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Father God, we honor you today and what we do

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and we're thankful for those who will hear this.

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Lord bless them, encourage them, lift them up,

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build them up. That's our heart for people. And

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Lord, give us words to say it would bring life

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and encouragement to everyone. Father, our heart

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means this, that we get to do this and we honor

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you in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. It's Wednesday,

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January 21st, 2026. We get to do this. This is

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episode number 19. Hey, brother. Brother, it's

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true. We do get to do this. We get to do this.

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I know I'll wear this thing out. I'm just like

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beating a dead horse, but it's true. I love it.

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I hear it. It really is true. Sunday you're preaching

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and I'm like, he's promoting the podcast. We

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get to do this. Oh, there he goes promoting the

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podcast again. Shameless. Shameless. I love it.

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I love it. I love it. It's because we believe

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in what we're doing. If I didn't believe in this,

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this was just like a fun side thing. You'd never

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hear about it, but I really believe that what

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we're doing on here matters. Oh, 100%. And so,

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and it's helping people because we're getting

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feedback. People are writing and... Well, the

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best is when I come into church Sunday and people

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are like, hey, you know, this is what you pass

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to Jimmy and blah, blah, blah about this and

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talk about that and blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Yeah.

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It's nice. It's really, really nice. And since

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I haven't been able to talk about it on the show

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because I was restricted, you know, my First

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Amendment rights were thwarted, I'm going to

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be a grandpop. Oh, there you go. Okay. Now it's

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official. You can talk about it. Yeah, I can.

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Where are you going with this? Did I tell him

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he could say that on the air? No, no, no, no,

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no. Nothing is off limits. No. So I'll just tell

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the story because I haven't been able to tell

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anybody. So my daughter Christina and her, I

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call him the fiance because they will get married,

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although I've not received any requests as such.

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I could marry them over Zoom. Oh, man. We could

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get that done. I love it. We can get it done.

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I'm going to tell her that. That would be a first

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for me, by the way. That would be pretty awesome.

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So they came to visit us for the holidays, and

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they came in like 730, 8 o 'clock at night. They

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had a long flight, and then they just drive from

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Austin. So they're just hanging out. We're having

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a little... I think, actually, we gave them something

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to eat. And the Christina said, well, I have

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to give you one of your Christmas presents now.

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We're like, well, why don't you just wait until

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Christmas? No, no, no. So we had to close our

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eyes. And there's lots of shuffling. And I didn't

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know what was going on. I said, OK, you can open

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them. And we each had a t -shirt. with our grandparent

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names on it. Whoa. That's cool. You didn't even

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tell me that. Yeah. And it says, you know, grand

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pop. And then on the back, it says coming July,

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2026. Oh, man. That is awesome. And all of the

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sonogram pictures. And it was just, I mean, that

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is beautiful. And Kevin filmed it. He filmed

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the minute we opened. I love Kevin, by the way.

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He's a good man. He really is. Well, I'm glad

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he has your approval. I'm not texting anybody.

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Yes, you are. I'm officially an old dude now.

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I've got hearing aids. Look, I'm adjusting. You're

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a modern old dude. A modern old dude sits with

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his headphones on and says, excuse me, I'm adjusting

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my hearing aids for the perfect sound. I'm getting

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the right sound for an audio file. I'm still

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taking them out. Would that get the headphones

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on? I like it because, and I have my headphones

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loud as you can see the difference there, but

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I don't know, my ears are then conditioned to

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something else and it sounds fresh and I just

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really, really like it. It sounds good to me

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because it balances the sound out. For example,

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if I don't have them in, I have to compensate.

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And I can't on this shit. No, you can't. No,

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you can't. So it's just better to have them in.

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Everything's balanced. And I can adjust them.

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For those who are wondering, these are the Jabra.

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What is it? 700? Yeah, 700 model. You got that

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right. And we got them just as old mans on. We

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got a deal on them, because they're now, you

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know, 1999. We got them for 1600, didn't we?

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Oh, I didn't know that was up. I didn't know

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they were up that high, but oh, man. We bought

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them together. That's real brotherly love. Brotherly

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love, man. Hey, I want to thank you for your

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daily grind devotional today. You're doing every

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single day, seven days a week, almost 365 a year.

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You might take a couple days off here or there.

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You're lucky with no agenda. It just never stops.

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It basically never stops. I love some alliteration

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with the Jimmy -ism, and you had in here, the

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desert is not a detour. It's part of the calling.

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It's such seasoned self -awareness is grace.

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You want to just explain about this Daily Grind,

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and I'll tell you why it affected me and what

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it meant to me? Yeah, so first of all, I've written

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these things for over 20 years. I've got... Tens

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of thousands of them. I rarely repeat them every

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once in a while if I'm in a bind You and John

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so sometimes I'll dip into the archives but very

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rarely actually I Started doing it as a discipline

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Because I was always reading devotionals. Mm

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-hmm. And one day it dawned on me. Why don't

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I just write one? Yeah Now, I wasn't thinking

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about writing a book. I just meant writing a

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daily, something in the morning to keep my focus,

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which is what a devotional does. It turns out

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it basically is. I'm writing a devotional. It's

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as good for you as it is for the readers. Exactly.

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It is good for me. That's it. My electronic journal

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is full of them, thousands of them. And so I

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write one every day and I've sent it out to friends.

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I put it on social media. What I like about your

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devotionals is because we're friends and we talk

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a lot. I can always see, oh yeah, he probably

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wrote this because of this was going on or this

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headspace or something like that. And I sometimes

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think that our conversations may influence them

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because that's how it felt to me. I didn't actually

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put the scripture in here in my notes. I got

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it right here in front of me. So, it's Luke 4

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-1. I love that passage. I took my own advice

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this morning, Scripture before screens, read

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my Bible. Over here, didn't open anything up.

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I did the roulette thing through the New Testament,

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where you just kind of thumb. Needle drop. Oh

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yeah, I do it all the time. I've got a lot of

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marks in my Bible, so things will pop up. Then

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I was thinking, because I've landed on something

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else. I was like, man, I love that whole scenario

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around the Holy Spirit leading Jesus into the

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wilderness. Whoa, I mean, just boom, came out

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of nowhere, out of nowhere. So I just turned

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over there in my Bible and then I wrote on that

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and things just begin to flow out of me. And

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I do that every day. I mean, I've done it for

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20 plus years. I'm really underselling it. Probably

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30 years, close to 30 years I've been doing it.

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So today I talked about where power is formed

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because of these desert seasons that we all go

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through and everybody goes through them. You

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don't even have to be a Christian and you can

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recognize, man, I'm in a dry season, right? Things

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aren't flowing. My creativity is not happening.

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I'm not getting new ideas. I'm in a funk, you

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know, I don't feel good. I mean, so we all have

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them. The interesting thing is, though, as a

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Christian, a follower of Jesus, we actually realize

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God is using that season to form us. One of my

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mentors, Pastor Kevin York, mentored me for years,

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still does from a distance, but we were dear

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friends for many years, and then life took our

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proximities into different places. And he said

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something to me years ago. I was on the phone.

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I was complaining about something. I was really

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mad. I was leading a church. He's like a big

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time pastor. and you're mentoring young Timothy

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here, Jimmy, like Paul mentoring Timothy, and

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I'm sort of mad about something. He said, Jimmy,

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God is forming a man. And I was like, that's

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it? That's all you got? And he said, and God

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is forming a woman, talking about Annette, because

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we're going through a hard time. And he said,

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Jimmy, this is the anvil of God. That's where

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he's forging a new sword. Thanks, Pastor Kevin.

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So it did make me feel better, but it brought

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clarity to God is forming a man. God is forming

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a woman. And I knew enough about a forge because

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I had a friend that was a blacksmith and he built

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like ornate gates out of iron. And it was a real

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deal forge. He'd take me in there. It's like

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150 degrees in there. right forearm. He looks

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like one of those, you know, arm wrestler guys

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whose right arm is bigger than their other arm.

