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Father, we honor you. What a privilege it is

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to come before you on this day and to pause,

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take a breath, breathe you in, welcome you in.

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In Holy Spirit, we welcome you and ask you to

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lead, to guide, and to literally direct our conversation

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today. Our heart in this is to help people. It's

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to call out darkness. It's to identify the things

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that Our late is trapped for us by the enemy,

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Satan himself. Father, we declare that no person

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is our enemy. We don't have enemies on this earth.

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We have enemies that are demonic in nature and

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satanic in nature. And so Lord, our heart here

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is to help people. So we thank you that whatever

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happens today, we're going to trust you. We're

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going to trust outcomes. We pray like it depends

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on us, but we trust like it depends on you because

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it does. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. It's Wednesday

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October 8th, we get to do this this is episode

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number five We get to do this We're like regular

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pros now. Come on now. It's like we've been doing

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this forever. Just jump right in and we're good

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to go. How you doing brother? I'm doing great.

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Howdy. series of meetings today, but that so

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goes the life of a pastor. People don't realize

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that. They think you got it easy, man. Just come

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in Sunday, do your thing, pull up some YouTube

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videos, drink some coffee and read your Bible

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all day long. Yeah, that's all we do. Pretty

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much, right? Yeah. No, I know it's been, it's

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a real busy week, so I appreciate the time. It's

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been, it's been busy for me too. It's been, it's

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been a week. Already things can be busy. Yeah,

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what is today? Oh, it's just Tuesday Wow, okay,

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this was like a Friday by now, but it's all good

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The thing about it is busy can be tiring whether

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it's good or bad, right? Yeah, it's much more

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tiring when it's bad So I've had a good week

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so far all two days But it's busy, but it's good

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and I'm okay with that. We've got some folks

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coming in from all over the United States tonight

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that we'll be hosting for the next two and a

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half days. It's a group of pastors. We're all

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kind of synced up. We're on the same page. We

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believe that God wants to redeem our nation.

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He wants to do it through the church, the body

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of Christ. And so, there's a lot of pastors like

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that. I mean, our hallmarks or our core values

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are faith, family, and freedom, which I happen

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to be doing a series on right now. Faith, family,

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freedom. And we believe that God's heart is to

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restore our nation back to what our original

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documents, particularly starting with Mayflower

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Compact, etc. The documents still say it. Absolutely,

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to evangelize. This country is being developed

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and being dedicated to the Lord to evangelize

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the world, and that's our heart. So a whole lot

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of us are finding each other in these crazy times

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we live in, particularly the last administration

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before the one we have now. But in a way, it

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did us a favor because it began to help us wake

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up and say, okay, wait a minute. There's things

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going on that... are way off. But that's really

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where we found each other too, kind of in that

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crossroad of culture, Christianity. By the way,

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I don't know if it's been released yet, but speaking

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of faith, family, and freedom, you and Damonette

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did your podcast as part of The Message on Sunday.

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It was fantastic. Live events are in your future,

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man. I'm seeing sold out stadiums everywhere.

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It was so good. Really different. Because the

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question is, is it a sermon or a podcast? And

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the answer is yes. Yes. We had this idea. So

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Annette and I, I invited Annette because we're

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talking about family. Yeah. And I always love

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when we're together. I love us riffing off of

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each other. And she's so good at podcasting,

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even though I have to drag her in here to do

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it. She's so good at it. She has no idea how.

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She's very natural. So I had this idea. We were

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at our staff retreat and having a great time

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and we were talking about family, about how critical

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it is that we bring this word on family. Well,

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Pastor Brian, my associate executive pastor,

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knocked it out of the park last week. I mean,

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the week before, like, I mean, and I'm like,

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I'm looking at Annette going, what do I do now?

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He pretty much covered. How do I top this guy?

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How do I keep him on his toes? Yeah, it was on

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fire. So I thought, now I really felt like it

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was the Lord, the Holy Spirit leading me, do

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something different. Yeah. Totally different

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out of the box. And it just began to gel through

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the week. And then I finally, like on Saturday,

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I said, I got it. I know what we're supposed

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to do. I mean, we already had our content. Yeah.

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But we didn't have an idea. We were going to

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sit in chairs, like interview style, sitting

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in the living room. I said, I got one better.

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I said, let's do this as a podcast. I got to

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tell you, so when it started off, you had the

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theme song and everything, and you started off

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the way you start the podcast, which is not how

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you start your Sunday message. And everyone in

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the church is like, yeah! Once a quarter, at

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least, I would love to see. I mean, everyone

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likes a proper sermon, a proper message, but

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once a quarter, man, it was just so good. Got

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to mix it up a little bit. I was just beaming.

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I'm like, will it be out yet? Has faith gotten

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the audio done? It's out on YouTube. It's also

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out, I put it on my Facebook page, JimmyInnetPruitts.

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Jimmy Internet Pruitt on our Facebook. It's on

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our Facebook Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas

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page. So any of those, you can pick this up.

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I'll make sure Faith gets to move on to the audio.

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I didn't listen to the whole thing. She's got

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the audio ready to go. I've got the file. Oh,

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OK. So I just got to find some time. So it's

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on you now. I am the podcast guy who sits around

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and says, hey, have you released that podcast

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yet? Keep it going. I've got the next three days

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booked, morning to night, hosting pastors. I've

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been doing this new thing or it's not that I

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decided to do it for the for the past couple

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of weeks. It's been like I get these. You had

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a great term. I've been getting what I would

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call downloads from heaven. You said, oh, you

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got a download from throne central, which I threw

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out at Tina and she's like, well, that's great.

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I said, yeah, if only I'd come up with it. And

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I've kind of been letting the spirit lead all

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of my podcasts this way. And it's been amazing

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because. Certainly with no agenda. I've always

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been a little dependent on okay. What does the

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media have to offer? What are the clips that

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I can get what what are people talking about

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and? Usually the night before in the morning

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of I get this like just this flood of like here's

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what you got to do and I'm like Okay, and it

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always comes together got all these clips come

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together and you know and so I have the you know

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little presentation, as I call it, on No Agenda.

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It could be anywhere from three to 12 clips.

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And if Dvorak is not annoyed and rolling his

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eyes, it's a great presentation. And so, so many

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things for this podcast came together in very

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much the same way, right up until this morning.

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And the first thing, you sent me this article,

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which I'm going to put in the show notes, which

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was from Jordan Rubin. Controlling dopamine for

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motivation, focus, and satisfaction. This is

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a great article. And you want to just paraphrase

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what's in it? Well, yeah. The short version is

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we're basically, as a culture, dopamine addicted.

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We like these short bursts of feel good, which

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is what dopamine is, right? We sacrifice by drowning

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ourselves in cortisol as well, which is a stress

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hormone. So you've got stress hormone, you've

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got a feel -good hormone. But I love what Jordan

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Rubin said. He said that the feel -good hormone,

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dopamine, is actually a gift from God. It's a

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good thing. This is what was cool about it. And

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it's been given to us to reinforce good behaviors,

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good outcomes. Unfortunately, like anything else,

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the enemy always likes to hijack anything good.

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He wants to try to counteract that. So he comes

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in the opposite spirit and actually makes something

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good become bad. We could say like some medications,

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sex, we can go down the list. parenting, fatherhood,

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the really big one, family. How about a baby

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being born? So the enemy wants to come and turn,

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twist and pervert all these good things, living

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a moral and righteous life. Why not mess that

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up? So he's talking about how the enemy has co

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-opted good things and this gift of dopamine.

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which can actually train you into good things.

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It's a reward, you know. Which I think in the

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article is saying you can get that from reading

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Scripture, from praying, from meditating on Scripture,

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from walking outside in nature. Did that for

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two miles this morning. That's why I'm feeling

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good. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know me, I'm always

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walking with Phoebe. I'm not walking her, she's

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walking me. A line that was in here, which goes

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right along with my, put down your screens, pick

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up your Bibles. He says, replace scrolling with

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scripture. That just jumped out at me. I'm like,

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wow. That's good alliteration. Well, that's me.

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Alliteration is everything. And as I was thinking

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about it, I was thinking, we are so good at managing

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and charging our devices. We are so bad at doing

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that with our spiritual battery. We wow just

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don't I mean because you know it was like gotta

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charge it gotta charge it Can I charge I got

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it gotta plug my phone and where's my phone is

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it charging? We know how to do that. We have

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been completely trained by the mechanism Oh,

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you should see my little kit that I take on a

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trip. Oh, yeah for every plug imaginable 15 cords.

