The Most Important Decision We Could Make Right Now

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four c Y Radio. We hello
and welcome. Happy new year already just

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around the corner. What a year. This has gone so fast and happy

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day after I trust you had a
very enjoyable Christmas. Time with your friends

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and your family is specialing and you
know it's interesting, as you know,

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I just observe the conclusion of this
year. I mean just I guess up

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to date now we've done something like
one hundred and almost one hundred and fifty

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television interviews with these great guests that
we've been honored to have on the show

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to you know, bring to you
some clarity and understanding, and hopefully what

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we've been able to do is motivate
you to own your own knowledge, as

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you've heard me say time and again, because I think that's the challenge you

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know, today's media, such that
you don't know who to trust. And

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I don't blame you. I think
that we need to, you know,

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continue to move forward quite skeptically because
of all these influences that have come in

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that want us to think like them. Has been said before, if there

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are two people in the room with
the same thought, then one is unnecessary.

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This is why freedom of expression and
freedom of speech is so important,

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not because of it minimizing redundancy,
but also it minimizes that that group thought

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and that group movement that really isn't
very progressive, though progressive will tell you.

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You know, it's funny how they
hijack the language right and say,

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oh, we're being progressive. Well
are you really? When you stifle speech

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and when you want everybody marching to
your drum beat. I mean, the

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beauty of this country is that we
do have freedom. We have liberty,

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God given freedoms in liberty. And
we're going to talk more about that specifically

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in a few moments, but you
know, for the moment when you assess

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the conclusion of this year. You
know, are we better off at the

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end of the year than what we
started, or are we going into twenty

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twenty four in much the same way
as we started twenty twenty three. Maybe

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things are a little bit better.
Arguably some would say the economy is not

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much better. I mean, the
polling really demonstrates the pain that a majority

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of Americans are dealing with here in
America alone. But it's not only just

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here in America. When you understand
and if you've done any kind of investigation

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as to what's happening overseas and in
other countries, it's interesting. I mean,

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this is a universe so ailment.
I don't know that any one country

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specifically is doing well, though India
might say, well, we're doing a

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little bit better. Our GDP is
up. We're putting a lot of pressure

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on China right now. China obviously
they're threatening China because China is now taking

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steps at India. So just some
interesting developments there, and meanwhile China's economy

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is languishing. Here we were,
you know, starting in twenty twenty three

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thinking well, you know, at
the hills of the pandemic and what we

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were trying to do to recover that
maybe you know, maybe China was going

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to overtake us, but a little
did we understand how much trouble that China

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is in economically and on many levels, They're in a lot of trouble.

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I would even say in a spiritual
context as well. And again we'll touch

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on that in just a few moments. But here in this country, as

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we wrap up this year, again, I cannot thank our guests that have

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been so faithful to come on the
show, to commit this kind of time

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that it takes in order to have
this conversation. But they do it in

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your interest. I want you to
know that they do it in your interest

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to provide a balance to the narrative. Now, there's a lot of false

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narrative and misinformation out there, even
though our government would want to have some

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sort of czar of misinformation. And
it's interesting because they seem to be the

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biggest perpetrators of set misinformation. It's
basically it's like, okay, what is

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this all about. Anything that doesn't
agree with you and your perspective is misinformation?

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Instead of anything that we don't agree
on should be one that we would

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talk about, so that as a
result, we would come away being more

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enlightened, more intelligent as a result, because we're taking advantage of somebody else's

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understanding and their intellect. As my
father used to wisely tell us kids when

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we were growing up, he says, I want you to know, no

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one person, including you, has
all the goods. He would say,

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have all the goods, And and
I believe that to be the case.

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We're a bunch of puzzle pieces looking
for a match, and when we are

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open enough to find that match,
Wow, it's powerful. And I you

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know, if you've lived long enough, you've run into that, and you

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know what I'm talking about. And
this is the beauty of this country and

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this grand experiment that we've been blessed
with. And there's no doubt that it

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has not been a perfect union.
We were to strive for it, it

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was it was an ambition. It
was a goal to have a more perfect

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union. But it's impossible when you
realize that, Hey, we're dealing with

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humanoids with imperfection to begin with.
So how good can we get? Should

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we just you know, throw it
all up in the air and say,

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look at it. It's unattainable,
So let's just give up, or do

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we for the sake of our faith, for the sake of our families,

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for the sake of you know,
of hoping that we can't do it,

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especially when you look at this rich
history of this country, where again,

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not that we've been perfect, but
look at what we've been able to accomplish.

