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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 I I wandered.

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I was running from the sun.

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But truth found me there.

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It was in my darkest eye.

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I traded my black heart

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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

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time. And welcome back this week.

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Glad to have everyone with us and actually

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getting started a little early tonight. That's kinda

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awesome.

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We have a special guest with us tonight.

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So we'll be introducing them here in just

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a second. Brother Dennis, how are we doing

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this week? Doing good. So far, so good.

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Awesome. Looking for looking looking for a good

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steady week. Hey. I like those. Yeah. How

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about you, brother Brian? You doing alright tonight?

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I'm doing great. Doing good.

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Of course,

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I don't know if I mentioned I got

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a grandbaby now. I mean Did you really?

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Wow. I did not know that. I don't

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know. That's that's not I don't know if

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I brought that up or not but,

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yeah, she went to the doctor today. She

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had

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what Tatum thought was the sniffles for the

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last several days but, everything's she said everything's

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perfect. She's gained,

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about a

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almost a pound. Oh that's good. Since she's

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been home so yeah so praise the lord

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for that. She's at five four now so

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yeah. Awesome. Yeah. And tonight special guest we

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have Carter Pridmore. He's he's the one that

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threw together the song for us, him and

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brother Brian

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and several others. We acknowledge him at the

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end on the the outro and

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really nice to have you with us. How

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you doing tonight, brother? Good to be here.

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Doing good, doing good. Day off work so

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lazy day. It was nice. Oh, that's very

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nice. Yeah. Banks are closed on president. Oh,

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that's right. That's right. I I forget about

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that.

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Yeah. So good day. Yeah. Slipped in late.

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Had a youth outing last night. Took

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29 people to Topgolf, and so Wow.

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bombarded Topgolf and Krispy Kreme afterwards

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and got home

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super late. So, yeah, slipped in today. It

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was nice. That's good. Oh, those are always

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the best days.

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As we get started tonight I always like

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to lead off with a fun

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social media

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insanity for the week and I think this

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week it has to be the thing that

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absolutely topped the list.

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We have a new law that's going through

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Congress right now. It's called the Safe Act

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where they're basically requiring you to prove that

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you're a citizen so you can vote. And,

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some people have decided that, this is gonna

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prevent about seventy million women from being able

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to vote because, you know, they can't prove

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their citizenship once you get married and your

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name doesn't match your birth certificate.

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I'm not joking. That is actually an argument

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I have seen put forward by about two

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or 300 different people on

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social media this week, and I'm like, they

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they they don't understand how,

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passports work.

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So that was that was absolutely hilarious, and,

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yeah, we just just just can't help but

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laugh at it. I do encourage you if

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you're gonna make up something to be upset

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about,

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please make sure you don't take a picture

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of the pile of cardboard that you're standing

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on and claiming it's a mountain because it

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makes it really easy for people to point

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and laugh at you. Yeah.

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So this week,

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I think we have some songs from Carter

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and I think we're gonna get talked to

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him about you work with the youth over

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at your church. Yes, yes sure do. Relatively

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new thing, took a position as youth pastor

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or director of students, whatever you want to

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call it, over at

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Calvary Baptist in Scottsboro.

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And so that's been right before New Year's.

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things are going well. And so that's a

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new chapter of life that we're we're really

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excited about. Amen. Awesome. Amen. Yeah. Awesome. So

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so Carter's my son-in-law

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and

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proud of him.

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Thankful for for he and Summer and

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watching them grow in in ministry and

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and and grow together

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in life and it's just been

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it's been a pleasure, and I'm so thankful

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for them. And so, yeah, I wanted to

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want to get him on here, brag on

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him just a little bit. But,

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but man, he's a he's a talented musician,

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and, he's got a great heart for the

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Lord. And,

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I mean, I'll publicly say I appreciate you

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and I love you, Carter. Love you too.

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Yes sir. Thank you, sir.

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Well I guess we'll just kick it off

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with a song. I'm excited to hear you

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sing.

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I've

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carried

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to bear it along.

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I hear your invitation

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to let it all go.

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Yeah, I see it now.

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I'm laying it down.

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And I know that I

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need

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you.

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I run to the father.

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I fall into Greg's.

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I'm done with hiding.

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No reason to wait.

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My heart needs a surgeon.

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My soul needs a friend.

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So I run to the father

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again and again and

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again and again

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You saw my condition.

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I had a plan from the start

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Your son for redemption

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A price for my heart

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And I don't have the context

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for that kind of love.

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I don't understand.

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I can't comprehend.

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All I know is I

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need you.

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Run to the Father,

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fall into grace.

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I'm done with hiding.

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No reason to wait.

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My heart needs a surgeon.

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My soul needs a friend.

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So I'm to the father

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again

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and again and again and again.

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My heart has been in

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your

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my first

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breath

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running into

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your arms.

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It's running to life

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death.

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And I get this rush

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deep in my chest.

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His mercy

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is calling

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Again and again.

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Again and again.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Yeah. Amen. That's powerful. Amen. That's powerful. I

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love I love,

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this this thought. The last few years

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has, really I've just been focused on God

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as my father, you know, as a father

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myself and and as the son of a

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father. Yeah.

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That's the same dynamic he wants from all

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of us as believers is is that that

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close relationship

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as a father to a son. Yeah. Yeah.

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It's just a powerful, powerful image. Amen. Amen.

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I love how it says,

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not only is his father, but I found

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a surgeon. I found a friend.

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He's a he's a great physician. Right? He's

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he's, he's a friend that sits closer than

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a brother. He's all those things to us

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and man, what a good good father he

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is. Amen. And he does it over and

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over and over and over again. I love

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that that that reminder that it's a continuous

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thing. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Amen. Good song. Cody

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Carnes is the man. He got some good

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so yeah, I I asked Carter to come

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tonight and and I told him, so we're

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just gonna talk about, you know, let you

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sing some.

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where he's come from and where he's got

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to now

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and, and talk about youth ministry.

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youth ministry before and

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and and I've been right alongside our bless

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you.

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to Mountain View, and really

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with almost all of our youth pastors, we

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we've kinda stuck in there and went in

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there and went with with the youth different

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places and drove all over the the the

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at least The United States with them. And,

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it's rewarding,

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and, but you but you better you better

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get yourself ready. It's such an important ministry.

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It really is. To speak Jesus into the

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hearts of these young people that so desperately

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need it, especially in this day and age.

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and so many other things that are taking

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up their time and and the fight for

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their soul really is what it is. But

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but, Carter, tell us tell us about just

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kinda give us your testimony and where you

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come from, how you got here. Absolutely. So,

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grew up in a a Christian home and

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and, both my parents heavily involved in church,

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and they were some youth leaders in our

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church. And so,

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yeah, kinda had similar mindset there.

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testimony of

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got off in the world, and the Lord

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brought me back like you see all these

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other people. And at one point, that kinda

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bothered me, but

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my testimony has turned into a story of

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redemption in other ways, not not how I

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thought it would be. And,

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so grew up in church, announced about calling

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to preach early on.

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14, got saved a few years earlier, 11

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or 12, running there. And so me and

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my brother both got saved on the same

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day and accepted Christ into our hearts.

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had something to do with having a story

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about salvation, and

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he stood up and made the statement that

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if you don't have that story, there's no

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better day than today.

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there I am, white knuckle, grabbing the pew,

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you know, don't wanna stand up. Had no

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idea my brother's going through the same thing

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beside me. And,

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so eventually, I I see my my grandma

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come down from the, the choir loft,

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and she goes to pray. When she told

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me afterwards, she was praying for us, saw

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conviction on our faces.

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And anyways, so I nudged my brother and

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I said, Hey, let's go pray. And I

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just wanted him to pray for me, and

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I didn't know that he had the same

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thing going on. So we go to the

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other side of the altar and pray. And

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my pastor said he wanted to kick my

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family over there and say, Look, y'all don't

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understand what you're praying for is happening. Come

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surround them. And,

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anyway, so we accepted Christ together, and that

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was awesome. Tanner announced his calling to preach

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at 14. He's eleven months older than me.

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That's my brother.

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And,

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not far after that, I did the same

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thing and, felt the Lord, you know, move

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me in the middle of one of his

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his sermons. He was preaching about

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being lukewarm

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and

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what God says about that.

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And anyways, he got to talking about some

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people out there have a call into their

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life that they've not submitted to

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and that they should, and they should be

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a % in and not just fifty fifty.

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And so I

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felt the Lord call me into to ministry

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that way. Done music for a long time.

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So

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that kinda turned into a little bit of

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evangelism kinda stuff. And so preaching and singing

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locally and well all over the place wherever

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I can.

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Youth ministry happened later on, so you know

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fast forward ten years, I get married and

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I get used at the church for a

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whole lot of music stuff, and

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the previous church we were at, I never

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really felt the call to youth ministry there,

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and I'd like to think maybe it's it

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was the Lord's doings, but I got a

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text message one day asking,

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if I'd be interested in a position, and

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I knew that the Lord called me to

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preach. I need to be open to any

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kind of conversation, you know,

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and felt the pull and felt like the

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Lord was in it. And so just recently

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accepted,

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that position over at Calvary,

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and I'm loving it so far. Got thrown

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in the fire, kinda. We, got I got

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voted in, and the next week they went

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to extreme winter up in Gatlinburg. And so

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we were like, you know what? We'll take

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off and go with them. So there we

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are in Gatlinburg with a bunch of teenagers.

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And,

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anyways, so,

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yeah, I'm I'm enjoying it so far.

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I

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I'm trying to

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show them how the Lord's put a fire

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in me, and I want the same for

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them. Amen. I feel like there is

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a

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this idea

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from a lot of churches that, you know,

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the youth are the the the future, and

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absolutely they are. But who's to say that

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these teenagers can't be the church now?

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I've always said that. Yeah. Absolutely. And I've

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I've seen that firsthand where,

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the the church I was previously at, you

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know, the the youth got on fire about

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something, and,

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we we'd get up and not be afraid

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to worship and raise our hands.

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And once you got the youth brave enough

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to do something like that, it just sparked

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the rest of the church. And that's what

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I'm wanting, and that's what we're pushing for.

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And starting to see a little bit of

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it. I'm excited about it. Well, it it

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convicts

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a generation of people who have sometimes

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gotten a little bit lukewarm, you know, and

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and we've seen it we've seen it here

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at our church through the years, and,

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when you when you see a young man

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or young lady,

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humble themselves and just give in to what

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the lord wants them to do,

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man, god just he he uses that. He

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convicts parents. He convicts

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other people in the church, and you see

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that.

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So, yeah, I

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mean, youth ministry is it's it's so important,

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and I and I I have always said

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they're not the church of tomorrow. I mean,

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what are we doing by putting that out

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there? And I know that people don't mean

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anything by that Right. Statement. They don't.

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I mean, they they're saying it in an

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encouraging way, like you're gonna be the next

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preacher. You're gonna be the next, you know,

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deacon. You're gonna be the next Sunday school

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teacher. They're they're saying those things, and they've

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got there's well intentions behind them.

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But the problem

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is is is sometimes it it gives the

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the idea that there's there's nothing for them

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right now, but there is. All that'll happen

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later. Yeah, yeah. So so when you can

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when you can teach that to the youth

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and you can get that across to them

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that look,

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you're just as important and you have a

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place in the church now, just like you

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will twenty years from now,

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find that,

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grow in that, and and let the lord

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use that. Make yourself available. Absolutely. Yeah. One

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of the big things with youth that's so

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hard is helping them understand, no you do

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have a place

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today. Yeah. And while you'll have more responsibility

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as you get older, as you you become

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adults,

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There are other responsibilities that just by nature

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of your age you'll be taking on,

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you know, encouraging the youth to step up

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and do things

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while they're young.

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There's nothing more encouraging to adults sometimes than

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to see the youth out there worshiping and

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leading the worship and joining in with it

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and and being involved that way. Oh yeah.

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That is super encouraging. Yeah. Yeah. That I

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think a lot of times the younger folks

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they're they're not told that. That really is

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very encouraging to us. I think older Christians

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don't really understand the youth anymore, right? And

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they look at them and go why is

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he dressed like that? Or why is his

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hair like that? Or something like that. Yeah.

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But when they see him on fire for

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for Christ Yeah. They forget that stuff. It's

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all all wiped away. Yeah. And and of

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course, you do have some that's a little

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bit intimidating to them. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

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They get that hat off in the church,

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boy. Yeah. Well, it yeah.

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Or or you know, they're they're they're a

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little bit more on fire fire than I

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am, you know. Yeah.

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I heard this story,

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about this young man who who,

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had gotten saved,

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and just, man, he was on fire for

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the Lord.

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And, and he was just he was he

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was excited about church. He was excited about

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worship, and he just wanted to serve the

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Lord in any capacity that he that he

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could.

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And, and he was he was reading his

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Bible every day studying, personal study,

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you know praying

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and and one of the older men in

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the church came up to him and he

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said hey

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he said I believe the Lord's calling you

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to preach.

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And the young man said well why do

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you think that? And he goes well he

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said

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you love to testify. You you love to

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read your bible, and and you love to

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pray.

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And he said, I just thought everybody done

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that. You know? That's supposed to be normal.

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Right. How convicting is that? You know? Maybe

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God is calling him to pray, but you're

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not or calling him to preach, but you're

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not calling him to preach. Right? Right. Yeah.

