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In chains I was bound,

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I was a madman on the run.

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Through the hills

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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 6PM

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central time.

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And welcome back this week. We are really

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glad everybody can join us that is joining

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us tonight.

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So good to have you take the time

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to listen to us.

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Hopefully, we can,

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maybe spread spread a little cheer along with

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the truth, maybe a little laughter,

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little, little,

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dose of reality where we need it and

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a little,

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calming where it needs to be calmed.

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So that, that is our goal every week.

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And, and we, we very, very much appreciate

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getting to do this and that we have

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others joining us because the three of us

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are,

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definitely, I know getting a therapy out of

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this every, every time we get to sit

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down and talk. Cause boy, we come out

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of here with, with something new and something

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very good each week. Dennis, how how we

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doing this week? Doing good, man. Doing good.

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Had a had a had an awesome time

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last night. You know, my mom's in assisted

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living with a memory care for, you know,

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Alzheimer's dementia patients, and, I do a devotional

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with them every Sunday

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at 04:00.

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And I'll just sit down and sing some

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songs for them. I'll have a devotion, then

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we'll sing some hymns together. You know, just

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they they have a good time singing and

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listening. You know, last night I got, I

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got, Steven Taylor and his wife Brooke and

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their their daughter Grayson to come down, and

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they just just loved them. They just loved

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them. Oh I love it. It was a

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good time. Good time. Oh that is awesome.

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Yeah that that it's always good to be

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able to go into a place like that

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and and have that time of fellowship

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along with a little bit of of

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study and kind of a reminder of of

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God's love that's still there. It's still it's

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still everywhere. It never leaves, never forsakes. Right?

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Right, man. That is a good, good reminder

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and a good thing to remind folks of

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because I know it's hard. It's hard when

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you're in when you're in assisted living,

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regardless of the situation. It's it's hard. It's

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a tough thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What do

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you mean? And brother Brian, how about you?

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How are you doing this week? Good, man.

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Good. That's the second week on a new

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job. So,

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just, really enjoying that and getting to minister

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to people every day.

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Is it's really, really a blessing.

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take my Bible with me to work, and

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I always have anyway. But,

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but, you know, it's just it's it's been

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good. It's been a blessing.

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and she's gaining a couple ounces every day,

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you know, and that's that's that's big. Yeah.

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thankful for that and praising the Lord. Heard

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Tatum are both doing good, Blake. And,

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so, yeah, just,

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living living life, man. We had a Brenna,

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my youngest one's getting married

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in April, and we had her shower yesterday,

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her wedding shower and so I'm about I'm

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not ready to get I'm ready I'm ready

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to get done with with showers and weddings.

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I love my kids. I love my grandkids,

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but I just wanna I just wanna enjoy

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them and, and and not,

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not with all the hoopla. I mean, it's

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gosh, making memories, but there's a lot, you

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know. Yeah. By the time we cleaned up

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last night and got home and,

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man, I and I mean, our church family's

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so good. Everybody pitching in and helping doing

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you, yesterday when you were out there cleaning

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up and doing all that. It was just

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like, man. That that looks like that was

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exhausting.

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here and kept working with the the music.

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could. Nah, don't bite me.

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a couple of little things I want to

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touch on real quick, and I know what

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we're gonna talk about. We're gonna

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go back to the fear thing. We're gonna

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go back and talk about it because it

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is such an important topic. And it's something

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that we Christians right now have got to

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remember

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that we're always to be vigilant. We're always

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to be out speaking the truth, we're always

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to be out spreading the gospel with people,

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but we are not to have a spirit

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of fear about us when we do that.

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I've seen some things this last week that

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have let me know that there is a

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lot of fear, and it is way worse

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than I thought. But it kind of remind

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me to it reminded me a bit of

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a quote,

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from JRR Tolkien from, the fellowship of the

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ring,

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where in a conversation between Gandalf and Frodo,

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he said, I wish it need not have

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happened in my time, said Frodo. So do

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I, said Gandalf, and so do we and

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so do all who live to see such

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times.

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But it is not for them to decide.

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All we have to decide is what to

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do with the time that has given us.

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exactly what it is with Christians. We it's

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not

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our we don't get to decide when we

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live. We just get to decide what to

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do with the time. And God's given us

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some clear instructions on that. So this past

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week I've been,

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continuing my,

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campaign against insanity on Twitter by, responding with

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nothing but emojis and thoroughly enjoying myself,

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leaving people going, wait, is he agreeing with

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me or is he making fun of me?

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I can't tell. And it's, I'm just, like,

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I never give any context.

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this week is a lot of people have

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continuously

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asked who elected

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Elon Musk.

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but we had this thing called an election

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back in November. And all going into it,

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Everybody knew a vote for Trump was a

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vote for Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon

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Musk.

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And you you the first time in twenty

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years, a Republican won the popular vote and

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the American people chose to pick two billionaires

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and a hillbilly and send them to Washington.

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that sounds like the start of a really

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bad joke, but,

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I think it's turning out kind of funny

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in some ways and kind of scary in

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others, but, I love that. And so when

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people ask that question, just remember we knew

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what we were getting into. Everybody that voted,

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voted with full knowledge of what they were

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getting.

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some people asking about,

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well man,

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are we okay with all this data

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being picked up by these people that are

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not elected? They're not officially

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employees. And I'm like, hey, look, it really

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concerns me that somebody's getting a hold of

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our data.

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It concerns me if the government has our

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data to begin with. That's

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that's concerning.

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I said hey look it's far more concerning

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to me that they were able to walk

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in there day one and somebody handed them

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the keys to the kingdom and just said

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go go wild.

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Here's the master key to everything. You can

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skeleton key it gets you into the vault.

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Go for it. And I went,

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That that's that's like if anybody I do

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this as a day job. I'm a software

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developer.

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You never hand the intern or anybody day

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one on the job keys to be able

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to make changes in production. It's always no

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no no no you got to go through

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an approval process and you're behind these these

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layers of security. You can see things but

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you can't touch things.

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may master access to everything like day one

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when they walked in and said we need

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to scan everything. And I went, wow,

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that is way more concerning that you're willing

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to do that and then turn around and

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everybody's wanting to scream about them getting access.

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I'm like, yeah, yeah, them getting access, whoever

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gave them access needs to be fired.

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That is not secure, that is not a

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good thing.

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But then the the other, other couple of

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we have a

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new faith

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leader in the white house appointed by the

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president. It's a little bit concerning,

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that this, this, is a woman, female pastor,

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which is

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if, if you're Christian,

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Christian. There there is a video of her

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leading a prayer where she leads the entire

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prayer speaking in tongues.

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that's a bad thing, Paul makes it very

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clear that if if somebody's speaking in an

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unknown tongue, God will provide a translator. And

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there was no translator present, so that was

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not of God.

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So it really concerns me that she got

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pulled into a position like that within the

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government. That's not a great thing,

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but that goes back to that conversation about

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fear. And this is one of the things

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that it's not really being used for fear

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monitoring, just a lot of people who were

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conservative going, hang on. That's a little weird

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to have a position like this in the

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White House filled by somebody who has these

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kind of views and and talks the way

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she does and is this very charismatic,

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Christian leader.

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A lot of feel good, not a lot

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of substance when she gets out and speaks

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and that that's very concerning.

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But the thing to remember and what I

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heard somebody say was that we are headed

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down such a dark path and this has

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been the rhetoric

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from the news media from every single,

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well I'm not gonna I'll back up. Not

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every single, but a large percentage of the

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Democrat,

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senators and representatives,

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like everybody that is against it, they're talking

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about this dark path we're going down. But

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I think people are buying into it because

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they misunderstand the fundamental

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truth about government.

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Society,

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to function properly, sits in this really really

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interesting spot

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between anarchy and totalitarianism.

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Because anarchy is everybody gets to do what

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they want. Your freedom your personal freedoms trump

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everything. And if you are strong enough to

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enforce your freedom on everyone else, the weak

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just have to get out of your way.

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And totalitarianism

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goes the other way and says we're gonna

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tell you what your freedoms are. We're gonna

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tell you what to believe, what you can

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say, when and where you can go.

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And you're in between those two. Those are

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the two extremes, but it's one road. It's

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the same road. It just runs from one

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to the other and society sits in the

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middle and a good society

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constantly balances that. We're gonna let your your

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freedoms extend to where mine begin, my freedoms

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extend to where yours begin, and where there's

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conflict,

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it's the government and society's responsibility to step

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in and say, let's deal with this conflict.

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And to keep that balance. So when people

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talk about this, oh we're headed down, it's

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the same path. It's the same path that

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we've been on for two hundred years,

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and we have lots of protections here in

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The US to prevent us from tipping over

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in one direction or the other, but we

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have been since World War two headed more

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and more towards that totalitarian rule.

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And man, that is a very scary thing

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If you don't know where all this ends,

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if you don't know what's coming, if you

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don't know what's on the other side, all

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we see is the dumpster fire that totalitarianism

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leads to or the dumpster fire that anarchy

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leads to. And we're like, well geez, we're

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between two fires. Which way do we go?

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And I'm like, well, I'm going up. Yeah.

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Straight up. The problem is

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is putting your faith in man, you know,

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is what that what that boils down to.

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And look, I'm an evangelical. I'm a conservative

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evangelical

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Christian

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man. And and,

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White man.

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And yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. I can't jump very high. So

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but,

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but I but you know,

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I am,

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I'm

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I'm conservative in my politics. I'm conservative in

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in

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in Christianity,

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wherever you may look or wherever it may

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land.

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But,

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you know, when we I I see all

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these people saying, well, you see, Donald Trump's

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this and Donald Trump's that.

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And and my my conservatism is it falls

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on the side of

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of biblical,

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proportion and not

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economical proportion. Now don't don't get me wrong,

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I want to be able to make as

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much money and do as much with my

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dollar that I can do.

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I understand that and I think It's nice

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to have a green green number in your

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bank account when you look at it. That's

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it. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. So it's nice

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to be in the positive.

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But

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but, man, the issues that I fall on

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are the issues like abortion and and and

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gay marriage and all those things that I

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know are

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are tearing at the very fabric of society.

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And so those are the things that we

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vote for as evangelical

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conservative Christians when we go to the polls.

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And, and so,

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is Donald Trump perfect?

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Absolutely not.

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You know,

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but,

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I mean, we went through some of the

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things last week that were issues with some

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of the stuff he's done. I mean, we're

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we're not all on board with him. We

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don't a % agree just because he's the

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conservative And what he is what he is

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is exactly I think he's he's he's not

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he's not like a prophet in the old

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testament. Right? He's not he's not this guy

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we lift up on on this No. On

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this And I think that's what the Democrat

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party look they're they're screaming at us, you

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know? But he's exactly what this country needs

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right now. We need we need a mean

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dad. Yeah. Right? We need a a dad

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that cracks a whip. We don't need a

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a kind, gentle grandpa. Yeah. Right? We we

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need somebody that's gonna set some boundaries, gonna

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set some rules, clean some things up. Yeah.

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And that's what he's doing, and that's what

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we've elected him to do. And and

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it reminds me, you know,

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of Musk. No, he wasn't elected, but he

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was appointed. Yeah. Yeah. He was appointed to

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do certain things, and he's a guy that

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Trump thought was qualified to do these things,

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and he's going in and doing it. He

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is going in and doing them. You know,

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they

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they brought out the study that he had,

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he had dove into

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where our tax dollars were going.

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Yeah. And, they brought out all these things.

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We've been,

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if if the the report that I read

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was right, we've been giving tax dollars to,

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to foreign countries with,

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you know,

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just terrible

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organizations

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that are,

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that are going out and

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and part of part of these people are

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the ones that are,

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they're kidnapping women and children

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and and, sex,

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slaves and and all these different things going

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on and and terrorist groups and all these

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things that are money, your money, your tax

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dollars have been going to these things. They're

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the whole gist of them. Yeah. They're not

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even they're just rubber stamping everything that comes

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through. Right? And and it's all these social

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things that are, like you said, are tearing

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the fabric of society apart. I mean, and

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they got a political agenda like the USAID

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office, and

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and wow. I mean, some of the stuff

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that we're wasting money on, it's like Elon

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Musk said, this is a ball of worms.

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There's no apple left. Yeah. Yeah. Right? It

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it's it just has to go. Right. And

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and as this is this is these are

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the unelected bureaucrats that everybody ought to be

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complaining about, but they're complaining about Elon Musk

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without mentioning all the dirt that he's finding.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. Well, and and, you know, I've

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I've asked the question multiple times, and I've

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actually directly asked this question on Twitter to

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the people that run the accounts. So some

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of these

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senators and representatives, I'm like, what are you

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concerned? What are you afraid they're gonna find?

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What is it that you're afraid is gonna

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turn up if they go in and look,

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because I'm guessing you either voted for this,

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approved this, or pushed it through.

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And it is very concerning. And the thing

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that I always tell people that are saying

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like, yeah, but USAID, you know, all this

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stuff they were sending to these other places,

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they had to buy the goods somewhere. So

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they were buying it from The US and

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shipping it out. I'm like, well, yeah, but

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that's less goods for us

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to be able to, you cannot,

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here's, and I

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am

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willing to say this is a very very

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biblical principle,

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you cannot focus on putting food on someone

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else's table if you can't put food on

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your own. You've got to take care of

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your own table first. There's a reason that

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when Christ gave the Great Commission, what did

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he say? First to Jerusalem,

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then to Judea, then to the other most

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part. So we got to deal with home

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first

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and then you start dealing with your neighbors

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and then you start dealing with everybody else.

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And it's true in economics, it's true

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in social aid, it's true in

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in spreading the gospel. If you're a Christian,

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you've got to become a Christian before you

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can spread the gospel to anyone else. I

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mean you can go out there and you

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can tell people about it, but if you're

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not a Christian, if you don't have faith,

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it's going out,

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it's it's not going to be anything that

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moves people. There is no power of the

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Holy Spirit there. There is no authority from

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God. And I mean we saw that even

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when Christ denounced people that would come up

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behind him and start saying, this is the

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Son of God and it would be a

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demon, you know,

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possessing somebody. And he said, woah, woah, stop.

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Get behind me. You just leave. You stop

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this right now. And Paul does the same

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thing where people that were false prophets would

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come up and start saying, oh yes, this

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man is a man of God and he's

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doing these things. And Paul's like, Woah, woah,

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woah, no no no no. You stop. You

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stop.

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It's the same thing. We have to deal

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with our own house before we can help

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our neighbors get their house in order. And

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then we can once we've got our house

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in order, once we've helped our neighbors, then

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you can start helping the broader community and

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broader community.

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And we have inverted that for many years

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economically in The US and we've been trying

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to send all this aid out to everybody

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else.

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Go look at California, we've got people living

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on the street in tent cities. Go down

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to Atlanta. We've got tent cities in Atlanta.

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We got places in Chattanooga where the where

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people are homeless and people are starving and

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people need help. And I'm like how do

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we help them first?

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There's tents in Fort Payne. I wasn't even

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aware of that. Oh yeah. There's there's a

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tent

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there's one right now

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by the creek at the hospital in Downtown

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Fort Payne. Well there was another one

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on the

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excuse me, the road going to the sheriff's

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department. Uh-huh.

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Back in the woods there, there was a

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there was a tent there for a while.

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I don't know if it's still there.

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I mean, when we were,

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excuse me. I'm sorry. When we were,

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when we were feeding,

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basically homeless and those who,

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couldn't help feed themselves at sometimes, you know,

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we were

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doing Bread of Life.