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I mean, from day one,
taking on the best fighting force on

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the planet at the time with a
bunch of farmers that pitchforks and single shots,

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and you know, it's just amazing. So, you know, like

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George Washington said, but for the
hand of divine providence, no doubt,

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no doubt, he understood his limits, and he understood many times that he

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was beyond that limit. But for
the grace of God he lived to fight

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another day and to rally the troops
to where we could get to that point

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and come together and start with a
clean sheet of paper and say, hey,

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let's do something different. What can
we do here different? And again

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at the driving force in all that
was the pilgrims who initially came here in

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the sixteen hundreds as an answer to
prayer asking God, can we find can

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there be a place? Can there
be a land where we can go and

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worship You? Freely and live out
the principles of the Bible that you've laid

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out for us. And for twelve
years they prayed, they fasted, they

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sought God, and God made a
way for them. And of course we

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know the story from there, and
or we should know it and we should

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be telling it to our kids,
and not expecting the educational system to be

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telling our kids that because clearly they're
not. Clearly what has happened in terms

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of the current state of our educational
situation is that they're more committed to indoctrinating

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than educating, then, you know, really helping our children understand what a

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privilege, what an honor, how
blessed we are to be born in a

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marriora, to have this ability to
rule differently than any other nation has ever

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ruled. But again, you know, from day one, there were these

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antithical forces that never believed that the
people at large, we the people,

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that we could be the boss.
It's just not in their wiring and in

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their capacity to think. So they
have this elitism and this error against that

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they're so confined by and they're so
imprisoned by to think that they know better

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and they want to take charge and
be in control, you know, and

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we know who they are. I
mean, it's not just politicians. You

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run into them at work or you
know, in your daily lives, you

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run across them, and it's kind
of sad. But the fact of the

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matter is is that there are many
out there who think like that. Unfortunately,

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they seem to gravitate because birds of
a feather flock together, and they

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seem to gravitate in the bureaucracy in
our government today, and they're willing to

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exclude gladly, they're willing to exclude
the cumulative intelligence of three hundred and forty

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five million people whenever pick a number, definitely in that range, three hundred

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and forty five. You know,
it's like, Okay, they're all idiots,

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is their thinking. And lucky for
them they have us. Lucky for

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them that we who graduated from Harvard
and all these Ivy League schools. You

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know, we know so much more
more than them, you know, because

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we have this with this declaration that
you know, I will share with you

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that you know, Jesus didn't have
a degree from Yale or Princeton or any

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Ivy League school. I mean,
this is a thing that frustrated the heck

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out of the ruling class at the
time, right, he didn't have formal

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education, and how does he know
this? You know? And in fact,

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at one point to really kind of
put him down and cancel him,

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right, you know, talk about
the cancel culture. It existed. Then

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he said, hey, we know
you, we know who you are,

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and Jesus knew what he meant,
and all the other people knew what they

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meant too. This wasn't even a
backhanded compliment. What they're referring to was

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that, hey, you little bastard, who are you to talk to us?

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We know that you were born of
sin, that Joseph isn't really your

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father. I mean, they didn't
get in all the contexts, but the

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inference was there, and all the
people that spoke behind us back believe that

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to be the case. And here
he is the son of God, bringing

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with him liberty, bringing with him
freeing the captives, I mean, and

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he comes to reflect the heart of
the Father and only do that which the

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Father would want. But they were
so threatened because you have this elite class.

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Again, it's just always been around, right, So why should it

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be different, and why should we
think that it only happens in America,

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it's all over, it's around the
world. It's the same type of arrogance

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that's taking place. And this is
why where we are right now, I

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believe is at an appointed time.
And I want you to hear that,

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because a point of times only happened
at a specific time and season as ordained

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by God. Okay, and if
you miss that appointed time, Heaven help

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you. This is why when Jesus
was at the top of the mountain getting

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ready, remember he was on the
donkeys getting ready to ride into Jerusalem right

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on Palm Sunday, and here the
people are laying down palms and they're,

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you know, praising him. And
these very same people that are praising him

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and laying down palms at his feet
and honoring him as he entered into Jerusalem,

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but before he did so, it
says very succinctly that Jesus wept.

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And the reason he wept, I
believe, was because he saw what was

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going to happen that Israel was going
to miss. It's a pointed time.

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He knew that these very same people
that were praising him, because see,

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even then they were missing the point. They were praising him and really not

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praising God. Because if they were
praising God and honoring God, they would

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have realized who was on that donkey
see, but they wanted to see it

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in their own temporal understanding, which
is the challenge we have today. We

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see all this stuff that's happening,
and we want to see it with our

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own understanding at this ground floor level. And what Jesus does is he gives

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us an opportunity, takes us up, takes us up into the air,

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gives us that if you want to
say that the thirty thousand foot or thirty

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thousand mile experience, to be able
to see it from a different perspective and

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see it from a spiritual perspective.
You know what is this all about?

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You know? Here we are,
we're in the Christmas season, and actually

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we're the start of the twelve Days
of Christmas, right because it's the day

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after Christmas celebrated Christmas. But now
we're going to the twelve days because some

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traditions believe and this is where you
get the twelve Days of Christmas song,

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right, and that that goes all
the way to the Epiphany. To win

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the Magi came to visit on the
liturgical calendar, as we spell it,

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out as we look at it,
when the Magi came to visit the baby

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Jesus and honor him with the gifts. And so those twelve days are these

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twelve days of Christmas during this period
of time, and what we had leading

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into it, of course was advent, the time that we should be prepared

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and really thinking about what does all
this mean, you know, Emmanuel Jesus

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coming, you know, to save
us from our sin condition? What does

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all that mean? And I have
to say to you, and I don't

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know if it's maybe the culture is
weary and it's grown tired. But in

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my travels and in my observation,
especially the season, I don't know.