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Yeah. And it should be it should be

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the norm in our churches today, but for

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some reason,

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in a lot of churches, it's not. And

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there's no,

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better time than right now. The exposure to

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all kinds of things that Yeah.

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That adults nowadays didn't get exposed to when

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they were younger. You know, I was preaching

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to the the youth. I started a a

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sermon series on the the sermon on the

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mount. And so my whole thing is, you

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know, there's so many lessons from the Bible

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and there's lessons I could teach you, but

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I'd rather Jesus teach it to you. And

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so we'll dig into the sermon on the

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mount and got to the part of adultery.

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And so, you know, that's it's teenagers in

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there and kind of rough subject. And so

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I messaged my pastor,

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and

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I said, You know, look, I don't mind

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skipping over this. What do you think? And

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he said, You'll be surprised at what all

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they know already, what all they're exposed to

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already. Rich the truth and give it to

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them. He said I asked him, I said,

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I could I can message the parents and

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let them know just in case there's issues

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or whatever. And he said, I think that

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they'll appreciate that, but you need to preach

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the truth. And,

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so

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I did and got to looking at facts

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and stuff and all the the things, like

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I said, they were exposed to. And,

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a study that I'd found from it was

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seven, eight years ago, so you know it's

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worse now, but it said 36%

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of the Internet's pornographic. And it said that

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one in five teenagers have sent or received

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a a sexually explicit,

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message or picture.

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And so you've got, you know, these teens

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in your youth that are being exposed to

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all this that need the truth, and they

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need somebody to pour into them. And there

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there's not a better time than than now

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to do that.

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Especially,

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in in the young men's lives and not

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only young men, but adult men, pornography is

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one of the hardest things Yeah. That young

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men and and and adults,

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adult men also

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have to overcome. Yeah. And,

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and you know, and and it's one of

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those things that nobody wants to talk about

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it. Nobody wants to say anything about it.

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And so

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it is something that you can be delivered

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from, right? I mean, it is, just like

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any other sin, just like any other thing.

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But but if we don't talk about it

547
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,480
and we sweep it under a rug somewhere

548
00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,119
or same thing with adultery or whatever it

549
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:41,619
is,

550
00:21:42,399 --> 00:21:44,654
then it's like, oh no. Yeah. That's a

551
00:21:44,654 --> 00:21:46,015
faux pas. We can't talk about it. It's

552
00:21:46,015 --> 00:21:47,934
like I think I think it's Pew Research

553
00:21:47,934 --> 00:21:49,934
maybe that said that it's, it's like maybe

554
00:21:49,934 --> 00:21:53,075
they're estimated about half of Christian pastors

555
00:21:53,855 --> 00:21:56,519
look at pornography. Yes. Oh man. Yeah. It's

556
00:21:56,519 --> 00:21:59,000
it's ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah. It is. Well and

557
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,640
it's gotten to that point partly because we've

558
00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,440
spent, you know, forty, fifty years just sweeping

559
00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:06,279
it under the rug and pretending like nobody

560
00:22:06,279 --> 00:22:08,200
did it. And you know there was a

561
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,154
time where in order for people to get

562
00:22:10,154 --> 00:22:11,434
this, they had to go to the store.

563
00:22:11,434 --> 00:22:13,115
They had to get a magazine. They had

564
00:22:13,115 --> 00:22:14,555
to go buy a movie. They had to

565
00:22:14,555 --> 00:22:15,375
they had to

566
00:22:15,755 --> 00:22:17,355
seek it out. You had to go looking

567
00:22:17,355 --> 00:22:18,715
for it. Well, now you pick up your

568
00:22:18,715 --> 00:22:21,515
phone. It's right here. And goodness, it's it's

569
00:22:21,515 --> 00:22:23,549
on Facebook. It's in your It's on yeah,

570
00:22:23,549 --> 00:22:25,630
it's on Facebook. It's on Twitter. There are

571
00:22:25,630 --> 00:22:26,130
literally

572
00:22:26,670 --> 00:22:28,830
entire accounts on Twitter that are nothing but

573
00:22:28,830 --> 00:22:30,630
that. What's that? Nothing you're saying that? There

574
00:22:30,750 --> 00:22:33,470
nobody I'm not harming anybody with this. I'm

575
00:22:33,470 --> 00:22:34,130
in secret.

576
00:22:34,430 --> 00:22:36,855
Yeah. But but where are those images coming

577
00:22:36,855 --> 00:22:39,335
from, right? There's child trafficking. There's all kinds

578
00:22:39,335 --> 00:22:41,654
of stuff going on behind this that is

579
00:22:41,654 --> 00:22:44,535
just evil. Well, I'll tell you this. When

580
00:22:44,535 --> 00:22:46,234
I was when I was a young man,

581
00:22:47,174 --> 00:22:48,075
I can remember,

582
00:22:48,615 --> 00:22:49,195
I had a friend that, that had his

583
00:22:49,195 --> 00:22:49,330
dad had those magazines, you know, and I

584
00:22:49,330 --> 00:22:49,914
can remember the first time and

585
00:22:50,375 --> 00:22:50,875
not

586
00:22:53,950 --> 00:22:54,829
magazines, you know, and I can remember the

587
00:22:54,829 --> 00:22:55,569
first time and

588
00:22:55,869 --> 00:22:57,390
not not a proud moment in my life,

589
00:22:57,390 --> 00:22:58,910
but I can remember the first time I

590
00:22:58,910 --> 00:23:00,670
looked at one, he handed it to me,

591
00:23:00,670 --> 00:23:02,589
he said look at this, you know, and

592
00:23:02,589 --> 00:23:04,190
I was like wow. I think I said

593
00:23:04,190 --> 00:23:05,549
where'd you get those at? You know, well,

594
00:23:05,549 --> 00:23:06,075
my dad's

595
00:23:06,554 --> 00:23:08,794
they belong to my dad, you know. And

596
00:23:08,794 --> 00:23:11,034
and I can remember just as a young

597
00:23:11,034 --> 00:23:13,194
man, I can still remember some of those

598
00:23:13,194 --> 00:23:13,694
images.

599
00:23:15,355 --> 00:23:18,359
And and they they started to shape the

600
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:18,859
way

601
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,960
that I felt and looked at women. Yeah.

602
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,519
They they did. And that's what happens that's

603
00:23:24,519 --> 00:23:26,359
what happens when you when you're exposed to

604
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,440
those things at a young age. It starts

605
00:23:28,519 --> 00:23:30,599
the world starts shaping the way that you

606
00:23:30,599 --> 00:23:33,025
look at at your the person that you

607
00:23:33,025 --> 00:23:34,404
date and your wife,

608
00:23:35,265 --> 00:23:37,265
and and and it's not in a biblical

609
00:23:37,265 --> 00:23:38,705
way, and it's not in a right way.

610
00:23:38,705 --> 00:23:41,345
And so for them to and you can

611
00:23:41,345 --> 00:23:43,825
talk about those things without being sexually explicit,

612
00:23:43,825 --> 00:23:45,480
you know. You can you can discuss those

613
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,559
things with them, and I'm sure when you

614
00:23:47,559 --> 00:23:48,059
did,

615
00:23:48,679 --> 00:23:50,059
your pastor's right, that,

616
00:23:50,519 --> 00:23:52,039
they know a whole lot more than what

617
00:23:52,039 --> 00:23:53,799
you think they do. Oh, and that's me

618
00:23:53,799 --> 00:23:55,400
and you were raised in a whole different

619
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,119
era, right? And these kids now, man, it's

620
00:23:58,119 --> 00:23:58,859
so common.

621
00:23:59,559 --> 00:24:00,224
It's so

622
00:24:00,865 --> 00:24:04,404
prolific. It's everywhere. It's just so easily accessible

623
00:24:04,944 --> 00:24:07,505
and it it really has in the last

624
00:24:07,585 --> 00:24:09,265
I saw a study at some point that

625
00:24:09,265 --> 00:24:11,044
the amount of how

626
00:24:12,625 --> 00:24:15,660
how violent and how explicit and how just

627
00:24:15,660 --> 00:24:16,720
rough it's gotten.

628
00:24:17,099 --> 00:24:18,960
It gets worse and worse because,

629
00:24:19,259 --> 00:24:21,019
like you say, your brain is getting changed

630
00:24:21,019 --> 00:24:22,779
and you know that's something that a lot

631
00:24:22,779 --> 00:24:24,460
of these young people don't realize the first

632
00:24:24,460 --> 00:24:26,880
time they start looking at it. It's slowly

633
00:24:26,940 --> 00:24:29,179
altering your brain chemistry, it's altering the way

634
00:24:29,179 --> 00:24:31,474
your brain actually perceives things,

635
00:24:31,775 --> 00:24:35,055
and it takes more and more shocking material

636
00:24:35,055 --> 00:24:36,894
to get your attention. Right at home. And

637
00:24:36,894 --> 00:24:38,734
and it just goes deeper and deeper and

638
00:24:38,734 --> 00:24:40,815
deeper until until you get into things that

639
00:24:40,815 --> 00:24:42,515
are just absolutely unthinkable.

640
00:24:42,815 --> 00:24:44,630
Right. And I think a lot of people

641
00:24:44,630 --> 00:24:46,809
don't realize just how how

642
00:24:47,109 --> 00:24:48,630
slippery of a slope that is. And I

643
00:24:48,630 --> 00:24:50,089
saw somebody showed a

644
00:24:50,630 --> 00:24:53,190
video one day or showed a diagram where

645
00:24:53,190 --> 00:24:55,269
they were talking about the slippery slope of

646
00:24:55,269 --> 00:24:58,194
of where all this perversion comes from and

647
00:24:58,194 --> 00:24:59,394
they go all the way back to all

648
00:24:59,394 --> 00:25:00,855
these different things and

649
00:25:01,474 --> 00:25:04,054
the absolute best one I saw was a

650
00:25:04,595 --> 00:25:06,835
somebody just took it and they extended out

651
00:25:06,835 --> 00:25:09,154
the top part of that line and said

652
00:25:09,154 --> 00:25:11,910
it all started with encouraging people to have

653
00:25:12,049 --> 00:25:12,549
extramarital

654
00:25:12,850 --> 00:25:15,330
relationships. Yeah. You know, prior to marriage, having

655
00:25:15,330 --> 00:25:16,930
sex before marriage and putting it in the

656
00:25:16,930 --> 00:25:19,570
wrong place and encouraging that and saying that

657
00:25:19,570 --> 00:25:22,130
not only is it okay, it's acceptable and

658
00:25:22,130 --> 00:25:24,575
encouraged, and that's what you should be doing.

659
00:25:24,714 --> 00:25:25,214
Yeah

660
00:25:25,595 --> 00:25:26,575
I I can remember

661
00:25:27,275 --> 00:25:27,775
with

662
00:25:28,634 --> 00:25:29,134
Nicole's

663
00:25:29,994 --> 00:25:31,595
she she taught one of the

664
00:25:32,315 --> 00:25:34,875
oh gosh what what what class was it

665
00:25:34,875 --> 00:25:36,929
she took the women John or the young

666
00:25:36,929 --> 00:25:38,069
ladies and John

667
00:25:38,529 --> 00:25:39,970
Mace when he was still here he took

668
00:25:39,970 --> 00:25:40,869
them in and

669
00:25:41,329 --> 00:25:43,730
they done the whole thing with the with

670
00:25:43,730 --> 00:25:45,970
the ring the promise ring. Yeah. I can't

671
00:25:45,970 --> 00:25:48,149
remember the name of the stadium. Pretty ring.

672
00:25:48,384 --> 00:25:50,244
And, and you know, she said

673
00:25:51,105 --> 00:25:52,785
she said, you know, a lot of those

674
00:25:52,785 --> 00:25:53,605
young ladies

675
00:25:54,224 --> 00:25:57,105
that that that made those promises and said,

676
00:25:57,105 --> 00:25:59,345
you know, I'm gonna be this. It didn't

677
00:25:59,345 --> 00:26:00,865
end up that way. And why did it

678
00:26:00,865 --> 00:26:02,144
why did it not end up that way?

679
00:26:02,144 --> 00:26:02,644
Because

680
00:26:03,390 --> 00:26:05,789
because the world was like grabbing them. It's

681
00:26:05,789 --> 00:26:07,650
like, you know, okay, we taught this course.

