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Father, it's a privilege to be with you today

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and to be before you as two sons, two sons of

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a good father. Thank you for your goodness. Thank

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you for your mercy and your grace. And thank

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you that we get to do this. We pray for our listeners

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that we're in this thing together. We're on the

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journey together and pray that you would order

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all of our steps into a lot of the details of

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our lives. In Jesus' name, amen. It's Wednesday

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February 25th 2026 we get to do this. This is

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episode number 22 We get to do this well Well,

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welcome back and hello, brother. It's good to

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be back. It's been a minute. It has been three

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weeks. And you know that your podcast is making

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a difference when you come into church on Sunday

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and five different people, two of whom I have

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never met before said, hey, Are you and Pastor

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Jimmy going to do another podcast? Wow. Oh, that's

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so encouraging. Yes. Yes. I missed it. I really

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missed it. James sitting over in the corner.

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He's like, where's the podcast? Where's the podcast?

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And that made me smile, man. That's cool. Yes.

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When people get used to it and it's not there.

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This is what you should remember. I'm used to

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it. And it bothers me when it's not there, when

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we're not doing it. No kidding. It really did

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mess with me. I did not like it. So apologies

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to the listeners for not being here. And we don't

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really have a way to communicate with them outside

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of the show. So they're just like lost in space,

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twirling around and around and around. The first

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thing that happened was my fault because I had

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a guest appearance in Lake Wales, Florida. That's

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right. You and Damon had joined, Tina and myself.

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And y 'all got really sick right after that.

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Oh my gosh. Coming home on the plane, I started

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feeling weird. And I very rarely, you know me,

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I very rarely get sick. No, you're like me. It

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was like, eh, we'll just work through it. It's

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not a problem. Yeah, shake it off in a day or

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two. But I started coughing on the plane coming

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back. Poor guy next to me, I felt bad for him,

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you know. I always think about other people,

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especially on a plane. You know, there's a trick

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if you have like three seats and you don't want

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anyone to take the middle one or the empty one.

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mask on and go, and people will walk right back

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past you. Felt bad for him. But yeah, I started

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coughing, got the tickle thing and I didn't think

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much about it. And then we got home and by the

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time we got, of course we were tired too, it

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was late, been a long weekend. We had no real

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break. We just kind of went, went, went. And

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by the way, you crushed it. Thank you. Giving

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your testimony three times in a row. had the

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entire sermon portion of three services. That's

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a big deal, brother. I'm more proud of you than

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that, that I am talking about me being sick.

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I mean, I'm good now. I'm over it. So, Pastor

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Jack Hillegos, who runs High Point Church in

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Lake Wales, who we've been in touch with multiple

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times. There's a Steve Maxwell connection. And

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he also became a, we say, partner instead of

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customer in the Christian world. In Christian

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radio, there were partners with them. It's the

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weirdest thing of a Godcaster. And so they were

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launching their version of Hello Fred, which

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is Providence Voice. And he had asked when he

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was out here visiting with a couple other pastors,

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must have been a few months ago, he said, hey,

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how about we launch this on Super Bowl Sunday

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and would you come and give your testimony? We

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were all hanging on a backwards barbecue. No

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problem. So a couple weeks before the date rolls

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around, he's like, hey, I'm just checking. I

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can't back out of this now, which is also, it's

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a show day. So I had to take a show day off.

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Did you know at that time that he wanted you

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to take all three services, like the whole thing?

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That's a big deal. I kind of thought about it.

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But it didn't really hit me. I was like, okay,

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I've got to do something. Off in the future,

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you're not overthinking it. I get it. Exactly.

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35 minutes. I can talk about myself for 35 minutes,

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which of course immediately be like, no, your

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testimony, man, you got to talk about God. Oh,

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wow. Yeah, I got to think about this. I can't

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just be telling my life story. No, I can't just

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wing it. Had a pretty stressful week a full week

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before that Sunday because I'm very linear It's

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like I can't if I got something tomorrow I it's

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hard for me to work on the thing for a week after

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that I have to do it like linear really had And

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I probably would have normally done this just

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two days before but I started a week before and

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I was like, oh man This is not gonna be as easy.