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Maybe I don't know if you notice
the same thing, but it just it

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seems like people are worn out.
This wasn't an especially joyful season. You

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know, even when you drove around
neighborhoods and lights that normally would you know,

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embellish a neighborhood, and you could
see at every turn not so many

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lights, not so much enthusiasm.
Even going through you know, shopping malls

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and that kind of experience, it
just was it was just kind of a

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an oh hum, you know,
And I don't want to say, ba

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humbug, but oh hum, you
know kind of great. Did you feel

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that way or was it just me? I don't know. I just had

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felt like something something was missing,
and I think what was missing was it

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was kind of a if I can
say this that may sound tripe, but

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like the true spirit of what Christmas
really is all about. And you know,

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this is why we talk so much
about Advent on the show, on

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both the radio show and the TV
show here it's carried on this podcast,

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is that Advent was a preparatory time
to prepare us for the celebration of Christmas

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and the birth of Jesus and what
that would all mean. Because what I

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want to say to you very directly, I know sometimes you know, I've

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had a couple people say, oh, Bill, you know you you focus

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a lot on politics, and I
said, well, I hope that's not

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what you just see. I hope
what you're seeing is that is what we

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focus on, is the culture.
Politics is part of it. You know.

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There was that famous sixteenth century theologian
Carl Bart that believe that, you

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know, when he went to the
pulpit, he went to the pulpit with

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the Bible in one hand, and
the newspaper in the other And I've tried

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to approach that with you as well. Is being able to say, Okay,

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here's what's happening in our culture,
but here's what God says. Okay,

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how do we reconcile what's happening in
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And there's no question. I mean, there is a what I would

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say, I call it the grief
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ratio. Where we are is where
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not very happy. The Bible says
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I am not saying a lot of
rejoicing, are you? So?

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Again, the Bible's proving its validity
and truthfulness because people aren't very happy because

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righteousness is not raining. If anything, the opposite is raining. That's why

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you're sitting here questioning, going what
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down? Down is up? Left? Right? Right? Left? Good?

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Evil evil? Good? Sweet?
Soury soury sweet. I mean,

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it's crazy, right, it doesn't
make sense. Oh, we have to

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close the border, you know,
Okay, Well, is the border closed?

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No? Everybody said, oh,
we got to close the border,

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not but still open. People are
still flooding into the country. You know,

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we need to protect our kids.
Oh, we are protecting our kids.

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Okay, So hacking off their god
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That's honoring our kids. You know. Continuing to promote the death of a

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child in its mother's womb, that's
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I don't know if any society when
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society whatsoever. And you know Bill
Fetter has chimed in this. I mean

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he's you know, ardent historian,
Bruce Stature, you know of history speaks

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have chimed on this as well,
because they you know, I'm looking,

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I'm researching. I'm not seeing where
there was ever a culture that killed its

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own that survived. I mean,
think about that. So somehow do you

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think that we're going to get away
with this? Now? I understand look

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at maybe maybe sixty five percent,
some say sixty seven percent of the people

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believe in God. You know,
one time, Kasha, I think when

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I was growing up, was like
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believe, they acted on that belief, not that they were you know,

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one hundred percent or you know where
they were totally faithful in their religion,

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but you know, they were sincere. I mean, they didn't crazy,

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you know, they didn't think somehow
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okay, all right, And I
get it. You can argue some things

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about war and all that, and
that's a that's all, but by and

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large, by and large, I
think the landscape of America was one of

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you know, like our Constitution said
life, liberty, and the pursuit of

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happiness. But we've let go of
all that. You know, the progressives

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have come in and I'll tell you
these these are not good people. I'm

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saying to you. You know,
our country is really very very sick.

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You know, we have bought into
this narrative, this lie that says it's

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okay to kill people, that somehow
we can celebrate death. People are celebrating

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death. You know, you watch
these celebs and go, you know,

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I'm really happy that I had three
abortions. You know, my career would

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have been you know, totally different. I probably wouldn't have been able to

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this is their assessment. I probably
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today if I hadn't. You know
aborted my kids. Now they can say

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that they don't know that for a
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I think that part of their heart
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because the reality is that. And
the reason that the Dobbs decision came

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into play and Roe v. Wade
was reversed was because of experience forty nine

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fifty years of death and experience and
this narrative that even the Supreme Court lied

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to the American people and saying,
oh, this was going to be safe,

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it was going to be rare.
All these politicians, people you want

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to believe, people you voted for, you know, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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You didn't vote for her, but
you supported her, you know, Hillary

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Clinton. Nancy Plaul said, oh
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You know, it's all about your
redevelopment rights. And you know, my

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goodness, I mean this big lie. But meanwhile, the women who experienced

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the not so safe and not so
rare abortion process are living to testify against

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this big lie. This is why
this organic movement happened in the way it

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did, because the lie began to
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that's the way you overcome the lie
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the truth, and you have to
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dissimilar from the lie itself, in
as much as that as long as the

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lie has been out there for fifty
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combating fifty years of truth combating it. Although I do believe that the truth

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always wins and it's much more powerful
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this is going to be a process, and I'm not threatened by what happened

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in Ohio. That was a bought
and sold event that took place people outside

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of Ohio, which is amazing to
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is like, wait a minute,
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dictated by outside interests by allowing that
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the election. Is that election interference? By definition? I think it is

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because it doesn't reflect the true heart
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what I'm saying. I mean,
how can it when you got all this

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dark money? See, And the
thing is is that this should be an

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example. What happened in Ohio is
in these other states. Is that.

