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Father, thank you for the privilege of doing

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this today. We get to do this. Not a cliché,

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not just something to say, to fill in space,

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but it's a declaration. It's a declaration of

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truth. It's a declaration of our heart. It's

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a declaration of faith. So as Adam and I talk

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today and just converse, we ask Holy Spirit,

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give us downloads from Throne Heaven. We're listening

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and we thank you, Father, for who you are and

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what we get to do. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

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And we get to do this in a new location, with

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a new rig, with the dog in the studio, with the

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bell. I'm pretty fired up about it. I may overdo

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that today just because I've always wanted to

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do that. You know, now that I think about it,

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you just celebrated your birthday and just fantastic

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celebration at the church and everybody's just,

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we went out to dinner. And now that I think about

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it, I should have given you a bell for your birthday.

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That would have been the ultimate. I can wait

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a year. It's all good. Yeah. In the Curry Studios,

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Curry Compound Studios. And I just found out

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that I'm your first actual guest besides The

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Keeper. You're right. Yes. So I'm kind of honored

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by that to be sitting in The Keeper's chair.

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I'll try to do her justice. Which swivels a lot.

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It does. If I remove too fast, I'm going to be,

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you'll be seeing the back of my head. And congratulations

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on you and that 10 years at Bridge Church. I

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mean, we, and that was also celebrated this past

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Sunday. Wow. When I mean this this has been just

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whirlwind for you guys and you think about it

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in years You know when you're when you're doing

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what you love to do, you're not counting time

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per se You know, you're just doing it you get

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up every day you stay the course And you do what

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you love to do and then you look up and it's

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a decade Looking at those pictures of me when

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we first came my hair was dark Now, it's great.

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Both of you hadn't changed that much. Overall,

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the hair is going to do what the hair does. The

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church was so gracious. I'm not often speechless,

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but I was speechless. I didn't know what to say.

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I just was blown away. Just to have our team

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come up on the platform with us and put their

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hands on us and lay hands on us. pray over us

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and the church stretching their arms out. It

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was, wow, I mean, that was kind of undone. You

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know, when I thought about it, because we always

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go to the early service, nine o 'clock, and I'm

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thinking, wow, he's got to do this whole thing

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over again at 11 o 'clock, because I'm going

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to be doing my testimony. We'll talk about that

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this weekend. And I just got, I think I've said

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it to you before, but I am always so in awe.

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of how pastors do two, three, sometimes four

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services on a Sunday. I mean, I can't imagine

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that. Well, I'm going to because I'm going to

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do it. I was going to say, you're doing three.

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I mean, do you feel that it gets better each

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time or is it dependent upon who's in the church?

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I'd say back early when we were doing this. eight,

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nine years ago where we were doing one service

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and we started doing two. It was kind of a big

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deal to change as the church started to grow,

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catch some traction. At first it was weird because

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it would be pretty vastly different between first

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and second in terms of what I preached, even

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the energy level that I had. I usually was more

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fired up in the second service because I was

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kind of waking up and then I kind of got one

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under my belt. Nowadays it's not that way. I

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feel like I've settled into that a few years

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ago and just, I'm relaxed and enjoying both.

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So I now get to play guitar in both services.

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I get two standing gigs a week, man. Most musicians

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can't say that. And you do shred it, man. I'm

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telling you. Love playing for God. I gotta be

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honest, we're all going, Tina and I are going

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to Lake Wales, Florida this Sunday. You and Annette

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are joining us, which I'm so pleased that you're

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coming with us. This High Point Church, Pastor

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Jack Hillegos, who asked me to give me my testimony

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on of all days, Super Bowl Sunday. And I don't

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know if you saw the email, but he said, we're

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all gonna be wearing our favorite team jerseys.

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Oh, no. Who's in the Super Bowl? Well, it's just

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I think it's just whatever whatever it's cuz

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you know, here's the thing I'm like, oh, that's

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kind of cool cuz I grew up in the DC area Oh

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my team was my parents team the Washington Redskins.

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Oh You can you can not get can you even say that

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out loud? You cannot get a Washington Redskins

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hoodie t -shirt Jersey anywhere at all anymore

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unless you go on like Facebook marketplace and

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you know, I want to meet some guy in the in the

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parking lot. Walgreens. Because I would have

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worn it. I would have worn it. I think didn't

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they say that they wanted to go back to Redskins?

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Even the American Indians were like, we kind

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of liked it. How come you took that away from

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us? Yeah. Yeah. I don't have a jersey or I'm

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just going to wear my Jesus hoodie. I know. I

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may have to bust out something. I don't know.

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I have to think about that one. I did not. I

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didn't read the whole email. I read your response,

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but I didn't read the whole email. I got to tell

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you though, I'm excited. Nervous? Yeah, I'm nervous

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about it. Nerves are good. I'm nervous every

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Sunday after all these years, 41 plus years of

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teaching, preaching, standing in front of crowds.

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I still get... Nervous, but it's a good nervous.

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It's good energy. Yeah, it's um, I love it. I

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think the thing is like three services. So I

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don't know when you're carrying the ball. You

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are the speaker. It's not like he's going to

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get up there and go, Oh, here you got five minutes

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to do the whole 35 minute message. When a pastor

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does that, he's got to, he's got to have some

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trust. That really is big for him. I hope I can,

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I hope I can bring it home. You will do great.

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I'm worried about it. No, you did that. We were

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with you at Houston when you did that podcast

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convention and bro, you just, you knocked it

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out of the park. It was phenomenal. I have Tina

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telling me now, don't do anything nerdy. Don't

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talk about RSS feed. Don't talk too much about

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radio stuff. Just give me your testimony. Oh,

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I get coaching. Yeah. Constantly. Well, you get

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coaching right there from the front row. From

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the front row in the car on the way home. She's

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learned though. She's learned to say something

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positive before she lands the blow, you know,

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it's like Okay, let me build him up then I'll

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tell him I just can't wait to do a couple things

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gonna be good brother I want to say turn to your

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neighbor and says you're great So there's a pro

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tip that buys you a moment to segue something

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yeah to breathe yourself, take a breath. Or I

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can just say, can somebody say amen? Can just

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somebody give me an amen on that? And I don't

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know what their crowds like, you know, you're

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stepping into a different audience. I have no

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idea. I'm not sure what the vibe is there. Well,

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what's kind of cool, though, at the end is when,

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and that kind of does, my testimony does lead

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up to that with Godcaster and, you know, what

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God has basically shown me what I need to do

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with my time and my talent. And to some degree,

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my treasure. And we're launching the Providence

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Voice live stream and their Godcaster app. Which

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is kind of their brand, right? Providence Voice.

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Providence Voice. Their school, their various

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things. They call it Providence. Providence Voice.

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I'm really excited about that. I am. Although

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as part of my testimony, I always say that somewhere

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in it, I'll say, even when I got saved, And I

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look back, which is the amazing thing that God

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did, is like, now we'll keep this guy waiting,

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you know. Let him get until he's like 58 and

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let's see if he notices anything. And I look

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back and I look at all the things I've been doing,

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which has been very consistent since I was 13

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years old. A lot of just radio broadcasting technologies.

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And one of the first things I always tell people

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is, I thought I invented podcasting. I said,

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but I didn't. It's all God. You know, God just

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used me. And throughout the years, people have

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started calling me the Podfather, which I've

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always felt like, I mean, I've never, you know,

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I've never made a shirt or, you know, made a

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bumper sticker or really - You do have a neon

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sign in your office. Well, that's what I'm saying.

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People always, always give me that moniker. I've

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never really, you know, it's like, I've always

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felt very, I'm honored that people say that until

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this week when Dan Bongino came back to his podcast.

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The third group of people I want to address are

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the grifters out there who mistakenly thought

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I wasn't coming back. Now I am back. The pod

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father is back and I'm here to take back this

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movement. You need to have a visit with danger.

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My whole timeline, because I had no idea, my

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whole timeline is just filled with people, this

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is wrong, and they're saying horrible things

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to Dan Bongino. And he's probably like, I stepped

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into something I did not know what I was stepping

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into. But it's even like, you know, it's like,

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I really, I'm really okay. I really don't, I

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haven't responded to anybody like, yeah, you're

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right, man. This guy is not cool. It's like,

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no, none of it matters. See if he makes an apology,

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an official apology on the air. I doubt it. I

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doubt it. Oh, he's such a tender brother, you

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know? He's a good guy though. He's a good brother.

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Well, the thing with Dan though is he's gotten

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a little spun up. Yeah. Yeah. He's, he's, he's

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had a rough go here. A tad. I'm not quite seeing

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it. I mean, I always think that, you know, him

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being invited to be a deputy director of the,

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you know, presidents make appointments all the

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time, you know, like, Hey, thank you. Which,

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and Dan Bongino definitely was very helpful towards

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president Trump. I think that when he got in

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there, he was just like, what, this is, this

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is a hard job. Podcasting is easy. You know,

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this is just a hard hard job particularly and

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we should just I just want to talk about it for

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a little bit when it comes to Epstein Because

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man, this is this is just it's insane What is

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going on what people are thinking what people

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are reading into things? Someone just just before

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we started sent me a note. He says look at this

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Epstein controls Bitcoin. I'm like, wow, okay,

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this is This is, it's unbelievable. And I, and

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I just wanted to talk about a little bit. Sure.

