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Don't get down when you're seeing the worst,

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Cause the last will be the first.

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What a day I'm telling you,

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All things will be new.

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Living up in a down world.

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Yeah we're living, yeah we're living,

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Living up in a down world.

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Oh!

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This is Jimmy and Annette,

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We are living up in a down world,

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We're on episode number 34,

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Thank you for joining us today.

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I gotta say, you look absolutely stunning.

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Really?

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Yes.

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I'm laughing because...

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You're laughing out loud, you're LOLing.

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It's just, yes, I don't feel very stunning today.

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It's our day off, it's our sabbatical,

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It's Labor Day.

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Sabbath, we end it with a sabbatical.

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Yes, and I've not labored in my parents today.

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We labored, we hit the gym this morning,

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Planet Fitness over in the big city of Bernie,

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It was jam packed.

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I hated it today, why do these people have to come to the gym?

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Don't you people have jobs? Oh wait, it's Labor Day.

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It's Labor Day, never doing that again.

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We will take the Labor Day off and work out at home.

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I've never seen that many people there.

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No, it was awful.

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Okay, so crazy thing though, I was able to get to every machine,

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everything, I don't know why, just sort of worked out that way.

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Everybody decided to do legs today, and today was my leg day.

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I'm so sorry, I'm thankful I didn't do legs today.

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I know, you should be.

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Because I ended up having to do...

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Wait, when did I do it? I did that on Saturday.

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Right, well I ended up having to go back to machines I'd already done,

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and did three more sets because...

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I wasn't going to say, I'm not going to say what I was going to say.

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But there was a gentleman.

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There you go, nice.

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On one of the machines for 40 minutes.

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The one machine I needed for about five minutes.

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He was on it 40 minutes, almost the whole time we were there.

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Not happy.

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That tends to happen when there's like one machine.

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That's a gym snob, isn't it?

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No, they call them a lunk.

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A lunk, a gym lunk.

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You know what, I think you would have to be...

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What was the Holy Spirit trying to teach you through that?

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Oh, for sure.

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Was it one of the fruit of the Spirit?

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Patience.

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Patience, maybe.

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Yes, but you know what, I didn't say anything to him.

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I almost did.

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You said plenty to me.

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I almost walked over and said, are you done yet?

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But listen, that's not good etiquette.

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I get it.

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There are people, there's a hundred people in the gym today.

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The injustice of it all.

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Yeah, let's change the subject.

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Moving right along.

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Because I'm trying to live up in a down world.

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We are living up in a down world, I repeat.

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Should we scrub that?

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No, we don't do that here.

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No, no.

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We're just real.

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Keeping it real today.

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We still had a good workout.

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We had a good time.

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We came home and we rocked some short ribs.

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I've never, okay, wait a minute.

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We've never cooked short ribs ever before.

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And we're rocking a lot of meat right now on our carnivore journey.

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Tina told us what to do with it.

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Right, so we bought meat from KNC Cattle, which is our favorite place to get great meat.

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Great ranch.

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It's basically ranch to your table, to your fridge.

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But this came in a bundle, and we didn't know what to do with it.

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So I was like, okay, Tina, what do I do?

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And I said, why?

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That's a setup.

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Well, and I didn't love it because it's real fatty and it's not the kind of fat that you

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I would say it turned out as well as it could have considering what it is.

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Well, my stomach didn't handle it very well.

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No, your stomach did not.

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No, so I will never do that again.

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I did a little better.

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Of course, I'm twice your size, so I can handle a little bit more, but it tasted like roast.

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It tasted like a roast I make in a crock pot.

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We did it in a crock pot.

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We cooked it for eight hours.

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And man, it just fell off the bones.

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Although, on carnivore, fat is fuel.

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I'll take the fat from ribeye over that.

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We gave it our best shot.

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Don't look forward to trying that again.

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No, it's coming in our next bundle, but I think I will give it away.

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We're learning a lot on our carnivore journey, aren't we?

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I mean, we're just figuring things out as we go, and we're submitting...

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I mean, we're watching a lot of videos and a lot of really experts in that field, and

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so the journey's going well.

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What I don't...

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It's so mind-boggling to me is the energy we have.

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I know.

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It's crazy, really.

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I mean, I thought keto, we had a lot of energy.

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But for some reason, I feel like we have more now, or either I don't remember so much when

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we started keto in 2018, but it's just been over the top.

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I'm certain that we have much more energy doing carnivore than we did keto, and we're

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staying in ketosis the whole time, so it's really crazy.

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I mean, it's remarkable, and we won't drone on about it, but it is an amazing journey,

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the best I can ever remember feeling in my life.

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I know.

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It's cleared up several things already in my...

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Not that I have a lot of bad health issues.

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I don't.

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We're actually very healthy, both of us.

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But the little things we did have are either going away or they're cleared up and even

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reversed.

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It doesn't even make sense because everything we've heard is, you know, meat is bad, eat

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vegetables, eat grains.

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Fat will make you fat.

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Fat will make you fat.

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You need to eat plants, salads, and misinformation.

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Not these days, not the way...

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Well, all the plants we're getting now aren't the plants we were getting 50 years ago, 40

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Things have changed.

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The GMOs and all the bioengineering has destroyed the health.

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They've turned fruit into candy instead of actual fruit.

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Which I'm still doing a little bit of fruit.

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Yeah, you love your watermelon.

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Well, it's watermelon.

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But you're not overdoing it.

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No, I'm only having a few pieces and I just...

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It's blueberries because that's a good berry, but that's it.

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That's it.

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Not much.

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I'm staying a little more closer to the line.

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I'm a probably what, 99% meat and then an eggs, butter, bacon, and then 1% maybe fruit.

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So I'm doing good.

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I think as long as I feel good, I can do that.

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So what we're doing and while we're talking about this is that one of the things that

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we really embraced over our sabbatical, which was two months and ended last week, is this

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idea of total life victory.

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In other words, having balance between your body, your mind, and your spirit.

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And so we engaged those three realms throughout the whole thing and we engaged them and did

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this, our spiritual, our mental, our physical, everything we did, I wanted to make sure that

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it was replicatable.

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We could continue to repeat this.

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Yeah, sustainable.

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Sustainable outside of a sabbatical.

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So we didn't do anything that we can't do in normal life.

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I was real intentional about that because I didn't want to have this amazing mountaintop

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experience at a sabbatical and then go back in the work world and go, ugh, can't wait

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for another five or six years to get another one of these.

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Not at all.

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In fact, it's like, no, this actually has led us into the next chapter of our lives

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and we were strategic and intentional about that and that is exactly what's happened.

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So everything we did and are doing is sustainable and it can be repeated.

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So and it can be repeated for others.

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Well, and we've added intermittent fasting, which is so good.

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Now when we get to work, you know, we don't have to eat until we get home because we're

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fasting and I think it's going to be really good for us.

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I think what's remarkable for me is how my appetite's gone.

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I just, I don't crave anything.

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I'm not thinking I got to have some sugar or I got some carbs or I want to go to Mr.

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Gaddy's and rock a pizza.

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Oh, can't even imagine that right now.

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So all that's gone away.

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I mean, it literally has cleared out of our system.

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So what happens is that you break habits and you break micro habits, both big, big things,

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big cravings, big, but also micro things that you don't even really think about.

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And one is your appetite leaves so that you're not always craving food.

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Well, we haven't had carbs in what?

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Two months, over two months.

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60, we're on like day 63 or four?

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64 days.

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Day 64.

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So, and I don't miss them.

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Oh, I don't miss it.

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We were at HUB, our big store in Bernie, and we were going through the aisles and you were

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over, you had to go, you went and got a big yellow onion and I waited with the basket

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and our whole, we definitely looked like carnivores.

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Butter, eggs, meat.

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I mean, that was about it.

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And water.

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And then you got an onion and some watermelon, but I waited, but I had to wait because I'm

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trying to stay out of people's way because even the store was crowded today.

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So I stand over here and when I stopped, I turned around and stopped at this area and

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I looked around and everything around me was Halloween cookies, cakes, pies, and it grossed

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I literally was like, I'm among the enemy right now.

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I feel like I'm surrounded by the enemy.

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Well, Lord, rebuke you.

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And that's really strange coming from you because you are a sweetaholic.

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Was.

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I was going to change that, but you really were.

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I mean, this is like pretty remarkable that you've made such a 180 turn.

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So for me, more of a 180.

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I'm just kidding.

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But anyway, it's going great.

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What do you got there?

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You're holding your phone.

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I want to talk about what happened last week.

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We had a couple of outings with Adam and Tina.

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I had to ask you, now what do we do?

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Last week was kind of a blur.

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And a lot of it was because I think I had such anxiety and anticipation for going to

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church on Sunday for the first time.

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Let's talk about that after we talk about this.

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Look at me.

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I'm like Tina.

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I'm saying follow the list.

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Wow.

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What is happening to me?

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I know.

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You're turning into Tina and I'm Adam.

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I'm just going to do whatever you tell me to do.

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I'm becoming disciplined.

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I'm following the rules.

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And then I'm going to call you an ogre or something.

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What is happening to me?

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Right.

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So yeah, where were we?

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Tina.

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Oh.

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We went over to their house on Tuesday night over to the Curry's.

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And if y'all don't know who they are, it's Adam and Tina Curry, just two of our best

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friends, humans on the planet.

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And they have an amazing podcast called Curry and the Keeper.

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And they birthed this podcast.

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I mean Adam invited me and said, Jimmy, you should be doing it.

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You're a natural podcaster.

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You preach every Sunday.

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You got stuff.

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You should be doing this.

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And he invented podcasting.

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He is the pod father.

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And I'm like, man, if Adam Curry is saying, hey, you should be a podcaster, I'm like,

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let's go be a podcaster.