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I thought it was and I want it to be entertaining

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You know, I wanted to Because I have the great

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fortune of being saved later in life, I can look

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back and say, okay, God, here's the path that

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I've been put on. I think this is where I need

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to go now. I'm just trying to pay attention.

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So I'm like, oh, yeah, I'll just do that. And

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you and Annette were so kind, like, we'll come

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with you guys. We'll be there for moral support.

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Yeah, I want to be there to support you and cheer

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you on. And man, that really made a difference

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because I was up there and I'm looking over to

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the right and like, yeah, there's my squad, man.

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There's my squad. And I see Tina with big eyes

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like, what is he going to say? Is he going to

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mess it up? Is he going to say something wrong?

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But props to pastors, man, doing this for three

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services back to back with a meetup in between.

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It's a lot. That, yeah, it is a lot. It is a

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lot. And just to get the energy going, you know,

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the energy, like, okay, I got to have the same

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energy. It's a new crowd. What worked in the

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previous one? Because it's still a performance,

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you know. You're on. You're on. That's the right

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word. You're on. You're just on and you can't

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turn it off. But I think I kind of, it was kind

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of the same each time. Oh, you did great. I want

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to brag on you a little bit because, man, I'm

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just proud of you. First of all, it was entertaining.

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You were yourself. I love that you were you had

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your humor. You're amazing humor, which I love

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It's first thing I when I met you as I we're

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gonna be for sure But you had that but you also

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brought some multimedia I mean you had some some

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media elements in their video clips headbangers

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ball back, you know back in the day super cool

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and But you also brought Jesus. You brought the

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gospel. You brought your heart and how you came

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to know Christ. There was something for everybody

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in that. Literally, I wouldn't change a thing

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about anything you said. I wasn't even listening

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critically. I was cheering you on, totally there

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as a friend and a brother. After the first one,

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I was like, I hope he does exactly the same thing

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because that was so good. And you did. You did

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it. You nailed it every time. Always, every crowd's

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different. It's always a different dynamic. No

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two groups are the same. So things land different.

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You found that out. Things land different with

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different groups. And so it always kind of keeps

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you on your toes a little bit. You can't turn

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it off. You can't coast. The scariest moment

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is when you have something, because I have, you

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know, we all have a hundred, they're your Jimmy

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-isms, you know, we all have our little things

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that we'll throw in there. You know, it's like,

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do you know what the word always is in Greek?

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You know what that means? Always. I mean, this

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is a classic. And so for me to say we left Austin

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to reenter the great state of Texas and to let

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that sit for a few seconds and then, oh man,

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did that completely fall flat? And then you hear

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people starting to chuckle and like, okay, I've

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got them. Because what I always felt is, If you

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can get an emotion going in someone, then their

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minds are wide open for message. So I always

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want to follow laughter by, I'm injecting something

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here. I'm injecting scripture or a thought that

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is relevant. And that's, that is how I structured

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it. And I thought, wow, I really do not want

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to have to do this for a living. It's like, I

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like my studio, my, my dim lighting. That's much

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more, much more vibe. I do like the vibe. I love

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the vibe in here. We got all lights down. We

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got some color lights going and we do. I love

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it too. There were two huge moments for me there.

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One was after the first service, Pastor Jack,

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he said, okay, we've got to go meet some people.

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Maybe it was that second service. We've got to

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meet some people in between. After the second

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one he said, you've got to meet this boy David.

