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This is Jimmy and Annette, and we are coming to you live.

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live, well, sort of live, it's kind of recorded,

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Wait, you're like screaming at me.

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I'm not screaming at you, I'm just trying to get over it.

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Wow, you're excited this morning.

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I'm actually very sleepy this morning, I'm super tired.

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I'm barely awake because we had dinner plans last night

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The Maseranos and the Currys.

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Partying like it was 1999.

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Right. We went to the most wonderful place.

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I told Tina, it's called the Revel Kitchen in Fredericksburg.

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They have these dinners that they do.

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of this caliber here that's kind of casual, too.

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Max, and his wife is, I can't remember her name,

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but anyway, amazing, amazing food and amazing company.

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We were out late on a Tuesday night.

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I already said, the Maseranos and the Currys.

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I'm trying to get with it.

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because the food, I mean, you can't go to a place like that,

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and we were blessed, we were honored

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that people took us out.

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off the fire with, is it Argentinian or?

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but still I would go at least once a month

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to something like this because it's not usual

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which is much better than the hotels

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that you can go to anywhere,

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the times that they have.

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what are we going to eat?

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almost a neighborhood kind of thing where all of a sudden

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their times that they have these specials.

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We've been here nine years.

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but I didn't know they offered actual dinner

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You were fanboying him because of his gym routines.

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He was saying the same thing about me, but I'm younger.

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You're about to have a birthday.

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We were sharing our stories.

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We met in a gym now 33 years ago.

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32 and a half, whatever it is.

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Are you going to turn the air conditioner on?

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I almost fell.

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We're in a studio.

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Workman's comp in our studio.

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You're the risk manager too.

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You're buying.

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It was Pastor Appreciation Month.

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What a month we had.

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It ends in two days.

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So we have in 40 years of ministry, you've had how many appreciation type events?

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She put together because October all over has always been Pastor Appreciation Month.

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Pastor Zeke.

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Y'all were having a time together, you and many other pastors.

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Y'all were all talking about, oh, it's Pastor Appreciation Month.

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My congregation got me a car.

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So our church went all out.

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They were fantastic.

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Many, many cards, videos.

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I was going to see their reaction.

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I was messing with them.

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We don't need a car.

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You never know what could happen.

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Every week we got, had goodies in our office.

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Every Sunday we would come in and there's just all these goodies.

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All the pastoral staff, but also the administrative staff and our building engineer.

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of staff don't get the appreciation.

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We pay them well.

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We are really good about that.

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You said outside of the staff.

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Outside of the pastoral.

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Because it's a pastoral appreciation.

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But what I'm saying is she wanted them to feel honored as well as us.

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Because most churches don't do that.

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That's the way it should be.

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It should be.

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Everybody should be appreciated.

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So I loved it because some of the people, a couple of the cards we got said, for us

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it's not just October that's pastor appreciates.

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It's every day.

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And those kind of comments you go, thank you so much.

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And we are true, our spiritual family, which I talked a lot, I taught on that last Wednesday

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night from our Walking with Jesus discipleship journey.

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You need to teach on it on Sunday morning too.

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Oh my goodness.

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It landed, it didn't land hard, it landed well with people.

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And just talking about the power of spiritual family and who we are.

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And so our church literally walked it out and proved it out with us.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah, your phone blowing up over there.

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Work is calling me, but I'm going to put it off.

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They're going to have to wait.

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It was just such a blessing and it feels amazing to be part of a church family like this.

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Our church is growing.

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Even people who just started coming to church wrote us notes about as if we are spiritual,

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as if they're already in and have been here two weeks.

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So that was amazing.

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I think one of my favorite things was the videos, Don and Jill and the Currys.

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Peggy Layden.

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Peggy Layden.

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Our friend Peggy.

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And how they talked about how much you had changed their life with your sermons and your life.

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And just people who have been in church all their life from people who just started coming to

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church for the first time in 20 years like Jill, that was, we both just cried.

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I know.

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I teared up.

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I was like, wow.

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It meant so much.

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When people take the time, most people don't like doing their phone out and doing a video.

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I'm not good at that.

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I don't do it.

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I would rather write a note.

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I told Naomi not to be upset that not very many people did videos because not everybody is a video

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taker and they're not.

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So it was a lot to ask people to do that.

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The ones we got were phenomenal.