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Because what people are looking for isn't there

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other than Jeffrey Epstein clearly was a creep.

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Um, but nothing has come out of this. You know,

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there's, there's no, no one's being arrested.

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It's just a lot of emails. And when you look

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at emails, you know, you're going to see, you're

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going to see so anyone's email can be like, you

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can interpret things many different ways. I just

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wanted to play this I think this is what this

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is euro news or yeah, just an overview of this

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latest drop of the Epstein files and I want to

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talk about how we as Believers need to deal can

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deal with this and need to look at it after he

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was released from prison in 2009 That's actually

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ABC. It's even better ABC after he was released

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from prison in 2009 Epstein was back to his jet

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-setting lifestyle and the new documents offer

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more evidence Epstein made it a point to cozy

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up to some of the richest and most powerful people

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on the planet like former Prince Andrew Woody

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Allen Bill Gates President Bill Clinton and President

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Donald J Trump All the men have denied any wrongdoing

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and any knowledge of Epstein's molestation and

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illegal activities. But with the release of the

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documents on Friday, a number of prominent men

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find themselves having to explain the exact nature

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of their relationship with Epstein. One of the

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newly released files described Trump Commerce

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Secretary, Howard Lutnick, allegedly trying to

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arrange a meal with Epstein and his private island

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in 2012, writing, the Sunday evening sound good.

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A few days later, Epstein's assistant sent Lutnick

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this message, Jeffrey wished me to pass along

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the below to you. Nice seeing you. The list of

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prominent men who spent time with Epstein and

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who are caught up in his sordid life story is

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long. The newly released documents include an

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FBI slideshow compiled sometime after July 25th,

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2025 that lists allegations against other wealthy

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and powerful men tied to Epstein beyond Donald

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Trump, including convicted sex offender and film

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producer Harvey Weinstein, billionaire Leon Black,

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and bank executive Jess Staley. DOJ officials

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have said that many of the allegations against

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prominent figures did not come from credible

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sources, were not corroborated, and none of those

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men have been charged with crimes connected to

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Epstein. the conversation, you can't avoid it

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anywhere on social media and even in the news.

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Just turn on the news. It's there. It's in our

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face the whole time. What you are seeing is that

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around money, people with a lot of money, all

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kinds of people start to congregate. And that

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is just a fact of the world. It is a worldly

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thing. And I I mean I remember when I first was

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on television in Holland and I was 19 years old

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and all these wealthy people started to kind

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of invite me to parties and you know nothing

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nothing nefarious but and I think pretty soon

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I realized like I these people don't interest

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me that I'm not you know there was this one really

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really wealthy guy in Amsterdam and he had this

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huge like multiple canal houses and I am there

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and, and I see the prime minister of the country

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driving, riding a 10 speed bike through the house.

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I'm like, what, what, this is nuts. And there's

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something about money. First of all, that removes

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boundaries for certain people, maybe for, I mean,

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when you just have hundreds and hundreds and

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hundreds of millions, but then all these people.

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so desperately want to be around them. And this

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is where networks are created. And the networks

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are money and politics and show business. That's

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really the three things. And the saddest part,

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and this is really what happened with this Epstein

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club, is that there are many, particularly young

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women, who want to make it in Hollywood, in modeling,

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in music all and they see that as an in and they

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mistake the interest from Wealthy men powerful

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and it's usually men I'm just gonna say that

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straight up is usually men and they think but

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here's my shot and I say this because I told

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you the other day that one of my daughter's friends

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Appears in the Epstein files with emails and

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she went to great lengths to be a part of this

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and go to New York and actually change her body

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and then whatever didn't work out and then she

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just got really depressed and my daughter's actually

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been kind of counseling her for years through

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this type of depression. But what you're seeing

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is These networks this is why people are attracted

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to it because this is the stuff where things

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Do get done in the world in the world of politics

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and the world of banking Show business all of

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it. It really it really does happen. I want people

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to recognize that part and also It seems like

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nine out of 10 very rich, wealthy, powerful people

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are almost illiterate. Have you seen some of

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these emails? They can barely write a sentence

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in good English, which I find interesting. And

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this reminded me of a classic bit from George

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Carlin. And I cleaned this one up and just shortened

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it a little bit just to get to his basic message.

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And I think what he's saying, a lot of what Carlin

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said was true. And I think it's true as well,

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but I think we can look at this through believers'

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eyes and take a different path and also not be

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as cynical as the good George Carlin, who I think

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died very unhappy because he was just mad. You

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have no choice. You have owners. They own you.

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They own everything. They own all the important

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land. They own and control the corporations.

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They've long since bought and paid for the Senate,

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the Congress, the state houses, the city halls.

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They've got the judges in their back pockets.

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And they own all the big media companies. So

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they control just about all of the news and information

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you get to hear. They spend billions of dollars

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every year lobbying, lobbying to get what they

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want. Well, we know what they want. They want

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more for themselves and less for everybody else.

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But I'll tell you what they don't want. They

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don't want a population of citizens capable of

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critical thinking. They don't want well -informed,

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well -educated people capable of critical thinking.

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They're not interested in that. That doesn't

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help them. That's against their interest. That's

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right. It's a big club. And you ain't in it.

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You and I are not in the big club and that's

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the classic line from George card and that is

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it How do we how do we even look at this as believers?

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First of all, there's a just the distancing yourself

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from the noise because it's all noise. It's all

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noise But there is it is true. There is a there's

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multiple clubs, but there's big clubs of power

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and money from a biblical standpoint How do we

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a recognize it be? deal with it and see how do

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we route around it so that we just don't get

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caught up in George Carlin land of forget it,

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it's over, you're not going to win. Well, how

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we recognize it is the same way your mother probably

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learned to count change. My mom was in banking

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back in the day where they taught her. I don't

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know if they'd still do this, but it's kind of

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famous where they would take a teller And when

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they're training them, they would never let them

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handle counterfeit money. Only real money. Only

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real money. So that when they knew, all they

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knew was what was true, what was right. When

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a counterfeit came across, they'd recognize it

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immediately. They'd recognize the weight, the

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feel, the texture, even the color. They could

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spot those things because it wasn't true. And

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it's the same way. This is why I was even thinking

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about this this morning. I love Romans 12 to

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talk about, be transformed, be changed by the

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renewing of your mind. But that literally says

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from the New Living Translation, which is very

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accurate, be changed by changing the way you

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think. Be transformed by changing the way you

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think. And so there's a sense where we have to

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stop thinking like the world thinks. And how

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do we think like the world thinks? Well, we read

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what the world reads. the news that the world

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produces. We watch movies and television that

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the world produces. We celebrate the award shows

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that the world produces. Oh my gosh. No, I couldn't

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last through halfway the Grammys. Once I heard

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that you can't be illegal on stolen land, I was

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done. I'm like, okay, all right. Yeah, it didn't

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take long for them to get into it, did it? No.

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And the no eye spans. But all of that, So what

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all these are, and what we do as Christians,

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and I say we because I'm including myself, I'm

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waking up to a lot of these things over the years

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as I continue to grow, that I've handled too

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much counterfeit stuff. And because of that,

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it can get a little bit mixed on what's real,

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what's authentic, and what's counterfeit, what's

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fake, what's true, what's false. And so I have

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found in my experience, I guess you could say

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pro tip, since I'm a professional Christian,

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as a pastor, is that the more, when I was younger

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and I was more immersed in the world and I was

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more immersed in the culture, it was harder to

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recognize truth. But as I've gotten older and

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I've spent more time, like my morning times have

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become, I just can't get enough, honestly, in

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the mornings. That's when I got up at 530 this

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morning. and just had a couple of hours of bliss.

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I mean, just with God, with some soft music playing

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in the 440 Hertz key, of course, because that's

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the key of David. We got to have the right key.

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We do not want to be hijacked. Before they changed

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it in 1938 or whenever they changed the Hertz

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things. But anyway, all I'd say, I'm getting

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off. As I've gotten more handling truth and over

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the years began to call out, things, carve out

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things that I know are not really good for me.

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They're not really helping me. They're just entertainment.

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And we've talked a lot about pushing back on

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media and various social media, various things.

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The more I do this, that means the more immersed

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I am in what's true, which means now when something

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comes across my desk or my phone or a screen,

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I just, I just cringe. I immediately recognize

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that's not true. No, that's off. That's off.

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Or I hear a preacher preaching something. I'm

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going, that's not true. That's off. I was even

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listening to a First Amendment lawyer who was

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just blatantly misrepresenting, we've talked

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about this, the First Amendment as well. You

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have a right to your faith and practicing your

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religion and you have a right to, that's not

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what the First Amendment says. It says the government

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can't stop or abridge your they call it natural

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right, but it's a God -given right, even if you

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read the Constitution, it's a God -given right.