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He just came to me and said he's ready to be

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baptized. He's ready to completely give himself

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to Jesus. Young kid, maybe 22, 23. And I'm like,

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that's why I'm here for him. And it turned out

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after one of this, I don't remember which one,

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A woman came by and said, I'm 87 years old, but

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after hearing your testimony, me and my husband

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have renewed our faith. Wow. 87. Come on. And

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that just made me feel so different from anything

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else in the past. You know, if I did great shows

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or whatever in the past, yeah, it was like, yeah,

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you were awesome. That was fun. OK, that's great.

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But that was the reward. That was it. You're

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getting a taste of why I love what I do. That's

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why I tell people I get to do this. It's not

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a cliche for me. You know, people say things

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all the time and they say it becomes rote. And

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then it's like a cliche. This is not a cliche.

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When I say I get to do this, I mean it. You mean

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it. Yeah. I really do. Well, it's the same with

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our show here. Absolutely. I mean, we're texting

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two days ahead of him. Can't wait to catch up.

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Looking forward to our time. And then we try

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not to talk too much. Exactly. Because it would

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have been easy because I wanted to know all about

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the NRB. I want to know. I've got questions.

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And they don't have to be for the show. They

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happened in the show great. To me, almost everything

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is good for the show. We talk about God, the

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world, and other things. There you go. And I

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just recalled, I'm so sorry. Remind me, Jody

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White, one of our listeners, sent two jars of

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pickles, sweet. and spicy pickles. Wow, cool.

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And one for you, one for me. We ate that first

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jar almost in one sitting. You weren't going

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to tell me. I bet you wrestled with that. Yes.

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I'm not going to tell Jimmy. She emailed me and

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said, hey, what do you think of the pickles?

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Both Tina and I have a hard time looking at Jimmy's

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jar. Jimmy's jar might have broken in transit

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or something. I don't know. But remind me to

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give that to you. Jody, thank you so much. Thank

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you, Jody. They're from Louisiana. I think they're

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amazing. Spicy and sour and sweet all in one.

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Anything food from Louisiana is always good.

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It's always good. That's cool. So anyway, so

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well done. I just wanted to get that out there.

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I want to make sure I put a bow on that, because

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I was so proud of you and that and I both. We

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did not regret one iota in terms of giving up

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a Sunday here to come. Thank you so much. Hang

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with you guys. It meant a lot, brother. It did

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life with you. It meant a lot. Well, I mean,

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it's a marker for you. I can't not be there for

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a marker. Man, this is a big deal. True. So yeah,

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proud of you. Super proud. And also the four

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of us. We travel very well together. That's true.

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There's never a hassle. No one's really stressed

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about this. There's no drama. We'll see you tomorrow.

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Yeah, whatever. We'll figure it out in the morning.

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No one's on schedules. Even though we had to

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get it pretty early the next day to get to church

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on time. We did. And we love traveling with you

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guys because there's always something fun. There's

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a lot of... It feels like the Holy Spirit's always

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with us. There's always a highlight, a special

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moment. For me, it was when we went to that restaurant

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that night. Remember the restaurant? They just

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waited on us hand and foot because there was

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nobody else there. Everyone had checked out in

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the morning. They all just came and they hung

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out with us and got to know them. That was just

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one of those... You look back on our trip, you

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go, that was special. It was. That was really

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meaningful and great food. Yes. Because it was

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my birthday, they brought me some macaroons.

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I was like happy. Here we go. Yes. All good.

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So then inexplicably, both you and Annette get,

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and we, I mean, I recall you even tasting Tina's

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drink. You know, it's like nothing we didn't

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get. She's a germaphobe, so I bet she's going,

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oh my God, she drank my drink. Believe me, in

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the past three weeks she said, Jimmy even drank

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from my drink and we haven't gotten anything.

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So I don't know what that was. It's going around.

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There's a lot of people who have this. Yes, but

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it's like the 2017 flu. There was a bad flu then.