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So here we are.

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Then the very first day we did it, I'm drug you and said, you're going to do it with me.

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So that's how that happened.

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So he's our exec.

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I call him our executive producer because we pay him the big bucks to do this.

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Ha ha.

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But we want to push in.

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They've promoted us so sweetly and so just from the heart.

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And we're promoting them because we love them, value them, and we love their show.

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It's hysterical.

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And so check out Curry and the Keeper podcast.

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You can find on any of the platforms.

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So we went over to their house on Tuesday night and Tina has come over to our side.

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She's a carnivore.

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She's a carnivore.

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I knew she'd do it after.

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Well, they went on their big trip and she came back.

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I feel horrible.

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All I've eaten is carbs.

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I got to do something.

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But you know what?

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If you're going to eat carbs, Italy is the place to eat them.

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Or Paris.

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I would have done the very same thing.

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But yeah, I agree, coming back here, time to make a change.

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Although Adam's not ready to do that.

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Adam, he calls us the meat Nazis.

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We are the meat Nazis now.

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So hilarious.

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So it's hilarious.

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She makes dinner for us.

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She makes this trot.

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Was it trot?

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Trot tip.

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It was phenomenal.

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Oh, massive too.

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And we're eating and eating.

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It's like three pounds of meat.

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And eating.

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Oh, it's probably more than that.

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That was huge.

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And she forgets about Adam's baked potato.

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Not the only non-carnivore thing that we were eating that night.

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Did she overcook it?

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I don't know.

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She undercooked it because she forgot about it.

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And he's just sitting there going, thanks guys.

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I'm not going to join you though.

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He won't join us.

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No, no, no.

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And that's fine.

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It's good for him.

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But it was hilarious because she just totally forgot.

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We were just so busy eating our trot tip.

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Rocking that steak.

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And again, that was some K&C cattle.

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I mean, it was...

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Well, she turned a lot of people onto that.

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That was one of the best things I've had that trot tip like that.

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Because I've never had one like that.

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Oh, that was huge.

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Yeah, we're keeping K&C in.

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We have to.

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Especially with our carnivore dinner.

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Well, the processes are way better than ATB.

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True, true.

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At this point.

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Well, it was a carnivore's dream dinner for sure.

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Amazing.

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And on Friday night, we celebrated Adam's birthday.

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59.

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He's just a baby.

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He's still a puppy.

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I know.

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People say that and I'm like, really?

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When I was 59, I was not a baby.

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Wouldn't feel like a baby.

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But he is.

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Yeah, I turned 59 on Sunday, but we celebrated on Friday night and we went to one of our

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favorite restaurants in Fredericksburg.

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Cabernet Grill.

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Cabernet Grill.

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Man, everything they do is over the top.

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Where we go when we have a celebration.

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Yeah, that's where we celebrate.

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Birthday or anniversary.

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Oh, we love it.

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Valentine.

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We love it.

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So we sat down with him.

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We were having a great time and then our waiter came over.

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His name was Johnny.

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Really nice guy.

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And how did it come up?

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I'm trying to think because I'm the one who told him.

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About podcasting and he's the pod father and all that.

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About what?

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How did it get started?

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I don't know how it got started somehow.

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Oh, I said it's his birthday.

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Oh, there you go.

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And then he made some kind of comment and I said, he was talking about Joe, didn't he

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talk about Joe Rogan?

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Somehow Joe Rogan came up.

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I think he did.

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And I said, Adam's been on Joe Rogan.

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And he looked at Adam like, what?

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Like, oh wow.

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And he said, what did you talk about?

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And I loved.

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Loved Adam's response.

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His response was God, Jesus.

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I mean, he could have said, I mean, what did he talk to him for two hours?

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No, 33 I think.

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And you know, the conversation of religion or whatever, however you want to say it, came

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up for about 30 minutes.

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But he didn't say the other stuff he talked about.

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He said that.

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I have to say.

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That takes a lot of courage.

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Well, what I have to say is I was so proud about him because he didn't even think about

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it.

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It was natural.

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It was natural.

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It just, that's what he said as a matter of fact.

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Just rolled off of his lips.

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And the guy said, I want, I need to hear that.

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I want to hear that.

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So we asked him his name.

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Yep.

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And I said, do you not know who he is?

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He's actually the one who invented podcasting and the guy, he kind of just ignored me.

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He really didn't say much, but he took down Adam's name.

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He came back to the table and said, you're the, what did he say?

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Godfather.

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No, just pod father.

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But it was like, he said, I went and looked you up.

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It was hilarious.

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So we're sitting there and so that happens and we're just, I'm just so proud.

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We're laughing.

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It's funny and I'm so proud of my brother in Christ, Adam, for just bringing Jesus into

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it.

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And then this other couple gets escorted, the restaurant starts to pick up, you know,

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where they're already been announced picking up.

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So this couple walks by and Adam's talking like he does.

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And you can hear his voice.

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Adam has a distinctive voice and it cuts through the mix, so to speak.

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So other people, and this guy does a double take as he walks by the table.

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I'm like, he just recognized Adam's voice and starting to figure everywhere we go, that's

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happening now.

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And he doesn't listen to no agenda.

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He remembers him from MTV back in the eighties.

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He stops and he says, no, no, no, he comes back over.

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He goes and gets seated.

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You're right.

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He seats his wife and I'm thinking, man, that dude's a fan.

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I mean, I could tell a super fan.

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He comes back over to the table and he's like a kid.

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He was like giddy.

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He's like our age, but he's acting like a kid.

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And he's like, are you Adam Curry?

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From MTV?

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All three of us kind of go, here we go.

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Here we go.

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And it was really cute.

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And Adam was very gracious and kind, which he always is with fans.

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And he's got him everywhere they go.

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Now I know what Tina goes through all the time.

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But you know, he paid his dues.

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He did.

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He did.

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He's an amazing man.

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He's remarkable.

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He's very culture.

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He knows the ins and outs of the world.

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He's just an amazing man.

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He really is.

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And they make a power couple.

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Boy, do they.

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You talk about yin and yang fit together.

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Oh, well Tina's brilliant.

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Hand in glove.

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I know they are.

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They're a power couple.

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Well, Faith said Tina looks like a supermodel.

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Our daughter said that.

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So I told Tina, I said, well, you're the supermodel.

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You're my friend, the supermodel.

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She's the new supermodel friend.

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So anyway, after we're about to pay our check and the guy brings it and says, there's a

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man in the back in the corner of there.

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Your check.

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This is just for your coffee because we ordered coffee afterwards.

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This is your coffee.

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Fifteen bucks.

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He said, your meal's been paid for.

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This was a very high dollar dinner.

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Yeah, that is not pennies, right?

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It's not chump change.

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It was so nice of him.

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So we all got up, all four of us, and walked over to his table and thanked him and introduced

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ourselves.

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And it was just one of those, it was already a blessed evening.

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We laughed.

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We were that table that was laughing probably way too loud.

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Oh, I was thinking, oh my gosh, we're that table where we're the ones usually looking

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over going, really?

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Do you not know other people are here?

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Usually it's people who have been drinking and stuff.

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And we weren't even doing that.

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We were just having water for club soda or something.

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Or perrier, whatever it is.

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Pellegrino.

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So we're just drinking water and yet we're just having so much fun because that's what

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friends do.

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Well, we were laughing about how he was fangirling.

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That's true.

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That was funny.

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Can you say fangirl if you're a fan?

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He's fanboying.

501
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I know.

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He's a fanboy.

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I've never seen one before.

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I know.

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It was like, whoa, calm down.

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But apparently he's a very stoop businessman and awesome.

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And they ended up exchanging numbers.

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And Adam was like, here, call me.

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Super cool.

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So he's got a new friend.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Super cool.

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What a blessed night.

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It was a blessed night and topped off with that precious moment.

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And we've been talking about the favor factor of God.

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He says that his favor goes before us like a shield.

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It surrounds us.

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And the whole idea, I love it when we finish each other.

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How do we do that?

520
00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:21,600
I don't know.

521
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Thirty years of wow will do that for you, right?

522
00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,880
But yeah, his favor surrounds us as like a shield, the Bible tells us.

523
00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:28,880
And his favor is for life.

524
00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:29,880
You did it.

525
00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:30,880
I did.

526
00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:32,880
You put your hands on your hip just like I did.

527
00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:33,880
I'm serious.

528
00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:34,880
Just because I don't have arms on my chair because you're using mine.

529
00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:35,880
Oh my gosh.

530
00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:36,880
People can't see us.

531
00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:37,880
I know.

532
00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:38,880
You're using my comfy chair.

533
00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:39,880
I know.

534
00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:40,880
And I've got my hands on mine.

535
00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:41,880
And I'm in your tiny child death chair.

536
00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:42,880
OK.

537
00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:43,880
So we're finishing each other's sentences.

538
00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:44,880
I know.

539
00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:45,880
I have to put my hands somewhere.

540
00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:46,880
But you know what?

541
00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:49,920
If we're going to finish each other's sentences, at least it's the Bible.

542
00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:50,920
There you go.

543
00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:51,920
We know the word.

544
00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:52,920
It's scripture.

545
00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:53,920
It's life giving.

546
00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:54,920
I know.

547
00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:55,920
I won't do that again.

548
00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:56,920
What were we saying?

549
00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:57,920
I'll try to.

550
00:19:57,920 --> 00:19:58,920
You were talking about favor.

551
00:19:58,920 --> 00:19:59,920
Oh, the favor factor.

552
00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:00,920
Yeah.

553
00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:05,720
It just seems like when you're in tune with him, the scripture says that when we look

554
00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:07,360
to him, our faces are radiant.

555
00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:12,120
And there's something when we connect, when we're communing with God, there's a favor

556
00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:13,640
that comes around us.