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Many of those people that come in Bread

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of Life were homeless when they did the

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stuff. They were

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and and our ideal of homeless sometimes is

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not,

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is not what everybody thinks of, but,

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you know, a lot of those people didn't

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have an address. They didn't have a place

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that they could land and call home. They

538
00:19:27,210 --> 00:19:29,609
were staying here. They were staying there. And

539
00:19:29,609 --> 00:19:31,710
then some of them were out in

540
00:19:32,009 --> 00:19:34,089
out in the elements every day. Yeah. This

541
00:19:34,089 --> 00:19:35,289
is the heart of the issue. Right? I

542
00:19:35,289 --> 00:19:37,684
mean, we and and this fear thing, and

543
00:19:37,684 --> 00:19:39,365
people are scared to death to what Musk

544
00:19:39,365 --> 00:19:41,045
is doing, what Trump is allowing him to

545
00:19:41,045 --> 00:19:43,125
do. Make no mistake, Musk is not doing

546
00:19:43,125 --> 00:19:44,965
this stuff. It's being signed off and and

547
00:19:44,965 --> 00:19:46,965
dictated by the president of The United States.

548
00:19:46,965 --> 00:19:49,190
It's not Musk signing this stuff. Yeah. He's

549
00:19:49,190 --> 00:19:51,509
just pointing it all out to him. But

550
00:19:51,509 --> 00:19:53,509
the the heart of the issue is that

551
00:19:53,509 --> 00:19:55,130
none of this stuff gets fixed

552
00:19:55,829 --> 00:19:56,329
until

553
00:19:57,430 --> 00:19:59,029
God is in the heart of every person

554
00:19:59,029 --> 00:19:59,769
in the world.

555
00:20:00,390 --> 00:20:02,230
The heart of this problem is sin in

556
00:20:02,230 --> 00:20:04,009
the human heart and rebelliousness.

557
00:20:05,044 --> 00:20:07,044
Absolutely. And that's just where we are, you

558
00:20:07,044 --> 00:20:09,605
know, and we're gonna spend money on DEI

559
00:20:09,605 --> 00:20:10,345
in Pakistan

560
00:20:10,644 --> 00:20:11,144
and

561
00:20:11,605 --> 00:20:13,845
gay things in Peru and all these different

562
00:20:13,845 --> 00:20:16,164
things Yeah. That taxpayer money has been going

563
00:20:16,164 --> 00:20:18,644
to and nobody knew about. Transgender. We were

564
00:20:18,644 --> 00:20:21,779
paying for for these surgeries and stuff in

565
00:20:21,779 --> 00:20:22,679
foreign countries

566
00:20:23,299 --> 00:20:25,859
in Somalia and places we haven't even heard

567
00:20:25,859 --> 00:20:26,759
of. You know?

568
00:20:27,140 --> 00:20:28,579
I'm gonna point out that one of the

569
00:20:28,579 --> 00:20:30,740
most absurd things I heard out of that

570
00:20:30,740 --> 00:20:33,559
list is that we actually had people appointed

571
00:20:34,019 --> 00:20:36,174
to attempt to spread homosexuality

572
00:20:36,634 --> 00:20:37,375
and transgender

573
00:20:37,914 --> 00:20:38,414
acceptance

574
00:20:39,275 --> 00:20:40,494
to the Taliban.

575
00:20:41,755 --> 00:20:43,134
Yeah. And I'm like,

576
00:20:43,755 --> 00:20:46,414
they throw people off buildings for that. Yeah.

577
00:20:46,555 --> 00:20:48,750
Well, I'll tell you, I've been praying for

578
00:20:48,750 --> 00:20:50,829
several years that God would reveal this stuff,

579
00:20:50,829 --> 00:20:53,150
and it's happening. It's happening. And and I

580
00:20:53,150 --> 00:20:54,750
I would I want God to reveal this

581
00:20:54,750 --> 00:20:57,170
in a way that the most hardcore progressive

582
00:20:57,230 --> 00:20:59,309
can't deny. Mhmm. That it's just right in

583
00:20:59,309 --> 00:21:01,069
your face. Here's where all this money here's

584
00:21:01,069 --> 00:21:03,424
the corruption. Just take the take the veil

585
00:21:03,424 --> 00:21:05,184
off. But the problem is I don't know

586
00:21:05,184 --> 00:21:05,684
that

587
00:21:06,144 --> 00:21:08,865
there's such a mass there. Yeah. It's it's

588
00:21:08,865 --> 00:21:09,845
not it's almost

589
00:21:10,785 --> 00:21:12,865
I mean of course the bible says that

590
00:21:12,865 --> 00:21:15,025
if even if it were possible even the

591
00:21:15,025 --> 00:21:15,845
very elect

592
00:21:16,144 --> 00:21:17,660
would be deceived and that's the way it's

593
00:21:17,660 --> 00:21:19,680
going to be you know at the end.

594
00:21:20,380 --> 00:21:20,779
But,

595
00:21:21,180 --> 00:21:22,859
but I see it now too. I started

596
00:21:22,859 --> 00:21:24,539
to say that that's just a sign of

597
00:21:24,539 --> 00:21:27,680
how close we are that people are being

598
00:21:28,700 --> 00:21:29,200
willingly

599
00:21:29,835 --> 00:21:31,515
deceived at this point. I think, I think

600
00:21:31,515 --> 00:21:33,275
it is a very willing thing on the

601
00:21:33,275 --> 00:21:35,755
part of, of non Christians that they're just

602
00:21:35,755 --> 00:21:37,615
like, I don't want to think about this.

603
00:21:37,914 --> 00:21:39,515
I don't want to be told what to

604
00:21:39,515 --> 00:21:42,359
do. I don't like, and even Christians Yeah.

605
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:44,119
Being told, you know, I don't like being

606
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:45,740
told that I have sin in my life.

607
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,359
Yeah. And people are coming into that that

608
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,099
concept going, I don't like this, and therefore

609
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,480
I'm going to reject it. Yeah. And it's

610
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,319
like, well, you can. You can reject it.

611
00:21:55,319 --> 00:21:56,680
You can close your eyes and put your

612
00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,315
hands over your ears, but it doesn't actually

613
00:21:59,775 --> 00:22:02,515
fix anything, and all you're doing is promoting

614
00:22:02,974 --> 00:22:05,214
damage, and you're promoting things that are not

615
00:22:05,214 --> 00:22:05,714
good.

616
00:22:06,255 --> 00:22:08,035
And, you know, Christians,

617
00:22:08,494 --> 00:22:10,674
the the call for us is to be

618
00:22:10,894 --> 00:22:11,394
vigilant,

619
00:22:11,855 --> 00:22:12,869
but not be

620
00:22:13,750 --> 00:22:15,990
worried, not be anxious about it. We have

621
00:22:15,990 --> 00:22:17,210
to be vigilant, and

622
00:22:17,509 --> 00:22:19,269
while we're dealing with all of this stuff,

623
00:22:19,269 --> 00:22:20,789
and all this all these things are good

624
00:22:20,789 --> 00:22:22,470
things to deal with, and they're things that

625
00:22:22,470 --> 00:22:24,630
we've got to get under control if we

626
00:22:24,630 --> 00:22:26,630
expect to be here for another ten years

627
00:22:26,630 --> 00:22:29,914
even, because otherwise The US is definitely not

628
00:22:29,914 --> 00:22:32,154
gonna last forever. I mean goodness you're racking

629
00:22:32,154 --> 00:22:34,414
up debt faster than you're bringing money in.

630
00:22:34,634 --> 00:22:36,095
There is no way to

631
00:22:36,474 --> 00:22:38,335
survive that. I mean anybody any

632
00:22:39,115 --> 00:22:40,875
economist will tell you if your if your

633
00:22:40,875 --> 00:22:43,410
outgo exceeds your income your upkeep's going to

634
00:22:43,410 --> 00:22:45,430
be your downfall. My favorite sayings.

635
00:22:46,369 --> 00:22:48,690
And, but as Christians, we have to be

636
00:22:48,690 --> 00:22:49,190
vigilant

637
00:22:50,130 --> 00:22:50,789
in that

638
00:22:51,730 --> 00:22:53,650
the, the, the, one of the things that

639
00:22:53,650 --> 00:22:54,789
I've seen fear mongering,

640
00:22:55,330 --> 00:22:58,075
all last week is, well, if you wondered

641
00:22:58,075 --> 00:22:59,835
what you do in Germany back in the

642
00:22:59,835 --> 00:23:02,315
thirties and forties, this is it. And I'm

643
00:23:02,315 --> 00:23:04,815
like, no, no, no, we're not there yet.

644
00:23:05,434 --> 00:23:08,315
But yes, we absolutely need to watch for

645
00:23:08,315 --> 00:23:10,075
those kind of things. And if those things

646
00:23:10,075 --> 00:23:13,220
start happening, speak up. Because again, these are

647
00:23:13,220 --> 00:23:15,240
our elected officials. These are people that

648
00:23:15,539 --> 00:23:18,500
have clearly already shown that they are going

649
00:23:18,500 --> 00:23:19,859
to listen to us. And I'll be I'll

650
00:23:19,859 --> 00:23:21,140
be honest. One of the reason a lot

651
00:23:21,140 --> 00:23:22,980
of people are freaking out right now, I

652
00:23:22,980 --> 00:23:24,579
don't know that we've had a politician in

653
00:23:24,579 --> 00:23:26,714
twenty years that made a bunch of promises

654
00:23:26,714 --> 00:23:28,075
and then kept them when they got in

655
00:23:28,075 --> 00:23:29,634
office. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it just has

656
00:23:29,755 --> 00:23:31,595
and people are just like, wait. He's actually

657
00:23:31,595 --> 00:23:32,714
doing what he said he's gonna do. I

658
00:23:32,714 --> 00:23:33,595
don't know what to do with this. I

659
00:23:33,595 --> 00:23:34,795
don't know how to react. I don't we

660
00:23:34,795 --> 00:23:37,035
haven't responded. We haven't had a president in

661
00:23:37,035 --> 00:23:39,259
the last four years at least that

662
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:41,960
that was active at all. No. I mean,

663
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:43,880
I'm I hey. I'm not making fun of

664
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:45,640
the guy. I I mean, yeah. He was

665
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,140
a geriatric, but I mean but I mean,

666
00:23:48,279 --> 00:23:51,400
this he hasn't done anything. Every decision that's

667
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,320
been made in the White House, he's only

668
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:53,820
been

669
00:23:54,565 --> 00:23:56,404
the partial face of it. He was a

670
00:23:56,404 --> 00:23:57,765
stamp. He was just He was a rubber

671
00:23:57,765 --> 00:23:59,125
stamp. And that's it. It was all he

672
00:23:59,125 --> 00:24:01,445
was. Now we got a guy who's up

673
00:24:01,445 --> 00:24:04,484
front actually making decisions, actually doing what the

674
00:24:04,484 --> 00:24:05,545
president does.

675
00:24:06,244 --> 00:24:08,140
You know, and His first his first four

676
00:24:08,140 --> 00:24:10,299
years with the most transparent presidency in history,

677
00:24:10,299 --> 00:24:11,819
the guy was on Twitter every day telling

678
00:24:11,819 --> 00:24:13,259
you what he's going to do. It's done.

679
00:24:13,259 --> 00:24:15,420
And here he is again. And, and look,

680
00:24:15,420 --> 00:24:17,660
I mean, he's not up there without a

681
00:24:17,660 --> 00:24:20,460
checks and balance. I mean, there's, there's people

682
00:24:20,460 --> 00:24:22,356
behind him that that are saying, hey. You're

683
00:24:22,589 --> 00:24:24,448
you know, yeah. Let's get behind this. Let's

684
00:24:24,448 --> 00:24:26,306
do this. Or maybe that's not good. So,

685
00:24:26,306 --> 00:24:28,165
I mean, we've actually got somebody in there

686
00:24:28,165 --> 00:24:30,024
who says, yeah. I'm gonna do this, and

687
00:24:30,024 --> 00:24:31,883
he does it. Yeah. And I'll tell you

688
00:24:31,883 --> 00:24:33,750
the the the ones that that people really

689
00:24:33,750 --> 00:24:35,430
need to fear the most are the ones

690
00:24:35,430 --> 00:24:37,509
who say, well, we gotta destroy democracy to

691
00:24:37,509 --> 00:24:39,190
save it. Yeah. Or the ones that put

692
00:24:39,190 --> 00:24:41,509
up Right. Somebody for president that was never

693
00:24:41,509 --> 00:24:43,430
elected by a common party who claimed to

694
00:24:43,430 --> 00:24:45,750
be all about democracy. Yeah. You better watch

695
00:24:45,750 --> 00:24:47,284
out for that stuff and watch out for

696
00:24:47,284 --> 00:24:49,765
people in the backroom spending money willy nilly.

697
00:24:49,765 --> 00:24:52,325
Yeah. And no but no accountability whatsoever. That's

698
00:24:52,325 --> 00:24:54,565
right. And do and speak out. Let and

699
00:24:54,565 --> 00:24:57,284
and that's where I say that that's that's

700
00:24:57,284 --> 00:24:59,579
the remaining vigilant part. You have to watch

701
00:24:59,579 --> 00:25:01,099
those things. And when we see those things

702
00:25:01,099 --> 00:25:03,339
happening, we we've already spoken once. We said

703
00:25:03,339 --> 00:25:05,579
we've had enough of that. We elected Donald

704
00:25:05,579 --> 00:25:08,539
Trump. We elected JD Vance. He appointed Elon

705
00:25:08,539 --> 00:25:10,460
Musk and and and the members of the

706
00:25:10,460 --> 00:25:12,059
Doge group that are going in there and

707
00:25:12,059 --> 00:25:13,200
doing all this stuff.

708
00:25:13,674 --> 00:25:14,174
And

709
00:25:14,875 --> 00:25:16,575
we we know that they're listening.

710
00:25:17,115 --> 00:25:19,595
Be vigilant. And if you see, like you

711
00:25:19,595 --> 00:25:21,275
say, those statements about we've got to destroy

712
00:25:21,275 --> 00:25:23,515
democracy to save it. At that point, you

713
00:25:23,515 --> 00:25:25,434
start saying, hold on. Hold on. Hey. Hey.

714
00:25:25,434 --> 00:25:25,934
Wait.

715
00:25:26,795 --> 00:25:28,335
We have the right to petition.

716
00:25:29,049 --> 00:25:31,609
Yeah. Exercise it. Don't be afraid to exercise

717
00:25:31,609 --> 00:25:33,609
it and go woah woah you just crossed

718
00:25:33,609 --> 00:25:34,269
a line.

719
00:25:34,570 --> 00:25:37,150
It's going too far, let's roll that back.

720
00:25:37,450 --> 00:25:39,049
Don't be afraid to do that. Don't be

721
00:25:39,049 --> 00:25:40,730
afraid to call on other people to do

722
00:25:40,730 --> 00:25:43,714
it if it's actually crossing a line. But

723
00:25:43,934 --> 00:25:46,174
being vigilant means that you can't cry. You

724
00:25:46,174 --> 00:25:47,775
can't be the little boy that cried wolf.

725
00:25:47,775 --> 00:25:48,275
Right?

726
00:25:48,734 --> 00:25:51,375
Every little decision is not over the line.

727
00:25:51,375 --> 00:25:53,855
Trump derangement syndrome. That's what they call that.

728
00:25:53,855 --> 00:25:55,535
Yeah. But there's a there's a senator, a

729
00:25:55,535 --> 00:25:57,375
new senator from New Jersey who's saying that

730
00:25:57,375 --> 00:25:59,159
we need to shut down government in order

731
00:25:59,159 --> 00:26:01,099
to keep Musk from shutting down government.

732
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,399
You know, it's just nonsensical stuff. I mean,

733
00:26:05,399 --> 00:26:07,399
if you're gonna accomplish our goal for us

734
00:26:08,039 --> 00:26:09,960
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's that's like telling,

735
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,984
you know Yeah. But he has a totally

736
00:26:11,984 --> 00:26:13,825
shutdown government. He just wants to shut down

737
00:26:13,825 --> 00:26:15,984
the government that's causing issues for him. Yeah.