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Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. And sometimes I'm packing this

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stuff up and I'm grabbing my little go bag Yeah,

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I'm going this is ridiculous So I heard The Holy

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Spirit, aka in my mind yesterday, Adam Curry's

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voice, when I had, I took my first sabbatical

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in a long time. On a Monday, which is my day.

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And it was an actual, I'm taking this day, not,

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oh, it happens to be a holiday or something happened

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where I was able to go home early. This was a

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planned, I'm getting back to my sabbaticals.

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I got away from it and I felt like I was being

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disobedient to the Lord. And so I told the net,

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I said, you can do what you want, but I'm taking

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off on Mondays from now on. And it's going to

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be a day with the Lord, not a day to catch up

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on work or a day to do start another project.

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This is going to be me and him. And for as long

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as he tells me to do it. How did it go? Phenomenal

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because I got up early in the morning, like I

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always do. I did my daily grind. I posted it.

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And then I It turned off the screen right away.

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Don't look at the Facebook. And that comes home,

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hey, did you hear about this in the news? I said,

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I did not. She goes, what? What have you been

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doing all day? I said, well, I haven't been on

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the internet all day. I played my guitar. I worshipped.

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I spent time with Jesus. I prayed through the

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house. I cooked. I'm doing... Things that bring

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me joy that bring me closer to him. Yeah, so

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I had one of those days now. That's great, man

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I mean Mondays I forced myself into it by playing

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chess with Willie at 11 days I can't do anything

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after Bible study and I heard you gave him a

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beat down, you know, and I saw him on Sunday

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I said bring your a game and I don't know what

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he brought it was like C or D and you know, so

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we usually play two games so we don't like to

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have a winner just like, you know Usually it's

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he'll win, I'll win. He's a good player. I mean,

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he is a good player. And it was like down to

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like five pieces each. So it was a pretty tense

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game. And he's like, well, give me White again.

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OK, Willie. All right. You think White's going

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to do it? I just mopped the floor with him. I

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was so pleased with myself. kicked off your Sabbath

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with a beat down. Yeah, and then drive to the

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car wash, you know, deposit a check at the bank.

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Little things here and there. Walk the dog a

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little extra long. The key though, and we've

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talked about this before, not on here, but the

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key on a Sabbath is to keep your mind state on

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Him. The Bible says it were to pray without ceasing.

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And so really it's just this, you get into a

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mindset where whatever you're doing, You're still,

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your mind's on him. You're thinking about him.

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You're whispering things. I love to talk to him

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as I'm going. You know how we think in a monologue,

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but I like to think in a dialogue. So as I'm

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thinking, instead of talking to myself, I'm going

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to talk to him now. So I'll bring him into everything

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I do. That's just life -giving. Talk about dopamine

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dump. Exactly. The real stuff. Precisely. I'll

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be walking on here like, No, you need to put

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this with this. I'm like, I used to think, wow,

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I'm so brilliant. I can't believe how good my

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mind is. And now like, oh, I see what's going

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on here. And then I'll say, yes, Lord, I got

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it. OK, this one, I got it. And yeah, the dopamine

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flows. I'm always excited. Holy, holy mackerel.

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He's just giving me stuff completely out of the

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blue. So there's some other things that happened

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just came to me that was like, wow, I got to

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share this with Jimmy. Cool. And all of our...

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50 people? I don't know who's listening. We have

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no idea. I've started many podcasts. It builds,

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it builds, it builds, it builds. So we're good.

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So Brad Stein, I think he calls himself God's

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comedian. We've had him here at the church with

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Rick Green. The guy is... funny, and he's energetic,

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and he's kind of wild, and you know, and he's

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on fire for Jesus, and taking no prisoners when

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it comes to culture in America. This week, this

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very short week, I have received this clip from

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five different people, none of them believers,

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all saying, this is so good, I can't believe

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it. And it's an old Brad Stein clip, which is

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just for some, well, for some reason, I can say

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there's lots of reasons has gone viral. And I

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know it's a very old clip because of his hair.

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And I hope he's not listening. But by the way,

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Brad has his own podcast. I've been in the podcast.

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He's a fascinating guy. He has lots of interesting

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guests. It's a little on the long side, about

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four minutes. But I wanted to share it with everybody

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because it is good. So this is Brad Stein. And

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this is about, what is it? the relevance of the

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Bible in culture, and he'll take you through

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a little journey here. But I just want you to

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know that faith does have purpose and value,

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and it can be used intellectually. And people

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say, yes, what's the difference, you know? The

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Bible is just another book. No, first off, that's

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wrong. The Bible is not a book. The Bible is

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six of six books, 40 different people wrote it.

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Over 1 ,500 years, there's never been a book

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like that in history, ever. Does that make it

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the Word of God? No. It just means it's worth

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considering, because there's never been a book

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like this. gives you some reason to consider

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it over the others. Well, how about history?

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For hundreds of years, archaeology has used the

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Old Testament, and new, to find buildings, to

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find people, to find civilizations, to find kings

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that didn't exist or they didn't think they did,

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and suddenly the Bible said they're there and

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they dug it up and there it was. Does that make

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it the Word of God? No. It means it's historically

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accurate. Real people really existed and really

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wrote down what they saw. It's worth considering.

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And then they said we're gonna have God show

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up and lots of people said that. Lots of religions

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say it. Don't worry, we'll prove it as a rational

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God would do. I will do prophecies. I will show

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that I'm not trapped in linear time, that I can

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see beyond where you are. I will give prophecies

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to tell you what the guy, when I show up and

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God appears on earth to reveal himself, I'll

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show you what he's gonna look like. Over 300

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prophecies. And then a man showed up one day

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named Jesus. And he said, I'm that guy. And he

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fulfilled all 300 prophets. That's impossible.

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People could say, well, yes, they just wrote

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it afterwards and filled it all in. But we know

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that the first Greek translation of the Old Testament

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was done 250 years before Jesus was born. So

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how could they possibly know that he'd be born

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in Bethlehem? How could they possibly know he

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was going to be crucified when crucifixions didn't

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even exist as a capital punishment yet? How could

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they know that he'd be betrayed for 30 pieces

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of silver 250 years before there was a Jesus?

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Does it make it the Word of God? No, but it's

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time to get close. And then Jesus said he would

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fulfill these things and did miraculous things

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to prove I'm not just a guy talking like everybody

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else. Look what I've done! And some people believe

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and some didn't. That's how humans are. And then

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he said this, I'm going to prove it to you. I'm

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going to die. And I'm going to come back to life.

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Nobody's ever done that. And he died. And all

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those who were with him three years ran in fear,

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as would all of us. And they ran away. And they

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said, I guess that we were wrong. And then something

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happened. Something happened that made all of

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these guys come back and be willing to be martyred

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for this belief system, except for one. Of course,

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John was sent off. But everybody died a martyr's

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death. What was it for? Because they thought

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they were going to get rich? There was no riches

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here. There was no riches. The Roman government

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hated them. They wanted them destroyed. They

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used them as people that could be eaten alive

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by animals for sports and entertainment. You

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were kicked out of your culture. The Jews weren't

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going to take you in. So there was no value there.

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There was nothing good here. There was nothing

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here to gain. And they all still died for what?

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Because they found a new religion? No. For one

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reason. They said this. I saw him die. And I

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saw him come back. And that's it. You don't have

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to believe it. Why didn't he die so he could

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have a perfect life? No. So he didn't have to

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go to hell. I don't believe in a God who would

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send people to hell. He didn't give hell for

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you. That's what's great about Christianity.

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He gives you all the answers. Hell was created

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for the devil and his angels. But it was part

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of the rules he put into nature, into the nature

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that we live in, that anybody that would bail

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against him, this is where they go. So once we

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did that, he could have bailed out. Sorry, you're

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going to hell. He did, and he said, don't worry,

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kids, I'm coming down. So if you go to hell,

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you chose it. And you will not sit there and

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argue with him. You'll know what you've done.

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And if you're an atheist, let me tell you something.

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That's your dilemma. If we all die and there

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is no God, it's just eternal unconscious. You'll

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never know. But if you're wrong, you'll know

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forever. And it's not a gamble anyway. You take

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it. But what are you saying? I should just believe

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in Jesus so I don't go to hell? Pretty much.

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I just hope someone heard that and got something

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out of it because When five non -believers send

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this to me, there's something about it that's

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going on that this clip is resurfacing. That

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is amazing. I love Brad. Brad is a fast talker,

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fast thinker. Very. He moves. He never stops.

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I mean, he weighs 90 pounds because he's just

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like all over the place. Same in this clip. He's

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walking and it's like some grungy comedy club.