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I guess this is what we call discernment, because

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this is a big term which Tina and I talk about

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a lot. It's like, well, how do you get discernment?

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Does that come back to the... the counterfeit

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money? Is that it? Well, yeah. I mean, that's

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part of it. Of course, it can be much broader.

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That was just one example. Discernment. And when

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you read discernment in the scriptures, there's

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several places. One of them is in 1 Samuel, when

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it's talking about the sons or the men of Issachar.

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Issachar, yeah. Sorry, I'm in a foreign environment.

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My stand comes from the other way. I'll be knocking

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stuff over here in a minute. I'm sorry. Knock

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your speakers off your desk. So, especially to

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talk with my hands. So, first Samuel talks about

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David's mighty men. It lists out. There's one

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group that's 50 ,000, one that's 45 ,000. And

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you can see the men of Issachar. This is about

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a hundred guys, wasn't it? Two hundred. Two hundred,

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yeah. Two hundred. Smallest group listed. And

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those were the ones that David kept close to

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him. And the scripture says this, they discern

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the times and they understood what to do. So,

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he kept them close because they discerned the

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times. They understood the times. To discern,

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for example, in the New Testament, it talks about

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the discerning of spirits. So a lot of times

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somebody will say, oh, I've got the spiritual

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gift of discernment. And I'll say, what do you

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mean by that? I said, well, God just gives me

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clear understanding about things. I said, well,

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I'm sorry, that's not that gift that you're referring

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to. Maybe you have some wisdom, some learned

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wisdom. There is wisdom. there's not a gift of

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discernment. There's a gift of discerning of

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spirits. It's very clear about that. What that

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means is you have the ability to see behind things,

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sort of like behind the curtain, you know, Wizard

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of Oz, pull the curtain back, there's the Oz,

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moving stuff. So that's what discernment is.

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You have the ability to see beyond what's right

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in front of you to what's behind it. So the discerning

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of spirits is you can discern the spirit of something

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behind it. So something comes at you, somebody

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standing there and they're berating you or they're

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on their mighty keyboard berating you. That happens

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all the time, right? And that's happening. The

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discerning of spirits means you understand what's

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behind it. And that's why you could go, you know

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what? I'm not going to be mad at this guy because

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it's not even him. There's a spirit driving that.

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Why? You discerned that. So now what do you do?

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Well, you just painted a red X on that guy. For

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prayer. Yeah. Not to kill, but to pray. To pray,

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to bombard with life. And so that's the discerning

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of spirits. So this idea of discernment, and

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it's a great word by the way, it literally means

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to see beyond the obvious. That's what it is.

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You're just seeing something that's not obvious.

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And you talk about this all the time. When you

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do media deconstruction, and when the media is

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going, over here, over here, and everybody runs

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over there, you're saying, no, look somewhere

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else. That's discernment. You're seeing beyond

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what appears to be obvious. Does that make sense?

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I'll be honest with you. Throughout the 20 years

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I've been doing that, whenever everyone's looking

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to the right, I just know, oh, I just got to

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look to the left. I don't know why, but there's

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going to be something over there. It seems like

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That seems to be how the the the powers In the

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heavenly places, you know, you know that tallies

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principalities Thank you. That seems that's how

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they operate and for me is like once I figured

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that out It's like oh, well if everyone says

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this guy is great. He may be great when we take

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a look over there Just let me see what's going

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on with this other person It's almost like it's

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a simple trick that that the enemy just keeps

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playing over and over and over again out of hand

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and yes, and we and Yet we still fall for it.

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And what's tough is when you have the spiritual

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people pastors Preachers who are doing this on

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YouTube and TikTok and other places. And man,

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this is where discernment gets hard. Cause also

00:27:40.789 --> 00:27:43.670
as a new Christian, it gets hard. Understandably.

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I'm not so sure about this. Now I could, you

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know, my spidey sense saying, well, probably

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not, but that's just, you know, I'm 61. I've

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been around, I've seen some stuff, but in general,

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in the world, the fallen world, which I think

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this Epstein thing kind of shows us this this

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hunkering for being close to a power center being

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and it's often more power. I'm not even sure

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if for the love of money is the root of all kinds

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of evil. Yes, but there's something about fame

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and fortune and it's always fame first that draws

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people in. And man, social media is built on

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this. built on this entire concept of reward.

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And I know that we've talked about the neurological

00:28:37.690 --> 00:28:42.549
parts of it where dopamine and different hits

00:28:42.549 --> 00:28:44.230
you're getting, these things are programmed for

00:28:44.230 --> 00:28:47.809
it. But what is it about? Does this just go back

00:28:47.809 --> 00:28:53.029
to the garden man? Come on, this is what you

00:28:53.029 --> 00:28:55.210
want. You want this fruit. This is the thing

00:28:55.210 --> 00:28:56.789
that's going to give it all to you. Does it really

00:28:56.789 --> 00:29:00.529
go back to that? Sounds exactly what we're being

00:29:00.529 --> 00:29:05.069
told. Take this pill, your tinnitus or your tinnitus

00:29:05.069 --> 00:29:07.829
will stop. This is what you need. This will do

00:29:07.829 --> 00:29:12.509
it. Then buy this trinket or whatever I happen

00:29:12.509 --> 00:29:14.789
to whisper out loud and my phone picked up and

00:29:14.789 --> 00:29:17.190
then suddenly it fills my newsfeed with stuff

00:29:17.190 --> 00:29:19.950
I'd never think about. And that happens a lot.

00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:22.200
It's actually, if you're just close to someone

00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:24.339
who has been looking at stuff on the phone, so

00:29:24.339 --> 00:29:26.660
do you and Annette ever get the same things that

00:29:26.660 --> 00:29:28.940
happens all the time, right? Yeah. So Annette

00:29:28.940 --> 00:29:31.940
and I, our conversation, speaking of this dynamic,

00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:38.140
it has become funny now because she, here's an

00:29:38.140 --> 00:29:41.779
Easter egg for my wife. She's on our screen more

00:29:41.779 --> 00:29:45.099
than I am now. So we'll see if she picks up on

00:29:45.099 --> 00:29:50.039
this. Don't tell her. What happens is that she'll

00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:53.900
say, I'll hear, oh my gosh, across the room.

00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:56.839
I'm going, what's going on, babe? She said, did

00:29:56.839 --> 00:29:58.759
you read this? And I said, I don't know what

00:29:58.759 --> 00:30:01.500
you're talking about. Read what? It's always

00:30:01.500 --> 00:30:05.599
the guessing game. And then she'll share this

00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:09.160
tidbit. And I'll have to tell you how it's changed.

00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:11.779
So this happens all the time. And I'll go, no,

00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:14.359
babe, I haven't read that. And I said, is everybody

00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:17.210
talking about that? Yeah. Oh, it's all over.

00:30:17.269 --> 00:30:19.549
It's all over media. And I'm like, that's not

00:30:19.549 --> 00:30:22.569
the issue. Wow. That's a good way of looking

00:30:22.569 --> 00:30:25.170
at it. Something else is going on. And then now

00:30:25.170 --> 00:30:29.210
she's doing that. Just recently, she'll say,

00:30:29.390 --> 00:30:32.930
oh my gosh, what's going on? Oh, have you read

00:30:32.930 --> 00:30:34.809
this? No, I haven't. And then she reads it to

00:30:34.809 --> 00:30:37.390
me and she go, but I bet that's not the truth.

00:30:37.609 --> 00:30:39.390
I mean, she just autopilot now. Well, that's

00:30:39.390 --> 00:30:41.769
good. That's good. Yeah. And we were laughing

00:30:41.769 --> 00:30:43.509
about it the other day because I was like, have

00:30:43.509 --> 00:30:46.519
you noticed that We just don't trust anything

00:30:46.519 --> 00:30:49.059
that comes across our screens anymore. But that's

00:30:49.059 --> 00:30:52.220
the incoming part. The part that concerns me

00:30:52.220 --> 00:30:56.720
the most is, oh, wow, I got to reboost this.

00:30:57.279 --> 00:31:00.839
I got to boost it, tweet it, slash it, whatever.

00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:05.359
I have to add my comment to this. That, to me,

00:31:05.420 --> 00:31:07.680
is the part that is... What are you showing me?