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Look at if you want to take
a stand for life, take a stand

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for life, but understand, it
is a war. This is a war

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that we're in. We've been very
casual in thinking, oh, well,

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you know, it's you know whatever, you know, I'm maybe I got

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ten years left to live, maybe
I at fifteen. I don't know what

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it is. But you know,
don't have to worry about it. I

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don't know how people kind of think
that way, because it's like, look,

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it's not about you. You got
your kids, you got your grandkids,

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you got great grandkids. You know
that are going to have to live

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with the legislation, with the policies, with the culture that we have contributed

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to. And you know, I
think our parents of the Greatest Generation as

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they're often referred to, left us
in America with a lot of hope and

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opportunity, and the next generation came
in, the Baby boomers, and we're

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spoiled. We're spoiled brats, you
know. And and what did we do?

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You know, we pitched a fit. We we we weren't. We

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weren't very intellectual about it. It's
just everything, even like the commercials,

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you know, have it your way. We always wanted it our way.

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We were a bunch of spoiled brats, and and every part of our lives

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reflected that our families, marriages,
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our culture is what we did.
This is this the legacy that we passed

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on to the next generation. And
then we wonder, we wonder why our

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kids are more spoiled than we are
as well we taught them, you know.

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But I'm not I'm not one to
say that we should give up.

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You know, there's been some sentiment
and some input into the culture saying,

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well, it's too late. You
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We just have to write it off. I just can't believe. I

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I can't believe that. And the
reason I can't believe that because God didn't

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write me off. God should have
written me off for all my failings and

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my sin and that. See,
but this is God, you see.

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Without God, yeah, just you
know, we're dispensable. But with God,

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we're indispensable because God has a plan
for each one of us, no

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matter what the situation, no matter
how many abortions you may be involved in,

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how much pornography you've consumed, whatever, whatever is that's keeping you locked

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up in captive. Remember the reason
Jesus is in the manger is so that

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we would not be the same.
God says, look it, I want

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you to be. I know you
can be different. I created you to

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be different. You don't need to
be conformed to the world. But that's

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all you see right now. So
I'm going to send my son so that

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you can understand that this is not
This is not the ultimate resting place for

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you. I have a better place
for you. And it's interesting because I

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don't find that to be a big
challenge. I don't find that as thinking

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and this is just me. Maybe
you feel the same way, But I've

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talked to other people and they seem
to agree that it's in our wiring.

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We're wired this way. It's our
DNA that screams out to us, that

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says, well, there, could
you know there is something better, That

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this isn't all there is. You
know it doesn't just stop here, That

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there is life beyond this existence,
and that it can be all that we

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expect it to be. And even
more so, God tells us, because

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here we are with our own peny
brains and our temporal you know, perception

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kind of relegated to this plane and
this level on this planet, and it's

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so limiting compared to what God has
planned and purpose for us. But we

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kind of know it intrinsically. I
mean it's even you know, think about

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it that, you know, going
back to when Jesus was on the donkey

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getting ready to you know, come
in, and he was coming to Jerusalem.

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What did the Pharisees, What did
the leaders of the time say,

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hey, tell the people to shut
up, tell them not to say that.

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And Jesus said, look at if
they were quiet, even even the

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rocks would cry out. So and
you've seen this time and time again where

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there's that reference to God's creation,
you know, hungering God, God's God's

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creation, kind of aching as in
labor. You know. So all these

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things that we think are so inanimate
are really animated by the breath of God.

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They are living things. I mean, yes, they You know,

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if I look at fall, I'm
looking through you know, this one window

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here outside the studio, and I
see foliage out there and see the grass

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and it grows and it's cut and
here it's incredible. I got to tell

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you. Here in Florida, I
mean you can't believe how fast grass grows

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here if they don't cut it down
every week. I mean, it's it

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turns into bushes. It's unbelievable how
grass grows here in this in the States,

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and the trees, you know,
and all the development and everything.

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But all that to say is that
it goes through its cycle. It is

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it is life being manifest. But
we take it for grass. Well,

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it's not really a human being.
It's not a soul. But I think

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it's quite interesting. And that's something
I've always taken a pause to consider,

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is that God said, even you
know, it's like right now where we

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are, it's the all of His
creation is growing. And I and and

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this is kind of part of what
we're seeing, at least I'm starting to

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see. And others that I speak
with are agreeing, and I'm staying,

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not that you have to agree with
me, but you know, again,

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we look at what's happening in our
world. You know, there's so much

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chaos and craziness. I mean,
here we are, you know, we

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I mean it's like, first of
all, we're killing babies in their mother's

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womb. I mean, even God
said, at one point in the Bible

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says, who told you to do
that? What are you thinking? I

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would never want you to do that. But here, you know, the

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children of Israel who have had a
relationship with God forgot about it and decided

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to go and worship other idols.
Idols that had mouse couldn't speak, ears,

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couldn't hear, you know, they
couldn't even walk on their own.