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That's his hammer arm. His hammer arm. And he,

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he would talk about it. He'd hammer on stuff

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and heat, pressure, and hammer blows, man. That's

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what you do. So yeah, sometimes we're on the

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anvil and it hurts. Well, it spoke to me. Go

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ahead. Go ahead. No, I'm just going to say it

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hurts in the moment, but if you respond well

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and respond rightly to it, it actually produces

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amazing things. I've learned more in my wilderness

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desert seasons than I've ever learned on the

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mountaintop. I almost hate to admit that because

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I'm not looking forward to the next valley, but

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they're a part of life. They're part of it. So

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it spoke to me because I had just been in a desert,

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and several people helped me get out of that,

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you included, and I just wanted to talk about

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my experience a little bit as a new Christian

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who's learning how to use the Word of God. Because

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I had a work situation that was making me very,

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very, very unhappy. And there were some things

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that were happening, and I was ready to thwart

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the advice of 1 Thessalonians 5. I was ready

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to repay evil with evil. I was really, really,

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I was mad. And it's been going on for a while.

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So I'll just read that, 1 Thessalonians 5 .14.

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Brothers and sisters, we urge you to warn those

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who are lazy. Encourage those who are timid.

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Take tender care of those who are weak. Be patient

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with everyone. See that no one pays back evil

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for evil, but always try to do good to each other

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and to all people. Always be joyful. Never stop

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praying. Never stop praying is the only part

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that I kind of took away. I'm like, I'm not joyful.

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I'm thinking about doing evil for evil. as I

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was going through this process, it was really

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got to the point where I really didn't want to

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do this work anymore. And so here comes another,

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you know, this is another scripture that kept

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going through my mind, you cannot serve two masters,

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because I was very worried, like, well, if I

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stop this, God, what am I supposed to do to pay

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the rent? What am I supposed to do to help the

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different people that Tina and I like to help

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with the blessings that we get? You mean you

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were being human? Yes. A human being being human.

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Yes, a human being being human. Those are human

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thoughts. But I get where you're going. But it

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was really difficult because, and what was so

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wonderful, and this is how... Tina who's been

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on this faith journey with me how much she has

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changed So once I told her what was going on

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It's not a new story to her But I've been dealing

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wrestling with it for a couple weeks and didn't

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really want to say anything Because you know

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you in a household. It's like well You know I'm

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thinking of stopping doing this and and so that

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might mean some different things in our life

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And she was so wonderful. She said Take the money

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off the table You got to stop that Take that

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off the table. We'll be provided for no matter

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what happens. And that was very mature, mind

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blowing, mind blowing. She said, you need to

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be joyful in what you're doing and we'll figure

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it out and God will provide for whatever we need.

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And she said, we don't need to travel. I don't

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need this car. You know, we like the house, but

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you know, okay, we'll go live in Jimmy and it's

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backyard. I'm like, okay, now you're taking it

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too far. So I'm kind of saying it out of order

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because I actually spoke to you about it first

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because you came over and the girls were off

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doing something and I just, I'd like, brother,

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I just got to talk to you about something. And

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I laid it down and you were so helpful. First

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of all, you didn't, you know, you didn't solve

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anything. You weren't like, I'm going to tell

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you, oh, here's what you do. Hold on a second.

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Let me, let me, I'm going to pray over you. Let

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me get this scripture. Because you're a friend

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too. But I was approaching you as a friend and

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I think a pastor at the same time because I'm

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really looking towards scripture and a brother.

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Yes, exactly. And because I felt that what I

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was doing, I was not bringing my godly self to

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my job. And you told the story of a friend. I

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don't know if you want to retell it. Can you

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tell, retell that story? Yeah, the short version

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is this. I had a friend, he was in a I started

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this men's Bible study with just a handful of

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guys. We'd go to church on Wednesday night. This

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was back, gosh, a long time ago, probably 2001,

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2000. We'd go to church on Wednesday night, and

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then this four or five of us would go over to…

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I hop and just wolf down some pancakes and then

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go to bed. I mean, back then you could do that.

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I would not even think of doing that now. But

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we always had this great time. We're going through

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this. This one guy, he was a sharp young man,

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brand new Christian. He's probably in his maybe

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early thirties, late twenties, early thirties.

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And he said, hey, Jimmy, can I talk to you about

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something? Sure. He goes, hey, man, you know,

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I'm a new Christian." I said, yeah, I know. I

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saw you get baptized. Amazing. I said, I'm so

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glad you're in this group. He said, I'm learning

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so much. He said, but I'm rusting with something.

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I said, well, he goes, he goes, I work for a

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very well -known and successful beer distributorship.

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And he said, my job is to take beer to all these

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different bars, clubs, venues, stores. And he

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said, and everybody knows me here. And we were

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in West Texas and, you know, He's known in town,

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he's respectable, integrity, sharp. And he said,

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I'm known and I'm liked and I'm successful in

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this business. And he said, I feel like I need

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to quit. I said, for why? Why would you quit?

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You've worked hard to develop that. And he goes,

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but I'm a Christian now and I'm delivering beer.

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I said, well, who told you that was illegal?

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I mean, why do you think that? He goes, why?

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Because it's alcohol and it's beer. And I said,

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look, I said, you're going to make more of an

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impact staying in that job with the gospel that's

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growing in you than you will if you quit and

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then from the outside in start trying to tell

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people about Jesus. I said, you're on the inside,

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brother. I said, you keep doing the same thing

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you're doing unless God tells you not to. I'm

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very clear and careful about that. I don't tell

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people what to do. I said, if God tells you to

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step, you need to step. But if he hasn't told

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you and you're just wrestling, that until you

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know what to do, stay doing what you're doing.

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And I said, you'll be a greater witness. Those

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people already know you. They'll see the difference,

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and you'll honor God with what you do. I said,

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jobs are irrelevant, man. It's just what we do

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to pay the bills. It's who you are that matters.

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And I just let him go and stayed with it. That

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story helped me enormously. And as I thought

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about it and I prayed about it and I realized

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what I got back was, I need to change my heart

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posture. That was the thing. In fact, the next

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day you texted me, you said, you are not who

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you used to be. God can use Adam 2 .0, wherever

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he happens to be, be who you are now, not who

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you were. And you sent me to Corinthians 5 .17.

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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new

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creation. The old has gone, the new has come.

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And what was amazing is I walked into the situation.

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I had changed my heart posture and everything

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came out in a beautiful way, in a very respectful

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way. Things were settled. Because I was also

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reading like, you know, don't go to court with,

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you know, try to settle before you go to court.

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My whole mind was just flipping out and it was

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so wonderful. And I know now, It was really me.

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I had to change myself and I had to let the 2

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.0 come out. So I want to thank you for that.

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And I hope that people hear this because anybody

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in this situation, anybody in the desert, and

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I did, without this desert thing, I actually,

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when I was praying, I'm like, God, are you just

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hammering me here? Are you just forging me on

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the anvil? That's literally what I was thinking

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of without thinking of the desert part. So know

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people, know that it works. This Bible thing,

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this God thing, it's pretty amazing when you

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just get down to it. And I wanted to thank you

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for that. Well, first of all, it's a privilege

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to walk with you as a friend and as a brother.

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That's what we do. And you know what I love is

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that from our various backgrounds and what we've

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learned and what we've both grown in, in our

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various spheres of influence. is we've been able

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to encourage and help each other. I've learned

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so much and the church is now getting the benefit

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of that. Is it okay if I tell our friends that

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you're writing a weekly briefing? It's just so

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cool. I mean, I love this. So I do a weekly briefing

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at my church where I pastor. I've been doing

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this for now a couple of years, two and a half,

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where I just kind of, what's going on right now?

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What's pertinent? what happened this last week

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in the world or in our country or locally, that's

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important and that you need to hear from your

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pastor about and you need to hear from a biblical

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worldview, because there's so many lenses out

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there that we're seeing things through. The grid

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that we get news through is just so tainted,

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so broken, so… agenda or targeted good word.

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I was going to get there eventually. I got a

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lot of words for that, but it's all very slanted,

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obviously. So we want to try to bring news that's

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accurate, but also through the lens and grid

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of the Bible, the Word of God, so that we're

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helping our people step away from the ledge,

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not jump off of it, but step back from the ledge.

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Don't let all this spin you up. That's the point.

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You know, drop your cortisol levels a little

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bit and let's take some strategic and wise looks

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at what's happening through the grid of the Bible.