00:31:07.700 --> 00:31:09.680
I'm going to read you something. Okay. So this

00:31:09.680 --> 00:31:13.119
came across, this came into our Bridge Church

00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:22.019
IG. I think we were mentioned in this, and I

00:31:22.019 --> 00:31:24.779
won't say who mentioned this, but it says this,

00:31:25.660 --> 00:31:28.539
the church doesn't know the difference. The church

00:31:28.539 --> 00:31:32.500
has a massive blind spot all in caps. They don't

00:31:32.500 --> 00:31:35.220
know the difference between biblical Jews and

00:31:35.220 --> 00:31:39.099
Zionist Jews, the synagogue of Satan. Not my

00:31:39.099 --> 00:31:42.569
opinion, it's in the Bible. And in the comment

00:31:42.569 --> 00:31:45.009
below it says time to address what's going on

00:31:45.009 --> 00:31:48.410
in our nation forgot to add elders of Zion You

00:31:48.410 --> 00:31:50.990
can come up with a few more, right? Well, this

00:31:50.990 --> 00:31:54.869
is an ongoing thing and by the way that I'm trying

00:31:54.869 --> 00:31:58.369
to not say by the way It fits right into Epstein

00:31:58.369 --> 00:32:00.589
because there's nothing better than having a

00:32:00.589 --> 00:32:04.490
Jewish guy who was rich You know claimed to have

00:32:04.490 --> 00:32:07.769
connections his girlfriend Maxwell certainly

00:32:07.769 --> 00:32:10.309
through her dad, whatever You know what? You

00:32:10.309 --> 00:32:12.650
get rich. Yeah, you might get a call from the

00:32:12.650 --> 00:32:14.910
intelligence. Who are you talking to? What are

00:32:14.910 --> 00:32:17.150
you doing? What can we do? It's all part of the

00:32:17.150 --> 00:32:22.150
same system. This just, what is the word? It

00:32:22.150 --> 00:32:25.750
disappoints me. It disappoints me that people

00:32:25.750 --> 00:32:28.630
continue to think that there's this big blackmailing

00:32:28.630 --> 00:32:31.910
operation, that everybody's compromised. And

00:32:31.910 --> 00:32:35.470
if you don't speak the way everyone else does,

00:32:35.529 --> 00:32:38.640
then you're compromised. I mean, it's ridiculous

00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:42.740
on its face, ridiculous on its face that Israel

00:32:42.740 --> 00:32:46.200
controls America. I mean, if people just use

00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:48.960
their brain logically and look at history. Or

00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:52.440
people that get mad at me because I pray Psalm

00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:56.759
122 verse 6 every Sunday morning apologetically.

00:32:57.210 --> 00:32:59.470
And sometimes I give a little explanation, let

00:32:59.470 --> 00:33:01.809
people know this is why we're doing this. Would

00:33:01.809 --> 00:33:03.930
you mind doing that again for people who are

00:33:03.930 --> 00:33:05.170
listening right now? The simple thing is this,

00:33:05.329 --> 00:33:09.130
God told us to do this, and he didn't qualify

00:33:09.130 --> 00:33:11.730
Israel because there was nothing to qualify.

00:33:11.769 --> 00:33:14.089
It was the nation of Israel, the city of Jerusalem.

00:33:14.589 --> 00:33:19.329
And he says in Psalm 122 verse 6, pray for the

00:33:19.329 --> 00:33:22.769
peace of Jerusalem. That's it. And then there's

00:33:22.769 --> 00:33:26.160
another tag on that. That's what is a command.

00:33:26.319 --> 00:33:28.480
It's an imperative in the actual Hebrew language,

00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:31.539
which means it's a command. It's a mandate. It's

00:33:31.539 --> 00:33:34.160
not a, oh, if you feel like it, or depending

00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:36.539
on if things change in culture. Here's the thing,

00:33:36.740 --> 00:33:38.700
my thought on this and the reason why I do this

00:33:38.700 --> 00:33:44.660
is A, he commands it. Two, in the Abrahamic covenant

00:33:44.660 --> 00:33:48.740
in Genesis, two different places, but one specifically

00:33:48.740 --> 00:33:52.180
that I'll reference, is where he says that that

00:33:52.180 --> 00:33:54.319
in you and through you all the families in the

00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:56.539
earth will be blessed. And he says, and those

00:33:56.539 --> 00:33:59.140
who bless you will be blessed and those who curse

00:33:59.140 --> 00:34:02.880
you will be cursed. And then later in that same

00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:05.680
passage, God reminds Abraham, it was Abraham

00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:09.300
before Abraham, that this is an everlasting covenant.

00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:11.480
Right. So not something that gets interrupted

00:34:11.480 --> 00:34:13.980
or changed by the coming of the Messiah. Yeah,

00:34:14.019 --> 00:34:18.000
it's forever. And so I have always stood that

00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:21.539
we are commanded to support Israel. That doesn't

00:34:21.539 --> 00:34:24.679
mean support all their politics. Man, I can't

00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:27.360
even say that about America right now. And yet

00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:30.519
I'm as red as they come, and I'm a conservative,

00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:34.239
pro -life, you name it, I'm that. Anyway, not

00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:37.900
going to get off on the weeds. And yet I will

00:34:37.900 --> 00:34:41.280
say, if our president or somebody's cabinet says

00:34:41.280 --> 00:34:44.940
something off base, or that doesn't align with

00:34:44.940 --> 00:34:48.500
biblical worldview, I'll call that out. as we

00:34:48.500 --> 00:34:50.699
should. Well, I'd do the same thing with Israel.

00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:54.320
However, I've been commanded to pray for the

00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:56.320
peace of Jerusalem. And there it is. There it

00:34:56.320 --> 00:34:58.539
is. There's the difference. And there is a, this

00:34:58.539 --> 00:35:03.360
is not a coinkydink coincidence. As we have blessed

00:35:03.360 --> 00:35:06.800
by praying for Israel and we support a ministry

00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:10.039
in Israel that is messianic in nature, it means

00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:12.360
these Jewish people have, they believe in Jesus

00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:15.239
Christ. They believe in salvation by grace through

00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:19.269
faith in Jesus. And so we support their ministry.

00:35:20.590 --> 00:35:23.110
And when we started doing that, and then when

00:35:23.110 --> 00:35:28.710
I began every Sunday, I'm telling you, the blessings

00:35:28.710 --> 00:35:31.530
that have come our way, we're operating in the

00:35:31.530 --> 00:35:35.409
Abrahamic covenant. And I don't mean this in

00:35:35.409 --> 00:35:38.269
a bad way, but I'm at a point in my life where

00:35:38.269 --> 00:35:41.070
I can't worry about what somebody else thinks

00:35:41.070 --> 00:35:43.739
about that. Of course. As a leader, a spiritual

00:35:43.739 --> 00:35:46.199
leader and one that's called to uphold the tenets

00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:49.019
of God's Word, we're going to pray for Israel

00:35:49.019 --> 00:35:51.519
every week. And I don't care who is sitting out

00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:53.300
there in the congregation feeling uncomfortable

00:35:53.300 --> 00:35:55.539
about it. The only reason they're uncomfortable,

00:35:55.619 --> 00:35:57.719
it's not because they know, it's because they

00:35:57.719 --> 00:36:00.920
think they know because they saw it on a post.

00:36:01.300 --> 00:36:03.519
This kind of stuff. It's so odd though how you

00:36:03.519 --> 00:36:09.280
can confuse the covenant, how you can confuse

00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:12.590
the command to pray for the peace of Jerusalem

00:36:12.590 --> 00:36:18.150
was somehow, regardless of what the Israeli government

00:36:18.150 --> 00:36:22.550
does, somehow conflating that with supporting

00:36:22.550 --> 00:36:27.010
them. It's like there's this mental block that

00:36:27.010 --> 00:36:29.550
has taken place. And even funnier, because we're

00:36:29.550 --> 00:36:37.699
going on a Bible study tour of Israel. with about,

00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:40.079
I think, 60 people from the church. About 40.

00:36:40.380 --> 00:36:44.519
35 or 40, yeah. Very excited to go. It's always

00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:47.440
been on my bucket list. The first things I hear

00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:51.880
are, well, is it safe? I'm like, okay, so you

00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:57.099
really need to get some different sources. Is

00:36:57.099 --> 00:37:02.639
any country safe? Second thing is, wow, do you

00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:06.280
really feel Good about supporting the economy

00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:11.019
of Israel. I'm like, huh? I support the economy

00:37:11.019 --> 00:37:12.780
of the United States, which has done some pretty

00:37:12.780 --> 00:37:16.039
bad things in its history But it's just it's

00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:18.760
you know, this is a biblical study tour. I want

00:37:18.760 --> 00:37:21.940
to see these places You know that I've been reading

00:37:21.940 --> 00:37:24.320
about it's exciting. I have friends in Israel,

00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:26.800
you know, I look forward to meeting sir Brian

00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:30.340
of London We're both going to have to meet him

00:37:30.340 --> 00:37:33.679
for sure. Fantastic. Yeah, I like that guy. He's

00:37:33.679 --> 00:37:36.059
a great guy. He's sharp. The favorite thing he

00:37:36.059 --> 00:37:38.219
always says to me is like, Adam, just remember,

00:37:39.179 --> 00:37:41.440
we think Jesus was an insurrectionist, okay?

00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:46.039
But I love you. I can laugh with him. I don't

00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:47.860
care about that. Hey, thanks for being honest.

