Why Thanksgiving Is So Important To The Health Of Our Country

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Radio. Well, hello and welcome. This is Bill Martinez and we are

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live. Happy Thanksgiving to you.
Great to have you with us. The

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day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday.
I guess maybe Black Friday needs to be

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part of the fabric and wolf and
wharf of America because after all the good

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eating, we need to get lots
of steps in so we run from door

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to door and chase after all those
great sales that are happening this day.

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But it's still, I believe appropriate
for us to pause and consider why Thanksgiving

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is so important to the overall health
of our country. You know, for

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many reasons. I mean, you
know, you think about it's the opening

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of a very special holiday season that
reconnects us with God Almighty, for He

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is the one that we must be
thankful to. That our first president,

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George Washington proclaimed in the first Proclamation
of Thanksgiving, it was actually our first

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national holiday as a country, did
you know. You know, I had

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to remind myself of that as well, that it was the first national holiday

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that we enjoyed. And it was
our president, I believe, who was

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so inspired to remind us of the
blessings of this great American idea. You

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know that started because of some pilgrims
and prayers that they put out to God

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for something like ten twelve years that
they would finally have a place where they

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could go and worship God. And
God answered their prayer as we know.

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And then fast forward from the impact
of the pilgrims first coming to the United

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States of America, then we have
the development of this new nation, the

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United States of America, and George
Washington in that Thanksgiving Proclamation reminded us that

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we needed to be thankful to God, thankful to God. And as the

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way our calendar would work out,
this starts a season, a very unique

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season. This one's going to be
a little bit longer. It'll be about

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six weeks long. That leads us
to God's ultimate eternal gift of salvation and

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that Jesus Christ came as man,
as a little child to this earth.

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My good friend Craig Huey is going
to be joining us. He's the author,

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political commentator, speaker for Election Form, and publish of one of the

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largest Christian political newsletters in America.
And he helps us remember why the season

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of Thanksgiving is so important to our
country and our heritage. Craig Hughley,

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welcome to the show. Good to
have you back with us. How are

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you, bil, It's great to
be back. And I'm thankful for you

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your show. I'm thankful for all
the listeners. That's really thankful to God

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for all the blessings He's given to
the United States of America. Are our

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country, our freedoms right? And
you know, there is something about that

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proclamation I referred to from George Washington
that was so inspiring. You know,

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in a way, it's like classic
music that will always be their classic writings,

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words that come out, you know, and whether you had his proclamation,

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the Proclamation of Thanksgiving from Abraham Lincoln, others also other presidents, important

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figures that reminded us of just how
significant this season is and how it sets

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up the rest of the season of
this holiday, doesn't it? It sure

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does, you know, in George
Washington's proclamation, everyone should go and take

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a look at that, because it's
available online to look at that. And

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that's at the beginning of a birth
of a new nation. And you mentioned

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Abraham Lincoln when it looked like the
United States was going to fall, when

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it looked like the United States could
be attacked by Europe, when he saw

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devastation and death all around, he
went before the American people and said,

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this is a day of Thanksgiving.
And you know what that is amazing.

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As we look around today, people
who are are watching this right now,

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they may be having, you know, a new grandchild. They may have

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a new job, they may have
a new opportunity that they're excited about.

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It's time for Thanksgiving. And there's
people who could be watching right now where

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they're sick, where they've lost their
business, or they can't pay their bills,

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or they don't know where they're going
to get food for tomorrow. You've

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got people who have all kinds of
conditions, and yet the Word of God

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is so powerful. In the First
Thessalonians, chapter five, it says,

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rejoice, always, rejoice, always
play without ceasing, give thanks, and

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why, for this is the will
of God. It's God's will that we

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give thanks. And he starts off. It's pretty amazing. He starts off

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rejoicing. Yes, that rejoicing joy
doesn't require circumstances. You could be in

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the Word. You could be you
could be in China in jail because you're

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a Christian and rejoice. You're not
happy with circumstances, but you're rejoicing.

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And it says rejoice, and it
says pray, and we're to be a

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people of prayer, and then thanksgiving, and you're giving thanks to the Almighty

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God because that's his will. And
so I believe Thanksgiving is a unique American

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tradition, something that is based upon
the fact that we were founded upon the

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principles you find in the Bible,
were founded by Christians, and so you

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have from George Washington and Abe Lincoln
and all you know, what they're doing

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is they're saying, go before God
exactly where. But here's the thing.