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They had to be carried. You
know, this is how insane this was,

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right, and God's pointing this out
and say, this is ridiculous.

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They can't eat, they can't smell, they can't talk, they can't even

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walk. You worship them, you
honor them, and what do they do

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for you? And you just start
creating your own religion and you come up

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with these sacrifices that, okay,
it'll go well with me if I sacrifice

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my child to the God of Molek. So I'm going to just sacrifice my

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child, and you know, in
hope of satisfying the gods and coming up

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with these mad made religions. So
a whole lot hasn't changed, right,

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because here we are, we have
modern day idols that we worship, all

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to replace God. And this is
the issue. And so this is the

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grand exchange that has taken place even
in this culture today. Are we going

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to align ourselves and stay committed to
the God who created this, the God

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who created you and me, who
says, look at I have a great

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future for you, a future that
will give you hope, one that's not

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going to harm you, but one
that is going to bless you. This

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is God's plan and purpose, and
he's the one that gives us our identity,

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not the Kardashians, not tik tok, not social media. But it

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is God who identifies us, who
says, I mean, it's it's even

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down to the point where he says
he knows every hair on our head.

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Can you imagine what kind of God
is this that knows every hair? I

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mean, think about it. I
mean, this is so majestic ith it

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is incomprehensible. But I'll tell you
when when I even pause to think about

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it, For as much as my
brain can handle its brain bruising, it's

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brain bruising, and it's enlightening,
and it's such a blessing on so many

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levels that we have a God that
knows us by name, knows every hair

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on our head, knows everything about
us. Was there at the very beginning

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at our inception, says that He
wove us together. This is why life

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is so precious, because it's it's
not us we're we're not We're not creators.

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We're co creators. We we we
co create with God, with the

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Father. It is him that creates. And he says that he he wove

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us in our mother's room. I
mean, that just blows blows me away.

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And I was talking with some uh
with this family, for they're great

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musicians, and I mean, it's
you know, and in fact, we

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were talking about it over the holidays
because you know, you have families that

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come together and sing and when they
do, oh my goodness. I mean,

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it's just the DNA and the voices, how they come together, you

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know, whether we're talking about the
Beg's and oh that's their thing too,

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And they got to talk a little
bit more about this. If you have

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not seen The Chosen's new movie about
you know, about Christmas, oh my

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goodness, you've got to see it. And and typical of what I'm talking

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about is there's the Bonner family when
they sing, Oh my gosh, it

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is so phenomenal. But I'll tell
you they really I did themselves, and

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what they did was with this new
show Dallas. Jenkins explained that they took

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these two separate presentations. I think
the first one was called The Shepherd,

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and this was one actually he did
as you know, kind of a Christmas

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play for his church and it was
so well received, you know, he

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said, Originally, you know,
they just they did it there. I

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don't know if it was some farm
in Texas or Arizona, can't remember exactly,

421
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but anyway, they just i mean
talk about low budget and doing whatever

422
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they could do, but still incredible. I mean, Dallas is so talented.

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I mean, he's such a blessing, and the people that he surrounded

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himself equally so. And they compliment
one another in such a way that it

425
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really adds credibility and brilliance and creativity
all in a wonderful package. So anyway,

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starts out with a regular you know, Sunday school, you know,

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Sunday blessing you know, for the
church, and then they redo it.

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And of course we saw it years
ago the first time when it was you

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know, produced with high production values
and h and they did another one a

430
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follow up to it, and then
this year they decided, okay, it

431
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wouldn't be possible to marry the two
together. And the team thought, wow,

432
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yeah we could, we could do
that. Dallas wasn't sure, and

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I don't blame him, I mean, because he's looking as these two separate

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projects and going, how do they
you know, how can we pull this

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together? I mean there's different times, you know, you know, in

436
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some cases maybe a different writer,
the same director. I mean, Dallas

437
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was still there, but still this
was going to be an incredible job.

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Won't tell you yuh did themselves,
they really did. This is just such

439
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such a blessing. So if you
have not seen it, check it out.

440
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For those of you that have the
app and make sure you get you

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get the app for the Chosen because
the fourth season is coming up, by

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the way, But you're going to
be blessed with this presentation this Christmas bree

443
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Day. I'll say it was to
me, it was one of the highlights

444
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of this Christmas season and I was
so blessed, and I passed that passed

445
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that on to you. But but
this is you see, this is the

446
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God we serve, the God that
continues to create and promote life, and

447
00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:17.639
the opportunity that we have is to
co labor with God is to be in

448
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alignment with His purpose, with life
as He's defined it, not as the

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world has defined it, but as
God has defined This why in the Jewish

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faith, you know, Gien,
you know life, life is the heartbeat,

451
00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:37.719
the very heartbeat, the blood that
circulates through all of us. And

452
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:42.440
what has happened here in America,
especially in the modern West, is that

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we've abandoned the significance of life and
we're going to pay. We're going to

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pay a price. We're already paying
a price for it. We just don't

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know it. Some of it is
unseen, and some of it may be

456
00:34:53.920 --> 00:35:00.599
unseen because, hey, you know, maybe in the in the murder of

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00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:04.519
over one hundred million babies, I
know you often hear sixty sixty million,

458
00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:12.360
but they're not counting with the sixty
they're not counting the abortive patients patient murders

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that take place, and that is
the chemical abortions that are taking place.