00:37:48.360 --> 00:37:50.820
I love you too, bro. He's always honest. And

00:37:50.820 --> 00:37:54.460
I love that. I mean, you know, just... And here's

00:37:54.460 --> 00:37:58.239
the bottom line. Okay, what if we're wrong? What

00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:02.179
if their government is corrupt? What if it sounds

00:38:02.179 --> 00:38:04.599
like we're supporting something? At the end of

00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:06.980
the day, we still should be praying for them.

00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:09.260
Well, they need more prayer. Exactly. Specifically

00:38:09.260 --> 00:38:12.480
for that reason. That's why that just so boggles

00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:15.500
my mind when people say that or they'll sneak

00:38:15.500 --> 00:38:18.280
up to net. Why do we pray for Israel? She said,

00:38:18.440 --> 00:38:20.639
if you not listen to my husband for the last

00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:22.940
three years, we've been doing this. And it's

00:38:22.940 --> 00:38:25.099
always funny, but it's because of something they

00:38:25.099 --> 00:38:28.300
read on their screen that got them all worked

00:38:28.300 --> 00:38:32.780
up. And our word is spun up. So many people,

00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:36.840
they live spun up. I think people are so addicted

00:38:36.840 --> 00:38:40.800
to that dopamine hit, that dopamine dump, that

00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:42.940
when they're not getting that, they don't know

00:38:42.940 --> 00:38:47.380
what to do. Sitting in an airport, standing in

00:38:47.380 --> 00:38:50.500
a line at the grocery store. Nonstop. No one's

00:38:50.500 --> 00:38:54.780
reading the National Enquirer anymore. Why not?

00:38:54.900 --> 00:38:56.840
I mean, I feel bad for those places, you know?

00:38:57.019 --> 00:38:59.019
They're getting no business. By the way, they

00:38:59.019 --> 00:39:01.320
got a lot of truth. The National Enquirer, man,

00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:03.699
just look at Men in Black. They have it right

00:39:03.699 --> 00:39:05.460
a lot, I'm telling you. They know what they're

00:39:05.460 --> 00:39:09.579
talking about. Alien baby. Yeah, I mean, so it's,

00:39:09.579 --> 00:39:13.800
that's tragic to me though, that we now, we say

00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:15.900
we don't believe all this stuff. We say, oh,

00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:19.179
no, that's, yeah, it's... But we're so addicted

00:39:19.179 --> 00:39:22.659
to the hit that we'll still read it, but can

00:39:22.659 --> 00:39:25.380
convince ourselves it's not affecting me. It

00:39:25.380 --> 00:39:28.559
is. It is. You swim in a cesspool, you're going

00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:31.500
to stink. There's no way around it. There's a

00:39:31.500 --> 00:39:34.920
bumper sticker. There's a Texas saying. Yeah.

00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:38.019
So I guess I'm in a way just a broken record.

00:39:38.380 --> 00:39:41.880
I know. I'm concerned though, just for young

00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:44.389
people. Because if you ask them that when we

00:39:44.389 --> 00:39:47.190
were growing up we didn't want to be you firefighter

00:39:47.190 --> 00:39:51.250
no doubt policeman You know at a certain point

00:39:51.250 --> 00:39:54.849
basketball football rock star hero rock star.

00:39:55.190 --> 00:39:57.769
Hey, absolutely I just wanted to be a D. I just

00:39:57.769 --> 00:40:00.010
wanted to be dr. Johnny fever. I wanted I wanted

00:40:00.010 --> 00:40:03.679
the dark room, which I have now Everybody's the

00:40:03.679 --> 00:40:06.659
wolf man. I got the dark room. I got my gear,

00:40:06.860 --> 00:40:10.280
you know. No one can see what I'm doing. I want

00:40:10.280 --> 00:40:13.440
to be the big voice behind the mic. But these

00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:16.559
days it's the number one is influencer. I want

00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:19.300
to be an influencer. I want to be famous. I want

00:40:19.300 --> 00:40:23.460
to be an Instagram star. And unfortunately, there's

00:40:23.460 --> 00:40:26.360
also a whole generation of parents who are like,

00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:29.860
well, yeah, that would be pretty cool. I'd love

00:40:29.860 --> 00:40:33.449
to see you have some success this way. Praise

00:40:33.449 --> 00:40:37.389
God our daughters Just they somehow they got

00:40:37.389 --> 00:40:40.469
out of it. Mm -hmm. Nice. They got out of it

00:40:40.469 --> 00:40:42.630
and you know, my daughter Christina Mm -hmm.

00:40:42.989 --> 00:40:46.050
She I mean and I had her on laptops when she

00:40:46.050 --> 00:40:49.250
was nine, you know This is way before social

00:40:49.250 --> 00:40:51.070
media, but she even told me oh dad, you know

00:40:51.070 --> 00:40:54.949
that ICQ thing Yeah, so I was getting all kinds

00:40:54.949 --> 00:40:58.329
of weird messages and like so by the grace of

00:40:58.329 --> 00:41:00.909
God she you know, she she got through a lot of

00:41:00.909 --> 00:41:05.059
that but They've just they've somehow they've

00:41:05.059 --> 00:41:08.940
realized I would hope think because of us Tina

00:41:08.940 --> 00:41:12.719
myself That it's just it's just empty. It's not

00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:17.480
worth it. It's it goes nowhere and It I feel

00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:20.320
like like just yelling into the void sometimes

00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:23.820
there's no there's no way to convince people

00:41:23.820 --> 00:41:27.300
people who I respect are texting me all day long

00:41:27.300 --> 00:41:29.239
like look at this thing from the episode look

00:41:29.239 --> 00:41:33.199
at this I'm like Bro, get off of X. Get off.

00:41:33.300 --> 00:41:35.460
I mean, I can sit here and tell you the 10 ways

00:41:35.460 --> 00:41:40.360
how this is not true and dumb, but you just keep

00:41:40.360 --> 00:41:45.440
doing it. And from faithful people too. I can't

00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:49.179
see it from there. Oh, yes. People we love. People

00:41:49.179 --> 00:41:55.170
we love. it wakens up all kinds of things like

00:41:55.170 --> 00:41:58.150
a patriotic spirit and we're going to fight and

00:41:58.150 --> 00:42:00.590
fight for our country and fight for our faith.

00:42:00.710 --> 00:42:02.969
I'm like, this is not the right way. This is

00:42:02.969 --> 00:42:06.670
not the way to do it. And Tina and I, we pray

00:42:06.670 --> 00:42:09.690
before we go to sleep at night and we, by name,

00:42:10.269 --> 00:42:15.090
we'll pray for Waltz. We'll pray for Newsome.

00:42:16.190 --> 00:42:19.630
I can see clearly that they're not great at their

00:42:19.630 --> 00:42:23.570
jobs. but I just stopped hating them. I can't

00:42:23.570 --> 00:42:27.010
do that. It doesn't make sense to me. Well, that's

00:42:27.010 --> 00:42:29.670
coming in the opposite spirit. Some of the best

00:42:29.670 --> 00:42:33.110
advice I got as a young pastor was, whatever

00:42:33.110 --> 00:42:36.409
comes at you, come in the opposite spirit. I

00:42:36.409 --> 00:42:38.530
remember when he said that, I was like, It's

00:42:38.530 --> 00:42:41.030
no wonder we're good friends, Pastor Jimmy. We

00:42:41.030 --> 00:42:43.389
have a lot of the same mechanisms. He said, come

00:42:43.389 --> 00:42:45.090
in the opposite spirit. In other words, if somebody

00:42:45.090 --> 00:42:47.329
comes at you with, hey, you come back with love.

00:42:47.389 --> 00:42:49.389
If they come at you with cursing, you come back

00:42:49.389 --> 00:42:53.050
at them with blessing. And what it did, it created

00:42:53.050 --> 00:42:55.409
a different response. I'd love to say I did it

00:42:55.409 --> 00:42:57.610
100 % of the time or still do it 100 % of the

00:42:57.610 --> 00:43:00.590
time. If I'm not careful and guarding myself

00:43:00.590 --> 00:43:04.010
and watching my eye gate, my ear gate, all those

00:43:04.010 --> 00:43:06.929
different gates that allow things into your heart,

00:43:07.469 --> 00:43:09.949
I can be caught off guard and get all spun up

00:43:09.949 --> 00:43:11.869
pretty quick. Actually, a lot less than I used

00:43:11.869 --> 00:43:14.829
to. I'm just saying there's a filter that's kind

00:43:14.829 --> 00:43:17.230
of been built in me and a lot of it's through

00:43:17.230 --> 00:43:21.130
our friendship and our conversations. What we

00:43:21.130 --> 00:43:24.429
do on here on air is just a micro of what we

00:43:24.429 --> 00:43:26.710
talk about. And I would say part of the beauty

00:43:26.710 --> 00:43:30.130
of our friendship is we start off every day with

00:43:30.130 --> 00:43:33.449
a little text update back and forth. Sometimes

00:43:33.449 --> 00:43:37.199
it's just... Every each of us sends one thing.