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We were blessed.

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We are blessed.

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It just, it only confirms what we say all the time that we get to do this and we're honored to serve this

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church body and to be a part of what God's up to.

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That's what's exciting.

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And now we get to bring a bunch of people with us on this amazing journey.

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And it blows my mind every week.

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I say it every day.

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We get to do this.

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I really mean it.

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Because every week we drive up, you get in the pulpit and you're like, who's going to show up today?

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Not anymore.

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Wow, I'm shocked.

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You're over it.

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Okay.

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Well, that's a good thing.

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I was going to say maybe longer.

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Most pastors do struggle with that.

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It's like, is anybody going to show up this week?

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Do I have anything to say that people want to hear?

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I don't worry about that.

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That's awesome.

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I'm glad.

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I'm glad.

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I don't mean that in a bad way.

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I mean, I think God's Word and God's Word matters.

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And it doesn't matter if one person or 10,000 people are there.

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It really doesn't.

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Because if you can change one life, which I have to give you kudos because you really heard the Holy Spirit Sunday morning at the end of the service.

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You told everybody, don't bow your head.

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Don't close your eyes.

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Keep your eyes open.

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And if you gave a little gospel presentation, and if you want Jesus, if this is your first time to add to your life,

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to ask Jesus to come into your life and be your Lord, I want you to stand.

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And three men stood, stood.

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I was in shock because you always see those people that stand every single time.

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We didn't have that.

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We always see young people like kids, which we don't really have many kids in the sanctuary anymore.

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But these were older men who said, I'm ready.

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And they're going to get baptized.

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To me, that's worth everything.

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If those three men were the only ones in the sanctuary and they asked for that, no one else showed up, it would be worth it.

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It would be worth it because three lives were changed in one day.

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The reason I did it that way, and thank you for saying that, the reason I did it that way is because if they won't stand up in church in front of people who are going to cheer them on,

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250 in each service or three, whatever it was, 500 something,

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if they won't stand up in front of a group that loves them, is going to value them and cheer them on,

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they will not stand up out there on Tuesday afternoon on the job or in their home or out where they're playing, their hobby.

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So I'm just kind of over trying to make this so easy that all you have to do is quietly, secretly check a box and quietly, secretly escape out of the church without telling anybody.

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We've got to raise the bar of expectation.

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Typically, you have people raise their hands and we close our eyes, but then you ask them to come forward and they don't.

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This, you ask them to come forward after service was over and speak with Brian and they did.

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Well, I made it clear because I made Brian raise his hand.

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I said, I want you, I said, I want each of you to come talk to him right after the service.

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And I said it because we want to walk with you.

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This was the most clarity I've ever heard.

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You give the gospel and that opportunity and people respond.

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It was very clear.

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I don't want to diminish when people make decisions in church and they check a box or anything because everybody's different.

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However, flip side of that coin is, I'll just say it that way.

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A lot of people that do it quietly, they live their Christian life with that level of expectation.

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That's what they live up to, being quiet.

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They live up to not being out loud, not saying I'm a believer, I'm a follower of Jesus and I want everybody to know it.

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So if we raise the bar of expectation, say if you enter in at this level of public profession of faith,

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because it's what it is, it's a public profession, then you're going to be more likely to stay with it.

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You're going to be more likely to engage others at the level you came in, if that makes sense.

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And that just really hit me on Sunday.

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I mean, really this has been coming for a year and a half where God just is doing things in me about standing up,

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about being bold, about being outspoken.

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Courageous, courageous, revelation.

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All of that.

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Talks about...

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The courageous, he says, you're going to sit with me in heaven.

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But the cowardly, you're going to end up in the lake of fire.

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Courageous is the opposite of cowardly.

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We have got to become bold for Christ.

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I mean, if you really...I love The Chosen because what they have created in this series,

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now they're going to seven seasons and they're about to have their fifth online,

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but they've given us a visual of people, the disciples and others that come to Christ,

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walking with Jesus and what they did.

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That is our lens to how we're supposed to walk with Jesus.

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And they gave up everything and they didn't have the trappings that we have here.

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But I'm telling you, to me it's a great visual of the expectation of a Christian

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not come to church on a Sunday, read your Bible on Sunday only,

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not have your life reflect who he is on a daily basis at your work, where you work, play.