557
00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:15,280
The scripture is very clear.

558
00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:16,280
His favor is for life.

559
00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,600
He surrounds us like a shield with favor.

560
00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:25,280
And things happen that are out of the ordinary, and you don't have to guess where it came

561
00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:26,280
from.

562
00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:27,520
You just say, that's the favor of God.

563
00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:31,800
If you're in Christ, you can see it and feel it, and you know it's around you.

564
00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:38,400
But if you're not, boy, you know, you're going to think that the favor is because of some

565
00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,440
aura or the universe.

566
00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:41,440
No.

567
00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:47,160
I liked Adam's idea about the universe when someone made a comment about the universe,

568
00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:48,160
one of his daughters.

569
00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:49,160
Yes.

570
00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:54,880
And he said, yeah, that's okay because God invented the universe.

571
00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:55,880
God created the universe.

572
00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:56,880
No.

573
00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:57,880
That's brilliant.

574
00:20:57,880 --> 00:20:58,880
Of course, you would come up with that.

575
00:20:58,880 --> 00:20:59,880
Yeah.

576
00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:00,880
He's brilliant.

577
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:01,880
He's sharp.

578
00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:02,880
I love it.

579
00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,560
So anyway, the favor factor is happening, and it just seems like it's happening.

580
00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,560
I felt it at the gym today, not because I was working out, because I was able to get

581
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:10,560
everything in a crowd of gyms.

582
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:11,560
Well, not me today, but that's okay.

583
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,560
You must have been out of God's will or something.

584
00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:15,560
I don't know.

585
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:16,560
You're so hilarious.

586
00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:20,480
I really feel like the Lord was just saying, you need to do more of this.

587
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:21,480
Yeah, there you go.

588
00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,760
So it was probably a better machine.

589
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:24,760
I don't know.

590
00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:25,760
It is what it is.

591
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:26,760
Anyway, you connect the dots on these things.

592
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:27,760
I still got a good workout.

593
00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:28,760
That's what we do.

594
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:29,760
You connect the dots.

595
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:33,960
I didn't let it just... I mean, I could have gone and tore into that.

596
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:35,800
Man, I've seen other people do that.

597
00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:37,760
Oh yeah, that was you a couple weeks ago.

598
00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:38,760
And I repented and apologized.

599
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:39,760
And then you went back.

600
00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:40,760
It turned into a beautiful moment.

601
00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:41,760
It was probably the same guy.

602
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:42,760
No, it was not.

603
00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:43,760
Oh, okay.

604
00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:44,760
You know who I'm talking about.

605
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:45,760
I do know who you're talking about.

606
00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:46,760
But it wasn't the same guy.

607
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:47,760
No, not the same guy.

608
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:51,320
I actually thought about what you did a couple of weeks ago.

609
00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,880
You confronted someone who was on the machine too long.

610
00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,840
I went over and said... I was frustrated.

611
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,440
I said, are you going to work out?

612
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:01,440
Because he was sitting there.

613
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:02,440
He was on his phone.

614
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:03,440
Yeah.

615
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:04,440
And he was just sitting on the machine.

616
00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,880
And I was scared because I thought, oh, he's going to come slash our tires.

617
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,920
I just saw... I went over to him and I said, are you going to work out?

618
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:11,920
And he goes, what?

619
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:13,240
And I said, well, you're on your phone.

620
00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:17,960
I said, I did four sets on that machine over there and I was waiting for this machine.

621
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:18,960
And then he got snarky.

622
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:20,960
He said, well, I'm on this machine.

623
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:22,800
I said, no, actually you're not.

624
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:23,800
You're just on your phone.

625
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:24,800
Oh, I can't believe.

626
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:25,800
Right now I'm boiling thinking about this.

627
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,640
At that point, the Holy Spirit's like, what are you doing?

628
00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:30,640
No, yes.

629
00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,760
And that would be me too saying that.

630
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:34,760
And so I said...

631
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:35,760
I'm glad I didn't see that.

632
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:39,760
I said, well, look, I'm not trying to just get on your case, but there's a lot of people

633
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,800
here waiting to work out and you're just on your phone.

634
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:43,880
Wow.

635
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:49,000
So I went back over and did something else and he just out of spite stayed on that machine

636
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000
the whole time.

637
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,000
Of course.

638
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,280
Just on his phone, not even wearing it, just being cocky.

639
00:22:54,280 --> 00:23:00,560
So I go to work out and do some of the things and the Holy Spirit's like, what?

640
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:01,960
What was that?

641
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:03,380
That was not being Christian.

642
00:23:03,380 --> 00:23:06,920
That was pre-Jesus Jimmy Pruitt from when he was 17 years old.

643
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,800
Which is why I didn't go blast the guy on the legs yesterday.

644
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:14,160
What I did, what I did, I had made a commitment.

645
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:21,000
First of all, I gave up the right to be offended, but also give up the right to withhold encouragement.

646
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,320
So I started looking for him and I couldn't find him.

647
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:24,400
I'm like, he's got to be here.

648
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:28,120
So I said, Holy Spirit, please, I want to go apologize to this guy.

649
00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:29,920
I want to repent to him.

650
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:30,920
So I looked, looked, looked.

651
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:32,840
I finally saw him on the way out.

652
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,080
I had my backpack on.

653
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:35,080
I was already...

654
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:36,080
I know.

655
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:37,080
I saw you and I was like, what is he doing?

656
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:42,000
I go back through the gym all the way across the front and he's on the bench press and

657
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:46,240
I wait for him and I go, Hey man, I said, can I talk to you for a second?

658
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,520
He goes, he's looking at me like, what?

659
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:49,520
Nobody does that in the gym.

660
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,280
I said, well, hey, I just need to apologize to you.

661
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:56,720
I really, I was a jerk back there and I'm really sorry about that.

662
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:57,920
I bet his mouth just dropped.

663
00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:58,920
He did.

664
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,000
He was like, he goes, it's okay, dude.

665
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,200
I said, no, it's not okay.

666
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,720
I was the jerk and I'm really sorry about that.

667
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,800
Would you forgive me?

668
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:08,800
He's probably like, what?

669
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,600
We're in a gym and you're asking me to forgive you.

670
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:11,600
He goes, yeah, it's cool.

671
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:12,600
It's cool.

672
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:13,600
I said, well, man, what's your name?

673
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:14,600
So we introduced ourselves.

674
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:15,600
Did you grab his hand?

675
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:16,600
Did you shake his hand?

676
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:17,600
Yeah, I shook his hand.

677
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:18,600
You shook his hand?

678
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:19,600
I did.

679
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:20,600
I said, man, I'm Jimmy.

680
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:21,600
In the gym?

681
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:22,600
Yeah, I know you don't typically do that.

682
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:23,600
I broke man law.

683
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:28,320
But anyway, this was the moment and he was just, man, his eyes brightened up and he

684
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,280
just said, man, thanks for coming over here.

685
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,200
I said, yeah, I just, I couldn't leave without saying I'm sorry.

686
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,160
I said, that's not my character.

687
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,160
And I said, man, I hope to see you around here again.

688
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:41,160
Have you?

689
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:42,160
No, I haven't.

690
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:43,700
He said, you too, man.

691
00:24:43,700 --> 00:24:44,700
Have a great day.

692
00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:45,700
I mean, it was like...

693
00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:49,000
He was probably like, that's the weirdest exchange I've ever had in a gym.

694
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,000
Oh, definitely.

695
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,560
It was the weirdest exchange I've ever had in a gym.

696
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,200
People that aren't Christian would have a hard time doing that.

697
00:24:55,200 --> 00:25:01,400
But I think when you do know the word and you do go into your flesh by mistake...

698
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,360
Yeah, I made a mistake.

699
00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:08,960
I think he's always pricking our heart to try to get us to do the right thing, but we

700
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:10,360
don't always follow through.

701
00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:11,360
And you did.

702
00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:13,760
And when you were telling me what happened in the car...

703
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:14,760
Oh, the look on your face.

704
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:15,760
You're like, he's going to come kill us.

705
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:16,760
He's going to follow us.

706
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,440
He's going to kill us.

707
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,640
Because people are crazy right now, especially in the San Antonio area where we live.

708
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,120
Very crazy.

709
00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:25,120
Crazy drivers.

710
00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:26,120
Right.

711
00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:33,340
I mean, a woman got a spear thrown for her windshield and almost went through her windshield

712
00:25:33,340 --> 00:25:37,840
through her steering wheel if it would have hit her, it would have killed her.

713
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,600
That's how crazy the world is.

714
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:43,220
So I was thinking, this isn't a good exchange, Jimmy.

715
00:25:43,220 --> 00:25:44,220
And I was boiling.

716
00:25:44,220 --> 00:25:48,040
And then you were like, let me get to the end of the story.

717
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:49,040
And you did.

718
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,040
And I was like, oh, okay.

719
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:54,640
Well, I have to tell you though, when I went back over there, I had no fear, no nervousness.

720
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:55,640
I was like, no, I have to...

721
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:56,640
No, because you were doing the right thing.

722
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,960
I have to take care of this.

723
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,680
And so I felt so happy when I saw him because I would have been really...

724
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,560
That would have been heavy on my heart that he left.

725
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,960
And I just like, oh my gosh.

726
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:09,360
So I was so happy.

727
00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:10,360
And I think I was thinking...

728
00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:12,360
And we left with our life intact.

729
00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:13,360
I'm so happy.

730
00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:14,360
We did.

731
00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:15,960
We didn't get killed or our tires slashed.

732
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:24,440
No, the good thing is that maybe for him as a younger guy, maybe he's like, man, maybe

733
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,160
that stirred something in his own heart.