00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:39.280
Here's what's going on. Sometimes we go further

00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:42.219
Sometimes we share some script. Well, you're

00:43:42.219 --> 00:43:44.460
always you always attach your message with your

00:43:44.460 --> 00:43:49.099
daily grind I have a couple other close friends

00:43:49.099 --> 00:43:52.699
and If you can really keep it that way if you

00:43:52.699 --> 00:43:54.619
can keep it as a group where you're just building

00:43:54.619 --> 00:43:57.519
each other up It's fantastic in the morning and

00:43:57.519 --> 00:44:00.480
that's how I start my morning. I just I cannot

00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:03.699
if I go to a screen I'm gonna be stuck and I'll

00:44:03.699 --> 00:44:06.079
be 45 minutes later the dogs looking at me like

00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:09.599
I really got to go you haven't fed me yet and

00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:12.820
Just it's a bad start and almost every day I

00:44:12.820 --> 00:44:16.320
wake up and I feel the enemy Poking at me the

00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:19.059
minute I wake up boom. Good morning. Holy Spirit.

00:44:19.059 --> 00:44:21.300
Good morning. Lord Jesus Good morning for your

00:44:21.300 --> 00:44:23.739
day. You have to however you respond to that

00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:27.239
That drawing that calling and you've got different

00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:30.039
voices calling and if you don't respond to the

00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:33.599
right one You will start your day that way and

00:44:33.599 --> 00:44:36.059
then it's hard to recover sometimes I remember

00:44:36.059 --> 00:44:39.559
doing that so well for decades. I remember I'm

00:44:39.559 --> 00:44:42.659
in a bad mood. Don't talk to me, you know Cuz

00:44:42.659 --> 00:44:45.280
cuz that first thought that pops into my head

00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:48.079
somehow the enemy has you know, not every day

00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:50.800
but often like the first thing is like and I

00:44:51.050 --> 00:44:53.869
And I and I within seconds and now like catch

00:44:53.869 --> 00:44:56.789
it like no there you know stop Lord's Prayer

00:44:56.789 --> 00:44:59.150
that always that drives everything out by the

00:44:59.150 --> 00:45:01.190
Lord's Prayer boom all right Where'd you go?

00:45:01.190 --> 00:45:03.349
Where'd you go Satan you seem to be gone also

00:45:03.349 --> 00:45:06.309
I get second Corinthians 10 talks about bringing

00:45:06.309 --> 00:45:10.190
every thought into captivity and making it obedient

00:45:10.190 --> 00:45:13.949
to Christ Capturing your thoughts take every

00:45:13.949 --> 00:45:16.789
thought captive and make it obedient to Christ

00:45:16.789 --> 00:45:18.469
that's second Corinthians. Let me look it up

00:45:18.469 --> 00:45:21.349
on my phones. I don't have my computer here in

00:45:21.349 --> 00:45:22.730
front of me. Because the studio is not built

00:45:22.730 --> 00:45:25.949
for guests with laptops. Yeah. You got this amazing

00:45:25.949 --> 00:45:29.250
desk. I got like three inches over here. So it's

00:45:29.250 --> 00:45:30.829
amazing though. When this desk was built, it

00:45:30.829 --> 00:45:33.489
was just for me. So I didn't know I was going

00:45:33.489 --> 00:45:36.769
to have guests. I had no idea. It's also a standing

00:45:36.769 --> 00:45:39.489
desk really. Yeah, I love that. Mine's a standing

00:45:39.489 --> 00:45:43.170
desk. I love that thing. So let me go to, make

00:45:43.170 --> 00:45:45.730
sure I got that right. Second Corinthians 10,

00:45:46.469 --> 00:45:50.119
four, There it is. Listen to this. It says, we

00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:52.860
use God's mighty weapons, not worldly weapons,

00:45:52.980 --> 00:45:55.739
to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning

00:45:55.739 --> 00:45:59.920
and to destroy false arguments. We destroy every

00:45:59.920 --> 00:46:02.380
proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing

00:46:02.380 --> 00:46:06.119
God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and

00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:08.820
teach them to obey Christ. Now that's the NLT.

00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:10.940
Let me read it to you in another translation

00:46:10.940 --> 00:46:15.400
that will clarify that just a little bit. I'll

00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:20.119
go with the New King James Version says this,

00:46:20.639 --> 00:46:23.219
we're casting down arguments and every high thing

00:46:23.219 --> 00:46:25.760
that exalts itself against the knowledge of God,

00:46:26.019 --> 00:46:29.619
bringing every thought into captivity to the

00:46:29.619 --> 00:46:32.860
obedience of Christ. So I learned that principle

00:46:32.860 --> 00:46:36.019
many years ago. Maybe somebody preached on it

00:46:36.019 --> 00:46:38.559
or heard it or read it or something, but it was

00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:40.780
this idea that you can actually capture thoughts.

00:46:40.860 --> 00:46:42.280
And that's kind of what you're talking about

00:46:42.280 --> 00:46:45.170
in the mornings when you get up and We're always

00:46:45.170 --> 00:46:47.130
a little susceptible right in the morning because

00:46:47.130 --> 00:46:49.210
we're kind of starting with a clean slate. The

00:46:49.210 --> 00:46:51.309
scripture says his mercies are new every morning.

00:46:51.510 --> 00:46:54.349
You get a do -over every day to wake up with

00:46:54.349 --> 00:46:57.130
a clean whiteboard, right? No marks, nothing.

00:46:57.929 --> 00:46:59.789
And if we're not careful, man, we'll have that

00:46:59.789 --> 00:47:02.050
thing marked up by nine o 'clock. By nine a .m.,

00:47:02.050 --> 00:47:06.389
it's all cluttered. Or we can do some simple,

00:47:06.389 --> 00:47:11.429
basic practices that will help us start the day

00:47:11.429 --> 00:47:15.610
off. with some order, with some peace. I told

00:47:15.610 --> 00:47:17.510
Annette this morning because she's wanting me

00:47:17.510 --> 00:47:19.030
to start walking again, because she heard him

00:47:19.030 --> 00:47:21.550
talking about the Israel trip and all the walking

00:47:21.550 --> 00:47:23.929
we're going to do. It's not that much. Shoes

00:47:23.929 --> 00:47:26.010
have been ordered for me. I got to break them

00:47:26.010 --> 00:47:29.449
in. Mine come in Thursday, my Merrell's. I bought

00:47:29.449 --> 00:47:32.349
a tennis shoe, hiking shoe. I got to wear boots.

00:47:32.369 --> 00:47:34.250
I got some lightweight stuff. I'm not doing the

00:47:34.250 --> 00:47:36.710
boots, but anyway. Yes, please continue. Well,

00:47:36.869 --> 00:47:40.750
so we were talking this morning and I was telling,

00:47:40.969 --> 00:47:43.130
she wanted me to start walking. Okay, you know,

00:47:43.130 --> 00:47:44.750
we got to start walking now. We got to train

00:47:44.750 --> 00:47:48.530
for Israel. I'm like, train? Honey, five of our

00:47:48.530 --> 00:47:52.309
people on walkers, we're going to be fine. And

00:47:52.309 --> 00:47:53.989
one will be in a wheelchair probably half the

00:47:53.989 --> 00:47:56.170
time. And so she said, no, no, we got to get

00:47:56.170 --> 00:47:57.610
ready. We got to train. She says, we're going

00:47:57.610 --> 00:48:01.329
to start going in the morning. I said, I love

00:48:01.329 --> 00:48:06.170
you, but no. And she said, She said, oh, you

00:48:06.170 --> 00:48:07.889
just don't want to walk. I said, no, I'd love

00:48:07.889 --> 00:48:09.929
to walk with you. And I'll do it in the afternoons

00:48:09.929 --> 00:48:11.650
and the evenings, especially this time of year.

00:48:11.909 --> 00:48:13.730
And Brandon walked when I get home by the way.

00:48:14.389 --> 00:48:17.530
So, but I said, my morning time is too critical

00:48:17.530 --> 00:48:21.030
for me. If I don't set the tone, first thing,

00:48:21.309 --> 00:48:23.650
and if I'm rushing through all that, just so

00:48:23.650 --> 00:48:26.949
I can go walk. It's not that I don't want to

00:48:26.949 --> 00:48:29.340
be with you or walk with you. It's just. it's

00:48:29.340 --> 00:48:32.119
rushing what is actually one of the most important

00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:35.780
times of my day. And you and I both, Tina was

00:48:35.780 --> 00:48:37.800
just asking me yesterday, why do you always get

00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:43.019
up at 630? I said, because I like the 45 minutes,

00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:46.699
the dog is still asleep, you're still asleep,

00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:50.519
is she behind you, is she in her bed? She's conked

00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:53.519
out. I just want to make the coffee, get it all

00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:56.900
set for both of us, and I just want to read.

00:48:57.239 --> 00:48:59.639
Get in the word. I have a sequence, you know,

00:48:59.739 --> 00:49:03.800
some devotionals, and then around 6 .30, you

00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:07.860
know, between 6 .30 and 7, your text comes through.