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And we've got to raise the bar so that we're not complacent as a church.

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And I say as a church, and that means the body of Christ, not just our church,

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but the body of Christ.

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It's time to suit up, basically.

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Suit up and show up.

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Yeah, exactly.

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It's really important.

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Let me segue off of what you just said right into...let's talk about what everyone's talking about,

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but I don't want to talk about it from the angle that the news is talking about it.

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I want to talk about it from a biblical worldview.

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So what is everyone talking about right now at this point in history?

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The election.

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The election.

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I mean, it is insane.

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Are we at the end of the world because end of times?

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Yeah.

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Are we in the end times or is this the end of an epic or an end of an era, end of an empire?

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I've heard all that verbiage used.

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And I've even used some of that verbiage of, wow, could it be?

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But here's the thing.

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I want to come from a little bit different angle.

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First of all, I want to come from an eternal perspective and a heavenly perspective.

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Jesus said that we're responsible for bringing the culture of heaven to earth.

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So in the prayer that he taught his disciples and us to pray, he says,

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your kingdom come, we're to pray to God, your kingdom come,

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your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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Later in the Great Commission, Matthew 28, he talks about,

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as you are going, disciple nations, and as you're doing that,

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teach them everything I've taught you.

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I want you to baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

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And by the way, I'm going to be with you the whole time you're doing this.

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I'll never leave you.

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So that's the Great Commission put in King Jimmy version.

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You know, my version, my little translation, paraphrase.

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But tell me your thoughts.

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Just let's pitch this back and forth.

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Let me riff on a little bit.

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In terms of, from a spiritual perspective, how should we approach the election?

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Because people are losing their minds over this thing.

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Well, again, you've preached this.

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We've heard others speak on this is we're not voting for our Valentine.

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We're not voting for our best friend, our pastor, our elder.

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We're not voting for Jesus.

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We're voting for a platform that most aligns with biblical values.

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And we'll never have one that aligns 100%, never.

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Well, then I'm just not going to vote because I'm a Christian.

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And if neither one of the candidates live up to my moral expectations and my values, then I...

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Then you know who's going to end up winning is evil.

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Because evil will prevail if Christians don't stand out and do something and vote.

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You've got to vote.

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I mean, Jesus voted.

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I mean, you read that.

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You spoke on it.

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You actually did a whole sermon on did Jesus vote.

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Vote like Jesus.

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And it was great.

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And it was very enlightening for a lot of people.

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There are still people out there though, Christians, that are...

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They really don't care for Trump at all.

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And so therefore they won't vote for him because they don't like him.

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They don't like his hair.

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They don't like his mannerism.

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They think it's a character issue.

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But you have to look at the policies, his policies versus Harris's policies.

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He is... While he says he's not going to just cut out abortion altogether,

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he wants to give it to the states and let them decide.

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There will still be less babies killed than with Harris who says,

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we're going to take away...

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Oh, yeah.

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It's a campaign of murder.

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Roe versus Wade's going to be reversed and anybody can kill their baby.

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You're probably going to get me booted off of some social media thing again

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because I got booted off of something, yes, Metta.

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Yeah, you did.

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Yeah, yeah.

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My reel did because I was talking about some of this stuff.

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So to me, as a Christian, we have the honor, but we also...

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We are supposed to vote.

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We're mandated to vote for things that are going to bring life to our country,

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and that's going to bring death if we vote for someone who's...

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Or if we don't vote.

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What?

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Somebody else will backfill our vote.

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Somebody else will backfill it, yes.

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And in 2020, that's what happened.

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The evangelical church didn't show up in America because they thought,

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oh, this is a slam dunk.

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Of course, they're going to reelect Trump.

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Of course, this is going to happen.

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And then what happened didn't, is because 30...

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Million.

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Nearly 40...

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Between 30 and 40 million.

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30 and 40 million.

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I've heard various...

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Stayed home and didn't vote.

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Stayed home, and the enemy backfilled those votes.

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I think there's people that don't care.

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I do, too.

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They profess to be Christians.

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They're lazy and apathetic.

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But the great thing right now is we're finding out that more people are voting,

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have already voted, early voting already before the election than any...

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Than the last two presidential election years.

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I was at a county commissioner's meeting here in our community of Fredericksburg,

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Texas, and I opened it up with prayer.

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They invited me to do that, which was a great honor.