738
00:26:15,984 --> 00:26:18,005
You know? Right. I mean, it's a one-sided

739
00:26:18,144 --> 00:26:20,865
thing. You can bet that people's pock pockets

740
00:26:20,865 --> 00:26:22,785
are being lined. I know. I've been for

741
00:26:22,785 --> 00:26:23,605
years. Absolutely.

742
00:26:23,904 --> 00:26:25,345
Well, and, you know, one of the things

743
00:26:25,345 --> 00:26:26,910
that shocked me, I think it was yesterday.

744
00:26:26,910 --> 00:26:28,130
I saw that,

745
00:26:28,830 --> 00:26:30,769
the department of treasury has

746
00:26:31,070 --> 00:26:32,210
been for years,

747
00:26:33,710 --> 00:26:34,609
where they,

748
00:26:35,630 --> 00:26:37,150
anybody that's ever worked in a company. And

749
00:26:37,150 --> 00:26:38,590
I think, I think both of y'all have

750
00:26:38,590 --> 00:26:41,490
worked in the right positions to see this.

751
00:26:41,549 --> 00:26:43,195
You You haven't got an expense report

752
00:26:43,575 --> 00:26:44,394
and it has,

753
00:26:44,855 --> 00:26:47,414
we spent this much money. It went to

754
00:26:47,414 --> 00:26:49,835
this thing. And then there's a little description

755
00:26:49,894 --> 00:26:51,914
about why it went to that thing. So,

756
00:26:51,974 --> 00:26:53,335
and we do this here at the church,

757
00:26:53,335 --> 00:26:55,430
right? We have our expense report that our

758
00:26:55,430 --> 00:26:57,509
our treasurer gives, says, okay, you spent this

759
00:26:57,509 --> 00:26:59,670
much money for the church website this year.

760
00:26:59,670 --> 00:27:01,269
We spent this much money on music for

761
00:27:01,269 --> 00:27:03,269
the choir this year. And and it tells

762
00:27:03,269 --> 00:27:04,950
where the money came from and where it

763
00:27:04,950 --> 00:27:05,690
went to.

764
00:27:06,230 --> 00:27:08,230
The Department of Treasury had we spent this

765
00:27:08,230 --> 00:27:08,890
much money.

766
00:27:10,394 --> 00:27:10,894
Yeah.

767
00:27:11,674 --> 00:27:12,654
And the rest of it

768
00:27:13,115 --> 00:27:16,075
was blank. There was like, and Elon Musk

769
00:27:16,075 --> 00:27:18,315
even said, hey look guys, I don't even

770
00:27:18,315 --> 00:27:20,875
care if you put the dumbest reason on

771
00:27:20,875 --> 00:27:22,474
the planet to spend it. It can just

772
00:27:22,474 --> 00:27:25,279
be because I felt like it. Can you

773
00:27:25,279 --> 00:27:27,460
at least put something in the description line?

774
00:27:27,599 --> 00:27:29,039
Can you at least tell us where it

775
00:27:29,039 --> 00:27:31,599
went? Leave me alone. You're toxic. Yeah. You

776
00:27:31,599 --> 00:27:33,200
know, that kind of thing. Well well, the

777
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:34,880
Pentagon hadn't passed an audit in how many

778
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,359
years. It's been decades, I think. Well, nobody's

779
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,474
tried to audit them since, you know, hundreds

780
00:27:39,474 --> 00:27:41,335
of billions. 2 thousand 1. Why?

781
00:27:42,835 --> 00:27:44,355
And if they do, what are they gonna

782
00:27:44,355 --> 00:27:46,774
do? I mean, good gracious. I mean, we're

783
00:27:46,994 --> 00:27:48,755
we're not backing up the dollar right now

784
00:27:48,755 --> 00:27:50,914
anyway. I mean, there's no gold. Yeah. Yeah.

785
00:27:50,914 --> 00:27:52,289
You know? So Hey. It's all

786
00:28:05,825 --> 00:28:07,105
taxes. Don't worry about how much money we

787
00:28:07,105 --> 00:28:08,704
have or don't have. We're gonna rent some

788
00:28:08,704 --> 00:28:11,204
money. Everybody said that, the

789
00:28:11,505 --> 00:28:13,744
the release of the full CBS interview of

790
00:28:13,744 --> 00:28:15,025
Kamala Harris back,

791
00:28:15,505 --> 00:28:17,265
the one that everybody was making fun of

792
00:28:17,265 --> 00:28:19,105
because they changed the question and answer in

793
00:28:19,105 --> 00:28:19,845
it. And

794
00:28:20,900 --> 00:28:23,380
you know, Donald Trump called for, hey, let's

795
00:28:23,380 --> 00:28:24,980
release the whole thing, sued them. Had to

796
00:28:24,980 --> 00:28:26,980
sue CBS to get it. And they finally

797
00:28:26,980 --> 00:28:28,259
put it out there, everybody's like, oh, it's

798
00:28:28,259 --> 00:28:30,500
just, it's nothing, it's nothing except the very

799
00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:33,059
first question the guy asks. Hey, how you

800
00:28:33,059 --> 00:28:34,440
gonna pay for all this?

801
00:28:35,775 --> 00:28:38,674
And she literally, it was a ten minute

802
00:28:38,734 --> 00:28:39,234
answer

803
00:28:39,695 --> 00:28:40,195
word

804
00:28:40,815 --> 00:28:41,955
of her going,

805
00:28:44,095 --> 00:28:46,015
and just not being able to answer until

806
00:28:46,015 --> 00:28:47,615
she finally admits at the end, well, you

807
00:28:47,615 --> 00:28:48,815
know, it's gonna have to come from tax.

808
00:28:48,815 --> 00:28:51,049
Well, see that kind of stuff affects the

809
00:28:51,049 --> 00:28:53,450
election too. Yeah. It's just not right. It

810
00:28:53,450 --> 00:28:55,529
just Yeah. And but that's, you know, that's

811
00:28:55,529 --> 00:28:57,609
the whole thing is none of these and

812
00:28:57,609 --> 00:28:58,750
and I love what,

813
00:28:59,210 --> 00:29:00,970
an economist said a few years ago. He

814
00:29:00,970 --> 00:29:01,710
said, you know,

815
00:29:02,250 --> 00:29:03,450
or actually it may not have been an

816
00:29:03,450 --> 00:29:04,970
economist. I think it was oh, it was

817
00:29:04,970 --> 00:29:06,704
Ronald Reagan. That's who said it years ago.

818
00:29:06,704 --> 00:29:08,704
He said, it'd be really great if every

819
00:29:08,704 --> 00:29:10,164
time we propose a new,

820
00:29:11,184 --> 00:29:11,765
a new

821
00:29:12,625 --> 00:29:14,884
social thing or a new a new project

822
00:29:15,265 --> 00:29:17,265
that we say it's gonna cost this much

823
00:29:17,265 --> 00:29:19,440
in taxes. We're gonna have to raise taxes

824
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,000
by this percentage. Yeah. And just tell everybody

825
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,839
your taxes are going up by this much

826
00:29:23,839 --> 00:29:25,759
in order to do this project. He said,

827
00:29:25,759 --> 00:29:28,000
because you know, once people hear that they

828
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,680
go because you hear about these projects. Hey,

829
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:30,674
we're gonna give away

830
00:29:31,634 --> 00:29:33,394
housing to these people that are that are

831
00:29:33,394 --> 00:29:35,075
homeless and they need houses. Like oh that's

832
00:29:35,075 --> 00:29:36,755
a wonderful idea, that's a great thing, they

833
00:29:36,755 --> 00:29:38,195
need a place to live, we're gonna build

834
00:29:38,195 --> 00:29:39,394
a house for them and we're gonna let

835
00:29:39,394 --> 00:29:42,035
them live there. Wonderful. Okay, but we're gonna

836
00:29:42,035 --> 00:29:43,875
have to raise your taxes by 30% to

837
00:29:43,875 --> 00:29:45,174
do that. Wait.

838
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,200
You know, okay, how about we get together

839
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,440
in our communities and we'll come together and

840
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:52,640
figure out a way to do it for

841
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:53,700
less than that.

842
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,640
And that's, you know, that's exactly what,

843
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,474
the president that just passed away recently,

844
00:29:59,855 --> 00:30:02,014
Jimmy Carter. You know, that's one of the

845
00:30:02,014 --> 00:30:03,875
things he did, that Habitat for Humanity.

846
00:30:04,255 --> 00:30:05,774
It was all about come together as a

847
00:30:05,774 --> 00:30:06,274
community,

848
00:30:06,815 --> 00:30:09,054
build the houses, and they did. They built

849
00:30:09,054 --> 00:30:11,554
houses for a foot. They did not spend

850
00:30:11,940 --> 00:30:13,399
hundreds of millions of dollars

851
00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:15,480
every year to do this. They would spend

852
00:30:15,539 --> 00:30:17,539
a few, you know, a hundred thousand dollars

853
00:30:17,539 --> 00:30:19,539
to build like two or three houses, like

854
00:30:19,539 --> 00:30:21,139
because they would get the material in bulk,

855
00:30:21,139 --> 00:30:22,740
they would have the labor in bulk. It

856
00:30:22,740 --> 00:30:25,000
was all volunteer labor, so it was very

857
00:30:25,299 --> 00:30:26,919
affordable, and it was very

858
00:30:27,525 --> 00:30:29,765
sustainable to do, and I'm like, Yeah, why

859
00:30:29,765 --> 00:30:31,765
can't we do more things like that? That's

860
00:30:31,765 --> 00:30:33,205
where the church has dropped the ball, I

861
00:30:33,205 --> 00:30:35,785
think. In the past decades, you know,

862
00:30:36,404 --> 00:30:38,085
where people used to go to the church

863
00:30:38,085 --> 00:30:40,085
for help and be a part of the

864
00:30:40,085 --> 00:30:42,345
church, part of the living organism, right?

865
00:30:42,849 --> 00:30:44,129
That that they just depend on the government

866
00:30:44,129 --> 00:30:45,649
for it now. That's absolutely and then the

867
00:30:45,649 --> 00:30:47,970
government wants them to depend on that. Absolutely.

868
00:30:47,970 --> 00:30:50,230
That's that's that's their thing, man. If they

869
00:30:50,369 --> 00:30:51,649
and that's the whole thing with,

870
00:30:52,289 --> 00:30:53,109
with government

871
00:30:53,730 --> 00:30:56,929
health care, with with with food stamps, with

872
00:30:56,929 --> 00:30:58,355
all these government

873
00:30:58,894 --> 00:30:59,554
programs, welfare,

874
00:31:00,575 --> 00:31:02,174
all these things that are coming down the

875
00:31:02,174 --> 00:31:04,335
tunnel and and and have been there, some

876
00:31:04,335 --> 00:31:06,494
of them in place for for decades and

877
00:31:06,494 --> 00:31:06,994
decades,

878
00:31:08,414 --> 00:31:10,380
it's all it's all to get a vote.

879
00:31:10,380 --> 00:31:13,119
It's all to say, Hey, join my side.

880
00:31:13,259 --> 00:31:14,940
You vote for us. We're going to keep

881
00:31:14,940 --> 00:31:16,380
money in your pocket. We're going to put

882
00:31:16,380 --> 00:31:17,740
a cell phone in your hand. I mean,

883
00:31:17,740 --> 00:31:19,339
we know that, you know, that happened a

884
00:31:19,339 --> 00:31:20,940
few years ago. It was a cell phone

885
00:31:20,940 --> 00:31:22,700
campaign. You get a cell phone and you

886
00:31:22,700 --> 00:31:24,994
get a cell phone. Everybody gets a cell

887
00:31:24,994 --> 00:31:27,075
phone. You know? Okay. Well, we're gonna have

888
00:31:27,075 --> 00:31:28,434
to cut you off next month because you

889
00:31:28,434 --> 00:31:30,294
didn't pay your cell phone bill. But anyway,

890
00:31:31,315 --> 00:31:32,534
they do those things

891
00:31:32,835 --> 00:31:34,755
and and and it's where the church comes

892
00:31:34,755 --> 00:31:37,315
in. Right? And we're letting them. We're like,

893
00:31:37,315 --> 00:31:38,039
oh, okay.

894
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,359
Yeah if you're gonna feed the homeless well

895
00:31:40,359 --> 00:31:41,960
then we don't have to. We can buy

896
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,600
some extra speakers in the phone machine. Right.

897
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,320
Yeah. Bigger chairs more than you know and

898
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,559
let's get our video wall. Yeah. I mean

899
00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:51,799
all those things that we say yeah okay

900
00:31:51,799 --> 00:31:53,848
yeah we don't we don't have to help

901
00:31:53,848 --> 00:31:55,982
this one. I tap this one. I tap

902
00:31:55,982 --> 00:31:58,117
this one. And it's the church's job. That's

903
00:31:58,117 --> 00:32:00,251
what we're here for. It's the church's job.

904
00:32:00,251 --> 00:32:02,385
And and as I've said before, and and

905
00:32:02,385 --> 00:32:04,786
I know it's cliche, but, but, you know,

906
00:32:04,786 --> 00:32:06,119
we we we not only

907
00:32:06,759 --> 00:32:07,880
we not only feed them fish but we

908
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,200
teach them to fish. Yeah. I mean Right.

909
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,039
We want them to be capable. We want

910
00:32:12,039 --> 00:32:14,119
them to to be able to earn their

911
00:32:14,119 --> 00:32:16,140
own money to do their own thing and,

912
00:32:16,519 --> 00:32:18,615
and sometimes it may be that that they're

913
00:32:18,615 --> 00:32:20,855
not able ever to do that and there

914
00:32:20,855 --> 00:32:22,934
may be a reason a good reason for

915
00:32:22,934 --> 00:32:25,335
that. Guess what? That's where the widows and

916
00:32:25,335 --> 00:32:27,734
orphans, right? I mean yeah that's where we're

917
00:32:27,734 --> 00:32:28,954
supposed to come in

918
00:32:29,414 --> 00:32:31,755
and you hear people say all the time

919
00:32:32,214 --> 00:32:32,609
that

920
00:32:33,089 --> 00:32:35,910
talking about religion is bad. Religion is bad

921
00:32:35,970 --> 00:32:36,470
or

922
00:32:37,170 --> 00:32:37,829
or relationship

923
00:32:38,130 --> 00:32:40,769
over religion. And I agree with that to

924
00:32:40,769 --> 00:32:42,150
a certain extent. Right.

925
00:32:42,529 --> 00:32:44,869
But they're not talking about real religion.

926
00:32:45,170 --> 00:32:47,964
Right. They're talking about fake religion, false religion.

927
00:32:47,964 --> 00:32:50,605
Nope. Look at the Bible says that true

928
00:32:50,605 --> 00:32:53,244
and undefiled religion is when the church goes

929
00:32:53,244 --> 00:32:55,005
out and helps the widows and the orphans.

930
00:32:55,005 --> 00:32:55,505
That's

931
00:32:55,884 --> 00:32:58,544
that's a real religion. That's Christ centered

932
00:32:59,164 --> 00:33:02,525
religion. That is that is a church and

933
00:33:02,525 --> 00:33:04,500
a people who has a relationship with Jesus

934
00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:06,259
Christ. That's right. And when you when you

935
00:33:06,259 --> 00:33:07,720
look at, the the

936
00:33:08,740 --> 00:33:11,000
in the New Testament when Paul is describing,

937
00:33:11,859 --> 00:33:13,700
positions within the church, and he's describing, you

938
00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:15,299
know, he gives the description of what is

939
00:33:15,299 --> 00:33:16,980
required for a pastor, and he gives a

940
00:33:16,980 --> 00:33:19,255
description of what's required for a deacon. The

941
00:33:19,255 --> 00:33:20,154
interesting thing

942
00:33:20,535 --> 00:33:22,375
is, all of those positions, part of it

943
00:33:22,375 --> 00:33:23,115
was service.