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It's also a lifestyle for you and
me and every listener it's our lifestyle every

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day, that is the will of
God every day for us. And it

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may seem impossible, but with God, all things are possible, right,

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and that's really what we should be
doing. You know. The fact is

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when people see our joy, when
people see that we're people of prayer,

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where people uh that that that that
are thankful for for for little things and

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big things. And we have that
lifestyle that's infectious, that's assign the Lord

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is with us, and and uh, you know, the God's love is

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constant, it's unconditional, and and
it's a recognition of His grace and mercy

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exactly. Well, it truly is, Craig, the American way of life

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really, even though maybe it's dissipated
a bit right now there's secularists that have

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come in and uh, maybe we've
lost our sight. But this is a

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time you know, that happens on
our calendar that provides an opportunity for us

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to reset. Yes, and just
as you know, our first president example

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to us with his proclamation. And
it was interesting because in the first paragraph

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of that proclamation he called upon all
nations. Craig, I don't know if

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you remember that or not, but
he called upon all nations to have a

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day of thanksgiving, because it's not
just about America, but it's the world.

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It is all of God's creation that
should be thankful for His hand of

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faithfulness and good will toward men.
Yeah, oh, absolutely, you know

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the foundation. We need to be
thankful for him, for God sending his

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son Jesus Christ to come into this
world to suffer and die on the cross

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for our sins and our transgressions,
and then to rise again for us to

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be able to have a new life
in our belief in Jesus Christ. We

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need to be thankful that we need
thankful for the birth of American freedoms.

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You know, this nation was the
Pilgrims. Everybody heard about the Pilgrims to

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America escaping religious freedom, but they
didn't have an understanding of how to do

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government or what to do. They
just were a community of believers, and

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they set up a silly system that
was basically socialism, right, the system

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where you know, everybody shares this
and everybody's equal and everything's in common,

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and everything failed because it's against human
natures and the way God made us.

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Within the first year, Craig,
by the way, they found out real

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quick. That you got people that
are just lazy, human nature being what

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it is. They didn't show up
for work. Why they liked the idea

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of sharing equally when it came to
receiving of the bounty, but they they

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didn't want to share equally when it
came to the hard work of telling the

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soil to make that bounty. Gun
barth r And what was true then is

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true today with people with the welfare
state and handouts and what have you.

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But here's what they learned. They
said, hey, enough enough, we're

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starving. We can't feed ourselves.
Let's go ahead and let every individual hold

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the responsibility of feeding their household.
Let every individual have their own property and

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do their own growing and keep what
they earned. They establish free enterprise.

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They pablished a pattern that was founded
in the know the Constitution, the Declaration

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of Independence, of allowing people to
have individual god given freedom to do what

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they can without interference, without government
on top of them. And what happened.

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They had an abundance and they were
able to celebrate a thanksgiving of abundance

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once they tried freedom. And that
that that's the American legacy, exactly the

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whole world. George Washington knew that
this would be a beacon of hope,

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a city on a hill for everyone
to see that our rights come from the

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Almighty God, not government, and
that when when you allow people to be

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free and to worship, and to
to to do business and commerce and interchange

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of goods and services, you have
the greatest economic miracle happening. And that's

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what America is, an economic miracle
that his not only UH created wealth unimagined,

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not only has it raised people out
of poverty throughout the world, it's

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provided a platform of spreading God's truth
with missionaries and food and help and medicine

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and doctors and nurses and Christians going
out in the name of Jesus loving people.

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Exactly it Wash realized. He was
unprecedented. There's no doubt. It's

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exactly. Thank you, Yes,
exactly. Well, we're talking with Craig

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Huey, the author, political commentator, speaker for Elected Election Forum UH,

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and publisher one of the largest Christian
political newsletters in America. Craig, as

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you as you're recalling here, I
mean, go back to the foundation of

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this, I mean the golden you
know, the crown of all this was

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freedom, yes, and our our
Founding fathers, you know, embraced that,

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and they understood that that was a
calling from God, not something that

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was going to come from government.
These were inalienable rights life, liberty,

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the pursuit of happiness, that that
freedom came from God. And look what

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happened when freedom has reigned in our
country. You're exactly right. Everybody wins

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all all boats or they rise according
to and they're lifted up according to the

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tides when we're serving one another.
And that's what freedom does. As soon

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as a government or an elitist power
decides to come in and social engineer,

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it messes the whole thing up because
they're out of their purview. That is

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not their level of authority. God
has already sanctified and set up, set

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aside freedom for those who are called
by His name. And when that happens,

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everybody benefits from it because now you've
got, well, in this case,

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in this modern era, what three
hundred and forty five hundred and fifty

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million people acting on their own interest
in their own behalf being responsible. And

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I say that in terms of being
responsible for their own and their own families.