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And I sat with Jim Riley, who serves as part of our city.

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And Jim was inviting me.

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He said, would you come, Pastor Jimmy, and let me just give you a tour

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and show you what we're doing here?

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Because some people, we get a bad rap over here,

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but I want you to know the good things we're doing.

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We're doing some good things.

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I said, I will take you up on that.

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So we traded phone numbers.

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So I'm going to take him up on that soon.

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The other thing was he handed me an email from our county commissioner.

509
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,000
And he said, I want you to see what's going on.

510
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,000
This is an internal memo.

511
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:05,000
And he was just encouraged because of the turnout for the early voting.

512
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,000
In Fredericksburg.

513
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:12,000
As of three days ago, in our town of 12,000, we're a whopping big city, right?

514
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,000
Here, 12,000 people.

515
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:19,000
We've already had nearly 70, well, now by now, over 7,500, probably over 8,000.

516
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,000
But at least 7,500 people have already voted.

517
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,000
That's unprecedented.

518
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,000
Which would account for most of the adults here,

519
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,000
because honestly, you can't count children because they can't vote.

520
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,000
Exactly.

521
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,000
So to me, it is very shocking.

522
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:39,000
So in terms of who's eligible to vote, I mean, we're looking upwards of 80 plus percent.

523
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,000
Right.

524
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:44,000
But the thing is, who are they voting for is what I want to know.

525
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,000
Because we are a very diverse community.

526
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,000
We are a very diverse community.

527
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,000
And so, yeah, it's going to be a heated moment.

528
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:57,000
Honestly, I'm ready to get this election over with because...

529
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,000
I think everyone's ready.

530
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,000
I think people are getting weary, a little tired.

531
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,000
I feel a fatigue.

532
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,000
But afterwards, we have more work to do.

533
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,000
Absolutely.

534
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,000
No matter how it lands.

535
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:12,000
Because if it lands with Trump, people are still going to...

536
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,000
There's going to be riots.

537
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,000
There's still people that are going to hate the church.

538
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000
There's going to be so much persecution.

539
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,000
We don't know.

540
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:23,000
And if it goes with Harris, who knows what will happen?

541
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:32,000
There are people within the Republican Party and Independent that will come against Harris as well.

542
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:38,000
And it's like, ah, if more people would just get on their knees and pray...

543
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,000
There we go.

544
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:46,000
... rather than start riots and violence and all these things, we could turn this thing around.

545
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,000
So we're just kicking the ball off now.

546
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:56,000
But I'm telling you, after next week, no telling what's especially going to happen up until the inauguration.

547
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,000
It's going to be scary times.

548
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,000
Yeah.

549
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:04,000
Do you think that there's going to be potential even violence?

550
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,000
Oh, yeah.

551
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,000
We know there's going to be protests.

552
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,000
100%.

553
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:15,000
I think no matter who gets elected, there's going to be violence because it's the nature of humans.

554
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,000
Yeah.

555
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,000
That don't get their way.

556
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:29,000
And the more we don't get our way, and the longer we live, we see the evilness of people that they won't use good judgment.

557
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:35,000
They'll totally get in their flesh and become belligerent over this.

558
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,000
I'm a little nervous about it.

559
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:43,000
And I worry for Trump's life, but I also worry for Harris or Biden or whoever.

560
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,000
Yeah, we don't want it.

561
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:49,000
Because we don't want anyone to be assassinated or attempted assassination over something like this.

562
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,000
It's horrific even the way people talk about these things.

563
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,000
It is.

564
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,000
They can go so primal so quickly and forget who they are.

565
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000
We need to be praying for our candidates.

566
00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,000
Absolutely.

567
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:04,000
I mean, we need to be praying for their safety, but also for their salvation.

568
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,000
Trump and Harris, we don't know if Trump is saved.

569
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:12,000
We know he's making policies as if he were, but that doesn't mean he's saved.

570
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:21,000
But we need to be praying for anyone who is in office that they will seek God like we used to back in the day.

571
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,000
And so I'm nervous about it.

572
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,000
But I know God is still in control no matter what.

573
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,000
Yeah, I want to share this scripture.

574
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,000
It's a great insight, babe.

575
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,000
And Proverbs, so I'm doing this thing where I read a Proverb a day.