682
00:26:07,789 --> 00:26:09,710
They should be good, but they need they

683
00:26:09,710 --> 00:26:10,609
need encouraged,

684
00:26:10,910 --> 00:26:12,910
and they need there there has to be

685
00:26:12,910 --> 00:26:13,410
accountability,

686
00:26:13,789 --> 00:26:16,109
you know. There has to be accountability among

687
00:26:16,109 --> 00:26:17,125
us as men,

688
00:26:17,664 --> 00:26:19,744
but there has to be accountability among those

689
00:26:19,744 --> 00:26:21,585
young people too, and I think that's something

690
00:26:21,585 --> 00:26:23,205
good to encourage our youth,

691
00:26:23,904 --> 00:26:27,025
to to grab you another another young man

692
00:26:27,025 --> 00:26:29,460
or another young lady if you're a young

693
00:26:29,460 --> 00:26:31,940
lady and and be accountable to each other

694
00:26:31,940 --> 00:26:33,700
with those things. Yeah. I think a lot

695
00:26:33,700 --> 00:26:34,920
of it comes down to,

696
00:26:36,660 --> 00:26:38,980
to kind of being numb to the weight

697
00:26:38,980 --> 00:26:41,000
of so much, you know, and looking

698
00:26:41,835 --> 00:26:45,115
you you see those kind of images with

699
00:26:45,115 --> 00:26:46,234
those people in those,

700
00:26:46,794 --> 00:26:48,394
that that that's a soul that that needs

701
00:26:48,394 --> 00:26:49,994
Christ too. Oh, yeah. And you start looking

702
00:26:49,994 --> 00:26:51,355
at things that way, and you you could

703
00:26:51,355 --> 00:26:53,615
take that further than just looking at pornographic

704
00:26:53,674 --> 00:26:55,515
images. You you go to Walmart. You don't

705
00:26:55,515 --> 00:26:57,034
look around at people like their souls to

706
00:26:57,034 --> 00:26:58,519
win to to the Lord. We

707
00:26:58,820 --> 00:27:01,240
become numb to everything and become numb to

708
00:27:01,539 --> 00:27:04,119
living our life with a spiritual mindset. And

709
00:27:04,259 --> 00:27:06,119
I think that's a big part of it

710
00:27:06,259 --> 00:27:07,779
with any problem we have, if we just

711
00:27:07,779 --> 00:27:09,160
kind of open our eyes and,

712
00:27:09,700 --> 00:27:12,605
but I've figured out myself that

713
00:27:12,984 --> 00:27:15,305
if I make sure to insert my worship,

714
00:27:15,305 --> 00:27:17,545
my prayer, and my Bible study into my

715
00:27:17,545 --> 00:27:19,565
day, my mind is so much sharper

716
00:27:20,025 --> 00:27:22,825
as far as being spiritually minded. And if

717
00:27:22,825 --> 00:27:25,029
we can get to that place to where

718
00:27:25,029 --> 00:27:26,470
we we do think about the things of

719
00:27:26,470 --> 00:27:27,849
Christ and we do think about,

720
00:27:29,109 --> 00:27:31,930
things on a spiritual level, then, you know,

721
00:27:31,990 --> 00:27:33,830
that kinda eliminates a lot of these issues.

722
00:27:33,830 --> 00:27:35,269
Yeah. And and no matter where you go

723
00:27:35,269 --> 00:27:37,109
on the Internet or on your phone, whatever

724
00:27:37,109 --> 00:27:38,549
it is, that you can go to the

725
00:27:38,549 --> 00:27:40,775
most innocent site and there'll be like this

726
00:27:40,775 --> 00:27:42,695
picture pop up in an ad somewhere that's

727
00:27:42,695 --> 00:27:44,474
like this really attractive young lady

728
00:27:44,775 --> 00:27:47,015
and I was talking to my Sunday school

729
00:27:47,015 --> 00:27:48,375
class one day and said what if you

730
00:27:48,375 --> 00:27:49,894
see one of those ads pop up and

731
00:27:49,894 --> 00:27:51,494
it's this beautiful young lady and you start

732
00:27:51,494 --> 00:27:52,315
praying for

733
00:27:53,319 --> 00:27:55,159
her, that that that changes the whole tune.

734
00:27:55,159 --> 00:27:56,599
Right? Yeah. You don't even think about it.

735
00:27:56,599 --> 00:27:57,879
You become numb to that being a real

736
00:27:57,879 --> 00:27:59,720
person. Yeah. But just put your phone down

737
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:00,779
and pray for it.

738
00:28:01,159 --> 00:28:01,659
Right.

739
00:28:02,759 --> 00:28:03,659
Turn it off.

740
00:28:05,159 --> 00:28:07,454
Praying for you, young lady. But, yeah, you

741
00:28:07,454 --> 00:28:07,954
know,

742
00:28:08,815 --> 00:28:10,575
and, again, like I said, and and when

743
00:28:10,575 --> 00:28:12,815
we got accountability, when we got somebody that

744
00:28:12,815 --> 00:28:13,315
says,

745
00:28:14,015 --> 00:28:15,775
hey. Are you doing okay with this today?

746
00:28:15,775 --> 00:28:17,294
You know? Mhmm. Because every one of us

747
00:28:17,294 --> 00:28:19,294
have got some type of struggle, whether it's

748
00:28:19,294 --> 00:28:21,569
whether it's that or whatever it may be.

749
00:28:21,970 --> 00:28:24,450
But but to having some have somebody that

750
00:28:24,450 --> 00:28:26,690
is close enough that loves you enough and

751
00:28:26,690 --> 00:28:28,549
teaching those kids that they can,

752
00:28:28,849 --> 00:28:31,009
you know, that they can trust somebody enough

753
00:28:31,009 --> 00:28:33,009
and then teaching those kids to be somebody

754
00:28:33,009 --> 00:28:35,565
that can be trusted. Yeah. Yeah. That's discipleship.

755
00:28:35,804 --> 00:28:38,365
That's all. Right. That's it. That's it. Yeah.

756
00:28:38,365 --> 00:28:40,365
Yeah. Yeah. We talk a lot about that

757
00:28:40,365 --> 00:28:43,424
in here. We we our churches don't disciple

758
00:28:43,484 --> 00:28:45,884
enough, and that's what the bible says. It

759
00:28:45,884 --> 00:28:48,524
doesn't actually even say go out and and

760
00:28:48,524 --> 00:28:50,490
see people saved, but, I mean, that's that's

761
00:28:50,490 --> 00:28:52,329
of course that's what we're gonna do. That's

762
00:28:52,329 --> 00:28:53,950
part of it, but it says

763
00:28:54,569 --> 00:28:57,210
go out and make disciples. Absolutely. You know?

764
00:28:57,210 --> 00:28:59,930
Absolutely. That's that's our calling, and, and we

765
00:28:59,930 --> 00:29:01,930
do that. And and you start at a

766
00:29:01,930 --> 00:29:03,710
young age in in youth ministry,

767
00:29:04,804 --> 00:29:06,484
and you're gonna have some tough ones, you

768
00:29:06,484 --> 00:29:08,325
know. You're gonna have some that you're gonna

769
00:29:08,325 --> 00:29:08,984
have to

770
00:29:09,285 --> 00:29:11,065
pull to the side and say, okay.

771
00:29:11,365 --> 00:29:13,684
You know? Yeah. We're we're butting heads here.

772
00:29:13,684 --> 00:29:14,964
What are we gonna do? How are we

773
00:29:14,964 --> 00:29:16,585
gonna fix this? But Yeah.

774
00:29:17,285 --> 00:29:18,184
But yeah.

775
00:29:19,365 --> 00:29:20,130
So and,

776
00:29:21,329 --> 00:29:22,869
another thing that that

777
00:29:23,250 --> 00:29:25,329
the youth trips she's talking about going and

778
00:29:25,329 --> 00:29:27,009
getting thrown into the fire right off the

779
00:29:27,009 --> 00:29:29,329
bat man. Sleepless nights right off the bat

780
00:29:29,329 --> 00:29:31,809
right? I we never went on the guy

781
00:29:31,809 --> 00:29:32,470
that I

782
00:29:32,954 --> 00:29:35,454
that I am training with in my chaplaincy

783
00:29:35,595 --> 00:29:36,974
at at the hospice

784
00:29:37,595 --> 00:29:40,075
he's a youth pastor and and they just

785
00:29:40,075 --> 00:29:41,375
went to winter jam

786
00:29:42,234 --> 00:29:44,794
not winter jam winter extreme the do what

787
00:29:44,794 --> 00:29:47,820
winter extreme winter extreme. Yeah yeah and and

788
00:29:47,820 --> 00:29:48,799
he's anyway

789
00:29:49,180 --> 00:29:50,940
it's always a late night too you know

790
00:29:50,940 --> 00:29:52,940
it's close you can go down there hear

791
00:29:52,940 --> 00:29:54,779
some good music but then you get home

792
00:29:54,779 --> 00:29:56,859
at you know midnight one o'clock in in

793
00:29:56,859 --> 00:29:58,539
the morning of course the kids are always

794
00:29:58,539 --> 00:29:59,804
high where are we gonna eat at? You

795
00:29:59,804 --> 00:30:00,304
know?

796
00:30:01,404 --> 00:30:03,804
But I wouldn't take anything for some of

797
00:30:03,804 --> 00:30:05,325
the times on some of those bus trips

798
00:30:05,325 --> 00:30:07,484
and some of those trips that those trips

799
00:30:07,484 --> 00:30:09,565
that we connected with our youth in in

800
00:30:09,565 --> 00:30:10,464
a real way.

801
00:30:11,164 --> 00:30:13,070
And you're gonna, I mean you, I'm sure

802
00:30:13,070 --> 00:30:14,990
you've already saw that, but you're gonna see

803
00:30:14,990 --> 00:30:16,609
that more and more and more that,

804
00:30:17,150 --> 00:30:18,750
that those kids are gonna get real with

805
00:30:18,750 --> 00:30:20,750
you and they're gonna come to you and

806
00:30:20,750 --> 00:30:22,990
they're gonna say, Hey, Carter, I need to

807
00:30:22,990 --> 00:30:24,349
talk to you about this. I need to

808
00:30:24,349 --> 00:30:25,890
talk to you about this. And

809
00:30:26,190 --> 00:30:27,410
man, you get to be

810
00:30:28,295 --> 00:30:30,694
you get to be a a a a

811
00:30:30,694 --> 00:30:32,615
mainstay in their life. And some and for

812
00:30:32,615 --> 00:30:34,934
some of them that that don't have it

813
00:30:34,934 --> 00:30:36,375
at home, you know, I mean, we had

814
00:30:36,375 --> 00:30:38,535
a lot of kids in my ministry here

815
00:30:38,535 --> 00:30:40,440
that didn't have parents going to church

816
00:30:41,299 --> 00:30:42,519
and and man

817
00:30:43,539 --> 00:30:45,700
they're they needed somebody stable in their life.

818
00:30:45,700 --> 00:30:47,539
We see a lot of kids now and

819
00:30:47,539 --> 00:30:49,220
you may see this in your youth group

820
00:30:49,220 --> 00:30:51,140
that that don't know the first thing about

821
00:30:51,140 --> 00:30:54,019
the bible. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Absolutely. Yeah. We

822
00:30:54,019 --> 00:30:54,519
assume.

823
00:30:55,095 --> 00:30:57,335
Yeah. A lot. You know we live in

824
00:30:57,335 --> 00:30:58,714
the Bible Belt. We

825
00:30:59,494 --> 00:31:01,815
live in in in the South and there's

826
00:31:01,815 --> 00:31:04,134
a church on every corner so they know

827
00:31:04,134 --> 00:31:06,615
about Noah's Ark. They know about you know

828
00:31:06,615 --> 00:31:09,140
Adam and Eve. They know about all those

829
00:31:09,140 --> 00:31:11,140
stories that we hear growing up, but man,

830
00:31:11,140 --> 00:31:12,419
you can talk to some of them, and

831
00:31:12,419 --> 00:31:14,339
they don't even know who Jesus is. Yeah.

832
00:31:14,339 --> 00:31:16,900
Yeah. Yep. Yep. Absolutely. I've I've seen you're

833
00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:19,220
talking about those those times where, you know,

834
00:31:19,220 --> 00:31:20,339
a kid comes up to you and they

835
00:31:20,339 --> 00:31:21,779
they need help and that kind of thing.

836
00:31:21,779 --> 00:31:22,279
And

837
00:31:22,579 --> 00:31:23,240
I've been

838
00:31:23,644 --> 00:31:25,964
paranoid about these kids. Are they really listening

839
00:31:25,964 --> 00:31:27,244
to me? Are they really getting everything? I

840
00:31:27,244 --> 00:31:28,764
know they're making eye contact with me, but

841
00:31:28,764 --> 00:31:30,125
they're just looking at the wall behind me,

842
00:31:30,125 --> 00:31:32,605
you know, that kind of thing. And so

843
00:31:32,605 --> 00:31:33,884
kind of been in my head the last

844
00:31:33,884 --> 00:31:35,819
few weeks about it, but here, maybe last

845
00:31:35,819 --> 00:31:37,740
week or two, had one come up and

846
00:31:37,740 --> 00:31:39,819
talk to me, had some issues at home

847
00:31:39,819 --> 00:31:40,319
and,

848
00:31:41,259 --> 00:31:42,539
had to do with what I was talking

849
00:31:42,539 --> 00:31:44,619
about. And so it came up with tears

850
00:31:44,619 --> 00:31:46,700
in his eyes speaking to me. And, oh

851
00:31:46,700 --> 00:31:48,974
my gosh, she talking about making me feel

852
00:31:49,054 --> 00:31:51,234
good about where I'm at. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

853
00:31:51,615 --> 00:31:53,454
Had had a a parent come up to

854
00:31:53,454 --> 00:31:55,214
me and say, hey. You know, I've I've

855
00:31:55,214 --> 00:31:55,794
I've had

856
00:31:57,535 --> 00:31:58,674
had this kid that

857
00:31:59,615 --> 00:32:01,294
has had some issues going on with some

858
00:32:01,294 --> 00:32:02,115
friends, and

859
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:04,720
I won't get into a bunch of details,

860
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:05,039
but,

861
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,039
said that she quoted you the other day

862
00:32:07,039 --> 00:32:07,599
and said,

863
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:09,680
what kind of person would I be if

864
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:10,259
I didn't,

865
00:32:10,559 --> 00:32:12,320
control my anger like Carter said the other

866
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,080
night? And she said, you know, she got

867
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,555
to to talking about how,

868
00:32:16,015 --> 00:32:17,295
much better she feels like she could pay

869
00:32:17,295 --> 00:32:18,815
attention to me than some other people she

870
00:32:18,815 --> 00:32:20,914
listens to. And I was like, man, that

871
00:32:20,975 --> 00:32:22,414
was exactly what I needed, you know, to

872
00:32:22,414 --> 00:32:23,234
kinda Confirmation.