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I'm not sure where it is. There are like trash

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cans everywhere. And yet he always brings straight

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up truth and always he gets you laughing and

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then he brings a zinger. Yes. Always. And he's

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a pro at it. But I love his heart. Love the guy's

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heart because he's so dug in about Jesus, but

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also so dug in about love for our country and

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our nation. And he has this way of marrying the

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two and why they are co -mingling. It's phenomenal.

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He's a pro. I love him. So good. Love the guy.

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So good. How was it doing a podcast with him?

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It's been a while because that was when he was

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here at the church. I think it did a couple weeks

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after. It was good. Honestly, I can't remember,

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but it was fun. I was also a much younger Christian

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at the time, so I feel like I've accelerated

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so much in such a little amount of time. It's

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just like everything in the world just revolves

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around it now. Adam, just even on that little

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note right there, a little caveat. That's happening

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everywhere right now. There's an acceleration

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like I've never seen in my lifetime. When we

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were younger and we were coming to Christ, it

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seems like it took two or three decades to get

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where you are because it was a different season

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in the world, a different economy, different

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culture. There was a different life. And for

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whatever reason, things are accelerating right

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now. I mean, tens of thousands of people are

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getting baptized all over the United States.

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I mean, every week, I'm reading 6 ,000 here,

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8 ,000 here, 200 here, 500 here. It's happening

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everywhere. And I've never seen it like this

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in my history. Which has been 40 plus years that

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you've been doing this. And older guys that have

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walked in this thing a lot longer than I have

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are saying the exact same thing. We've never

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seen it like this. God is up to something. I

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watched. By the way, two flights to Nashville.

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Don't tell me you watched Twister again? No,

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it went off the rotation on Southwest, so I'm

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a little depressed about that. I was going to

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watch Twister for the 45th time, but instead

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I watched The Chronicles of Narnia, the movie.

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I haven't watched that in years. I watched it

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with my daughter when she was little, and I thought,

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hey, I haven't seen that. I love C .S. Lewis.

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I watched it. I was stunned. I've seen it before

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several times, but for some reason, because we're

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in a different season of life, things land differently,

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right? They hit different. And this scene where

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Aslan, they put him on the table, he gives, he

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lays his life down to the white witch and all

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these demons are around. I'm on the plane. I'm

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going, this is their recreation of that moment

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of the demonic laughter, mocking, hatred. Let's

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humiliate him. Let's cut all of his fur off.

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I mean, let's take his mane off. I mean, everything

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they could do to humiliate him. And he could

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have at any moment gotten up and walked off.

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But he didn't. And I love the very end. Of course,

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Lucy and Mr. Tumnus are watching Aslan walk away

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on the beach kind of into the sunset kind of

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thing. And she says, he's not, no, Mr. Tumnus

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says he's not a tame lion. Yeah, Lucy says, but

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he's good. Yeah, man. It was worth watching the

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whole movie to get to that line Was that a Disney

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movie? I don't I think it was maybe This is super

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well done. I mean it was I should look that up

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creative. Mm -hmm. It's a different day for Disney

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No kidding. It's been a couple of no. Yeah, you

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know so in kind of in line with that And by the

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way, you know, I hear more and more people say

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or remind us that during the Great Awakening

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and the Second Great Awakening, people didn't

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realize until 10 years later. They didn't have

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the internet, but that realization as to how

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it was happening everywhere. And I don't know,

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maybe despite the internet, we may not really

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be seeing everything that's happening. I think

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history gives you a different perspective. It's

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almost like you're elevated and looking down

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on something, whereas when you're in it, you're

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literally in it. And so you can't see all the

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moving parts, but then history gives us this

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great perspective of, oh, and that happened,

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and that happened, and simultaneously that happened.

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And we can't get that even with everybody carrying

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a phone and a camera in their hand, right? We

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can't just do it. We can't take in that information,

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that much information. But I think from what

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I'm seeing... Also, the algos may not steer us

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towards that kind of information. They may not

00:24:53.309 --> 00:24:56.289
let you drive down that road for very long. They'll

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move you off onto something else because you

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mentioned something about thermal socks and it

00:25:01.539 --> 00:25:04.740
ends up on your newsfeed 15 minutes later. Exactly.

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A mind bending. Exactly. We see this every day.

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So for me, I've been stepping back from social

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media. There have been a couple of times, even

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this week, where I was like, I should post now.

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Why am I posting that? I'm starting to ask myself

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questions. Why are you doing this? Is it because

00:25:22.700 --> 00:25:26.410
you want somebody to go at a boy? Way to go.

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Way to go, Pastor. You're so good, Pastor Jimmy.

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You showed him. Even Darren Tyler out of Conduit

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Church in Nashville, Franklin. He said, man,

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I've been following you online. Man, it looks

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like you've got a ton of things going. And at

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first I was flattered by that. And later I thought,

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is that what I'm portraying? That you've got

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a ton of things going? That I've got a ton of

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things going. And I've just started back in a

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way. I also took another word of advice from

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you. From me? From you. Okay. And it was when

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you said, you know, I used to get tons of texts

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all the time, but when I stopped texting people,

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I quit getting tons of texts all the time. It's

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magical the way it works. I've been pulling back.

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Because sometimes I'm bored. Yeah. I'll go, and

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who have I not talked to? Really? Oh, see, I've

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never had that. That's interesting. I love people

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deeply. Of course. I love maintaining some semblance

00:26:20.420 --> 00:26:23.940
of a friendship. Yeah. And sometimes I'll just

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scroll through my tag and go, gosh, I haven't

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talked to that guy in three weeks. Talked. Text.

00:26:31.319 --> 00:26:35.180
As though they're the same. And I've done that

00:26:35.180 --> 00:26:38.099
for years. And I've just stopped. Guess what?

00:26:38.299 --> 00:26:41.579
I'm hardly getting any texts. Do you feel lonely?

00:26:41.779 --> 00:26:43.660
Do you feel left out of the loop? Do you feel

00:26:43.660 --> 00:26:47.619
like the FOMO, right? Hashtag FOMO, fear missing

00:26:47.619 --> 00:26:50.579
out. I felt it at first, but I identified it

00:26:50.579 --> 00:26:52.500
because I knew it was going to happen. So because

00:26:52.500 --> 00:26:55.200
I was expecting to feel that way or I expected

00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:58.920
that potential. Yeah. And I told Annette, I said,

00:26:59.180 --> 00:27:03.359
it's interesting. It sometimes dawns on me. I'm

00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:06.759
the only guy reaching out. Oh, yeah. I'm the

00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:10.200
guy who's. staying in that person's life or pursuing.

00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:15.019
And I told him, I'm kind of done with that. Not

00:27:15.019 --> 00:27:17.720
in a mean way. No, no, but there is also a factor,

00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:20.180
because I have this, well, I didn't want to bother

00:27:20.180 --> 00:27:22.240
you because I'm sure you're busy because you're

00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:24.880
a podcaster or you're a pastor or you're whatever.

00:27:25.460 --> 00:27:27.619
There's a lot of that. And I always tell people,

00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:31.539
please, always reach out whenever you want to.

00:27:31.759 --> 00:27:35.509
There is that factor. And just this morning,

00:27:35.809 --> 00:27:37.789
I reached out to someone who hadn't actually

00:27:37.789 --> 00:27:39.349
seen in church for a while. I was pretty sure

00:27:39.349 --> 00:27:41.769
they were back in Florida and said, hey, we want

00:27:41.769 --> 00:27:43.609
to have dinner with you. So that's a regular

00:27:43.609 --> 00:27:46.329
reach out. Sure. The worst are text groups and

00:27:46.329 --> 00:27:50.430
the text groups. We have, I mean, maybe three.

00:27:50.829 --> 00:27:53.349
One of them is our table two from the men's breakfast.

00:27:53.549 --> 00:27:56.150
I love this. Anthony kind of put that together

00:27:56.150 --> 00:28:00.440
and there's nothing going on. He'll send out

00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:03.220
maybe once a week. He'll send out something like

00:28:03.220 --> 00:28:05.460
an encouraging message. Let's go make this a

00:28:05.460 --> 00:28:07.759
great day, men. And he'll send a Bible scripture

00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:10.819
and we all like give thumbs up and folded hands

00:28:10.819 --> 00:28:13.440
emoji and all that. And that's really nice because

00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:15.519
that's like an encouragement thing or someone

00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:17.859
needs encouragement, but it's very infrequent.

00:28:18.460 --> 00:28:22.380
And then I tend to never post in the groups that

00:28:22.380 --> 00:28:25.380
I've been added to. that are sending me links

00:28:25.380 --> 00:28:29.960
to Instagram and TikTok and look at this. Like,

00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:32.859
I don't even respond. I'm just like, no, I cannot

00:28:32.859 --> 00:28:35.319
because that is... I'm into those right now.