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When you look at the world scene, all the craziness

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and politics, global issues, wars and rumors

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of wars, economics, all these different things

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that are happening, but you look at it through

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the grid of the Bible in a biblical and Christian

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worldview, You just take a step back and go,

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it's going to be okay. Igbok. It's going to be

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okay. I saw it on a coffee cup in Tennessee one

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time. I thought that was really cool at this

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country place. I'm like, I like that. I stole

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it. So yeah, it's going to be okay. Why? Because

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God has not left the building like Elvis did.

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He's not jumped off the throne. He's still steering

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the ship. But the Bible is clear. some hard things

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have to happen before the end comes, before we

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get to the last of the last days. And it's okay.

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He's the same as he was and same as he is and

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same as he ever will be. So when you read Scripture

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and you read the situation, you can apply them.

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And you asked me to say, oh, can you give me

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a boots on the ground? I wrote one. You said,

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hey, can you do that again? Yeah, I kind of like

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this. I mean, I'm not a writer, actually. And

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so now that we're going to do this, I said, Tina,

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babe, you got to help me with Brevity and Grammar.

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You made me happy when you said, hey, Tina's

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going to help us with grammar and stuff. Grammar

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and Brevity. Yay. Because I love what you're

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bringing though, Adam. I mean, you're bringing

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your experience, your understanding, and lots

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of the boots on the ground guys and gals that

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you know around the world who are contributing

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to this is really what's going on. as opposed

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to what you're hearing in the news, the narratives.

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And when I do this, and I just write it kind

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of on Saturday, I try to focus on really what

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people are seeing. And we had already talked

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about Minneapolis. Right. And, you know, this

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is make no mistake, everything you're seeing

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is political. And wow, it just blew up a couple

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of days ago. And I wanted to discuss this specifically.

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Before I do that, we need to help our listeners,

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our family, our church with some terms. We have

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to make sure we get these right. People talk

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about free speech. I would like everybody who

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I know to get into the habit of saying freedom

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of speech. It's very specific. The First Amendment

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talks about the freedom of speech, not about

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free speech. It's a trick. Interesting. And free

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speech will soon be used somewhere in the future

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to say, well, that's like free isn't free beer.

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It's not the same thing. And words really matter.

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And so we might as well say, not my freedom of

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speech. It's two different things. Oh, that's

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so good. Well, you post on X is free speech.

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It doesn't cost me anything. That's free speech.

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But it's not necessarily freedom of speech. Boy,

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that nuance matters, doesn't it? Well, there's

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two more. This is one that I fall into all the

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time and people remind me. It's Democrat, not

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Democratic. So it's not the Democratic governor.

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It's not the Democratic mayor. It's the Democrat.

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It's the Democrat party. You're right. Words

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matter. They try to make you think that they

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are the people who own democracy, Democratic.

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And you hear it on news all the time. Words matter.

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If you get in your mind, no, it's Democrat, not

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democratic. Because we do have a democratic system

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where the people have a vote. Of course, we are

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a constitutional republic of states, which is

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a representative system. But we just have to...

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It's good. It matters. And the other one is the

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First Amendment speaks about peaceably assembling

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that is not the same as a peaceful protest. There

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you go. It's a very, very, very big difference.

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And in fact, let me just read the First Amendment.

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Yeah, and then I want you to get, and if I don't

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bookmark it, I'll forget what it means to redress,

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because we have the right to redress. Yes. Whenever

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we... No, I mean, I don't actually have redress.

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in this, if you want to discuss it now, the redress

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part, because that's how lobbying works. But

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there's also a lot of nuances there. I really

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wanted to focus on the petition is where that

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comes in. So the First Amendment, and people

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need to understand, just to reiterate, this is

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what the founders, when this document was written,

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when the Bill of Rights was written, these were

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specifically intended to be restrictions on the

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government. This is not rights you are given.

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This is not anything that any man gave you. We

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have these inalienable rights, and this is codifying

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things that the government may not do. And the

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government here is called Congress. Congress

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shall make no law. That's a restriction. It's

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not like you get to have your First Amendment

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rights, you get to have your freedom of speech.

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No, no. Congress shall make no law. and I always

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love this, respecting an establishment of religion.

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Just so we know, religion, faith, thinking came

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before speech. It was faith before the speech

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part, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,

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which of course happened within COVID, and we

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all need to repent on that, or abridging the

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freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right

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of the people to peaceably assemble and to petition

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the government for a redress of grievances. So,

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peaceably assembling is important, the freedom

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of speech or of the press, and this is critical

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for what just recently happened. The freedom

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of the press does not mean that the press can

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go anywhere they want. It means the press can

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write or report whatever they want. It doesn't

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mean that they can come into my house and say,

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I'm a journalist, I'm here to report. These are

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very, very critical things because, of course,

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what I'm alluding to is what every church -going

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Christian is talking about right now is what

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happened in the Baptist Church in Minneapolis.

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And we're making some big mistakes as believers.

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The first big mistake we're making is thinking

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that this is about God or hating on faith. This

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is political, political, political. This is a

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Democrat operation meant to put Republicans into

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a bad light and even worse, to make Republicans

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attack one person, which is Don Lemon. And Don

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Lemon has the trifecta. He's homosexual, he's

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black, and he's dumb. And I would say that to

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his face. He is low IQ because, let me call him

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ignorant, would be friendlier, would be friendlier

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because he is very ignorant with the things he

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says. So if you didn't see what happened, there

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was a protest, they went into a church and they

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started protesting, no ice, hands up, all of

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this different stuff. And Don Lemon is the one

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who was being blamed for it, which is a critical

00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:50.119
mistake we're making, critical, because now you're

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actually fueling fire to the political process

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for which this was intended in the first time.

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Taking the bait. Taking the bait. So Don Lemon,

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and I have several clips on this, who claims

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to be a journalist, he's now inside the church

00:28:05.779 --> 00:28:09.000
talking to the pastor. and we know he's the pastor

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because he's got his little side mic on, as the

00:28:12.539 --> 00:28:14.740
people are protesting in the background. This

00:28:14.740 --> 00:28:17.599
is very disruptive. I can just imagine this happening

00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:20.180
in our church. The outcome probably would have

00:28:20.180 --> 00:28:22.660
been different. It would be very different. But,

00:28:22.660 --> 00:28:26.460
you know, it terrorized children. It was a scary

00:28:26.460 --> 00:28:35.000
moment. So here's this clip. gathering of Christians

00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:40.940
in worship. I have to take care of my flock.

00:28:41.339 --> 00:28:43.779
Listen, there's a constitution in the First Amendment

00:28:43.779 --> 00:28:45.799
to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble

00:28:45.799 --> 00:28:48.619
and protest. We're here to worship. We're here

00:28:48.619 --> 00:28:50.660
to worship Jesus because that's the hope of these

00:28:50.660 --> 00:28:52.700
cities. That's the hope of the world is Jesus

00:28:52.700 --> 00:28:54.380
Christ. I want to be very respectful. Please

00:28:54.380 --> 00:28:56.680
don't push me though. We're here. We're here

00:28:56.680 --> 00:28:59.940
to worship Jesus. That's why we're here. That's

00:28:59.940 --> 00:29:01.819
why we're here. That's what we're about. Don't

00:29:01.819 --> 00:29:05.000
you think Jesus would be understanding and love

00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:06.740
these folks? We're about spreading the love of

00:29:06.740 --> 00:29:09.400
Jesus. But did you try to talk to them as a Christian?

00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:12.039
No one is willing to talk. I have to take care

00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:13.759
of my church and my family. So I ask this, you

00:29:13.759 --> 00:29:24.600
actually would also leave this building. Okay,

00:29:24.600 --> 00:29:30.279
so Don Lemon's idea here is that there is the

00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:36.019
You have the the right to peaceably assemble

00:29:36.019 --> 00:29:38.180
we're doing we're under the Constitution man,

00:29:38.180 --> 00:29:42.400
that's and let me just I actually looked up P

00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:46.640
to peaceably assemble protects gatherings for

00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:50.880
lawful purposes, which actually in the legal

00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:55.720
context says protest, worship, etc., provided

00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:58.680
they are nonviolent and do not pose a clear and

00:29:58.680 --> 00:30:02.579
present danger. This is not absolute and is subject

00:30:02.579 --> 00:30:05.599
to the distinction between advocacy and incitement.