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And I'm just thinking, man, if you're... you

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know, we're getting up there, we're in our 60s,

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you know, you get up to your 80s, it can take

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you out. And it took you guys out. I mean, we

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had our people from the church were bringing

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you guys food. That's how bad it was. It was,

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it was rough. I don't ever remember being sick

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like this. Wow. You know, I got COVID early on

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when it happened. It was just, that was a cold

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on steroids. I mean, it wasn't that big a deal.

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Right. It just, it fatigued me, but Seven days

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later, I'm back in the gym. So, right? No big

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deal. This was a full two and a half weeks, probably.

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Full on flu. So, what it does, it's influence

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A, and you fight that off, but then you get this

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secondary infection, that's chest, and it drops

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down into, and boy, when it gets into those bronchials,

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which it did, that's when it gets rough. So,

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we thought we were getting better. Then that

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secondary part kicked in, and I read about that.

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It even said, watch for secondary infections.

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Wait for that to happen. It actually was very

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textbook. I talked to a lot of people in the

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church. Of course, people were reaching out when

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they found out we were sick. They were saying,

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yeah, same thing. It took me three weeks to get

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over it. Now I go, what? Three weeks? So I'm

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right at three weeks, and I'm back. Yeah, you

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are. I can see you're completely back today.

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Now, if I hack a little bit here, I'll try to

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get off my... But Sunday, in a net state home,

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I was looking at you. I'm like, okay. And you

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say, yeah, I'm a bit of a tunnel vision. I'm

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like, oh, man, I know how that feels when you

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got to speak and you have that tunnel vision.

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But you just rammed through it. Thanks, brother.

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Impressive. Thanks. Totally impressive. I mean,

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I love doing what I do. So even if I didn't feel

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great, I felt like the Holy Spirit took it and

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landed it. And the feedback has been amazing

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from that message. And it's helping people. That's

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what I'm excited about. You're so good at explaining.

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When you get into the identity in Christ, I urge

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everyone to go take a look at the service from

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last Sunday. I don't know how much you had that

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mapped out, because you were just rolling at

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a certain point. It's from the heart. When something's

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impacted you deeply, just like you've given your

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testimony, while it was work for you, you still,

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you had something to say. You have a message.

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And when you have a message, you're not trying

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to come up with a message. If you have one, it

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just comes out of your heart. It comes out of

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your life. So this idea of when you know who

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you are, you'll know what to do and you'll know

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how to do it. That's just huge for me. And so

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anytime I go back and pick that teaching up,

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something comes alive in me, even when I'm, you

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know, even though it looked like seven miles

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of bad road. I was wiped out. But I felt great

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in terms of just being able to deliver that.

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We're continuing through this series in Colossians

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and it just gets better and better. I was looking

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at what I'm going to do. Not this weekend. We've

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got Reagan Green preaching this week. Oh, really?

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Oh, this is his first time? Yes, first time in

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a pulpit, but we'd already had him scheduled

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because we thought I was going to be flying to

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Israel. That's another story. So since we're

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not going to Israel, half of the group is. We

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split the group into two groups. We'll be going

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later in the year. We already had him scheduled

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and I could pull a plug on it. This is a big

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deal for him. Especially since I know what it's

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like now. You're getting ready for that for weeks

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and then you're prepping and you're nervous.

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So before we get into the Israel trip, I want

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to remind us that one of our listeners, Joel

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I believe, he was emailing back and forth with

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you about what is meant by support for Israel.

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Right. I forget it was Joe. Joe Rojas, I think.

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I believe that's right. Yes. Yeah, it is. Good

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guy. And so we didn't get to talk about this

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after you had this exchange, but I think it's

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critical we bring everybody up to speed on what

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you realize and the words that matter and what

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words are saying so people understand. Great.

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You're always saying Psalm 122 verse 6. Interesting.

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Pastor Brian says Psalm 121 verse 8. I don't

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know what he's talking about. I just noticed

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that. I know I'm on point on the reference. So

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if you could kind of explain what Joe was asking

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and what he was taking issue with and what you

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figured out there. Legit questions he was asking.