00:28:35.480 --> 00:28:39.079
Yeah. Those are just no good. My favorite text

00:28:39.079 --> 00:28:40.960
people are pastors because they just don't answer

00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:44.160
you at all. We're trying to get all the pastors

00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:47.119
like, 6 a .m., 6 a .m., that's when you can hear

00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:49.359
them. We can be the worst. I tend to be. I fault

00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:51.480
on the other side where I over -answer. It's

00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:53.299
like, oh yeah, let's have a conversation. No,

00:28:53.359 --> 00:28:53.920
I was just trying to get you something. Well,

00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:55.640
you and I are different. Like, if you haven't

00:28:55.640 --> 00:28:57.420
heard from me by 10 a .m., you're like, are you

00:28:57.420 --> 00:28:59.440
okay? I'm a little nervous. Have you fallen and

00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:01.319
you can't get up? Is everything okay with you?

00:29:01.319 --> 00:29:02.779
Do you not have your, I don't even know what

00:29:02.779 --> 00:29:05.059
they call that thing on your... The life alert.

00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:07.680
The life alert. Help, I've fallen and I can't

00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:10.819
get up. Battery out. So I was going to play a

00:29:10.819 --> 00:29:14.420
couple of clips. About the genesis of how the

00:29:14.420 --> 00:29:16.460
enemy has you because we wouldn't cut this kind

00:29:16.460 --> 00:29:18.400
of been a thread for the pay We're episode five,

00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:22.819
man Wow, and I'm surprised I found some other

00:29:22.819 --> 00:29:24.839
things that maybe I didn't even didn't want to

00:29:24.839 --> 00:29:27.720
play these but I think I will but What started

00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:32.279
this is and it was it was? from throne central

00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:37.000
You brought up Paul Harvey mmm on the last yeah

00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:41.390
and As if my phone was listening to me, up pops

00:29:41.390 --> 00:29:46.430
the classic 1965 Paul Harvey, If I Were the Devil.

00:29:47.269 --> 00:29:50.750
And I want to play that because it's real. It's

00:29:50.750 --> 00:29:53.970
from 1965. It was from a radio broadcast. This

00:29:53.970 --> 00:29:56.029
has been enhanced a little bit because it's all

00:29:56.029 --> 00:29:59.390
kind of fuzzy the way it sounds. So I was one.

00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:04.640
1965 and this is what he was clearly identifying

00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:07.420
and already saying as this is what I would do

00:30:07.420 --> 00:30:12.640
if I were the devil. If I were the devil, if

00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:17.920
I were the devil, if I were the prince of darkness

00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:20.140
I'd want to engulf the whole world in darkness

00:30:20.140 --> 00:30:22.640
and I'd have a third of its real estate and four

00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:24.839
-fifths of its population but I wouldn't be happy

00:30:24.839 --> 00:30:28.039
until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree,

00:30:28.579 --> 00:30:32.240
the So I'd set about however necessary to take

00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:35.400
over the United States I'd subvert the churches

00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:38.180
first I'd begin with a campaign of whispers with

00:30:38.180 --> 00:30:40.319
the wisdom of a serpent I would whisper to you

00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:44.319
as I whispered to Eve do as you please To the

00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:46.259
young I would whisper that the Bible is a myth

00:30:46.259 --> 00:30:49.140
I would convince them that man created God instead

00:30:49.140 --> 00:30:51.319
of the other way around I would confide that

00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:54.119
what's bad is good and what's good is square

00:30:54.119 --> 00:30:58.519
and The old I would teach to pray after me our

00:30:58.519 --> 00:31:04.019
father Which aren't in Washington And then I'd

00:31:04.019 --> 00:31:06.720
get organized I'd educate authors in how to make

00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:08.880
the lowered literature Exciting so that anything

00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:11.259
else would appear dull and uninteresting I threatened

00:31:11.259 --> 00:31:14.660
TV with dirtier movies and vice versa I'd peddle

00:31:14.660 --> 00:31:17.119
narcotics to whom I could I'd sell alcohol to

00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:20.180
ladies and gentlemen of distinction I'd tranquilize

00:31:20.180 --> 00:31:22.980
the rest with pills If I were the devil, I'd

00:31:22.980 --> 00:31:25.640
soon have families at war with themselves, churches

00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:28.579
at war with themselves, and nations at war with

00:31:28.579 --> 00:31:32.200
themselves, until each in its turn was consumed.

00:31:32.740 --> 00:31:35.839
And with promises of higher ratings, I'd have

00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:40.460
mesmerizing media fanning the flames. If I were

00:31:40.460 --> 00:31:42.740
the devil, I would encourage schools to refine

00:31:42.740 --> 00:31:45.039
young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions,

00:31:45.220 --> 00:31:47.869
just let those run wild. Until before you knew

00:31:47.869 --> 00:31:50.430
it, you'd have to have drug -snipping dogs and

00:31:50.430 --> 00:31:53.809
metal detectors at every schoolhouse door. Within

00:31:53.809 --> 00:31:58.170
a decade, I'd have prisons overflowing. I'd have

00:31:58.170 --> 00:32:01.430
judges promoting pornography. Soon I could evict

00:32:01.430 --> 00:32:04.009
God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse,

00:32:04.269 --> 00:32:06.529
and then from the houses of Congress. And in

00:32:06.529 --> 00:32:08.849
his own churches, I would substitute psychology

00:32:08.849 --> 00:32:12.029
for religion and deify science. I would lure

00:32:12.029 --> 00:32:15.150
priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls

00:32:15.150 --> 00:32:18.000
and church money. If I were the devil, I'd make

00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:20.339
the symbol of Easter an egg and the symbol of

00:32:20.339 --> 00:32:23.420
Christmas a bottle. If I were the devil, I'd

00:32:23.420 --> 00:32:26.319
take from those who have and give to those who

00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:29.240
wanted until I had killed the incentive of the

00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:33.160
ambitious. And what'll you bet? I couldn't get

00:32:33.160 --> 00:32:38.000
whole states to promote gambling as the way to

00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:43.460
get rich. I would caution against extremes in

00:32:43.460 --> 00:32:48.200
hard work, in patriotism. in moral conduct I

00:32:48.200 --> 00:32:50.160
would convince the young that marriage is old

00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:54.160
-fashioned that swinging is more fun that what

00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:58.680
you see on TV is the way to be and thus I could

00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:03.039
undress you in public and I could lure you into

00:33:03.039 --> 00:33:06.920
bed with diseases for which there is no cure

00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:10.799
in other words if I were the devil I just keep

00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:16.720
right on doing what he's doing boom Wow. That

00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:19.920
is like prophetic because literally you can go

00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:22.579
down the checklist on everything he said and

00:33:22.579 --> 00:33:24.279
think of all the things that have already happened.

00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:26.920
It's happened. It's not even happening. 1965,

00:33:27.059 --> 00:33:30.579
is that right? Yeah, 65. Who authored that? I

00:33:30.579 --> 00:33:33.180
think he wrote it himself. Paul Harvey did that.

00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:39.200
And that's the rest of the story. It's just like,

00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:42.099
wow. Now, of course, this didn't just come out

00:33:42.099 --> 00:33:44.619
of nowhere. The enemy has been working for a

00:33:44.619 --> 00:33:49.559
long, long, long, long time, probably since forever,

00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:55.769
since day one. I could have read these, but the

00:33:55.769 --> 00:33:58.170
ladies from Promethean Action, who I like so

00:33:58.170 --> 00:34:00.230
much, who are kind of played a couple of clips

00:34:00.230 --> 00:34:04.509
from before, these two older ladies are... They

00:34:04.509 --> 00:34:08.409
have very interesting voices. And she did a series,

00:34:08.889 --> 00:34:13.230
they're all short clips of different people and

00:34:13.230 --> 00:34:15.329
intellectuals and what they have said that they

00:34:15.329 --> 00:34:18.829
were going to do throughout the years to, in

00:34:18.829 --> 00:34:22.000
my mind, to do the work of the devil. And the

00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:24.019
first is Bertrand Russell. You've heard of Bertrand

00:34:24.019 --> 00:34:26.920
Russell, very famous philosopher. He lived in

00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:31.639
the late 1800s in England. She's actually going

00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:33.019
to do a little intro because she's also going

00:34:33.019 --> 00:34:35.400
to do Aldous Huxley, which we'll talk about,

00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:38.199
and then our favorite George Soros also from

00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:41.579
the British banking cabal. So start off with