00:30:06.099 --> 00:30:08.960
Time, place, manner restrictions are always taken

00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:14.029
into account and peaceably assembling can only

00:30:14.029 --> 00:30:17.430
be done in a public place. In fact, law enforcement

00:30:17.430 --> 00:30:20.890
has the right to say, you can only do it at this

00:30:20.890 --> 00:30:24.809
time in this place. That's how the law has been

00:30:24.809 --> 00:30:30.150
interpreted over time. And even the people like

00:30:30.150 --> 00:30:33.410
to turn on bull horns and blast it in someone's

00:30:33.410 --> 00:30:36.170
face. Believe me, that is not peaceably assembling.

00:30:36.829 --> 00:30:39.990
So a protest, and that's the big joke, of course,

00:30:40.009 --> 00:30:43.259
we've seen this throughout. the riots throughout

00:30:43.259 --> 00:30:47.420
the years. Well, everyone here is protesting

00:30:47.420 --> 00:30:49.779
peacefully and this fire is blowing up in the

00:30:49.779 --> 00:30:55.200
background. No, peacefully protesting. And we'll

00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:59.059
get into some interesting case law and some interesting

00:30:59.059 --> 00:31:03.200
actual laws about where you can protest and outside

00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:06.859
of certain, peaceably assemble outside of certain

00:31:06.859 --> 00:31:10.599
structures. But first, I need everyone to understand

00:31:10.859 --> 00:31:14.079
that Don Lemon was in on this from the beginning.

00:31:14.180 --> 00:31:16.619
This is not like a journalist who just happened

00:31:16.619 --> 00:31:19.380
to be in Minneapolis. This is the day before

00:31:19.380 --> 00:31:41.880
he even went to Minneapolis. will probably be

00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:45.039
in Minneapolis. So make sure you check us out.

00:31:45.140 --> 00:31:49.220
The Don Lemon Show on YouTube, on Twitch, on

00:31:49.220 --> 00:31:52.640
Instagram, TikTok, Substack, and anywhere you

00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:55.019
get social and streaming. Now, I leave that in

00:31:55.019 --> 00:31:57.299
there for a reason, because this is what I mean

00:31:57.299 --> 00:32:00.000
by he is ignorant. He does not even know that

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:03.140
he is actually being used for political purposes.

00:32:03.799 --> 00:32:07.059
But the political actor is on the scene. Her

00:32:07.059 --> 00:32:11.920
name is Nakima Levi Armstrong. She is well known

00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:15.180
from the Black Lives Matter movement. She is

00:32:15.180 --> 00:32:18.819
a Marxist. She has a consulting company, which

00:32:18.819 --> 00:32:22.240
is not like a nonprofit, so I can't look into

00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:26.440
the books. But she is an activist, an actor and

00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:30.079
activist for the Democrat Party, for Act Blue,

00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:35.170
for a political purpose. And I think even so

00:32:35.170 --> 00:32:37.529
he's talking to her now before anything started.

00:32:37.549 --> 00:32:40.069
He just happens to as a journalist just happens

00:32:40.069 --> 00:32:42.809
to show up in the parking lot before this goes

00:32:42.809 --> 00:32:47.730
down into Minneapolis a little bit ago and did

00:32:47.730 --> 00:32:52.769
some some reconnaissance on the ground and speaking

00:32:52.769 --> 00:32:55.049
to an organization there that's gearing up to

00:32:55.049 --> 00:32:58.690
for resistance and protest. I've been surprised,

00:32:59.029 --> 00:33:00.809
pleasantly surprised to see the community coming

00:33:00.809 --> 00:33:04.200
together. diverse community if you see this when

00:33:04.200 --> 00:33:06.240
we first pulled up we're like wait a minute what

00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:09.980
is which um which operation are we at and as

00:33:09.980 --> 00:33:12.000
it turns out because we were like well this is

00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.619
kind of MAGA coded right saw the american flag

00:33:14.619 --> 00:33:16.940
or whatever but these are resistance protesters

00:33:16.940 --> 00:33:18.380
they're planning an operation that we're going

00:33:18.380 --> 00:33:20.740
to follow them on i can't tell you exactly what

00:33:20.740 --> 00:33:22.799
they're doing but it's called operation pull

00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:26.529
up And it's the Kima Armstrong, and she has been

00:33:26.529 --> 00:33:30.009
doing this since George Floyd, Dante Wright,

00:33:30.170 --> 00:33:33.549
and others, where they surprise people, catch

00:33:33.549 --> 00:33:36.329
them off guard, and hold them to account. And

00:33:36.329 --> 00:33:37.890
so that's what we're doing here. And then we're

00:33:37.890 --> 00:33:39.710
after that. After we do this operation, you'll

00:33:39.710 --> 00:33:42.190
see it live. And these operations are surprise

00:33:42.190 --> 00:33:43.769
operations. Again, I can't tell you where they're

00:33:43.769 --> 00:33:48.160
going. OK. Peaceably assembling is not an operation

00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:52.619
with a code name, okay? This is a setup. This

00:33:52.619 --> 00:33:55.740
is where it becomes apparent. This has nothing

00:33:55.740 --> 00:34:00.940
to do with ICE. This has nothing to do with illegal

00:34:00.940 --> 00:34:05.819
immigration and whatever is happening in Minneapolis

00:34:05.819 --> 00:34:10.019
on the ground. This is now a racial political

00:34:10.700 --> 00:34:13.579
operation. Totally picked up on that tone. And

00:34:13.579 --> 00:34:16.980
they brought in the expert. She knows exactly

00:34:16.980 --> 00:34:22.360
how to do it. And this is Don Lemon talking with

00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:27.159
Nakima Levy Armstrong. And by the way, I have

00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:30.260
nothing against her. I just want to point out

00:34:30.260 --> 00:34:33.300
what she is. What she does, I do have problems

00:34:33.300 --> 00:34:35.519
with, obviously, but I had problems with all

00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:37.760
kinds of operations that she was involved in.

00:34:38.260 --> 00:34:41.500
This is partially inside, and I added this together,

00:34:41.579 --> 00:34:43.579
it's very short, but just so you can get an idea

00:34:43.579 --> 00:34:45.860
of what they're talking about. Tell us why you're

00:34:45.860 --> 00:34:47.960
doing this. This is Operation Pullout, more of

00:34:47.960 --> 00:34:50.659
a clandestine operation. We show up somewhere

00:34:50.659 --> 00:34:54.139
that is a key location. They don't expect us

00:34:54.139 --> 00:34:57.559
to come there. And then we disrupt business as

00:34:57.559 --> 00:34:59.360
usual. So that's what we're about to go do right

00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:02.440
now. Demanding justice for Renee Good and letting

00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:06.139
them know that this will not stand. They cannot

00:35:06.139 --> 00:35:09.139
pretend to be a house of God. while harboring

00:35:09.139 --> 00:35:12.639
someone who is directing ICE agents to wreak

00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:15.400
havoc upon our community and who killed Renee

00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:18.179
Good, who almost killed a six -month -old baby.

00:35:18.639 --> 00:35:21.840
Enough is enough. I am a reverend on top of being

00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:24.840
a lawyer and an activist, so I come here in the

00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:28.179
power of the Almighty God. Okay, I'm glad I have

00:35:28.179 --> 00:35:31.780
this clip because this now moves over into your

00:35:31.780 --> 00:35:36.239
field of expertise, but obviously she's talking

00:35:36.239 --> 00:35:39.570
about George Floyd, she's talking about other

00:35:39.570 --> 00:35:47.090
black victims of police encounter. There's an

00:35:47.090 --> 00:35:50.789
added piece to this, which is the LGBTQ agenda

00:35:50.789 --> 00:35:54.329
because Renee Good was claimed to be married

00:35:54.329 --> 00:35:57.610
to a woman. You've got Don Lemon, who represents

00:35:57.610 --> 00:36:01.119
both. I mean, this is a carefully, carefully

00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:03.780
crafted message. She does have a law degree.