734
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:30,720
And maybe it revealed, man, there's some good people in the world who made a mistake and

735
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:31,720
made it right.

736
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,360
So I just felt like the Holy Spirit was pleased with that.

737
00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:37,440
I was pleased with it, so I know the Holy Spirit was.

738
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,280
No, I just felt the pleasure of God in that.

739
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,200
And so anyway, that's the deal.

740
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,420
King David, this is what I love about David.

741
00:26:45,420 --> 00:26:47,000
David made some big mistakes, right?

742
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,000
Boy, did he.

743
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,000
He had some bad...

744
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:54,960
He had some fully human moments and yet he was always quick to repent when he realized

745
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,320
his wrong.

746
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,880
That's what marks King David.

747
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,720
I don't think of him as a terrible sinner who made a lot of mistakes.

748
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:08,920
I think of him as the man whom God said through Scripture, he's a man after my own heart,

749
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,680
and it's because he was quick to repent.

750
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,400
So when he made a mistake, he was quick to turn.

751
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:16,400
Yes.

752
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:21,080
Would you do that with us too when we have any kind of disagreement?

753
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,240
You'll repent even if you didn't do anything wrong.

754
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:24,240
I'm a peacekeeper.

755
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:25,240
You really are.

756
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:26,240
I love the peace.

757
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:27,240
And I'm like, wait a minute, this was not you.

758
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:28,860
This was me.

759
00:27:28,860 --> 00:27:29,860
You know how that goes.

760
00:27:29,860 --> 00:27:37,760
I don't like this harmony with people, which is really a tough trait to have as a pastor

761
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,120
sometimes because you're always going to have critics.

762
00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:41,120
You are.

763
00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:45,080
You're always going to have detractors or to be on social media or be doing a podcast.

764
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,960
There's always people that are going to mess with you.

765
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:53,040
You just learn to say, you know what, if I could see that person in 3D, there's a story

766
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:54,040
behind all that.

767
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,800
There's a reason they're the way they are.

768
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,040
I'm learning those things.

769
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,400
That's an ongoing journey.

770
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:00,400
I'm learning it anyway.

771
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:01,880
So yeah, that's what happened at the gym.

772
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:03,880
So gym drama.

773
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:04,880
Gym drama.

774
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,120
Planet fitness drama.

775
00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:08,120
For sure.

776
00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:09,120
Oh man.

777
00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:11,080
So yeah, so we wrapped up our sabbatical.

778
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:18,520
We mentioned that a minute ago and then we went to our church for the first time in two

779
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:19,520
months.

780
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:20,520
Saturday night, I didn't sleep well.

781
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:21,520
You didn't sleep good.

782
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,080
I didn't have a great night either.

783
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:29,040
Well, I think I was so anxious and I don't know why I was anxious.

784
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,960
It's an odd thing because I know the church didn't fall apart.

785
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,880
The building is still there.

786
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:39,160
I've heard nothing but good reports from Tina on everything is going great.

787
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:43,360
I mean, obviously we're going to hear tomorrow when we go back to work.

788
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:44,360
Staff meeting.

789
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:45,360
Staff meeting.

790
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,360
We'll hear all the drama.

791
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,240
But I don't know why I was so anxious.

792
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:51,360
It was just an odd feeling.

793
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,520
I was shaking when I walked in and it wasn't coffee.

794
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,320
I had decaf and I had maybe not even half a cup.

795
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,240
We walked into hugs and love and people just...

796
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,400
I calmed down by the second service.

797
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,440
By the second service.

798
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:05,440
I know.

799
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,080
First service, I was just...

800
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,560
But worship was phenomenal.

801
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:09,560
It was absolutely beautiful.

802
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:10,560
Passion rest.

803
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:11,560
We cried.

804
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:12,560
We both wept.

805
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:13,560
The new song.

806
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:14,560
What was it called?

807
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:15,560
Yeah, yeah.

808
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:16,560
Fantastic.

809
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:17,560
Trust.

810
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:18,560
Trust?

811
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:19,560
It's Trust.

812
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:20,560
Yeah, it has to do with trust.

813
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:21,560
The song is just called Trust?

814
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:22,560
Something like that.

815
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:23,560
I've got to learn it.

816
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:24,560
We're playing it on Sunday and I'm playing it.

817
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:25,560
I'm so glad.

818
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:26,560
I've got to learn that song.

819
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:33,240
I heard it for the very first time and I sang it as if I've been singing it my whole life

820
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:41,040
because it was kind of a take off of Blessed Assurance, but a much better version.

821
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,560
Pastor Russ leads our worship and his wife, Wendy.

822
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:47,640
Pastor Jeff is also on our worship team and they're both leads in years.

823
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:52,040
And Abram led that song and just so thankful for our team.

824
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,800
They minister to us and I just received.

825
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:55,800
I just enjoyed it.

826
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,920
What was fun too is getting all the hugs.

827
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,880
I remember that video, that guy who held up a cardboard sign, free hugs.

828
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:02,880
Yes, yes.

829
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:03,880
That's how you felt.

830
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:04,880
You felt like you had that on your shirt.

831
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,720
I felt like I had that on my shirt because I was just hugging everybody and people were

832
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,800
coming over and it was really beautiful.

833
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,560
It was really ministered to my heart.

834
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:17,320
What I love too is Abram, when he started the church, when he welcomed everybody, he

835
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:22,400
welcomed us as being back and the church erupted.

836
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:27,160
Then Pastor Jeff, well Brian, praise for us.

837
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:28,160
Pastor Brian.

838
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,000
Pastor Brian in his part.

839
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:37,640
And then at the end of the worship when it was time for you to come up, they introduced

840
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,240
you and I guess we had to do that.

841
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,960
Pastor Jeff, he had been introducing all the guest speakers.

842
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:42,960
So he introduced me.

843
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:47,760
Well, and they had to because there were so many new people that didn't know what you

844
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:48,760
looked like, who you were.

845
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:49,760
We've had new people come since we've been.

846
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:50,760
Oh, this is the guy, the lead guy.

847
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,280
This is the guy that's been gone for too long.

848
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:54,280
Right.

849
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:55,560
But then they erupted again.

850
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:56,560
It was beautiful.

851
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:57,560
You know.

852
00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:58,560
It's affirming.

853
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,760
Saturday night, I had a dream.

854
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,080
This was how anxious I was going to church.

855
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,720
And of course, you know, in dreams, churches don't look the same as what you're building.

856
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:08,720
Right.

857
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:09,720
You feel like you're somewhere else.

858
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:14,480
So we were, you were up there preaching and the place was packed and it was just shocking.

859
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:19,600
And then as you were preaching, people were walking out and it got down to like five people.

860
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:24,360
I think that's why I was anxious when I got up because it was like, what?

861
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,000
Not that that was going to happen.

862
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,640
I think the enemy messes with us in our dream life sometimes.

863
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:29,640
I do too.

864
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,720
Because I will often pray for our dream life and pray that God will protect our sleep.

865
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:34,720
Yes, we need that.

866
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,960
The scripture says he gives his beloved sweet sleep.

867
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,800
We need to do that every Saturday night.

868
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:40,800
Yeah, this beautiful prayer.

869
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:41,800
Especially Saturday night.

870
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:42,800
You're right.

871
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:43,800
That's a good point.

872
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:45,920
Just go to war before we go to sleep.

873
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:52,360
I think everybody should go to church because honestly, what's, I mean, every Sunday morning,

874
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,840
that's when the kids, something happens with the kids.

875
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:56,040
They're blowing up in the car.

876
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,040
They don't want to get ready.

877
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:58,040
They don't want to get up.

878
00:31:58,040 --> 00:31:59,040
It's true.

879
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,600
Same thing happened with us every day when, when faith was going to school.

880
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:03,600
Oh, it was always drama.

881
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,280
It was a fight every morning.

882
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:10,600
I know there's a fight every Sunday morning with, with church people because God wants

883
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:11,600
to get something.

884
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:12,600
Yeah.

885
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:13,840
God wants to get something to them.

886
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:14,840
That's right.

887
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:15,840
That's why there's always resistance.

888
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:20,760
And isn't that the truth in this life that we live as far as being believers?

889
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:21,760
Yes.

890
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:26,880
There's, whenever you're onto something good and you're stepping in righteousness and doing

891
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,480
the right thing, there's always resistance.

892
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:30,480
Yes.

893
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:31,480
Always.

894
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:37,640
I remember pastor Dr. Rice Brooks was preaching one time and he made this amazing comment.

895
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:44,560
He said, for every step you take away from the cross of Christ in this life, there will

896
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:51,480
be 12 or 15 Christians patting you on the back, telling you it's okay and that you're

897
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:52,480
okay.

898
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:53,480
And it's wrong.

899
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:54,480
That went off in me like a bomb.

900
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:55,480
I've never forgotten.

901
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:56,960
This is 15 years ago.

902
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:57,960
Oh, at least.

903
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:58,960
When he said that.

904
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:03,080
And, and I think of that often how people will validate you.

905
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,080
We'll come around and say, Hey, you're okay.

906
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:06,560
You didn't do the wrong thing.

907
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,840
Sometimes we do the wrong things.

908
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:13,600
I would not have wanted any friends of mine to tell me when I accosted that guy at the

909
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:14,920
gym that you were right.

910
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:16,280
You had a right to do that.

911
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:21,600
I would expect my friends to go, dude, you need to check your heart and you need to repent

912
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,240
and go find that guy.

913
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:24,880
That's what I would want my friends to do.

914
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:31,400
I was reading in the scripture before we got started about your enemies.

915
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:38,760
And like this, it's Matthew 5.

916
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:42,280
That Bible is good on you by the way.

917
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:43,680
Something about revenge is what it says.