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Wow, you think of the power
and natural resource that are in that

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situation. I mean, we saw
a clear and I saw this clearly as

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it was starting to happen. You
know, when we went, if I

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can just you know, be a
little political here. After eight years with

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Barack Obama, you know, the
labor force of America was squashed. It

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was frustrated, and I kept saying, they need to have they need to

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have an outlet. God said for
us to be fruitful and multiply. That

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is consistent with who we are and
how we designed us. If you do

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anything to interfere with that, it
is not good for all concerned. And

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so here it was. The middle
class was pulverized. Jobs were basically eliminated

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in massive numbers. And then you
get then you get Donald Trump who comes

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in and says, look at set
the captives free, let everybody go to

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work, be happy. And you
know, America, I see. This

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is what blows me away, is
that eight years of misery under the previous

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regime, you get four years.
You get a forward thinking leader who believes

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in the Bible and he's following godly
principles. The people are rejoicing. They're

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not groaning as they were eight years
previously. They were rejoicing but somehow something

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happened because come twenty twenty, an
election time. I guess the people became

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convinced that being happy and winning was
evil, that that wasn't good, and

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that we needed to get back into
captivity. And here we are. I

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think what you have here is a
clash world views. Yes, and this

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is really important. Understand that socialism
and Marxism Karl Marks, the founder of

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communism, that religion is the opiate
of the people. They've always had a

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world view that they've got to stop
Christianity, which which which emphasizes individual freedom,

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not the collective, not the power
of the state. And to modern

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uh a socialists, to the those
who are pro socialists, those in government.

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Right now, who's the God,
not the true and living God,

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it's government. What's the religion,
It's the other, it's the other.

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Excuse me, Craig, it's the
other opiate. You really think about it,

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right, you know that? And
the religion, the religion is politics,

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not the word of God. And
and part of that is the crush

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opposition, to crush religious freedom,
to crush uh anything that we get in

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their way, and and and and
that's the moral good. And they do

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that with self righteousness, and that's
what won the election by by a small

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minority. Bill. I would submit
to you that you framed everything right.

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The problem is too many Conservatives to
me, Christians to me, Republicans to

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me, Libertarians did not vote in
the last equations, and the pastors were

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silent. Instead, the pastors saying
enough is enough. We've got to be

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able to protect the unborn. We've
got to be able to protect the persecuted

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church. We got to be able
to protect our free speech, we got

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to protect our rights to be able
to spread the gospel. They instead of

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having a courage just standing for what's
right and speaking out about getting registered and

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going out and voting, the Christians
stayed at home. The Conservatives, Craig.

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But these pastors, I just want
to, you know, shake them

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into reality here for just a moment. Who did they think was going to

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going to protect life? Who did
they think was going to preserve faith?

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When the Democratic Party had already rejected
God in their platform. Clearly they spoke

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out clearly they were supporting abortion to
the tune of over one hundred million babies

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have been murdered since uh since Roe
v. Wade. And of course there

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were years before that, where abortion
was still happening, you know, in

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the country, not not you know, federally mandated or approved. You know

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that that happened after Roe v.
Wade. But you know, it's like,

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please give me a break, you
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you decide to abandon and not you
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know, an old threat from Lyndon
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exemption. Like God needs God needs
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so, right right, it's a
crisis that we were going to suffer more

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setback. I mean, if you
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on at the local school boards,
war on Christianity that's going on all the

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way in the state governments and by
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C. The Biden administration with the
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life leaders, conservative leaders, targeting
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and and and destroy any type of
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Can you imagine if we had four
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probably wouldn't be able to have this
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Oh no, yeah, exactly.
We would be censored. Yeah, well,

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and I've been. I've been censored
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is just part of it. I
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called me to do. But again, you know, look at the timeline,

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look at look at what uh,
what one political thought has delivered to

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our country here just in the last
five years. You know, the drag

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Queen story hour. Oh, that
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that came from liberals. That from
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You know, abortion on demand.
I mean the reason that Roe v.