944
00:33:24,295 --> 00:33:25,734
It wasn't just you're going to come in

945
00:33:25,734 --> 00:33:27,255
and run things, you're going to come in

946
00:33:27,255 --> 00:33:28,775
and be in charge of things. It was

947
00:33:28,775 --> 00:33:30,714
always a call to service.

948
00:33:31,174 --> 00:33:33,640
And I think somewhere along the way, we

949
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:34,460
kind of started

950
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:36,700
backing off on that. And it's like, no,

951
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:40,460
these are positions that are service oriented positions

952
00:33:40,759 --> 00:33:41,900
that are explicitly

953
00:33:42,279 --> 00:33:44,200
spelled out in scripture, not just for the

954
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:44,700
general

955
00:33:46,355 --> 00:33:48,515
congregation that is also called the service. We're

956
00:33:48,515 --> 00:33:50,914
also, everybody's called to serve the widows and

957
00:33:50,914 --> 00:33:51,815
the, the orphans,

958
00:33:52,355 --> 00:33:54,994
but there are positions that Paul specifically said

959
00:33:54,994 --> 00:33:55,494
your

960
00:33:56,195 --> 00:33:58,035
calling when you step up to one of

961
00:33:58,035 --> 00:33:59,819
these positions, when the church calls you to

962
00:33:59,819 --> 00:34:01,659
this position because it wasn't something that you

963
00:34:01,659 --> 00:34:04,159
volunteered for. It was go find

964
00:34:04,539 --> 00:34:07,339
someone that meets this criteria and call them

965
00:34:07,339 --> 00:34:08,539
to it. He said, I need you to

966
00:34:08,539 --> 00:34:10,219
be willing to wait tables is basically what

967
00:34:10,219 --> 00:34:11,920
he was saying. And that's what he exactly

968
00:34:11,980 --> 00:34:12,719
what he said.

969
00:34:13,025 --> 00:34:15,505
In acts chapter six, that's, you know, it's

970
00:34:15,505 --> 00:34:16,485
laid out there

971
00:34:16,945 --> 00:34:18,244
that why the deacons,

972
00:34:18,704 --> 00:34:20,704
why these church leaders were brought in and

973
00:34:20,704 --> 00:34:22,164
what they were supposed to do.

974
00:34:22,945 --> 00:34:25,344
And and and it was because Paul and

975
00:34:25,344 --> 00:34:28,050
the other apostles, man, they were so busy.

976
00:34:28,050 --> 00:34:30,289
They were so busy sharing the gospel. They

977
00:34:30,289 --> 00:34:31,010
were so busy,

978
00:34:31,489 --> 00:34:33,890
you know, preaching the word and and carrying

979
00:34:33,890 --> 00:34:35,969
the word of god out and they were

980
00:34:35,969 --> 00:34:37,650
trying to care for the church. I mean,

981
00:34:37,650 --> 00:34:39,269
these churches were being established

982
00:34:39,570 --> 00:34:42,045
and they were growing, but they could not

983
00:34:42,045 --> 00:34:44,125
do it all. This small group of men

984
00:34:44,125 --> 00:34:45,724
could not do it all. He said, so

985
00:34:45,724 --> 00:34:47,425
we're gonna have to appoint some men

986
00:34:47,885 --> 00:34:49,644
who can go out and check on the

987
00:34:49,644 --> 00:34:51,244
sick and afflicted. We're gonna have to go

988
00:34:51,244 --> 00:34:53,219
out and we're gonna have to elect some

989
00:34:53,219 --> 00:34:53,940
men who are

990
00:34:54,579 --> 00:34:56,340
And it gives a description. Are you pulling

991
00:34:56,340 --> 00:34:58,179
up at Acts chapter six? No. Okay. Okay.

992
00:34:58,179 --> 00:34:59,460
I got a different one. Go ahead. You

993
00:34:59,460 --> 00:35:00,119
go, but

994
00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:01,619
I'll pull it up and read it in

995
00:35:01,619 --> 00:35:03,059
just a minute. But when we, when you

996
00:35:03,059 --> 00:35:05,300
go to Acts chapter six, he gives this

997
00:35:05,300 --> 00:35:06,585
description of what

998
00:35:07,385 --> 00:35:09,224
those men are supposed to be like. And

999
00:35:09,224 --> 00:35:11,565
they're supposed to be powerful men like Stephen,

1000
00:35:11,625 --> 00:35:13,545
who were full of the Holy Spirit of

1001
00:35:13,545 --> 00:35:15,464
God, and they were ready to go out.

1002
00:35:15,464 --> 00:35:15,964
And

1003
00:35:16,344 --> 00:35:16,844
not

1004
00:35:17,224 --> 00:35:19,864
only were they willing to help people and

1005
00:35:19,864 --> 00:35:21,769
meet the needs of the people, but they

1006
00:35:21,769 --> 00:35:23,849
could also preach, they could also teach, they

1007
00:35:23,849 --> 00:35:24,510
could also

1008
00:35:24,889 --> 00:35:26,969
fill in those positions when they need to

1009
00:35:26,969 --> 00:35:29,369
be filled into. So here it is. Acts

1010
00:35:29,369 --> 00:35:31,210
chapter six starts with, Now in those days

1011
00:35:31,210 --> 00:35:32,889
when the number of the disciples were was

1012
00:35:32,889 --> 00:35:35,550
multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews

1013
00:35:36,014 --> 00:35:37,315
by the Hellenists

1014
00:35:37,855 --> 00:35:40,194
because their widows were neglected

1015
00:35:40,654 --> 00:35:41,795
in the daily distribution.

1016
00:35:42,335 --> 00:35:44,574
Then the 12 summoned the multitude of the

1017
00:35:44,574 --> 00:35:46,414
disciples and said, it is not desirable that

1018
00:35:46,414 --> 00:35:47,855
we should leave the word of God and

1019
00:35:47,855 --> 00:35:49,554
serve tables. Therefore, brethren,

1020
00:35:50,390 --> 00:35:52,869
seek out from among you seven men of

1021
00:35:52,869 --> 00:35:54,710
good reputation, full of the Holy spirit and

1022
00:35:54,710 --> 00:35:57,530
wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

1023
00:35:59,430 --> 00:36:00,250
But we

1024
00:36:00,869 --> 00:36:03,349
will give ourselves continually to prayer and the

1025
00:36:03,349 --> 00:36:04,795
ministry of the word. So this was the

1026
00:36:04,795 --> 00:36:07,434
disciple. This was the, the 12 disciples saying,

1027
00:36:07,434 --> 00:36:09,675
Hey, look, we're trying to spread, we've got

1028
00:36:09,675 --> 00:36:11,675
a, we've got a commission handed to us.

1029
00:36:11,675 --> 00:36:13,594
We have to go and tell, all right,

1030
00:36:13,594 --> 00:36:15,135
so we need you to do this.

1031
00:36:15,594 --> 00:36:16,074
And,

1032
00:36:16,554 --> 00:36:19,050
and saying, and the the saying pleased the

1033
00:36:19,050 --> 00:36:21,210
whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man

1034
00:36:21,210 --> 00:36:22,730
full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and

1035
00:36:22,730 --> 00:36:23,230
Philip,

1036
00:36:23,930 --> 00:36:24,430
Precorius,

1037
00:36:25,610 --> 00:36:26,829
Nicanor, Timon,

1038
00:36:28,090 --> 00:36:28,590
Paramanius,

1039
00:36:29,530 --> 00:36:30,704
and Nicholas,

1040
00:36:31,484 --> 00:36:34,045
a proselytite from Antioch, whom they set before

1041
00:36:34,045 --> 00:36:34,704
the apostles.

1042
00:36:35,565 --> 00:36:37,164
And when they had prayed, they laid hands

1043
00:36:37,164 --> 00:36:39,085
on them. And the word of God spread,

1044
00:36:39,085 --> 00:36:40,844
and the number of disciples multiplied greatly in

1045
00:36:40,844 --> 00:36:41,344
Jerusalem,

1046
00:36:41,724 --> 00:36:43,484
and a great many of the priests were

1047
00:36:43,484 --> 00:36:46,316
obedient to the faith. And that's, you know,

1048
00:36:46,316 --> 00:36:49,062
that was that thing. Or some priests got

1049
00:36:49,062 --> 00:36:51,809
saved. Yeah, I love that. The priest got

1050
00:36:51,809 --> 00:36:54,555
saved. Now, by the way, I want to

1051
00:36:54,555 --> 00:36:57,301
point out here. Here's where the Catholics will

1052
00:36:57,301 --> 00:37:00,204
say, you see, this is that continuing line

1053
00:37:00,204 --> 00:37:02,525
from the apostles all the way to no.

1054
00:37:02,525 --> 00:37:05,025
No. No. No. They didn't pick these guys.

1055
00:37:05,644 --> 00:37:07,804
They sent the rest of the believers to

1056
00:37:07,804 --> 00:37:10,045
go pick these guys. The the apostles did

1057
00:37:10,045 --> 00:37:12,284
not appoint these men. Yeah. The rest of

1058
00:37:12,284 --> 00:37:12,989
the faith,

1059
00:37:13,469 --> 00:37:15,550
the rest of the Christians got together and

1060
00:37:15,550 --> 00:37:16,769
said, Hey, these guys

1061
00:37:17,309 --> 00:37:17,809
are

1062
00:37:18,269 --> 00:37:20,289
super on fire for God. They

1063
00:37:20,989 --> 00:37:22,989
are honorable men. We know that they're gonna

1064
00:37:22,989 --> 00:37:24,429
serve. We know that they're gonna do what

1065
00:37:24,429 --> 00:37:26,424
you're telling us to do here. And the

1066
00:37:26,424 --> 00:37:29,385
apostles laid hands on them and prayed for

1067
00:37:29,385 --> 00:37:32,184
them. And that's, again, that's what we're called

1068
00:37:32,184 --> 00:37:34,744
to do for church leadership. Hey, churches, if

1069
00:37:34,744 --> 00:37:36,344
you don't believe in laying on of hands,

1070
00:37:36,344 --> 00:37:38,105
right here it is. It's actually a good

1071
00:37:38,105 --> 00:37:40,824
thing. When it comes time to anoint a

1072
00:37:40,824 --> 00:37:42,000
new person into leadership

1073
00:37:43,199 --> 00:37:44,639
in your church, gather around them. Put your

1074
00:37:44,639 --> 00:37:46,079
hands on them. Pray for them. Yeah. I

1075
00:37:46,079 --> 00:37:46,820
mean, they're

1076
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,920
and that that has nothing to do with

1077
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:51,519
passing on the power of the Holy Spirit

1078
00:37:51,519 --> 00:37:54,480
or anything like that. There is something to

1079
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:55,139
be said

1080
00:37:55,574 --> 00:37:58,534
for that comforting touch from another person. Yeah.

1081
00:37:58,534 --> 00:38:00,315
Sometimes to just know, hey

1082
00:38:00,855 --> 00:38:02,855
I'm I'm behind you. I got you. I'm

1083
00:38:02,855 --> 00:38:03,594
with you.

1084
00:38:03,894 --> 00:38:04,394
That

1085
00:38:04,695 --> 00:38:05,195
nothing

1086
00:38:05,574 --> 00:38:08,214
never ever let that go. Aside when people

1087
00:38:08,214 --> 00:38:10,569
need comforting, there's something about getting that hug.

1088
00:38:10,569 --> 00:38:12,569
Well, laying on hands is not some hocus

1089
00:38:12,569 --> 00:38:14,489
pocus thing from the grand poo ball. It's

1090
00:38:14,730 --> 00:38:14,969
it

1091
00:38:15,929 --> 00:38:16,969
but it's it's a

1092
00:38:18,650 --> 00:38:21,050
it is. It is a hey. I'm praying

1093
00:38:21,050 --> 00:38:22,489
for you, and I'm praying for you in

1094
00:38:22,489 --> 00:38:24,265
this ministry and I'm praying the power of

1095
00:38:24,265 --> 00:38:25,164
the holy spirit

1096
00:38:25,465 --> 00:38:28,184
fills you up and you're excited about this.

1097
00:38:28,184 --> 00:38:29,864
And I'm praying that God builds a hedge

1098
00:38:29,864 --> 00:38:32,105
of protection around you and holds on to

1099
00:38:32,105 --> 00:38:34,525
you and your family because we know that

1100
00:38:34,985 --> 00:38:36,284
when you head into ministry,

1101
00:38:37,144 --> 00:38:39,590
that that Satan is headed right toward you.

1102
00:38:39,590 --> 00:38:41,190
Right? I mean, he's gonna just try to

1103
00:38:41,190 --> 00:38:41,690
destroy

1104
00:38:42,150 --> 00:38:44,710
everything he can. He hates it. He hates

1105
00:38:44,710 --> 00:38:46,489
your family. He hates your marriage.

1106
00:38:46,869 --> 00:38:48,869
And and, man, that's that's just what that

1107
00:38:48,869 --> 00:38:50,090
is. And really,

1108
00:38:51,014 --> 00:38:52,295
it it should be an all the time

1109
00:38:52,295 --> 00:38:54,135
thing. We should be laying hands on on

1110
00:38:54,135 --> 00:38:55,894
everybody all the time because we need it,

1111
00:38:55,894 --> 00:38:57,655
you know. Yeah. We do. We need prayer.

1112
00:38:57,655 --> 00:38:58,155
Yeah.

1113
00:38:59,014 --> 00:39:00,315
Yeah. No. I was just thinking,

1114
00:39:01,815 --> 00:39:03,974
being a pastor or or being called to

1115
00:39:03,974 --> 00:39:06,074
some position like that is,

1116
00:39:06,730 --> 00:39:08,809
just just reminds me of what Jesus had

1117
00:39:08,809 --> 00:39:09,849
to say about it. You know, a lot

1118
00:39:09,849 --> 00:39:11,530
a lot of big churches, even even little

1119
00:39:11,530 --> 00:39:13,210
churches, I guess, there there's a part of

1120
00:39:13,210 --> 00:39:14,989
a pastor role that's kinda like CEO.

1121
00:39:15,289 --> 00:39:17,450
Yeah. Right? And you have to delegate certain

1122
00:39:17,450 --> 00:39:19,545
things. Yeah. But I think a lot of

1123
00:39:19,545 --> 00:39:21,784
pastors go too far with that. Yeah. And

1124
00:39:21,784 --> 00:39:23,565
they just kinda bow out of the whole

1125
00:39:23,864 --> 00:39:26,344
people part of it altogether. Yeah. Oh, sure.

1126
00:39:26,344 --> 00:39:28,105
Yeah. But what did Jesus say? Right? It's

1127
00:39:28,105 --> 00:39:29,644
in Matthew 20. He said,

1128
00:39:30,184 --> 00:39:32,039
You know that the rulers of the Gentiles

1129
00:39:32,199 --> 00:39:34,679
lorded over them, and their great men exercise

1130
00:39:34,679 --> 00:39:37,320
authority over them. It is not this way

1131
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,039
among you, but whoever wishes to become great

1132
00:39:40,039 --> 00:39:42,760
among you shall be your servant. And whoever

1133
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:44,679
wishes to be first among you shall be

1134
00:39:44,679 --> 00:39:45,500
your slave.

1135
00:39:45,924 --> 00:39:47,684
Just as the son of man did not

1136
00:39:47,684 --> 00:39:49,924
come to be served, but too served, and

1137
00:39:49,924 --> 00:39:52,005
surely give his life ransom for many. And

1138
00:39:52,005 --> 00:39:54,505
if you can keep that Christ like mindset

1139
00:39:54,644 --> 00:39:55,464
in ministry,

1140
00:39:56,005 --> 00:39:56,984
then ministry

1141
00:39:57,284 --> 00:39:59,619
will go good. Right? You won't be you

1142
00:39:59,619 --> 00:40:01,539
may not be uplifted. You may not be

1143
00:40:01,539 --> 00:40:04,099
the greatest thing since sliced bread, but but

1144
00:40:04,099 --> 00:40:06,260
people will be saved and lives will be

1145
00:40:06,260 --> 00:40:06,760
changed

1146
00:40:07,300 --> 00:40:08,900
if you're ready to be a servant. And

1147
00:40:08,900 --> 00:40:10,420
Jesus You're ready to get your hands dirty.