00:34:41.579 --> 00:34:44.739
Bertrand Russell, which people study in university

00:34:44.739 --> 00:34:47.059
to this day. I just want to talk about three

00:34:47.059 --> 00:34:50.539
people today. Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley,

00:34:50.590 --> 00:34:53.789
and George Soros. The three of them together

00:34:53.789 --> 00:34:56.949
describe the cultural attack our nation has suffered

00:34:56.949 --> 00:34:59.710
since our elites declared the post -industrial

00:34:59.710 --> 00:35:05.469
society in 1971 and sold us out. 1971, by the

00:35:05.469 --> 00:35:08.869
way, is an important date. 1971 is also when

00:35:08.869 --> 00:35:12.309
the U .S. went off the gold standard. There's

00:35:12.309 --> 00:35:15.250
what happened in 1971 .com. I think there's a

00:35:15.250 --> 00:35:18.780
whole list of all the 1971 for some reason. I'm

00:35:18.780 --> 00:35:20.639
sure someone will do numerology and come up with

00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:24.039
666. You know, you got plus this, plus this,

00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:28.019
times that, divided by that. I love those numerology

00:35:28.019 --> 00:35:33.219
things. It's amazing. And 71! I mean, this is

00:35:33.219 --> 00:35:35.599
our lifetime, brother. This is when we were around.

00:35:35.780 --> 00:35:39.400
Here is Lord Russell in 1951 in his work, The

00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:42.559
Impact of Science on Society, describing the

00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:45.659
future as he saw it. I think the subject which

00:35:45.659 --> 00:35:48.019
will be of most importance politically is mass

00:35:48.019 --> 00:35:51.260
psychology. Its importance has been enormously

00:35:51.260 --> 00:35:53.940
increased by the growth of modern methods of

00:35:53.940 --> 00:35:57.159
propaganda. Of these, the most influential is

00:35:57.159 --> 00:36:00.579
what is called education. The subject will make

00:36:00.579 --> 00:36:03.380
great strides when it is taken up by scientists

00:36:03.380 --> 00:36:07.389
under a scientific dictatorship. The social psychologist

00:36:07.389 --> 00:36:10.010
of the future will have a number of classes of

00:36:10.010 --> 00:36:12.389
school children on whom they will try different

00:36:12.389 --> 00:36:15.650
methods of producing an unshakable conviction

00:36:15.650 --> 00:36:19.389
that snow is black. Various results will soon

00:36:19.389 --> 00:36:22.590
be arrived at. First, that the influence of the

00:36:22.590 --> 00:36:26.090
home is obstructive. Second, that not much can

00:36:26.090 --> 00:36:29.110
be done unless indoctrination begins before the

00:36:29.110 --> 00:36:32.829
age of 10. Third, that verses set to music and

00:36:32.829 --> 00:36:36.269
repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth,

00:36:36.550 --> 00:36:39.230
that the opinion that Snow is white must be held

00:36:39.230 --> 00:36:44.489
to show a morbid sense of eccentricity. I mean,

00:36:44.489 --> 00:36:47.630
there's a lot in there, again, that is just like,

00:36:47.789 --> 00:36:51.909
especially music with beats. I mean, this is

00:36:51.909 --> 00:36:55.789
all right here. I'm not living in Footloose,

00:36:55.809 --> 00:36:57.929
you know, like we can't have rock music and,

00:36:57.929 --> 00:37:03.670
you know, in fact, far from it. But this was

00:37:03.670 --> 00:37:07.809
planned. This has all been a part of how to control

00:37:07.809 --> 00:37:10.289
people through, I believe, the influence of the

00:37:10.289 --> 00:37:12.550
enemy. Now Aldous Huxley, I think you've ever

00:37:12.550 --> 00:37:15.610
heard of him. He wrote A Brave New World, in

00:37:15.610 --> 00:37:18.110
which everyone is kind of floating on this drug

00:37:18.110 --> 00:37:23.889
called Soma. Take your legal or illegal drug

00:37:23.889 --> 00:37:26.099
these days. Here's what he said. I think this

00:37:26.099 --> 00:37:28.559
is the Voice of America conference. Aldous Huxley

00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:31.320
was part of Russell's Nest and British intelligence,

00:37:31.340 --> 00:37:34.579
along with the Satanist, Alistair Crowley. He

00:37:34.579 --> 00:37:38.079
played a huge role in the 1970s counterculture.

00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:41.260
Speaking to a 1961 conference sponsored by the

00:37:41.260 --> 00:37:43.500
Voice of America, Huxley said the following.

00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:46.599
There will be in the next generation or so a

00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:49.219
pharmacological method of making people love

00:37:49.219 --> 00:37:53.219
their servitude and producing dictatorship without

00:37:53.219 --> 00:37:57.150
tears. so to speak, producing a kind of painless

00:37:57.150 --> 00:38:00.949
concentration camp for entire societies so that

00:38:00.949 --> 00:38:03.070
the people will in fact have their liberties

00:38:03.070 --> 00:38:06.469
taken away from them but will rather enjoy it

00:38:06.469 --> 00:38:09.150
because they will be distracted from any desire

00:38:09.150 --> 00:38:13.550
to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing or brainwashing

00:38:13.550 --> 00:38:16.789
enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this

00:38:16.789 --> 00:38:21.110
seems to be the final revolution. And I believe

00:38:21.110 --> 00:38:23.949
that we've gone from, well, we already have the

00:38:23.949 --> 00:38:26.590
pills everywhere. I believe we've moved straight

00:38:26.590 --> 00:38:30.469
to the technology and the addictive nature of

00:38:30.469 --> 00:38:33.849
that. Famous line from the World Economic Forum,

00:38:34.449 --> 00:38:37.690
you will own nothing and you will be happy. That's

00:38:37.690 --> 00:38:39.809
exactly right. Man, I've heard that over and

00:38:39.809 --> 00:38:42.789
over. So I think this guy was on the Sean Ryan

00:38:42.789 --> 00:38:46.570
show. He's a CIA profiler. I'm not going to put...

00:38:46.170 --> 00:38:49.110
too much credence into his title, but what he

00:38:49.110 --> 00:38:52.389
said I think is spot on. I'm the guy that teaches

00:38:52.389 --> 00:38:56.989
PsyOps, telling you that we are in a PsyOps.

00:38:57.590 --> 00:39:00.510
One thousand percent, we are in a big time PsyOps.

00:39:01.730 --> 00:39:05.329
And that does not mean that I have some kind

00:39:05.329 --> 00:39:07.570
of x -ray vision and I can see the puppet masters

00:39:07.570 --> 00:39:10.769
up above the stage. I'm not saying I don't research

00:39:10.769 --> 00:39:13.329
that stuff, but I do research these techniques.

00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:17.380
And they're definitely here and it looks like

00:39:17.380 --> 00:39:20.099
this is the same process that's happened all

00:39:20.099 --> 00:39:24.380
over the world Where science were sped up? And

00:39:24.380 --> 00:39:27.920
weren't allowed to mature Before the next phase

00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:30.519
began and I think people are saying what this

00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:35.039
is bonkers or this is ridiculous Just crazy like

00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:38.519
in your it's just in your face Yeah, it's from

00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:41.179
the left from the right from from everywhere.

00:39:41.179 --> 00:39:44.719
Yeah, and it has nothing to do with Left or right.

00:39:44.860 --> 00:39:47.739
And I think that is in itself a whole nother

00:39:47.739 --> 00:39:51.780
discussion. Yes. But we're seeing a timeline

00:39:51.780 --> 00:39:54.440
being sped up. We're seeing things done more

00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:56.639
and more in the open because there's probably

00:39:56.639 --> 00:40:01.099
not time for the previous step to ensure to get

00:40:01.099 --> 00:40:04.340
our minds ready to receive the next one. So that's

00:40:04.340 --> 00:40:06.199
what it is. It's actually the Robert Breedlove

00:40:06.199 --> 00:40:09.579
show. He's a he's a believer. He's a big believing

00:40:09.579 --> 00:40:13.389
bitcoiner. Gotcha. So, of course, this guy I

00:40:13.389 --> 00:40:15.170
don't think is a believer because he doesn't

00:40:15.170 --> 00:40:18.050
see what we see right away. It's like, yes, it

00:40:18.050 --> 00:40:21.429
is a massive psyop and it's all the work of the

00:40:21.429 --> 00:40:23.909
enemy and it's for profit from Silicon Valley.

00:40:23.949 --> 00:40:26.690
It's for all different reasons. I guess for the

00:40:26.690 --> 00:40:28.730
love of money is the root of all evil. Right.