00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:08.679
She has preached at a church. The reason they

00:36:08.679 --> 00:36:12.639
say this church was targeted is because someone

00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:17.059
who is in the ICE office in Minneapolis locally

00:36:17.059 --> 00:36:19.440
either preaches at the church, is on the board

00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:23.000
of the church or attends the church. It's a little

00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:27.719
unclear. Notice this was a complete white church.

00:36:27.949 --> 00:36:29.909
Somehow I doubt that this would have been done

00:36:29.909 --> 00:36:32.949
in a black church, and they're also black ICE

00:36:32.949 --> 00:36:36.130
enforcement agents. So just to reiterate, these

00:36:36.130 --> 00:36:39.050
people are actually racists. Very much so. And

00:36:39.050 --> 00:36:42.289
so when she says this about this as a house of

00:36:42.289 --> 00:36:49.130
God, what's your reaction to that? When she says,

00:36:49.429 --> 00:36:53.010
and I'm a reverend. Yes. So that somehow validates.

00:36:53.289 --> 00:37:00.489
Any schmuck can go online and get them a license

00:37:00.489 --> 00:37:03.409
to preach and to marry and bury. Typically what

00:37:03.409 --> 00:37:06.710
people do, you can get commissioned by a church

00:37:06.710 --> 00:37:09.070
or you can get licensed. And if you can't get

00:37:09.070 --> 00:37:11.050
a church to do it, you can certainly find somebody

00:37:11.050 --> 00:37:15.050
online to do it. This happens all the time. And

00:37:15.050 --> 00:37:17.130
people willy -nilly running around saying, I'm

00:37:17.130 --> 00:37:20.329
a pastor, I'm a reverend, I'm a minister. That

00:37:20.329 --> 00:37:24.539
means squat. Let me see your 10 ,000 hours. Let's

00:37:24.539 --> 00:37:27.639
see how much you've put into this thing. Because

00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:29.940
if you're all those other things, you cannot

00:37:29.940 --> 00:37:34.039
effectively be that one. You can't have 15 jobs

00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:37.880
and do everything you do and say you're a legitimate

00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:43.099
representative of God. I'm not even tore up about

00:37:43.099 --> 00:37:46.900
her tone and stuff. I'm just sad that people

00:37:46.900 --> 00:37:51.769
will look to leverage anything. And what they're

00:37:51.769 --> 00:37:53.510
doing, and they don't even realize it, is they

00:37:53.510 --> 00:37:56.929
are using people. They're using good people for

00:37:56.929 --> 00:38:00.010
their own ends, for their own agenda, which is

00:38:00.010 --> 00:38:02.730
dehumanizing in itself. They don't see that church

00:38:02.730 --> 00:38:04.730
as a bunch of human beings that they supposedly

00:38:04.730 --> 00:38:07.449
love so much. They just see them as a bunch of

00:38:07.449 --> 00:38:10.110
nameless, faceless people that will further their

00:38:10.110 --> 00:38:13.710
cause if they go disrupt. I'm going to play a

00:38:13.710 --> 00:38:19.050
clip out of order here. because this is Don Lemon

00:38:19.050 --> 00:38:21.989
today. And by the way, he's in it for the views,

00:38:22.210 --> 00:38:24.590
for the likes, for the clicks. I mean, he was

00:38:24.590 --> 00:38:28.489
fired from CNN. Now he's on CNN. Everyone's talking

00:38:28.489 --> 00:38:31.510
about him. So he loves this. I mean, he'll have

00:38:31.510 --> 00:38:34.070
to deal with that in his own life, whatever happens

00:38:34.070 --> 00:38:37.550
with him. But this is how he views it now. two

00:38:37.550 --> 00:38:39.329
days at three days after the fact. And there's

00:38:39.329 --> 00:38:40.989
a certain degree of entitlement. I think people

00:38:40.989 --> 00:38:43.730
who are, you know, in the religious groups like

00:38:43.730 --> 00:38:45.469
that, it's not the type of Christianity that

00:38:45.469 --> 00:38:47.590
I practice, but I think that they're entitled

00:38:47.590 --> 00:38:50.690
and that that entitlement comes from a supremacy,

00:38:51.170 --> 00:38:53.409
a white supremacy. And they think that this country

00:38:53.409 --> 00:38:55.289
was built for them, that it is a Christian country

00:38:55.289 --> 00:38:57.369
when actually we left England because we wanted

00:38:57.369 --> 00:38:59.590
religious freedom. It's religious freedom. But

00:38:59.590 --> 00:39:01.230
only if you're a Christian and only if you're

00:39:01.230 --> 00:39:04.190
a white male, pretty much. And so, yeah, absolutely

00:39:04.190 --> 00:39:06.530
100 percent. But it's an intimidation tactic.

00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:09.199
And, you know, I said, I don't understand how

00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:10.940
I've become the face of it when I was a journalist.

00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:13.320
I do understand that I'm the biggest name there.

00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:16.219
And I'm also, as I was on with my producers this

00:39:16.219 --> 00:39:17.980
morning, you know, you and Kylie talk all the

00:39:17.980 --> 00:39:19.639
time, my producers were saying, I said, how did

00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:21.360
I become the face of this? And my producer said,

00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:23.710
Don, you're a gay black man in America. That's

00:39:23.710 --> 00:39:27.349
why you were chosen for the operation, Don. That's

00:39:27.349 --> 00:39:30.269
why you were there. Sounds like he inserted himself

00:39:30.269 --> 00:39:32.949
in the operation. He showed up. He was like,

00:39:33.030 --> 00:39:35.630
this is going to bump my ratings. This is going

00:39:35.630 --> 00:39:41.550
to bump my validity in the podcast world. These

00:39:41.550 --> 00:39:44.949
are users. And he's talking about they're entitled.

00:39:45.070 --> 00:39:47.570
When you go interrupt what they're doing, it's

00:39:47.570 --> 00:39:51.230
their fault. Mind -bending. And so here's just

00:39:51.230 --> 00:39:54.869
the ignorant parts. There's more. of Don Lemon's

00:39:54.869 --> 00:40:19.579
thinking first about the First Amendment. these

00:40:19.579 --> 00:40:22.219
very kinds of protests. There's nothing in the

00:40:22.219 --> 00:40:25.679
Constitution that tells you what time you can

00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:29.820
protest. Actually, yes, there is, Don. There

00:40:29.820 --> 00:40:33.059
literally is a time, place, and manner. What

00:40:33.059 --> 00:40:35.460
time you can protest. You can protest at any

00:40:35.460 --> 00:40:37.260
time. That's the whole point of it. It's to disrupt.

00:40:37.780 --> 00:40:39.699
It's to make them uncomfortable. And that's what

00:40:39.699 --> 00:40:41.659
they're doing. And that's what I believe when

00:40:41.659 --> 00:40:43.619
I say everyone has to be willing to sacrifice

00:40:43.619 --> 00:40:46.599
something. You have to make people uncomfortable

00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:50.039
in these times. So he believes that a First Amendment

00:40:50.039 --> 00:40:52.880
right to peaceably assemble means you can disrupt,

00:40:53.300 --> 00:40:55.579
you can make people uncomfortable, you can do

00:40:55.579 --> 00:40:57.760
it anytime, anywhere you want. We're really,

00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:00.800
this is very simple, you know, because, and we're

00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:03.940
going to get to the end here. People are now,

00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:07.360
Christians are so mad at Don Lemon. Throw him

00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:10.019
in jail. Look, they were trespassing. That's

00:41:10.019 --> 00:41:12.400
basically what happened. They were trespassing.

00:41:13.559 --> 00:41:15.400
And, you know, we could look at all kinds of

00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:17.619
different types of trespassing in recent history

00:41:17.619 --> 00:41:19.699
where people were thrown in jail immediately.

00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:21.880
And so there's a lot of calling for that, you

00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:24.179
know, just like January 6th, throw them in jail.

00:41:24.659 --> 00:41:27.320
No, no, no. Let's not do evil with evil. Let's

00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:30.000
calm down and let's not take the bait because

00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:32.599
this has nothing to do with God, has nothing

00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:35.039
to do with the church. This is purely political.

