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it's continuing to kick up in Israel.

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a possible way to look at this.

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take a stance,

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this is how I would be looking at

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this

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is right now we have

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so Iran now is is,

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bombing Israel,

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k, which which, by the way,

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you know, Israel doesn't want that to happen.

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That's not what I'm about to say.

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Israel is kinda okay with it.

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Gives them the right to say, okay, We're

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gonna go after the 2 basic things in

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Iran right now to make sure,

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Israel is gaining an advantage.

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They're gonna take out the oil filled refineries

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and they're gonna take out the nuclear, which

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the nuclear is the big one. Right? The

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nuclear is Israel's safety.

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The oil filled refiners is Iran's,

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financial collapse.

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Those both will be happening together. So

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so,

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so this is good.

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200 something ballistic missiles.

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This is the largest

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ballistic missile barrage in the history

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of the planet.

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So one tiny little spot on the map

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called Israel

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from

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Iran. It was like 25 times larger than

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Israel.

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no Israelis were killed.

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One Jordanian was killed in the process.

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you know, it's I I just keep thinking

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of the scriptures that talk about how that

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God will protect Israel.

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God will cover Israel. And then somebody will

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say,

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well, yeah, but that's because they have the

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iron dome.

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Right?

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Thank you, God.

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Remember when

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when, Reagan was trying to build a Star

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Wars?

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It that the Russians were scared to death

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that we were going to build Star Wars.

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one of the last,

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sticking points

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for Gorbachev when,

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him and Reagan were coming down to the

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of all of their this was like

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a few months before

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the Berlin Wall was torn down.

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They were back and forth back and forth.

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They were going at each other and and

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Gorbachev would not give up. He kept saying,

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get rid

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of Star Wars or we're not gonna have

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any deal. Get rid of Star Wars. Get

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rid of Star Wars.

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And Reagan said, nope. Not doing it. We're

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not gonna get rid of Star Wars because

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that's the only thing that will protect us.

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Did you know there was no such thing

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as Star Wars when he said that?

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They didn't come up with that technology good

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enough. They wanted to. It was out in

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the future but Russia didn't know that,

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yeah, that's right. You're not taking our Star

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Wars,

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Luke.

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but, but it wasn't perfected yet. It wasn't

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it wasn't we didn't have enough to to

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make it happen at that time.

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same time and Israel was developing it and

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they actually came up with it. It's called

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the iron dome.

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and I think that was a God gift.

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I think God gave them the ability to

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do all that stuff.

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We we see where God prophesies

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through the prophets about all these things that

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are happening right now

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that

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that Israel will become a nation. They'll never

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be destroyed again. They'll never be,

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defeated and pushed out of their country again.

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one of the largest

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well, the number one largest terrorist

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states in the world, the number one largest

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one who has all of these proxies,

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Everybody's been so scared of them. I I

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don't know if you guys remember. I was

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thinking about this the other day

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because I'm watching all this stuff go down

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in Iran.

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so I so I was a kid. See,

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late junior high, early high school. And when,

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the Ayatollah took over

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excuse me.

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When the Ayatollah took over you guys are

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older. You remember that? When he came in

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and took over Iran,

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there was this bloodbath in the streets. Well,

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that's really the first time that the average

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knew there was Iran.

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was Iran, but we didn't know there was

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Iran. Right? I mean, you knew it was

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as a as a as a kid,

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scared of this,

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being scared of

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I remember laying in bed at night scared

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of Iran

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and the Ayatollah

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Khomeini.

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I don't I don't know why. Maybe it's

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just God was putting something in my head

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so that it means something to me over

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the years.

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that,

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and then right right around that same time

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when the, marine barracks was blown over, I

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think that was 1984. Does that sound right?

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1984.

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And all of the stuff that's going on

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craziness And,

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and and and God, through all of this,

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we've all thought that Iran was the

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big bad guy that was gonna do it.

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I just love that. I absolutely love that.

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It feels the same way as

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when, Glass knows remember that? Gorbachev was talking

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about how powerful and strong and everything that

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Russia was and how they had so much

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money, and they were and they would have

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Americans come over and tour,

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Russia, and they would take them on certain

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place. And then we found out later that

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all that stuff was false. It was false

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fronts.

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and there wouldn't even be a back to

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because Russia was falling apart.

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Reagan said, tear down that wall,

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they didn't have a choice.

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to death that if we push that if

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if Reagan I say we because me and

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Reagan were tied.

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to death,

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that Russia was gonna nuke us.

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false, fake.

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Which by the way, some of this stuff

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not everything I'm talking about, but some of

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it's in the Reagan movie.

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Very well done.

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And not the the liberal stupid spin that

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This is just true story of Reagan.

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You gotta watch it. And then what's his

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face that

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that did the acting? Dennis Quaid. Dennis Quaid.

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did. Even the way he would move his

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mouth and and even the way he would

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stand. And so I I was just I've

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studied him a lot. I just think I

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think there's every now and then,

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there comes along an individual

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that everything rests upon them

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and they make it happen, like George Washington,

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Abraham Lincoln.

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same category as those 2 guys,

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just me personally.

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right? Margaret Thatcher, the same time as Reagan.

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And she was a little bulldog and she

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was right there with Reagan the whole time.

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Because they fought together, they got a lot

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of this stuff done. And, Churchill coming off

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the the hills of Chamberlain. Chamberlain Chamberlain was

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a waste.

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England under Nazi control.

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gonna do that. And I just I just

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what have we been talking about?

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Let me let me pause it a question

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Carolyn to answer.

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but let me just

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bring I just randomly chose Karen. I don't

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know why. But,

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so right now, the schools are really messed

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up. Right?

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Prerenter rights are being taken away all this

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different thing.

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So what do you think about the idea

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of,

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giving the rights

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to the children?

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What do you think about that?

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What?

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Well, just the rights over the child. The

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rights over the child are now the children's

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rights.

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That is the answer.

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They're children.

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Guys, you understand this is on the ballot

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in November.

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strongly by a lot of Republicans.

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Republicans all over the state are bragging on

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this. Oh, this is a great law. This

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is gonna be great. We need to put

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this into effect.

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So we're gonna let,

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8 year old decide what's best for 8

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ever thought that was a good idea?

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them move out and get their own job

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and then they can make their own decisions.

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But guys, there's a reason why we're parents.

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They can't do that.

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like this and I was talking about,

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that 16 year olds are not old enough

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to decide,

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their own life.

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They're not old enough. They they they make

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too many mistakes.

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They're gonna compound.

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Now, can they make a lot more,

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decisions than an 8 year old? Sure. There's

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no doubt about that. And by the time

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your child is 16, you should be letting

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them have more freedom and all that kind

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of stuff. But the idea that somehow a

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16 year old is gonna make adult

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decisions

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well,

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it doesn't make sense. When I said that,

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there was this,

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16 year old girl sitting at the back

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of the service.

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She got mad.

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She stood up and, who are you to

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say that 16 year olds can't make their

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own decisions? I can make my own decisions.

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I can do whatever I want. I make

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good decisions all the time.

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And,

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this guy sitting over here

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looked back at her and said, the fact

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that you're saying this and yelling at the

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pastor in the middle of a service means

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maybe you're not making good decisions.

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I was like,

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But but guys, this is the thing is,

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we understand this,

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but I don't understand that this is the

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part problem I'm having

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is that literally people that consider themselves conservatives

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all over the state are saying, let's

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let children

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decide for children.

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Which means who's actually gonna be deciding?

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This is not a pro child,

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rights bill,

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ballot initiative.

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It's it's an anti parental rights.

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Because who's with those kids,

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6, 7, 8 hours a day?

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Teachers, counselors,

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those they're gonna be making decisions for 8

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year olds. Right?

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There are some teachers

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that I would say,

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sure. I think they would make good decisions

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for my children.

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But they are a minority,

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a small small minority

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compared to who's out there trying to make

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the decisions.

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And the people that actually would probably make

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the right decision for your child will be

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the first one to call the parent and

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say, what do you think? Because they're your

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child.

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It's all the people fighting

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for the children to make their own decisions

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that you better be careful of because they

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are trying to take away the parental rights

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and give it to somebody else. But not

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officially to somebody else because then they at

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the end of the day, they can still

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blame it on the child.

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That's that's egregious.

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That's horribly egregious.

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I'll probably talk about some of these other

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bout of initiatives over the next,

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few weeks.

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That's a that's a dumb one. That's,

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what's the number? 80? 80. That's 80.

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Vote no

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Other people are gonna give children that do

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not belong to them

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rights that will supersede parental rights.

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I think these things And I know I

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keep saying this, and I get picked on

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anytime I say this. I get picked on

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in the media and stuff like this. I

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think these are just pedophilic mentalities.

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These are just more pedophile.

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Pedophilic.

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Pedophilia.

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Because why?

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Who are the people

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wanting

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children, young kids,

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7 year olds, 9, 12, 30 Who are

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the people wanting them to be able to

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make all their own decisions?

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They're the vultures.

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They're the pedophiles that are making that

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push. That's my opinion.

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Alright.

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I'm glad I got that off my chest.

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My oldest son is 30 and he still

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doesn't make good decisions.

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They still don't go, I'm 54. Sometimes it's

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iffy.

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The percentage is higher if you ask my

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wife.

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Alright. We're gonna go to Galatians chapter 6.

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And and part of the reason

391
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I wanna do this is because

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of, some of the things that I've been

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speaking about the last few weeks, but then

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also what I'm gonna be speaking about this

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week coming up.

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Okay?

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So give me what did I speak about

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this last week?

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Suffering.

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Suffering.

401
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What did I say about it, Joy?

402
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I didn't say it's bad.

403
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Why did you say it's bad?

404
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What? I didn't say it was good. I

405
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said it was beneficial.

406
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I have nothing to say here.

407
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I I don't like suffering. I don't think

408
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it's good, but I don't think it's bad

409
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necessarily.

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I think it's I think it's part of

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life, and we need to

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I just think the church right now better

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stare

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directly in the face and say, I'm gonna

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do this.

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Bring it on.

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I'm gonna do this.

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Don't don't

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look for suffering.

420
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That's not what I'm saying.

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I did say look for challenge.

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Challenge yourself. I think we should always be

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challenging ourself.

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I try to do this

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I recognize that as I get older, my

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my potential

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for challenging myself becomes less and less, right?

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Did you realize

429
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that,

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most most people will not make a life

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changing decision after 35 years old.

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Most people. Now, that was an older statistic.

433
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I think that is changing because

434
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because, the way our culture is changing,

435
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right? Our culture is changing quite a bit.

436
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In fact, this is hard for me to

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wrap my mind around but this is just

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the way it is. Against my, my sensitivities,

439
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I guess you would say. My son is

440
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a, internet he he does internet stuff.

441
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I don't really know what it is. Sometimes

442
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he tells me and I'm like, I don't

443
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know what he's talking about. But,

444
00:16:40,949 --> 00:16:43,129
and he does this he's done this for

445
00:16:43,829 --> 00:16:45,129
for 5 or 6 major

446
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corporations

447
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here in Colorado Springs.

448
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He he contracts

449
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sometimes to a company or sometimes he gets

450
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hired by the company and they contract him

451
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or he works with the company. And right

452
00:16:56,705 --> 00:16:58,325
now, he's working for Lockheed.

453
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And about every

454
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well, it's more than that.

455
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I was about it's about every 6 months,

456
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but it's actually quite quite more often.

457
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But he'll have headhunters call him and say,

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hey. This company will hire you, and they'll

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pay

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you 15,000 more a year.

461
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I'm doing this. And he's done he's changed

462
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like that

463
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5 or 6 times in the last 4

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or 5 years.

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Sometimes he'll change jobs twice in a year.

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That's

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not the mindset I had growing up. I'm

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old enough that that my parents would try

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to instill in me, you know, get a

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good job,

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work your way up through that job, and

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stay with it

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your whole life.

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Now that that's not how I looked at

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it,

476
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but that was the norm when I was

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a child

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and as I grew up. Now it began

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to change. I would I think it began

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to change in the eighties

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because there was just so much

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I mean, going back to Reagan. Reagan made

483
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our country so prosperous

484
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in the 19 eighties. You could you could

485
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get some amazing jobs and move around. But

486
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nowadays,

487
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if when I think of that,

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I think

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I think to myself, at least stay at

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the same job a year,

491
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2 years.

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That's not the mindset.

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And I'm the I'm the dinosaur.

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Because when I say to him, doesn't your

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company

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doesn't your company not like it when you

497
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move around like that?

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And he says, no. That's the way it

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is. It's the expectation now. These companies know

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that's the way it works because they're the

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one trying to hire you from this company.

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And then they're trying to hire you from

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this company. And he said, specifically

504
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in

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in in any kind of technology field and

506
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any definitely any kind of contract, governmental contract

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technology work, you're gonna be changing all the

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time because you can just get more money

509
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and more money and move around and move

510
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around and move around.

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And, because I even asked him,

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well, isn't there one of the companies that

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you worked for that you would like to

514
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have stayed in? He said, yeah, there was

515
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one. He told me which one it was.

516
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He said, but I got a call from

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this other company. They were gonna pay him

518
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20 something 1000 more a year. His company

519
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couldn't match it. And he was gonna get

520
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the job that he wanted,

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a little bit higher up in in the

522
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way he I don't know what he's doing.

523
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So

524
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it's just the expectation now. That is so

525
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foreign to

526
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me. Take it in take it in church

527
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work.

528
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You guys realize that I'm a I'm an

529
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I'm an old timer

530
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in church work. The last

531
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the last two churches I worked at, I

532
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was in Strasburg for 11 years. I've been

533
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here for 12 years.

534
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You realize that makes me

535
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the the anomaly?

536
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The average pastor stays at a church less

537
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than 3 years.

538
00:19:49,644 --> 00:19:51,565
The average youth pastor stays at a church

539
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less than a year. That makes Josh and

540
00:19:53,965 --> 00:19:55,904
Liz complete freaks.

541
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They've been here 11 years now. That's

542
00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:03,599
weird. In fact, we get calls we've had

543
00:20:03,679 --> 00:20:05,619
we've spoken different things,

544
00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,119
all over because people want to know. We've

545
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done Zoom calls, all kinds of things because

546
00:20:11,615 --> 00:20:13,615
people wanna know how how do you guys

547
00:20:13,615 --> 00:20:14,994
stay together so long.

548
00:20:17,535 --> 00:20:18,035
Like,

549
00:20:20,095 --> 00:20:21,075
I don't know.

550
00:20:22,255 --> 00:20:23,954
I mean, there are reasons but

551
00:20:24,519 --> 00:20:25,799
but at the end of the day that

552
00:20:25,799 --> 00:20:26,700
makes us weird.

553
00:20:27,559 --> 00:20:28,700
That makes us strange.

554
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So so here's the reason that I'm asking

555
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this.

556
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When it comes to

557
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understanding, embracing, suffering, I think our culture right

558
00:20:39,784 --> 00:20:40,284
now,

559
00:20:40,904 --> 00:20:42,924
everything about our culture is taking

560
00:20:43,304 --> 00:20:45,544
the easy way out, taking the easy path.

561
00:20:45,544 --> 00:20:46,825
And I'm not trying to pick on the

562
00:20:46,825 --> 00:20:49,559
way my son works or or that because

563
00:20:49,559 --> 00:20:51,480
it is the norm. If he said, no.

564
00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,240
I'm just gonna stay at this company, you

565
00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,720
know, for 5 years. Everybody else is gonna

566
00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:57,400
get promoted and promoted and everything else, and

567
00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:58,779
he's gonna be sitting there.

568
00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,000
It is the it is the culture. I

569
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,940
don't understand it, but it is the culture.

570
00:21:04,634 --> 00:21:06,335
But everything about life,

571
00:21:07,355 --> 00:21:08,494
this whole thing about,

572
00:21:09,515 --> 00:21:11,835
abortion. One of the big things about abortion

573
00:21:11,835 --> 00:21:14,235
that people don't really just pay attention to

574
00:21:14,235 --> 00:21:16,409
because it's all about, well, the the woman's

575
00:21:16,409 --> 00:21:18,649
rights, and the baby's rights, and all these

576
00:21:18,649 --> 00:21:19,149
things.

577
00:21:19,450 --> 00:21:21,210
One of the things that we don't process

578
00:21:21,210 --> 00:21:21,710
is

579
00:21:22,169 --> 00:21:24,409
this comes from a society that just wants

580
00:21:24,409 --> 00:21:25,069
no accountability.

581
00:21:26,250 --> 00:21:27,549
It's just easy path.

582
00:21:27,849 --> 00:21:29,309
Oh, no. I got pregnant

583
00:21:29,825 --> 00:21:31,365
because I had a choice.