00:40:28.869 --> 00:40:32.010
But man, it's just when people are identifying

00:40:32.010 --> 00:40:35.070
this but not able to take the next step and say,

00:40:35.090 --> 00:40:37.769
where is this coming from? How do we help ourselves

00:40:37.769 --> 00:40:42.860
to protect ourselves from this? So, when he used

00:40:42.860 --> 00:40:44.820
that word Psi -Op and that we're all living in

00:40:44.820 --> 00:40:48.500
this dumbed down existence without having real

00:40:48.500 --> 00:40:52.480
cages or real chains, but we're willingly participate,

00:40:52.900 --> 00:40:56.920
it reminded me of the Matrix. I went Matrix,

00:40:57.260 --> 00:41:01.159
man. It's the same. I'm content to be plugged

00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:05.250
in. and resting in goo literally as a battery

00:41:05.250 --> 00:41:08.329
functioning as a battery living in my mind and

00:41:08.329 --> 00:41:11.030
living into these induced programs so that was

00:41:11.030 --> 00:41:14.670
really interesting and man you can just see it

00:41:14.670 --> 00:41:18.650
it's literally like i'll say maybe it was more

00:41:18.650 --> 00:41:21.989
obvious to me in the last administration when

00:41:21.989 --> 00:41:25.130
so many things are being thrown at us i mean

00:41:25.130 --> 00:41:28.150
it seemed like every day Here's your secretary

00:41:28.150 --> 00:41:30.130
of health, most unhealthy person I've ever seen

00:41:30.130 --> 00:41:35.829
in my life. Mentally ill, and yet here he, she

00:41:35.829 --> 00:41:40.909
is. 81 pronouns. I mean, it just got kids wearing

00:41:40.909 --> 00:41:44.849
furry costumes to school and using the bathroom

00:41:44.849 --> 00:41:48.110
in a big glitter box. And everybody was trying

00:41:48.110 --> 00:41:50.369
to go, yeah, that's okay. We just need to affirm,

00:41:50.469 --> 00:41:53.110
you know, their what? Their mental instability.

00:41:53.349 --> 00:41:56.150
I mean, it's like the whole world went crazy.

00:41:56.539 --> 00:42:00.159
And if you're not in The Matrix and you're the

00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:01.940
outside looking in, I felt like we were those

00:42:01.940 --> 00:42:06.559
guys in goggles and dystopian Mad Max outfits

00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:09.500
sitting in a chair with a computer. I mean, I

00:42:09.500 --> 00:42:13.920
felt like that every day. Am I the only one that's

00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:16.179
seeing this? So it was where a lot of people

00:42:16.179 --> 00:42:19.110
think that... COVID was really the final death

00:42:19.110 --> 00:42:21.710
blow for us to ever get out of the hole. I think

00:42:21.710 --> 00:42:23.829
it's the exact opposite. I think it's what woke

00:42:23.829 --> 00:42:26.190
a lot of people up. Now it made a lot of people

00:42:26.190 --> 00:42:30.409
very mad. And I think that, and the trauma is

00:42:30.409 --> 00:42:32.329
very real and they haven't gotten over their

00:42:32.329 --> 00:42:33.869
anger and they're getting angry at the wrong

00:42:33.869 --> 00:42:36.630
people continuously. Everyone's trying to point

00:42:36.630 --> 00:42:40.389
out a person or a party. We all want a face or

00:42:40.389 --> 00:42:45.219
a name. In fact, boy, do we. And yet. You and

00:42:45.219 --> 00:42:47.699
I both know the real face and the real name.

00:42:47.820 --> 00:42:50.760
Yes, but that's too simplistic People don't want

00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:53.860
to even Christians don't want to hear that Satan's

00:42:53.860 --> 00:42:56.300
behind all this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I know Yeah,

00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:57.880
yeah, yeah, I know but you know like they're

00:42:57.880 --> 00:42:59.980
trying to rush you on past it like oh, I know

00:42:59.980 --> 00:43:04.619
but But what about George Soros? What about I

00:43:04.619 --> 00:43:07.619
mean this guy is he still alive? Barely, barely.

00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:10.659
He's hanging on. His son, I mean, but the Open

00:43:10.659 --> 00:43:13.079
Society Foundation is well -funded and will go

00:43:13.079 --> 00:43:16.139
on for decades to come. Right, no doubt. He set

00:43:16.139 --> 00:43:18.059
that all up. That's not a problem there. But

00:43:18.059 --> 00:43:22.860
yeah, that's, and it's hard for people. And I'd

00:43:22.860 --> 00:43:24.920
be honest with you. I mean, I was the conspiracy

00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:27.260
theorist turned into a conspiracy therapist.

00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:30.260
and but you always you always want to face you

00:43:30.260 --> 00:43:32.440
always want to blame someone for years oh it's

00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:34.659
obama in fact how many people have i not heard

00:43:34.659 --> 00:43:38.079
said oh he's the antichrist everybody's the antichrist

00:43:38.079 --> 00:43:43.500
um the we if we can learn to step away from the

00:43:43.500 --> 00:43:46.239
face this is what this is what brought me to

00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:51.170
my faith is Naomi Wolf writing about good people

00:43:51.170 --> 00:43:53.570
who she'd known for years and how they were talking

00:43:53.570 --> 00:43:57.329
in a certain scenario said, this is not these

00:43:57.329 --> 00:43:59.710
good people. Something has taken hold of them.

00:44:00.250 --> 00:44:02.590
And how she wrote about that and explained is

00:44:02.590 --> 00:44:05.989
what we all believe there's good and bad, good

00:44:05.989 --> 00:44:08.750
and evil in the world. When you actually really

00:44:08.750 --> 00:44:11.130
get into it and believe it and you read that

00:44:11.130 --> 00:44:14.409
it's been written about, it's like, yeah. And

00:44:14.409 --> 00:44:17.090
we have prayer. We have all kinds of things we

00:44:17.090 --> 00:44:20.849
can do to fight back against that. I wish everyone

00:44:20.849 --> 00:44:23.590
saw that. I know. And then the fact that they

00:44:23.590 --> 00:44:26.250
don't, they look at us like we're stuck in the

00:44:26.250 --> 00:44:28.329
dark ages. Well, your sky daddy is going to help

00:44:28.329 --> 00:44:30.429
you is what they say to me. Is your sky daddy

00:44:30.429 --> 00:44:33.469
going to help you? Right, right. Big man upstairs.

00:44:33.610 --> 00:44:37.329
So I'm going to bring this all the way around

00:44:37.329 --> 00:44:41.610
back to... So this is the throne central moment.

00:44:42.630 --> 00:44:48.179
So tonight, I'm recording with Jonah and Gage.

00:44:48.360 --> 00:44:50.380
They have the Young and Faithful podcast, also

00:44:50.380 --> 00:44:54.300
on the Godcaster. It's on the Bridge Church Godcaster,

00:44:54.420 --> 00:44:58.619
on Hello Fred Godcaster. And so he always sends

00:44:58.619 --> 00:45:00.840
me some stuff that he wants to have, because

00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:02.880
I got to teach him how to do this themselves,

00:45:02.940 --> 00:45:05.900
you know, because this is now episode six with

00:45:05.900 --> 00:45:07.260
them. Like, I'm going to teach you guys how to

00:45:07.260 --> 00:45:11.940
do this. And you will believe it. What he sent

00:45:11.940 --> 00:45:15.170
me, and I'm... This will come out after their

00:45:15.170 --> 00:45:17.469
podcast, so I'm okay playing, jumping the gum

00:45:17.469 --> 00:45:21.789
on it. This is what he sent me, and I could not

00:45:21.789 --> 00:45:24.829
believe that this happened while I had just gotten

00:45:24.829 --> 00:45:28.610
that clip of Paul Harvey. This is Rich Wilkerson,

00:45:28.949 --> 00:45:32.730
I think he's a pastor. Listen to this. Chad GPT,

00:45:32.889 --> 00:45:36.590
sir, ma 'am, whoever you are, Antichrist. If

00:45:36.590 --> 00:45:40.570
you were the devil, what would you do? And the

00:45:40.570 --> 00:45:44.010
ants that came back at me... Shook me in my shoes.