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Is another forty fifty million. Okay, so well over one hundred million abortions

461
00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:23.159
are taking place, and they still
even at this moment, they're still taking

462
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place. Sadly, but you know
this is why, now, in knowing

463
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all that we know why. I
say this is the most important decision that

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we could make right now that you
know, this season gives us an opportunity

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to really hit the reset button.
The World Economic Forum and these other global

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interests, they want a reset,
They want to reset from the culture.

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But see, it's interesting that they
they're calling for that because what happens consequentially

468
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and coincidentally, whenever God's moving,
then the world, you know, Satan

469
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will move, evil will move along
with it. So God is saying,

470
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hey, I've got a reset button, the real reset button that will really

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truly make a difference for you spiritually, that will detach you from the things

472
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:28.519
of this world and bring you up
into the heavenlies where you belong. Right

473
00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:35.199
does that make sense? So this
is this is what's before us today again,

474
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that crossroads, just like we were
told in the Bible and the Old

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00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:43.519
Testament, we're constantly coming up to
that crossroads. There's life and death.

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So what are you going to choose? The Bible is real quick, it

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00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:50.079
doesn't even hesitate to choose life.
That's what you want. So we don't

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want the things of this world.
You know, the globalists want them.

479
00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:55.960
Let them have it, you know, what a we care because we know

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00:36:57.039 --> 00:37:00.039
down the road there's a new heaven, new hearth it coming, and the

481
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:02.119
peace that we've always wanted, the
peace that surpassed is true. All the

482
00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:09.000
understanding, worldly understanding is just around
the corner, because you know, the

483
00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:15.000
Father who has given us all these
predictions. There's no other there's no other

484
00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:19.639
God like our God. Let me
think about it. What other God did

485
00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:24.440
Buddha, did Mohammed? I mean, did any other leader God predict what

486
00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:30.599
was going to happen? You know, thousands of years in advance. God

487
00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:34.199
laid it out, said hey,
it's going to happen. And as you

488
00:37:34.280 --> 00:37:38.840
go through it here we are about
sixty six percent, two thirds of what

489
00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:45.000
God predicted and warned us about,
it's going to happen. Right, So

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00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:49.400
so far, that's sixty God's beat
in the thousands thousand percent. Leave it

491
00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:52.719
up to God. Huh didn't even
strike out, don't he just? Everyone?

492
00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:58.280
Everyone's a home run thousand percent.
He's hitting it out of the park.

493
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.280
Okay, And you match him up
against any other God, any other

494
00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:08.760
deity, didn't even come close.
God has consistently consistently been right and has

495
00:38:08.800 --> 00:38:13.599
demonstrated his glory time and time again, if you have ice to see,

496
00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:20.119
see. But if you're so grounded
in this earthly existence and you want to

497
00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:24.960
hold on to the stuff that's decaying
and rotting, well you know, again

498
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:29.599
it's your choice. God's not going
to force you to do it. But

499
00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:34.079
again, here you are at this
appointed time, and my prayer, my

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00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:36.920
hope is because God placed this on
my heart. You know, we don't

501
00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:38.960
have a guest on today. God's
our guest. If I can say,

502
00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:45.639
you know, the trying and God, the Father's Son and Holy Spirit are

503
00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:52.039
with us in this moment, disappointed
time that what He has called on me

504
00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:58.000
to share with you makes sense to
you in such a way that for the

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00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:04.239
reason that Jesus came so that we
would not be the same. I mean,

506
00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:08.599
you think about it. From that
moment forward, when he entered came

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from heaven to earth, the world
has not been the same. And what

508
00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:19.000
happens I mean you think about you
think about this also. I mean,

509
00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:22.960
Jesus has such an impact. This
name above all names, the name that

510
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:24.840
clears houses. You know, boy, you want to shake people up and

511
00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:30.679
make them nervous, just say Jesus. They freak out because there's something about

512
00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:35.599
that name. It embodies life,
It embodies the truth, the power of

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00:39:35.639 --> 00:39:43.480
God. It empowers judgment, mercy, grace, all in that name Jesus,

514
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:49.119
the name that's so powerful that there
will be a day that even those

515
00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:52.760
that stubbornly refuse to bend their knee
or bow their heads or honor cannot help

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00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:59.280
themselves. There will be that day. There will be that moment when every

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00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:05.880
need will bow and every tongue confess
that Jesus's Lord. And here we are.

518
00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:12.480
Every day, every moment, we're
getting closer to the realization. So

519
00:40:12.639 --> 00:40:15.599
the World Economic Forum says, hey, look at hit the great reset button.