576
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,000
So there's 31 Proverbs, and depending on the month, it lands right in there.

577
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:44,000
And so it's an easy way to just do a real simple but structured Bible reading.

578
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000
And the Proverbs are just phenomenal.

579
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,000
Read them in different translations.

580
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:52,000
I use the New Living Translation, and then I'll switch over to the ESV, which has become my go-to.

581
00:28:52,000 --> 00:29:01,000
So in the English Standard Version, Proverbs chapter 29, so this was yesterday, listen to this.

582
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:08,000
Many seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that a man gets justice.

583
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,000
A lot of people are putting hope in Trump.

584
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,000
You know, if Trump wins, everything's going to go great.

585
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:26,000
Or if Harris wins, oh, you know, finally we're going to be the democracy we've always wanted instead of this weird constitutional republic that people talk about, which we are.

586
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:33,000
So, you know, but everybody's looking towards these individuals as though somehow they're going to fix everything.

587
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,000
And we are-

588
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,000
We've got news for you. They're not going to fix everything.

589
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,000
There's only one person that can fix.

590
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,000
There's only one on the throne.

591
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:51,000
I've been saying it in church, and it lands odd with people when I say Jesus is the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords.

592
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000
And in our vernacular day, he's the President of Presidents.

593
00:29:54,000 --> 00:30:02,000
And it's funny when I say it because I can feel the room that it lands strange to think of him that way.

594
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:10,000
But isn't that the same as saying if you're in an empire saying or a dynasty that he's the King of Kings?

595
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,000
That's normal, right?

596
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,000
Lord of Lords, normal.

597
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,000
But I want to say President or Presidents-

598
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,000
People are like, look at you funny.

599
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,000
Okay, I never thought of it that way, but he is.

600
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000
He sits on the throne.

601
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:28,000
Trump will not, Harris will not, whoever's pulling all the strings behind Harris and Biden, and we know it's not them.

602
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:35,000
It's the gates and the Soros and the Schwab and all these different ones that are pulling the strings.

603
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,000
But at the end of the day, many seek the face of a ruler, and that's what happens.

604
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:45,000
People run- even the children of Israel, when they had the judges, they said, it's not good enough.

605
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,000
We want a king.

606
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,000
Give us a king like the Philistines.

607
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:52,000
Give us a king like the Parasites and the Hittites.

608
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,000
We want a king like them.

609
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,000
And God was like, you don't need a king.

610
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000
I've given you judges.

611
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,000
And he finally relented because they wouldn't stop asking.

612
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,000
He gave them what they asked for.

613
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:12,000
And there was a long lineage of evil kings, dark kings, because man does not do well handling power.

614
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,000
We're just not good at it.

615
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,000
Our character is not-

616
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,000
Our pride gets in the way.

617
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000
Flesh and all of that.

618
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:25,000
So anyway, I just wanted to share that scripture because that really landed well with me yesterday.

619
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,000
I thought this is so true.

620
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:31,000
Many seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that a man gets justice.

621
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,000
We need to quit looking to a president and looking to a government.

622
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,000
Now, does it mean we don't participate in the process, that we don't learn the process?

623
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,000
No, I love that.

624
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,000
Navigate and play our part.

625
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,000
We have to participate, but we don't put them on the pedestal.

626
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,000
They're not our ultimate hope.

627
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,000
Yeah, just like you don't put a pastor on the pedestal.

628
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,000
Right, short term.

629
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,000
Because you're going to let them down.

630
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,000
Because you're human.

631
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,000
They're a part of the larger plan, but we want righteous rulers.

632
00:31:54,000 --> 00:32:00,000
We want to pray that God would, and in our part, participate to get righteous rulers and authority.

633
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:05,000
Anyway, I just thought that was interesting because this is what everyone is talking about.

634
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:06,000
It is.

635
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:12,000
Even not even in America because other countries have a huge interest in-

636
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,000
Oh, they're very interesting.

637
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:22,000
Whether this grand experiment that's 248 and a half years old succeeds because we're the last bastion of freedom,

638
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,000
true freedom with a constitutional republic on the planet.

639
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,000
Where do you go if America goes under?

640
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,000
There's nowhere to go.

641
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,000
Where do you go if we become socialist, Marxist, communist?

642
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,000
There's nowhere to go.

643
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,000
Where are you going to go?