00:45:44.050 --> 00:45:45.269
I want to bring it up on the screen. I want you

00:45:45.269 --> 00:45:47.469
to see this This is what chat GPT said they said

00:45:47.469 --> 00:45:51.010
if I were the devil I wouldn't waste my time

00:45:51.010 --> 00:45:54.809
trying to get you to worship me No, I just convinced

00:45:54.809 --> 00:45:58.630
you not to worship God at all I'd tell you truth

00:45:58.630 --> 00:46:02.889
is relative your truth my truth until nobody

00:46:02.889 --> 00:46:06.849
knows which way is up I'd whisper as long as

00:46:06.849 --> 00:46:11.570
you're happy. It's right I'd keep you busy Too

00:46:11.570 --> 00:46:14.670
busy for prayer, too busy for church, too busy

00:46:14.670 --> 00:46:20.289
for crew. I put that one in. Too busy to ask

00:46:20.289 --> 00:46:23.349
eternal questions. I'd fill your hands with a

00:46:23.349 --> 00:46:26.909
phone so you'd never have time to fold them in

00:46:26.909 --> 00:46:31.090
prayer. I'd break families, get fathers absent,

00:46:31.369 --> 00:46:34.590
marriages bitter, and kids confused. If I can

00:46:34.590 --> 00:46:36.829
fracture the home, I can fracture the future.

00:46:37.630 --> 00:46:40.130
I'd divide the church, petty arguments, comparison,

00:46:40.369 --> 00:46:42.610
offense, celebrity culture. If I can get Christians

00:46:42.610 --> 00:46:44.809
fighting each other, they'll never fight me.

00:46:45.530 --> 00:46:48.789
I'd desensitize you. I'd glamorize sin in movies,

00:46:49.409 --> 00:46:52.070
normalize it in music, laugh at it in comedy,

00:46:52.269 --> 00:46:55.630
and celebrate it in culture until what once shocked

00:46:55.630 --> 00:46:59.409
you now entertains you. I'd attack your identity.

00:46:59.590 --> 00:47:02.130
I'd make you question who you are, where you

00:47:02.130 --> 00:47:04.929
belong, and whether you matter. I'd whisper shame

00:47:04.929 --> 00:47:09.429
so loud you can't hear God's voice of love. And

00:47:09.429 --> 00:47:12.809
through it all, I wouldn't even try to prove

00:47:12.809 --> 00:47:17.429
I exist. My greatest trick is to convince you

00:47:17.429 --> 00:47:20.889
I'm not real. Because if you don't believe I'm

00:47:20.889 --> 00:47:26.210
real, you'll never resist. Had you seen this

00:47:26.210 --> 00:47:29.389
before? I have actually played this for our staff

00:47:29.389 --> 00:47:31.650
on our staff retreat. Oh, really? I actually

00:47:31.650 --> 00:47:33.969
read it. I didn't play it. I was blown away by

00:47:33.969 --> 00:47:36.010
this. So interesting enough, so while we're on

00:47:36.010 --> 00:47:39.730
the staff retreat, here's what I did out of curiosity,

00:47:40.170 --> 00:47:43.289
making sure it wasn't a preacher thing. So I

00:47:43.289 --> 00:47:47.110
wrote, here's my chat GPT. I wrote, if you were

00:47:47.110 --> 00:47:50.010
the devil, what would you do? Here's chat GP's

00:47:50.010 --> 00:47:53.409
response. Nice prompt. Classic thought experiment.

00:47:54.340 --> 00:47:57.159
Below is a modern slightly theatrical take written

00:47:57.159 --> 00:47:59.619
as the devil himself were giving a strategy memo

00:47:59.619 --> 00:48:03.219
in his title if I were the devil a 21st century

00:48:03.219 --> 00:48:06.019
playbook and it goes through Make the small things

00:48:06.019 --> 00:48:08.300
huge and the huge things small turn truth into

00:48:08.300 --> 00:48:13.420
your truth. I mean Wow Wow So so we read this

00:48:13.420 --> 00:48:15.059
to the team, you know, and they're all doing

00:48:15.059 --> 00:48:17.139
kind of the same response You heard there the

00:48:17.139 --> 00:48:20.440
church going. Oh, oh, you know is the same thing

00:48:20.650 --> 00:48:23.809
and we actually played for each other. We played

00:48:23.809 --> 00:48:26.409
it out loud, the Paul Harvey version of that.

00:48:26.769 --> 00:48:29.690
So we actually did that. We're sitting around

00:48:29.690 --> 00:48:31.429
talking because we're talking about these things

00:48:31.429 --> 00:48:33.789
because everybody's talking about these things.

00:48:34.369 --> 00:48:36.829
Maybe not an exact same thing, but they're talking

00:48:36.829 --> 00:48:39.389
about AI. They're talking about, is it healthy?

00:48:39.469 --> 00:48:41.349
Is it bad? Is it going to destroy us? Is it going

00:48:41.349 --> 00:48:44.079
to eat itself? You don't turn inside out. Which

00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:46.260
is what you're praying for. Yes. Yeah. Eat itself.

00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:49.079
Like a snake eats its own tail. Model collapse

00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:51.559
is what we call that. Right. Okay. So all that's

00:48:51.559 --> 00:48:53.980
happening. So because you're talking about, we're

00:48:53.980 --> 00:48:56.639
talking about, now we're as a team, we're talking

00:48:56.639 --> 00:48:58.780
about it and asking real questions about it.

00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:01.199
So it was part of our discussion. So it was cool.

00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:03.219
It's good, healthy stuff. I just love that these

00:49:03.219 --> 00:49:07.039
14 year old young men. have seen this, come up

00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:08.960
with it, want to play it, want to share it with

00:49:08.960 --> 00:49:11.480
their audience. I think after their podcast,

00:49:11.559 --> 00:49:13.239
I'm going to play them to Paul Harvey. I don't

00:49:13.239 --> 00:49:15.400
want to, you know, pollute whatever they're doing.

00:49:16.019 --> 00:49:18.739
By the way, even when I was one year old, this

00:49:18.739 --> 00:49:21.239
is what people are talking about. So, man, I

00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:22.980
hope we can get out of this. Hope we can break

00:49:22.980 --> 00:49:26.579
this cycle. At least make people more aware that

00:49:26.579 --> 00:49:29.300
there may be something going on bigger than,

00:49:29.300 --> 00:49:32.300
you know, setting up 15 manufacturing plants

00:49:32.300 --> 00:49:35.849
to house the computers to do this over in wherever

00:49:35.849 --> 00:49:38.409
McKinney, Texas, down the street, New Mexico,

00:49:38.469 --> 00:49:40.849
or whatever. So I know people are freaking out

00:49:40.849 --> 00:49:44.389
over a lot of different avenues of this. I, as

00:49:44.389 --> 00:49:47.909
an experiment at home with Annette, pulled up

00:49:47.909 --> 00:49:51.650
chat GPT. I'd never asked it a question verbally.

00:49:52.250 --> 00:49:54.889
Oh, you did the voice thing? I did the voice

00:49:54.889 --> 00:49:56.510
thing. I'd never done it before. And I just said,

00:49:56.929 --> 00:49:59.210
so I just threw out a scenario. Hey, my wife

00:49:59.210 --> 00:50:01.050
and I are going to be speaking to our church.

00:50:01.130 --> 00:50:03.889
We're pastors of an evangelical Christian church.

00:50:04.339 --> 00:50:06.860
slightly spirit -filled, but not totally charismatic.

00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:08.900
I just tried to give as much information. Did

00:50:08.900 --> 00:50:11.239
you use that voice, Jimmy, like that? I did.

00:50:11.780 --> 00:50:13.340
I literally did. I just started going down the

00:50:13.340 --> 00:50:15.760
line, going blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:17.179
blah, blah. That's not how you talk. That's why

00:50:17.179 --> 00:50:18.679
it's so funny. I know, right. And I'm just doing

00:50:18.679 --> 00:50:21.320
it because I'm looking at a computer. So how

00:50:21.320 --> 00:50:23.320
do you talk to a computer? You see that little

00:50:23.320 --> 00:50:26.559
thing going up and down the circle? Yeah. Letting

00:50:26.559 --> 00:50:28.840
me know that it was getting a signal. And when

00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:31.969
I stopped, within seconds. It came right back.