873
00:32:23,615 --> 00:32:26,654
Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Absolutely. And so, I'm

874
00:32:26,654 --> 00:32:27,154
seeing

875
00:32:27,509 --> 00:32:28,789
one of the kids. I'm so proud of

876
00:32:28,789 --> 00:32:30,869
him. I texted him the other night. Sunday

877
00:32:30,869 --> 00:32:32,950
morning, we're singing Goodness of God, I think

878
00:32:32,950 --> 00:32:34,470
was the song that was singing. And,

879
00:32:35,589 --> 00:32:36,089
anyways,

880
00:32:36,470 --> 00:32:38,309
there's everybody still, you know, sitting in the

881
00:32:38,309 --> 00:32:40,555
pews and just kind of waiting for the

882
00:32:40,555 --> 00:32:41,994
music to get over till the preaching kinda

883
00:32:41,994 --> 00:32:44,555
thing, and nobody's really moving or or worshiping

884
00:32:44,555 --> 00:32:46,494
a ton, at least not outwardly, you know.

885
00:32:46,674 --> 00:32:47,174
And,

886
00:32:47,674 --> 00:32:50,234
kid, first row on his own, stands up,

887
00:32:50,234 --> 00:32:53,035
hands in the air, squalling, and just did

888
00:32:53,035 --> 00:32:55,055
not care. And That's awesome.

889
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:56,960
Sparked something. The rest of the church ends

890
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:58,559
up on their feet, and I texted them.

891
00:32:58,559 --> 00:32:59,759
I was like, that was because of you.

892
00:32:59,759 --> 00:33:01,679
Yeah. You were willing. You you held that

893
00:33:01,679 --> 00:33:03,440
key, and you were willing to worship, and

894
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:04,639
I'm so proud of you for it. And

895
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,119
I see it. I'm I'm loving watching the

896
00:33:07,119 --> 00:33:09,615
the Lord move. And Yeah. That's awesome. I'm

897
00:33:09,615 --> 00:33:11,154
impressed that they're looking in you.

898
00:33:11,535 --> 00:33:13,455
That that Yeah. I never got eye contact.

899
00:33:13,455 --> 00:33:15,295
They were always looking at the floor. But

900
00:33:15,295 --> 00:33:17,375
but, you know, like, three, four years later,

901
00:33:17,375 --> 00:33:18,734
one of the one of the grandmothers came

902
00:33:18,734 --> 00:33:20,575
back and said, my daughter learned so much

903
00:33:20,575 --> 00:33:23,029
in your class. And I'm like, yes. Yeah.

904
00:33:23,890 --> 00:33:26,470
Yeah. I may have implemented some strategies. I'm

905
00:33:26,529 --> 00:33:28,769
doing my best to I've got my slideshow

906
00:33:28,769 --> 00:33:30,549
behind me and my pictures and

907
00:33:31,410 --> 00:33:33,090
I've started printing out a study guide. So

908
00:33:33,090 --> 00:33:34,974
I've got my points for the night or

909
00:33:34,974 --> 00:33:36,255
whatever, and I've got fill in the blanks.

910
00:33:36,255 --> 00:33:37,694
And I'm like, y'all listen for my three

911
00:33:37,694 --> 00:33:38,815
points and see if you could figure them

912
00:33:38,815 --> 00:33:40,494
out. So I've got them, you know, at

913
00:33:40,494 --> 00:33:42,095
at least listening as heavy as they can

914
00:33:42,095 --> 00:33:43,855
to try to get the that one word

915
00:33:43,855 --> 00:33:45,134
that they're missing, that that,

916
00:33:46,494 --> 00:33:48,255
summary that I've made or what. That's awesome.

917
00:33:48,255 --> 00:33:49,934
And here's the thing. Don't worry about what

918
00:33:49,934 --> 00:33:52,230
they don't hear. Worry about what they do

919
00:33:52,230 --> 00:33:54,309
hear. Yeah. You know, and and and they

920
00:33:54,309 --> 00:33:57,110
will. They'll catch those gold nuggets. So the

921
00:33:57,110 --> 00:33:59,930
the holy spirit will go before you and

922
00:34:00,230 --> 00:34:01,990
prepare their hearts and give them what they

923
00:34:01,990 --> 00:34:03,130
stand in need of.

924
00:34:03,509 --> 00:34:04,730
I've told this before,

925
00:34:05,214 --> 00:34:06,974
Tatum was in the youth at that time.

926
00:34:06,974 --> 00:34:09,234
She was just, gosh, she was probably

927
00:34:11,135 --> 00:34:13,454
three maybe. I don't know. She was three

928
00:34:13,454 --> 00:34:15,855
or four, and and, I was preaching at

929
00:34:15,855 --> 00:34:16,594
Mount Carmel,

930
00:34:17,614 --> 00:34:19,889
on on a Sunday night, and they'd asked

931
00:34:19,889 --> 00:34:21,030
me to preach and,

932
00:34:21,409 --> 00:34:23,489
and I was preaching on Shadrach, Meshach, and

933
00:34:23,489 --> 00:34:24,210
Abednego and,

934
00:34:25,010 --> 00:34:27,829
and then later on that that summer,

935
00:34:28,369 --> 00:34:28,869
Tatum,

936
00:34:29,809 --> 00:34:30,369
was in,

937
00:34:30,849 --> 00:34:32,864
this dear lady that went to church with

938
00:34:32,864 --> 00:34:33,364
us.

939
00:34:34,385 --> 00:34:36,644
But, anyway, she was teaching her

940
00:34:37,505 --> 00:34:39,744
class. She was my Sunday school teacher when

941
00:34:39,744 --> 00:34:40,885
I was growing up,

942
00:34:41,425 --> 00:34:42,164
but, anyway,

943
00:34:42,784 --> 00:34:44,224
she was teaching the class, and it was

944
00:34:44,224 --> 00:34:46,610
on Shadrach Meshach in a minute ago. And,

945
00:34:46,929 --> 00:34:49,510
and so, like I said, Tatum four, maybe

946
00:34:49,890 --> 00:34:52,230
starting to turn about to turn five,

947
00:34:53,570 --> 00:34:54,289
she says,

948
00:34:54,849 --> 00:34:56,449
Tatum, she asked him or she asked the

949
00:34:56,449 --> 00:34:59,505
class a question. She's like, now what about

950
00:34:59,505 --> 00:35:01,744
this Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego? You know? And

951
00:35:01,744 --> 00:35:02,405
she goes,

952
00:35:02,864 --> 00:35:04,405
miss Bailey, she goes,

953
00:35:04,944 --> 00:35:07,664
my dad preached on that, you know, a

954
00:35:07,664 --> 00:35:10,065
few Sundays ago. You should know it. You

955
00:35:10,065 --> 00:35:10,565
know?

956
00:35:12,199 --> 00:35:14,599
I've got a similar story. She went there

957
00:35:14,599 --> 00:35:16,760
coloring, you know, and I didn't think she

958
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:18,380
heard anything. Yeah, we

959
00:35:18,679 --> 00:35:21,319
went to church in Galesville at Faith Baptist

960
00:35:21,319 --> 00:35:23,480
till I was in kindergarten, so it would

961
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,900
have been early on, three, four years old.

962
00:35:26,204 --> 00:35:29,325
And I remember I specifically remember listening to

963
00:35:29,325 --> 00:35:31,724
the sermon and being so confused about it

964
00:35:31,724 --> 00:35:33,805
and asking questions afterwards. And I'm like, I

965
00:35:33,805 --> 00:35:34,465
don't understand,

966
00:35:35,644 --> 00:35:37,744
how this story makes sense. And

967
00:35:38,125 --> 00:35:39,239
my my parents are

968
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:41,079
talking back, you know, it's the three men

969
00:35:41,079 --> 00:35:42,440
in the fire. And I'm like, but he

970
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,460
said Shadrach, Meshach, and a billy goat.

971
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:46,519
Where did the billy goat come into play?

972
00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:47,960
And they're like, that's not what he said.

973
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,039
You know? And so that's been a story

974
00:35:50,039 --> 00:35:51,639
at our house about Shadrach, Meshach, and a

975
00:35:51,639 --> 00:35:52,664
billy goat. So I was

976
00:35:53,625 --> 00:35:55,724
I was close. That's good. That's good.

977
00:35:56,025 --> 00:35:58,585
Years several a few years down the road

978
00:35:58,585 --> 00:36:00,664
from that, and Brenda's just a little thing,

979
00:36:00,664 --> 00:36:02,985
and and I was preaching here one Sunday

980
00:36:02,985 --> 00:36:04,684
night, and I was preaching on

981
00:36:05,065 --> 00:36:06,925
I talked about during the sermon

982
00:36:07,340 --> 00:36:09,820
that that in heaven, we're neither married nor

983
00:36:09,820 --> 00:36:12,059
given to marriage. You know, we're we're we're

984
00:36:12,059 --> 00:36:14,480
we're the lords, and, and I can remember,

985
00:36:14,940 --> 00:36:17,099
especially Brenda that night, but her and Tatum

986
00:36:17,099 --> 00:36:18,940
both just tore up. You said, mama are

987
00:36:18,940 --> 00:36:20,619
not gonna you know, you're not gonna be

988
00:36:20,619 --> 00:36:21,760
married in hell.

989
00:36:22,445 --> 00:36:24,684
And so anyway, so, you know, they were

990
00:36:24,684 --> 00:36:26,945
listening to the sermon that night, and then,

991
00:36:27,005 --> 00:36:28,844
you know, twenty years down the road, we

992
00:36:28,844 --> 00:36:30,364
talked about it in the hospital the other

993
00:36:30,364 --> 00:36:32,045
night. Summer was really tore up about that.

994
00:36:32,045 --> 00:36:32,545
Yeah.

995
00:36:33,644 --> 00:36:35,405
Yeah. She said, I better not have anybody

996
00:36:35,405 --> 00:36:37,199
else up there in heaven. It's just her.

997
00:36:41,599 --> 00:36:43,519
Well, I think Carter may have another song

998
00:36:43,519 --> 00:36:45,300
for us, it looks like over there. Sure.

999
00:36:51,734 --> 00:36:53,434
I know who I am

1000
00:36:56,214 --> 00:36:57,835
because I know who

1001
00:36:58,295 --> 00:36:59,034
you are.

1002
00:37:01,574 --> 00:37:02,550
The cross of

1003
00:37:03,030 --> 00:37:03,530
salvation

1004
00:37:06,390 --> 00:37:07,210
was only

1005
00:37:08,150 --> 00:37:08,969
the star.

1006
00:37:11,590 --> 00:37:13,449
Now I am chosen,

1007
00:37:59,019 --> 00:38:02,700
that's coming my way. I know I am

1008
00:38:02,700 --> 00:38:03,200
yours.

1009
00:38:04,140 --> 00:38:06,800
I was made for more.

1010
00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:11,680
And I know who I am,

1011
00:38:14,214 --> 00:38:16,155
because I know who you

1012
00:38:16,614 --> 00:38:17,114
are.

1013
00:38:19,655 --> 00:38:21,194
The cross of salvation

1014
00:38:24,214 --> 00:38:25,114
was only

1015
00:38:25,974 --> 00:38:26,714
the start.

1016
00:40:08,295 --> 00:40:08,875
I'm not going

1017
00:40:09,494 --> 00:40:12,795
back. I wasn't made to be tending

1018
00:40:13,094 --> 00:40:16,234
a grave. I was caught by name.

1019
00:40:17,094 --> 00:40:19,835
Born and raised back to life

1020
00:40:20,135 --> 00:40:20,635
again.

1021
00:40:21,734 --> 00:40:24,589
I was made for more.

1022
00:40:28,650 --> 00:40:30,670
So why would I make

1023
00:40:31,210 --> 00:40:32,989
a bed in my shingling

1024
00:40:33,369 --> 00:40:35,309
a fountain of grace

1025
00:40:35,849 --> 00:40:36,914
is running my

1026
00:40:52,650 --> 00:40:53,630
for more.

1027
00:41:00,650 --> 00:41:02,409
One of my favorites. Yeah. Shout out to

1028
00:41:02,409 --> 00:41:04,429
Brian for introducing me to that song.

1029
00:41:05,494 --> 00:41:06,934
I love it. I love it. Love that.

1030
00:41:06,934 --> 00:41:07,594
That's good.

1031
00:41:07,894 --> 00:41:09,175
I'm so thankful that,

1032
00:41:10,535 --> 00:41:12,715
I'm not who I used to be. Amen.

