,800
right. Amen. And show them Yeah. How to

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01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:16,694
love their mama. Yeah. Set those bars high

1950
01:07:16,694 --> 01:07:18,234
for those little girls, men,

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01:07:18,934 --> 01:07:21,335
so that you treat them and you treat

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01:07:21,335 --> 01:07:22,714
their mama in a way

1953
01:07:23,094 --> 01:07:25,034
that when they start looking for a man,

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01:07:25,335 --> 01:07:27,734
they say my daddy don't do that. Yeah.

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01:07:27,734 --> 01:07:29,574
My daddy didn't act like that. You know,

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01:07:29,574 --> 01:07:30,989
my daddy wouldn't do that.

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01:07:31,469 --> 01:07:33,949
And and and same thing with you moms,

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01:07:33,949 --> 01:07:35,250
man. Treat your husband

1959
01:07:35,789 --> 01:07:37,710
the way that you would want your sons

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01:07:37,710 --> 01:07:40,269
and your daughters to to, you know, give

1961
01:07:40,269 --> 01:07:42,530
them give them a goal, you know,

1962
01:07:42,909 --> 01:07:44,715
teach them how to how to be a

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01:07:44,715 --> 01:07:46,095
good wife and and,

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01:07:46,715 --> 01:07:48,315
and what to look for in a man.

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01:07:48,315 --> 01:07:48,815
Yeah.

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01:07:49,315 --> 01:07:49,815
So

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01:07:50,474 --> 01:07:52,315
Yeah. Well, I think that brings us to

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01:07:52,315 --> 01:07:53,454
the end of the evening,

1969
01:07:53,914 --> 01:07:54,315
and,

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01:07:55,035 --> 01:07:57,855
we really appreciate everybody joining us tonight. And,

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01:07:58,239 --> 01:07:58,739
man,

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01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:00,900
that was a lot.

1973
01:08:01,599 --> 01:08:03,599
That was a lot. Buddy, we we got

1974
01:08:03,599 --> 01:08:05,840
the babies after the rabbits right now. We

1975
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:07,920
did. That's hey. That's alright, though. This is

1976
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:09,140
that's what it's about.

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01:08:09,440 --> 01:08:11,200
And so just remember that all of this,

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01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:11,700
all

1979
01:08:13,045 --> 01:08:15,125
everything that's going on, everything that's happening in

1980
01:08:15,125 --> 01:08:17,685
life, God has a plan. God knows where

1981
01:08:17,685 --> 01:08:19,685
it's going. He knows where it's headed, and

1982
01:08:19,685 --> 01:08:21,225
he's got good

1983
01:08:21,604 --> 01:08:24,244
things in store for us. And he just

1984
01:08:24,244 --> 01:08:25,604
wants us to follow him. He just wants

1985
01:08:25,604 --> 01:08:27,810
us to say, Abba father. Yeah. And He

1986
01:08:27,810 --> 01:08:29,970
just wants us to trust Him. Yep. So,

1987
01:08:29,970 --> 01:08:31,649
brother Brian, will you pray us out tonight?

1988
01:08:31,649 --> 01:08:32,149
Cheer.

1989
01:08:33,970 --> 01:08:36,930
Father, we are so thankful to be in

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01:08:36,930 --> 01:08:37,670
your presence,

1991
01:08:38,210 --> 01:08:38,949
right now.

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01:08:40,725 --> 01:08:42,965
To fill your holy spirit, lord god, moving

1993
01:08:42,965 --> 01:08:44,645
in this room that we're in and,

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01:08:46,005 --> 01:08:47,925
pray that it leads and it guides every

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01:08:47,925 --> 01:08:49,064
step that we make.

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01:08:50,164 --> 01:08:52,664
Thank you personally, lord god, for,

1997
01:08:53,699 --> 01:08:55,780
the healing that you've brought to my daughter,

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01:08:55,780 --> 01:08:56,680
to my grandchild.

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01:08:59,140 --> 01:09:00,659
I thank you for that, and I pray

2000
01:09:00,659 --> 01:09:02,739
that you continue to do that. You you

2001
01:09:02,739 --> 01:09:03,960
continue to,

2002
01:09:04,659 --> 01:09:06,739
to just work in this little miracle that

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01:09:06,739 --> 01:09:09,185
you've shown us in the last couple of

2004
01:09:09,185 --> 01:09:10,005
weeks, Lord.