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Wade got turned is because of forty
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finally stood up and said, you
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to us. You told us it
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going to be safe. It's neither
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was a matter of just taking a
tumor out of my body. I can't

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tell you the last time I grieved
over the loss of a tumor being extracted

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out of my body. But I'm
grieving over the death of my child who

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had been eight years old today.
Thank you very much. You guys lied

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to me. And to the day
I die, I am grieving and will

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carry this loss of life with me
because really what it all boils down to,

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Craig, we're back to that age
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God laid before us. You're either
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choose death. Yes, And the
Word of God quickly says, it doesn't

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even hesitate, because it doesn't even
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life, you know, that's what
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the manifestation of what we're dealing with
politically, at every level of our livelihoods

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right now, it is at that
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you choosing death? If you choose
life, there are certain things that will

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be manifest. The fruit that will
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life is quite clear. If you
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be clearly manifest. And this is
where we are right now. And it's

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up to people who are called by
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help every everybody else, first of
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is evil and what is good.
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Craig, as you know what happened
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is so astounding to me that people
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evil that occurred on October the seventh. And it's evil. It's evil,

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clearly, it's part of this worldview
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It's this worldview that from the beginning, the beginning, the hatred of

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the Jews. Satan has tried to
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tried to be wiped out from the
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manifest in such a huge way where
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don't understand truth, they only understand
what is right now, hatred towards at

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people. Yeah, well they have
been indoctrinated to believe this. We have

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participated in. I say, we
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government. So we have to take
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we imported would be terrorists, young
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think, oh, they're young people, they're interested in education. Little did

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we know they were basically indoctrinational and
theological missiles that came to attack our kids

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and affect their thinking because these young
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these kids that came from the Middle
East that have been groomed and conditioned even

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while they're in their mother's womb,
that they must hate Israel. There's something

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evil about Israel and this ancient hatred
that has been going on for thousands of

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years, but yet our government turns
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thinks that just because these kids come
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to leave their doctrine at the border, you know, at the airport when

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they come in. And you're right, Bill, You're one hundred percent right.

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This is dangerous what has come into
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you right here what many of the
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because what has happened is that when
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even before the foundation of America,
there was Christian education. There was people

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who read and learned based upon a
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But the government schools have destroyed that. And anybody that's been going to

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any public school in the last fifty
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the point today even math denies reality. And so school choice is one of

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those issues where Christians need to be
behind and seeing it done and whatever state

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they're in, because school choice is
critical to the survival of America and those

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who are doing homeschooling are going to
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But we need to make sure that
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not going to be able to do
it by trying to win a school board

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though I want people to win school
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changing this fundamentally. And that means
the students learn truth, not lies,

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not missed not on reality, they
learn truth. And that's only going to

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happen with school choice where parents can
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exactly, and that will break this
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on right now. Well, I'm
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would agree. The most immediate thing, and this is what many parents across

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the country are doing, is they're
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homeschooling them. Yes, because the
homeschooling process, I don't know if you've

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looked at it recently. I was
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was phenomenal, you know, the
curriculum and what was available, and how

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easy and organized it is, and
today even more so, Craig, I

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mean, what is available for parents. I know that parents sometimes are intimidated.

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Sam Sorbo for example, who's out
there beating the drum, God bless her

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and encouraging parents that they can you
know, you can do this. Yeah,

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it seems a little bit intimidating,
because but look look at the choice.

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Like you say, you can stay
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kid indoctrinated with Marxist ideas, be
exposed to you know, sex education at

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without your approval, be told that
they could change their sex and not have

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to consult you in any manner,
have an abortion without your consultation, and

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on and on. I mean,
the school system has uh has hijacked the

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minds of our kids. And what
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And you know, God's pretty clear
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And I got to tell you this
Craig. Uh. You know,

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educators and the school systems that have
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Wow, I mean, are are
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a price? You know, by
by the God of Love who protects his

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children. You know what what you've
said is so true and uh and and

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the dangers to them are so profound. But that goes back to what we

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were talking about it at the beginning. We need to be a people who

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are able to rejoice, pray and
give thanks. And part of that is

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being able to understand that as Christians
were sult and light. You can make

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a difference. We can make a
difference at the local level. We can

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make the difference at the state level, and we can make a difference at

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the national level. We can have
Christians are going out and making sure their

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church votes, going out into the
community to make sure friends and family and

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people in their community vote. And
if they can't do that, they can

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also pray, right, you know. And so I have hope, But

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I tell you I don't want to
go through four more years of what we

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were seeing. We've got to reverse
and turn this around. Now. We've

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got to restore the American dream right, Craig, I believe we're at that

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critical point, you know, you
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about the stuff, and we often
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There's been books titled as such,
and I say that we're beyond the tipping

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point because when you think about how
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on the down side of the hill. That leverage point is now tipped downward.