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00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:17.559
We're going to reset for the things
of the culture. You know,

521
00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:21.440
forget about all these things we grew
up with. Let's go electric, let's

522
00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:24.559
talk about climate, Let's talk about
all these things that will bring you ultimately

523
00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:30.000
back into bondage. That's what it's
all about. The World Economic Forum wants

524
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:34.159
to take away your dreams. They
want to mediocritize you. And I don't

525
00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:37.719
know, just something about that has
always been something I've resisted, just inherently

526
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:42.079
in my life. It's just the
way God has wired me. And call

527
00:40:42.119 --> 00:40:44.760
it stubbornness, call it what you
want, but I just did. I

528
00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:49.239
just could not. I just couldn't
accept it. I mean even as even

529
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as a little kid. You know, I'm playing in little league, you

530
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:55.960
know, and I wasn't the tallest
kid in the block, and you know,

531
00:40:57.079 --> 00:41:00.599
but but I could play, and
so but I I had to play

532
00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:04.639
harder because I wasn't you know,
I wasn't one that was there. So

533
00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:07.159
I worked at it harder than most
of the other kids on the block,

534
00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:13.239
you know, to prove to prove
myself. The deal was was they always

535
00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:19.920
wanted to pull me down and to
make me mediocre, and I just wouldn't

536
00:41:19.960 --> 00:41:22.679
stand for it, whether it was
you know, playing sports or in school

537
00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:27.800
or whatever it was I was doing
on the job, you know, same

538
00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:30.519
thing. This is part of the
reason why I think I resisted unions.

539
00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:34.320
I've had experience to work with unions
before. I think it's an idea that

540
00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:39.559
has some merit, I think an
application. Unfortunately, they they miss the

541
00:41:39.559 --> 00:41:45.079
mission of what it's all about.
And you know, whether it's our government,

542
00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:47.840
whether it's unions or institutions, and
that they should be there to serve

543
00:41:47.880 --> 00:41:52.679
the higher good of each individual right, not to serve the institution. But

544
00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:58.480
what happens. You have an exchange. So they bring you into bondage,

545
00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:02.159
you know, to that you to
that institution, but it's to serve that

546
00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:08.280
institution, not to serve you ultimately. And so I've often found in these

547
00:42:08.360 --> 00:42:13.920
kinds of existence that people are not
rewarded for excellence. In fact, they're

548
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:15.760
told, hey, you're making us
all look bad. Slow down, right,

549
00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:19.920
hit the brakes, tap the brakes. Here, you're you're you're you're

550
00:42:19.960 --> 00:42:22.000
shining above. You're making us all
look bad, you know, So to

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00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:25.320
speak, I've just always I've just
resisted. It just bothers me. It's

552
00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:28.760
like, you know, you hear
me say, it's like chalk hitting,

553
00:42:29.159 --> 00:42:30.440
you know, chalkworring. I screeches. You know, it goes the wrong

554
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:35.000
way, you know, just my
nerves. I got deal. And I've

555
00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:39.440
you know, whether it's this show
or whatever, whatever I'm doing, and

556
00:42:39.440 --> 00:42:44.280
and and my hope for those of
you who are watching is it's the same

557
00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:47.239
way he said, God didn't create
you to be mediocre. You know,

558
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He created you with with dreams and
ideas and things to be expressed, talents

559
00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:59.320
and giftings. You know, I've
always talked about it when I was leading

560
00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:04.000
teams and my career in marketing,
and that is that I'd say, look

561
00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:06.639
at you know, God's blessed you
with an incredible amount of talent, and

562
00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:09.480
he just wants you to He wants
you to express it. And I found

563
00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:16.360
in those organizations where the individuals were
allowed, where they were free to express

564
00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:20.920
their talents and gifting, not only
express it, but to grow it,

565
00:43:21.199 --> 00:43:23.719
because that's the other thing. You
have to have the ability to be able

566
00:43:24.039 --> 00:43:28.119
to, you know, go and
work it out. And in fact,

567
00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:31.199
I remember having this conversation with somebody
recently, one of the oh, it

568
00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:36.599
must have been forty years ago or
so. I was reading about Hewlett Packard

569
00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:42.920
and I was shocked because I was
confined in a workplace, an environment,

570
00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:45.280
and a culture that, man,
if you made a mistake, that was

571
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:50.440
the worst thing. You know,
you deserve to be flogged, fired,

572
00:43:50.639 --> 00:43:53.519
rehired, and fired again. I
mean whatever they could do to injure you

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00:43:53.559 --> 00:44:00.320
for making a mistake. These organizations, that was their culture. And I'm

574
00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:06.239
reading about Helllard Packard and Healard Packard's
going, we celebrate mistakes. WHOA what

575
00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:09.320
you celebrating? Are you kidding me? I go, that's the kind of

576
00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:14.159
culture. That's the kind of business
I want to work in and work around

577
00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:19.039
is work around with people like that
and leadership that embraces mistakes because mistakes mean

578
00:44:19.079 --> 00:44:22.239
you're trying, you're doing something,
and you learn you learn from it.

579
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:25.519
I mean the great inventors, they
what did they learn not from every success,

580
00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:31.360
but from every failure right time and
again you read stories of how many

581
00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:37.800
failures it took before success occurred and
what they learned along the way. It

582
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:42.960
was just incredible. See. But
in some cultures and some institutions, it's

583
00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:45.920
like a shame on you for making
a mistake. But again I think it's

584
00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:51.480
it's limiting. But when you're able
to go out there and work at it

585
00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:55.920
and work through it, it is
you know, it really is a blessing.