584
00:21:32,065 --> 00:21:33,765
That's that's the woman's choice.

585
00:21:34,384 --> 00:21:35,525
She made a choice.

586
00:21:36,785 --> 00:21:38,545
And then people say, well what about rape

587
00:21:38,545 --> 00:21:41,105
and incest? I understand that. Those are very

588
00:21:41,105 --> 00:21:42,244
very tiny percentages.

589
00:21:42,990 --> 00:21:44,769
Very, very minute percentages.

590
00:21:45,309 --> 00:21:46,990
I still don't believe in killing the baby

591
00:21:46,990 --> 00:21:47,490
though.

592
00:21:48,269 --> 00:21:50,190
I still just I just don't The baby

593
00:21:50,190 --> 00:21:52,670
didn't do anything wrong. Why do we murder

594
00:21:52,670 --> 00:21:53,250
the baby?

595
00:21:53,549 --> 00:21:55,329
Somebody will take it the day it's born.

596
00:21:56,430 --> 00:21:58,315
The day it's born, they'll take it. Things

597
00:21:58,315 --> 00:22:00,214
that we're seeing as a as that is

598
00:22:00,214 --> 00:22:00,905
running rampant around our country right now, because

599
00:22:00,905 --> 00:22:01,355
all different states have all these different rules

600
00:22:01,355 --> 00:22:03,195
of how to adopt, and and then you

601
00:22:03,195 --> 00:22:05,595
got overseas adoptions, and all these other things.

602
00:22:05,595 --> 00:22:07,275
It's getting harder and harder and harder to

603
00:22:07,275 --> 00:22:07,775
to

604
00:22:13,690 --> 00:22:15,850
adopt children, and the foster care system is

605
00:22:15,850 --> 00:22:17,930
getting more broken and more corrupt in the

606
00:22:17,930 --> 00:22:18,430
process.

607
00:22:18,890 --> 00:22:19,390
Okay?

608
00:22:20,570 --> 00:22:22,570
So what's happening is is people are buying

609
00:22:22,570 --> 00:22:23,070
children.

610
00:22:25,850 --> 00:22:27,610
I I don't mean like in a negative

611
00:22:27,610 --> 00:22:28,110
way.

612
00:22:28,714 --> 00:22:31,275
I mean they're they're bypassing the the,

613
00:22:33,195 --> 00:22:35,515
the social services and everything else, and they're

614
00:22:35,515 --> 00:22:38,015
just going privately to mothers and saying I'll

615
00:22:38,075 --> 00:22:39,515
I'll pay this much for your baby. Let's

616
00:22:39,515 --> 00:22:40,954
get a contract, do it up, and they're

617
00:22:40,954 --> 00:22:43,000
buying the children. And it's an it's a

618
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,539
it's a legal adoption,

619
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:46,680
but you don't have to go through the

620
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:47,180
stupidity

621
00:22:47,559 --> 00:22:48,460
and the corruption

622
00:22:48,839 --> 00:22:49,900
of social services.

623
00:22:50,759 --> 00:22:52,140
And they're just buying kids.

624
00:22:53,319 --> 00:22:56,059
That's that's becoming rampant right now.

625
00:22:57,335 --> 00:22:58,714
But but the thing is is,

626
00:22:59,414 --> 00:23:01,095
we just we just don't want to deal

627
00:23:01,095 --> 00:23:01,994
with our decisions.

628
00:23:04,375 --> 00:23:05,914
Back when I was a teenager,

629
00:23:07,894 --> 00:23:09,674
this sounds like a complete different

630
00:23:10,055 --> 00:23:12,474
life. It sounds like a different world.

631
00:23:13,490 --> 00:23:14,869
But back when I was a teenager, if

632
00:23:16,289 --> 00:23:18,390
if if a girl got pregnant,

633
00:23:18,930 --> 00:23:19,990
he married her.

634
00:23:21,490 --> 00:23:23,890
Right? That was the thing. Now, I'm not

635
00:23:23,890 --> 00:23:25,670
I'm not saying that's the best idea.

636
00:23:26,535 --> 00:23:28,535
Right? I I don't necessarily think that's the

637
00:23:28,535 --> 00:23:29,355
best idea,

638
00:23:30,375 --> 00:23:32,775
because why make another wrong because of a

639
00:23:32,775 --> 00:23:33,275
wrong.

640
00:23:33,734 --> 00:23:34,234
Right?

641
00:23:35,015 --> 00:23:36,615
You know, I'm looking at this as a

642
00:23:36,615 --> 00:23:38,315
father of a girl.

643
00:23:40,100 --> 00:23:42,100
She gets pregnant. It doesn't mean I I

644
00:23:42,100 --> 00:23:43,539
think she needs to spend the rest of

645
00:23:43,539 --> 00:23:44,600
the life with this moron,

646
00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:47,480
but you understand what I'm saying.

647
00:23:48,660 --> 00:23:51,220
But that was the mentality. Forever that was

648
00:23:51,220 --> 00:23:51,880
the mentality.

649
00:23:53,255 --> 00:23:55,894
Take responsibility. That was the thing. Nowadays we

650
00:23:55,894 --> 00:23:56,794
don't take responsibility

651
00:23:58,454 --> 00:23:59,194
for anything.

652
00:24:00,214 --> 00:24:02,714
We just we run. We run from everything.

653
00:24:04,294 --> 00:24:06,634
We just try to avoid, avoid, avoid.

654
00:24:08,039 --> 00:24:09,640
This is part of the problem with everything

655
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:10,779
that is happening.

656
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:12,779
Like when like when,

657
00:24:14,679 --> 00:24:17,319
well, even just using the Venezuela thing in

658
00:24:17,319 --> 00:24:19,880
Aurora. You realize that the, mayor of Aurora

659
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:21,319
came out yesterday and said, yeah, we have

660
00:24:21,319 --> 00:24:22,220
a major problem.

661
00:24:24,355 --> 00:24:24,855
Wow.

662
00:24:25,315 --> 00:24:26,615
Good to have you on board,

663
00:24:27,154 --> 00:24:27,654
doofus.

664
00:24:29,714 --> 00:24:31,474
Because because they've been trying to hide all

665
00:24:31,474 --> 00:24:33,174
this because it doesn't fit the narrative.

666
00:24:33,555 --> 00:24:35,634
Polis needs to be president. And when you

667
00:24:35,634 --> 00:24:37,339
when you have Venezuela

668
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,440
invade your state and set up a stronghold

669
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,679
in your state, and then start having gang

670
00:24:42,679 --> 00:24:45,559
wars against each other, and you you you

671
00:24:45,559 --> 00:24:48,359
wanna be president, well, all your policies, all

672
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,345
your open border sanctuary city policies are proven

673
00:24:51,345 --> 00:24:53,505
that you're a complete fool and that this

674
00:24:53,505 --> 00:24:54,484
is the result.

675
00:24:54,944 --> 00:24:56,224
So now we gotta lie about it. We

676
00:24:56,224 --> 00:24:58,065
gotta hide it. We gotta do all this

677
00:24:58,065 --> 00:24:58,805
other stuff.

678
00:24:59,424 --> 00:25:01,184
Now Aurora mayor is saying, we got a

679
00:25:01,184 --> 00:25:01,684
problem.

680
00:25:02,065 --> 00:25:05,291
Yeah. You you did. Stopped immediately. And by

681
00:25:05,291 --> 00:25:08,435
the way, they could still stop it. Right?

682
00:25:08,435 --> 00:25:11,579
You realize it take about an hour to

683
00:25:11,579 --> 00:25:14,723
stop it. Send the National Guard in there.

684
00:25:14,723 --> 00:25:17,954
Send the SWAT in there, fully loaded with

685
00:25:17,954 --> 00:25:19,894
rules of engagement. We will shoot.

686
00:25:20,674 --> 00:25:22,035
And you can clean that place out in

687
00:25:22,035 --> 00:25:22,934
about an hour.

688
00:25:23,954 --> 00:25:26,515
Arrest them all, do it. They're not gonna

689
00:25:26,515 --> 00:25:27,255
do that.

690
00:25:28,355 --> 00:25:29,974
That's that that's horrible.

691
00:25:30,990 --> 00:25:31,490
Now,

692
00:25:31,869 --> 00:25:33,869
I'm saying all of this. As I've been

693
00:25:33,869 --> 00:25:34,930
saying, we're we're

694
00:25:35,789 --> 00:25:38,450
we're we're going to be dealing with difficulties.

695
00:25:38,509 --> 00:25:40,509
Things are gonna get more and more difficult

696
00:25:40,509 --> 00:25:41,730
as we move forward.

697
00:25:44,670 --> 00:25:45,730
They just are.

698
00:25:47,154 --> 00:25:48,515
I I had a conversation with a couple

699
00:25:48,515 --> 00:25:50,515
of guys. I was listening to the conversation,

700
00:25:50,515 --> 00:25:51,894
and I finally butted in.

701
00:25:52,275 --> 00:25:54,115
They were talking about, you know, making sure

702
00:25:54,115 --> 00:25:56,275
you they stockpile weapons and ammunition, all this

703
00:25:56,275 --> 00:25:58,275
stuff, which I'm I'm not against that. Do

704
00:25:58,275 --> 00:25:59,894
what you wanna do. You're a grown adult.

705
00:26:00,035 --> 00:26:01,394
And here's the thing. I asked them, I

706
00:26:01,394 --> 00:26:02,134
said, so

707
00:26:02,730 --> 00:26:04,109
what happens when your,

708
00:26:04,970 --> 00:26:07,210
neighbor down the street that's a police officer

709
00:26:07,210 --> 00:26:09,069
is told that he has to come confiscate

710
00:26:09,289 --> 00:26:09,950
your guns?

711
00:26:14,744 --> 00:26:17,164
This is this is a serious question, guys.

712
00:26:17,545 --> 00:26:18,845
Are you gonna shoot them?

713
00:26:20,825 --> 00:26:22,984
Now, I believe most of your cops will

714
00:26:22,984 --> 00:26:24,365
go, not doing it.

715
00:26:26,869 --> 00:26:28,250
What about when they do?

716
00:26:29,029 --> 00:26:30,090
It's it sounds

717
00:26:30,789 --> 00:26:32,009
simple to say,

718
00:26:32,390 --> 00:26:33,769
well, they're not you know,

719
00:26:34,549 --> 00:26:35,049
Abemoan,

720
00:26:35,509 --> 00:26:36,009
right?

721
00:26:37,190 --> 00:26:39,029
Over, you know, over my dead body. Take

722
00:26:39,029 --> 00:26:40,330
it from my dead corpse.

723
00:26:41,315 --> 00:26:44,275
It it That sounds simple until that's a

724
00:26:44,275 --> 00:26:47,015
person standing outside your door and they're saying,

725
00:26:47,315 --> 00:26:49,634
give me your guns, and they're gonna shoot

726
00:26:49,634 --> 00:26:50,134
you.

727
00:26:53,075 --> 00:26:55,075
And your wife and your kids are sitting

728
00:26:55,075 --> 00:26:56,299
there. I'm

729
00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:58,460
not saying

730
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:01,880
I'm not saying there's not an answer to

731
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,119
this. I just don't think that we really

732
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:05,720
think through this stuff. Did you have a

733
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:06,220
question?

734
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,240
So, Pastor Scott, if they knocked at your

735
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,444
door and say, give me your guns, what

736
00:27:11,444 --> 00:27:12,345
would you do?

737
00:27:13,605 --> 00:27:14,345
If they?

738
00:27:15,125 --> 00:27:16,964
Came to your door and say give me

739
00:27:16,964 --> 00:27:17,704
your guns.

740
00:27:19,365 --> 00:27:20,664
I I don't wanna say.

741
00:27:22,484 --> 00:27:23,464
That's a first.

742
00:27:24,565 --> 00:27:25,065
Yeah.

743
00:27:26,559 --> 00:27:28,580
Sometimes I show a little bit of wisdom.

744
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:31,940
We are we are live streaming this.

745
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,119
I think I know what I do, but

746
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,200
but I can't totally say 100% I know

747
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:38,559
for sure what I'm gonna do. I think

748
00:27:38,559 --> 00:27:39,380
that's a little

749
00:27:40,214 --> 00:27:41,275
that's a little presumptuous.

750
00:27:42,214 --> 00:27:44,295
Right? And usually what is what is fueling,

751
00:27:44,295 --> 00:27:45,575
well, I know exactly what I'm gonna do

752
00:27:45,575 --> 00:27:46,934
is a little bit of arrogance and a

753
00:27:46,934 --> 00:27:49,355
little bit of, yeah, man, you know,

754
00:27:49,654 --> 00:27:51,835
I am man, hear me roar kinda thing.

755
00:27:52,535 --> 00:27:54,474
Until that's actually going down.

756
00:27:55,649 --> 00:27:57,569
Then it becomes an actual scary thing. You

757
00:27:57,569 --> 00:27:58,629
guys realize that

758
00:27:59,329 --> 00:28:01,889
that we could be 33 days away from

759
00:28:01,889 --> 00:28:02,389
that.

760
00:28:04,690 --> 00:28:06,149
Kamala Harris has said

761
00:28:06,450 --> 00:28:08,210
many, many times I know she changed it

762
00:28:08,210 --> 00:28:09,944
all at the debate and all this, but

763
00:28:09,944 --> 00:28:12,184
there is many places on record with videos

764
00:28:12,184 --> 00:28:14,904
of her saying, the day she becomes president,

765
00:28:14,904 --> 00:28:15,464
she's gonna

766
00:28:16,025 --> 00:28:18,265
by executive order, take all the guns in

767
00:28:18,265 --> 00:28:20,365
America. First, that's a stupid,

768
00:28:20,825 --> 00:28:21,325
naive,

769
00:28:21,865 --> 00:28:24,525
arrogant statement. It's not a possible thing.

770
00:28:24,900 --> 00:28:25,400
But

771
00:28:28,580 --> 00:28:30,660
I they'd be also naive to assume she's

772
00:28:30,660 --> 00:28:32,339
just not gonna try. Did I see somebody

773
00:28:32,339 --> 00:28:34,500
raise that hand? Yeah. I was gonna ask

774
00:28:34,500 --> 00:28:35,320
you, like,

775
00:28:36,019 --> 00:28:36,839
do you believe

776
00:28:37,380 --> 00:28:38,839
oh, shoot. I got a microphone.

777
00:28:40,125 --> 00:28:42,045
Do you believe that that, like, she could

778
00:28:42,045 --> 00:28:44,045
actually do that? Like, do you think our

779
00:28:44,045 --> 00:28:45,585
country could get to that point?

780
00:28:46,605 --> 00:28:48,285
I know our country could get to that

781
00:28:48,285 --> 00:28:48,785
point.

782
00:28:49,085 --> 00:28:51,325
Yeah. Hands down, I know that our country

783
00:28:51,325 --> 00:28:52,684
can get to that point because it happens

784
00:28:52,684 --> 00:28:53,664
all over the world.

785
00:28:54,619 --> 00:28:56,460
Now, it doesn't happen in a place like

786
00:28:56,460 --> 00:28:57,600
America very easily.

787
00:28:58,140 --> 00:28:59,420
But look at all the things that have

788
00:28:59,420 --> 00:29:01,440
been happening in our country right now.

789
00:29:02,299 --> 00:29:03,820
I've been saying this for a few years

790
00:29:03,820 --> 00:29:05,759
now. We we are not a republic anymore.

791
00:29:06,220 --> 00:29:08,220
We don't have a president that is in

792
00:29:08,220 --> 00:29:09,360
control of the country.

793
00:29:09,894 --> 00:29:11,494
We know that. Right? Biden's not running the

794
00:29:11,494 --> 00:29:13,815
country. We know this. That means there are

795
00:29:13,815 --> 00:29:16,694
other people that are. They don't if since

796
00:29:16,694 --> 00:29:18,615
there's already other people that are running the

797
00:29:18,615 --> 00:29:20,535
country, then that means we're not going by

798
00:29:20,535 --> 00:29:22,714
the constitution, which means we're not a republic,

799
00:29:23,099 --> 00:29:25,420
Which means they can do whatever they want.

800
00:29:25,420 --> 00:29:27,679
They're already doing whatever they want.

801
00:29:28,220 --> 00:29:30,700
They're already going against the constitution. And I

802
00:29:30,700 --> 00:29:32,299
have people argue with me and say, no

803
00:29:32,299 --> 00:29:35,019
that's not true. Then is our president running

804
00:29:35,019 --> 00:29:37,615
the country? Because if he's not, we are

805
00:29:37,615 --> 00:29:39,154
not going by the constitution.