1148
00:40:10,420 --> 00:40:12,195
The day he died for all the world,

1149
00:40:12,195 --> 00:40:13,954
it looked like he was a complete failure.

1150
00:40:13,954 --> 00:40:16,275
Didn't it? Yeah. That's exactly right. But he

1151
00:40:16,275 --> 00:40:17,095
was a servant.

1152
00:40:17,555 --> 00:40:20,275
He didn't serve. Absolutely. He served us unto

1153
00:40:20,275 --> 00:40:22,994
death. Yeah. You you know you know the

1154
00:40:22,994 --> 00:40:23,494
day

1155
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,380
the day of the crucifixion,

1156
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,000
Satan and all the demons of hell were

1157
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:29,500
rejoicing.

1158
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:31,880
They were they were dancing around. They were

1159
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,480
saying we got him, we got him, we

1160
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,420
got him. We put a stop to this,

1161
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:36,380
and we're

1162
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,000
gonna win. And then three days later, you

1163
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:40,574
know they all went, uh-oh.

1164
00:40:42,335 --> 00:40:44,335
And and this this is, this leads into

1165
00:40:44,335 --> 00:40:46,255
our opening. Right? This is why we don't

1166
00:40:46,255 --> 00:40:48,655
fear. Yeah. We don't fear what's gonna happen

1167
00:40:48,655 --> 00:40:50,655
in Washington, DC. We don't have fear what's

1168
00:40:50,655 --> 00:40:53,135
gonna happen in the DeKalb County Courthouse. We

1169
00:40:53,135 --> 00:40:53,980
don't fear

1170
00:40:54,359 --> 00:40:56,359
because this is not all there is and

1171
00:40:56,359 --> 00:40:58,359
we're here to serve just like our our

1172
00:40:58,359 --> 00:41:01,079
servant master, right, Jesus. When I go to

1173
00:41:01,079 --> 00:41:02,679
the polls and I vote, I'm going to

1174
00:41:02,679 --> 00:41:04,539
vote for the person who I think

1175
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:05,500
will,

1176
00:41:06,885 --> 00:41:07,385
will

1177
00:41:08,085 --> 00:41:08,585
best

1178
00:41:11,684 --> 00:41:14,264
best help the con the, the conductivity

1179
00:41:14,644 --> 00:41:16,965
of of the church, you know, the, to

1180
00:41:16,965 --> 00:41:19,144
to flow and to I had to bring,

1181
00:41:19,445 --> 00:41:21,179
aneurysm for just a second, but

1182
00:41:21,659 --> 00:41:23,739
but to to to make it flow, to

1183
00:41:23,739 --> 00:41:26,219
make it to, like, it move. And and,

1184
00:41:26,219 --> 00:41:28,460
you know, I mean, that's why I voted

1185
00:41:28,460 --> 00:41:30,139
for Trump because I I don't think he's

1186
00:41:30,139 --> 00:41:31,440
gonna stop the church.

1187
00:41:31,819 --> 00:41:34,804
But but if if Trump had not have

1188
00:41:34,804 --> 00:41:35,944
won the election,

1189
00:41:36,484 --> 00:41:38,664
I wouldn't be in a corner somewhere crying.

1190
00:41:38,724 --> 00:41:40,804
Right. I'm not gonna fold up in a

1191
00:41:40,804 --> 00:41:41,304
ball,

1192
00:41:42,244 --> 00:41:42,984
you know,

1193
00:41:43,284 --> 00:41:45,304
I'm not gonna fold up in the ball

1194
00:41:45,444 --> 00:41:47,610
and and just say, it's done. It's over.

1195
00:41:47,849 --> 00:41:50,489
Crawl under a rock, you know, whatever. Because

1196
00:41:50,489 --> 00:41:52,670
I know that that he's not my king.

1197
00:41:52,730 --> 00:41:55,130
Right? He's not my king. That he he

1198
00:41:55,130 --> 00:41:55,630
is,

1199
00:41:56,170 --> 00:41:58,730
he is a servant. And, whether he has

1200
00:41:58,730 --> 00:42:00,590
that mindset or not, he's a servant.

1201
00:42:01,045 --> 00:42:03,284
And anybody who holds that position is a

1202
00:42:03,284 --> 00:42:03,784
servant.

1203
00:42:04,085 --> 00:42:06,644
But, but man, my king, he doesn't I

1204
00:42:06,644 --> 00:42:08,485
mean, he's out of this world. I mean,

1205
00:42:08,485 --> 00:42:10,585
and in my heart. And he is sovereign.

1206
00:42:10,644 --> 00:42:12,565
He is sovereign. He's he puts people in

1207
00:42:12,565 --> 00:42:14,485
charge of countries. He puts people in charge

1208
00:42:14,485 --> 00:42:15,210
of of churches.

1209
00:42:18,409 --> 00:42:19,869
Dennis just said about,

1210
00:42:20,250 --> 00:42:21,230
you know, Christ

1211
00:42:21,690 --> 00:42:24,170
Christ told them, whoever's gonna be first has

1212
00:42:24,170 --> 00:42:26,089
to serve. Yeah. I mean, it was it

1213
00:42:26,089 --> 00:42:28,089
was a direct command. It is a direct

1214
00:42:28,089 --> 00:42:30,805
thing from the lips of Christ. If you

1215
00:42:30,805 --> 00:42:33,204
wanna be the leader, you gotta serve. All

1216
00:42:33,204 --> 00:42:35,605
leaders are called to service. That's what he's

1217
00:42:35,605 --> 00:42:37,684
saying, not just within the church. I mean,

1218
00:42:37,684 --> 00:42:40,005
that applies to everything, but especially within the

1219
00:42:40,005 --> 00:42:40,505
church.

1220
00:42:40,885 --> 00:42:43,489
But I think a lot of elected officials,

1221
00:42:43,489 --> 00:42:45,570
and this is this is where the problem

1222
00:42:45,570 --> 00:42:46,710
comes in. Again,

1223
00:42:47,409 --> 00:42:48,150
the church,

1224
00:42:48,690 --> 00:42:50,849
the the the government needs to stay out

1225
00:42:50,849 --> 00:42:52,449
of the church. The church does not need

1226
00:42:52,449 --> 00:42:54,369
to stay out of the government. No. Because

1227
00:42:54,369 --> 00:42:57,030
elected officials should go in with that mindset

1228
00:42:57,089 --> 00:42:59,724
of I'm called to be a servant. I

1229
00:42:59,724 --> 00:43:02,284
see people on Facebook talking about, oh, separation

1230
00:43:02,284 --> 00:43:04,684
of church and state. These politicians talking about

1231
00:43:04,684 --> 00:43:07,244
God, that just ought not happen. Well, anybody

1232
00:43:07,244 --> 00:43:09,485
that's born again and has a genuine conversion

1233
00:43:09,485 --> 00:43:11,510
experience has it in their heart and they're

1234
00:43:11,510 --> 00:43:13,269
gonna live their life and everything they say

1235
00:43:13,269 --> 00:43:15,030
and do is revolving around that and we

1236
00:43:15,030 --> 00:43:17,190
need people like that in Washington steering this

1237
00:43:17,190 --> 00:43:19,750
stuff. Absolutely. Well, here and here's the thing.

1238
00:43:19,750 --> 00:43:21,989
There's two groups of people that that that

1239
00:43:21,989 --> 00:43:22,809
use that

1240
00:43:23,285 --> 00:43:24,805
separation of church and state,

1241
00:43:25,525 --> 00:43:27,445
to to their good I guess or try

1242
00:43:27,445 --> 00:43:29,945
to make it an excuse out of it.

1243
00:43:30,085 --> 00:43:32,885
One group is a group that's that's not

1244
00:43:32,885 --> 00:43:34,965
Christian at all, you know, because they don't

1245
00:43:34,965 --> 00:43:37,045
want they don't want Christianity to have anything

1246
00:43:37,045 --> 00:43:38,644
to do with our government. They don't want

1247
00:43:38,644 --> 00:43:40,180
they they don't wanna pray in public. They

1248
00:43:40,180 --> 00:43:41,699
don't wanna pray in the in the White

1249
00:43:41,699 --> 00:43:42,199
House.

1250
00:43:42,820 --> 00:43:44,579
They don't want anything to do with Jesus

1251
00:43:44,579 --> 00:43:47,059
at all. The other group of people are

1252
00:43:47,059 --> 00:43:47,559
Christians

1253
00:43:48,099 --> 00:43:50,360
who who wanna be able to vote

1254
00:43:50,980 --> 00:43:52,039
differently than,

1255
00:43:52,525 --> 00:43:55,244
than where a conservative Christian should vote, I

1256
00:43:55,244 --> 00:43:55,744
think.

1257
00:43:56,204 --> 00:43:58,204
And and so they use that they use

1258
00:43:58,204 --> 00:44:00,204
that. They said, well, you know, when I

1259
00:44:00,204 --> 00:44:02,445
go into a voting booth, you know, you

1260
00:44:02,445 --> 00:44:04,500
just gotta leave you just gotta leave that

1261
00:44:04,579 --> 00:44:06,659
outside because you gotta vote for the person

1262
00:44:06,659 --> 00:44:09,460
I'm if you can leave your Christianity outside

1263
00:44:09,460 --> 00:44:11,619
the voting booth, you didn't have it anyway.

1264
00:44:11,619 --> 00:44:13,300
They're trying to get what you voted for.

1265
00:44:13,300 --> 00:44:15,860
Yeah. Yeah. You can get somebody devoid of

1266
00:44:15,860 --> 00:44:17,804
the Holy Spirit and look for exactly We

1267
00:44:17,804 --> 00:44:19,405
see where it leads. Yeah. Yeah. We we

1268
00:44:19,484 --> 00:44:21,644
I mean, we have plenty of examples throughout

1269
00:44:21,644 --> 00:44:22,144
history,

1270
00:44:22,445 --> 00:44:24,125
throughout the world. I mean, even looking back

1271
00:44:24,125 --> 00:44:25,264
at Israel's history,

1272
00:44:25,804 --> 00:44:27,804
and they go into the promised land, God

1273
00:44:27,804 --> 00:44:29,644
gives them what gives them what he has

1274
00:44:29,644 --> 00:44:30,570
promised since

1275
00:44:31,130 --> 00:44:31,630
Abraham.

1276
00:44:32,170 --> 00:44:34,410
I mean, since Abraham, He had promised them

1277
00:44:34,410 --> 00:44:34,910
this.

1278
00:44:36,170 --> 00:44:37,930
He takes them out of Egypt, leads them

1279
00:44:37,930 --> 00:44:38,510
in there,

1280
00:44:38,890 --> 00:44:41,449
and then He says, okay, I'm gonna establish

1281
00:44:41,449 --> 00:44:43,530
and God gives them these instructions for how

1282
00:44:43,530 --> 00:44:45,284
to establish the government. What does He do?

1283
00:44:45,364 --> 00:44:46,804
He gives them the judges and He gives

1284
00:44:46,804 --> 00:44:48,484
them the prophets and He gives them these,

1285
00:44:48,484 --> 00:44:49,764
this is how it's gonna be led. It's

1286
00:44:49,764 --> 00:44:51,444
gonna be this very democratic thing, and then

1287
00:44:51,444 --> 00:44:53,284
you have the leader within each tribe that

1288
00:44:53,284 --> 00:44:54,025
is responsible,

1289
00:44:54,484 --> 00:44:56,484
and this is how it's gonna run. And

1290
00:44:56,484 --> 00:44:58,264
what do they say? Give us a king.

1291
00:44:58,710 --> 00:45:00,469
We want a king like our neighbors over

1292
00:45:00,469 --> 00:45:01,609
here. And God goes,

1293
00:45:02,309 --> 00:45:02,809
okay

1294
00:45:03,510 --> 00:45:05,269
fine. I mean it was He warned them

1295
00:45:05,269 --> 00:45:07,030
right? He said, here's what here's how the

1296
00:45:07,030 --> 00:45:09,109
king's gonna treat you. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You

1297
00:45:09,109 --> 00:45:12,070
don't want this. Yes we do. Yeah. No.

1298
00:45:12,070 --> 00:45:13,210
We do. We do.

1299
00:45:13,525 --> 00:45:15,764
We want this. And think about it. At

1300
00:45:15,764 --> 00:45:17,364
the end of the day, they were they

1301
00:45:17,364 --> 00:45:19,284
were in a position where they were having

1302
00:45:19,284 --> 00:45:20,264
to make decisions

1303
00:45:20,565 --> 00:45:22,724
for themselves, and they just wanted somebody to

1304
00:45:22,724 --> 00:45:24,085
come in and tell them what to do.

1305
00:45:24,085 --> 00:45:25,605
And they thought that was the greatest thing

1306
00:45:25,605 --> 00:45:27,500
since that was the greatest idea they could

1307
00:45:27,500 --> 00:45:28,980
have. And what do they end up with

1308
00:45:28,980 --> 00:45:31,320
before David? They end up with, Saul.

1309
00:45:31,940 --> 00:45:32,440
And

1310
00:45:32,820 --> 00:45:34,599
you know he loses his mind

1311
00:45:35,140 --> 00:45:36,980
when he finds out the same thing until

1312
00:45:36,980 --> 00:45:38,579
they had to stand in line for toilet

1313
00:45:38,579 --> 00:45:40,815
paper, you know? Yeah. I mean that's that's

1314
00:45:41,074 --> 00:45:43,355
yeah. That's oh, yeah. We don't have to

1315
00:45:43,355 --> 00:45:45,355
want for anything. They're gonna give us all.

1316
00:45:45,355 --> 00:45:46,795
No. They're not gonna give you the best

1317
00:45:46,795 --> 00:45:48,875
of all when you were you you had

1318
00:45:48,875 --> 00:45:50,715
Charmin over there, but now you got that

1319
00:45:50,715 --> 00:45:53,855
John Wayne toilet paper. Single ply stuff. Yeah.

1320
00:45:54,909 --> 00:45:57,230
And yeah. That's the thing is and and

1321
00:45:57,230 --> 00:45:59,389
that is that's where all of these governments

1322
00:45:59,389 --> 00:46:01,789
lead. I mean, I always go back to

1323
00:46:01,789 --> 00:46:02,929
that Israel's

1324
00:46:03,309 --> 00:46:04,610
succession of kings,

1325
00:46:05,869 --> 00:46:07,809
from when Saul was installed

1326
00:46:08,110 --> 00:46:10,054
because he was not appointed

1327
00:46:10,434 --> 00:46:12,514
except to just stand in for a time,

1328
00:46:12,514 --> 00:46:14,194
and then he was unwilling to give up

1329
00:46:14,194 --> 00:46:16,114
the power. That is exactly what we see

1330
00:46:16,114 --> 00:46:18,194
with modern governments. Once they get once they

1331
00:46:18,194 --> 00:46:20,194
get in there, once you give somebody total

1332
00:46:20,194 --> 00:46:22,034
control, they're not gonna give it up. They

1333
00:46:22,034 --> 00:46:23,635
don't wanna give it up. No. Yeah. And

1334
00:46:23,635 --> 00:46:26,519
it took David, and man, talk about a

1335
00:46:26,519 --> 00:46:28,920
man after God's own heart. Despite what ends

1336
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,559
up happening with David later on, the number

1337
00:46:31,559 --> 00:46:34,440
of times that he went against Saul, had

1338
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,599
the opportunity to put a stop to it,

1339
00:46:36,599 --> 00:46:38,715
had the opportunity to end it, but it

1340
00:46:38,715 --> 00:46:40,175
was his best friend's dad.