918
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:48,560
It says you've heard a law that says the punishment must match the injury and I for an eye and

919
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,000
a tooth for a tooth.

920
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:55,840
But I say, this is Jesus, but I say do not resist an evil person.

921
00:33:55,840 --> 00:34:00,720
If someone slaps you on the right cheek, offer the other cheek also.

922
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:05,000
If you are sued in court and your shirt is taken from you, give your coat to if a soldier

923
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,000
demands that you carry his gear for a mile, carry it to miles.

924
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,760
Give to those who ask and don't turn away from those who want to borrow.

925
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:14,760
Then it goes on.

926
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:19,520
It says you have heard the law that says love your neighbor and hate your enemy.

927
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,480
But I say love your enemies.

928
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,000
Pray for those who persecute you.

929
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,400
Man, it's the opposite.

930
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,320
That's some of those scriptures that you were sure were not in the Bible, but there they

931
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,500
are looking at you like a mirror.

932
00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:39,240
Whatever the world says to do, Jesus says to do the opposite and do everything in the

933
00:34:39,240 --> 00:34:43,280
spirit of love because that's who God is.

934
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,920
His spirit is in us.

935
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:49,760
When His spirit is in us, we should be responding the way He responds.

936
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:50,760
Right?

937
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:51,760
So true.

938
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:56,120
Because we're supposed to be a reflection of His nature and character in this world.

939
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:57,120
Like you said.

940
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:58,120
Yeah.

941
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,920
Those who look to God will be radiant, the scripture says.

942
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,160
They're drawn to us because of the light.

943
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:05,160
Exactly.

944
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,680
So interesting enough, I actually thought about that passage this morning when I woke

945
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:09,680
up.

946
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,080
I always wake up early now.

947
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:16,920
God has me in this beautiful practice, which is now a habit of praying through the Lord's

948
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,160
prayer every morning before I get out of bed.

949
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:20,160
And now I'm doing the same thing.

950
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:21,160
I love that.

951
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,920
I knew you were awake because I didn't know if you were doing the same thing.

952
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:24,920
So I did that.

953
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,320
But what we're doing now that you brought that up.

954
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:28,320
Because we're one.

955
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:29,920
So we're always going to do everything in sync.

956
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,360
We're using the model prayer as a model.

957
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:33,520
That's exactly what it's called.

958
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,760
The Lord's Prayer or the model prayer.

959
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,880
And it's the prayer that when one of the disciples came to Jesus and said, Lord, teach us to

960
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:40,880
pray.

961
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,420
And he said, okay, pray like this when you pray.

962
00:35:44,420 --> 00:35:52,200
And then he led this simple but profound prayer that is like a template.

963
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,680
It's not that we pray those exact words, although it's good to repeat those.

964
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:56,760
That's good.

965
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:58,840
But it's really more a template or a model.

966
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,120
More to make it personal.

967
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:01,120
Yes.

968
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,680
And that's what I've been doing.

969
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:09,160
So one of the parts of that says, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who

970
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,440
trespass against us.

971
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:18,400
And whenever I read that, immediately, there's people that come to my mind that where there's

972
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:23,560
been a breach of relationship or they left our church offended or they were offended

973
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,560
with me for whatever reason.

974
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,600
And there's a list of people.

975
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,360
With the Lord, it's not a long list.

976
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:36,080
But there is a handful of people that I still love dearly to this day.

977
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:37,720
And I pray for them every day.

978
00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:39,400
I pray that they would be blessed.

979
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:46,200
I pray that God would prosper them, expand their tent pegs, as the Scripture talks about,

980
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,440
would enlarge, increase them.

981
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:55,040
And that someday, somehow, some way, if it works out, there could be a reconciliation

982
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:56,040
in that.

983
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:57,040
Yes, definitely.

984
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,560
I pray every morning, and I've done that all through the sabbatical, and now I'm carrying

985
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:01,560
that.

986
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:06,920
That's one of the main things we really receive from the sabbatical, was how much we're to

987
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:13,320
walk in, not that we haven't known this, but really walk in forgiveness and love and not

988
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:14,520
just say we forgive.

989
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,240
And sometimes we have to say it over and over and over and over.

990
00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:23,840
But we need to pray for the person or people that have caused any kind of offense.

991
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:29,400
We don't pray prayers like, Lord, just help them to see their evil ways.

992
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:34,640
No, it's, Father, bless them, bless them, pour your life out upon them.

993
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,640
Give them what they need, meet their needs, give them provision.

994
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:41,440
It's not always easy to do that, because our flesh says, no, I don't want them.

995
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:46,720
Why should they be blessed after what they did?

996
00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:48,400
How do we want them to pray for us?

997
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:52,980
Let me tell you something that, and this is how God uses prayer.

998
00:37:52,980 --> 00:37:56,680
You cannot pray blessings for someone and stay mad.

999
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:58,780
At some point, there's a break.

1000
00:37:58,780 --> 00:38:04,160
It's like a tipping point that happens where, okay, it reminds me of the, I've got to say

1001
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:05,160
this.

1002
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:09,960
Remember at Wet and Wild, you know, the big bucket that fills up in the kiddy land area?

1003
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:15,320
The more we do something and repetitive and right, it's like filling that bucket.

1004
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:21,160
And then at some point, so in terms of forgiveness, every day I pray for these same, these two

1005
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:25,120
or three families, these same, and I pray for them individually and lift them up to

1006
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,120
the Lord.

1007
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,440
And what's happening is that's filling the bucket up.

1008
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:35,120
And then at some point, the bucket tips because it's full of my prayers, so to speak.

1009
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,680
And it's like, it's gone.

1010
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:38,680
The pain is gone.

1011
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:39,960
The hurt is gone.

1012
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:40,960
The grief is gone.

1013
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,680
The anger is gone.

1014
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:46,920
And now, now as I'm praying for them, it's from a place of love.

1015
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,760
It's from a place of joy for them.

1016
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:57,200
And the next time I run into them, and I probably will, it's a small town, it'll just be love.

1017
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:03,920
The firing pin of pain or trigger that would have caused anger or hurt is gone.

1018
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,840
And that's what happens when you pray every day.

1019
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:14,100
When you do, you forgive others their trespasses, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those

1020
00:39:14,100 --> 00:39:16,080
who trespass against us.

1021
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:17,440
It's exactly what happens.

1022
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,240
And God says He won't forgive us unless we forgive.

1023
00:39:20,240 --> 00:39:22,040
So we really have to do that.

1024
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,040
That's part of who we are.

1025
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,080
He made us and created us to be.

1026
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:27,080
Come on, girl.

1027
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:34,220
What I love about this model prayer is there's so many elements.

1028
00:39:34,220 --> 00:39:36,000
When you're praying, you're praying power.

1029
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,360
You're praying His majesty, as we've talked about on the show before.

1030
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:40,360
Which is worship.

1031
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:41,360
Yeah, you're worshiping Him.

1032
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,760
We're praying about His holiness, that Hallowed be your name.

1033
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:45,760
The beauty of holiness.

1034
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:50,520
I love, you had a epiphany, I think it was today or yesterday.

1035
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,640
This morning I had connected the dots.

1036
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:59,160
The beginning of the Lord's Prayer and the end were all praise, which I love.

1037
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,560
You begin with praise and worship and you end with it.

1038
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:02,560
End with it.

1039
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,000
There's so much, there's so many elements.

1040
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000
Give us this day our daily bread.

1041
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,720
That's our provision.

1042
00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:10,640
He provides for us.

1043
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:12,640
There's power, there's deliverance.

1044
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:13,640
Yeah, I love it.

1045
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,160
Deliverance from the evil one.

1046
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:16,240
Yeah, exactly.

1047
00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:18,080
Deliverance, freedom from.

1048
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,560
So during that section of the prayer, I pray for government.

1049
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:25,920
Start local, state, national, global.

1050
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:31,160
I pray for organizations that God would deliver us from evil where there's been corruption

1051
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:36,120
and the spirit of mammon has entered into government, where it's entered into big tech,

1052
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:37,120
big pharma.

1053
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:38,120
It just goes on and on.

1054
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:39,120
There's a number.

1055
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:46,600
Then I ask the Lord to deconstruct those structures and systems by His Spirit and put people who

1056
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:52,160
are salt and light in those organizations to deconstruct and bring righteousness and

1057
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:53,440
light.

1058
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,400
And so I pray that every day and it's turned into, it's about an hour.

1059
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:58,680
I never timed it.

1060
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:03,640
I just happened to notice one day I woke up at five and got through and it was six.

1061
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:07,720
What I love is yesterday, I'm going to go back to yesterday for a moment because you

1062
00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:13,600
preached on deeper and you said, God wants a deeper relationship with us and we need

1063
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,320
to go from ankle to Ezekiel.

1064
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,360
Ezekiel chapter 47.

1065
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:22,280
From ankle to knee to waist deep to over our head with God.

1066
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,160
And I love that because that's where His presence is.

1067
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:29,520
But you said He's wanting to hear from us.

1068
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:35,040
And you mentioned the model prayer, which is the Lord's Prayer.

1069
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:39,800
And it dawned on me because you want to do that as your next series starting this Sunday.

1070
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:45,440
That really goes right into that because if you're telling people God wants to commune

1071
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:49,800
with you, then you're going to teach them exactly what that means and what it looks

1072
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:50,800
like.

1073
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,520
It's going to be so practical, but you're also going to be able to draw out what the

1074
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:59,400
meaning of the prayer is in bits and pieces.

1075
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:04,760
I'm really looking forward to the revelation God's going to give you because I think you're

1076
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:10,440
going to get more revelation than you've ever had as you really dive into this even more.

1077
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:14,440
Because we've been diving into it for a long time.

1078
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:19,320
But you get a new revelation every day just this morning, that revelation.