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It's not parallel any longer. It's
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vertical trajectory, that's why things are
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mean five years ago, we wouldn't
be talking about you know, drag Queen

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story hours. We wouldn't be talking
about our kids going in and having surgeries

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and being mutilated and having their sex
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evil you know, Frankenstein type experiment
that you know, and even you know,

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these scientists they know better, Craig. They know that the identity of

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an individual biologically goes deep into the
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They can't do anything about the internal
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do things. But the infrastructure of
the biochemistry of an individual is so sank

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or sanct and so protected that all
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way. I'm not a scientist,
I'm not a doctor. But what you

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study, you know and appreciate the
miracle of God's creation. And you go,

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who are we to think that we
can sit there and engineer, re

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engineer what God has created, that
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He just sewedes together so magnificently,
And you know, the makeup of

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the human anatomy and the body is
such an incredible miracle. And you get

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these elitists who come in and just
say, oh, no problem, I'm

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just going to cut your breast off
and you'll be a boy, oh boy.

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You know, Bill, when you
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you can't believe it's happening. And
that is how fast America has gone

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downhill. And yet that's where people
can't be on the sidelines. They can't

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be silent anymore. They've got to
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and that's where they have to have
courage to be able to speak out

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and speak up and do what is
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And that's where the pastors and the
people in the church have to be the

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sult and light. Just like at
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abolition of slavery, there needs to
be that passion to make sure that there's

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a change going on from the pulpit
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that is the rejoicing, the praying, the thanksgiving, the the repentance that's

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across our entire nation individually nationally.
That's the starting point to turning this around.

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Well, you know, you hit
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and that is that unlike other people, I mean, I think of the

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Wigers in China. You know,
what is their hope? They're incarcerated,

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They're held in concentration camps. The
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the disgusting things, the atrocious things
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These are Muslims, you know,
the wagers are Muslims, and and

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the way, uh, you know, the communist Chinese are treating them with

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impunity, and you think, what
hope do they have? You know?

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God is not going to be the
answer for them. I pray that God

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is the answer for them. But
when you're under all the years of oppression

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that they've been under, you can't
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well, this is my lot in
life. There's no hope. They don't

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know about God. You know,
I don't know if the Gospel in any

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way is getting getting to them.
That would be our prayer that the light

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of God's love would penetrate the darkness
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in America we don't have an excuse. I mean really, it's you know,

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we still have some freedoms, We
still have the ability you know,

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to pray, to pray, as
you say, with hope, because we

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have experience in dealing with Almighty God, who answers prayer, right, and

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that that is the hope that we
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is, because we read in the
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Israel time and again, God says
say look it, I'm gonna judge you.

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You guys are stiff neck. You're
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the way, if you just turn, if you just come to me,

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I will forgive you and I will
hold off judgment. I mean, how

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many times did God say that in
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is the character of the God we
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America today. You know, if
my people, it starts with his people

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who are called by his name.
If we will humble ourselves and pray,

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get back to what you said,
Craig. We got to humble ourselves.

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We got to pray. Turn,
you know. And when and what happens

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when we pray and we're talking to
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it. We see the wickedness that
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the wickedness that we've dropped our guard
on and have accepted as ordinary instead of

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instead of that which is extraordinary and
violates God's law. See. But when

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we come to God and we realize
that it does humble us, it will

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drop us face down on the ground
and realize that who were we to even

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pray to a holy God? Uh? And it's only by faith and us

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because of how we know God and
because he manifested his love and forgiveness in

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sending his son right. Oh absolutely, it goes back to his grace and

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his mercy. It goes back to
his love for us and the Cross.

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It goes back to having us have
a heart filled with tremendous thanksgiving. Bill.

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I hate to do this. I
thought, I'm glad this is recorded.