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I really appreciated that. But he was asking

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for clarity on that because of this idea of supporting

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Israel. And that word carries a lot of weight.

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Now, when I say it from a, jokingly say, a professional

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Christian standpoint, you know, because Christianese,

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we have our own language, we have our own lingo

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because it's a culture. When I say support, I'm

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talking about standing with, I'm talking about

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praying for, but that could also be the connotation

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is, oh, you're sending money to the government.

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you believe in everything they're doing. You

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support all the government's decisions. Yeah,

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right, right. I don't even do that for America.

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So, it dawned on me as I was writing him back

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and explaining, really, all we're talking about

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is praying for them. We pray for them every Sunday,

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according to Psalm 122 verse 6, not 121 .8. Because

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that's a mandate from scripture, and it's in

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alignment with God's heart for his people to

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come to Christ. to come to the Messiah. So for

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me, I was using those words interchangeably,

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support and prayer. To me, they mean the same

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thing. But I realized in exchanging emails with

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Joe that that's not what everybody thinks. And

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it made me realize, OK, I just need to clean

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up my semantics on this a little bit. So I actually

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shared that with the church on Sunday to let

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them know. And I felt the room relax. Very interesting

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dynamic. because there is this idea that, oh,

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if we say we support America, I don't think people

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think I'm sending money to Donald Trump or, you

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know, but the word support can mean financial,

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you know, you're giving stuff. The only thing

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we support in terms of Israel is we support a

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ministry called Behold Israel. And the goal of

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that ministry is to evangelize Israel, to share

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Jesus as Messiah. with them. So we support that.

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That's how we indirectly support Israel's through

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that. People are really trying to slice and dice,

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you know, it's like, well, what do you mean the

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biblical Israel, the state of Israel? Take all

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that off the table. The Bible, the word of God

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says Israel. So whatever God thinks Israel is

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today is good for me the way I see it. It's amazing.

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So when you say, well, I support the United States,

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I support our government, you get labeled. This

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is the big thing now. You would be a Christian

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nationalist. You support Israel, you are a Christian

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Zionist. And these labels are just ridiculous.

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Even the label Christian is kind of questionable.

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I'm a disciple of Jesus. I'm a Jesus freak. I'm

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a follower of Jesus. You can put whatever label

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you want on me, but it's not accurate. Because

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a label is not your identity. It's how someone

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else identifies you, but it's not your true identity.

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So when someone says, oh, you're this or that,

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I'm like, no, I'm a son of God. I'm a son of

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the Most High God. I have a good father. I'm

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a King's kid. I'm a King's kid. I'm royalty,

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baby. I haven't tried that one yet, but it's

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coming. I wouldn't do that out loud. It's more

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like between friends. But really there's a sense

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where, because we really are sons and daughters

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of the Most High, the King of Kings and Lord

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of Lords, so it shifts your perspective on how

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you look at life and how you walk in a room.

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You don't walk in proud. you walk in just knowing

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my dad's something, you know. My dad, I'm proud

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of my father. And that gives me Christ's confidence,

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not self -confidence. So I bring this up in regard

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to the trip. We were going to go to Israel. Actually,

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Tina and I would have been leaving today to go

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to Amsterdam first. And even me just saying on

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no agenda, I mean, the, and of course we make

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jokes about this, but it's like, oh, Oh, you're

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supporting this horrible government. You're going,

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you know, I wonder what changed. I wonder who's,

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who's given you money. I'm like, yeah, I'm going

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to go get most bags of Mossad money. I mean,

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the whole thing is hilarious, but it, it is just

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the, there's an operation underway which ties

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a couple of things together. Which really all

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comes back to the Epstein files it all comes

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back to that which I think the president was

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right It's like how we really don't want to release

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this and by the way, this could have been released

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even under Obama These files were available But

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okay, we had to release it. And so this is now

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spun into I've just followed the track Israel

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controls all of our government. Not true, obviously.