1079
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,120
And it's about praising Him in the beginning.

1080
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:25,480
He gave me some daily bread, fresh bread, fresh manna.

1081
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,360
I literally can't wait for you to preach on this.

1082
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,360
I think it's going to be life-changing for people.

1083
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:32,360
Thank you.

1084
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:33,360
I really do.

1085
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,880
My first sermon was the week before my first sermon back in two months.

1086
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:41,680
I had been asking the Lord, what is it you want me to bring back?

1087
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:46,480
Some people are going to expect me to look like Moses coming off the mountain with tablets.

1088
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,480
Is it whiter than it was?

1089
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:50,480
It's getting white now.

1090
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,360
So anyway, I don't have a thick beard.

1091
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,500
It's just kind of a…but anyway.

1092
00:42:54,500 --> 00:42:57,760
So I thought, there's this expectation.

1093
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:01,880
So it's going to be this epic heavy Reve or something.

1094
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:08,080
And the Lord just made it very clear but so like a still small voice, a gentle whisper.

1095
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:13,000
He said, I'll tell them I want to hear from them.

1096
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,400
And I just went, wow, that is really tender.

1097
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:16,880
It's not hardcore.

1098
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:21,400
It's not pulpit thumping or no theatrics.

1099
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,400
Just tell them I want to hear from them.

1100
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:28,360
And that's why I use that whole passage about a protocol for a relationship.

1101
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:29,800
And that's going in deeper.

1102
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:35,040
And that I'm going to bring up another scripture because as I was reading in Matthew, that

1103
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,360
talks about the effective prayer.

1104
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:47,280
The New Living Testament declares in the book of Matthew chapter 7 verse 7, keep on asking.

1105
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:48,440
Okay?

1106
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:49,720
That means you're communing.

1107
00:43:49,720 --> 00:43:50,820
You're talking.

1108
00:43:50,820 --> 00:43:51,820
Keep on asking.

1109
00:43:51,820 --> 00:43:53,640
You will receive what you ask for.

1110
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:55,980
Keep on seeking and you will find.

1111
00:43:55,980 --> 00:43:59,280
Keep on knocking and the door will be open to you.

1112
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,400
For everyone who asks receives.

1113
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,240
Everyone who seeks finds.

1114
00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:07,120
To everyone who knocks the door will be open.

1115
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,440
He's not talking about ask for things and it's going to appear before you.

1116
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:11,680
He's not talking about it.

1117
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:16,720
He's talking about the things that are the things of God like wisdom.

1118
00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:17,840
Ask for wisdom.

1119
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,800
Ask for understanding.

1120
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:26,160
Ask for the things that are going to bring hope and joy and peace in your life and you

1121
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:27,600
will get it.

1122
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:32,640
Too many people take this out of context.

1123
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:36,240
What I loved about Solomon is he had wisdom.

1124
00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:37,240
He prayed.

1125
00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:43,440
He could ask for anything in the world and he asked for wisdom and God gave it.

1126
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,800
That is the one thing I'm asking for right now.

1127
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:53,040
In my daily prayer, my commune with him constantly, it's Lord give me wisdom in every area of

1128
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:58,480
my life as we're eating this new diet, as we're searching for your word, what you want

1129
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:04,600
to say to us, as we're talking to new friends, we're talking to church people, we're talking

1130
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:10,760
to business people, we're talking to elders, board, give us wisdom.

1131
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:12,560
When you have wisdom, you have understanding.

1132
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:13,560
You have everything.

1133
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:22,340
There's a passage of scripture, can't recall the actual which book or whatever, but it

1134
00:45:22,340 --> 00:45:29,200
says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the fear, this reverence, this

1135
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:32,880
sense of awe of who God is.

1136
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,520
Elizabeth Elliott was the wife of Jim Elliott.

1137
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:41,800
Jim Elliott was one of my favorite missionary heroes who was killed in South America in

1138
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:42,800
a terrible...

1139
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:43,800
Great movie though.

1140
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,000
Yeah, tip of the spear or end of the spear.

1141
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:47,000
End of the spear.

1142
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,200
Yeah, he died a martyr for Christ.

1143
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:55,240
They were trying to bring Christ to a village and he got killed, impaled with a spear by

1144
00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:57,320
the Indians and his wife Elizabeth.

1145
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:03,600
Instead of leaving the jungle and leaving that area in the Amazon, her and the wives,

1146
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:10,240
the widows of Jim Elliott and the others, Elizabeth and the other ministry wives, missionary

1147
00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:16,520
wives went to that village and ministered to the very people that killed their husbands

1148
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,560
and brought the gospel and led them to Christ.

1149
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:20,560
You can read that.

1150
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:21,560
What is that?

1151
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:22,560
I'm sorry.

1152
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,920
I found Proverbs 9, 10, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge

1153
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:27,680
of the Holy One is understanding.

1154
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:28,920
Gosh, think about that.

1155
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:30,320
That is it right there.

1156
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:31,880
The wisdom and understanding.

1157
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:40,120
And that fear of the Lord means awe, reverential awe where you see Him for who He is, not that

1158
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:41,360
you're afraid.

1159
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,360
There's nothing to fear with God.

1160
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:47,520
Well, Elizabeth Elliott, the quote that I read recently just stunned me.

1161
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:53,280
I don't always remember things like that, but I saved it because it was so important.

1162
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:57,600
She said, when you fear the Lord, you'll fear nothing.

1163
00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:58,600
I went, whoa.

1164
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:02,800
Oh yeah, you've been saying that every day for weeks since you heard.

1165
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,160
When you fear the Lord, you'll fear nothing.

1166
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:08,320
This fear isn't this terror of God.

1167
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:09,320
He's terrible to me.

1168
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,240
No, it's just recognition of how awesome He is.

1169
00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:15,240
How amazing, how majestic, to use your word, how majestic He is.

1170
00:47:15,240 --> 00:47:20,240
It makes me want to do like a child does who wants to please their father.

1171
00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:21,240
They want to obey.

1172
00:47:21,240 --> 00:47:22,240
Beautiful.

1173
00:47:22,240 --> 00:47:23,240
Beautiful.

1174
00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:25,520
It makes me want to be a better person.

1175
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:30,720
There is a tiny bit for me in a good sense of fear factor, but it's not a bad fear.

1176
00:47:30,720 --> 00:47:31,720
It's a good fear.

1177
00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:32,720
There's a good fear.

1178
00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:33,720
You should be afraid of fire.

1179
00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:34,720
Exactly.

1180
00:47:34,720 --> 00:47:35,720
You should be afraid of a barbwire fence.

1181
00:47:35,720 --> 00:47:40,040
You should be afraid of a sharp knife because it's for your safety.

1182
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:46,080
There's a healthy fear, a good fear, and what it does for me is if I'm tempted in a particular

1183
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:53,080
direction to go over and accost a guy at the gym for using a machine while he's on his

1184
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:54,080
phone.

1185
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:55,080
I still can't believe you did that.

1186
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:59,200
Looking back on it, I'm laughing about it because it's so not me.

1187
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,200
No, that's why when you told me I was shocked.

1188
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,200
I know, but anyway.

1189
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:07,920
The fear of the Lord, as I grow and learn in that, it's that Holy Spirit because the

1190
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,240
Holy Spirit was saying, what are you doing?

1191
00:48:10,240 --> 00:48:11,800
What are you doing?

1192
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,480
Whoa, stop sign.

1193
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:14,480
Hello, four-way stop.

1194
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:15,480
What would Annette say?

1195
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:16,480
Yeah, red light, red light, caution.

1196
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:22,480
I mean, it's like all the alarms were going off and I just kept going because I ignored

1197
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,960
it and unfortunately, it could have hurt this guy.

1198
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:26,960
Fortunately, God retreated.

1199
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:28,320
It could have hurt you and me.

1200
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:29,320
Thank you.

1201
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:30,320
It could have.

1202
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:31,320
You're so funny.

1203
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:32,320
I'm sorry.

1204
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:33,320
Get attacked or something.

1205
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:34,320
No, it wasn't that.

1206
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:39,520
What I realized is that as we've gone through the sabbatical, we've talked about the awe

1207
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:45,160
of God, the fear of God and how it's gotten a bad rap because people say, oh, God's not

1208
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,960
fear-fearsome and He's just love.

1209
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:48,960
He's my buddy.

1210
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:53,960
God's my buddy, my next door, my pal, my bro, my dude.

1211
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,600
I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, back up.

1212
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,840
He is the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords.

1213
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,120
He is Aslan the lion, C.S.

1214
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,520
Lewis, He is majestic.

1215
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:05,520
He's powerful.

1216
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:09,600
He is God Almighty, El Shaddai, God Almighty.

1217
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:15,480
We need to have that reverential respect and awe and honor of who He is.

1218
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:19,560
Yes, He is a good Father and He is our Abba Father.

1219
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:20,560
We can approach.

1220
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:24,280
We can approach Him like a child approaches that Father.

1221
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,000
I respected my dad.

1222
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:27,000
My dad was a firefighter.

1223
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:28,800
He was a hero to me.

1224
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:35,760
I approached Him with respect, not fear, but with reverence, with honor.

1225
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:39,320
He treated me respectably back.

1226
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:45,440
So anyway, this is such a powerful thing and it's been really powerful for me.

1227
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:51,240
So that word, hallow, hallowed be your name, hallowed be your name, is that fear of the

1228
00:49:51,240 --> 00:49:55,860
Lord, that awe of God, that honor, that respect.

1229
00:49:55,860 --> 00:49:57,120
So I am excited.

1230
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:02,440
I am almost beside myself excited to teach on this.

1231
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:06,120
I think I'm going to call it, Lord, teach us to pray.