806
00:29:39,934 --> 00:29:42,494
There are other people running our country. That

807
00:29:42,494 --> 00:29:44,575
means we're not going by the constitution which

808
00:29:44,575 --> 00:29:46,195
means we're not a republic anymore.

809
00:29:47,455 --> 00:29:50,755
But we keep telling ourselves because we've been

810
00:29:50,929 --> 00:29:52,230
we've been in this country

811
00:29:52,929 --> 00:29:54,150
our whole life potentially.

812
00:29:55,569 --> 00:29:57,669
Well, no. That's not really what's going on.

813
00:29:58,049 --> 00:29:59,730
I saw an article the other day. I

814
00:29:59,730 --> 00:30:01,410
think it was independence Well, I don't wanna

815
00:30:01,410 --> 00:30:02,865
say that because I don't know for sure.

816
00:30:02,944 --> 00:30:04,724
Big article talking about how

817
00:30:05,265 --> 00:30:06,865
That, yeah. There's a lot of problems, there's

818
00:30:06,865 --> 00:30:08,545
a lot of issues and everything. But but

819
00:30:08,545 --> 00:30:09,684
Trump, if if

820
00:30:09,984 --> 00:30:12,325
he gets reelected, there will be a peaceful

821
00:30:12,384 --> 00:30:13,525
transition of power.

822
00:30:14,224 --> 00:30:17,109
Guys, I I can't believe that. Show me

823
00:30:17,109 --> 00:30:19,429
anything in society right now that says that's

824
00:30:19,429 --> 00:30:19,929
true.

825
00:30:21,429 --> 00:30:23,450
Even the fact that Biden is president,

826
00:30:23,829 --> 00:30:25,349
we know they didn't win the election. That's

827
00:30:25,349 --> 00:30:26,789
why they had to stop it at 10

828
00:30:26,789 --> 00:30:28,869
o'clock at night or whatever it was because

829
00:30:28,869 --> 00:30:31,130
the algorithms were not bringing

830
00:30:31,565 --> 00:30:32,704
Biden to the top.

831
00:30:33,244 --> 00:30:35,325
They had to stop it before all the

832
00:30:35,325 --> 00:30:37,244
votes came in because they knew they would

833
00:30:37,244 --> 00:30:37,744
lose.

834
00:30:38,285 --> 00:30:40,285
So they have to stop it, make sure

835
00:30:40,285 --> 00:30:42,605
all the computers are changed, everything goes on,

836
00:30:42,605 --> 00:30:44,684
and now we're seeing state after state after

837
00:30:44,684 --> 00:30:47,429
state where a 100,000 ballots here, 80,000 ballots

838
00:30:47,429 --> 00:30:49,369
here. All this stuff has been proven wrong

839
00:30:49,589 --> 00:30:52,069
that we know for sure that that, Trump

840
00:30:52,069 --> 00:30:54,490
won the election. If you just take Arizona

841
00:30:54,549 --> 00:30:56,390
and Georgia, we know that Trump won the

842
00:30:56,390 --> 00:30:56,890
election.

843
00:30:58,150 --> 00:31:00,795
So so here's my thing is, is that

844
00:31:00,795 --> 00:31:01,454
a possibility?

845
00:31:01,835 --> 00:31:03,214
Hands down, it's a possibility.

846
00:31:04,234 --> 00:31:06,255
It's the same thing has happening in Venezuela

847
00:31:06,394 --> 00:31:08,394
right now. The president was voted out, but

848
00:31:08,394 --> 00:31:09,934
he said, no, I don't think so.

849
00:31:10,394 --> 00:31:12,414
And by the way, there was 20 something

850
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,140
other people that were running for president

851
00:31:15,599 --> 00:31:17,359
over the last 2 years coming up to

852
00:31:17,359 --> 00:31:19,359
the election, and every one of them were

853
00:31:19,359 --> 00:31:19,859
killed.

854
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:21,700
And

855
00:31:23,759 --> 00:31:24,579
now the president

856
00:31:25,519 --> 00:31:26,740
is not even elected,

857
00:31:27,575 --> 00:31:29,815
But he's not leaving, and he's and he's

858
00:31:29,815 --> 00:31:32,454
trying to arrest the the guy that was

859
00:31:32,454 --> 00:31:32,954
elected.

860
00:31:34,134 --> 00:31:35,674
That's why he fled the country

861
00:31:36,295 --> 00:31:37,974
because they're gonna put him in jail and

862
00:31:37,974 --> 00:31:38,714
kill him.

863
00:31:39,860 --> 00:31:42,279
We're seeing this all over. Look through history.

864
00:31:42,740 --> 00:31:43,640
All over.

865
00:31:45,140 --> 00:31:46,900
And what's the very first thing you have

866
00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:48,660
to do to make sure you can control

867
00:31:48,660 --> 00:31:51,240
the people? You have to take their guns.

868
00:31:52,964 --> 00:31:53,464
Now

869
00:31:53,845 --> 00:31:54,984
is it a possibility

870
00:31:55,285 --> 00:31:57,224
that they can actually take the guns?

871
00:31:57,605 --> 00:31:58,105
No.

872
00:31:58,404 --> 00:32:00,184
I do not think that's a possibility.

873
00:32:01,365 --> 00:32:03,204
I'm not talking about guys like me that

874
00:32:03,204 --> 00:32:05,285
are saying, you know, there's a there's a

875
00:32:05,285 --> 00:32:07,065
moral question here or whatever.

876
00:32:07,609 --> 00:32:09,850
Guys, I grew up in Texas. I know

877
00:32:09,850 --> 00:32:11,070
who rednecks are.

878
00:32:12,490 --> 00:32:13,630
My son's a redneck.

879
00:32:14,250 --> 00:32:15,869
At his he says he is.

880
00:32:16,730 --> 00:32:19,690
I know I know the people in Texas

881
00:32:19,690 --> 00:32:20,430
and Louisiana,

882
00:32:21,244 --> 00:32:21,744
Oklahoma,

883
00:32:22,125 --> 00:32:22,625
Georgia,

884
00:32:22,924 --> 00:32:23,424
Mississippi.

885
00:32:24,125 --> 00:32:25,825
I know these people.

886
00:32:27,164 --> 00:32:29,184
They are hoping this happens.

887
00:32:30,605 --> 00:32:33,025
They are hoping this goes down.

888
00:32:33,859 --> 00:32:35,720
I'm not exaggerating that.

889
00:32:37,539 --> 00:32:39,619
A civil war would be Do you realize

890
00:32:39,619 --> 00:32:41,299
the state of Texas you grow up? I

891
00:32:41,299 --> 00:32:42,359
I grew up in Texas.

892
00:32:42,740 --> 00:32:44,820
They teach you in school. You you take

893
00:32:44,820 --> 00:32:47,585
Texas history, you take American history. When you

894
00:32:47,585 --> 00:32:49,664
take Texas history, they explain to you how

895
00:32:49,664 --> 00:32:50,164
Texas

896
00:32:50,625 --> 00:32:53,264
is the only state that can fly the

897
00:32:53,264 --> 00:32:55,904
flag the same level as the United States

898
00:32:55,904 --> 00:32:58,065
of America flag. It's the only state that

899
00:32:58,065 --> 00:33:00,529
can secede from the union. It's the only

900
00:33:00,529 --> 00:33:02,849
state that will wage war on our parent

901
00:33:02,849 --> 00:33:03,349
country.

902
00:33:04,369 --> 00:33:06,210
I was taught that in school and I'm

903
00:33:06,210 --> 00:33:08,690
like, that's good. You know, I I'm a

904
00:33:08,690 --> 00:33:11,089
kid. I don't know. Now that stuff's not

905
00:33:11,089 --> 00:33:12,470
all exactly true

906
00:33:13,169 --> 00:33:14,450
the way that I said it, but that's

907
00:33:14,450 --> 00:33:15,349
what you're taught.

908
00:33:18,625 --> 00:33:21,024
I do believe I do believe day 1,

909
00:33:21,024 --> 00:33:24,065
if somehow Kamala actually convinces the people of

910
00:33:24,065 --> 00:33:26,384
America she's been elected. That's the only way

911
00:33:26,384 --> 00:33:27,524
I can say it truthfully.

912
00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:30,400
She will try to do some kind of

913
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,400
executive order to take guns. I believe she

914
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:33,679
will try to do this. She's already said

915
00:33:33,679 --> 00:33:35,299
multiple times she's going to.

916
00:33:35,839 --> 00:33:36,339
Now,

917
00:33:37,039 --> 00:33:38,179
now is the problem.

918
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,980
Her saying that that's not the problem.

919
00:33:41,444 --> 00:33:41,899
Problem, because it's not possible. But come back

920
00:33:41,899 --> 00:33:42,744
to your question.

921
00:33:54,070 --> 00:33:55,750
Are we to that place as a country?

922
00:33:55,750 --> 00:33:56,650
Yes, we are.

923
00:33:57,349 --> 00:33:58,809
Yes, we are. When the FBI

924
00:33:59,269 --> 00:34:01,289
is putting people in jail for standing

925
00:34:01,750 --> 00:34:03,049
outside of the capitol,

926
00:34:03,509 --> 00:34:05,830
yes, they will come take your guns. When

927
00:34:05,830 --> 00:34:07,210
the FBI raids

928
00:34:07,670 --> 00:34:08,890
the the president's

929
00:34:11,215 --> 00:34:12,275
house and facilities

930
00:34:12,735 --> 00:34:15,295
after he voluntarily said come down anytime you

931
00:34:15,295 --> 00:34:15,795
want,

932
00:34:16,255 --> 00:34:17,534
they raid him in the wee hours of

933
00:34:17,534 --> 00:34:19,375
the morning. Yes. That same group of people

934
00:34:19,375 --> 00:34:20,275
called the FBI

935
00:34:20,574 --> 00:34:22,275
will come take your guns.

936
00:34:23,539 --> 00:34:24,039
Guys,

937
00:34:24,579 --> 00:34:26,420
right after January 6th, the biggest thing that

938
00:34:26,420 --> 00:34:27,940
we were hearing and I saw this 2

939
00:34:27,940 --> 00:34:31,059
different times. The FBI coming and and coming

940
00:34:31,059 --> 00:34:34,019
into people's houses here in Colorado Springs because

941
00:34:34,019 --> 00:34:35,539
they had seen them on a camera or

942
00:34:35,539 --> 00:34:37,460
heard that they had been in the capitol

943
00:34:37,460 --> 00:34:38,760
during January 6th.

944
00:34:39,574 --> 00:34:41,755
The FBI coming into your house

945
00:34:43,094 --> 00:34:44,795
that is against the law.

946
00:34:46,295 --> 00:34:48,074
Are we to that place? Yes.

947
00:34:48,694 --> 00:34:49,914
We're to that place.

948
00:34:51,059 --> 00:34:52,519
We've lost our country

949
00:34:52,820 --> 00:34:54,980
and most people in our country don't know

950
00:34:54,980 --> 00:34:55,480
it.

951
00:34:56,900 --> 00:34:57,960
We've lost it.

952
00:35:00,019 --> 00:35:01,559
That's why I keep saying I

953
00:35:02,180 --> 00:35:03,780
they're not gonna let Trump in the White

954
00:35:03,780 --> 00:35:05,800
House. They may let an election go through.

955
00:35:06,244 --> 00:35:08,244
I still don't I still think they're gonna

956
00:35:08,244 --> 00:35:09,625
try to figure that one out.

957
00:35:10,244 --> 00:35:12,164
But if they think they can cheat strong

958
00:35:12,164 --> 00:35:14,164
enough, and yes, I do not think Biden

959
00:35:14,164 --> 00:35:15,945
was elected, I think Trump was elected.

960
00:35:16,244 --> 00:35:18,244
I get called a denier all the time

961
00:35:18,244 --> 00:35:18,905
for this

962
00:35:19,364 --> 00:35:20,744
because I'm not an idiot.

963
00:35:23,119 --> 00:35:23,940
Yes. Biden

964
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:26,340
did not win. Trump won.

965
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:28,480
They can do an election and they're gonna

966
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,719
try to cheat the same way they did

967
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:32,160
all these other things. They're gonna have to

968
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:33,780
be better at it. Blah blah blah.

969
00:35:34,304 --> 00:35:35,925
But it doesn't matter if somehow

970
00:35:36,385 --> 00:35:37,125
on paper

971
00:35:37,664 --> 00:35:39,984
Trump wins the election. They're not letting him

972
00:35:39,984 --> 00:35:41,125
in the White House.

973
00:35:43,664 --> 00:35:46,244
I hope come January I'm wrong about that.

974
00:35:46,829 --> 00:35:48,690
I just don't think I am.

975
00:35:50,910 --> 00:35:53,090
It'll it'll truly have to be a supernatural

976
00:35:53,470 --> 00:35:53,970
miracle

977
00:35:54,349 --> 00:35:55,730
that makes that happen.

978
00:35:56,110 --> 00:35:57,710
And if that's the case, then everybody in

979
00:35:57,710 --> 00:35:59,945
the country is gonna recognize that. And and

980
00:35:59,945 --> 00:36:01,465
then I can easily get up and say,

981
00:36:01,465 --> 00:36:02,844
well, it was because of that.

982
00:36:03,784 --> 00:36:05,244
That's gonna be my default.

983
00:36:06,585 --> 00:36:07,085
Right?

984
00:36:07,945 --> 00:36:09,005
That's my excuse.

985
00:36:11,465 --> 00:36:12,905
But it's not gonna be the way that

986
00:36:12,905 --> 00:36:14,730
it always is. I can guarantee you that.

987
00:36:15,530 --> 00:36:16,030
Alright.

988
00:36:16,489 --> 00:36:18,030
You guys are getting me off track.

989
00:36:18,889 --> 00:36:19,789
Yeah. Yeah.

990
00:36:22,050 --> 00:36:22,550
All

991
00:36:24,809 --> 00:36:26,730
that. This is the reason that I that

992
00:36:26,730 --> 00:36:29,135
I wanted to look at Galatians 6 is

993
00:36:29,135 --> 00:36:30,994
because I'm actually gonna talk about

994
00:36:31,295 --> 00:36:32,195
part of this

995
00:36:32,655 --> 00:36:33,875
coming up this weekend.

996
00:36:34,734 --> 00:36:36,335
I'm gonna try to encourage you with some

997
00:36:36,335 --> 00:36:38,355
really good stuff this weekend.

998
00:36:38,815 --> 00:36:40,414
I'll show you something maybe I don't think

999
00:36:40,414 --> 00:36:42,750
you've seen before. Maybe? Maybe you have.

1000
00:36:43,389 --> 00:36:43,889
But,

1001
00:36:44,670 --> 00:36:46,429
it's just one of those moments in scripture

1002
00:36:46,429 --> 00:36:48,190
where I'm I'm just gonna show you Sunday.

1003
00:36:48,190 --> 00:36:48,690
But

1004
00:36:49,150 --> 00:36:49,469
but,

1005
00:36:50,190 --> 00:36:51,170
Galatians 6,

1006
00:36:51,630 --> 00:36:53,309
this this is where all of this stuff

1007
00:36:53,309 --> 00:36:54,610
that I've been talking about,

1008
00:36:55,684 --> 00:36:56,005
the

1009
00:36:56,485 --> 00:36:58,085
we need a sense of urgency. We need

1010
00:36:58,085 --> 00:37:00,244
to step up and really care about the

1011
00:37:00,244 --> 00:37:02,164
lost around us, that sense of urgency for

1012
00:37:02,164 --> 00:37:04,885
the lost. We've got to to focus in

1013
00:37:04,885 --> 00:37:05,284
on,

1014
00:37:06,164 --> 00:37:07,764
the fact that suffering is coming our way,

1015
00:37:07,764 --> 00:37:09,960
and we better we better start, expecting and

1016
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:11,380
embracing this. Okay? This is one of the

1017
00:37:11,380 --> 00:37:12,519
reasons why okay. So I talked about when

1018
00:37:12,519 --> 00:37:13,500
I talked

1019
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,340
about the rapture

1020
00:37:17,159 --> 00:37:19,880
the other day, I talked about the fact

1021
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:20,380
that

1022
00:37:25,054 --> 00:37:27,074
that, that Jesus said

1023
00:37:27,614 --> 00:37:30,034
that life is gonna be going as normal.

1024
00:37:31,134 --> 00:37:32,574
So this is part of my argument, right,

1025
00:37:32,574 --> 00:37:34,014
that we're not gonna be in the tribulation.

1026
00:37:34,014 --> 00:37:35,534
You're not gonna have gone through the tribulation

1027
00:37:35,534 --> 00:37:36,034
because

1028
00:37:36,574 --> 00:37:38,574
life is gonna be going as normal when

1029
00:37:38,574 --> 00:37:40,960
Jesus comes back. But then there's a statement

1030
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:41,860
where he says,

1031
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,180
and, and pregnant women,

1032
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,219
it will not be good for pregnant women.