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I mean, I there's there's actually very few Political

00:23:02.829 --> 00:23:05.750
people in the United States in the Epstein file

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a lot of British ones funny enough and you know

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this whole misunderstanding of what a pack is

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and How much money the United States is sending

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to Israel? They're not really sending it. We're

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sending a a gift card that says you can buy ten

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billion dollars worth of our military stuff and

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the reason for that is it's our it is always

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been since the 70s, our outpost in the Middle

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East, which is about three and a half weeks of

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SNAP benefits just to put it into perspective.

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But people don't have all this. And then it's

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like, well, OK, so clearly Israel controls everything.

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And now it's moved into the billionaires. Oh,

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the billionaires are all horrible. They're all

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bad. And if you support billionaires, then you're

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A horrible person because they are all working

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with Trump therefore vote Democrat Wow, and this

00:24:05.980 --> 00:24:08.700
is literally being said like when we're back

00:24:08.700 --> 00:24:12.220
in control We the Democrat Party all those companies

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that worked with the president Which as far as

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I can tell is working to create jobs and bring

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manufacturing back to America They will find

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out that they were on the wrong side of history.

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So this this whole thing is being spun into the

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most un -American thing I've ever heard of, which

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is hating people for being successful. And that

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to me is the travesty because it has always been

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my experience in America. You could look at the

00:24:43.900 --> 00:24:47.059
guy with the Rolls Royce and say, I could actually

00:24:47.059 --> 00:24:50.140
get that if I want to. This is America. If that's

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what I wanted. Memo from Adam who's been there

00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:58.660
done that it ain't all that Turns out King Solomon

00:24:58.660 --> 00:25:02.579
was right It all is vanity and it really doesn't

00:25:02.579 --> 00:25:06.519
make you happy at the end of the day so we were

00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:10.599
going to go to Israel and You know you and I

00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:12.779
had been talking and you know, there's all kinds

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of stuff ratcheting up with with Iran right now,

00:25:16.599 --> 00:25:21.559
which and I I'm I'm pretty sure it's not about

00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:25.940
nuclear weapons per se, but there's a lot of

00:25:25.940 --> 00:25:27.779
actors in the Middle East and a lot of things

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going on. And I was talking to Sir Brian of London,

00:25:32.420 --> 00:25:36.079
who lives in Tel Aviv. And the thing that concerned

00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:40.759
me the most about this trip at this time was

00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:46.900
fear of fear itself. Air raid sirens go off now.

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In the middle of the night, we were going to

00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:52.119
have some older people with us. I personally

00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:54.680
had a vision of, here's Adam and Jimmy running

00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:57.180
around in their pajamas trying to make sure everybody's

00:25:57.180 --> 00:26:00.319
safe and that people aren't panicking and rushing

00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:03.599
around. And I think you took some of that into

00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:06.319
account. And then we decided that we should probably

00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:08.279
postpone, at least for people who wanted to,

00:26:08.339 --> 00:26:12.240
to a later date. Right. So we had a group, in

00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:14.990
about half the group, Said that they wanted to

00:26:14.990 --> 00:26:16.950
go ahead and go and that it was a calculated

00:26:16.950 --> 00:26:20.890
risk and they were glad to do it Yeah So Brian

00:26:20.890 --> 00:26:22.970
and his wife pastor Brian and his wife are gonna

00:26:22.970 --> 00:26:25.890
lead that grip group And then we split the group

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and whoever wanted to go on the second trip Which

00:26:28.170 --> 00:26:31.210
would be in October can go with us, right? Interesting

00:26:31.210 --> 00:26:34.410
enough nearly every Person that's going on the

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first group is single. Oh really? Yes Okay, very

00:26:38.029 --> 00:26:40.990
interesting all of that single crowd. They were

00:26:40.990 --> 00:26:42.769
talking together and they said, you know what?