1232
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:10,960
Back when we were Oak Hills Church, one last thing and then we'll land the plane.

1233
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,080
Back when we were Oak Hills Church, Greg Hawkins was a part of our church.

1234
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:18,080
He used to be with Willow Creek for 19 years and then he was with Oak Hills and we were

1235
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:19,920
a part of that large.

1236
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:23,960
And they surveyed and they got a survey back with several thousand responses of people

1237
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:26,780
within the churches and the campuses.

1238
00:50:26,780 --> 00:50:29,280
We were a campus at the time.

1239
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:33,400
And it was the top three issues in church and what people want from the church.

1240
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:34,880
What do they want to learn?

1241
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,200
What do they want the church to teach them?

1242
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,660
Number one was teach us to pray.

1243
00:50:39,660 --> 00:50:42,080
Number two, teach us how to hear God.

1244
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:43,080
Number three, I don't remember.

1245
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:49,520
So the first two stuck with me because that is what people want to know.

1246
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:54,040
They know they should pray, but they don't know how to pray.

1247
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:58,600
And so I am very excited about starting this series this coming Sunday.

1248
00:50:58,600 --> 00:50:59,600
Teach us to pray.

1249
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:05,280
I'll do kind of a general setup on Sunday and then we'll go into a series.

1250
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,360
Now I'll break this down and unpack it.

1251
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:12,880
And it has transformed my prayer life even though I've known the model prayer my whole

1252
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:13,880
life.

1253
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:17,720
Even before I was a Christian, we used to say it in grade school when I was a kid.

1254
00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:18,720
What?

1255
00:51:18,720 --> 00:51:19,720
Public school.

1256
00:51:19,720 --> 00:51:26,920
You've taught on this a few years ago, but you've gained so much more revelation since

1257
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:27,920
then.

1258
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:28,920
Practical revelation.

1259
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:34,520
Yes, because that's how it is when you read the Word as a Christian.

1260
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:39,080
When you continue to get in the Word, you'll learn things continually.

1261
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:40,080
You don't get stagnant.

1262
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:41,080
You're broke.

1263
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:42,080
It comes alive to you.

1264
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:43,080
It does.

1265
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:44,080
It's living.

1266
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:45,080
Because it's a living, living Word of God.

1267
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:49,560
It says the Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword.

1268
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,520
It pierces, it says.

1269
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:56,760
And so that's what, the more you read it, repetition creates the opportunity for revelation.

1270
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,360
It's not just information.

1271
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,040
It's revelation.

1272
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:01,560
Things get revealed to you.

1273
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,360
And that's what's happened for me during the sabbaticals.

1274
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:09,120
I think when I look back maybe two, three years from now, I think I'll say one of the

1275
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:13,380
greatest things about the sabbatical other than you and I getting to spend uninterrupted

1276
00:52:13,380 --> 00:52:16,480
time together with no demands on us.

1277
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:21,320
Being able to offload responsibility and literally focus on one another and on our God, which

1278
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:23,880
is a great treasure and a gift I'll never forget.

1279
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:27,880
One of the greatest gifts I've ever received in ministry was this.

1280
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:31,760
But when I look back on what did I learn, what was my takeaway?

1281
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:37,360
It would be that simple line, the Lord God, He wants to hear from you.

1282
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:41,880
And what I've learned about the Lord's Prayer and how that has become a natural.

1283
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:47,360
Now it's a practice because I did it for two months and I woke up and did it again this

1284
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:48,360
morning.

1285
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:49,640
It's so natural now.

1286
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:52,800
So I always start by saying, good morning, Holy Spirit.

1287
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:54,740
Good morning, Lord Jesus.

1288
00:52:54,740 --> 00:52:56,960
Good morning, Abba Father.

1289
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:59,000
I like to call them with a descriptor name.

1290
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:00,800
So the Spirit is holy.

1291
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:03,080
Jesus is my Lord.

1292
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:05,600
And my Father is Abba.

1293
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,200
He's a good Father, an Abba.

1294
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:13,600
So and then when I call the whole group together, I say, God, thank you, God.

1295
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:16,140
I've got all three of them together.

1296
00:53:16,140 --> 00:53:19,920
So anyway, that would be my greatest, one of my greatest learning.

1297
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:21,220
I'm sure there's others.

1298
00:53:21,220 --> 00:53:23,760
There are others, but I can tell you that's number one.

1299
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:29,120
I think it's a good series to go into the holidays because a lot of times the holidays

1300
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:30,480
can be tough for people.

1301
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:31,480
That's true.

1302
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:38,120
And the more you can learn to commune with God, the easier the holidays can be on you.

1303
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:44,200
And another part of my motive is that I believe that revival is imminent.

1304
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,560
I believe that God is going to bring revival across our land.

1305
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:51,000
I think that the condition that our nation is in right now, the sad...

1306
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:52,320
It's ripe for revival.

1307
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,120
It's ripe for revival.

1308
00:53:54,120 --> 00:54:02,720
Every recorded revival in history, it was during times of political upheaval when the world

1309
00:54:02,720 --> 00:54:05,360
was at its worst.

1310
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:08,560
Corruption was at its highest, political greed and corruption.

1311
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:14,200
All those things were happening and the world was upside down and people began to call upon

1312
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:15,380
God.

1313
00:54:15,380 --> 00:54:19,200
And I believe that this is a setup for God's big comeback.

1314
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:20,200
Yep, I agree.

1315
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:21,200
Totally agree.

1316
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:22,200
It's a setback.

1317
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:23,200
That's a setup for a massive comeback.

1318
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:24,200
Yep.

1319
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:25,200
Yep.

1320
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:26,920
Hey, we got some folks to thank.

1321
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,360
Well, I mean, we could...

1322
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:31,120
This is what a dent not do all the time.

1323
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:32,120
This is our life.

1324
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:33,520
So welcome to our living room.

1325
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:36,280
We were going to shorten the show and...

1326
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:37,280
I know.

1327
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:38,280
We can't.

1328
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:39,280
We can't.

1329
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:40,280
Because we have so many good things.

1330
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:42,800
Our buckets are full and they're not just leaking, they're overflowing.

1331
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:43,800
Yes.

1332
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:44,800
Wow.

1333
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:45,800
You're gushing.

1334
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:46,800
All right.

1335
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:47,800
Thank yous and shout outs.

1336
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:51,840
First of all, I got to start with my good friend, my best friend, Adam Curry.

1337
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:58,800
He sent us 77,777 sat, satoshis.

1338
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:00,280
We call that a striper boost.

1339
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:01,280
So there it is.

1340
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:02,280
There it is.

1341
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,960
And he writes this.

1342
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:09,880
He says, from Dame Annette's intro, because you did the introduction last week.

1343
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:10,880
I did.

1344
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:11,880
Girl, you rocked it.

1345
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:12,880
I tried to get her today.

1346
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:13,880
Maybe next week.

1347
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:14,880
We'll see.

1348
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:15,880
Yeah.

1349
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:16,880
She wasn't in it today, but I tried to.

1350
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:20,720
He says, from Dame Annette's intro to the reframing, that was a part of the conversation,

1351
00:55:20,720 --> 00:55:22,280
to our daily bread.

1352
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:23,280
Love this episode.

1353
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:24,280
Oh.

1354
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:25,280
Adam Curry, we love you, bro.

1355
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:26,280
Thanks for the satoshis.

1356
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:27,280
Yes, we do.

1357
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:28,280
More than you know.

1358
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:32,200
We have the keeper, Tina, 25,000 sats.

1359
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:35,160
She writes, another amazing podcast.

1360
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:36,840
Love that Annette opened the show.

1361
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:37,840
Look at you, girl.

1362
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:38,840
Maybe I should have opened it.

1363
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:41,160
I forgot how much people were commenting.

1364
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:45,320
And then she said this, because I'd made a comment about, I fell back in love with holding

1365
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:49,320
my physical Bible instead of a tablet or a phone, which I appreciate, digital.

1366
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:50,720
I took my Bible to church.

1367
00:55:50,720 --> 00:55:51,720
I know.

1368
00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:52,720
And I took mine to the pulpit.

1369
00:55:52,720 --> 00:55:54,160
I've got it sitting right here.

1370
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:56,520
My hand keeps, won't let go of it.

1371
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:59,320
Fell back in love with a physical Bible.

1372
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,440
She wrote, yes, there is something magical about holding your Bible.

1373
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:05,400
To have God's word in my hand brings me such a comfort.

1374
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:10,040
I struggled without it on vacation, as an app is just not the same.

1375
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:13,360
Tina, I completely agree with you.

1376
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,920
And so again, thank you for the sats.

1377
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:16,920
You're a blessing.

1378
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:17,920
We love you.

1379
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:23,720
And Sir Brian with an I squeezed one in here like a few minutes ago, came out of nowhere.

1380
00:56:23,720 --> 00:56:24,720
33,400.

1381
00:56:24,720 --> 00:56:27,080
Yeah, we haven't heard from Sir.

1382
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:28,800
Not in a while, but hey, here he is.

1383
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:29,800
Yeah, I'm like, okay.

1384
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:30,800
Better late than never.

1385
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:31,800
He's not dead.

1386
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:32,800
Good to hear from you, Brian.

1387
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:38,840
33,444 sats and on fountain, he said a message for Dame Annette.

1388
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:42,740
When you and Pastor Jimmy said your vows, God made you and Jimmy as one.

1389
00:56:42,740 --> 00:56:46,100
So don't let anyone bully you into boosting a podcast.

1390
00:56:46,100 --> 00:56:47,100
You're covered.

1391
00:56:47,100 --> 00:56:48,100
He's talking about Tina Braggs.

1392
00:56:48,100 --> 00:56:49,100
He is ragging on.