2005
01:09:11,024 --> 01:09:13,505
And, teach us how not to fear, Lord

2006
01:09:13,505 --> 01:09:15,265
God, but to trust in you and your

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01:09:15,265 --> 01:09:15,765
love.

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01:09:16,225 --> 01:09:17,845
I thank you, God, for,

2009
01:09:19,345 --> 01:09:19,739
for

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01:09:20,300 --> 01:09:22,560
just being who you are to us and

2011
01:09:23,020 --> 01:09:24,640
and your word that

2012
01:09:25,420 --> 01:09:27,900
lays all these truths out for us that

2013
01:09:27,900 --> 01:09:29,760
we might go to it and we might

2014
01:09:30,060 --> 01:09:32,159
not live this life blindly.

2015
01:09:32,619 --> 01:09:34,699
We trust in faith in your holy spirit,

2016
01:09:34,699 --> 01:09:36,385
but you've given us so much in your

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01:09:36,385 --> 01:09:36,885
word

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01:09:37,264 --> 01:09:38,864
to know how to follow you, to know

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01:09:38,864 --> 01:09:40,564
how to seek after you, to know

2020
01:09:41,185 --> 01:09:42,484
to not fear,

2021
01:09:43,264 --> 01:09:44,645
because you're in control.

2022
01:09:45,425 --> 01:09:47,505
So I thank you for that. I thank

2023
01:09:47,505 --> 01:09:49,425
you for Dennis and Tyler. I thank you

2024
01:09:49,425 --> 01:09:50,244
God for,

2025
01:09:50,579 --> 01:09:52,260
the work that they do here in this

2026
01:09:52,260 --> 01:09:53,719
church and on this podcast

2027
01:09:54,340 --> 01:09:56,179
and all the other things that they do

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01:09:56,179 --> 01:09:58,179
to teach and to get your word out.

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01:09:58,179 --> 01:09:59,939
Lord, we just thank you so much for

2030
01:09:59,939 --> 01:10:02,260
that. And, lord, we pray that you would

2031
01:10:02,260 --> 01:10:03,699
just go with us the rest of this

2032
01:10:03,699 --> 01:10:04,199
week,

2033
01:10:05,114 --> 01:10:07,194
just to indwell our hearts and our minds

2034
01:10:07,194 --> 01:10:09,774
and our our thoughts, everything that we do.

2035
01:10:09,835 --> 01:10:11,435
Let it be done for your glory and

2036
01:10:11,435 --> 01:10:13,034
your honor, and we'll ask these things in

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01:10:13,034 --> 01:10:15,055
Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

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01:10:16,074 --> 01:10:19,260
Special thank you to Carter Pridmore, Brian Harris,

2039
01:10:19,479 --> 01:10:20,460
Waverly Henderson,

2040
01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:23,960
Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Bartain for our

2041
01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:25,899
theme song, Truth Set Me Free.

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01:10:26,359 --> 01:10:28,699
I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio.

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01:10:29,159 --> 01:10:31,079
We hope you can join us live next

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01:10:31,079 --> 01:10:32,744
Monday at 6 PM CST.

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01:10:33,045 --> 01:10:35,765
Thank you for listening. But truth found me

2046
01:10:35,765 --> 01:10:36,265
there.

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01:10:37,045 --> 01:10:39,225
It was in my darkest hour.

2048
01:10:39,765 --> 01:10:42,565
I traded my black heart for joy for

2049
01:10:42,565 --> 01:10:45,145
something real, something with power.

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01:10:47,045 --> 01:10:47,545
Truth

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01:10:48,219 --> 01:10:49,520
set me free.

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01:10:50,139 --> 01:10:50,639
Truth

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01:10:50,939 --> 01:10:52,399
came to me.

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01:10:52,859 --> 01:10:55,760
I once was blind and now I see

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01:10:56,139 --> 01:10:56,639
truth

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01:10:57,099 --> 01:10:58,479
set me free.

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01:11:00,380 --> 01:11:00,880
Oh,

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01:11:01,739 --> 01:11:02,385
oh. Truth