00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:39.900
It happens, you know, MLK day. I mean, it's all

00:41:39.900 --> 00:41:45.360
so obviously set up. And here's Don misunderstanding

00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:50.039
the freedom of the press. which cannot be hindered,

00:41:50.159 --> 00:41:52.940
which is not about I get to go where I go, but

00:41:52.940 --> 00:42:18.320
I get to speak or write or broadcast. I had no

00:42:18.320 --> 00:42:20.659
affiliation to that organization. I didn't even

00:42:20.659 --> 00:42:22.679
know they were going to this church until we

00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:25.340
followed them there. We were there, chronicling

00:42:25.340 --> 00:42:28.599
protests. Once the protest started in the church,

00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:31.960
we did an act of journalism, which was report

00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:33.860
on it and talk to the people who were involved,

00:42:33.940 --> 00:42:35.820
which included the pastor, members of the church,

00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:39.039
and members of the organization. That's it. It's

00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:42.340
called journalism. First Amendment, all that

00:42:42.340 --> 00:42:44.760
stuff. All of you people who believe in the First

00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:48.599
Amendment, absolutist. There you go. So why don't

00:42:48.599 --> 00:42:52.960
you talk to the actual person who is in charge

00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:56.420
of the organization and whose idea it was to

00:42:56.420 --> 00:42:58.099
have the protest at the church before you start

00:42:58.099 --> 00:43:00.559
blaming me for stuff for which you have no idea.

00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:07.559
Thank you for your attention to this. Wow. So

00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:11.840
he truly believes that the First Amendment protects

00:43:11.840 --> 00:43:15.039
him from trespassing, going wherever he wants,

00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:18.280
doing whatever he wants to do. And that is not

00:43:18.280 --> 00:43:22.139
the First Amendment. It's just not. I think the

00:43:22.139 --> 00:43:25.840
blowback was a little more than he expected because

00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:31.380
now they're pinning it all on him. And there's

00:43:31.380 --> 00:43:34.280
something to be said about that because when

00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:38.000
I heard Paul Chappelle, he's the senior pastor

00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:43.159
He's the president of the West Coast Baptist

00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:48.000
College. So he's now a spokesperson for this

00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:52.139
event. He takes the bait. He takes the bait.

00:43:52.300 --> 00:43:55.980
Today in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a group of activists

00:43:55.980 --> 00:44:00.659
led by Don Lemon stormed a Baptist church by

00:44:00.659 --> 00:44:03.300
the name of City's Church. This is a mistake.

00:44:03.739 --> 00:44:05.300
And I think, I just want to say, I think it's

00:44:05.300 --> 00:44:09.380
a mistake for all the podcast pastors. Don't

00:44:09.380 --> 00:44:12.300
go after Don Lemon. Do not take this bait. This

00:44:12.300 --> 00:44:19.179
was a racial, trans Maoist agenda these people

00:44:19.179 --> 00:44:21.440
had. They don't care. And by taking the bait,

00:44:21.699 --> 00:44:24.579
you're literally fueling that fire. And you're

00:44:24.579 --> 00:44:26.860
elevating it to a spot where it should not be.

00:44:26.920 --> 00:44:29.079
Let's listen to the rest. During their worship

00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:33.119
time, they were screaming and chanting, disrupting

00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:36.679
the singing and the preaching. because they suspected

00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:41.460
an ICE officer may attend the church. This is

00:44:41.460 --> 00:44:44.239
a violation of what is known as the FACE Act,

00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:52.059
and not only. This is interesting. I see Christians

00:44:52.059 --> 00:44:55.369
everywhere. They violated the FACE Act. Do you

00:44:55.369 --> 00:44:57.429
know what the FACE Act is? Yes, I do. I think

00:44:57.429 --> 00:44:59.829
most people don't. We've seen people that...

00:44:59.829 --> 00:45:02.389
It really gets applied to abortion clinics and

00:45:02.389 --> 00:45:06.550
places like that. It literally stands for freedom

00:45:06.550 --> 00:45:13.050
of access to clinic entrances. It's almost ludicrous

00:45:13.050 --> 00:45:16.250
to me that you're now using the very law that

00:45:16.250 --> 00:45:20.010
is intended to keep Christians praying near an

00:45:20.010 --> 00:45:23.760
abortion clinic. Turning this around, it just

00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:27.800
feels like the dumbest thing we could do. It's

00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:29.619
mind -blowing to me. It's not well -informed.

00:45:30.019 --> 00:45:33.760
No. We condemn this act, but tonight I want to

00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:37.059
demand that the Department of Justice investigate

00:45:37.059 --> 00:45:40.300
what took place in Minneapolis, apprehend those

00:45:40.300 --> 00:45:42.719
who broke the law, and arrest them accordingly.

00:45:45.139 --> 00:45:48.840
We must protect religious liberty in this country.

00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:54.900
As people meet to worship God, they have been

00:45:54.900 --> 00:45:59.039
given legally the right to enter, to worship,

00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:02.639
and to leave their place of worship. The Lord

00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:06.739
Jesus said in the world... I found this also

00:46:06.739 --> 00:46:13.079
interesting because he's kind of convoluting

00:46:13.079 --> 00:46:15.659
the First Amendment. This wasn't the government.

00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:18.239
These were protesters. These were trespassers.

00:46:18.840 --> 00:46:21.059
It just didn't feel right to me, Jimmy. You know,

00:46:21.099 --> 00:46:23.119
it's just like, yeah, here's hard in it because

00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:26.039
it's, it's shocking. Of course. When we've lived

00:46:26.039 --> 00:46:28.800
in a country where very little of this has ever

00:46:28.800 --> 00:46:31.099
happened. So, so we don't expect it. So when

00:46:31.099 --> 00:46:33.320
it's happened, it's happening all over the world,

00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:35.719
but when it happens here, it's shocking. Yeah.

00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:38.739
And so when I first heard about it, I was, I

00:46:38.739 --> 00:46:41.519
was like, there was a part of me and be like,

00:46:41.639 --> 00:46:44.949
man, I'd like to have been there. I would like

00:46:44.949 --> 00:46:49.030
to see the dynamic of what's happening. Not because

00:46:49.030 --> 00:46:52.849
I want to hurt anybody, but because I'd really

00:46:52.849 --> 00:46:55.690
like to pull someone out of that crowd and go,

00:46:56.909 --> 00:46:59.289
do you really know what you're doing here and

00:46:59.289 --> 00:47:02.070
why you're doing it? And I want to know, I'm

00:47:02.070 --> 00:47:03.949
that way. I'm systemic in thinking. So I want

00:47:03.949 --> 00:47:07.050
to know what led you to this point where you

00:47:07.050 --> 00:47:10.840
felt like it was okay to do this. And you're

00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:13.619
going to get the same rage rant probably from

00:47:13.619 --> 00:47:20.539
most. But for me, bottom line, Don Lemon is now

00:47:20.539 --> 00:47:23.920
on my prayer list. Thank you, Don Lemon. Thank

00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:26.860
you. You've given me another person to pray for.

00:47:28.019 --> 00:47:33.239
Not against. No. And my message or my thinking,

00:47:33.320 --> 00:47:36.800
I don't have a message, but my thinking. You

00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:38.480
don't have an agenda, but you have a message.

00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:45.119
Correct. We're taking this bait. Here's Adam's

00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:47.880
crystal ball. Now it's going to be the Christian

00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:51.539
nationalist, and it's going to be label after

00:47:51.539 --> 00:47:54.940
label after label, and everyone's going to be

00:47:54.940 --> 00:48:01.619
mad online and going back and forth. What's happening

00:48:01.619 --> 00:48:04.000
with ICE, it's not pretty to look at. It's a

00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:08.039
whole other conversation. But we are a nation

00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:11.940
of laws. And, you know, so again, even people

00:48:11.940 --> 00:48:14.099
in that church who were saying, you know, we

00:48:14.099 --> 00:48:16.699
can talk about the optics and how it looks and

00:48:16.699 --> 00:48:19.099
what's happening. But this is not about that.