1393
00:56:49,100 --> 00:56:52,960
Well, Tina Braggs on me because I haven't boosted their podcast.

1394
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:53,960
Because you don't know how.

1395
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:54,960
I don't know how.

1396
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:55,960
And Jimmy, Jimmy boosts for us.

1397
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:56,960
I make up for it.

1398
00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:57,960
Yes.

1399
00:56:57,960 --> 00:56:58,960
I make up for it.

1400
00:56:58,960 --> 00:56:59,960
Yes.

1401
00:56:59,960 --> 00:57:02,960
So we're batting the batting the old ball over the net back and forth.

1402
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:03,960
It's awesome.

1403
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:05,080
Hey, thanks Sir Brian.

1404
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:06,080
We love you, man.

1405
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:07,080
I'm glad to hear from you.

1406
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:10,320
Man, you fell off the edge of the world and I was hoping you're okay.

1407
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:12,680
So good to hear from you and thanks for the donation.

1408
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:13,680
We bless you.

1409
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:14,680
Also Trinity.

1410
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:15,920
She's one of our ongoing.

1411
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:17,280
She's a monthly subscriber.

1412
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:21,400
So she gave a donation this month and so appreciate that Trinity.

1413
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:24,600
And then from our dear, dear, dear friend Martha.

1414
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:25,600
You read this one.

1415
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:26,600
It's so beautiful.

1416
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:29,920
She said, I just finished listening to your guys podcast.

1417
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:32,360
So thankful you guys had a great sabbatical.

1418
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:34,760
Continued prayers for your ministry at Bridge Church.

1419
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:36,280
You both sound amazing.

1420
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:37,280
God is good.

1421
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:38,280
We love Martha.

1422
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:39,720
She came up to me at church on Sunday.

1423
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:41,000
Oh, I didn't get to hug her neck.

1424
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:42,880
I was just so happy to see her.

1425
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:45,760
She was able to bring friends and they loved it.

1426
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:47,960
And she's a dear friend.

1427
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:48,960
She really is.

1428
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:49,960
Thank you, Martha.

1429
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:50,960
We love you.

1430
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:51,960
We love you.

1431
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:54,640
Also, another one of your besties.

1432
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:56,080
She said, I needed this today.

1433
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:57,080
This is Jennifer Marshall.

1434
00:57:57,080 --> 00:57:58,080
Thank you.

1435
00:57:58,080 --> 00:57:59,080
Yeah.

1436
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:02,920
She said, I needed this today so much that I had to rewind and listen again.

1437
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:07,920
If you had a rough start today, take the time to listen to Jimena Netprewitt.

1438
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:13,280
You will get a cup full of wisdom and understanding that flows from their overflowing bucket.

1439
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:14,280
Thank you, Jennifer.

1440
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:15,280
I missed you on Sunday.

1441
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,560
I know you were in somewhere, Utah.

1442
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:18,560
Oh, wow.

1443
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:19,560
Utah.

1444
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:20,560
Cool.

1445
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:23,240
I'm looking forward to seeing you hopefully soon.

1446
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:28,000
Jennifer, we love you and thank you so much for the kind words and for sharing that on

1447
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:29,240
Facebook.

1448
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:30,360
So we appreciate it.

1449
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,720
Also, we got a letter via our website.

1450
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:37,160
By the way, we have a website, livingupandadownworld.com.

1451
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:38,640
You can always reach us there.

1452
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:39,720
You can contact us.

1453
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:41,320
You can send us an email.

1454
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:42,720
You can leave a review.

1455
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:45,140
You can read my daily devotionals.

1456
00:58:45,140 --> 00:58:46,960
You can listen to all the podcasts.

1457
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:48,240
They're all archived.

1458
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:49,640
All 34 of them are there.

1459
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:50,800
There will be 34 today.

1460
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:53,520
All 33 plus the one we're about to do.

1461
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:56,760
And so Sandy Ship wrote, and I love her.

1462
00:58:56,760 --> 00:59:00,440
I love her email address, Texan and loving it.

1463
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:01,440
That's a good one.

1464
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:02,440
Oh, I'm the same.

1465
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:03,520
I'm with you, Sandy.

1466
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:04,920
She wrote, good morning, pastors.

1467
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:05,920
Jimena Net.

1468
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:09,000
I found the Bridge Church earlier, online early this year.

1469
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:12,960
And when looking for a church, I feel like I know both of you because you've shared so

1470
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:16,860
much with your audience, both at church and on your podcast.

1471
00:59:16,860 --> 00:59:18,240
So I thought I'd share about us.

1472
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,760
And I won't go into the rest of that detail.

1473
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:22,480
But she just was, it was so sweet.

1474
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:27,000
She said, so happy that you had time to refresh and look forward to hearing you from the pulpit

1475
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:28,000
again.

1476
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:31,220
Thanks for being such an encouragement in my daily life and look forward to seeing and

1477
00:59:31,220 --> 00:59:32,840
meeting you in person someday.

1478
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:33,840
Oh, we are too.

1479
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:36,520
Sandy, that is so encouraging.

1480
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:38,800
And we're so, we want to welcome you to Fredericksburg.

1481
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:39,800
Yes.

1482
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:44,880
I know you'll be here permanently as you, as you retire and you make your way here.

1483
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,760
We're just, we're glad to welcome you to the family.

1484
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:50,720
Thanks for coming up, Bridger and a living upper.

1485
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:56,960
And then the last one Dean wrote, now Dean, Dean Kirkness, he's in Japan.

1486
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:57,960
This is a cool thing.

1487
00:59:57,960 --> 00:59:58,960
I am super excited.

1488
00:59:58,960 --> 00:59:59,960
I'm more stoked now.

1489
00:59:59,960 --> 01:00:05,140
So Adam and Tina made a comment about Japan on their show and then we made it, we talked

1490
01:00:05,140 --> 01:00:07,480
about because we're all going to go, we're all going to go together.

1491
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:08,960
We want to go to Japan.

1492
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,840
I have a friend, good friend, Evan Archulia goes to our church.

1493
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:14,680
He's just one of my bros, my brothers.

1494
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:19,040
And he and his wife went to Japan this last year and he said it was one of the best trips

1495
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:20,040
he's ever taken.

1496
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:21,040
He loved it.

1497
01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:22,040
I can't wait.

1498
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:24,480
And so he'll be able to kind of show us the ropes too.

1499
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:25,480
He's good about that.

1500
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:26,860
He helped us with Paris too.

1501
01:00:26,860 --> 01:00:28,920
So I didn't know we had fans in Japan.

1502
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:30,560
So yeah, so Dean's been listening.

1503
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:32,200
He found us through Curry and the Keepers.

1504
01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:36,720
He says, hi there, following up on my Fountain Boost post that was from last week.

1505
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:38,880
Let me re-invite you to Japan for a visit.

1506
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:43,140
As I mentioned, God has made Japan my home for the past 18 years.

1507
01:00:43,140 --> 01:00:47,680
In fact, he first brought me here in 2002 for the World Cup by giving me the ability

1508
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:50,640
to win a global video game competition.

1509
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:52,060
You go, boy.

1510
01:00:52,060 --> 01:00:54,800
And I hardly even played video games.

1511
01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:58,000
Let's just say that God's hands and sense of humor were all over it.

1512
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:03,480
And he goes on to just talk about this opportunity and for us to do a meetup mashup where we'll

1513
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:10,160
do a no agenda, because that's Adam's other podcast, no agenda, Curry and the Keeper,

1514
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:13,440
Following Up in a Down World mashup meetup in Japan.

1515
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:16,120
So whoever is in Japan, wherever we're going to...

1516
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:17,280
Yeah, so we'll set it up.

1517
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:18,800
He's going to help coordinate all that.

1518
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:25,520
And that'll be so much fun meeting people from Japan who listen to our shows and listen

1519
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:26,520
to our podcasts.

1520
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:27,520
Who do?

1521
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:28,520
I know.

1522
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:32,320
Well, when I look at the world map, there's an analytics piece to rss.com.

1523
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:33,960
Our podcast is being listened to.

1524
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:35,800
In Scotland, because I want to go to Scotland.

1525
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:36,800
I want to go to Australia.

1526
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:37,800
Any Scots?

1527
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:40,000
We'd love to hear from you.

1528
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,800
I want to go back to Paris.

1529
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:44,560
We'd love to hear from you.

1530
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:47,940
We can do a meetup somewhere on the globe.

1531
01:01:47,940 --> 01:01:48,940
That's why we do air miles.

1532
01:01:48,940 --> 01:01:50,640
And we can do it with the Currys.

1533
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:51,640
Yeah, yeah.

1534
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:52,640
Love to.

1535
01:01:52,640 --> 01:01:54,920
So much more fun when you have another couple to go with.

1536
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:55,920
Well, this has been fun.

1537
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:58,000
And boy, have we rambled on today.

1538
01:01:58,000 --> 01:01:59,560
We are so full though.

1539
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:02,120
It's hard to turn the faucet off when it's gushing.

1540
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:03,520
I know, but it's all good.

1541
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:04,520
It's a river.

1542
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:05,800
Chevy is getting like...

1543
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:06,800
He's growling.

1544
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:07,800
Oh, I know what he wants.

1545
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:08,800
I know what he wants too.

1546
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:09,800
In the show, honey.

1547
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:10,800
We're going to land the plane.

1548
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:14,640
It's time to take Chevy out.

1549
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:16,160
We love you, living uppers.

1550
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:17,160
Live up in a down world.

1551
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:18,160
It's going to be a great week.

1552
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:21,680
And wake up in the morning and say, good morning, Holy Spirit.

1553
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:25,360
And then say, something remarkable is going to happen to me today.

1554
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:26,360
We love you.

1555
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:39,880
Bye bye.