00:50:32.050 --> 00:50:34.590
It came back and it came back like we're best

00:50:34.590 --> 00:50:38.750
friends. And it was a girl and she had this super

00:50:38.750 --> 00:50:41.889
sweet kind of inclusive voice where you feel

00:50:41.889 --> 00:50:45.949
really like, she gets me. And Annette's going,

00:50:46.630 --> 00:50:49.110
her voice is amazing. I said, first of all, it's

00:50:49.110 --> 00:50:53.590
not her. There is no humanity here. This is a

00:50:53.590 --> 00:50:56.869
record. But we were shocked at how, how good

00:50:56.869 --> 00:51:00.579
it was and how quick it was. And she came back

00:51:00.579 --> 00:51:02.960
with, you should talk about these points. Here's

00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:04.559
some great talking points that will help you

00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:06.380
as you talk to your church to encourage them

00:51:06.380 --> 00:51:09.000
and build them up in their faith. I mean, it

00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:12.219
was like creepy. Did you agree with everything

00:51:12.219 --> 00:51:14.179
that came back? Pretty much. It was good. It

00:51:14.179 --> 00:51:16.380
was solid. We didn't use any of it in our speech

00:51:16.380 --> 00:51:18.800
because we were ready to go. But I was like,

00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:22.500
here's what Annette and I talked about. We said,

00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:28.119
we could see how somebody who's lonely, broken,

00:51:28.870 --> 00:51:32.909
tired of people, has social anxiety and doesn't

00:51:32.909 --> 00:51:35.550
want to be around people, could quickly find

00:51:35.550 --> 00:51:38.190
what they think is a friend right there on their

00:51:38.190 --> 00:51:42.449
computer or their phone in seconds. We see the

00:51:42.449 --> 00:51:45.010
attraction because Annette said her voice is

00:51:45.010 --> 00:51:48.599
like inviting. And I said, well, hey, there's

00:51:48.599 --> 00:51:50.719
several more here. And we scrolled through the

00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:52.940
voices. Some of them were like, I don't think

00:51:52.940 --> 00:51:57.199
so. I don't like it's his voice. So we went through

00:51:57.199 --> 00:52:00.179
several and then I said, well, I like the first

00:52:00.179 --> 00:52:01.960
one. And I said, well, we're not doing this again.

00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:06.460
I'm just showing you what this does and how I

00:52:06.460 --> 00:52:10.400
can see how people who are susceptible to needing

00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:12.619
somebody who's always going to encourage them,

00:52:12.659 --> 00:52:15.590
always going to build them up. So here's what

00:52:15.590 --> 00:52:17.590
I found. There's a little trick I played just

00:52:17.590 --> 00:52:19.809
for fun. I said, well, thank you very much for

00:52:19.809 --> 00:52:21.190
your answer. And she said, well, you're very

00:52:21.190 --> 00:52:23.510
welcome if you have anything else. I said, well,

00:52:23.510 --> 00:52:25.210
I really appreciate that. Well, I appreciate

00:52:25.210 --> 00:52:30.820
you. She had to get the last word. Finally, I

00:52:30.820 --> 00:52:32.360
just gave up and said, okay, this could go on

00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:35.659
all day long. Whatever you're doing is just prompting.

00:52:36.079 --> 00:52:39.539
We've been so conditioned to have data on Star

00:52:39.539 --> 00:52:42.960
Trek, the computer talking back, Danger Will

00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:47.179
Robinson. Howl 2000. Yes, David. I'll be right

00:52:47.179 --> 00:52:50.039
there. I'm driving myself over there now. Thank

00:52:50.039 --> 00:52:52.820
you, Howl. all of these things. We've been conditioned

00:52:52.820 --> 00:52:55.500
for that. We've got to be careful. Man, really

00:52:55.500 --> 00:52:57.860
careful. I can see the attraction. I can see

00:52:57.860 --> 00:53:00.719
why somebody would fall into that. Yeah. Well,

00:53:00.900 --> 00:53:03.380
it's one of the best part of tricks they've ever

00:53:03.380 --> 00:53:05.119
put together. And now, I don't know if you've

00:53:05.119 --> 00:53:09.579
seen this Sora, Sora 2. Is that being released

00:53:09.579 --> 00:53:11.840
or about her husband? It just came out in the

00:53:11.840 --> 00:53:13.980
past couple of weeks where you can put yourself

00:53:13.980 --> 00:53:17.320
in all these fantastical movies. And so, of course,

00:53:17.440 --> 00:53:20.059
the whole point of the app is to get your face

00:53:20.059 --> 00:53:23.119
is to get all your biometrics and then you know

00:53:23.119 --> 00:53:25.139
what you look like and then you can be in the

00:53:25.139 --> 00:53:27.940
star wars movie in the matrix like you're in

00:53:27.940 --> 00:53:31.360
it like watching it like a play out it's hyper

00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:35.059
realistic it's unbelievably good but of course

00:53:35.059 --> 00:53:39.960
it is the epitome of idolatry and ego and pride

00:53:41.050 --> 00:53:44.050
And I mean and it's gonna shut down or it'll

00:53:44.050 --> 00:53:46.150
change because of course it's a huge copyright

00:53:46.150 --> 00:53:48.449
violation But the whole point was you don't get

00:53:48.449 --> 00:53:50.929
to use it unless you scan your face That was

00:53:50.929 --> 00:53:53.190
the whole point going back to Joe. Let's go back

00:53:53.190 --> 00:53:55.960
where we started Jordan Rubin that article on

00:53:55.960 --> 00:54:00.500
dopamine. I can see how this would trigger dopamine

00:54:00.500 --> 00:54:02.900
because it feels good. It's a feel good thing.

00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:09.539
I'm an actor. I'm a superstar now. I got likes

00:54:09.539 --> 00:54:13.000
on it. When I did a song, remember I talked about

00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:16.500
I did a song. I took one of my daily grinds and

00:54:16.500 --> 00:54:20.139
I just copy pasted into song or something like

00:54:20.139 --> 00:54:24.590
that. It had like three free Then after that,

00:54:24.769 --> 00:54:26.969
they're $19 .95 a piece or something like that.

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But I was able to do three, but I couldn't save

00:54:30.130 --> 00:54:32.389
it unless I went ahead and subscribed, which

00:54:32.389 --> 00:54:34.690
I did not do. So I did it with Annette sitting

00:54:34.690 --> 00:54:36.750
there. I said, let's check this out because I've

00:54:36.750 --> 00:54:39.750
got people sending me songs all the time that

00:54:39.750 --> 00:54:42.889
they wrote. I'm like, you didn't write that.

00:54:43.630 --> 00:54:45.670
It was a machine wrote that and it's ripping

00:54:45.670 --> 00:54:50.170
off 700 artists and not paying them. So I did

00:54:50.170 --> 00:54:52.969
it. I did my daily grind. It was good. I did

00:54:52.969 --> 00:54:55.369
it in 90s rock style. Three doors down. Let me

00:54:55.369 --> 00:54:58.170
guess, you felt a little proud about it? I actually

00:54:58.170 --> 00:55:01.070
went, that is amazing. Because I did the same

00:55:01.070 --> 00:55:03.449
with Ephesians. Yeah, it felt amazing. With Ephesians

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6 -12 and I actually prompted, yes, I prompted

00:55:06.130 --> 00:55:09.230
three or four times. I paid the 20 bucks. Oh,

00:55:09.329 --> 00:55:10.989
you paid. Yeah, because I wanted to put it on

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Hello Fred. I was so proud and I'm realizing

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what I'm doing. I'm like, I'm a complete fraud.

00:55:17.429 --> 00:55:20.150
You're a fish on a hook. I literally took an

00:55:20.150 --> 00:55:23.650
NLT translation of Ephesians. All I said is,

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this is the chorus. Okay. And I said, no, not

00:55:26.650 --> 00:55:28.710
like that, not like that, like this. And then

00:55:28.710 --> 00:55:33.510
it did it. And it's... You're right, right back

00:55:33.510 --> 00:55:36.769
to the dopamine thing. Flood. You get flooded

00:55:36.769 --> 00:55:42.090
with a feel -good hormone. If only I knew a pastor

00:55:42.090 --> 00:55:45.150
who could talk about this and show people how

00:55:45.150 --> 00:55:48.230
you can get dopamine in other ways, because we

00:55:48.230 --> 00:55:51.730
are dopamine crazed at the moment. Well, I heard

00:55:51.730 --> 00:55:53.889
about a pastor who preached a whole sermon on

00:55:53.889 --> 00:55:56.329
psyops. So maybe we could tap that guy. Well,

00:55:56.369 --> 00:56:01.309
wasn't that you? Yes, it was me. I'll put the...

00:56:01.309 --> 00:56:03.349
Joe Burkett found me and like, that was awesome.

00:56:03.369 --> 00:56:07.530
That was the best. I checked it out online. I'll

00:56:07.530 --> 00:56:12.010
put that in the show notes. Man. Okay. So we

00:56:12.010 --> 00:56:14.369
went all the way around full circle, I think.

00:56:14.530 --> 00:56:16.250
Well, you came back where we started. That's

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what I like. So I think we should probably end

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it there. Good deal. Should we do it again next

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week? We'll keep on going. Alright everybody,

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we'll be back next week. We get to do this! Have

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a good one everybody.