1033
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:48,660
Why?

1034
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:50,980
Because there's a suffering mentality.

1035
00:37:52,695 --> 00:37:53,434
There's a,

1036
00:37:53,735 --> 00:37:55,035
I'm gonna have to be,

1037
00:37:56,454 --> 00:37:57,835
I'm gonna have to be

1038
00:37:59,335 --> 00:38:01,575
doing things that it would be more difficult

1039
00:38:01,575 --> 00:38:03,275
for a pregnant woman to do.

1040
00:38:05,175 --> 00:38:07,414
You see the the language that he's talking

1041
00:38:07,414 --> 00:38:09,650
about? When this happens, all of a sudden

1042
00:38:10,269 --> 00:38:11,949
Again, they're not gonna know it's about to

1043
00:38:11,949 --> 00:38:13,070
happen. They're not gonna This is why I

1044
00:38:13,070 --> 00:38:15,230
keep saying that I think the rapture is

1045
00:38:15,230 --> 00:38:17,389
before the tribulation because they're not gonna know.

1046
00:38:17,389 --> 00:38:19,550
Nothing is gonna be They're gonna be warned,

1047
00:38:19,550 --> 00:38:21,789
warned, warned but nothing is gonna have happened

1048
00:38:21,789 --> 00:38:23,170
yet. And then

1049
00:38:23,614 --> 00:38:25,635
just like they weren't ready for the flood,

1050
00:38:25,694 --> 00:38:27,614
they're not ready for the rapture. Well, here's

1051
00:38:27,614 --> 00:38:30,114
the thing. The stuff that falls in line

1052
00:38:30,174 --> 00:38:31,074
after that

1053
00:38:32,174 --> 00:38:33,875
is the devastating stuff.

1054
00:38:34,414 --> 00:38:34,914
Now,

1055
00:38:36,670 --> 00:38:39,150
the the rapture has happened and the whole

1056
00:38:39,150 --> 00:38:40,289
world is in turmoil.

1057
00:38:41,150 --> 00:38:42,849
The whole world is in chaos.

1058
00:38:44,269 --> 00:38:46,349
Then there I I think the other things

1059
00:38:46,349 --> 00:38:47,789
not to go over all that a bit.

1060
00:38:47,789 --> 00:38:49,869
Then the other things lead up to the

1061
00:38:49,869 --> 00:38:51,525
signing of the peace treaty. Okay.

1062
00:38:52,565 --> 00:38:54,344
But here's the thing with this,

1063
00:38:55,525 --> 00:38:58,324
is we we see all of this stuff

1064
00:38:58,324 --> 00:38:59,224
being prophesied

1065
00:39:00,244 --> 00:39:00,744
before,

1066
00:39:02,085 --> 00:39:03,545
right up to the time of the tribulation.

1067
00:39:03,605 --> 00:39:05,989
And then all this stuff gets bad. Tribulation

1068
00:39:06,130 --> 00:39:06,825
we're about to go through. Right? But Jesus

1069
00:39:06,825 --> 00:39:06,849
even says you're going to be going through

1070
00:39:06,849 --> 00:39:07,670
that stuff

1071
00:39:19,824 --> 00:39:22,485
before. Now, again, I believe the rapture happens

1072
00:39:22,545 --> 00:39:23,045
before.

1073
00:39:23,425 --> 00:39:24,945
But he says, you're gonna be going through

1074
00:39:24,945 --> 00:39:26,465
all this stuff. It's gonna be building and

1075
00:39:26,465 --> 00:39:26,965
building.

1076
00:39:27,505 --> 00:39:28,324
And and

1077
00:39:28,625 --> 00:39:30,704
you're gonna be going through the difficulties, but

1078
00:39:30,704 --> 00:39:32,785
he says, but the time hasn't come yet.

1079
00:39:32,785 --> 00:39:34,224
How many times he say that in Matthew

1080
00:39:34,224 --> 00:39:36,690
24, like 3 or 4? But it hasn't

1081
00:39:36,690 --> 00:39:39,250
come yet. These are the beginning of birth

1082
00:39:39,250 --> 00:39:39,750
pains.

1083
00:39:40,610 --> 00:39:42,449
Guys, I believe that's the time frame we're

1084
00:39:42,449 --> 00:39:43,269
in right now.

1085
00:39:43,730 --> 00:39:45,409
That we're in the beginning of the birth

1086
00:39:45,409 --> 00:39:45,909
pains.

1087
00:39:46,289 --> 00:39:47,030
And that

1088
00:39:47,570 --> 00:39:49,730
that, that this stuff is building up and

1089
00:39:49,730 --> 00:39:50,469
we're recognizing

1090
00:39:51,605 --> 00:39:53,464
something is something is coming.

1091
00:39:54,244 --> 00:39:56,505
Right? Now there's a lot of people prophesying

1092
00:39:56,565 --> 00:39:58,724
out there that what is coming is this

1093
00:39:58,724 --> 00:40:02,505
great supernatural revival that's gonna sweep across America.

1094
00:40:02,565 --> 00:40:04,344
I don't believe that's gonna happen.

1095
00:40:05,369 --> 00:40:07,389
I don't see that in scripture anywhere.

1096
00:40:08,489 --> 00:40:10,670
I I'm not saying it wouldn't be great,

1097
00:40:11,449 --> 00:40:13,530
but but to say that for these people

1098
00:40:13,530 --> 00:40:16,409
that are prophesying this, the way they're prophesying

1099
00:40:16,409 --> 00:40:18,815
this is this gonna be like this supernatural

1100
00:40:19,034 --> 00:40:20,795
move of God that's going to change the

1101
00:40:20,795 --> 00:40:22,554
world and it's going to it's going to

1102
00:40:22,554 --> 00:40:24,714
transform America and we're all going to turn

1103
00:40:24,714 --> 00:40:27,034
back to God as a country and all

1104
00:40:27,034 --> 00:40:28,494
that. Show me that in scripture.

1105
00:40:29,989 --> 00:40:31,510
When I when I look at stuff in

1106
00:40:31,510 --> 00:40:33,929
scripture, it's saying that in the last days,

1107
00:40:34,150 --> 00:40:37,109
they will become completely so self absorbed and

1108
00:40:37,109 --> 00:40:39,750
selfish that they don't care about truth. That

1109
00:40:39,750 --> 00:40:41,989
they that the church itself just wants to

1110
00:40:41,989 --> 00:40:45,609
hear things that'll tickle their ears. That that

1111
00:40:46,445 --> 00:40:48,625
that they they will turn against mothers,

1112
00:40:49,244 --> 00:40:52,125
mothers against daughters, fathers against son. That's the

1113
00:40:52,125 --> 00:40:53,885
stuff that I hear about in the last

1114
00:40:53,885 --> 00:40:56,204
days. It's not this great move of God

1115
00:40:56,204 --> 00:40:57,425
where there's gonna be

1116
00:40:57,965 --> 00:41:00,224
supernatural revival. I just don't see that.

1117
00:41:00,710 --> 00:41:03,690
It's gonna get worse and worse and worse.

1118
00:41:05,909 --> 00:41:07,609
Then we start the tribulation.

1119
00:41:08,949 --> 00:41:09,609
And again,

1120
00:41:10,869 --> 00:41:12,010
to me the last

1121
00:41:12,635 --> 00:41:13,694
starts the floodgates

1122
00:41:14,394 --> 00:41:15,594
is the rapture. When the church is raptured,

1123
00:41:15,594 --> 00:41:17,614
now the antichrist is

1124
00:41:18,074 --> 00:41:19,614
now free. It's what first Thessalonians

1125
00:41:19,994 --> 00:41:21,295
4 says. Now, the

1126
00:41:21,755 --> 00:41:22,255
antichrist

1127
00:41:23,194 --> 00:41:24,815
is now free to do what he wants.

1128
00:41:28,329 --> 00:41:30,190
The church has been holding him back.

1129
00:41:30,809 --> 00:41:32,109
Let's think about this.

1130
00:41:33,289 --> 00:41:35,609
The church is holding the antichrist back right

1131
00:41:35,609 --> 00:41:36,109
now,

1132
00:41:36,569 --> 00:41:38,250
and we're not doing that great of a

1133
00:41:38,250 --> 00:41:38,750
job.

1134
00:41:40,215 --> 00:41:41,355
You know,

1135
00:41:41,690 --> 00:41:42,190
we

1136
00:41:42,525 --> 00:41:43,525
keep hearing about

1137
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,659
walls in the, in the, debate

1138
00:41:58,359 --> 00:42:00,279
last night tiptoed around this when he when

1139
00:42:00,279 --> 00:42:01,960
they talked about, will you believe in abortion

1140
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,199
up to the time of birth? Nobody believes

1141
00:42:04,199 --> 00:42:06,119
in abortion. Guys, it is legal here in

1142
00:42:06,119 --> 00:42:08,059
Colorado. It's legal here in Colorado.

1143
00:42:08,684 --> 00:42:10,204
I don't care what those guys say. It

1144
00:42:10,204 --> 00:42:12,204
is legal here in Colorado. We're standing in

1145
00:42:12,204 --> 00:42:14,065
the capital when this happened.

1146
00:42:15,405 --> 00:42:15,905
And

1147
00:42:16,445 --> 00:42:18,785
there is this language that is vague enough

1148
00:42:18,844 --> 00:42:21,164
that a doctor is gonna be allowed to

1149
00:42:21,164 --> 00:42:21,664
decide

1150
00:42:22,260 --> 00:42:23,880
if a baby is viable

1151
00:42:24,340 --> 00:42:25,159
after birth.

1152
00:42:26,019 --> 00:42:28,199
And if the baby's not viable,

1153
00:42:29,460 --> 00:42:31,800
then they're going to let the baby,

1154
00:42:32,579 --> 00:42:33,079
die.

1155
00:42:34,954 --> 00:42:35,695
Right there

1156
00:42:36,235 --> 00:42:39,114
in the room. Let the baby die. That

1157
00:42:39,114 --> 00:42:41,114
is the way Colorado law is written. I

1158
00:42:41,114 --> 00:42:43,195
don't care what the liars called Kamala Harris

1159
00:42:43,195 --> 00:42:45,195
or Walls say. They are they are lying

1160
00:42:45,195 --> 00:42:46,655
and they know they're lying.

1161
00:42:48,490 --> 00:42:51,150
And partly because Kamala and Walls both

1162
00:42:51,610 --> 00:42:52,750
fought for this.

1163
00:42:54,329 --> 00:42:56,490
But here's the thing with this is, what

1164
00:42:56,490 --> 00:42:58,190
if the church is not here at all?

1165
00:42:59,849 --> 00:43:00,670
Think about

1166
00:43:01,210 --> 00:43:01,710
babies.

1167
00:43:03,335 --> 00:43:05,094
Think about babies if the church is not

1168
00:43:05,094 --> 00:43:05,994
here at all.

1169
00:43:07,335 --> 00:43:09,174
Think about babies in the womb. Think about

1170
00:43:09,174 --> 00:43:10,234
2 year old babies.

1171
00:43:11,494 --> 00:43:13,275
Think about 5 year old kids

1172
00:43:14,054 --> 00:43:15,914
if the church is not here at all.

1173
00:43:17,940 --> 00:43:19,719
Think about the evil that will

1174
00:43:20,179 --> 00:43:20,679
immediately

1175
00:43:21,139 --> 00:43:22,679
descend upon the children.

1176
00:43:24,739 --> 00:43:26,980
This is the stuff that we see in

1177
00:43:26,980 --> 00:43:27,639
the tribulation.

1178
00:43:29,139 --> 00:43:31,159
He says in Galatians 61,

1179
00:43:33,474 --> 00:43:33,731
humbly help that person back onto the right

1180
00:43:33,731 --> 00:43:34,434
path. It is a responsibility of Christians to

1181
00:43:34,434 --> 00:43:34,934
help,

1182
00:43:45,150 --> 00:43:47,869
people that have have gotten away from God

1183
00:43:47,869 --> 00:43:48,690
to come back.

1184
00:43:49,230 --> 00:43:50,670
But I do like the fact that he

1185
00:43:50,670 --> 00:43:52,289
says, do this gently and humbly.

1186
00:43:53,949 --> 00:43:56,670
My most of my experience as a child

1187
00:43:56,670 --> 00:43:57,170
into

1188
00:43:57,775 --> 00:43:59,855
junior high, early high school was a very

1189
00:43:59,855 --> 00:44:02,655
legalistic approach to this. People would just beat

1190
00:44:02,655 --> 00:44:03,394
people up,

1191
00:44:03,695 --> 00:44:06,034
not physically, but verbally and everything else.

1192
00:44:07,695 --> 00:44:09,775
You're you're a center. You're going to hell.

1193
00:44:09,775 --> 00:44:11,315
All this other kind of stuff.

1194
00:44:11,630 --> 00:44:12,530
You know, I remember

1195
00:44:12,829 --> 00:44:14,849
I mean, this hadn't been crazy long ago.

1196
00:44:15,390 --> 00:44:17,789
But I remember it was pretty common back

1197
00:44:17,789 --> 00:44:20,190
in the eighties nineties where people would walk

1198
00:44:20,190 --> 00:44:22,130
like in big cities and they'd have those

1199
00:44:23,964 --> 00:44:25,724
a frame boards over them and it would

1200
00:44:25,724 --> 00:44:27,505
say things like turn or burn,

1201
00:44:28,764 --> 00:44:31,085
stuff like that. And that just that gets

1202
00:44:31,085 --> 00:44:32,944
you, doesn't it? And that just bless you.

1203
00:44:33,804 --> 00:44:35,664
That just move your heart.

1204
00:44:36,809 --> 00:44:38,970
Gently and humbly help that person back onto

1205
00:44:38,970 --> 00:44:41,309
the right path. Now look what he says,

1206
00:44:41,530 --> 00:44:43,210
and be careful not to fall into the

1207
00:44:43,210 --> 00:44:44,510
same temptation yourself.

1208
00:44:46,570 --> 00:44:48,650
Right? Don't ever get to the point where

1209
00:44:48,650 --> 00:44:49,309
you think

1210
00:44:49,934 --> 00:44:51,235
that you're untouchable.

1211
00:44:53,135 --> 00:44:54,835
Satan loves that mentality.

1212
00:44:56,494 --> 00:44:59,295
Satan loves it when we think there's there's

1213
00:44:59,295 --> 00:45:01,394
nothing Satan can do to hurt me.

1214
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:14,859
We stay humble before the Lord. Our salvation

1215
00:45:14,859 --> 00:45:14,953
comes from Jesus Christ. So he's already started,

1216
00:45:14,953 --> 00:45:15,060
and he's being we stay humble before the

1217
00:45:15,060 --> 00:45:16,375
Lord. Our salvation comes from Jesus Christ. Our

1218
00:45:16,375 --> 00:45:16,875
salvation

1219
00:45:17,175 --> 00:45:18,635
comes from Jesus Christ.

1220
00:45:19,974 --> 00:45:21,275
We we have

1221
00:45:21,655 --> 00:45:24,695
we build and develop spiritual disciplines, but our

1222
00:45:24,695 --> 00:45:27,494
salvation comes from Jesus. It does not come

1223
00:45:27,494 --> 00:45:28,715
from any other place.

1224
00:45:29,269 --> 00:45:31,349
It does not come from deep with inside

1225
00:45:31,349 --> 00:45:31,849
you.

1226
00:45:32,630 --> 00:45:34,250
I talked about this at The Journey,

1227
00:45:35,349 --> 00:45:36,650
last time or time before.

1228
00:45:37,269 --> 00:45:39,769
That that's a that's a religious spiritual mentality

1229
00:45:39,909 --> 00:45:41,690
out there, the self help gurus.

1230
00:45:42,284 --> 00:45:44,045
They're all saying reach deep down inside of

1231
00:45:44,045 --> 00:45:45,804
you and grab that perfection that's inside of

1232
00:45:45,804 --> 00:45:47,184
you and pull it to the surface.

1233
00:45:47,644 --> 00:45:49,484
Alright. Do that through positive thinking. Do that

1234
00:45:49,484 --> 00:45:51,885
through all this other stuff. Guys, that's voodoo

1235
00:45:51,885 --> 00:45:53,025
and it doesn't work.

1236
00:45:53,724 --> 00:45:56,204
There is no there is no greatness inside

1237
00:45:56,204 --> 00:45:56,864
of you.

1238
00:45:57,769 --> 00:45:59,023
And so what we're doing is not reaching

1239
00:45:59,023 --> 00:46:00,089
deep into us. We're leaning not on our

1240
00:46:00,089 --> 00:46:02,429
own understanding, but we're leaning on Jesus Christ.