00:49:08.280 --> 00:49:11.159
And I've found it's so important to me. It's

00:49:11.159 --> 00:49:14.539
interesting about the clean whiteboard. My parents

00:49:14.539 --> 00:49:18.659
were kind of hippy -dippy in regards to spirituality.

00:49:18.920 --> 00:49:21.989
My mom didn't. All kinds of things that, well,

00:49:21.989 --> 00:49:24.170
they were Unitarian for a bit there, which was

00:49:24.170 --> 00:49:26.690
also quite interesting. Had very little to do

00:49:26.690 --> 00:49:30.949
with God that I can recall. But my mom, she would,

00:49:31.409 --> 00:49:34.050
and God bless her, and I hope she's up there

00:49:34.050 --> 00:49:37.809
listening. She had, I don't know where she picked

00:49:37.809 --> 00:49:40.889
this up, probably from one of her many guru groups,

00:49:41.309 --> 00:49:44.829
and it was like every day you have a brand new

00:49:44.829 --> 00:49:47.730
sign, and you hold up this sign that says, I'm

00:49:47.730 --> 00:49:52.900
okay, I'm great. now instead of Looking at at

00:49:52.900 --> 00:49:57.920
the way we do from a clean slate She would say

00:49:57.920 --> 00:50:00.880
and throughout the day people will start to rip

00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:04.179
little bits out of your sign And we had a saying

00:50:04.179 --> 00:50:07.599
at our house if someone insulted the other one

00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:11.139
or said something mean you just ripped my sign

00:50:11.139 --> 00:50:15.079
and I think about how close she was to the right

00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:18.389
idea, but definitely Approaching it from the

00:50:18.389 --> 00:50:22.150
wrong directions like it can be it can be positive

00:50:22.150 --> 00:50:24.329
can be very positive But it's all it's kind of

00:50:24.329 --> 00:50:27.150
the same the same concept in a way. That is that

00:50:27.150 --> 00:50:30.130
is good. Actually, it's right on the money You

00:50:30.130 --> 00:50:31.849
know, they made a joke out on Saturday Night

00:50:31.849 --> 00:50:34.369
Live remember positive affirmations, you know

00:50:34.369 --> 00:50:38.269
affirmation Stuart Smalley. Yes, I'm capable.

00:50:38.449 --> 00:50:43.139
I'm good enough Yeah, funny, but at the same

00:50:43.139 --> 00:50:45.719
time. It was a little hokey. They went hokey

00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:48.679
way over, but there's some good principles there.

00:50:49.099 --> 00:50:51.719
There really is power in speaking God's word

00:50:51.719 --> 00:50:55.019
over your life. I mean, just taking Deuteronomy

00:50:55.019 --> 00:50:58.000
chapter 27 saying, you know what? According to

00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:00.519
God's word, and because I'm in Christ, I'm the

00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:03.159
head, not the tail. I'm above only and not beneath.

00:51:03.679 --> 00:51:05.980
I am blessed coming in. I'm blessed going out.

00:51:06.239 --> 00:51:08.239
I'm blessed in the city. I'm blessed in the country.

00:51:08.559 --> 00:51:10.780
In fact, if the enemy comes at me one way, the

00:51:10.780 --> 00:51:13.380
scripture tells me he has to flee seven ways.

00:51:13.739 --> 00:51:17.300
He can jump over to Isaiah 54, no weapon formed

00:51:17.300 --> 00:51:19.420
against me shall prosper. And every tongue that

00:51:19.420 --> 00:51:22.380
rises against me, God will show to be in the

00:51:22.380 --> 00:51:25.460
wrong, jump into the new tab. So you can go with

00:51:25.460 --> 00:51:28.920
that. And I do that often. It's a rewiring of

00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:31.420
your mind. It started with Romans 12 too today.

00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:35.159
Be transformed by renewing your mind. Be transformed

00:51:35.159 --> 00:51:37.119
by changing the way you think. Well, how do you

00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:39.659
change the way you think? You change what you

00:51:39.659 --> 00:51:43.739
say. Ah, yes. And so you begin to speak the life

00:51:43.739 --> 00:51:47.420
-giving Word of God and start agreeing with what

00:51:47.420 --> 00:51:50.860
God says about you and it begins to change everything.

00:51:51.079 --> 00:51:56.000
It's an identity issue. Again, from the hippie

00:51:56.000 --> 00:51:59.599
-dippie perspective, excuse me, change your words,

00:51:59.800 --> 00:52:02.679
change your world. And there's a lot of truth

00:52:02.679 --> 00:52:05.750
to that. Yeah. It's not completely out of line.

00:52:05.750 --> 00:52:08.170
No, no, not at all. It's just what words do you

00:52:08.170 --> 00:52:10.789
use is the question. Exactly. Exactly. I like

00:52:10.789 --> 00:52:15.829
to use God's word. Man, there's so much more

00:52:15.829 --> 00:52:21.989
I wanted to talk about. I mean, we could close

00:52:21.989 --> 00:52:24.809
it. Well, it's more like a cultural thing. I

00:52:24.809 --> 00:52:28.070
just wanted to say that, you know, you do the

00:52:28.070 --> 00:52:30.570
culture briefing. Uh, every Sunday now, which

00:52:30.570 --> 00:52:35.090
I, which you write in is fantastic. It's the

00:52:35.090 --> 00:52:38.449
Tina wash. Do you know what she said for this

00:52:38.449 --> 00:52:41.769
last one? She said, no changes. Wow. You wrote

00:52:41.769 --> 00:52:44.269
all that. That was an untouched. Yeah. So no

00:52:44.269 --> 00:52:47.929
changes. Wow. Yeah. There was one, one spelling

00:52:47.929 --> 00:52:50.550
mistake, I think, but yeah, but it's like Chad

00:52:50.550 --> 00:52:53.420
GBT saying this is perfectly written. Well, if

00:52:53.420 --> 00:52:55.699
it's some Chad GPT, then it'll show up with little

00:52:55.699 --> 00:52:59.760
emojis next to bullet points. If I ever send

00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:03.039
you that, just decline it and block me. Something's

00:53:03.039 --> 00:53:06.019
happened. It's not me. But you ad libbed a bit,

00:53:06.099 --> 00:53:08.280
which I appreciate. I hadn't put it in there

00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:18.360
for length about Iran. Ever since I started publishing

00:53:18.360 --> 00:53:20.840
these thoughts after you read them on Substack,

00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:23.679
Now I have a sub stack app that has given me

00:53:23.679 --> 00:53:26.219
all these. I don't, I don't know how to, how

00:53:26.219 --> 00:53:28.820
these people, how I subscribe to them, but you

00:53:28.820 --> 00:53:31.360
know, there's a couple of guys who are reporting

00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:34.380
from Israel and it's like, and everyone's ready

00:53:34.380 --> 00:53:36.539
and everyone has their phones charged and we're

00:53:36.539 --> 00:53:39.539
getting ready for an attack from Iran and the

00:53:39.539 --> 00:53:43.719
president is positioning the armada. I just want

00:53:43.719 --> 00:53:45.840
to say something about after I play this little

00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:48.780
clip. To step back from the brink, at least for

00:53:48.780 --> 00:53:52.239
now, amid the threats of a US armada taking military

00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:54.840
action against Iran and to Iran's promise to

00:53:54.840 --> 00:53:57.820
retaliate, both sides have confirmed their intox.

00:53:58.519 --> 00:54:00.900
Contrary to the hype of the contrived media war,

00:54:01.380 --> 00:54:03.320
structural arrangements for negotiations are

00:54:03.320 --> 00:54:29.980
progressing. Okay, so that's basically the messaging

00:54:29.980 --> 00:54:34.019
that's out there. Because this Came out of such

00:54:34.019 --> 00:54:36.699
left field that I had to dive into it like what's

00:54:36.699 --> 00:54:39.260
really going on and the president the president

00:54:39.260 --> 00:54:41.980
is not being completely Transparent in my opinion.

00:54:42.300 --> 00:54:44.719
He's saying well, you know, we have to have a

00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:48.019
nuclear deal like nuclear deal We we blew all

00:54:48.019 --> 00:54:50.320
that stuff up. What what is this nuclear deal?

00:54:51.039 --> 00:54:54.500
what's happening here is because of these recent

00:54:54.500 --> 00:54:58.260
uprisings the The leadership of Iran I won't

00:54:58.260 --> 00:55:00.400
call him a regime because I'm sick of people

00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:03.000
calling everything a regime it you know I don't

00:55:03.000 --> 00:55:05.320
know anything about them. They don't seem like

00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:10.099
a bunch of good guys. They are definitely weakened.