1341
00:46:40,555 --> 00:46:41,855
Yeah. And he just

1342
00:46:42,555 --> 00:46:43,695
he just couldn't.

1343
00:46:44,155 --> 00:46:46,555
He just couldn't bring himself to murder and

1344
00:46:46,555 --> 00:46:48,075
Saul had been good to him. There was

1345
00:46:48,075 --> 00:46:49,515
a time when Saul was being good to

1346
00:46:49,515 --> 00:46:51,195
David, and David looked back at it. He's

1347
00:46:51,195 --> 00:46:53,119
like, I remember that, and I don't want

1348
00:46:53,119 --> 00:46:54,460
to just kill him outright.

1349
00:46:54,839 --> 00:46:57,400
And he would beg with him, please just

1350
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,719
stop and let's let's do what God's told

1351
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:01,800
us to do. And what it's all said,

1352
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,139
no no no no until eventually

1353
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,359
he was dead and David stepped up and

1354
00:47:06,359 --> 00:47:08,824
became king. And then we had a good

1355
00:47:08,824 --> 00:47:10,844
secession of kings there for a little while,

1356
00:47:10,984 --> 00:47:12,585
and then they started falling off, and they

1357
00:47:12,585 --> 00:47:14,344
started doing exactly what God had warned. I

1358
00:47:14,344 --> 00:47:16,045
mean, because you had David, you had Solomon

1359
00:47:16,344 --> 00:47:18,204
right there back to back that grew

1360
00:47:18,505 --> 00:47:19,885
Jerusalem, that grew

1361
00:47:20,409 --> 00:47:21,389
the the Israel,

1362
00:47:23,289 --> 00:47:25,449
the the people of Israel, and then into

1363
00:47:25,449 --> 00:47:28,250
the country and everything, and then the kings

1364
00:47:28,250 --> 00:47:30,489
after that just got progressively worse and worse

1365
00:47:30,489 --> 00:47:30,989
until

1366
00:47:31,610 --> 00:47:33,690
they started worshiping idols again, and they started

1367
00:47:33,690 --> 00:47:35,904
rejecting God again. And it's the same thing

1368
00:47:35,904 --> 00:47:38,144
in the world. You you will start out

1369
00:47:38,144 --> 00:47:38,644
well,

1370
00:47:39,025 --> 00:47:41,105
but when you start rejecting God, that's where

1371
00:47:41,105 --> 00:47:43,744
things go down. And again, Christians, that's where

1372
00:47:43,744 --> 00:47:45,984
we're called to be vigilant. It's when we

1373
00:47:45,984 --> 00:47:48,144
reject what God has told us, what we

1374
00:47:48,144 --> 00:47:49,949
know is right, what we know is just,

1375
00:47:50,349 --> 00:47:52,670
what we know is wisdom. Yeah. We know

1376
00:47:52,670 --> 00:47:54,289
countries have a responsibility

1377
00:47:54,670 --> 00:47:56,050
in this too, you know. And

1378
00:47:56,510 --> 00:47:58,769
this I don't I don't mean to misquote

1379
00:47:58,829 --> 00:48:01,230
anything, but but in in Revelation, there's a

1380
00:48:01,230 --> 00:48:03,730
there's a city called Mystery Babylon. Right?

1381
00:48:04,030 --> 00:48:06,375
And it's it's a it's a global global

1382
00:48:06,375 --> 00:48:09,094
thing, I believe, but, in chapter 18, it

1383
00:48:09,094 --> 00:48:11,414
it it man, it just sounds like The

1384
00:48:11,414 --> 00:48:13,655
United States. I know it's probably not, but

1385
00:48:13,655 --> 00:48:15,175
but look look look at look at what

1386
00:48:15,175 --> 00:48:16,695
this says, or listen to what this says,

1387
00:48:16,695 --> 00:48:19,094
and and and just just does it sound

1388
00:48:19,094 --> 00:48:20,534
like The United States to you a little

1389
00:48:20,534 --> 00:48:23,099
bit? Fallen fallen is Babylon the Great. She

1390
00:48:23,099 --> 00:48:25,019
has become a dwelling place of demons and

1391
00:48:25,019 --> 00:48:26,859
a prison of every unclean spirit and a

1392
00:48:26,859 --> 00:48:29,420
prison of every unclean and hateful bird. For

1393
00:48:29,420 --> 00:48:31,179
all the nations have drunk of the wine

1394
00:48:31,179 --> 00:48:33,179
of the passion of her immorality, and the

1395
00:48:33,179 --> 00:48:34,940
kings of the earth have committed acts of

1396
00:48:34,940 --> 00:48:37,155
immorality with her, and the merchants of the

1397
00:48:37,155 --> 00:48:38,835
earth have become rich by the wealth of

1398
00:48:38,835 --> 00:48:39,655
her sensuality.

1399
00:48:40,195 --> 00:48:42,594
That stinks of of of the the the

1400
00:48:42,594 --> 00:48:45,315
society that we're in, don't it? Absolutely. And

1401
00:48:45,315 --> 00:48:47,315
I know that I'm I'm not trying to

1402
00:48:47,315 --> 00:48:49,635
equate Mystery Babylon with The United States and

1403
00:48:49,635 --> 00:48:51,300
say that, but it man, it it sounds

1404
00:48:51,300 --> 00:48:54,119
like us. It does, doesn't it? It's it's

1405
00:48:54,900 --> 00:48:56,900
Yeah. And it it and it's one of

1406
00:48:56,900 --> 00:48:59,860
those things. Whether whether that that is The

1407
00:48:59,860 --> 00:49:02,420
US or not, that's still a warning. That

1408
00:49:02,420 --> 00:49:04,099
is a warning that God's saying, look, this

1409
00:49:04,099 --> 00:49:05,655
could be anybody. Anybody. This could be any

1410
00:49:05,655 --> 00:49:07,594
society can turn into this. Yeah.

1411
00:49:08,215 --> 00:49:10,215
Just don't follow the don't follow the Lord,

1412
00:49:10,215 --> 00:49:11,335
and that's where you end up. Yeah. You

1413
00:49:11,335 --> 00:49:13,094
know, that's that's what Romans one lays out.

1414
00:49:13,094 --> 00:49:14,074
It's this progressive

1415
00:49:14,454 --> 00:49:16,795
downfall where God just turns them over. Yeah.

1416
00:49:17,300 --> 00:49:18,420
Want to do and do what you want

1417
00:49:18,420 --> 00:49:19,239
to do until

1418
00:49:19,859 --> 00:49:22,699
you're turned over to a reprobate man. Yeah.

1419
00:49:22,779 --> 00:49:26,340
Yeah. And basically, you destroy yourself. Yeah. That's

1420
00:49:26,340 --> 00:49:28,500
what that's what happens. And and when we

1421
00:49:28,500 --> 00:49:30,340
say all of this, when we say that

1422
00:49:30,340 --> 00:49:32,199
there there is a place for

1423
00:49:32,579 --> 00:49:35,375
faith within the government and within these leadership

1424
00:49:35,375 --> 00:49:37,375
roles. One thing we're not saying, and I

1425
00:49:37,375 --> 00:49:39,454
want to make this very abundantly clear because

1426
00:49:39,454 --> 00:49:41,135
some somebody somewhere is going to pick this

1427
00:49:41,135 --> 00:49:42,494
up and say, oh, they're saying you should

1428
00:49:42,494 --> 00:49:43,715
make everybody be Christians.

1429
00:49:44,094 --> 00:49:45,875
We're absolutely not saying that.

1430
00:49:46,175 --> 00:49:47,875
We want you to hear the truth

1431
00:49:48,260 --> 00:49:49,400
and accept it

1432
00:49:49,780 --> 00:49:51,059
on your own. We want you to hear

1433
00:49:51,059 --> 00:49:52,739
it. We want you to accept it. But

1434
00:49:52,739 --> 00:49:55,059
if you choose to reject it, that is

1435
00:49:55,059 --> 00:49:56,199
100%.

1436
00:49:56,739 --> 00:49:59,159
You're allowed to do that. But understand,

1437
00:49:59,940 --> 00:50:00,760
there's consequences.

1438
00:50:01,380 --> 00:50:03,724
And And those consequences is eternal separation from

1439
00:50:03,724 --> 00:50:04,224
God.

1440
00:50:04,765 --> 00:50:06,605
And we don't want anybody to go through

1441
00:50:06,605 --> 00:50:08,525
that. We want we want people to come

1442
00:50:08,525 --> 00:50:10,605
to Christ. And you know, another another consequence

1443
00:50:10,605 --> 00:50:11,805
of that is the here and now with

1444
00:50:11,805 --> 00:50:12,305
fear.

1445
00:50:12,605 --> 00:50:14,525
Yeah. Yes. Right? I mean, you're you're gonna

1446
00:50:14,525 --> 00:50:16,090
be afraid of everything right?

1447
00:50:16,550 --> 00:50:18,390
If things don't go your way, you're afraid

1448
00:50:18,390 --> 00:50:20,329
you're afraid for tomorrow constantly

1449
00:50:20,789 --> 00:50:22,969
and worried about it. And fear keeps you

1450
00:50:23,269 --> 00:50:25,289
keeps you frozen. It keeps you,

1451
00:50:26,150 --> 00:50:27,929
isolated. It keeps you,

1452
00:50:28,550 --> 00:50:31,085
you know, from from ever doing anything that

1453
00:50:31,085 --> 00:50:31,744
that you

1454
00:50:32,444 --> 00:50:35,085
I've been around people before that that live

1455
00:50:35,085 --> 00:50:37,244
their whole lives just in a big ball

1456
00:50:37,244 --> 00:50:38,625
of fear you know. You

1457
00:50:39,005 --> 00:50:39,505
know

1458
00:50:40,045 --> 00:50:41,724
I don't like to drive out of town

1459
00:50:41,724 --> 00:50:42,224
because

1460
00:50:42,684 --> 00:50:44,444
you know I'm afraid to get in all

1461
00:50:44,444 --> 00:50:45,650
that that traffic. I don't want to get

1462
00:50:45,650 --> 00:50:47,650
on that boat because I'm afraid I might

1463
00:50:47,650 --> 00:50:49,570
drown. I don't want to, you know, there's

1464
00:50:49,570 --> 00:50:52,530
just all these different things that that people

1465
00:50:52,530 --> 00:50:55,030
could experience in life that they don't experience,

1466
00:50:56,210 --> 00:50:58,425
because of fear. And it's the same way

1467
00:50:58,425 --> 00:50:59,724
in our Christian life.

1468
00:51:00,025 --> 00:51:02,184
You can stay in this one little place,

1469
00:51:02,184 --> 00:51:04,105
in this one little box, in this one

1470
00:51:04,105 --> 00:51:06,684
little church, in this one little pew, and

1471
00:51:07,465 --> 00:51:07,965
and

1472
00:51:08,744 --> 00:51:10,265
and that's where you'll be the rest of

1473
00:51:10,265 --> 00:51:12,059
your life, you know. And I'm not saying

1474
00:51:12,059 --> 00:51:14,059
being in a, in the church is bad.

1475
00:51:14,059 --> 00:51:15,980
Don't, don't, I'm not equating that. I'm just

1476
00:51:15,980 --> 00:51:16,480
saying

1477
00:51:17,260 --> 00:51:19,340
when you, when you think about your Christian

1478
00:51:19,340 --> 00:51:21,099
life and what you've done, when you look

1479
00:51:21,099 --> 00:51:23,019
back on it, if you live to be

1480
00:51:23,019 --> 00:51:24,635
90 years old and you look back and

1481
00:51:24,635 --> 00:51:25,835
you say what have I done for the

1482
00:51:25,835 --> 00:51:27,755
Lord? You know? Yeah. How many people have

1483
00:51:27,755 --> 00:51:29,275
I led to him? Where have I where

1484
00:51:29,275 --> 00:51:31,295
where did I go? What did I do?

1485
00:51:31,835 --> 00:51:32,494
You know,

1486
00:51:32,954 --> 00:51:35,135
when he called, did I answer?

1487
00:51:35,514 --> 00:51:37,034
You know, did I say here I am

1488
00:51:37,034 --> 00:51:37,534
Lord?

1489
00:51:38,150 --> 00:51:40,230
When he when he called, did I go?

1490
00:51:40,230 --> 00:51:42,309
Was I on go? Did I or did

1491
00:51:42,309 --> 00:51:44,390
I did I just tremble in fear and

1492
00:51:44,390 --> 00:51:46,950
say no, Lord. I can't do that. Yeah.

1493
00:51:46,950 --> 00:51:49,030
I'm not able to do that. You know?

1494
00:51:49,030 --> 00:51:50,550
Did he put out the did I put

1495
00:51:50,550 --> 00:51:52,390
out the fleece and he and he showed

1496
00:51:52,390 --> 00:51:55,234
me a hundred times, you know, and and

1497
00:51:55,234 --> 00:51:57,074
I and I still didn't go. And and

1498
00:51:57,074 --> 00:52:00,355
so we can waste this Christian life because

1499
00:52:00,355 --> 00:52:02,775
of fear. We really can. We can waste

1500
00:52:03,074 --> 00:52:06,454
our entire Christian life because we're scared. Absolutely.

1501
00:52:06,710 --> 00:52:09,109
And and don't don't let the fear like

1502
00:52:09,109 --> 00:52:11,509
like Brian was saying, don't let the fear

1503
00:52:11,509 --> 00:52:12,949
overwhelm you to the point that you get

1504
00:52:12,949 --> 00:52:14,710
in the corner and sit down. If you

1505
00:52:14,710 --> 00:52:16,469
don't like how things have done, you have

1506
00:52:16,469 --> 00:52:18,710
to pick up and move on and and

1507
00:52:18,710 --> 00:52:20,775
work for the change that you're wanting to

1508
00:52:20,775 --> 00:52:23,014
see. And, hey, look. Sometimes I'm gonna disagree

1509
00:52:23,014 --> 00:52:24,954
with you about what that change may be,

1510
00:52:25,255 --> 00:52:27,255
but that's okay. We can we can try

1511
00:52:27,255 --> 00:52:28,775
to come to some kind of a a

1512
00:52:28,775 --> 00:52:31,349
agreement and understanding that, okay. Well, you know,

1513
00:52:31,750 --> 00:52:33,910
it's a society. We have to sometimes give

1514
00:52:33,910 --> 00:52:35,750
on some areas and we have to have

1515
00:52:35,750 --> 00:52:37,269
lines that are hard lines that we're not

1516
00:52:37,269 --> 00:52:39,050
willing to cross. Yeah. You know,

1517
00:52:39,430 --> 00:52:41,430
for Christians, for us, you know, we, Brian

1518
00:52:41,430 --> 00:52:43,910
mentioned abortion earlier. That's a hard line for

1519
00:52:43,910 --> 00:52:44,570
us that

1520
00:52:44,950 --> 00:52:48,045
you cannot have this unrestricted access to just

1521
00:52:48,045 --> 00:52:50,144
ending the life of another human being.

1522
00:52:50,445 --> 00:52:52,784
I mean, look, I get that sometimes

1523
00:52:53,405 --> 00:52:56,284
there are things that happen that that are

1524
00:52:56,284 --> 00:52:58,764
out of everybody's control and things, you know,

1525
00:52:58,764 --> 00:53:00,764
medical procedures may not go the way we

1526
00:53:00,764 --> 00:53:02,545
want them to go and things happen.