1033
00:41:14,695 --> 00:41:17,015
He changed my past and gave me a

1034
00:41:17,015 --> 00:41:17,735
future that,

1035
00:41:18,614 --> 00:41:21,449
I didn't deserve, but I'm so so thankful

1036
00:41:21,510 --> 00:41:22,650
for that. And,

1037
00:41:24,230 --> 00:41:26,550
you know, that's what that's what youth ministry

1038
00:41:26,550 --> 00:41:28,730
does. I mean, it gives an opportunity

1039
00:41:29,030 --> 00:41:29,530
to

1040
00:41:29,910 --> 00:41:30,650
to change

1041
00:41:31,429 --> 00:41:33,110
young men and women and to,

1042
00:41:34,144 --> 00:41:35,764
to give them a future,

1043
00:41:36,625 --> 00:41:38,885
by introducing them to Christ Jesus.

1044
00:41:41,264 --> 00:41:43,905
And sometimes it's the youth pastor. Sometimes it's

1045
00:41:43,905 --> 00:41:46,625
this that it's that person who cared enough

1046
00:41:46,625 --> 00:41:47,284
to volunteer

1047
00:41:47,829 --> 00:41:48,489
with the

1048
00:41:48,789 --> 00:41:51,109
youth that makes a difference in those kids'

1049
00:41:51,109 --> 00:41:53,670
lives. And I hope if you're a parent,

1050
00:41:53,670 --> 00:41:55,049
though, when you go to church,

1051
00:41:56,630 --> 00:41:58,549
make sure that that you're part of that

1052
00:41:58,549 --> 00:42:00,069
too. Make sure you're the main part of

1053
00:42:00,069 --> 00:42:01,369
that. When they go home,

1054
00:42:01,934 --> 00:42:04,015
speak the word of God over them. Pour

1055
00:42:04,015 --> 00:42:06,175
the word of God over them because as

1056
00:42:06,175 --> 00:42:07,875
parents, it's really our responsibility.

1057
00:42:08,335 --> 00:42:09,315
That's right. You know?

1058
00:42:09,695 --> 00:42:12,355
But sometimes as a youth pastor and as

1059
00:42:12,655 --> 00:42:14,829
as people administer, we have to pick up

1060
00:42:14,829 --> 00:42:15,569
where parents

1061
00:42:16,030 --> 00:42:18,130
drop the ball sometimes. Yeah. Yeah.

1062
00:42:18,429 --> 00:42:19,650
But Yeah.

1063
00:42:21,309 --> 00:42:23,250
Man, I'm thankful for for

1064
00:42:24,109 --> 00:42:26,109
the church that I was raised in and

1065
00:42:26,109 --> 00:42:26,609
and,

1066
00:42:27,469 --> 00:42:29,549
and get the people that poured into me

1067
00:42:29,549 --> 00:42:30,049
and,

1068
00:42:31,414 --> 00:42:32,954
some men, some women,

1069
00:42:33,815 --> 00:42:35,815
that loved me enough. You know, I I

1070
00:42:35,815 --> 00:42:37,414
got away from it for a while. I've

1071
00:42:37,414 --> 00:42:38,715
said that before, but,

1072
00:42:39,094 --> 00:42:41,574
but what they engraved in my heart and

1073
00:42:41,574 --> 00:42:43,034
and the spirit of God

1074
00:42:43,460 --> 00:42:46,039
took that and and and brought me

1075
00:42:46,339 --> 00:42:48,099
brought me to my knees where I needed

1076
00:42:48,099 --> 00:42:49,940
to be. Amen. That's a really good word

1077
00:42:49,940 --> 00:42:51,940
to engraved. Yeah. You know, you think of

1078
00:42:51,940 --> 00:42:54,420
something being engraved in a stone, right? It's

1079
00:42:54,420 --> 00:42:56,565
it's there. It's there. And and and what

1080
00:42:56,565 --> 00:42:58,484
you're sharing with these young people is is

1081
00:42:58,484 --> 00:43:01,125
gonna stay there, you know, whether they drift

1082
00:43:01,125 --> 00:43:02,644
off. Some of them may go wild for

1083
00:43:02,644 --> 00:43:04,644
a while, but but that'll be in there.

1084
00:43:04,644 --> 00:43:05,144
Yeah.

1085
00:43:05,605 --> 00:43:07,864
God's got his mark in there. Yeah. Yeah.

1086
00:43:09,110 --> 00:43:11,210
You know, Ryan talked about how he had,

1087
00:43:11,590 --> 00:43:13,269
at one point kind of strayed and then

1088
00:43:13,269 --> 00:43:15,429
came back, and I I spoke earlier about

1089
00:43:15,429 --> 00:43:17,690
how I don't really have that that testimony.

1090
00:43:18,309 --> 00:43:18,809
But,

1091
00:43:19,510 --> 00:43:21,974
I've talked about, you know, I've seen restoration

1092
00:43:21,974 --> 00:43:22,934
in my family and,

1093
00:43:23,574 --> 00:43:24,074
seen,

1094
00:43:24,934 --> 00:43:26,134
divorce and and,

1095
00:43:26,534 --> 00:43:28,214
drugs and alcoholism and,

1096
00:43:28,934 --> 00:43:30,934
things where, you know, at once we are

1097
00:43:30,934 --> 00:43:32,775
looking at youth leaders as my parents and

1098
00:43:32,775 --> 00:43:34,954
then everything just in shambles, and,

1099
00:43:35,309 --> 00:43:37,390
how do you recover from that? And I've

1100
00:43:37,390 --> 00:43:38,210
seen the Lord

1101
00:43:38,510 --> 00:43:40,590
work, and now both of my parents are

1102
00:43:40,590 --> 00:43:41,809
in church, and they're,

1103
00:43:42,190 --> 00:43:43,949
they both are are working and have their

1104
00:43:43,949 --> 00:43:45,949
own ministries in in all kinds of ways.

1105
00:43:45,949 --> 00:43:46,110
And,

1106
00:43:46,989 --> 00:43:47,489
so

1107
00:43:47,974 --> 00:43:49,275
I want to be

1108
00:43:51,015 --> 00:43:52,534
that person that can tell them, you know,

1109
00:43:52,534 --> 00:43:53,894
there's light at the end of this tunnel.

1110
00:43:53,894 --> 00:43:56,054
Yeah. And so far, you know, the summer,

1111
00:43:56,054 --> 00:43:58,454
she's got a testimony for herself. I won't

1112
00:43:58,454 --> 00:44:00,375
speak for her, but we've seen over and

1113
00:44:00,375 --> 00:44:01,114
over again

1114
00:44:01,650 --> 00:44:04,049
times where, you know, we've been through certain

1115
00:44:04,049 --> 00:44:06,150
things for a reason, and I can

1116
00:44:06,609 --> 00:44:08,210
talk to these kids that are going through

1117
00:44:08,210 --> 00:44:09,989
some kind of rough time at home, and

1118
00:44:10,210 --> 00:44:11,650
the Lord used that, and it makes it

1119
00:44:11,650 --> 00:44:13,170
all worth it that, you know, even though

1120
00:44:13,170 --> 00:44:15,445
it was heartache on my end, I'm getting

1121
00:44:15,445 --> 00:44:17,284
to to reap the benefits later of seeing

1122
00:44:17,284 --> 00:44:19,045
blessings to it, you know? Yeah. I was

1123
00:44:19,045 --> 00:44:21,125
just listening to that Zach Williams song. It

1124
00:44:21,125 --> 00:44:23,304
turned my mess into a message. Yeah.

1125
00:44:23,605 --> 00:44:26,025
I got a testimony. Amen. Yeah.

1126
00:44:26,690 --> 00:44:28,369
That you know, I I think about,

1127
00:44:29,889 --> 00:44:30,789
I think about

1128
00:44:31,089 --> 00:44:32,949
ministry through the years, and

1129
00:44:33,650 --> 00:44:35,409
if you stay especially if you stay in

1130
00:44:35,409 --> 00:44:37,989
one place long enough. I've been here almost

1131
00:44:38,049 --> 00:44:38,949
nineteen years.

1132
00:44:39,889 --> 00:44:40,630
And so

1133
00:44:41,154 --> 00:44:41,974
a lot of

1134
00:44:42,594 --> 00:44:45,315
these young children that were that were young

1135
00:44:45,315 --> 00:44:46,454
when I came here,

1136
00:44:46,994 --> 00:44:48,855
I've got to be a part of of

1137
00:44:49,234 --> 00:44:51,954
their their marriage ceremony. You know? I've got

1138
00:44:51,954 --> 00:44:53,394
to be a I got to be there

1139
00:44:53,394 --> 00:44:55,590
when some of them got saved, and I

1140
00:44:55,670 --> 00:44:56,789
got to be there when some of them

1141
00:44:56,789 --> 00:44:58,170
announced their calling to preach.

1142
00:44:58,550 --> 00:45:00,710
Preach a revival for brother Tyler just a

1143
00:45:00,710 --> 00:45:02,550
just a few weeks ago, and Carter sang.

1144
00:45:02,550 --> 00:45:04,630
And, you know, and I watched him grow

1145
00:45:04,630 --> 00:45:06,469
up. I watched him announce his calling to

1146
00:45:06,469 --> 00:45:07,210
preach. And,

1147
00:45:07,750 --> 00:45:10,230
you know, I I I you just you

1148
00:45:10,230 --> 00:45:10,730
become

1149
00:45:11,364 --> 00:45:12,344
you're intertwined

1150
00:45:12,885 --> 00:45:15,285
with their lives and their stories, and you're

1151
00:45:15,285 --> 00:45:16,885
part of their story. You become part of

1152
00:45:16,885 --> 00:45:19,864
their story. It's so important. It's so important

1153
00:45:20,164 --> 00:45:22,344
that that we pour into them now.

1154
00:45:22,644 --> 00:45:25,684
It is. Yeah. Yeah. There's not not enough

1155
00:45:25,684 --> 00:45:27,829
mentor ship in the church, is there? No.

1156
00:45:27,829 --> 00:45:28,630
You know, take taking

1157
00:45:29,190 --> 00:45:31,030
even younger men in their twenties, taking them

1158
00:45:31,030 --> 00:45:33,590
under your wing and and teaching. Yeah. It's

1159
00:45:33,590 --> 00:45:35,989
it's I guess, finding ways to do it

1160
00:45:35,989 --> 00:45:38,329
is a little awkward at times, but but,

1161
00:45:38,710 --> 00:45:40,650
Yeah. And that that's one thing that

1162
00:45:41,054 --> 00:45:43,155
I try to preach myself. I've found

1163
00:45:43,694 --> 00:45:44,194
that

1164
00:45:44,494 --> 00:45:44,994
I've

1165
00:45:45,295 --> 00:45:48,255
stepped back in certain situations, or I've I've

1166
00:45:48,255 --> 00:45:50,574
not spoke or witnessed to somebody, or I've

1167
00:45:50,574 --> 00:45:52,655
not, stood up and raised my hands just

1168
00:45:52,655 --> 00:45:54,655
because things could be awkward or just because

1169
00:45:54,655 --> 00:45:55,714
of of my pride.

1170
00:45:56,150 --> 00:45:57,989
And how dare I let that get in

1171
00:45:57,989 --> 00:46:00,070
the way of a soul that could be

1172
00:46:00,070 --> 00:46:01,369
won to Christ. And

1173
00:46:01,670 --> 00:46:03,110
whether it's that or whether it is, you

1174
00:46:03,110 --> 00:46:05,110
know, just being able to praise my Lord

1175
00:46:05,110 --> 00:46:06,489
and savior that saved me,

1176
00:46:07,510 --> 00:46:09,074
I let the devil hold my hands down,

1177
00:46:09,074 --> 00:46:09,574
and

1178
00:46:10,034 --> 00:46:12,034
I get in the way of it. And

1179
00:46:12,034 --> 00:46:12,534
so

1180
00:46:13,235 --> 00:46:15,554
being bold to the point of it doesn't

1181
00:46:15,554 --> 00:46:17,235
matter if it's awkward. It doesn't matter if

1182
00:46:17,315 --> 00:46:18,054
That's right.

1183
00:46:18,755 --> 00:46:20,319
My first message I preach to the young

1184
00:46:20,319 --> 00:46:22,079
people. They were kinda feeling me out before

1185
00:46:22,079 --> 00:46:23,699
they voted me in and,

1186
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:25,519
I saw it from somewhere else. I think

1187
00:46:25,519 --> 00:46:27,299
it was, Francis Chan did

1188
00:46:27,599 --> 00:46:30,159
an illustration with a rope and had a

1189
00:46:30,159 --> 00:46:32,559
huge twenty, thirty foot long rope. And I

1190
00:46:32,559 --> 00:46:34,480
took a red piece of tape and covered

1191
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:35,684
about an inch on the end of the

1192
00:46:35,684 --> 00:46:36,505
rope. And,

1193
00:46:37,125 --> 00:46:38,724
so I was I threw the rope across

1194
00:46:38,724 --> 00:46:39,845
the room and made one of the kids

1195
00:46:39,845 --> 00:46:40,965
go over on the other side and hold

1196
00:46:40,965 --> 00:46:42,265
it. And I said, this is eternity.