00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:14.239
I'm still not even 100 % sure about how many

00:55:14.239 --> 00:55:18.500
people were killed. One person is too much. It

00:55:18.500 --> 00:55:21.320
brought very sensationalistically about the number

00:55:21.320 --> 00:55:25.679
is 30 ,000. I don't know that. I don't see the

00:55:25.679 --> 00:55:30.289
type of evidence I would like to see. open source

00:55:30.289 --> 00:55:32.869
intelligence groups like Bellingcat pop up. I'm

00:55:32.869 --> 00:55:35.750
like, okay, there's a narrative that's been set.

00:55:35.969 --> 00:55:39.289
That's for sure. This is about one thing and

00:55:39.289 --> 00:55:44.050
one thing only. When a vacuum is created, the

00:55:44.050 --> 00:55:47.969
last thing you want is for people who may not

00:55:47.969 --> 00:55:50.550
have anyone's best interest except their own

00:55:50.550 --> 00:55:54.010
to fill that void. And that void right now is

00:55:54.010 --> 00:55:59.389
China. And it's mainly about oil. Surprise, surprise

00:55:59.389 --> 00:56:05.650
because Venezuela and Iran had constant oil trade

00:56:05.650 --> 00:56:07.210
-offs where they have two different kinds of

00:56:07.210 --> 00:56:10.230
oil. This is all the ghost ships. This is the

00:56:10.230 --> 00:56:12.510
swapping out oil, which is all sanctioned by

00:56:12.510 --> 00:56:15.750
every country. So it's not like we're alone.

00:56:16.489 --> 00:56:18.030
So when they say, well, they're parked right

00:56:18.030 --> 00:56:20.690
off the coast of Iran. Look at the map for a

00:56:20.690 --> 00:56:25.789
second. So near the Gulf of Aden, the Hormuz

00:56:25.789 --> 00:56:30.579
Straits. And it's really a protection so that

00:56:30.579 --> 00:56:35.139
oil does not get hampered or captured by Iran

00:56:35.139 --> 00:56:38.599
with other actors. It's just a show of force

00:56:38.599 --> 00:56:40.940
to say, hey, we're looking out for everybody.

00:56:41.639 --> 00:56:45.320
As far as I can tell, this is not about an attack.

00:56:45.500 --> 00:56:48.960
We're not going to go boots on the ground. If

00:56:48.960 --> 00:56:52.579
anything, it will hopefully give people in Iran

00:56:52.579 --> 00:56:57.530
a new some breathing room to start and maybe

00:56:57.530 --> 00:57:01.329
take control. I mean, Tehran is a modern city.

00:57:01.469 --> 00:57:04.090
I mean, this is not like some camel jockeys in

00:57:04.090 --> 00:57:07.889
the desert. So I just wanted to share with people

00:57:07.889 --> 00:57:10.730
that I don't think we need to be spun up about

00:57:10.730 --> 00:57:13.269
some kind of all out war that's going to take

00:57:13.269 --> 00:57:16.590
place. As the president would say, well, the

00:57:16.590 --> 00:57:19.070
aircraft carrier has got to be somewhere. So

00:57:19.070 --> 00:57:21.690
I might as well put it there for now. But it's

00:57:21.690 --> 00:57:25.889
about it's much more about How can we stabilize

00:57:25.889 --> 00:57:29.349
what's going on there with something outside,

00:57:30.070 --> 00:57:32.869
but we're not going, and friends and lovers in

00:57:32.869 --> 00:57:35.309
Israel, I really don't think you're going to

00:57:35.309 --> 00:57:37.829
have a problem. I really don't. And I have had

00:57:37.829 --> 00:57:39.869
no fear about that. The first time we went to

00:57:39.869 --> 00:57:42.869
Israel, you know, there's always, there's never

00:57:42.869 --> 00:57:45.960
not rumblings about war. with Israel. I mean,

00:57:46.079 --> 00:57:48.719
it never stops. Well, there's always wars and

00:57:48.719 --> 00:57:51.039
rumors, of course. Yeah, exactly. And it never

00:57:51.039 --> 00:57:54.019
stops. And that's kind of what Xi, our leader,

00:57:54.159 --> 00:57:57.420
was saying. He fields those kind of questions.

00:57:57.800 --> 00:58:00.500
You can tell. He fields those all the time. He's

00:58:00.500 --> 00:58:03.380
not Xi, the leader of China, by the way. No,

00:58:03.579 --> 00:58:11.059
he's Ji. And great brother in Christ. Speaks

00:58:11.059 --> 00:58:15.150
fluent Hebrew. Yeah. Yeah, not what I was seeing

00:58:15.150 --> 00:58:17.869
the stereotype there. No, not at all. But anyway,

00:58:17.909 --> 00:58:20.050
he feels those questions because people are,

00:58:20.090 --> 00:58:22.409
you know, family members are talking to people

00:58:22.409 --> 00:58:24.829
that want to go on this trip. Are you sure it's

00:58:24.829 --> 00:58:26.809
safe? I mean, everybody, well, no one asked me

00:58:26.809 --> 00:58:29.570
that about Paris when we went and man. Not as

00:58:29.570 --> 00:58:32.429
safe there. Walking around Paris with my wife's

00:58:32.429 --> 00:58:35.349
Louis Vuitton hanging out. I'm like, I'm not

00:58:35.349 --> 00:58:37.349
feeling safe here. No kidding. I mean, it felt

00:58:37.349 --> 00:58:39.829
like walking through New York City. Yeah. Same

00:58:39.829 --> 00:58:42.769
with London. So Dublin is different. Everybody's

00:58:42.769 --> 00:58:45.429
kind of nice in Dublin. Dublin is a very, very

00:58:45.429 --> 00:58:46.969
different animal. I fit in there. It's a very

00:58:46.969 --> 00:58:48.849
different animal. I just laughed with him. It

00:58:48.849 --> 00:58:51.550
was a lot of fun. But anyway, you know, so there's

00:58:51.550 --> 00:58:55.010
this fear. And so when we were there in, I think

00:58:55.010 --> 00:58:58.909
it was 05, West Bank was occupied and stuff was

00:58:58.909 --> 00:59:01.769
happening. We drove by the West Bank and it was

00:59:01.769 --> 00:59:04.889
lined with guns. I mean, just big old military

00:59:04.889 --> 00:59:07.610
guns. And the guy on the bus said, don't worry

00:59:07.610 --> 00:59:10.320
about them. It's nothing to worry about. A bunch

00:59:10.320 --> 00:59:12.280
of Americans all scared. We don't see that stuff.

00:59:12.940 --> 00:59:14.800
And there's kids walking around with guns all

00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:16.880
over the place. That's part of the army, the

00:59:16.880 --> 00:59:20.679
military. But it's also, it's like when, even

00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:23.940
now, when I tell people I live in Texas, oh,

00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:28.659
oh man, like y 'all got guns? Well, yeah. Y 'all

00:59:28.659 --> 00:59:31.400
ride horses? No. Y 'all got trucks? No, some

00:59:31.400 --> 00:59:34.260
people. It's like, well, you must just be a bunch

00:59:34.260 --> 00:59:36.880
of racist rednecks over there. I mean, this is

00:59:36.880 --> 00:59:38.960
how - Well, now, if you say you're from Texas,

00:59:39.159 --> 00:59:43.199
you'll get, oh, Sharia law. I'm like, what? Not

00:59:43.199 --> 00:59:45.619
in Fredericksburg. I don't know where you're

00:59:45.619 --> 00:59:49.119
talking. Not around here. We don't call 911 here.

00:59:49.860 --> 00:59:52.400
Oh, spin it down, people. Spin it down. It's

00:59:52.400 --> 00:59:54.920
all going to be okay. So what we felt when we

00:59:54.920 --> 00:59:57.780
were there was absolutely covered. We felt no

00:59:57.780 --> 01:00:01.760
fear, none whatsoever. And we were all over the

01:00:01.760 --> 01:00:05.400
nation. We were up in some places that might've

01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:07.340
seen some action here and there, but nothing.

01:00:07.550 --> 01:00:11.130
No fear. No place is safe. The most dangerous

01:00:11.130 --> 01:00:13.789
part of our trip will be the drive to San Antonio

01:00:13.789 --> 01:00:15.949
Airport. I was going to say it. When I was thinking

01:00:15.949 --> 01:00:18.829
of around here, I was thinking San Antonio. Yeah,

01:00:18.869 --> 01:00:22.090
pretty much. Anyway, I'm bringing the rig with

01:00:22.090 --> 01:00:25.349
me. So maybe we'll be able to sneak in a show

01:00:25.349 --> 01:00:26.750
or two while we're there. I think that'll be

01:00:26.750 --> 01:00:29.510
a lot of fun. Oh, that would be really fun. Yeah,

01:00:29.510 --> 01:00:31.829
great. I think it'll be good. Hey, brother, thank

01:00:31.829 --> 01:00:37.380
you so much for coming to the Curry Con. We're

01:00:37.380 --> 01:00:40.219
getting out of here. All right, everybody. We

01:00:40.219 --> 01:00:42.840
will be back next week. Please join us. We get

01:00:42.840 --> 01:00:45.340
to do this. Blessings to y 'all.