1241
00:46:13,284 --> 00:46:14,824
So it is it is him

1242
00:46:15,284 --> 00:46:16,965
who saves us. And we've got to make

1243
00:46:16,965 --> 00:46:19,065
sure that we stay there because

1244
00:46:20,565 --> 00:46:22,164
we are we are always going to be

1245
00:46:22,164 --> 00:46:23,465
susceptible to temptation.

1246
00:46:24,644 --> 00:46:26,824
The whole Bible is the story of that,

1247
00:46:27,925 --> 00:46:28,425
right?

1248
00:46:28,949 --> 00:46:31,590
Satan is always crouching at your door. Satan

1249
00:46:31,590 --> 00:46:33,989
said to to God in Job that he's

1250
00:46:33,989 --> 00:46:36,489
been going around the the earth.

1251
00:46:36,949 --> 00:46:39,269
He's been roaming around the earth to to

1252
00:46:39,269 --> 00:46:41,369
destroy people is basically what he's saying.

1253
00:46:42,465 --> 00:46:44,965
That Jesus himself said that Satan is

1254
00:46:45,265 --> 00:46:47,285
has come to kill, steal, and destroy.

1255
00:46:47,744 --> 00:46:49,345
Don't ever get to the point where you

1256
00:46:49,345 --> 00:46:50,885
think you're above that

1257
00:46:51,744 --> 00:46:53,605
because it will be your downfall.

1258
00:46:55,010 --> 00:46:56,929
The the arrogance that comes along with that

1259
00:46:56,929 --> 00:46:57,670
will be,

1260
00:46:59,010 --> 00:47:01,109
that that and pride will destroy you.

1261
00:47:02,130 --> 00:47:03,109
Let Jesus

1262
00:47:04,130 --> 00:47:05,589
always be where you're looking.

1263
00:47:06,289 --> 00:47:08,434
Don't ever look in the mirror. How am

1264
00:47:08,434 --> 00:47:09,914
I supposed to live? I look at Jesus.

1265
00:47:09,914 --> 00:47:10,755
And you build on what he's giving you,

1266
00:47:10,755 --> 00:47:11,655
not what you have.

1267
00:47:20,049 --> 00:47:20,789
That mentality

1268
00:47:21,089 --> 00:47:23,909
seems to always be prevalent, I guess.

1269
00:47:24,609 --> 00:47:26,389
He said, share each other's burdens.

1270
00:47:26,769 --> 00:47:28,710
In this way, obey the law of Christ.

1271
00:47:29,250 --> 00:47:30,769
I was telling I think I was telling

1272
00:47:30,769 --> 00:47:32,150
Aidan this the other day. Yeah.

1273
00:47:33,195 --> 00:47:34,394
I had a I had a guy in

1274
00:47:34,394 --> 00:47:35,215
our last church,

1275
00:47:36,715 --> 00:47:38,715
great great friend of mine, great musician. He

1276
00:47:38,715 --> 00:47:40,315
and I would travel and do music stuff

1277
00:47:40,315 --> 00:47:41,055
together sometimes.

1278
00:47:42,394 --> 00:47:42,894
And,

1279
00:47:43,914 --> 00:47:46,555
name was Greg. And and and Greg, one

1280
00:47:46,555 --> 00:47:48,094
time, Greg came and said

1281
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:50,579
To me, he was asking me questions about,

1282
00:47:51,519 --> 00:47:53,699
his cousin and some of his cousin's family,

1283
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:56,159
needed to move needed a place to live.

1284
00:47:56,159 --> 00:47:57,440
And he said, should I let them live

1285
00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:58,260
in my house

1286
00:47:58,639 --> 00:47:59,699
for a little while?

1287
00:48:00,905 --> 00:48:02,264
I told him, I said, that's not a

1288
00:48:02,264 --> 00:48:03,945
decision I'm gonna make for you. You gotta

1289
00:48:03,945 --> 00:48:05,005
pray about that.

1290
00:48:05,464 --> 00:48:06,984
And I do think that there are times

1291
00:48:06,984 --> 00:48:08,905
in life when you need to do things

1292
00:48:08,905 --> 00:48:10,984
like that. You know, God shows you. And

1293
00:48:10,984 --> 00:48:12,744
you need to open up your life, your

1294
00:48:12,744 --> 00:48:13,724
heart, something,

1295
00:48:15,220 --> 00:48:16,840
and do something for others.

1296
00:48:17,380 --> 00:48:18,900
Linda and I have done that a handful

1297
00:48:18,900 --> 00:48:20,039
of times over the years.

1298
00:48:20,579 --> 00:48:22,039
And, and so

1299
00:48:22,579 --> 00:48:24,680
I got to talking with Greg,

1300
00:48:25,460 --> 00:48:27,079
Greg Lopez, great friend.

1301
00:48:27,460 --> 00:48:29,085
And he came into church one day and

1302
00:48:29,085 --> 00:48:30,684
and this person was beside him. I assumed

1303
00:48:30,684 --> 00:48:33,085
his I assumed this guy was his cousin

1304
00:48:33,085 --> 00:48:34,304
that was living with him.

1305
00:48:35,164 --> 00:48:37,565
So when when Greg walked in, he said,

1306
00:48:37,565 --> 00:48:39,405
hey, pastor. I want to introduce you to

1307
00:48:39,405 --> 00:48:41,480
my cousin. I was like, okay. And

1308
00:48:42,099 --> 00:48:42,760
he said,

1309
00:48:44,019 --> 00:48:45,139
Linda, do you remember this? Do you know

1310
00:48:45,139 --> 00:48:46,659
what he called him? You know what he

1311
00:48:46,659 --> 00:48:47,320
called him?

1312
00:48:48,980 --> 00:48:49,480
Greg.

1313
00:48:50,579 --> 00:48:51,480
You know, Greg.

1314
00:48:56,474 --> 00:48:57,375
Okay. So,

1315
00:48:58,155 --> 00:48:59,135
thanks for the help.

1316
00:49:00,235 --> 00:49:02,315
So, so Greg comes in and he says,

1317
00:49:02,315 --> 00:49:03,295
this is my cause.

1318
00:49:04,715 --> 00:49:06,875
And, and he said his name is Jesus

1319
00:49:06,875 --> 00:49:07,375
Christ.

1320
00:49:10,394 --> 00:49:11,454
What did I say?

1321
00:49:12,210 --> 00:49:13,829
Oh, that's a different we know a

1322
00:49:14,849 --> 00:49:16,869
Greg Lopez too, but that's a different guy.

1323
00:49:18,130 --> 00:49:20,150
That Greg ran for governor. So

1324
00:49:21,090 --> 00:49:21,989
different Greg.

1325
00:49:22,289 --> 00:49:23,889
So Greg comes in and he says, this

1326
00:49:23,889 --> 00:49:25,909
is my cousin. His name is Jesus Christ.

1327
00:49:26,875 --> 00:49:27,811
Now Greg's a funny guy, but I was

1328
00:49:27,811 --> 00:49:28,516
like, I don't know where we're going with

1329
00:49:28,516 --> 00:49:29,721
this. Why why do you think he introduced

1330
00:49:29,808 --> 00:49:31,055
him as Jesus Christ?

1331
00:49:41,380 --> 00:49:43,380
No, that wasn't it. His cousin's name was

1332
00:49:43,380 --> 00:49:44,980
like Mark or something like that. I don't

1333
00:49:44,980 --> 00:49:45,480
know.

1334
00:49:48,099 --> 00:49:49,960
He said I said, Jesus Christ.

1335
00:49:50,659 --> 00:49:52,119
Yeah, because you were there.

1336
00:49:53,295 --> 00:49:54,514
Yeah. I know Greg. Yeah. You know Greg.

1337
00:49:59,454 --> 00:50:00,355
Tell me, Linda.

1338
00:50:01,534 --> 00:50:02,974
Because when you do to the least of

1339
00:50:02,974 --> 00:50:04,494
these, you do unto me. And so he

1340
00:50:04,494 --> 00:50:07,260
was letting you know that he is doing

1341
00:50:07,340 --> 00:50:08,940
letting the least of these live with him.

1342
00:50:08,940 --> 00:50:11,440
So therefore, he's doing it for Jesus. Yes.

1343
00:50:11,660 --> 00:50:13,340
It was his way of being funny, but

1344
00:50:13,340 --> 00:50:15,500
also explaining he was doing something that was

1345
00:50:15,500 --> 00:50:17,340
really and if you know Greg, it was

1346
00:50:17,340 --> 00:50:18,800
way outside of his

1347
00:50:19,535 --> 00:50:22,195
comfort zone, way outside of his comfort zone.

1348
00:50:22,255 --> 00:50:24,434
He was a loner, very introverted,

1349
00:50:25,775 --> 00:50:26,675
kinda guy.

1350
00:50:27,375 --> 00:50:29,295
And, and we would joke about that because

1351
00:50:29,295 --> 00:50:30,815
he and they ended up living with him

1352
00:50:30,815 --> 00:50:31,875
for months. But,

1353
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:34,760
but that's what he said. He said, I

1354
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:36,219
have to keep reminding myself.

1355
00:50:36,519 --> 00:50:37,980
I'm not helping my cousin.

1356
00:50:38,599 --> 00:50:39,980
I am, but I'm not.

1357
00:50:40,519 --> 00:50:42,039
I'm trying to do the best I can

1358
00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:44,140
to serve Jesus. And this is a way

1359
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:45,880
that I believe Jesus has told me to

1360
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:46,539
do this.

1361
00:50:48,724 --> 00:50:49,224
Right?

1362
00:50:49,845 --> 00:50:51,785
That's that's real stuff right there.

1363
00:50:52,405 --> 00:50:54,744
That's that's really carrying each other's burdens.

1364
00:50:56,164 --> 00:50:58,724
So does this makes me Jesus Christ being

1365
00:50:58,724 --> 00:51:00,825
that I just live with you? Yeah.

1366
00:51:01,610 --> 00:51:03,289
You were only Jesus for like a week,

1367
00:51:03,289 --> 00:51:03,789
but

1368
00:51:07,369 --> 00:51:08,969
yeah. I didn't I didn't put that together,

1369
00:51:08,969 --> 00:51:10,030
but yeah, you are.

1370
00:51:12,010 --> 00:51:13,929
Share each other's burdens. In this way, obey

1371
00:51:13,929 --> 00:51:14,910
the law of Christ.

1372
00:51:15,735 --> 00:51:17,655
If you think you are too important to

1373
00:51:17,655 --> 00:51:18,555
help someone,

1374
00:51:19,335 --> 00:51:22,055
you're only fooling yourself. You are not that

1375
00:51:22,055 --> 00:51:22,555
important.

1376
00:51:23,255 --> 00:51:24,954
Amen. I love that.

1377
00:51:26,454 --> 00:51:28,295
I love that. I've met many people over

1378
00:51:28,295 --> 00:51:30,474
the years that would never read that sentence.

1379
00:51:31,380 --> 00:51:32,119
Many Christians

1380
00:51:32,420 --> 00:51:34,099
would never read that sentence because they thought

1381
00:51:34,099 --> 00:51:35,159
they were too important.

1382
00:51:36,179 --> 00:51:37,539
I've met a lot of people over the

1383
00:51:37,539 --> 00:51:38,039
years.

1384
00:51:38,420 --> 00:51:40,519
To Christians and non Christians, I'm too important.

1385
00:51:42,099 --> 00:51:44,019
I'm too important. Guys, we've gotta be careful

1386
00:51:44,019 --> 00:51:45,619
that we ever don't ever get to that

1387
00:51:45,619 --> 00:51:46,119
place.

1388
00:51:46,994 --> 00:51:48,775
We don't ever get to that place.

1389
00:51:52,514 --> 00:51:54,775
Linda, I have some socks in my

1390
00:51:55,234 --> 00:51:55,634
in my,

1391
00:51:56,674 --> 00:51:58,594
closet. I've I haven't opened the package. Linda

1392
00:51:58,594 --> 00:51:59,815
gave them to me for Christmas.

1393
00:52:00,989 --> 00:52:02,449
And, the sock say,

1394
00:52:03,070 --> 00:52:04,929
I'm kind of a big deal around here.

1395
00:52:06,349 --> 00:52:08,269
And I I they they sit right there,

1396
00:52:08,269 --> 00:52:09,550
and I've thought 3 or 4 times I

1397
00:52:09,550 --> 00:52:10,510
reach for them, I'm like, yeah, I'm just

1398
00:52:10,510 --> 00:52:12,510
gonna leave them there. Because it to me,

1399
00:52:12,510 --> 00:52:13,329
that's like,

1400
00:52:14,355 --> 00:52:15,715
it does the opposite for me. When I

1401
00:52:15,715 --> 00:52:17,875
read that as I'm leaving my closet, I

1402
00:52:17,875 --> 00:52:20,135
read that and I'm like, no, you're not.

1403
00:52:21,315 --> 00:52:22,775
You're really not a big deal.

1404
00:52:23,554 --> 00:52:25,014
You think you're a big deal.

1405
00:52:25,554 --> 00:52:26,614
What was that, Linda?

1406
00:52:27,795 --> 00:52:29,315
Is this something you wanna share with all

1407
00:52:29,315 --> 00:52:29,849
of us?

1408
00:52:31,450 --> 00:52:32,349
It was good.

1409
00:52:38,010 --> 00:52:39,309
We're we're gonna talk.

1410
00:52:41,690 --> 00:52:43,150
When we get home, young lady.

1411
00:52:44,625 --> 00:52:46,164
When we get home, young lady.

1412
00:52:48,625 --> 00:52:49,905
I don't know why I'm calling you young

1413
00:52:49,905 --> 00:52:51,684
lady. You're older than I am.

1414
00:52:53,344 --> 00:52:54,644
Oh. I hate you. Okay.

1415
00:52:56,532 --> 00:52:58,085
But you are. So

1416
00:52:59,250 --> 00:53:00,710
But you are. So

1417
00:53:02,929 --> 00:53:04,690
guys, I I just I just think it's

1418
00:53:04,690 --> 00:53:06,769
important for us to always have this check.

1419
00:53:06,769 --> 00:53:07,269
Right?

1420
00:53:07,889 --> 00:53:08,389
You're

1421
00:53:09,250 --> 00:53:11,010
you're not as important as you think you

1422
00:53:11,010 --> 00:53:13,010
are sometimes. Now I don't think that that

1423
00:53:13,010 --> 00:53:14,550
means that we should go around

1424
00:53:14,985 --> 00:53:17,305
beating ourself up saying, I'm not I'm not

1425
00:53:17,305 --> 00:53:17,805
anything.

1426
00:53:18,905 --> 00:53:20,364
That's not what Paul is saying.

1427
00:53:21,065 --> 00:53:22,505
He's saying if you get to the point

1428
00:53:22,505 --> 00:53:24,445
where you think you can't help somebody,

1429
00:53:24,825 --> 00:53:27,465
that you can't carry somebody else's burdens, that

1430
00:53:27,465 --> 00:53:29,864
means that you've got to the arrogant pride

1431
00:53:29,864 --> 00:53:32,260
point and you're not as important as what

1432
00:53:32,260 --> 00:53:33,239
you think you are.

1433
00:53:34,659 --> 00:53:36,500
If you're if you're doing the opposite where

1434
00:53:36,500 --> 00:53:38,819
you're saying, well, I'm worth nothing. Now you're

1435
00:53:38,819 --> 00:53:40,440
saying, well, Jesus,

1436
00:53:41,539 --> 00:53:44,114
Jesus created something that's not important and not

1437
00:53:44,355 --> 00:53:46,195
vital and and doesn't care enough to live

1438
00:53:46,195 --> 00:53:47,954
within me and all that. That's that's the

1439
00:53:47,954 --> 00:53:50,275
exact opposite, but it's just as it's just

1440
00:53:50,275 --> 00:53:50,934
as bad.

1441
00:53:51,875 --> 00:53:53,875
Right? What makes us amazing And I do

1442
00:53:53,875 --> 00:53:56,114
believe people are amazing, but only because of

1443
00:53:56,114 --> 00:53:56,614
Jesus.

1444
00:53:57,750 --> 00:54:00,150
I I don't I've said this before in

1445
00:54:00,150 --> 00:54:01,510
a bunch of different ways and I can

1446
00:54:01,510 --> 00:54:03,449
unpack this a lot if you wanted, but

1447
00:54:03,750 --> 00:54:05,289
I don't I don't really,

1448
00:54:06,230 --> 00:54:08,010
have that much hope in people.

1449
00:54:08,469 --> 00:54:10,409
I've never had that much hope in people.