644
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:36,000
There is no place to go.

645
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:45,000
Other countries and other nations and people are looking at us to say, and I've talked to two people,

646
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:54,000
one from Poland and one from a couple from Venezuela who both migrate here, and then a family of Indians from India-

647
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,000
From India.

648
00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:01,000
Who were in our church saying, we migrated here 20 years ago and you do not want where we came from.

649
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:06,000
All of them, the Venezuelan couple, Lazlo who are-

650
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,000
Polish.

651
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,000
He was saying, you do not want, America is the hope.

652
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,000
It's the only hope.

653
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,000
America has to succeed.

654
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:19,000
It's not only people in America that are saying grassroots people, normal people.

655
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,000
It's why people are trying to get in America.

656
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:28,000
You look at your country and say, what country is the one that people really want to believe in and go to?

657
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000
They're not trying to get into Russia.

658
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,000
They're trying to get into America.

659
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:37,000
Unfortunately, with our borders down completely unregulated, they are coming to America.

660
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,000
They are.

661
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000
Unfortunately, it's not all right.

662
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,000
Right.

663
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,000
Anyway, that's just another issue.

664
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,000
Anyway, there's a lot to pray about.

665
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,000
There's going to be a national-

666
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:51,000
There's several, I've noticed several organizations are calling for a National Day of Prayer.

667
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,000
We're going to participate in one through Remnant Alliance.

668
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,000
That'll be coming up on-

669
00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:00,000
I've got to get my calendar out because I'm terrible with dates.

670
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,000
The election is on Tuesday-

671
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,000
The 5th.

672
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,000
Yeah, Tuesday the 5th.

673
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:11,000
On Monday the 4th, I think in the evening at 3, I'll get details on that.

674
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:16,000
There will be a 24-hour period of prayer and fasting.

675
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,000
It doesn't matter about an organization.

676
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,000
This is just people trying to remind people to pray.

677
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,000
We would invite you to do the same.

678
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,000
On Monday, I'm definitely going to be-

679
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,000
That will be a day of prayer for me.

680
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,000
I'm going to be in a mindset of praying-

681
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,000
Probably should fast on Tuesday at least until dinner.

682
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,000
Yeah, we could do that.

683
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,000
Just because of-

684
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,000
We could do that.

685
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:45,000
The Bible talks about fasting and the importance of it.

686
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:50,000
It might be that we fast until dinner because we do have dinner plans at night.

687
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,000
That's a good idea.

688
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,000
We'll fast that day.

689
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,000
We could maybe like from sundown Monday to sundown-

690
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,000
That's what I was thinking.

691
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,000
That's good.

692
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,000
I just want to remind everybody, be engaged in this.

693
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,000
I see you.

694
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:12,000
I think it's important that we pray for our nation right now.

695
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,000
I really do.

696
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,000
Let's land the plane with this.

697
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,000
First of all, I just want to thank all of you who write in to us.

698
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,000
We've got new people who are subscribing to us

699
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:24,000
and participating through giving, whether it's through Value for Value,

700
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:28,000
through Fountain and Cast-O-Matic and other 2.0 platforms,

701
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:33,000
or giving through the website, livingupinadownworld.com.

702
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,000
I also want to just lift something up and remind folks,

703
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:42,000
I had a great interview podcast with Craig Weinberg.

704
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,000
He has a podcast called The Interview.

705
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:48,000
You can just Google that, The Interview, Jimmy Pruitt-

706
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,000
You were one of the interviews.

707
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,000
He interviewed me.

708
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:55,000
We had a great time talking about what it means as a Christian

709
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:59,000
to be involved in the public square and involved in engaging culture.

710
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:04,000
I would invite you to check that out.

711
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,000
Here we go.

712
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:11,000
Last podcast before the big election.

713
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,000
Oh, no. This is huge.

714
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,000
Be praying for our country.

715
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,000
Really, get out and vote.

716
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:21,000
If you haven't, go, get it done and participate in the process.

717
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,000
Listen, we love you guys.

718
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,000
We are so grateful that you are in our lives,

719
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000
and we count it a privilege to be in yours.

720
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,000
Have an amazing day on purpose, and KYBO,

721
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,000
keep your buckets overflowing, and keep living up in a down low.

722
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,000
God bless.

723
00:36:38,000 --> 00:37:07,000
God bless.