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I thought that this was going to
be over at twenty five and I

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have to get to the airport to
pick up a kid. Oh yeah,

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Hey, hey, we're gonna we're
gonna interrupt. We're gonna interrupt the TV

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because we have a bullet in here. Craig, you he has got to

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go pick up his child. Uh, Craig, you know, look at

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uh whatever time that we can have, and my apologies to your child who

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may be waiting for it at the
airport. But child, Yeah, well

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well look at God bless you happy
Thanksgiving guys for this great, great Christmas

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season. Yeah it's uh, but
don't worry pal. You know again,

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We've covered a lot of great things
here and I pray that our audience and

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our viewers have been blessed with all
the great things that you've had to share

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with us. So thank you and
and uh hugs and love to to Shelley

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and your prayers. I appreciate you
take care of for the so much.

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Lord bless everyone. You got it. Craig Huey there, you know,

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surprising a little bit, you know, time time restriction. But hey,

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that's okay. But you're getting the
point here of these things that we've been

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you know, we've been sharing with
you about, uh you know about this

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season and uh you know what what
it what it means and what it should

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mean to us. I will share
with you in uh, these last minutes

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that we have together. You know, Craig had mentioned President George Washington's Thanksgiving

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Proclamation that he laid out and it's
available to on the internet. You can

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google it, but I'm going to
read it to you right now. It

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was from October third, seventeen eighty
nine. It says, by the President

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of the United States of America,
a proclamation where it is the duty of

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all nations to acknowledge the providence of
Almighty God, to obey his will,

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to be grateful for his benefits,
and humbly to implore his protection and favor.

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And whereas both Houses of Congress have
by their joint Committee requested me to

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recommend to the people of the United
States, a day of public thanksgiving and

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prayer to be observed by acknowledging with
grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty

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God, especially by affording them an
opportun tunity peaceably to establish a form of

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government for their safety and happiness.
Keep in mind, this was our first

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national holiday, and this was the
proclamation of this first national holiday of this

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young country of ours, as it
was coming out of its womb and developing.

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Now. Therefore, he goes on, I do recommend and design Thursday,

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the twenty sixth day of November next, to be devoted by the people

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of these States to the service of
that great and glorious being being capitalized with

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a capital be, referring to God, who is the beneficent author of all

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the good that was, that is, or that will be, that we

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may all unite in rendering under Him
our sincere and humble thanks for His kind

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care and protection of the people of
this country previous to their becoming a nation.

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For the signal and manifold mercies and
the favorable innerpositions of His providence which

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we experienced in the course and conclusion
of the late War for the Great degree

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of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for

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the peaceable and rational manner in which
we have been enabled to establish constitutions of

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government for our safety and happiness,
and particularly the national one now lately instituted,

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for the one and religious liberty with
which we are blessed, and the

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means we have of acquiring and diffusing
useful knowledge, and in general, for

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all the great and various favors which
He hath been pleased to confer upon us.

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And also that we may then unite
in most humbly offering our prayers and

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supplicate to the Great Lord and Ruler
of nations, and beseech him to pardon

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our national and other transgressions, to
enable us, all, whether in public

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or private stations, to perform our
several and relative duties properly and punctually,

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to render our national government of blessing
to all the people, by constantly being

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a government of wise, just and
constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and

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obeyed, to protect and guide all
sovereigns and nations, especially such have shown

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kindness unto us, and to bless
them with good government, peace and concord

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to promote the knowledge and practice of
true religion and virtue, and the increase

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of science among them and us,
and generally to grant unto all mankind such

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of temporal prosperity as He alone knows
to be best given under my hand.

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At the City of New York,
the third day of October, in the

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year of our Lord, seventeen eighty
nine, President George Washington. Wow,

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what a powerful proclamation, and I
share that with you. My prayer would

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be is that this would be a
document, along with the Constitution and Declaration

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of Independence, that we should constantly
read at various times whenever we get our

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families together, you know, at
dinner time, and celebrations of holidays,

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especially, you know, civic holidays
like the Fourth of July and others that

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remind us of our heritage. You
know, people want to take exception of

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America's exceptionalism, but I would dare
say that we've earned it. We've not

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earned it out of perfection. We've
earned it because of the blessings of God

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Almighty, and it is part of
our birthright. We're having a conversation with

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one of our guests earlier in the
week in understanding our birthright and how God

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honors the birthright. America has a
birthright. We were birth by God,

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and there came rights and privileges with
that birthright, with his hand upon us

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in much the same way as his
hand has been upon Israel. And it

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is imperative that we honor that birthright
and we protect it. There's no doubt

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that there are antithical forces that would
come against that. It is the nature

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of man. Sadly, because again
we go back to that crossroads. You

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know, it's either life or death. You know, what are we pursuing.