1197
00:46:42,724 --> 00:46:45,364
And, I'm like, it's real long. And then

1198
00:46:45,364 --> 00:46:47,045
showed them the the red piece of tape

1199
00:46:47,045 --> 00:46:48,164
on the other end. I'm like, that's your

1200
00:46:48,164 --> 00:46:50,070
life right there. I want you to visualize

1201
00:46:50,070 --> 00:46:52,390
how long eternity actually is, and you're gonna

1202
00:46:52,390 --> 00:46:53,829
let pride get in the way of you

1203
00:46:53,829 --> 00:46:55,590
giving yourself to Jesus, or you're gonna let

1204
00:46:55,590 --> 00:46:56,630
pride get in the way of you winning

1205
00:46:56,630 --> 00:46:59,750
somebody else to Jesus. And it's this big,

1206
00:46:59,750 --> 00:47:01,910
this one inch piece of tape that can

1207
00:47:01,910 --> 00:47:03,945
determine the fate of somebody for the rest

1208
00:47:03,945 --> 00:47:06,184
of eternity. That's right. And if if you

1209
00:47:06,184 --> 00:47:08,105
put things into perspective, it's not worth it.

1210
00:47:08,105 --> 00:47:09,005
That's right. Amen.

1211
00:47:09,945 --> 00:47:10,445
Amen.

1212
00:47:11,144 --> 00:47:12,204
Amen. Well,

1213
00:47:12,505 --> 00:47:14,025
like I said, I've I've been around a

1214
00:47:14,025 --> 00:47:15,785
lot of youth pastors through the years, and

1215
00:47:15,785 --> 00:47:16,285
and,

1216
00:47:17,319 --> 00:47:18,839
I know you've got a heart for them,

1217
00:47:18,839 --> 00:47:21,960
and I I really appreciate that. I it's,

1218
00:47:23,159 --> 00:47:25,579
it's not it's not for the faint hearted.

1219
00:47:25,639 --> 00:47:28,679
And, and like I said, there's there's gonna

1220
00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:30,655
be times you're gonna wanna pull what hair

1221
00:47:30,655 --> 00:47:32,275
you got left harder out. But

1222
00:47:34,335 --> 00:47:35,135
right. But,

1223
00:47:35,855 --> 00:47:36,575
but you,

1224
00:47:38,095 --> 00:47:40,015
you stay with it. And, you know, it

1225
00:47:40,015 --> 00:47:41,775
may be the season. I don't know. Maybe

1226
00:47:41,775 --> 00:47:43,615
you maybe you pastor a church one day,

1227
00:47:43,615 --> 00:47:45,295
but maybe you stay in youth ministry. You

1228
00:47:45,295 --> 00:47:46,019
know? I know,

1229
00:47:47,219 --> 00:47:47,880
I know,

1230
00:47:48,260 --> 00:47:50,579
guys who like brother Trevor who've been in

1231
00:47:50,579 --> 00:47:52,500
youth ministry their whole lives all the way

1232
00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:54,980
into their fifties and have made a difference

1233
00:47:54,980 --> 00:47:58,304
in so many people's lives, you know,

1234
00:47:58,704 --> 00:48:00,704
impacted them in a in a great way.

1235
00:48:00,704 --> 00:48:01,025
But,

1236
00:48:01,664 --> 00:48:03,025
but you get to have fun with them.

1237
00:48:03,025 --> 00:48:04,545
You get to you get to be real

1238
00:48:04,545 --> 00:48:07,184
with them. And sometimes they're they're a lot

1239
00:48:07,184 --> 00:48:08,944
more real and in your face than adults

1240
00:48:08,944 --> 00:48:11,070
are. You know? They they'll they'll get down

1241
00:48:11,070 --> 00:48:12,750
to the nitty gritty of it and speak

1242
00:48:12,750 --> 00:48:14,590
their mind. Yeah. And I think right now

1243
00:48:14,590 --> 00:48:16,030
too, I'm I'm in a good age.

1244
00:48:16,430 --> 00:48:17,170
Yeah. That

1245
00:48:18,269 --> 00:48:20,030
I'm I'm doing my best to keep the

1246
00:48:20,030 --> 00:48:21,950
good balance of they like me because I'm

1247
00:48:21,950 --> 00:48:22,849
still young and

1248
00:48:23,445 --> 00:48:25,204
also too, they respect me and will do

1249
00:48:25,204 --> 00:48:26,565
what I I say. You know, if I

1250
00:48:26,565 --> 00:48:28,085
tell them to quiet down, they're actually quieting

1251
00:48:28,085 --> 00:48:30,164
down. Right. Yeah. That kinda thing. And so,

1252
00:48:30,724 --> 00:48:32,164
they as of right now, they like to

1253
00:48:32,164 --> 00:48:33,445
be around me, and so maybe I can

1254
00:48:33,445 --> 00:48:35,045
keep that going. That's hard to find that

1255
00:48:35,045 --> 00:48:37,610
balance. But even you know, And which I

1256
00:48:37,769 --> 00:48:39,849
I'm I'm not as good as to as

1257
00:48:39,849 --> 00:48:41,690
getting on to the kids to as my

1258
00:48:41,690 --> 00:48:44,170
wife is. Like, like, Nicole has got this

1259
00:48:44,170 --> 00:48:46,430
way with them that, like, she can, like,

1260
00:48:46,809 --> 00:48:48,650
get your hand in over here and fix

1261
00:48:48,650 --> 00:48:50,250
it, carry it up. You know? And then

1262
00:48:50,250 --> 00:48:51,769
they're loving on her. You know what I

1263
00:48:51,769 --> 00:48:52,454
mean? She's got

1264
00:48:53,175 --> 00:48:53,914
work, man.

1265
00:48:54,215 --> 00:48:55,894
Yeah. And I'm like, I'm like, I'm like,

1266
00:48:55,894 --> 00:48:57,335
I don't wanna be her own brother Brown

1267
00:48:57,335 --> 00:48:59,255
anymore. You know? Summer's got the fourth grade

1268
00:48:59,255 --> 00:49:00,775
teacher in her that comes out. Yeah. And

1269
00:49:00,775 --> 00:49:02,775
so, you know, she one, two, three eyes

1270
00:49:02,775 --> 00:49:03,815
on me, and she's got a bunch of

1271
00:49:03,815 --> 00:49:05,175
18 year olds looking at her. You know?

1272
00:49:05,175 --> 00:49:06,394
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1273
00:49:07,119 --> 00:49:09,440
Yeah. She's got something going for her. Oh,

1274
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,280
man. I I I tell you, but I

1275
00:49:11,359 --> 00:49:13,280
some of the greatest times that I've had

1276
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,519
in my ministry have been with with the

1277
00:49:15,519 --> 00:49:16,019
youth.

1278
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:18,820
We, we were in Mobile.

1279
00:49:19,199 --> 00:49:20,739
We used to go there every year,

1280
00:49:21,655 --> 00:49:24,135
and, we were we went to, we done

1281
00:49:24,135 --> 00:49:25,595
a a bible camp

1282
00:49:26,055 --> 00:49:28,375
there, and, we call it sports camp because

1283
00:49:28,375 --> 00:49:30,555
we were at a place that was actually,

1284
00:49:30,855 --> 00:49:32,934
for young men and women that was secular,

1285
00:49:32,934 --> 00:49:35,015
so we couldn't call it bible camp. But

1286
00:49:35,015 --> 00:49:36,775
there were Christian people that worked there, and

1287
00:49:36,775 --> 00:49:38,590
so that's like, just call it sports camp

1288
00:49:38,590 --> 00:49:39,949
and teach the Bible when you get in

1289
00:49:39,949 --> 00:49:41,409
here. And so that's what we did.

1290
00:49:41,710 --> 00:49:43,309
But we got to see some kids saved

1291
00:49:43,309 --> 00:49:45,309
while we were in there. And but one

1292
00:49:45,309 --> 00:49:47,090
one one little boy in particular,

1293
00:49:49,389 --> 00:49:50,449
that was struggling

1294
00:49:51,025 --> 00:49:53,184
while we were there and and just grew

1295
00:49:53,184 --> 00:49:54,565
up in in a rough

1296
00:49:55,344 --> 00:49:55,824
rough,

1297
00:49:56,545 --> 00:49:59,364
household and home and had a rough story.

1298
00:50:00,304 --> 00:50:00,625
And,

1299
00:50:01,105 --> 00:50:03,105
and I I had this I had this

1300
00:50:03,105 --> 00:50:03,605
Bible

1301
00:50:04,065 --> 00:50:05,905
that I had been preaching out of for

1302
00:50:05,905 --> 00:50:09,349
years, and it was just falling apart, you

1303
00:50:09,349 --> 00:50:09,849
know?

1304
00:50:10,230 --> 00:50:12,309
And had I had notes all in it.

1305
00:50:12,309 --> 00:50:14,789
I mean, just personal notes, you know, things

1306
00:50:14,789 --> 00:50:17,909
that all written down beside verses and things

1307
00:50:17,909 --> 00:50:19,989
the Lord just showed me at at at

1308
00:50:19,989 --> 00:50:21,614
different times that he's shown me. But,

1309
00:50:22,655 --> 00:50:25,215
anyway, Lord said, hey. Give that kid your

1310
00:50:25,215 --> 00:50:25,715
Bible.

1311
00:50:26,494 --> 00:50:26,994
What?

1312
00:50:28,974 --> 00:50:30,994
Sorry. I didn't hear you. What? Right? What?

1313
00:50:31,054 --> 00:50:32,655
And he said, give that give that kid

1314
00:50:32,655 --> 00:50:33,795
your Bible. And,

1315
00:50:34,255 --> 00:50:37,150
and I did. And, I come back. I

1316
00:50:37,150 --> 00:50:38,670
sit here. He said because he told me

1317
00:50:38,710 --> 00:50:40,190
he said, I don't have a Bible, you

1318
00:50:40,190 --> 00:50:42,349
know, and I was like, okay. Here. Here.

1319
00:50:42,349 --> 00:50:44,030
Lord told me to give you give you

1320
00:50:44,030 --> 00:50:44,690
this one.

1321
00:50:44,989 --> 00:50:45,309
And,

1322
00:50:45,949 --> 00:50:47,389
I I don't know. I don't know. I

1323
00:50:47,389 --> 00:50:48,989
I know the lord's gonna bless that. You

1324
00:50:48,989 --> 00:50:50,349
know? I don't know how that turned out.

1325
00:50:50,349 --> 00:50:52,514
I don't know what. My wife's like, where,

1326
00:50:52,914 --> 00:50:54,914
where's your Bible at? And I said, I

1327
00:50:54,914 --> 00:50:55,734
gave it to

1328
00:50:56,195 --> 00:50:57,734
this certain young man.

1329
00:50:58,114 --> 00:50:59,014
And she's like,

1330
00:50:59,315 --> 00:51:00,994
that was the Bible I thought our kids

1331
00:51:00,994 --> 00:51:02,114
would have one day. And I said, well

1332
00:51:02,195 --> 00:51:03,954
and she said, okay. Alright. The lord told

1333
00:51:03,954 --> 00:51:05,714
you I'm not gonna argue with that. You

1334
00:51:05,714 --> 00:51:06,300
know? But,

1335
00:51:06,860 --> 00:51:08,860
but, yeah, you just have those special time,

1336
00:51:08,860 --> 00:51:11,179
man, and you see them just just break

1337
00:51:11,179 --> 00:51:13,340
down and get real Yeah. With you. Yeah.

1338
00:51:13,340 --> 00:51:13,500
We,

1339
00:51:14,300 --> 00:51:15,039
we took

1340
00:51:15,660 --> 00:51:17,739
a trip to Kentucky at one point. Went

1341
00:51:17,739 --> 00:51:19,250
to the ark encounter, did that All kinds

1342
00:51:19,250 --> 00:51:21,385
of good stuff. It was cool. And then

1343
00:51:21,385 --> 00:51:24,025
we put on a bible school. Now I

1344
00:51:24,025 --> 00:51:25,704
was younger. I had no idea who they

1345
00:51:25,704 --> 00:51:26,824
got in touch with to put on this

1346
00:51:26,824 --> 00:51:27,565
bible school,

1347
00:51:27,944 --> 00:51:29,864
but, so we had a a whole crew.

1348
00:51:29,864 --> 00:51:31,704
We had thirty, forty people there from the

1349
00:51:31,704 --> 00:51:32,760
church that that was, like, we're gonna put

1350
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:34,599
on a huge bible school. We're expecting all

1351
00:51:34,599 --> 00:51:37,079
these kids had to show up. Oh. And

1352
00:51:37,079 --> 00:51:39,400
so now it's like, we're just I'm standing

1353
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:40,599
around. I was supposed to be part of

1354
00:51:40,599 --> 00:51:42,679
recreation, and, you know, we got two kids

1355
00:51:42,679 --> 00:51:43,900
there. And

1356
00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:46,855
so this whole idea, this whole,

1357
00:51:48,054 --> 00:51:50,214
vibe of, you know, we've came here for

1358
00:51:50,214 --> 00:51:52,554
absolutely nothing kinda set over the place.

1359
00:51:52,855 --> 00:51:55,174
And I talked about, you know, some some

1360
00:51:55,174 --> 00:51:56,775
separation of my family and,

1361
00:51:57,269 --> 00:51:59,750
dealing with with drugs and alcoholism and that

1362
00:51:59,750 --> 00:52:01,869
kind of thing. One boy of the two,

1363
00:52:01,869 --> 00:52:03,610
it was him and his sister were there.