1450
00:54:12,074 --> 00:54:14,655
But when somebody accepts Jesus, it's amazing

1451
00:54:14,954 --> 00:54:15,934
how they become

1452
00:54:16,235 --> 00:54:16,735
amazing.

1453
00:54:18,315 --> 00:54:20,974
And they start caring about something besides themselves.

1454
00:54:22,394 --> 00:54:24,894
They start realizing that there's a bigger picture

1455
00:54:25,460 --> 00:54:26,279
than them,

1456
00:54:27,219 --> 00:54:29,400
a bigger picture than just what you're seeing.

1457
00:54:30,819 --> 00:54:32,519
Jesus makes us absolutely

1458
00:54:33,059 --> 00:54:33,559
new

1459
00:54:33,859 --> 00:54:34,599
in him,

1460
00:54:35,299 --> 00:54:36,199
but people,

1461
00:54:37,139 --> 00:54:37,605
man,

1462
00:54:38,405 --> 00:54:39,385
people are

1463
00:54:40,085 --> 00:54:40,744
are bothersome.

1464
00:54:42,405 --> 00:54:43,465
People are disappointing.

1465
00:54:45,045 --> 00:54:47,385
Right? And they, of course, are exceptions. But

1466
00:54:47,684 --> 00:54:50,164
I don't put hope and stock and trust

1467
00:54:50,164 --> 00:54:50,824
in people.

1468
00:54:52,565 --> 00:54:53,465
It's Jesus.

1469
00:54:53,820 --> 00:54:54,559
It's Jesus.

1470
00:54:55,579 --> 00:54:57,420
And you can tell the people that really

1471
00:54:57,420 --> 00:54:59,500
are letting Jesus be in charge. I'm not

1472
00:54:59,500 --> 00:55:01,500
talking about people that do all the church

1473
00:55:01,500 --> 00:55:03,099
things and all the Christians. That's not what

1474
00:55:03,099 --> 00:55:05,019
I'm saying. I'm saying you can tell the

1475
00:55:05,019 --> 00:55:07,739
people that truly are trying to put Jesus

1476
00:55:07,739 --> 00:55:10,244
first. You can actually see that. I think

1477
00:55:10,244 --> 00:55:11,304
you can see it fairly,

1478
00:55:12,164 --> 00:55:12,664
easily.

1479
00:55:13,364 --> 00:55:15,125
I'm not saying that they're perfect or any

1480
00:55:15,125 --> 00:55:17,204
of that kind of thing, but they really

1481
00:55:17,204 --> 00:55:18,885
do care. And they care about God, and

1482
00:55:18,885 --> 00:55:20,105
they care about other people.

1483
00:55:20,460 --> 00:55:20,960
This

1484
00:55:21,500 --> 00:55:22,948
is why I I saw I don't even

1485
00:55:22,948 --> 00:55:24,467
know who the guy is, but some on

1486
00:55:24,467 --> 00:55:25,503
the Christian post or some some some blog

1487
00:55:25,503 --> 00:55:26,539
today or some site, talking about this megachurch

1488
00:55:26,539 --> 00:55:27,199
pastor that,

1489
00:55:35,855 --> 00:55:38,894
endorsed Kamala Harris. And and the church just

1490
00:55:38,894 --> 00:55:39,795
tore him apart.

1491
00:55:40,815 --> 00:55:42,835
Said, how can you how can you say

1492
00:55:43,694 --> 00:55:45,855
that you would vote for people that believe

1493
00:55:45,855 --> 00:55:46,994
in murdering babies?

1494
00:55:47,694 --> 00:55:48,835
Just start there.

1495
00:55:49,710 --> 00:55:51,309
And he said, well, I think the evils

1496
00:55:51,309 --> 00:55:53,389
that are Donald Trump are bigger than the

1497
00:55:53,389 --> 00:55:55,329
evils of murdering babies.

1498
00:55:57,150 --> 00:55:58,210
That was his quote.

1499
00:56:00,349 --> 00:56:00,849
Like,

1500
00:56:03,635 --> 00:56:04,675
You you you you really think this is

1501
00:56:04,675 --> 00:56:05,494
about you.

1502
00:56:07,315 --> 00:56:09,155
This is about God and God loves the

1503
00:56:09,155 --> 00:56:09,655
babies.

1504
00:56:10,355 --> 00:56:12,434
I don't care what anybody says. I go

1505
00:56:12,434 --> 00:56:14,054
round and round with people constantly.

1506
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:16,639
What about this reason? What about this reason?

1507
00:56:16,639 --> 00:56:18,799
What about here? What I we do not

1508
00:56:18,799 --> 00:56:19,699
murder babies.

1509
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:22,319
You it doesn't matter the reasons you come

1510
00:56:22,319 --> 00:56:23,779
up. We do not murder babies.

1511
00:56:25,599 --> 00:56:26,099
And

1512
00:56:26,994 --> 00:56:29,494
you're fooling yourself. You're not that important.

1513
00:56:31,315 --> 00:56:32,675
And then he backed off, well, there's so

1514
00:56:32,675 --> 00:56:33,894
many people that are upset.

1515
00:56:34,195 --> 00:56:35,474
Well, do you either believe it or you

1516
00:56:35,474 --> 00:56:36,295
don't, man?

1517
00:56:37,474 --> 00:56:38,914
You believe it hold to it. Don't be

1518
00:56:38,914 --> 00:56:39,494
a wimp.

1519
00:56:39,954 --> 00:56:41,635
You believe in murder and babies hold to

1520
00:56:41,635 --> 00:56:42,135
it.

1521
00:56:47,050 --> 00:56:48,969
Says be careful pay a careful attention to

1522
00:56:48,969 --> 00:56:50,730
your own work for then you will get

1523
00:56:50,730 --> 00:56:52,329
the satisfaction of a job well done and

1524
00:56:52,329 --> 00:56:54,489
you won't need to compare yourself to anyone

1525
00:56:54,489 --> 00:56:54,989
else.

1526
00:56:56,855 --> 00:56:59,494
I was watching Bob's Burgers the other night.

1527
00:56:59,494 --> 00:56:59,994
Most

1528
00:57:01,255 --> 00:57:04,074
of you don't know, but apparently, Daniel does.

1529
00:57:05,014 --> 00:57:07,734
It's a great cartoon, great life stories like

1530
00:57:07,734 --> 00:57:08,714
you would not believe.

1531
00:57:13,500 --> 00:57:14,800
And it's a good

1532
00:57:15,420 --> 00:57:17,819
it's it's morally sound. It's not like South

1533
00:57:17,819 --> 00:57:19,179
Park and stuff like this. It's a good

1534
00:57:19,179 --> 00:57:19,819
one. But

1535
00:57:20,300 --> 00:57:22,335
and he was and this was This scripture

1536
00:57:22,335 --> 00:57:24,335
is exactly how that. I I already processed

1537
00:57:24,335 --> 00:57:25,614
this. And so when I'm watching, I'm like,

1538
00:57:25,614 --> 00:57:27,474
that's exactly Galatians 6.6.

1539
00:57:27,934 --> 00:57:29,454
He's worried about the guy across the road

1540
00:57:29,454 --> 00:57:31,375
that owns another restaurant. He's getting all these

1541
00:57:31,375 --> 00:57:33,215
people and stuff. And his wife told him

1542
00:57:33,215 --> 00:57:35,769
and his friend told him, don't compare yourself

1543
00:57:35,769 --> 00:57:38,829
to others. Only concern yourself with you.

1544
00:57:39,690 --> 00:57:42,010
Who are you, not who they are, who

1545
00:57:42,010 --> 00:57:42,750
are you.

1546
00:57:44,089 --> 00:57:44,829
And that'll

1547
00:57:45,289 --> 00:57:47,309
that that's got mileage to it.

1548
00:57:48,454 --> 00:57:50,375
You won't need to compare yourself to anyone

1549
00:57:50,375 --> 00:57:50,875
else.

1550
00:57:52,135 --> 00:57:52,635
Emily

1551
00:57:53,015 --> 00:57:54,614
asked me this question one time, and she

1552
00:57:54,614 --> 00:57:56,315
she understood what she was asking.

1553
00:57:56,695 --> 00:57:57,015
But,

1554
00:57:57,735 --> 00:57:59,494
because I immediately had to do pastor mode,

1555
00:57:59,494 --> 00:58:00,695
you know, when she said this. It was

1556
00:58:00,695 --> 00:58:03,199
years ago. But she said, does it irritate

1557
00:58:03,199 --> 00:58:03,699
you,

1558
00:58:04,559 --> 00:58:06,239
or do you get upset or something like

1559
00:58:06,239 --> 00:58:07,539
that? Does it irritate you

1560
00:58:08,159 --> 00:58:09,920
when and I don't remember what the vehicle

1561
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:11,359
was, but it was a vehicle that I

1562
00:58:11,359 --> 00:58:13,599
wanted or something, or liked or something like

1563
00:58:13,599 --> 00:58:15,474
that. She said, does it irritate you when

1564
00:58:15,474 --> 00:58:16,375
you see somebody

1565
00:58:16,755 --> 00:58:17,574
else driving

1566
00:58:18,114 --> 00:58:19,255
one of those cars?

1567
00:58:21,875 --> 00:58:22,375
No.

1568
00:58:25,235 --> 00:58:26,914
Let me give you a little bit of

1569
00:58:26,914 --> 00:58:29,414
American understanding, a little bit of class warfare.

1570
00:58:31,090 --> 00:58:32,690
I may want I don't know what the

1571
00:58:32,690 --> 00:58:33,429
car was.

1572
00:58:34,289 --> 00:58:35,349
Let's say a jeep.

1573
00:58:36,609 --> 00:58:38,130
And maybe I don't have a jeep, and

1574
00:58:38,130 --> 00:58:39,809
I want a jeep. And somebody drives by

1575
00:58:39,809 --> 00:58:41,730
with a jeep, if I'm upset because they

1576
00:58:41,730 --> 00:58:42,550
have a jeep,

1577
00:58:43,344 --> 00:58:45,605
that is literally the definition of coveting.

1578
00:58:48,465 --> 00:58:50,305
Just because I want a jeep doesn't mean

1579
00:58:50,305 --> 00:58:52,065
I should be upset because somebody else can.

1580
00:58:52,065 --> 00:58:54,244
But isn't that where America is right now?

1581
00:58:54,864 --> 00:58:56,880
Well, they have a big house. Why can't

1582
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,039
I have a big house? This is literally

1583
00:58:59,039 --> 00:59:00,579
the definition of equity,

1584
00:59:01,679 --> 00:59:02,420
not equality.

1585
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:04,900
I believe in equality.

1586
00:59:05,359 --> 00:59:06,819
Equity is evil.

1587
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:10,079
Equity says we all end up at the

1588
00:59:10,079 --> 00:59:10,900
same place.

1589
00:59:11,244 --> 00:59:13,644
Doesn't matter whether you try harder, you work

1590
00:59:13,644 --> 00:59:15,885
harder, you work less, you don't care, you

1591
00:59:15,885 --> 00:59:16,784
care real hard.

1592
00:59:17,085 --> 00:59:18,605
As long as we all end up with

1593
00:59:18,605 --> 00:59:20,684
the same house, and the same car, and

1594
00:59:20,684 --> 00:59:23,085
all the same stuff, that's equity. And it's

1595
00:59:23,085 --> 00:59:24,545
wrong. It's marxism.

1596
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:27,980
It's marxism done poorly

1597
00:59:28,519 --> 00:59:30,300
and well at the same time.

1598
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:32,860
But here's the thing.

1599
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:34,219
Why should

1600
00:59:34,519 --> 00:59:36,599
it ever matter to me what somebody else

1601
00:59:36,599 --> 00:59:37,099
has?

1602
00:59:37,559 --> 00:59:39,820
Why should that ever matter to me?

1603
00:59:42,574 --> 00:59:43,954
Well, they have a new house.

1604
00:59:44,335 --> 00:59:45,154
So what?

1605
00:59:47,375 --> 00:59:49,375
Maybe maybe if I went out to eat

1606
00:59:49,375 --> 00:59:51,074
less, I could have a new house,

1607
00:59:53,375 --> 00:59:54,974
which by the way is how Linda and

1608
00:59:54,974 --> 00:59:55,710
I's life works.

1609
00:59:56,269 --> 00:59:58,269
We we eat out a lot. We love

1610
00:59:58,269 --> 00:59:58,769
it.

1611
01:00:00,190 --> 01:00:01,789
And she's an amazing cook. You think we

1612
01:00:01,789 --> 01:00:02,929
would be home more,

1613
01:00:03,949 --> 01:00:04,449
but

1614
01:00:05,710 --> 01:00:06,690
but she's quitting

1615
01:00:08,030 --> 01:00:09,045
at the end of the year.

1616
01:00:11,924 --> 01:00:12,424
Yes.

1617
01:00:13,844 --> 01:00:15,204
That's what I told her when she said,

1618
01:00:15,204 --> 01:00:16,964
I do think I'm supposed to resign. I'm

1619
01:00:16,964 --> 01:00:17,464
like,

1620
01:00:17,764 --> 01:00:19,784
we better have better meals around here regularly.

1621
01:00:21,924 --> 01:00:24,105
And I'm saying this stuff online. I can't

1622
01:00:26,010 --> 01:00:28,250
always. As we Here's the key sentence. We're

1623
01:00:28,250 --> 01:00:28,750
responsible

1624
01:00:29,530 --> 01:00:31,150
for our own conduct.

1625
01:00:32,329 --> 01:00:34,510
We're each responsible for our own conduct.

1626
01:00:35,289 --> 01:00:36,890
And it's easier for me to pick on

1627
01:00:36,890 --> 01:00:39,610
society right now because society does not embrace

1628
01:00:39,610 --> 01:00:42,445
this at all. It is it's never your

1629
01:00:42,445 --> 01:00:45,565
fault. It's never your fault. It's never your

1630
01:00:45,565 --> 01:00:46,065
fault.

1631
01:00:47,565 --> 01:00:49,744
Guys, let's own this in the church too.

1632
01:00:52,045 --> 01:00:53,505
It's never my fault.

1633
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:56,239
I know I've picked on this some, but

1634
01:00:56,239 --> 01:00:58,260
we come up with so many reasons

1635
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:00,820
why my sin is okay.

1636
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:03,940
God made me this way.

1637
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:06,480
You know, the old mentality and you can

1638
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:08,079
put anything into this category, but I hate

1639
01:01:08,079 --> 01:01:09,300
it because I don't think it's biblical.

1640
01:01:10,394 --> 01:01:12,635
Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. I hate

1641
01:01:12,635 --> 01:01:13,135
that.

1642
01:01:13,755 --> 01:01:14,894
I hate that mentality.

1643
01:01:15,434 --> 01:01:17,355
You're basically just giving up and saying Jesus

1644
01:01:17,355 --> 01:01:18,494
isn't bigger than that.

1645
01:01:18,875 --> 01:01:20,894
The holy spirit can't conquer that.

1646
01:01:21,835 --> 01:01:23,914
Well, this is always just put anything else

1647
01:01:23,914 --> 01:01:26,230
in there. Once a murderer, always a murderer.

1648
01:01:29,170 --> 01:01:31,349
When when do we say, Jesus

1649
01:01:31,730 --> 01:01:33,190
can change me?

1650
01:01:35,329 --> 01:01:37,889
Same concept. God didn't make them that way.

1651
01:01:37,889 --> 01:01:40,924
They're not just trapped in that. Now, I

1652
01:01:41,304 --> 01:01:42,824
I know people that think that is one

1653
01:01:42,824 --> 01:01:44,505
of the biggest things that people can't come

1654
01:01:44,505 --> 01:01:45,244
back from.

1655
01:01:47,065 --> 01:01:49,065
Right? Guys, I just have to believe Jesus

1656
01:01:49,065 --> 01:01:50,284
is bigger than anything.

1657
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,260
He can save us and change us from

1658
01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:54,820
anything.

1659
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,400
Now, I'll be really honest with you. For

1660
01:01:58,400 --> 01:01:59,140
me personally,

1661
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:01,940
if I know somebody was a pedophile,

1662
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:04,480
and then they they get saved and they're

1663
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:05,760
trying to do good, I'm gonna keep an

1664
01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:06,579
eye on them.

1665
01:02:07,144 --> 01:02:08,284
I mean, I am.

1666
01:02:09,065 --> 01:02:10,844
Right. You're supposed to.

1667
01:02:11,144 --> 01:02:12,364
You're supposed to.

1668
01:02:13,065 --> 01:02:13,565
Okay?

1669
01:02:16,105 --> 01:02:18,364
But you also have to balance this with

1670
01:02:18,505 --> 01:02:19,244
with Grace.