586
00:44:55.960 --> 00:45:00.079
And I was encouraged here recently with
an Oswald Chamber. Is a reminder

587
00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:06.679
about even you know, like even
in the situation honestly that you know what

588
00:45:06.719 --> 00:45:09.079
I'm what I'm doing here today and
what I've been doing, you know for

589
00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:15.280
the last fifteen years, because this
has been quite a change, you know

590
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:19.880
for me. You know, I
yes, years ago, I was you

591
00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:22.880
know, I was a radio personality
in Los Angeles playing records, working at

592
00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:27.760
top radio stations and had a great
career, had a lot of fun.

593
00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:32.400
But you know, that's being a
juvenile. And I went into my own

594
00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:37.360
business and ended up thinking, okay, maybe I need to go back to

595
00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:40.079
and finish my studies. So I
went back to Bible College and got my

596
00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:45.199
degree and felt like God was calling
me into full time ministry. I thought,

597
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:47.880
okay, well this makes sense.
You know, this is really at

598
00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:52.199
my heart. I mean, I
will share with you even when I was

599
00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:53.800
in high school, I really thought
I was going to go into the marin

600
00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:58.599
Old Seminary and be a missionary priest. So it wasn't that far flung.

601
00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:00.960
I thought, Okay, well God's
bringing me back, and He's forgiven me

602
00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:05.239
for all my knuckleheadedness, and He's
given me this opportunity to, you know,

603
00:46:05.320 --> 00:46:10.440
go and get involved in in ministry. Didn't happen. Wasn't wasn't happening.

604
00:46:10.559 --> 00:46:15.480
Doors were closing, and it just
wasn't happening. And then I felt

605
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:17.719
God was saying, no, you
need to get behind the microphone. I

606
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:22.000
go, I don't want to go
and play music. I mean, I

607
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:25.480
don't want to do that and take
dedications and you know, do I think,

608
00:46:27.159 --> 00:46:28.559
I think there's more to it,
and he goes, oh, yeah,

609
00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:35.840
there is more, and it was
we're going to present and talk about

610
00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:40.840
cultural events from a biblical worldview.
Okay, so now we're in full circle.

611
00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:45.119
Where I talked about earlier is coming
to the microphone where you have the

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Bible in one hand and you've got
the newspaper in the other, And how

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do we bring these two entities together. How do we look at what's happening

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culturally with the word of God so
that we can see the conflicts, we

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can see the grief the happy in
this ratio, the grief being the pain

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of where we are right now,
the happiness of being where we are in

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the joy of the Lord because we're
doing it. God's way. Going back

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to what he said in the Book
of Genesis and that conversation with Cain right

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after God did not accept his sacrifice. Cain was all down in the mouth

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and depressed about it. And God
said, you know, look at if

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you do right, will it not
go well for you? I mean,

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that's it, in a nutshell,
real simple something you can take to your

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kids to say, Hey, if
you do right, will it not go

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well for you? Okay, And
what does the right mean? It's right

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not by human standard, but by
God's standard. So this is the whole

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issue in getting back to first principles, And this most important decision that we

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have to make right now is are
we going to reset to God's standard or

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are we going to reset to the
world standard? And what Claus Schwab and

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the other isms would want us to
follow. Okay, just because they're leading

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a paray doesn't mean that we need
to get in that parade. Okay,

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we have the freedom to resist.
This is the nature of America. This

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is the nature of that light on
a shining hill, is that we have

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been a light of resistance and an
example to the world saying you don't have

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to do it the way the way
the Isms, the Communists, or the

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Marxists or the globalists say, because
that's not our standard. Our standard is

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God's standard. If we do right, will it not go? Well?

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That's my prayer for you for this
coming year is that you would learn what

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right is, what's righteous. I
remember where kid's growing up, that was

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the thing. Everything was righteous,
right. There's always oh that's so righteous,

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little did we know, But here
it is. It's come back and

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it's like, okay, not righteous
by the world's terms, but by God's

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terms. Okay, if we do
right, we do it God's way.

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Will it not go well for us? And I know if you've lived enough

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life, even if you bumbled through
and you've made your mistakes and all that,

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you've had those moments, you've had
a moment. I know it in

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my heart you've had a moment of
glory where you said, Wow, I

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did it God to it was right. And maybe you can remember that time

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and remember how it felt to say, you know what. Bill's not that

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far over the top. He's not
absolutely crazy that he wants it, and

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I do. I want it to
go well for you more than well in

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this twenty twenty four because this is
going to be a it's going to be

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a challenging time and interesting time,
and I think it's a it's going to

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be a blessed time for all of
us, for all of us that choose

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to do right. And see see
if God didn't mean what he said when

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he said that it will go well
with you. Hey, thanks again for

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being with us. You guys are
so awesome. I so appreciate you.

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I just pray that God would continue
to bless you and to make his face

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shine upon you, and be gracious
unto you, and that you may realize

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His peace in a grand sort of
way. Be blessed. Thank you so

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much for being with us.