1364
00:52:03,909 --> 00:52:04,230
And,

1365
00:52:05,510 --> 00:52:07,110
one of the the teachers that was teaching

1366
00:52:07,110 --> 00:52:08,550
them came over and said, hey, Carter and

1367
00:52:08,550 --> 00:52:10,824
Tanner. You mind talking to this kid? I'm

1368
00:52:10,824 --> 00:52:13,065
13, 14, maybe. I'm not not too much

1369
00:52:13,065 --> 00:52:14,585
older than him. He's he's maybe nine or

1370
00:52:14,585 --> 00:52:16,664
10. And, said, do you mind talking to

1371
00:52:16,664 --> 00:52:18,824
him? He's got some issues at home. And,

1372
00:52:19,144 --> 00:52:20,505
I think it'd be it'd be good for

1373
00:52:20,505 --> 00:52:21,545
you to talk to him. And so we

1374
00:52:21,545 --> 00:52:23,539
we go over there and I'm talking with

1375
00:52:23,539 --> 00:52:26,099
this young boy, and, he says, my mom's

1376
00:52:26,099 --> 00:52:26,599
left,

1377
00:52:27,059 --> 00:52:28,519
and she's on drugs. And,

1378
00:52:30,179 --> 00:52:31,239
basically explains

1379
00:52:31,539 --> 00:52:33,139
my life story of what was going on

1380
00:52:33,139 --> 00:52:34,579
with me at the time, you know, within

1381
00:52:34,579 --> 00:52:35,719
the past year or two.

1382
00:52:36,045 --> 00:52:37,804
And I got to, you know, witness to

1383
00:52:37,804 --> 00:52:39,724
that kid and tell him about Jesus. And

1384
00:52:39,724 --> 00:52:41,804
you're talking about just the Lord laying it

1385
00:52:41,804 --> 00:52:43,405
out on the table of, you know, what's

1386
00:52:43,405 --> 00:52:45,244
happened in your life is not in vain.

1387
00:52:45,244 --> 00:52:45,744
And,

1388
00:52:46,525 --> 00:52:49,164
you know, I've I've just got story after

1389
00:52:49,164 --> 00:52:50,940
story of him making it obvious that he's

1390
00:52:50,940 --> 00:52:53,260
moving and he's working Amen. Doing things in

1391
00:52:53,260 --> 00:52:55,099
in my life, and I'm beyond grateful for

1392
00:52:55,099 --> 00:52:57,500
it. It's just the way he takes things

1393
00:52:57,500 --> 00:53:00,539
and and uses them for his good Right.

1394
00:53:00,619 --> 00:53:02,699
Now Right. For his good, man. Right. And

1395
00:53:02,699 --> 00:53:05,199
that trip was not for nothing. Absolutely. Absolutely.

1396
00:53:05,500 --> 00:53:06,320
Yeah. Amen.

1397
00:53:06,855 --> 00:53:07,355
Amen.

1398
00:53:08,135 --> 00:53:09,974
Yeah. So we got another song over there

1399
00:53:09,974 --> 00:53:11,815
it looks like. Sure. This one will be

1400
00:53:11,815 --> 00:53:13,994
an original one. Awesome. Awesome.

1401
00:53:14,375 --> 00:53:15,974
I think I've sang it here before so

1402
00:53:15,974 --> 00:53:17,735
y'all probably already heard it, but

1403
00:53:18,135 --> 00:53:19,034
I got to reading

1404
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:19,940
about,

1405
00:53:20,639 --> 00:53:22,739
the the story of the Lord providing,

1406
00:53:23,039 --> 00:53:24,960
manna for the Israelites. And,

1407
00:53:26,159 --> 00:53:27,920
in the middle of me reading all of

1408
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:28,420
that,

1409
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:31,215
kinda the Lord was speaking to me.

1410
00:53:32,494 --> 00:53:34,015
I've seen him provide over and over and

1411
00:53:34,015 --> 00:53:34,755
over again.

1412
00:53:35,855 --> 00:53:36,355
But

1413
00:53:36,655 --> 00:53:38,515
one thing that I noticed in the story

1414
00:53:38,735 --> 00:53:39,235
was

1415
00:53:39,614 --> 00:53:41,155
that when he told

1416
00:53:41,695 --> 00:53:43,695
the people that he was gonna provide manna,

1417
00:53:43,695 --> 00:53:45,875
he said, only take what you need and,

1418
00:53:47,253 --> 00:53:48,880
you know, need what you need for today

1419
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:49,380
specifically,

1420
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,059
and I'll provide for tomorrow.

1421
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,440
And that stuck out to me big time

1422
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:54,880
about, you know, if the Lord gave me

1423
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,199
all I needed from now until the next

1424
00:53:57,199 --> 00:53:57,699
year,

1425
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:00,980
I wonder how faithful I'd be. And so,

1426
00:54:01,204 --> 00:54:02,804
you know, I know that He provides for

1427
00:54:02,804 --> 00:54:05,364
today. Amen. And if I'll take that provision

1428
00:54:05,364 --> 00:54:07,045
for today, He'll provide for tomorrow too, and

1429
00:54:07,045 --> 00:54:08,485
I can trust in Him and have faith

1430
00:54:08,485 --> 00:54:10,344
in that. So that's what this is about.

1431
00:54:20,809 --> 00:54:22,670
In the silence of

1432
00:54:23,210 --> 00:54:24,030
the morning,

1433
00:54:25,530 --> 00:54:27,549
when the sun has yet

1434
00:54:28,089 --> 00:54:28,829
to rise,

1435
00:54:30,054 --> 00:54:31,275
I'm weighed down

1436
00:54:31,655 --> 00:54:33,675
by all my sorrows

1437
00:54:34,934 --> 00:54:35,434
Tears

1438
00:54:35,815 --> 00:54:36,315
falling

1439
00:54:36,775 --> 00:54:37,275
from

1440
00:54:37,735 --> 00:54:38,474
my eyes

1441
00:54:39,815 --> 00:54:40,795
But I remember

1442
00:54:41,414 --> 00:54:41,914
in

1443
00:54:42,454 --> 00:54:43,114
the darkness

1444
00:54:44,579 --> 00:54:45,960
How you've always

1445
00:54:46,420 --> 00:54:46,920
made

1446
00:54:47,299 --> 00:54:47,880
a way

1447
00:54:49,380 --> 00:54:50,519
Though right now

1448
00:54:50,819 --> 00:54:52,679
I may not see

1449
00:54:53,859 --> 00:54:54,839
it You'll bring

1450
00:54:55,299 --> 00:54:57,239
mana four today

1451
00:54:58,695 --> 00:54:59,195
You'll

1452
00:54:59,815 --> 00:55:01,114
bring man a four

1453
00:55:01,494 --> 00:55:01,994
today.

1454
00:55:03,494 --> 00:55:04,795
I won't worry

1455
00:55:05,335 --> 00:55:05,835
about

1456
00:55:06,215 --> 00:55:06,715
tomorrow.

1457
00:55:08,215 --> 00:55:10,555
Though the sky is all turned

1458
00:55:11,015 --> 00:55:11,675
to gray,

1459
00:55:13,015 --> 00:55:13,675
I know

1460
00:55:14,159 --> 00:55:15,380
blessings are

1461
00:55:15,839 --> 00:55:16,579
to follow

1462
00:55:17,839 --> 00:55:19,059
And when the night

1463
00:55:19,359 --> 00:55:21,219
it seems so endless

1464
00:55:22,639 --> 00:55:23,780
And the dung's

1465
00:55:24,319 --> 00:55:24,819
far

1466
00:55:25,199 --> 00:55:25,699
away

1467
00:55:27,119 --> 00:55:28,094
I'll just hold

1468
00:55:28,574 --> 00:55:29,394
on to

1469
00:55:29,855 --> 00:55:30,835
your promise

1470
00:55:31,934 --> 00:55:32,755
You'll bring

1471
00:55:33,215 --> 00:55:34,355
man of four

1472
00:55:35,375 --> 00:55:35,875
today

1473
00:55:39,614 --> 00:55:40,514
Every day

1474
00:55:40,815 --> 00:55:41,635
is filled

1475
00:55:41,934 --> 00:55:42,755
with questions

1476
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:45,099
The unknown

1477
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:46,460
is all

1478
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:47,500
I see

1479
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:49,980
But I walk

1480
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:51,340
in faith

1481
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:52,780
for I know

1482
00:55:53,559 --> 00:55:54,699
That you'll always

1483
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:56,140
walk

1484
00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:57,180
with me

1485
00:55:58,574 --> 00:56:00,034
You fed the hungry

1486
00:56:00,335 --> 00:56:00,835
in

1487
00:56:01,215 --> 00:56:02,034
the desert.

1488
00:56:03,295 --> 00:56:04,275
And for me,

1489
00:56:04,574 --> 00:56:05,554
you'll do

1490
00:56:05,934 --> 00:56:06,755
the same.

1491
00:56:07,934 --> 00:56:09,315
So I'll wait

1492
00:56:10,460 --> 00:56:11,679
upon your goodness

1493
00:56:12,859 --> 00:56:13,679
And your

1494
00:56:14,139 --> 00:56:15,280
mana for

1495
00:56:15,659 --> 00:56:16,159
today

1496
00:56:17,659 --> 00:56:18,559
You'll bring

1497
00:56:19,019 --> 00:56:19,920
mana for

1498
00:56:20,460 --> 00:56:20,960
today

1499
00:56:22,539 --> 00:56:23,760
I won't worry

1500
00:56:24,380 --> 00:56:24,644
about

1501
00:56:25,204 --> 00:56:25,704
tomorrow

1502
00:56:27,284 --> 00:56:28,505
when the clouds

1503
00:56:28,885 --> 00:56:29,625
all turn

1504
00:56:30,085 --> 00:56:30,824
to gray.

1505
00:56:32,164 --> 00:56:33,385
I know blessings

1506
00:56:34,005 --> 00:56:34,505
are

1507
00:56:35,125 --> 00:56:35,784
to follow

1508
00:56:37,260 --> 00:56:40,640
When the night it seems so endless

1509
00:56:41,900 --> 00:56:44,159
And the dawn looks far

1510
00:56:44,619 --> 00:56:45,119
away

1511
00:56:46,380 --> 00:56:48,640
I'll just hold on to

1512
00:56:49,275 --> 00:56:49,775
your

1513
00:56:50,394 --> 00:56:52,014
promise You'll bring

1514
00:56:52,474 --> 00:56:53,534
mana for

1515
00:56:53,994 --> 00:56:54,494
today

1516
00:56:59,835 --> 00:57:02,335
In the midst of my darkest

1517
00:57:02,714 --> 00:57:03,214
draw

1518
00:57:03,579 --> 00:57:05,599
when I feel all hope

1519
00:57:05,980 --> 00:57:06,799
is gone.

1520
00:57:09,339 --> 00:57:12,880
I will lift my hands in praise

1521
00:57:13,179 --> 00:57:15,199
to the one who paid

1522
00:57:15,579 --> 00:57:16,400
it all.

1523
00:57:17,724 --> 00:57:19,344
He'll bring manna

1524
00:57:19,684 --> 00:57:20,184
for

1525
00:57:20,525 --> 00:57:21,025
today.

1526
00:57:22,364 --> 00:57:23,905
So I won't worry

1527
00:57:24,445 --> 00:57:24,945
about

1528
00:57:25,405 --> 00:57:25,905
tomorrow

1529
00:57:27,324 --> 00:57:28,465
when the skies

1530
00:57:28,844 --> 00:57:29,744
all turn

1531
00:57:30,204 --> 00:57:30,704
gray.

1532
00:57:32,059 --> 00:57:33,360
I know blessings

1533
00:57:34,059 --> 00:57:34,559
are

1534
00:57:34,940 --> 00:57:35,760
to follow

1535
00:57:36,860 --> 00:57:39,280
When the night it seems

1536
00:57:39,579 --> 00:57:40,480
so endless

1537
00:57:42,059 --> 00:57:44,159
And the dawn looks far

1538
00:57:44,619 --> 00:57:45,119
away

1539
00:57:46,574 --> 00:57:48,355
I'll just hold on

1540
00:57:49,135 --> 00:57:50,114
to your promise.

1541
00:57:51,215 --> 00:57:52,034
You'll bring

1542
00:57:52,574 --> 00:57:54,514
man of four today.

1543
00:57:56,175 --> 00:57:58,355
I'll just hold on to

1544
00:57:58,894 --> 00:57:59,795
your promise.

1545
00:58:00,940 --> 00:58:01,679
You'll bring

1546
00:58:02,380 --> 00:58:03,360
man of four

1547
00:58:03,739 --> 00:58:04,239
today.

1548
00:58:10,219 --> 00:58:11,820
Amen. That one really spoke to my heart,

1549
00:58:11,820 --> 00:58:13,099
man. I appreciate that. That,

1550
00:58:14,780 --> 00:58:17,195
that reminded me me of Matthew six or

1551
00:58:17,195 --> 00:58:17,695
Jesus,

1552
00:58:18,074 --> 00:58:19,675
of course you're preaching on Sermon on the

1553
00:58:19,675 --> 00:58:20,175
Mount.