1671
01:02:20,519 --> 01:02:21,880
Here's the thing. There's a lot of people

1672
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:24,460
that I wouldn't save if I was Jesus.

1673
01:02:34,454 --> 01:02:34,553
Just let Jesus be Jesus? As you're responsible

1674
01:02:34,553 --> 01:02:34,695
for your own conduct, you're responsible

1675
01:02:47,409 --> 01:02:48,710
You're responsible for

1676
01:02:49,409 --> 01:02:51,750
for for everything. You're responsible.

1677
01:02:52,210 --> 01:02:53,989
How well do you know the Bible?

1678
01:02:55,170 --> 01:02:56,309
That's your responsibility.

1679
01:02:57,650 --> 01:02:59,269
It's not somebody else's responsibility.

1680
01:03:01,195 --> 01:03:02,734
How often do you pray?

1681
01:03:03,755 --> 01:03:04,894
That's your responsibility.

1682
01:03:05,275 --> 01:03:07,114
And we like to shirk around all this

1683
01:03:07,114 --> 01:03:09,295
stuff and say, it's it's not important.

1684
01:03:09,835 --> 01:03:11,994
Doesn't matter. I had a pastor try to

1685
01:03:11,994 --> 01:03:13,675
explain this to me one time. He said,

1686
01:03:13,675 --> 01:03:16,300
I don't really like have, times when I

1687
01:03:16,300 --> 01:03:17,579
pray. That's kind of like pray all the

1688
01:03:17,579 --> 01:03:19,259
time. Like Paul said, pray without ceasing. Yeah.

1689
01:03:19,259 --> 01:03:20,380
I just pray through the whole day. I

1690
01:03:20,380 --> 01:03:22,780
don't have like these specific times when I

1691
01:03:22,780 --> 01:03:23,280
pray.

1692
01:03:24,380 --> 01:03:26,239
Except that is not a biblical

1693
01:03:26,619 --> 01:03:27,119
mindset.

1694
01:03:28,184 --> 01:03:30,664
Jesus not only said it, but he modeled

1695
01:03:30,664 --> 01:03:31,164
it.

1696
01:03:32,184 --> 01:03:34,204
He would go to be alone by himself

1697
01:03:34,585 --> 01:03:35,724
to pray.

1698
01:03:37,465 --> 01:03:39,965
We have what's called our prayer closet.

1699
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:46,280
Why do we just say, well, no, I'm

1700
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:47,639
going to do it my way. I'm just

1701
01:03:47,639 --> 01:03:48,859
going to do it my way.

1702
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:51,799
I can name 10 things right now that

1703
01:03:51,799 --> 01:03:54,219
I hear this all the time from Christians.

1704
01:03:54,425 --> 01:03:55,864
Yeah, I know that's kind of the way

1705
01:03:55,864 --> 01:03:57,625
it was done. No. It's the way the

1706
01:03:57,625 --> 01:03:59,144
Bible says it, but I'm going to do

1707
01:03:59,144 --> 01:03:59,965
it this way.

1708
01:04:03,945 --> 01:04:05,465
Oh, yeah, I know. But this, you know,

1709
01:04:05,465 --> 01:04:06,984
this is kind of the, this is kind

1710
01:04:06,984 --> 01:04:08,605
of the, the better way.

1711
01:04:09,719 --> 01:04:10,859
Except God tells

1712
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:12,920
us how to live. He tells us what

1713
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:13,579
to do.

1714
01:04:14,599 --> 01:04:16,219
But we don't like to take responsibility.

1715
01:04:18,119 --> 01:04:19,659
As all of this stuff is

1716
01:04:20,359 --> 01:04:21,960
all of this stuff is going to be

1717
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:23,019
vitally important.

1718
01:04:23,465 --> 01:04:25,171
As we're as we as we progress as

1719
01:04:25,171 --> 01:04:25,625
a country. As as we progress Do you

1720
01:04:25,625 --> 01:04:27,485
realize that the that

1721
01:04:38,210 --> 01:04:40,690
the FBI is putting people in jail all

1722
01:04:40,690 --> 01:04:41,510
of the time?

1723
01:04:43,170 --> 01:04:44,630
Right now, Friday

1724
01:04:45,889 --> 01:04:46,389
Friday

1725
01:04:46,690 --> 01:04:48,049
is the the,

1726
01:04:49,170 --> 01:04:50,869
the court case for Tina Peters.

1727
01:04:52,005 --> 01:04:54,484
The only thing Tina Peter Peters did was

1728
01:04:54,484 --> 01:04:55,224
try to,

1729
01:04:56,244 --> 01:04:59,144
be a whistleblower against the complete corruption

1730
01:05:00,005 --> 01:05:01,625
of our secretary of state.

1731
01:05:02,085 --> 01:05:02,984
The lying

1732
01:05:03,364 --> 01:05:03,864
corruption

1733
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:06,480
of our secretary of state. And then she

1734
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:09,199
ran against her in in the election, and

1735
01:05:09,199 --> 01:05:10,960
the secretary of state had her put in

1736
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:11,460
jail.

1737
01:05:13,119 --> 01:05:15,619
This is coming back to to his question.

1738
01:05:16,079 --> 01:05:17,925
Well, could our country get to that point?

1739
01:05:18,164 --> 01:05:20,324
We put our public we put our political

1740
01:05:20,324 --> 01:05:22,885
opponents in jail right now. What other countries

1741
01:05:22,885 --> 01:05:23,864
do that? Russia,

1742
01:05:24,324 --> 01:05:24,824
China,

1743
01:05:25,204 --> 01:05:26,025
North Korea,

1744
01:05:26,485 --> 01:05:26,985
Venezuela.

1745
01:05:28,885 --> 01:05:30,724
We put that's why they've been going after

1746
01:05:30,724 --> 01:05:32,920
Donald Trump. You know, that's gonna be one

1747
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:34,039
of the ways they're gonna try to keep

1748
01:05:34,039 --> 01:05:34,920
him out of the White House. If he

1749
01:05:34,920 --> 01:05:37,079
gets elected, they're gonna say he cannot be

1750
01:05:37,079 --> 01:05:39,400
the president because he has been convicted of

1751
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:40,140
of treason.

1752
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:43,340
That's that's the whole reason for the indictments.

1753
01:05:43,715 --> 01:05:45,554
It wasn't because they expected him to go

1754
01:05:45,554 --> 01:05:47,074
to jail. And all these people were saying,

1755
01:05:47,074 --> 01:05:48,195
yeah. He's gonna go to jail for the

1756
01:05:48,275 --> 01:05:49,954
no. He's not. They're doing this so he

1757
01:05:49,954 --> 01:05:50,855
can't be president.

1758
01:05:52,355 --> 01:05:53,494
And it's a farce.

1759
01:05:54,594 --> 01:05:56,675
Because this is this is where we are

1760
01:05:56,675 --> 01:05:57,414
as a country.

1761
01:05:58,619 --> 01:06:00,079
This is where we are.

1762
01:06:01,260 --> 01:06:03,440
Nobody nobody's gonna take responsibility

1763
01:06:04,460 --> 01:06:06,699
for for their own actions. We don't do

1764
01:06:06,699 --> 01:06:07,440
that anymore.

1765
01:06:14,844 --> 01:06:16,444
Those who are taught the word of God

1766
01:06:16,444 --> 01:06:18,144
should provide for their teachers,

1767
01:06:18,684 --> 01:06:20,464
sharing all good things with them.

1768
01:06:20,764 --> 01:06:22,844
Now, we we kind of usually limit that

1769
01:06:22,844 --> 01:06:23,344
to,

1770
01:06:24,920 --> 01:06:27,800
you know, pay your pastors. That's kinda where

1771
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:30,119
people that's kinda where people use that scripture

1772
01:06:30,119 --> 01:06:31,500
for. Pay your pastors.

1773
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:34,140
I'm not against that.

1774
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:34,940
Okay?

1775
01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:37,800
But I think there's more to it. I

1776
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:40,484
think there's a relationship. It's a mentoring mentee

1777
01:06:40,484 --> 01:06:41,224
kind of thing.

1778
01:06:41,844 --> 01:06:43,625
Are are we working together

1779
01:06:44,644 --> 01:06:47,144
toward being discipled and discipling?

1780
01:06:47,844 --> 01:06:48,344
Right?

1781
01:06:49,045 --> 01:06:51,480
Because the teachers have teachers too, right?

1782
01:06:52,359 --> 01:06:55,320
Are we working toward that together? Don't be

1783
01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:57,820
misled. You cannot mock the justice of God.

1784
01:06:57,880 --> 01:07:00,380
You will always harvest what you plant.

1785
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:03,739
You will always harvest what you plant.

1786
01:07:04,434 --> 01:07:05,954
This is a major thing that I talk

1787
01:07:05,954 --> 01:07:07,414
about with pre married couples,

1788
01:07:07,714 --> 01:07:09,474
is what does that look like. Some of

1789
01:07:09,474 --> 01:07:09,974
what,

1790
01:07:10,835 --> 01:07:11,335
what,

1791
01:07:13,154 --> 01:07:14,934
our South African pastor,

1792
01:07:15,474 --> 01:07:17,815
Papa Boomer said last Wednesday night

1793
01:07:18,389 --> 01:07:21,449
was sexually, you actually harvest what you plant.

1794
01:07:24,309 --> 01:07:26,789
Those who live live to satisfy their sinful

1795
01:07:26,789 --> 01:07:28,789
nature will harvest decay and death from that

1796
01:07:28,789 --> 01:07:29,690
sinful nature.

1797
01:07:30,405 --> 01:07:31,925
But those who live to please the spirit

1798
01:07:31,925 --> 01:07:34,105
will harvest everlasting life from the spirit.

1799
01:07:34,485 --> 01:07:36,985
Who who makes that decision in your life?

1800
01:07:38,644 --> 01:07:39,304
You do.

1801
01:07:40,164 --> 01:07:42,324
Right? What what did he say? We are

1802
01:07:42,324 --> 01:07:44,760
each responsible for our own conduct. So if

1803
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:47,159
we're satisfying our sinful nature, that's not somebody

1804
01:07:47,159 --> 01:07:48,059
else's fault.

1805
01:07:48,840 --> 01:07:51,400
It's not nobody else can make you do

1806
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:51,900
things.

1807
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:53,980
Nobody else can

1808
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:56,300
can make you not serve Jesus.

1809
01:07:56,864 --> 01:07:58,945
Jesus away from you? They can't. It's not

1810
01:07:58,945 --> 01:08:01,025
possible. You can serve Jesus in prison. You

1811
01:08:01,025 --> 01:08:02,005
can serve Jesus in

1812
01:08:02,304 --> 01:08:03,764
persecution. You can serve

1813
01:08:04,545 --> 01:08:05,045
Jesus

1814
01:08:11,530 --> 01:08:12,269
in the highest mountain, the

1815
01:08:12,570 --> 01:08:13,550
lowest valley.

1816
01:08:14,329 --> 01:08:16,030
Nobody can take Jesus from

1817
01:08:17,130 --> 01:08:19,390
you. That's you. You make that decision.

1818
01:08:20,729 --> 01:08:22,489
If you please the spirit, it's because you're

1819
01:08:22,489 --> 01:08:24,729
deciding to. If you don't please the spirit,

1820
01:08:24,729 --> 01:08:26,270
it's because you're deciding to.

1821
01:08:27,744 --> 01:08:29,605
But those who live to please the spirit

1822
01:08:30,225 --> 01:08:30,965
will harvest

1823
01:08:31,345 --> 01:08:34,145
everlasting life from the spirit. So let's not

1824
01:08:34,145 --> 01:08:36,505
get tired of doing what is good. And

1825
01:08:36,505 --> 01:08:38,385
I there are different times in your Christian

1826
01:08:38,385 --> 01:08:40,465
walk when this is vital and this is

1827
01:08:40,465 --> 01:08:42,405
the this is the sentence that I was

1828
01:08:42,780 --> 01:08:43,280
building

1829
01:08:43,739 --> 01:08:44,239
to.

1830
01:08:45,100 --> 01:08:48,220
There's there's different moments throughout your Christian walk

1831
01:08:48,220 --> 01:08:49,739
when you just have to keep you know,

1832
01:08:49,739 --> 01:08:50,939
you just put your head down and you

1833
01:08:50,939 --> 01:08:53,100
just keep going forward. Right? You ever been

1834
01:08:53,100 --> 01:08:53,600
there?

1835
01:08:53,979 --> 01:08:55,795
You just put your head down. You just

1836
01:08:55,795 --> 01:08:57,475
keep going forward. Things aren't working out the

1837
01:08:57,475 --> 01:08:59,635
way they're supposed to. It's not good, blah

1838
01:08:59,635 --> 01:09:01,395
blah blah. But I'm gonna I'm just gonna

1839
01:09:01,395 --> 01:09:03,555
I'm just gonna keep doing what I'm supposed

1840
01:09:03,555 --> 01:09:04,454
to be doing.

1841
01:09:04,914 --> 01:09:06,515
I'm not gonna give up. I'm not gonna

1842
01:09:06,515 --> 01:09:07,635
give up. And that's what I was talking

1843
01:09:07,635 --> 01:09:08,454
about someday,

1844
01:09:08,899 --> 01:09:10,020
quitters. We don't have the luxury of being

1845
01:09:10,020 --> 01:09:12,046
quitters. That's not a thing. That's not a

1846
01:09:12,046 --> 01:09:12,544
that's not a real spiritual thing. We think

1847
01:09:12,544 --> 01:09:13,219
it is. And we think, well, I'm just

1848
01:09:13,219 --> 01:09:14,679
gonna kind of give up for a little

1849
01:09:15,139 --> 01:09:15,880
bit, and

1850
01:09:21,675 --> 01:09:23,274
and it'll all work out. I'm still going

1851
01:09:23,274 --> 01:09:24,715
to go to heaven. Jesus and I, we're

1852
01:09:24,715 --> 01:09:25,755
good and all this kind of stuff. But

1853
01:09:25,755 --> 01:09:28,255
I'm just I'm just so done right now.

1854
01:09:29,594 --> 01:09:30,895
So done with what?

1855
01:09:31,914 --> 01:09:32,414
Relationship?

1856
01:09:34,395 --> 01:09:35,454
Done with grace?

1857
01:09:36,369 --> 01:09:38,289
Do you want do you want Jesus to

1858
01:09:38,289 --> 01:09:40,050
be done with grace? Are you done with

1859
01:09:40,050 --> 01:09:40,550
grace?

1860
01:09:40,850 --> 01:09:42,449
Are you done with forgiveness? Do you want

1861
01:09:42,449 --> 01:09:44,130
Jesus to be done? Are you done with

1862
01:09:44,130 --> 01:09:45,970
loving others? Or you want Jesus to be

1863
01:09:45,970 --> 01:09:47,189
done with loving others?

1864
01:09:48,225 --> 01:09:50,005
Are you done with the word of God?

1865
01:09:50,145 --> 01:09:52,305
Is that not important? Are you done with

1866
01:09:52,305 --> 01:09:52,805
prayer?

1867
01:09:54,064 --> 01:09:55,985
And I mean, we can go down all

1868
01:09:55,985 --> 01:09:57,125
kinds of things. Right?

1869
01:09:58,945 --> 01:10:00,164
Instead, he says,

1870
01:10:00,510 --> 01:10:02,369
don't get tired of doing what's good.

1871
01:10:03,949 --> 01:10:05,729
Don't get tired of doing what's good.

1872
01:10:06,590 --> 01:10:07,729
Just hang in there.

1873
01:10:08,270 --> 01:10:10,029
Keep doing that. Emily bought me a poster.

1874
01:10:10,029 --> 01:10:10,430
It was

1875
01:10:11,789 --> 01:10:13,470
it's a it's more of a joke than

1876
01:10:13,470 --> 01:10:14,850
it is. It is a joke

1877
01:10:15,534 --> 01:10:17,135
because she knows I think these things are

1878
01:10:17,135 --> 01:10:17,635
goofy.

1879
01:10:18,095 --> 01:10:19,454
It's on the back of my door in

1880
01:10:19,454 --> 01:10:20,034
my office,

1881
01:10:20,494 --> 01:10:22,255
and it's a cat hanging on to a

1882
01:10:22,255 --> 01:10:22,755
rope,

1883
01:10:23,295 --> 01:10:24,914
and it says, don't give up.

1884
01:10:26,494 --> 01:10:27,795
You know, it's like leadership

1885
01:10:28,890 --> 01:10:29,390
poster

1886
01:10:29,850 --> 01:10:30,750
kind of thing.

1887
01:10:31,210 --> 01:10:33,390
Those things are so cheesy, so cheesy.