00:48:19.139 --> 00:48:23.119
This is about the midterm 2026 election and the

00:48:23.119 --> 00:48:29.659
labeling of Christian nationalists versus the

00:48:29.659 --> 00:48:33.380
people who love people. And they're literally

00:48:33.380 --> 00:48:40.110
stealing stealing love away from us. I only do

00:48:40.110 --> 00:48:43.190
this really for our family, for our church. Anyone

00:48:43.190 --> 00:48:46.550
else who's listening to it is great. Don't go

00:48:46.550 --> 00:48:52.610
commenting. Don't engage in it. Do not feed the

00:48:52.610 --> 00:48:55.130
algorithm because it only pushes it more and

00:48:55.130 --> 00:48:59.369
more to the top and it is only intended to divide

00:48:59.369 --> 00:49:03.469
us even more. A wise person once said to me,

00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:08.840
pick up your Bibles and put down your screens.

00:49:09.980 --> 00:49:12.719
And that's exactly what we need to be doing.

00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:17.800
What's happening, this dynamic that's come out

00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:20.579
of this, is the very reason why I've taken a

00:49:20.579 --> 00:49:26.719
big step back from news cycles, news reels, news

00:49:26.719 --> 00:49:32.510
feeds, because People are living spun up and

00:49:32.510 --> 00:49:35.929
that's the point to create chaos. That's that's

00:49:35.929 --> 00:49:41.030
Marxism 101. Yeah sure is create chaos and Any

00:49:41.030 --> 00:49:43.769
way they can do it they feel like they've they've

00:49:43.769 --> 00:49:45.670
arrived at their objective if they're creating

00:49:45.670 --> 00:49:48.849
chaos like that I mean, gosh, Don Lemon's probably

00:49:48.849 --> 00:49:51.809
just basking in the glow and the den of noise

00:49:51.809 --> 00:49:54.550
behind him as he's speaking into a microphone

00:49:54.550 --> 00:49:56.869
and people are yelling. He's like, pretty prideful.

00:49:56.869 --> 00:49:59.849
He's going, this is perfect. This is exactly

00:49:59.849 --> 00:50:02.090
what I hoped would happen. I think your response

00:50:02.090 --> 00:50:04.989
is the best. And I would love for like, when

00:50:04.989 --> 00:50:07.369
you come to church on Sunday and someone starts

00:50:07.369 --> 00:50:09.550
talking about it, what you just said was perfect.

00:50:09.829 --> 00:50:12.809
I'm so happy that this happened because now I

00:50:12.809 --> 00:50:15.909
can add Don Lemon to my prayer list. And we should

00:50:15.909 --> 00:50:20.400
be giving our enemy to drink and to eat, because

00:50:20.400 --> 00:50:22.980
that will be like pouring hot coals over his

00:50:22.980 --> 00:50:25.059
head. That's one of my favorites. And to pray

00:50:25.059 --> 00:50:28.860
for his legitimate salvation, be born again of

00:50:28.860 --> 00:50:32.699
the Spirit of God. Bearing the fruit of the Spirit,

00:50:32.840 --> 00:50:35.500
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,

00:50:35.900 --> 00:50:38.340
gentleness, faithfulness, and number nine, the

00:50:38.340 --> 00:50:42.000
biggie, self -control. And you know, when someone

00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:44.940
walks in that, and it says even in that passage

00:50:44.940 --> 00:50:47.960
in Galatians chapter five, they're led by the

00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:52.360
Spirit. And so you can be led by a spirit, but

00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:55.960
not be led by the Holy Spirit. And that's what

00:50:55.960 --> 00:50:58.019
a lot of, when I hear people throwing around

00:50:58.019 --> 00:51:00.619
their own little version of Christian rhetoric

00:51:00.619 --> 00:51:04.360
to suit their little agenda and their narrative,

00:51:04.860 --> 00:51:07.519
it's like, yeah, you're following a spirit, you're

00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:10.420
just not following the spirit. Has nothing to

00:51:10.420 --> 00:51:13.719
do with being white, has nothing to do with being

00:51:13.719 --> 00:51:17.460
Baptist or non -denominational or Catholic or

00:51:17.460 --> 00:51:22.900
Bahá 'í. What it means is this, is am I led by

00:51:22.900 --> 00:51:26.980
the Spirit of God, the Most High God, who so

00:51:26.980 --> 00:51:29.920
loved this world that He gave His only Son, so

00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:31.820
that whoever would believe in Him would not perish

00:51:31.820 --> 00:51:35.039
but have everlasting life. That's the God we

00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:40.500
serve. This is a shot over the bow for Christians.

00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:45.019
I hope that whoever listens to this, if they

00:51:45.019 --> 00:51:48.300
claim faith, the first thing that they didn't

00:51:48.300 --> 00:51:51.000
do was to go jump on their computer, grab their

00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:57.380
keyboard, and start reposting. And man, I've

00:51:57.380 --> 00:52:00.079
seen a lot of that. And I don't spend a lot of

00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:02.659
time on social media these days. I'm so backed

00:52:02.659 --> 00:52:07.039
off. But what little bit I've seen, and I won't

00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:08.940
name names, but I've got a lot of friends in

00:52:08.940 --> 00:52:11.059
ministry that are a little more high profile

00:52:11.059 --> 00:52:13.960
than me. And I've seen some of the stuff they're

00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:16.719
doing, and I'm just like, You're exactly right.

00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:18.960
They've taken the bait. Do you know there's a

00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:20.900
title of a book that John Bevere wrote years

00:52:20.900 --> 00:52:24.420
ago called The Bait of Satan? Wow. Yeah. That's

00:52:24.420 --> 00:52:27.400
a good one. Yeah. I mean, forget the book, the

00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:31.360
title is there and really that's what this is.

00:52:31.659 --> 00:52:34.300
And I see Don Lemon, you can hear him smiling

00:52:34.300 --> 00:52:37.300
in his voice. I mean, literally he's on fire.

00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:39.739
Yes. Yes. He's relevant. He's like people from

00:52:39.739 --> 00:52:41.519
the weather channel that are in the middle of

00:52:41.519 --> 00:52:43.739
a hurricane and they're so excited. I'm going

00:52:43.739 --> 00:52:46.579
to use that on no agenda. They're way too excited.

00:52:48.380 --> 00:52:51.820
You're giddy over this. What was the guy, John

00:52:51.820 --> 00:52:54.179
Cantore or whatever his name? Yeah, Cantore.

00:52:54.239 --> 00:52:56.159
Yeah, I think that's it. He's the one who's like,

00:52:56.179 --> 00:52:57.860
he looks like a football player. He's out there

00:52:57.860 --> 00:53:00.429
in the middle of a hurricane. some guy walking

00:53:00.429 --> 00:53:05.250
in the background, a dog strolls by. But anyway,

00:53:05.829 --> 00:53:09.010
when these things happen, I was telling it, God,

00:53:09.050 --> 00:53:11.889
they're way too excited about it. This is terrible.

00:53:12.710 --> 00:53:15.269
But it's the same thing as sometimes we as Christians,

00:53:15.510 --> 00:53:19.130
we get so caught up in something. For Don Lemon,

00:53:19.409 --> 00:53:24.139
oh my gosh, my views are going to go. It couldn't

00:53:24.139 --> 00:53:26.039
have happened any better for me. I might get

00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:28.199
back on cable news again. Exactly. I'm going

00:53:28.199 --> 00:53:32.639
to get a job. I want to do this. Along with this,

00:53:33.079 --> 00:53:36.420
because yes, it's intended for us to engage and

00:53:36.420 --> 00:53:39.820
to start fighting back and forth. The algorithms

00:53:39.820 --> 00:53:45.539
love it. Everybody wins. Not everybody, but all

00:53:45.539 --> 00:53:50.159
the worldly, fleshly behaviors, all of that wins.

00:53:51.039 --> 00:53:55.440
The worst part is our elected leaders take this

00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:59.800
bait too. They take it hook line and sinker because

00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:02.280
they're Don Lemons too. Yeah, they get their

00:54:02.280 --> 00:54:05.139
15 seconds of fame. And that means votes and

00:54:05.139 --> 00:54:08.679
that means attention and you know, I may have

00:54:08.679 --> 00:54:13.380
someone trying to primary me. None of it, none

00:54:13.380 --> 00:54:16.199
of it has anything to do with the original reason.