1527
00:53:02,930 --> 00:53:04,450
That's not the same thing. And that's not

1528
00:53:04,450 --> 00:53:06,530
what we're talking about. We're talking about somebody

1529
00:53:06,530 --> 00:53:09,510
making a choice to end another life with

1530
00:53:09,570 --> 00:53:12,050
zero thought of the consequence of it. But

1531
00:53:12,050 --> 00:53:14,930
I will never forget in 2016 when Donald

1532
00:53:14,930 --> 00:53:16,550
Trump got elected the first time,

1533
00:53:17,090 --> 00:53:19,094
I was reading a study a few years

1534
00:53:19,094 --> 00:53:19,594
later

1535
00:53:20,054 --> 00:53:20,554
about

1536
00:53:20,855 --> 00:53:23,275
college students that were literally

1537
00:53:23,974 --> 00:53:24,474
going

1538
00:53:25,335 --> 00:53:27,974
to doctors, and they were treating them for

1539
00:53:27,974 --> 00:53:28,474
PTSD

1540
00:53:29,494 --> 00:53:31,655
because of their reaction to it, and I'm

1541
00:53:31,655 --> 00:53:32,155
like,

1542
00:53:32,909 --> 00:53:34,349
goodness it's an elect

1543
00:53:34,750 --> 00:53:35,889
it's four years,

1544
00:53:36,750 --> 00:53:39,309
eight years at most, and then you get

1545
00:53:39,309 --> 00:53:40,750
a chance to vote for who you want

1546
00:53:40,750 --> 00:53:43,630
again. And these people were falling apart. That

1547
00:53:43,630 --> 00:53:46,690
is what fear does to you. It literally

1548
00:53:46,829 --> 00:53:47,329
can

1549
00:53:47,875 --> 00:53:49,954
completely cause you to be disabled. And you

1550
00:53:49,954 --> 00:53:51,655
hear these these extreme

1551
00:53:52,114 --> 00:53:52,614
ridiculous

1552
00:53:52,994 --> 00:53:55,795
things like that and look don't get me

1553
00:53:55,795 --> 00:53:58,195
wrong don't throw you know don't throw tomatoes

1554
00:53:58,195 --> 00:54:00,369
at me but but because I know I

1555
00:54:00,369 --> 00:54:03,090
know that there's real there's real anxiety in

1556
00:54:03,090 --> 00:54:05,570
there and there's and there's and and there's

1557
00:54:05,570 --> 00:54:09,170
real, you know, conditions of, of anxiety and

1558
00:54:09,170 --> 00:54:10,929
depression and things like that. I'm not talking

1559
00:54:10,929 --> 00:54:11,505
about that,

1560
00:54:12,144 --> 00:54:14,144
but I'm just gonna be honest with you.

1561
00:54:14,144 --> 00:54:16,144
The biggest problem we got is we live

1562
00:54:16,144 --> 00:54:17,844
in a panty waste society,

1563
00:54:18,384 --> 00:54:20,304
a bunch of men who don't know or

1564
00:54:20,384 --> 00:54:22,625
Yes. Who who wanna be little girls that

1565
00:54:22,625 --> 00:54:24,224
don't know what it is to be a

1566
00:54:24,224 --> 00:54:24,724
man,

1567
00:54:25,099 --> 00:54:27,659
and that is the biggest problem. I mean,

1568
00:54:27,659 --> 00:54:30,059
pull your britches up, buddy. Put your belt

1569
00:54:30,059 --> 00:54:31,739
on and get out there and be a

1570
00:54:31,739 --> 00:54:34,460
man. Gird your lawn. Gird your lawns. My

1571
00:54:34,460 --> 00:54:34,960
god.

1572
00:54:37,514 --> 00:54:39,434
But, yeah, you're right, man. There there are

1573
00:54:39,434 --> 00:54:42,315
physical conditions and and Sure. Mental imbalances and

1574
00:54:42,315 --> 00:54:44,074
things that people have that. Yeah. But the

1575
00:54:44,074 --> 00:54:45,594
buy and large, man, it is just a

1576
00:54:45,594 --> 00:54:47,275
lack of faith. It is. We just don't

1577
00:54:47,275 --> 00:54:49,034
have faith in God. It is like Yeah.

1578
00:54:49,114 --> 00:54:50,974
Psalm 27, David says,

1579
00:54:51,609 --> 00:54:53,710
the Lord is my light and my salvation.

1580
00:54:53,769 --> 00:54:54,989
Whom shall I fear?

1581
00:54:55,289 --> 00:54:57,130
The Lord is the defense of my life.

1582
00:54:57,130 --> 00:54:59,130
Whom shall I dread? Yeah. Yeah. Right? And

1583
00:54:59,130 --> 00:55:00,730
he finishes that up and said, wait for

1584
00:55:00,730 --> 00:55:02,570
the Lord. Be strong and let your heart

1585
00:55:02,570 --> 00:55:04,589
take courage. Yes. Wait for the Lord.

1586
00:55:05,130 --> 00:55:07,355
And we we gotta get over this fear

1587
00:55:07,355 --> 00:55:09,914
stuff and start realizing that God is real.

1588
00:55:09,914 --> 00:55:11,755
He's real in our hearts. Look around and

1589
00:55:11,755 --> 00:55:13,594
look behind you at the things he's done

1590
00:55:13,594 --> 00:55:15,994
in your life already. Yeah. And trust him.

1591
00:55:15,994 --> 00:55:18,394
That's right. Out loud. That's right. Step out.

1592
00:55:18,394 --> 00:55:19,914
Get out of the boat. Right? I see

1593
00:55:19,914 --> 00:55:22,554
it, man. I mean, don't don't knock Peter

1594
00:55:22,554 --> 00:55:25,190
for for No. For sinking because

1595
00:55:25,650 --> 00:55:27,170
you hadn't even got out of the boat

1596
00:55:27,170 --> 00:55:29,489
yet, man. You can't sink because you're still

1597
00:55:29,489 --> 00:55:30,309
on the shore.

1598
00:55:31,010 --> 00:55:32,849
Yeah. Gripping the Yeah. Rail of it. Right?

1599
00:55:32,849 --> 00:55:34,289
Yeah. We ain't gotten a boat. Most of

1600
00:55:34,289 --> 00:55:35,889
them ain't even gotten a boat yet. Yeah.

1601
00:55:35,889 --> 00:55:37,945
And Peter looked out and he said, oh,

1602
00:55:37,945 --> 00:55:40,184
that's dear, Lord. And bam, he went out

1603
00:55:40,184 --> 00:55:41,704
there to him and he took his eyes

1604
00:55:41,704 --> 00:55:43,304
off of him from it. Like a lot

1605
00:55:43,304 --> 00:55:45,065
of us do and he sunk. But guess

1606
00:55:45,065 --> 00:55:46,664
what God done? He brought him back up,

1607
00:55:46,664 --> 00:55:48,744
didn't he? I mean, I mean, you you

1608
00:55:48,744 --> 00:55:50,764
look at that story and you know

1609
00:55:51,389 --> 00:55:52,849
that was the early version

1610
00:55:53,869 --> 00:55:56,829
of the cartoon character running off a cliff

1611
00:55:56,829 --> 00:55:59,069
because Peter takes off going and he's just

1612
00:55:59,069 --> 00:56:00,530
going. Yeah. And then, foop.

1613
00:56:00,909 --> 00:56:02,670
And and you know the other disciples are

1614
00:56:02,670 --> 00:56:04,369
sitting there seeing this going, wait.

1615
00:56:05,144 --> 00:56:06,985
What just that? He's just taking off across

1616
00:56:06,985 --> 00:56:08,824
that water like it's solid ground. What's going

1617
00:56:08,824 --> 00:56:10,505
on? And then Peter looks up and whoop.

1618
00:56:10,505 --> 00:56:11,405
There he goes.

1619
00:56:12,344 --> 00:56:14,824
Yeah. You start thinking about what you're doing.

1620
00:56:14,824 --> 00:56:16,905
That's what happens. Right? Exactly. I mean I

1621
00:56:16,905 --> 00:56:19,224
mean God called him and he he had

1622
00:56:19,224 --> 00:56:21,069
he had no thought. It was like wreck

1623
00:56:21,230 --> 00:56:23,469
reckless abandonment. You know? Yeah. He he was

1624
00:56:23,469 --> 00:56:25,789
just like I'm not worried about this. I'm

1625
00:56:25,789 --> 00:56:27,309
getting out of this boat. I wanna see

1626
00:56:27,309 --> 00:56:29,309
my Jesus. You know? I'm gonna go too.

1627
00:56:29,309 --> 00:56:31,150
And then when he started getting out there

1628
00:56:31,150 --> 00:56:33,010
closer to me, it's like wait a minute.

1629
00:56:34,275 --> 00:56:37,155
I'm walking on water. Woah, what's this man?

1630
00:56:37,155 --> 00:56:37,655
What?

1631
00:56:38,914 --> 00:56:41,494
And he started humanizing it, and he started,

1632
00:56:41,635 --> 00:56:42,295
he started,

1633
00:56:42,835 --> 00:56:45,554
you know, trusting in his own power instead

1634
00:56:45,554 --> 00:56:46,855
of the power of Christ.

1635
00:56:47,315 --> 00:56:49,239
And that's, man, that's how we do these

1636
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:52,119
things. Gosh. That's that's how these missionaries when

1637
00:56:52,119 --> 00:56:53,579
we read about these missionaries

1638
00:56:55,159 --> 00:56:56,380
that that are,

1639
00:56:57,079 --> 00:56:59,319
beheaded for the cause of Christ and they're

1640
00:56:59,319 --> 00:57:02,195
lining them up down through there and

1641
00:57:02,575 --> 00:57:05,615
and, and then they're they're sticking bags over

1642
00:57:05,615 --> 00:57:07,155
their head and they're singing

1643
00:57:07,615 --> 00:57:09,715
praises to God to, I mean,

1644
00:57:10,095 --> 00:57:11,934
to the very end of their life until

1645
00:57:11,934 --> 00:57:14,434
their head, some of their head sawed off,

1646
00:57:14,494 --> 00:57:17,019
not just chopped off, but sawed off, and

1647
00:57:17,019 --> 00:57:19,179
they just keep singing and it makes, oh

1648
00:57:19,179 --> 00:57:21,339
man, it makes Satan mad, it makes his

1649
00:57:21,339 --> 00:57:22,400
followers mad.

1650
00:57:22,940 --> 00:57:25,339
But they're able to do this because they're

1651
00:57:25,339 --> 00:57:27,579
not thinking about themselves. They're not thinking about

1652
00:57:27,579 --> 00:57:29,684
what they're able to do. They're thinking, God,

1653
00:57:29,765 --> 00:57:31,445
call me to this, and I know where

1654
00:57:31,445 --> 00:57:33,684
I'm going. If my head comes off, my

1655
00:57:33,684 --> 00:57:35,684
head comes off. I'm going home. That's right.

1656
00:57:35,684 --> 00:57:37,445
They they set their mind on things above

1657
00:57:37,445 --> 00:57:39,204
and beneath the earth. They know they're dead

1658
00:57:39,204 --> 00:57:41,605
here. That's it. That's it. They they they

1659
00:57:41,765 --> 00:57:45,010
Yeah. Their possessions here don't mean anything to

1660
00:57:45,010 --> 00:57:47,730
them. Their their their their cars and their

1661
00:57:47,730 --> 00:57:49,569
houses, and then they gave all that up.

1662
00:57:49,569 --> 00:57:51,329
They said, god, I'll go wherever you want

1663
00:57:51,329 --> 00:57:53,349
me to go. We're leaving this world naked

1664
00:57:53,409 --> 00:57:54,769
just like we came in and And see

1665
00:57:54,769 --> 00:57:56,690
it. Yet. And here's another thing that that

1666
00:57:56,690 --> 00:57:58,150
has that's been on my heart.

1667
00:57:58,609 --> 00:57:59,864
One of these days, every one of us

1668
00:57:59,864 --> 00:58:01,625
is gonna stand in front of Jesus naked

1669
00:58:01,625 --> 00:58:03,784
and get judged. Yeah. We got nowhere to

1670
00:58:03,784 --> 00:58:06,264
hide. Nothing to hide. That's right. Everything's gonna

1671
00:58:06,264 --> 00:58:08,664
be visible. That's right. It better be ready.

1672
00:58:08,664 --> 00:58:10,264
Amen. That's it. For y'all to have some

1673
00:58:10,264 --> 00:58:12,344
fear. And it says that all things will

1674
00:58:12,344 --> 00:58:14,505
be made known. Everything you've done. Whether in

1675
00:58:14,505 --> 00:58:16,230
secret. Yeah. Whether in

1676
00:58:16,550 --> 00:58:18,550
anything you said publicly, anything you Think about

1677
00:58:18,550 --> 00:58:20,250
how embarrassing that's gonna be.

1678
00:58:20,550 --> 00:58:22,230
And and who? But you which I think

1679
00:58:22,230 --> 00:58:25,190
our our our judgment is gonna be for

1680
00:58:25,190 --> 00:58:27,429
the biggest thing, it's gonna be on on

1681
00:58:27,429 --> 00:58:30,144
what we haven't done. Yes. Yeah. I mean,

1682
00:58:30,144 --> 00:58:31,744
what you know, I called you to do

1683
00:58:31,744 --> 00:58:33,505
this, but you didn't. But that fear got

1684
00:58:33,505 --> 00:58:35,025
in the way, dude. It got in the

1685
00:58:35,025 --> 00:58:36,625
way, and it kept me from going. It

1686
00:58:36,625 --> 00:58:38,304
kept me from being and look, guys, I've

1687
00:58:38,304 --> 00:58:40,464
been there before myself. I've done it. You

1688
00:58:40,464 --> 00:58:41,344
know? I've I've

1689
00:58:41,944 --> 00:58:44,639
I have I have stepped back when he

1690
00:58:44,639 --> 00:58:46,880
said step out, you know? I've done it,

1691
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:48,960
but I mean, I I don't wanna be

1692
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:50,960
that way. I don't want that to be

1693
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:52,799
my Christian life. I don't want that to

1694
00:58:52,799 --> 00:58:55,280
be the legacy that I leave behind for

1695
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:57,599
my for my kids and my grandkids. I

1696
00:58:57,599 --> 00:59:00,184
want to say, when God called, dad answered.

1697
00:59:00,184 --> 00:59:03,065
You know, when God called, granddaddy answered. I

1698
00:59:03,065 --> 00:59:04,765
want them to see that

1699
00:59:05,385 --> 00:59:07,224
in me. Not that I'd be lifted up,

1700
00:59:07,224 --> 00:59:08,744
but to see why I'd done it. I'd

1701
00:59:08,744 --> 00:59:10,425
done it through the power of God. I'd

1702
00:59:10,425 --> 00:59:12,530
done it because he is worthy,

1703
00:59:12,829 --> 00:59:14,670
and this world is not my home, and

1704
00:59:14,670 --> 00:59:17,390
I'm just a stranger and a pilgrim passing

1705
00:59:17,390 --> 00:59:20,510
through. I'm not, you know, I'm not I'm

1706
00:59:20,510 --> 00:59:22,449
not anything I gain here

1707
00:59:23,565 --> 00:59:26,684
is is is lost. Right. You're your legacy

1708
00:59:26,684 --> 00:59:28,204
one day in eternity is gonna be, you

1709
00:59:28,204 --> 00:59:29,885
know, people looking at your life and saying,

1710
00:59:29,885 --> 00:59:31,724
man, he did that. Yeah. He did that.

1711
00:59:31,724 --> 00:59:33,405
He did that. Right. And and you're gonna

1712
00:59:33,405 --> 00:59:34,844
go, man, I didn't do any of that.

1713
00:59:34,844 --> 00:59:36,605
No. God did that through me. He did

1714
00:59:36,605 --> 00:59:39,349
that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just let him.

1715
00:59:39,349 --> 00:59:41,210
I see it. I see it. And

1716
00:59:41,590 --> 00:59:43,910
that's what God wants from every single one

1717
00:59:43,910 --> 00:59:45,610
of you. Every single one of you that

1718
00:59:45,829 --> 00:59:48,789
are listening and leading your homes and your

1719
00:59:48,789 --> 00:59:49,289
families.