1888
01:10:34,810 --> 01:10:36,090
But I see it all the time and

1889
01:10:36,090 --> 01:10:36,750
I'm like,

1890
01:10:37,529 --> 01:10:39,229
that's right. Don't give up.

1891
01:10:42,010 --> 01:10:43,185
Right. Same with you. All

1892
01:10:43,885 --> 01:10:44,864
right. We're going to pray.

1893
01:10:46,844 --> 01:10:49,324
Any thoughts or anything before we pray? I

1894
01:10:49,324 --> 01:10:50,704
don't want to just rush through it.

1895
01:10:58,789 --> 01:10:59,529
Yes, ma'am.

1896
01:11:00,149 --> 01:11:02,389
As a North Carolina girl, my heart is

1897
01:11:02,389 --> 01:11:04,869
just breaking for Western North Carolina, and I

1898
01:11:04,869 --> 01:11:06,630
just saw a thing that Kamala's going to

1899
01:11:06,630 --> 01:11:08,090
give every family $750

1900
01:11:09,774 --> 01:11:10,094
And,

1901
01:11:10,654 --> 01:11:12,094
I don't know. I just think we ought

1902
01:11:12,094 --> 01:11:14,434
to pray for them. There's a lot of

1903
01:11:14,814 --> 01:11:16,354
absolute tragedy there.

1904
01:11:16,974 --> 01:11:17,474
Yeah.

1905
01:11:18,335 --> 01:11:19,314
Yeah. That $750

1906
01:11:19,854 --> 01:11:20,675
should fix it.

1907
01:11:25,420 --> 01:11:27,439
Yeah. That's called buying votes.

1908
01:11:28,380 --> 01:11:30,239
That has nothing to do with legitimacy.

1909
01:11:30,939 --> 01:11:31,680
Yes, sir.

1910
01:11:33,739 --> 01:11:34,239
Okay.

1911
01:11:34,795 --> 01:11:36,394
No. I I was just going back to

1912
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the beginning of your sermon and, like,

1913
01:11:38,875 --> 01:11:40,234
I I I spend a lot of time

1914
01:11:40,234 --> 01:11:41,295
meditating on,

1915
01:11:42,394 --> 01:11:43,694
just Western Christianity

1916
01:11:44,314 --> 01:11:45,534
and I feel persecuted

1917
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when someone doesn't say thank you or please.

1918
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:53,760
A. Maybe I'm speaking for myself or the

1919
01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:55,039
church as a whole, but I feel like

1920
01:11:55,039 --> 01:11:56,979
that's the mentality of our western. I

1921
01:11:59,359 --> 01:12:00,739
don't know. You and I talked.

1922
01:12:01,485 --> 01:12:03,104
Pushed to rapture. So I

1923
01:12:03,725 --> 01:12:05,024
kinda stress like,

1924
01:12:05,564 --> 01:12:07,805
if that's what persecution is to me, I'm

1925
01:12:07,805 --> 01:12:08,305
done.

1926
01:12:11,244 --> 01:12:11,744
Valid.

1927
01:12:13,164 --> 01:12:15,939
So, So, you know, I strongly I never

1928
01:12:15,939 --> 01:12:17,380
had it said that way, but, yeah, that's

1929
01:12:17,380 --> 01:12:19,539
true. Right? You know? You're going down first

1930
01:12:19,539 --> 01:12:21,239
5 minutes. I'm done.

1931
01:12:21,619 --> 01:12:23,319
Just just cut me out.

1932
01:12:23,939 --> 01:12:26,179
This persecution thing is too much to meditate

1933
01:12:26,179 --> 01:12:26,679
on.

1934
01:12:27,164 --> 01:12:29,164
So, but anyhoo, I do talk with my

1935
01:12:29,164 --> 01:12:30,625
kids and stuff too. Like

1936
01:12:31,085 --> 01:12:33,404
like, do I I I mean, I I

1937
01:12:33,404 --> 01:12:35,324
had a pastor a while back, and maybe

1938
01:12:35,324 --> 01:12:36,864
this is too much for your live

1939
01:12:37,564 --> 01:12:40,260
on, social media. But he said, what if

1940
01:12:40,260 --> 01:12:41,859
it gets to a point where somebody puts

1941
01:12:41,859 --> 01:12:43,319
a gun to your kid's head?

1942
01:12:44,020 --> 01:12:45,559
Are you gonna renounce Jesus?

1943
01:12:46,819 --> 01:12:47,719
And that's persecution.

1944
01:12:48,579 --> 01:12:50,260
Meditate on that, and how are you gonna

1945
01:12:50,260 --> 01:12:51,404
behave in the end of days?

1946
01:12:51,885 --> 01:12:53,724
I meditate on that. That's pretty wild to

1947
01:12:53,724 --> 01:12:55,965
think about because I don't think American Christians

1948
01:12:55,965 --> 01:12:58,204
have been persecuted like that in a very

1949
01:12:58,204 --> 01:12:58,944
long time.

1950
01:12:59,324 --> 01:13:02,925
Yeah. So anyhow American Christians have never been

1951
01:13:02,925 --> 01:13:04,020
persecuted like that.

1952
01:13:04,659 --> 01:13:06,680
It's pretty wild to think about. Yeah.

1953
01:13:09,539 --> 01:13:12,180
Yeah. I think I've had those thoughts before.

1954
01:13:12,180 --> 01:13:13,880
My my first thought is,

1955
01:13:14,979 --> 01:13:17,515
with the gun to my kid's head, say,

1956
01:13:17,975 --> 01:13:19,510
you need to talk to Jesus right now

1957
01:13:19,510 --> 01:13:19,550
because we're going to be with him in

1958
01:13:19,550 --> 01:13:20,074
about 5 minutes. I know that

1959
01:13:20,935 --> 01:13:21,435
sounds

1960
01:13:30,390 --> 01:13:31,529
devastating, but

1961
01:13:32,229 --> 01:13:33,130
it won't be.

1962
01:13:33,750 --> 01:13:35,050
It actually won't be.

1963
01:13:36,229 --> 01:13:37,130
It's the opposite.

1964
01:13:39,029 --> 01:13:41,050
Yeah. That's a whole another thought process.

1965
01:13:42,710 --> 01:13:43,210
Alright.

1966
01:13:43,590 --> 01:13:44,969
So how are we gonna pray?

1967
01:13:47,555 --> 01:13:48,614
Pray for North Carolina.

1968
01:13:52,195 --> 01:13:53,815
But really that whole southeastern

1969
01:13:55,315 --> 01:13:56,534
Yeah, that whole area.

1970
01:14:03,539 --> 01:14:04,359
What's that?

1971
01:14:04,659 --> 01:14:07,719
The anti parental initiative on the ballot. Yeah.

1972
01:14:08,260 --> 01:14:09,399
Yeah. There's 80.

1973
01:14:10,020 --> 01:14:10,340
And,

1974
01:14:10,979 --> 01:14:12,819
there's a there's a handful of very, very

1975
01:14:12,819 --> 01:14:14,279
important ballot initiatives,

1976
01:14:16,574 --> 01:14:17,395
very important.

1977
01:14:18,494 --> 01:14:20,494
79 is huge also. I have a question.

1978
01:14:20,494 --> 01:14:21,614
What do you what do you do, like,

1979
01:14:21,614 --> 01:14:23,135
the last time when you're gonna go through

1980
01:14:23,135 --> 01:14:24,814
them? I mean, if you're gonna go through

1981
01:14:24,814 --> 01:14:25,635
these initiatives

1982
01:14:26,095 --> 01:14:27,774
and give us your opinion what you think

1983
01:14:27,774 --> 01:14:29,039
of them as opposed to

1984
01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:30,960
us Yeah. Something to read through a lot

1985
01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:32,020
of that fluff.

1986
01:14:32,399 --> 01:14:34,399
Yeah. I I actually have that written down.

1987
01:14:34,399 --> 01:14:37,380
I was gonna do it last week, actually.

1988
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:40,079
I I may I may try to do

1989
01:14:40,079 --> 01:14:41,600
that. It need I need to do it

1990
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:42,960
in the next week or so if I'm

1991
01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:43,859
going to because

1992
01:14:44,625 --> 01:14:45,904
the ballots are coming out.

1993
01:14:48,225 --> 01:14:49,984
I'll announce Sunday. I'll come up with a

1994
01:14:49,984 --> 01:14:51,524
plan and announce it Sunday,

1995
01:14:51,904 --> 01:14:52,805
what to do,

1996
01:14:53,904 --> 01:14:54,645
for that.

1997
01:14:55,345 --> 01:14:55,664
And,

1998
01:14:56,225 --> 01:14:57,984
because I'm also getting this a lot. I'm

1999
01:14:57,984 --> 01:14:59,819
getting request online and a lot,

2000
01:15:00,460 --> 01:15:02,219
people go on to my website or going

2001
01:15:02,219 --> 01:15:02,880
to my,

2002
01:15:03,819 --> 01:15:05,439
representative email and saying,

2003
01:15:05,819 --> 01:15:07,979
can you can you give us your view

2004
01:15:07,979 --> 01:15:08,880
of all of these?

2005
01:15:10,539 --> 01:15:11,979
And then there's some that are out there

2006
01:15:11,979 --> 01:15:14,159
by different groups. Right? All of, you know,

2007
01:15:15,005 --> 01:15:17,164
Republican GOP, all these different groups. And then

2008
01:15:17,164 --> 01:15:18,685
people are saying, can you put yours on

2009
01:15:18,685 --> 01:15:20,925
it? Which I appreciate that people put that

2010
01:15:20,925 --> 01:15:22,604
kind of confidence in me, so I'll I'll

2011
01:15:22,604 --> 01:15:23,905
step up. Yeah.

2012
01:15:24,765 --> 01:15:27,265
This thing working? So John Rush,

2013
01:15:28,090 --> 01:15:29,689
he's out of Denver. He has his radio

2014
01:15:29,689 --> 01:15:31,770
show. It's called Rush to Reason. Yeah. I've

2015
01:15:31,770 --> 01:15:32,750
been on his show.

2016
01:15:34,329 --> 01:15:35,310
Last Tuesday,

2017
01:15:36,090 --> 01:15:37,789
they were going through all of them.

2018
01:15:38,489 --> 01:15:40,090
I had, like, 14 of them that they

2019
01:15:40,090 --> 01:15:41,069
were going through.

2020
01:15:41,444 --> 01:15:42,324
If you can find that recording. You're too

2021
01:15:42,324 --> 01:15:45,125
lazy. Well, man. You know, I own it.

2022
01:15:45,604 --> 01:15:46,885
There are some good places out there to

2023
01:15:46,885 --> 01:15:51,064
do this. But but the thing is is

2024
01:15:51,284 --> 01:15:53,474
there's a couple that

2025
01:15:57,500 --> 01:15:58,974
conservative groups I don't like wanna use that

2026
01:15:58,974 --> 01:16:00,212
term. Most of the Republican groups are actually

2027
01:16:00,212 --> 01:16:00,460
leaning that 80 is a good idea. That's

2028
01:16:00,460 --> 01:16:02,539
why you have to be careful where you're

2029
01:16:02,539 --> 01:16:04,539
getting your information, because 80 is a bad

2030
01:16:04,539 --> 01:16:05,039
idea.

2031
01:16:12,515 --> 01:16:14,375
It's a horrible idea. So

2032
01:16:15,395 --> 01:16:16,614
Alright. Let's pray.

2033
01:16:16,994 --> 01:16:18,454
God, we thank you for you

2034
01:16:18,835 --> 01:16:20,854
and your grace. We thank you for,

2035
01:16:22,435 --> 01:16:23,895
truly just loving us.

2036
01:16:24,829 --> 01:16:27,569
Lord, we we wanna take responsibility for ourself.

2037
01:16:29,149 --> 01:16:30,750
You you you've told us this in so

2038
01:16:30,750 --> 01:16:31,969
many ways through scripture.

2039
01:16:32,989 --> 01:16:34,369
We will take responsibility

2040
01:16:34,670 --> 01:16:35,329
for ourself.

2041
01:16:35,710 --> 01:16:37,149
But Lord, the only way we can do

2042
01:16:37,149 --> 01:16:39,484
that is if we lean on you. We've

2043
01:16:39,484 --> 01:16:41,444
got to put all of our hope and

2044
01:16:41,444 --> 01:16:42,016
our trust and our future, everything we have

2045
01:16:42,016 --> 01:16:42,904
to put it in you. So God, we

2046
01:16:43,284 --> 01:16:43,864
commit ourselves,

2047
01:16:44,484 --> 01:16:46,265
our lives, our mind to you.

2048
01:16:52,050 --> 01:16:53,989
Lord, help us to not get tired

2049
01:16:54,689 --> 01:16:56,289
of doing the right thing over and over

2050
01:16:56,289 --> 01:16:58,229
and over, Lord. It can wear down

2051
01:16:59,010 --> 01:17:00,789
it can wear down the best of anybody.

2052
01:17:01,890 --> 01:17:03,590
But Lord, we're gonna keep our

2053
01:17:04,130 --> 01:17:05,729
You said that we that we'll go through

2054
01:17:05,729 --> 01:17:07,744
deep waters but we're not going to drown.

2055
01:17:07,744 --> 01:17:09,185
So we're going to keep our head above

2056
01:17:09,185 --> 01:17:11,125
water because you will make sure

2057
01:17:11,664 --> 01:17:13,364
and then we're going to pursue you.

2058
01:17:14,305 --> 01:17:15,744
And we don't have to worry about being

2059
01:17:15,744 --> 01:17:17,364
destroyed. We're pursuing you.

2060
01:17:19,119 --> 01:17:21,199
Lord, help us to keep keep our eyes

2061
01:17:21,199 --> 01:17:22,500
on you at all times.

2062
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:25,039
Lord, I do pray for all the people

2063
01:17:25,039 --> 01:17:26,100
that are going through

2064
01:17:27,440 --> 01:17:30,420
so much devastation with this with this hurricane

2065
01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:31,220
and the

2066
01:17:31,704 --> 01:17:33,244
and the results of that.

2067
01:17:33,945 --> 01:17:35,945
And then that the secondary things where people

2068
01:17:35,945 --> 01:17:37,164
just start taking advantage

2069
01:17:37,704 --> 01:17:38,765
and hurting people.

2070
01:17:40,425 --> 01:17:42,905
Lord, we need your your providential divine hand

2071
01:17:42,905 --> 01:17:43,805
to sweep across

2072
01:17:44,505 --> 01:17:45,244
the eastern

2073
01:17:45,760 --> 01:17:48,180
south southeastern seaboard, Lord. And just

2074
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:49,199
just,

2075
01:17:49,840 --> 01:17:52,560
protect people and keep them and and people

2076
01:17:52,560 --> 01:17:54,239
that are crying out to listen to them

2077
01:17:54,239 --> 01:17:54,979
and and

2078
01:17:55,439 --> 01:17:56,880
and do what you said you would do,

2079
01:17:56,880 --> 01:17:58,899
which is which is meet their needs

2080
01:17:59,844 --> 01:18:01,545
according to your riches and glory.

2081
01:18:02,164 --> 01:18:02,664
And,

2082
01:18:04,164 --> 01:18:05,704
God, we give this to you.

2083
01:18:06,085 --> 01:18:07,465
We give them to you, protection.

2084
01:18:08,244 --> 01:18:10,564
And and help through this. You you said

2085
01:18:10,564 --> 01:18:14,100
that what what Satan devises for evil that

2086
01:18:14,100 --> 01:18:15,699
that you can turn around for good. And

2087
01:18:15,699 --> 01:18:16,359
so, Lord,

2088
01:18:17,060 --> 01:18:19,060
we pray that that you can you can

2089
01:18:19,060 --> 01:18:21,060
bring glory to your name through all kinds

2090
01:18:21,060 --> 01:18:22,840
of lives and people and situations,

2091
01:18:23,939 --> 01:18:25,939
just in supernatural ways. And so, God, we

2092
01:18:25,939 --> 01:18:26,954
thank you for that.

2093
01:18:27,515 --> 01:18:29,135
And Lord, help us to to

2094
01:18:30,155 --> 01:18:31,914
to really just process who we are in

2095
01:18:31,914 --> 01:18:32,414
you,

2096
01:18:33,274 --> 01:18:34,494
to really process.

2097
01:18:35,114 --> 01:18:37,435
Say, Lord, I belong to you. I belong

2098
01:18:37,435 --> 01:18:38,095
to you.

2099
01:18:38,875 --> 01:18:41,215
In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

2100
01:18:42,729 --> 01:18:43,949
Amen. Alright.

2101
01:18:46,170 --> 01:18:46,670
Okeydokey.

2102
01:18:47,449 --> 01:18:48,189
Night night.