1554
00:58:20,474 --> 00:58:22,554
Right? It's, do not do not worry then,

1555
00:58:22,554 --> 00:58:23,994
saying what will we eat, what will we

1556
00:58:23,994 --> 00:58:25,594
drink, what will we wear for clothing? He

1557
00:58:25,594 --> 00:58:28,155
goes on, but seek first his kingdom and

1558
00:58:28,155 --> 00:58:29,690
his righteousness and all these things will be

1559
00:58:29,690 --> 00:58:31,769
added to you. Don't worry about tomorrow, for

1560
00:58:31,769 --> 00:58:32,269
tomorrow

1561
00:58:32,730 --> 00:58:34,569
will care for itself. Each day has enough

1562
00:58:34,569 --> 00:58:36,809
trouble of its own. And I've been you

1563
00:58:36,809 --> 00:58:38,829
know, I've got this I've got this personality

1564
00:58:38,889 --> 00:58:40,569
where if I have a task in front

1565
00:58:40,569 --> 00:58:41,985
of me that I need to get done,

1566
00:58:42,545 --> 00:58:44,565
I get hopper focused I mean just

1567
00:58:45,184 --> 00:58:47,905
blonder zone and I'm digging into this thing

1568
00:58:47,905 --> 00:58:49,505
as hard as I can and right now

1569
00:58:49,505 --> 00:58:50,724
it's retirement planning.

1570
00:58:51,184 --> 00:58:52,565
I'm at that age you know

1571
00:58:53,105 --> 00:58:55,500
and I'm just hopper focused on it and

1572
00:58:55,579 --> 00:58:57,179
man, I gotta I gotta think more about

1573
00:58:57,179 --> 00:58:58,559
manna for today. Amen.

1574
00:58:59,260 --> 00:59:00,780
And get my mind off the you know.

1575
00:59:00,780 --> 00:59:02,860
And my favorite verse lately, you know, every

1576
00:59:02,860 --> 00:59:04,619
time a bad thought comes in my head,

1577
00:59:04,619 --> 00:59:07,099
which they always do, or you know something

1578
00:59:07,099 --> 00:59:09,275
something happens, my favorite my favorite verse lately

1579
00:59:09,275 --> 00:59:11,675
is Colossians three, verses two and three. It

1580
00:59:11,675 --> 00:59:13,515
said, Set your mind on things above, not

1581
00:59:13,515 --> 00:59:14,894
on things of the world.

1582
00:59:15,195 --> 00:59:17,114
For you died and your life is hidden

1583
00:59:17,114 --> 00:59:18,414
with Christ and God. Amen.

1584
00:59:19,595 --> 00:59:21,659
Amen. And it's just

1585
00:59:22,539 --> 00:59:23,839
staying staying focused.

1586
00:59:24,139 --> 00:59:26,900
Yeah. Amen. It's hard sometimes, and it's hard

1587
00:59:26,900 --> 00:59:29,019
to stay it's hard to stay to to

1588
00:59:29,019 --> 00:59:31,339
not worry about tomorrow or the next day

1589
00:59:31,339 --> 00:59:33,420
or the next week or how are we

1590
00:59:33,420 --> 00:59:34,460
going to do this or how are we

1591
00:59:34,460 --> 00:59:36,815
going to do that. We're talking about tithe

1592
00:59:36,815 --> 00:59:38,735
and then in our Sunday school class,

1593
00:59:39,055 --> 00:59:41,454
Sunday morning, and then Jake was Jake was

1594
00:59:41,454 --> 00:59:43,295
teaching on tithe and then and of course

1595
00:59:43,295 --> 00:59:43,954
I told,

1596
00:59:44,335 --> 00:59:46,355
I always go back and tell the story

1597
00:59:46,575 --> 00:59:47,795
when Nicole and I

1598
00:59:48,575 --> 00:59:51,559
were young, married, and and, had gotten back

1599
00:59:51,559 --> 00:59:53,640
in church and rededicated our lives to the

1600
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:55,960
Lord, and God was just on me big

1601
00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:58,760
time about tithing, you know, but of course

1602
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:00,679
the big discussion is is like if we

1603
01:00:00,679 --> 01:00:03,114
tithe right, you know, like we should,

1604
01:00:03,414 --> 01:00:05,255
how are we gonna pay our light bill,

1605
01:00:05,255 --> 01:00:07,094
our water bill, and because we were making

1606
01:00:07,094 --> 01:00:09,255
a lot of money back then and and,

1607
01:00:09,734 --> 01:00:10,054
but,

1608
01:00:10,614 --> 01:00:12,375
man, I can I I'll never forget, and

1609
01:00:12,375 --> 01:00:13,815
I told him Sunday, I said we were

1610
01:00:13,815 --> 01:00:15,355
in a Sunday school class

1611
01:00:15,734 --> 01:00:16,380
much like

1612
01:00:17,099 --> 01:00:19,500
this, and and we had already discussed it

1613
01:00:19,500 --> 01:00:21,739
on Saturday night? We walked into Sunday school

1614
01:00:21,739 --> 01:00:24,139
Sunday morning, and the whole lesson was on

1615
01:00:24,139 --> 01:00:25,819
tithe. And I looked at Nicole, and I

1616
01:00:25,819 --> 01:00:27,119
said, write the check.

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01:00:27,500 --> 01:00:28,159
You know?

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01:00:28,779 --> 01:00:30,960
And and and we didn't worry

1619
01:00:31,404 --> 01:00:33,644
about anything. I mean, we and and we

1620
01:00:33,644 --> 01:00:35,424
were always provided for.

1621
01:00:35,964 --> 01:00:37,964
I've never you could tell I've never missed

1622
01:00:37,964 --> 01:00:38,545
a meal.

1623
01:00:39,005 --> 01:00:41,244
Our lights hadn't been turned off, you know,

1624
01:00:41,244 --> 01:00:43,804
and and God has always provided. He is

1625
01:00:43,804 --> 01:00:44,304
faithful

1626
01:00:44,684 --> 01:00:46,510
for today. He is.

1627
01:00:46,889 --> 01:00:49,050
Yeah. Tithing just as a sidebar, you know

1628
01:00:49,050 --> 01:00:50,889
you've always heard, I've always heard people say

1629
01:00:50,889 --> 01:00:52,889
well tithing, that's an old testament thing and

1630
01:00:52,889 --> 01:00:54,969
blah blah blah. Well guess who the first

1631
01:00:54,969 --> 01:00:57,050
person in the Bible to tithe was? It

1632
01:00:57,050 --> 01:00:59,690
was Abraham. Yeah. That was before the law.

1633
01:00:59,690 --> 01:01:00,349
To Melchizedek.

1634
01:01:00,809 --> 01:01:03,664
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Before the law. Yeah. That's

1635
01:01:03,664 --> 01:01:04,405
right. Amen.

1636
01:01:04,864 --> 01:01:05,364
Amen.

1637
01:01:05,985 --> 01:01:07,525
Anyway. No. I I

1638
01:01:08,465 --> 01:01:10,065
just wanna say, Carter, I love you and

1639
01:01:10,065 --> 01:01:12,545
appreciate you. Thank you for coming tonight. Yeah.

1640
01:01:12,545 --> 01:01:13,824
I've been meaning to get you on here

1641
01:01:13,824 --> 01:01:14,545
for a while.

1642
01:01:15,025 --> 01:01:15,265
But,

1643
01:01:15,905 --> 01:01:17,440
but anyway, we have we we have a

1644
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:19,440
lot of fun together. Carter Carter kinda has

1645
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:21,219
the same sense of humor as I do.

1646
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,880
Yeah. Yep. Sometimes it's a little overtop sense

1647
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:26,179
of humor we got. But, anyway,

1648
01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:27,920
but we we have a lot of fun

1649
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:29,300
together and always enjoy,

1650
01:01:30,385 --> 01:01:32,785
always enjoy all the all our kids and

1651
01:01:32,785 --> 01:01:34,385
I call them kids but they're not they're

1652
01:01:34,385 --> 01:01:36,224
young young men and women but

1653
01:01:36,625 --> 01:01:38,305
coming over and being at the house and

1654
01:01:38,305 --> 01:01:40,625
spending time with us and it's just the

1655
01:01:40,625 --> 01:01:42,785
Lord's blessed us. He has blessed us big

1656
01:01:42,785 --> 01:01:43,110
time

1657
01:01:43,989 --> 01:01:46,230
So and we do we do appreciate you

1658
01:01:46,230 --> 01:01:48,230
joining us tonight and we're yeah. We're gonna

1659
01:01:48,230 --> 01:01:49,430
have to get him back again. Let you

1660
01:01:49,430 --> 01:01:51,269
do a bunch of original songs because man,

1661
01:01:51,269 --> 01:01:53,269
I love that. Yeah. I really appreciate it.

1662
01:01:53,269 --> 01:01:55,430
I really love that. Hey. He's got he's

1663
01:01:55,430 --> 01:01:56,809
got some stuff out there

1664
01:01:57,554 --> 01:01:59,795
on Spotify and everyone. Run to the Father,

1665
01:01:59,795 --> 01:02:01,155
the one I sang tonight, I've got it

1666
01:02:01,155 --> 01:02:03,795
out on Spotify. Shameless plug. But yeah. Spotify.

1667
01:02:03,795 --> 01:02:04,295
Music,

1668
01:02:04,914 --> 01:02:08,034
YouTube, just under your name. Pandora. Yeah. Everywhere.

1669
01:02:08,034 --> 01:02:11,234
All streaming platform. Yeah. Awesome. We're definitely check

1670
01:02:11,234 --> 01:02:13,400
that out. Carter Pridmore and we'll

1671
01:02:14,099 --> 01:02:15,900
maybe try to get a few links and

1672
01:02:15,900 --> 01:02:17,239
I'll put them in the description.

1673
01:02:17,539 --> 01:02:18,039
That'd

1674
01:02:18,820 --> 01:02:19,480
be awesome.

1675
01:02:20,260 --> 01:02:22,980
Well and thanks everybody for joining us tonight

1676
01:02:22,980 --> 01:02:25,454
and we look forward to next time we

1677
01:02:25,454 --> 01:02:27,615
get to get to, get together and do

1678
01:02:27,615 --> 01:02:29,135
this next week maybe. And,

1679
01:02:29,775 --> 01:02:31,235
who'd like to pray us out tonight?

1680
01:02:32,175 --> 01:02:33,555
Go ahead, brother. Alright.

1681
01:02:34,175 --> 01:02:35,934
Father in heaven, thank you for this time

1682
01:02:35,934 --> 01:02:38,255
we've had to come together and and, we'll

1683
01:02:38,255 --> 01:02:40,380
just worship you and praise you. Father, we

1684
01:02:40,619 --> 01:02:42,059
we we thank you for the blessing that

1685
01:02:42,059 --> 01:02:44,059
is, our brother Carter. Father,

1686
01:02:44,380 --> 01:02:46,699
we pray for your blessings on his life,

1687
01:02:46,699 --> 01:02:47,759
on on his

1688
01:02:48,139 --> 01:02:49,900
on he and his wife. And father, in

1689
01:02:49,900 --> 01:02:51,420
the mission that you've got them on with

1690
01:02:51,420 --> 01:02:53,819
these young people. Father, bless everything that they

1691
01:02:53,819 --> 01:02:55,500
do. Fill them with your spirit that they

1692
01:02:55,500 --> 01:02:57,954
might they might glorify you in in everything

1693
01:02:57,954 --> 01:02:58,934
they do and say.

1694
01:02:59,235 --> 01:03:01,474
Father, I pray for anyone listening that that

1695
01:03:01,474 --> 01:03:03,315
may have heard us tonight, that it's something

1696
01:03:03,315 --> 01:03:05,155
that may have touched them. Father, I pray

1697
01:03:05,155 --> 01:03:07,155
that you would, you would fill them with

1698
01:03:07,155 --> 01:03:09,554
your spirit, that, father, that, that that they

1699
01:03:09,554 --> 01:03:11,474
would know that they would know that they

1700
01:03:11,474 --> 01:03:11,849
know

1701
01:03:12,329 --> 01:03:14,970
that Jesus is real, that He's speaking to

1702
01:03:14,970 --> 01:03:17,530
them right now, Father, that that that all

1703
01:03:17,530 --> 01:03:18,730
they have to do is call out to

1704
01:03:19,289 --> 01:03:21,450
and in the name of Jesus, and they'll

1705
01:03:21,450 --> 01:03:22,110
be saved.

1706
01:03:22,730 --> 01:03:24,570
Father, thank you for this group of men

1707
01:03:24,570 --> 01:03:26,489
here, and I pray your blessings on each

1708
01:03:26,489 --> 01:03:28,304
one of them and on this program. And

1709
01:03:28,304 --> 01:03:30,565
in Jesus' name, amen. Special

1710
01:03:31,905 --> 01:03:35,344
thank you to Carter Pridmore, Brian Harris, Waverly

1711
01:03:35,344 --> 01:03:35,844
Henderson,

1712
01:03:36,224 --> 01:03:39,184
Tatum Harris Spears, and Ching Josie Bartain for

1713
01:03:39,184 --> 01:03:41,364
our theme song, Truth Set Me Free.

1714
01:03:41,664 --> 01:03:44,070
I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio.

1715
01:03:44,449 --> 01:03:46,449
We hope you can join us live next

1716
01:03:46,449 --> 01:03:48,070
Monday at 6PM central.

1717
01:03:48,449 --> 01:03:51,170
Thank you for listening. But truth found me

1718
01:03:51,170 --> 01:03:51,670
there.

1719
01:03:52,369 --> 01:03:54,630
It was in my darkest eye.

1720
01:03:55,170 --> 01:03:56,235
I traded my black

1721
01:04:34,924 --> 01:04:35,424
free.