1720
00:59:50,304 --> 00:59:52,864
We need a generation of men and women

1721
00:59:52,864 --> 00:59:55,505
of God and children of God who are

1722
00:59:55,505 --> 00:59:56,324
not afraid.

1723
00:59:57,025 --> 00:59:59,344
Not afraid to answer the calling. Not afraid

1724
00:59:59,344 --> 01:00:01,505
to step out of the boat when he

1725
01:00:01,505 --> 01:00:03,744
says step out of the boat. Not afraid

1726
01:00:03,744 --> 01:00:04,960
to sometimes,

1727
01:00:05,260 --> 01:00:05,920
you know,

1728
01:00:06,539 --> 01:00:08,380
sometimes you have to cut down the army

1729
01:00:08,380 --> 01:00:10,059
a little bit to show that God's got

1730
01:00:10,059 --> 01:00:12,299
the power if we don't, you know, to

1731
01:00:12,299 --> 01:00:14,460
step out into battle and say, well, God,

1732
01:00:14,460 --> 01:00:16,299
I can't do this by myself. Yes, you

1733
01:00:16,299 --> 01:00:18,699
can. With me, you can. God, you don't

1734
01:00:18,699 --> 01:00:20,804
need but God, I need I need I

1735
01:00:20,804 --> 01:00:22,644
need somebody else. I need to go get

1736
01:00:22,644 --> 01:00:24,484
my preacher. No. I'm telling you to do

1737
01:00:24,484 --> 01:00:25,764
this. Well, God, I need to go get

1738
01:00:25,764 --> 01:00:27,364
my deacon. I need to go get my

1739
01:00:27,364 --> 01:00:30,324
dad. You know? No. I'm calling you to

1740
01:00:30,324 --> 01:00:33,525
do this. You step out and and and

1741
01:00:33,525 --> 01:00:34,824
I'll equip you.

1742
01:00:35,139 --> 01:00:37,139
And then when I do, you won't get

1743
01:00:37,139 --> 01:00:39,480
the victory, I'll get the victory. Yeah. Amen.

1744
01:00:39,539 --> 01:00:41,539
Amen. And here here, I love this man.

1745
01:00:41,539 --> 01:00:43,539
It's in Romans eight. Romans eight is just,

1746
01:00:43,940 --> 01:00:45,859
it's awesome. It's so much so encouraging. He

1747
01:00:45,859 --> 01:00:47,594
says, what what then shall we say to

1748
01:00:47,594 --> 01:00:49,594
these things? If God is for us, who

1749
01:00:49,594 --> 01:00:51,914
is against us? Amen. He who did not

1750
01:00:51,914 --> 01:00:53,914
spare his own son but delivered him over

1751
01:00:53,914 --> 01:00:56,074
for us all, how will he not also

1752
01:00:56,074 --> 01:00:58,715
with him freely give us all things? Yeah.

1753
01:00:58,715 --> 01:01:00,690
Who will bring a charge against God's elect?

1754
01:01:00,769 --> 01:01:02,230
God is the one who justifies.

1755
01:01:02,609 --> 01:01:03,829
Who is the one who condemns?

1756
01:01:04,130 --> 01:01:06,449
Christ Jesus is he who died. Yes. Rather

1757
01:01:06,449 --> 01:01:08,050
who was raised, who is at the right

1758
01:01:08,050 --> 01:01:10,469
hand of god, who also intercedes for us.

1759
01:01:10,609 --> 01:01:12,530
Who will separate us from the love of

1760
01:01:12,530 --> 01:01:15,284
Christ? Will tribulation or distress or persecution or

1761
01:01:15,284 --> 01:01:18,085
famine or nakedness or peril or sword? Yeah.

1762
01:01:18,085 --> 01:01:18,824
Ain't nothing.

1763
01:01:19,125 --> 01:01:20,744
None of those things.

1764
01:01:23,684 --> 01:01:25,204
I love And I I think of that

1765
01:01:25,204 --> 01:01:27,605
fear that we have, and I go back

1766
01:01:27,605 --> 01:01:28,964
always to the story of,

1767
01:01:29,525 --> 01:01:30,025
Gideon.

1768
01:01:30,719 --> 01:01:32,320
You know, and he goes and, and God

1769
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:33,360
says, Hey, you're going to go out and

1770
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:35,360
defeat this army. And then he shows up

1771
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:36,800
with his, you know, with the, with the

1772
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:38,639
Israelites and he's like, okay, I've got everybody.

1773
01:01:38,639 --> 01:01:40,260
And God goes, Hey, you got too many.

1774
01:01:40,719 --> 01:01:42,554
You got too many. You got too many.

1775
01:01:42,714 --> 01:01:44,474
You got too many. And and Gideon's sitting

1776
01:01:44,474 --> 01:01:46,315
here thinking, okay, I'm starting to get a

1777
01:01:46,315 --> 01:01:47,054
little nervous.

1778
01:01:47,675 --> 01:01:49,194
And and there was a couple of things

1779
01:01:49,194 --> 01:01:52,255
that were hap happening during that story. One,

1780
01:01:52,554 --> 01:01:54,635
God, yes, he was he was whittling down

1781
01:01:54,635 --> 01:01:55,994
the army so that he would get the

1782
01:01:55,994 --> 01:01:57,534
glory for the for the victory.

1783
01:01:57,960 --> 01:01:59,639
But the other thing that was going on

1784
01:01:59,639 --> 01:02:01,000
was he was getting rid of the people

1785
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:02,760
who were fearful in the first place. Yeah.

1786
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:04,840
Yes. He wanted the people when when he

1787
01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:06,599
told them when he said he said, look,

1788
01:02:06,599 --> 01:02:09,480
the ones who are are kneeling down and

1789
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:11,260
taking their time and their

1790
01:02:11,585 --> 01:02:13,444
and and getting them a drink of water.

1791
01:02:13,904 --> 01:02:15,824
He said get rid of them. We don't

1792
01:02:15,824 --> 01:02:17,505
need them. He said the ones that are

1793
01:02:17,505 --> 01:02:19,184
over there throwing water in their mouth and

1794
01:02:19,184 --> 01:02:20,944
lapping it up because they're ready to go.

1795
01:02:20,944 --> 01:02:22,784
He said that's the ones I want. He

1796
01:02:22,784 --> 01:02:24,864
said they're ready to do something. They're not

1797
01:02:24,864 --> 01:02:27,500
lazy. They're not they're not fearful. Because those

1798
01:02:27,500 --> 01:02:29,440
guys are over there like, maybe,

1799
01:02:30,460 --> 01:02:32,619
maybe if I spend enough time at the

1800
01:02:32,619 --> 01:02:34,699
water fountain, you know, I won't have to

1801
01:02:34,699 --> 01:02:35,839
do anything today.

1802
01:02:36,139 --> 01:02:37,659
These are the guys that hang out in

1803
01:02:37,659 --> 01:02:38,880
the bathroom stall

1804
01:02:39,179 --> 01:02:41,099
two hours a day, you know, in water,

1805
01:02:41,099 --> 01:02:43,085
right? So they don't have to do anything.

1806
01:02:43,085 --> 01:02:44,525
Yeah. I said I don't need them. I

1807
01:02:44,525 --> 01:02:46,204
want the guy who's ready to go, who's

1808
01:02:46,204 --> 01:02:48,284
ready to work, who's ready to who's ready

1809
01:02:48,284 --> 01:02:50,204
to to take on hell with a water

1810
01:02:50,204 --> 01:02:52,764
pistol. That's who I want. Yeah. And before

1811
01:02:52,764 --> 01:02:55,500
that he told everybody don't wanna come. Just

1812
01:02:55,500 --> 01:02:57,739
go home. Just go home. Yeah. Yeah. And

1813
01:02:57,739 --> 01:03:00,000
they're like Yeah. Poof. Okay.

1814
01:03:02,300 --> 01:03:04,780
Yeah. It's amazing. They all showed up and

1815
01:03:04,780 --> 01:03:05,900
then he says, well, you know, if you

1816
01:03:05,900 --> 01:03:07,340
really don't wanna be here and they're like,

1817
01:03:07,340 --> 01:03:09,585
I'm not gonna stop. I mean And what

1818
01:03:09,585 --> 01:03:12,405
he'd done is he ended up excuse me.

1819
01:03:13,264 --> 01:03:14,644
He ended up defeating

1820
01:03:15,664 --> 01:03:16,405
the enemy

1821
01:03:17,344 --> 01:03:19,744
with fear, but the fear of God. That's

1822
01:03:19,744 --> 01:03:21,505
right. Yes. That's right. I mean, he did.

1823
01:03:21,505 --> 01:03:22,920
I mean, they he They were killing each

1824
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:24,359
other once. Yeah. They were they were in

1825
01:03:24,359 --> 01:03:26,440
there killing each other. And and the night

1826
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:29,019
before they went in there and and attacked,

1827
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:31,159
God had it all set up because he

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gave them a dream. Right? And they had

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this dream of Yeah. Like

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barley rolling into their tents and killing everybody

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and knocking a tent. They're like,

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really bread?

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I'm like, god's going to defeat you with

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bread?

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But they were scared to death. So you

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know that thing and and and Gideon's like,

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you just tell them the sword of Gideon,

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you know, and the light of the Lord.

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And then, man, they bust those they bust

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those gourds open and and the light's shining,

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and those guys are like,

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what do we do now? You know? Yeah.

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They they they think there's there's thousands and

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thousands and thousands of them, and they start

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killing each other. 300. Yeah. Yeah. Three yeah.

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I was gonna say, yeah. Just 300 little

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guys. I mean I mean, the power of

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God is the fear of the enemy. Right?

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I mean, that's right. It puts it puts

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fear and confusion in the enemy's hearts. That's

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right. And remember, remember that. Remember, remember that

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every day.

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The enemy that we're fighting is not flesh

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and blood. It is not

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the the people that disagree with us. It's

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not the people that are coming against us.

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They're not the actual enemy. You got to

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remember they are being led

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by someone else, and that someone else is

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Satan, and he's constantly

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driving them and pushing them to come against

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us. But God's already won this fight. We've

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got nothing to fear. Connections, we've got got

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nothing to worry about. Can I say one

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more thing too? I don't know if I

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brought this up a few weeks ago, but

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I I I preached that message at at,

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at brother Tyler's church just a few weeks

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ago. But,

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one of one of the things that God

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pointed out

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out to me in in that whole story

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of Gideon, and I've preached it a hundred

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times, but

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I I I

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something that that God just showed me in

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that story

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is that, do I wanna be

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the guy that said, yeah, man.

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I was almost in that battle.

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I was almost in that fight. I was

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almost there. I mean, yeah, I went home.

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Yeah. Gideon sent me home, but I was

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almost in it. You know, I was there

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that day. The the day before they went

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into battle that yeah. I I was there.

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Or do I wanna be the guy that

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says you should've seen it?

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I mean, we come in there and I

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didn't have to do anything and, man, they

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01:05:36,784 --> 01:05:38,704
were killing each other and there was blood

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going everywhere and and and and then, man,

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they wasn't a sword touch me or a

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01:05:42,945 --> 01:05:45,320
spear touched me or or anything. I mean,

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they was it was incredible,

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and then it was like the the enemy

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was just wiped out. You know? Do you

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want to be the guy

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that hears the story,

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or you do wanna be the guy who

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tells the story? Yeah. You know, that's the

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01:06:00,054 --> 01:06:02,775
difference in in in Christians who who are

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01:06:02,775 --> 01:06:04,155
in the battle. I mean, because

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01:06:04,695 --> 01:06:06,214
we we hear all the time, you go

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01:06:06,214 --> 01:06:08,074
to these you go to these men's conferences

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and you go to these,

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01:06:09,500 --> 01:06:11,579
you know, you get these these, these great

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preachers for revival and different things like that.

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And and and you get these missionaries that

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come and talk to you, and they're telling

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01:06:17,579 --> 01:06:19,659
you these stories. And I mean, I've been

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enamored before, like, woah. You know, I'm sitting

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on the edge of my seat. Like, I

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wanna hear more about this, and they're telling

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you these stories of, you know, how they

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got close to death and all these things.

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And and and yet we're just like,

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Kyle, that was a good story. Yeah. Awesome,

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man. What kind of story have I got?

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You want you want some money? Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. What kind of story have I

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got? You know? Yeah. Can I and and

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it doesn't have to be that it's that

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spectacular, but but

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have you got any stories of leading anybody

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to Jesus lately? Yeah. Have you told anybody

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about him? Have you have you have you

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stepped out on

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faith and left fear behind

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and told your coworker about Jesus or or

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told your your wife or your children or

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01:07:01,304 --> 01:07:02,684
your husband about Jesus?

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What have you done lately that you could

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tell a story?

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Hey. I witnessed to my husband husband

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the other day and he he was gloriously

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saved by the power of God. You know?

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I mean Yeah. Yeah. There's a guy in

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my Sunday school class who who who shared

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01:07:15,079 --> 01:07:16,920
with us a couple Sundays ago that he

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this there's a guy at work he'd been

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praying for for two or three years. Yeah.

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He said he just got saved. Amen.

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That's Isn't that wonderful? Spiritual warfare, man. Yes.

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Yeah. At its purest. Yeah. Amen.

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Amen.

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Alright. Well, I think we've,

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wound down for the evening, and we really

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appreciate everybody listening, and we look forward to

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next week. And just remember that, as we

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go out, we have nothing to fear and

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all we have to do decide is what

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to do with the time that has given

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us

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and make the most of it. God God

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gives us a short time on earth. Let's

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make the most of it. Spread the word.

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Tell people, Hey, stop being afraid. There's nothing

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to fear here. There's nothing to be afraid

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of. There's a promise of something so much

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better on the other side. Yeah. Amen.

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Brother Dennis,

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we pray this out tonight. Yes, sir. Father

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in heaven, thank you so much for your

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01:08:05,519 --> 01:08:07,759
salvation that you've given to us. Father, as

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a gift as a gift, father, help us.

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Help us to stay focused on you that

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we would wouldn't be focused on this world

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01:08:13,839 --> 01:08:15,519
and the fear that's all around us, the

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01:08:15,519 --> 01:08:18,654
fear that grips our hearts sometimes. And to

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01:08:18,795 --> 01:08:20,555
to to look to you and understand that

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this is not all there is, that that

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there's so much more for eternity

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coming, that we don't need to be fear

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fearing for those who can kill the body,

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01:08:29,354 --> 01:08:30,734
but fearing you.

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Father, you are our good father, and we

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have a fear and respect for you, but

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we have passed away from that fear of

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slavery into a fear of a father

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who loves us. Father, I pray for everyone

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01:08:42,689 --> 01:08:44,689
listening, that they would understand that there is

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01:08:44,689 --> 01:08:46,610
no need to fear, that this life is

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01:08:46,610 --> 01:08:48,425
not all there is, that this is so

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01:08:48,425 --> 01:08:48,925
temporary,

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that they would have that joy and that

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peace that you only you can give, the

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peace that passes all understanding. Father, I pray

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01:08:55,145 --> 01:08:57,224
for for my brothers here in this room,

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that we would be bolder in our faith

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and and and just,

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fight in this battle that you'd have us

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fight. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.

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Special thank you to Carter Pridmore,

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Brian Harris, Waverly Henderson, Tatum Harris Spears, and

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Ching Josie Partain for our theme song, Truth

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Set Me Free.

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I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio.

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We hope you can join us live next

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Monday at 6PM central. Thank you for listening.

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In my darkest eye.

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I traded my black heart for joy, for

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something real, something with power.

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Truth set

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me free.

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01:09:41,210 --> 01:09:41,710
Truth

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All of truth

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set

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me free.