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If we're pursuing life, there's specific
manifestations, you might say, fruits,

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fruits of that life tree that will
be manifest as a result of the

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worldview, the thinking, the decisions
that we make. Again, you've heard

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me say, the opportunity where we
are right now is that we can think

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better, we can do better,
and we can be better. Okay,

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think about that. It's not like, you know, anything's being asked of

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us to say, all right,
you know, I want you to work.

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Instead of forty hours a week,
I want you to work eighty hours

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a week. No, it's like, just do better, you know,

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how about fifteen more minutes can you
have fifteen more minutes a week that was

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you know, specifically sanctified and set
aside, just to think and do and

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be better. The cumulative impact of
days, weeks, months, and years

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of that kind of thinking could catapult
us individually corporately as a nation. You

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know, that light on a shining
hill that John Winthrop, that was his

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prayer that America would be that shining
light on the hill. That was inspirational.

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And I believe, you know again, what gives that cretence and longstanding

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is that I believe that it came
from God himself. God deposited those words

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into his spirit, his desire to
pray that in much the same way when

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Jesus asked Peter when he said who
do they say I am? And Peter

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says, you know, because all
the apostles had an idea, whether it

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was John the Baptist, or Elijah
or Elisha, you know, some reborn

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you know, prophet of past.
But Peter says, no, you're you're

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the Messiah. You know, you're
Jesus Christ. You are the Messiah,

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the sanctified one of God. And
Jesus said, Peter, because you declared

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who I am? And I know
that didn't come from man, that came

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from God. God told you that. And because God told you that,

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I'm going to bless you, and
you told me who I am, and

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I'm going to tell you who you
you are. And then Jesus went on

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to tell Peter that he was going
to be the leader of this new institute,

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institution the church, whose responsibility it
would be to take the gospel message

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from Jerusalem, Judaeus, Samaria and
the uttermost parts of the world. Okay,

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and so you know, you you
think, and I don't know,

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maybe it's the age that I'm at. I don't know doing this, you

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know TV and the radio show that
God has blessed me with. That's and

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certainly I know it's because of you
know, my commitment to be in His

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word. I'm especially sensitive. I'm
especially sensitive to hearing the word of God.

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And as Craig mentioned, the worldview
you align you can't help but align

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yourself with it. When those things
match up with you know, the life

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provision, you know, the life
world view, the life proposition that God

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gives us. And it's also what
you know disturbs us when we come in

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contact with that which is death.
It's like chalk. Hitting the chalkboard in

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the wrong directions screeches, and it
just rattles your nerves right. And so

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that is what I hope for you
and I share that with you, hopefully

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that you know this will make sense
to you, because that's this is where

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we are right now, more than
ever before. You know, life and

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death. Are we going to choose
life? You know, for our marriages,

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you know, for our family,
for our grandkids, our heritage.

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Is that the commitment are we going
to you know, dance with you know,

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it's my my buddy, doctor David
Rubin. Michael Rubin says, you

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know, dancing with rogue regimes.
There are rogue regimes, whether they're political,

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they're spiritual, rogue regimes that somehow
we think we can dance with and

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think it's okay and play with death. We do so at at die consequences.

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And I think that we can see
that more and more, and this

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is what's happening. So my faith
is in all of you, people who

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are called by his name, people
who want to be called by his name,

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that you would make that commitment and
understand and hopefully this touches, this

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touches you, and it touches your
spirit in such a way that it causes

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you to make an immediate decision.
An immediate decision life and death stands before

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you choose life. Thank you so
much for being with us. Our thanks

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to Craig Huey for sharing his time
and spending time with us on this show.

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Bless you, and again thank you
for sharing a part of your day

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with us. May you be blessed. May God bless you and keep you.

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May His face shine upon you,
May He be gracious unto you,

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and may He give you peace.
Thanks again for being with us. God

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bless happy Thanksgiving for a great and
joyful holidays. Eason. My prayer is

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for you. Thank you. M