00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:19.679
Exactly. So I'm going to leave this with 1 Timothy

00:54:19.679 --> 00:54:23.860
2. One to four, I urge you first of all, this

00:54:23.860 --> 00:54:27.940
is Paul to Timothy, I guess, right? Yes. To pray

00:54:27.940 --> 00:54:31.460
for all people. Ask God to help them intercede

00:54:31.460 --> 00:54:34.219
on their behalf and give thanks for them. Pray

00:54:34.219 --> 00:54:38.039
this way for kings and all who are in authority

00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:41.880
so we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked

00:54:41.880 --> 00:54:45.929
by godliness and dignity. This is good. and pleases

00:54:45.929 --> 00:54:48.809
God our Savior who wants everyone to be saved

00:54:48.809 --> 00:54:51.550
and to understand the truth. And we have to pray

00:54:51.550 --> 00:54:55.630
for Republicans and Democrats. I think we forget

00:54:55.630 --> 00:54:59.409
that part. Adam, this is so good. And I will

00:54:59.409 --> 00:55:02.050
say, boy, I'm so in line, I actually read that

00:55:02.050 --> 00:55:04.150
passage right after I did the brief on Sunday.

00:55:04.150 --> 00:55:06.710
Oh, really? Oh, okay. I put it on the end of

00:55:06.710 --> 00:55:08.469
the brief. Perfect. Because this is what we're

00:55:08.469 --> 00:55:11.440
called to do. I think it may be an unsung hero,

00:55:11.599 --> 00:55:14.079
and it's only from completely out of context,

00:55:14.239 --> 00:55:16.460
and I didn't see the interview, I didn't see

00:55:16.460 --> 00:55:20.280
before or after really, is that pastor, I thought

00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:23.480
he handled himself very well considering this

00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:25.500
group had come in. It's going on in the background,

00:55:25.619 --> 00:55:27.280
I mean it's happening. Yeah, it's happening in

00:55:27.280 --> 00:55:29.980
real time and he's not panicked, he's not losing

00:55:29.980 --> 00:55:32.460
his mind. It's funny, Don Lemon, get your hands

00:55:32.460 --> 00:55:33.900
off me, don't push me. Just stop pushing me.

00:55:33.900 --> 00:55:40.250
Oh my gosh, really? Sheesh. I thought that pastor

00:55:40.250 --> 00:55:43.630
was handling it pretty well because that could

00:55:43.630 --> 00:55:46.730
have been a real situation if you're in a bad

00:55:46.730 --> 00:55:50.389
temperament day and you're concerned for your

00:55:50.389 --> 00:55:54.670
family. I would be concerned if people came in

00:55:54.670 --> 00:55:58.269
yelling and screaming and who's to say there's

00:55:58.269 --> 00:56:00.010
not a gun? Who's to say there's not something

00:56:00.010 --> 00:56:03.750
nefarious? Is this an odd question to ask? How

00:56:03.750 --> 00:56:07.019
would you like your... church, our church here

00:56:07.019 --> 00:56:10.360
to respond if that happened here. Because that

00:56:10.360 --> 00:56:15.079
was on my mind. I know guys who could go pretty

00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:19.719
radical. Yeah. Being in the Texas Hill country

00:56:19.719 --> 00:56:22.519
and from a long line of independent -spirited

00:56:22.519 --> 00:56:26.019
people as Texans, and darn well proud of it,

00:56:27.920 --> 00:56:30.800
I think it could be a very volatile situation.

00:56:32.200 --> 00:56:35.460
Very volatile. I mean, not only do we have paid

00:56:35.460 --> 00:56:38.940
security staff and team that are professionals

00:56:38.940 --> 00:56:42.300
is what they do, but we have a large contingent,

00:56:42.300 --> 00:56:46.119
about 32 people involved in our safety team in

00:56:46.119 --> 00:56:47.719
this church. And then there's another hundred

00:56:47.719 --> 00:56:50.639
who are carrying. Mostly women, mostly ladies

00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:53.239
of our church. That's true. And they know how

00:56:53.239 --> 00:56:57.880
to use them. And so I would be, it could be,

00:56:57.960 --> 00:57:00.440
that's why I'm saying this could have been very

00:57:00.440 --> 00:57:03.460
tragic. It could have gone even worse. Well,

00:57:03.599 --> 00:57:07.559
they chose this church specifically. I do not

00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:11.139
have any fear whatsoever. This type of protest,

00:57:11.860 --> 00:57:15.340
peaceable assembly, would happen at our church.

00:57:15.699 --> 00:57:17.199
I just have no worries about that. I know for

00:57:17.199 --> 00:57:19.719
me, I would have to be on the speaker. I'd have

00:57:19.719 --> 00:57:22.960
to be on the microphone telling people to stand

00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:25.860
down. I'll just put it that way because I know

00:57:25.860 --> 00:57:27.780
our people and I love our people and they love

00:57:27.780 --> 00:57:31.860
us. A week doesn't go by where one or two people

00:57:31.860 --> 00:57:35.280
say, Pastor, I got your six. One of them says,

00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:37.880
I can get to you in 2 .8 seconds. I know I've

00:57:37.880 --> 00:57:40.659
timed it. I know exactly who says that. I'm just

00:57:40.659 --> 00:57:46.340
like, oh my gosh, this is serious. I'm just saying

00:57:46.340 --> 00:57:49.519
that would be the tragedy of it for me. But also,

00:57:49.880 --> 00:57:52.360
I don't want people to feel fearful. I don't

00:57:52.360 --> 00:57:57.500
want them to worry about this. Don't take the

00:57:57.500 --> 00:58:01.460
bait. Just pray for these people and pray for

00:58:01.460 --> 00:58:04.559
our country, pray for our elected representatives,

00:58:04.760 --> 00:58:07.280
because they're the ones that are actually being,

00:58:07.699 --> 00:58:12.119
they are the, they may even be the intended target,

00:58:12.199 --> 00:58:15.159
now that I think about it. They are a target

00:58:15.159 --> 00:58:18.420
in this operation, and it's an operation. It

00:58:18.420 --> 00:58:22.360
is, which she even called it that. Code name.

00:58:24.750 --> 00:58:29.210
paid for. This is done on purpose. In a positive

00:58:29.210 --> 00:58:33.170
spin of this, the setup is that if we as believers,

00:58:33.409 --> 00:58:36.650
Christians, followers of Jesus, respond rightly,

00:58:36.969 --> 00:58:40.090
That means Don Lemon is about to get prayed for,

00:58:40.190 --> 00:58:42.269
that he would come to know Jesus in a way that

00:58:42.269 --> 00:58:46.309
transforms his life from the inside out. He put

00:58:46.309 --> 00:58:50.510
a target on his back in the right way. That's

00:58:50.510 --> 00:58:56.650
how I see these kinds of things. Joe Biden did

00:58:56.650 --> 00:59:00.210
some things during his term and everybody around

00:59:00.210 --> 00:59:04.230
him. Of course, he was the face of it. I even

00:59:04.230 --> 00:59:06.849
told our church what he's done for me is I have

00:59:06.849 --> 00:59:09.630
a target to pray for. I have a person to pray

00:59:09.630 --> 00:59:11.389
for. I want him to be saved. I don't want him

00:59:11.389 --> 00:59:14.050
to go to hell. I want him to be saved. I want

00:59:14.050 --> 00:59:17.949
Hillary Clinton to be born again. I want these

00:59:17.949 --> 00:59:21.650
people to come to know the truth, not my political

00:59:21.650 --> 00:59:24.710
persuasion, but the truth of the gospel, the

00:59:24.710 --> 00:59:27.750
good news. And I know that sounds radical, but

00:59:27.769 --> 00:59:32.130
Jesus was radical. Yeah, he was a badass outlaw.

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There it is. I'm glad you said it. I was thinking

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it. I was thinking it. You said it. Brother,

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shall we land this plane right here? Oh, man.

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Thank you, Adam, for bringing life, bringing

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this. This is important, and it's what's happening

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in our world right now. And the good news is

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we get to do this. We get to do it every week.

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We'll be back next week. Thank you all, everybody.

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God bless.