00:26:42.730 --> 00:26:47.009
Let's go. So they're excited. We've been praying

00:26:47.009 --> 00:26:49.690
for them, praying with them, and they're going

00:26:49.690 --> 00:26:53.769
to go. And we have peace about waiting. And the

00:26:53.769 --> 00:26:57.009
couples, it's mostly couples that are going on

00:26:57.009 --> 00:26:59.349
the second trip. And many of them have reached

00:26:59.349 --> 00:27:01.430
out to me and said, thank you. Felt like it was

00:27:01.430 --> 00:27:04.970
a wise decision. And so everybody's happy. And

00:27:04.970 --> 00:27:07.109
everybody's excited. And now we have two groups

00:27:07.109 --> 00:27:09.849
going. And it actually opens it up for more people

00:27:09.849 --> 00:27:11.950
to go with us. To jump in on the second trip.

00:27:12.309 --> 00:27:14.970
Yes. Very good. Very good. In fact, Randy Breyland,

00:27:15.109 --> 00:27:17.990
his wife. Oh, really? So yeah. So I talked with

00:27:17.990 --> 00:27:19.690
him yesterday. Is he going to have time between

00:27:19.690 --> 00:27:21.470
that and being our new mayor? Being our new mayor,

00:27:21.569 --> 00:27:23.970
which we need to elect him to be. I'm going to

00:27:23.970 --> 00:27:26.410
say that out loud. We have to have him on the

00:27:26.410 --> 00:27:28.990
podcast. Absolutely. Absolutely. He's such a

00:27:28.990 --> 00:27:32.339
good guy. Man, he's sharp. Such a heart after

00:27:32.339 --> 00:27:35.460
God, heart for family and our community. He's

00:27:35.460 --> 00:27:37.460
the real deal. And he's been council member for

00:27:37.460 --> 00:27:40.099
a while. And I was talking to him, he said he

00:27:40.099 --> 00:27:41.819
prayed about it for a couple months, I think,

00:27:41.859 --> 00:27:44.079
before he decided. He didn't take it lightly.

00:27:44.339 --> 00:27:46.339
I want to tell you something about prayer I want

00:27:46.339 --> 00:27:49.539
to share with everybody. So my daughter is now

00:27:49.539 --> 00:27:55.160
20 weeks pregnant. We've seen the latest echo,

00:27:55.319 --> 00:27:58.240
the latest, they call it echo in Europe. What

00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:04.259
do you call it? When they scan... The gram, the

00:28:04.259 --> 00:28:06.319
something gram, the... Sonogram. Sonogram. Thank

00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:08.059
you. This has been a minute since I've done this.

00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:10.960
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they call it echo in Europe.

00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:14.700
And she, we can now reveal, I'm going to have

00:28:14.700 --> 00:28:17.980
a granddaughter. She has very long legs. So,

00:28:18.299 --> 00:28:20.440
yep. I wonder where that guy came from. Right

00:28:20.440 --> 00:28:24.269
in the family. but they were living in a one

00:28:24.269 --> 00:28:27.190
-bedroom apartment in Rotterdam, where there

00:28:27.190 --> 00:28:33.470
is a shortage of 400 ,000 homes. And there's

00:28:33.470 --> 00:28:35.470
a whole bunch of reasons for that. We've been

00:28:35.470 --> 00:28:39.730
praying for them about this. I have networks,

00:28:39.950 --> 00:28:42.529
I have lawyers, I have accountants, I have people

00:28:42.529 --> 00:28:45.789
in show business, people in sports, some people

00:28:45.789 --> 00:28:49.720
who come from... darker sides of the tracks,

00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:52.039
but you know, are good people and they're always

00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:53.900
willing to try and help with something. I mean,

00:28:53.900 --> 00:28:56.240
I was throwing out everything from my whole past

00:28:56.240 --> 00:29:00.259
life and everything's come up, like our cab taxi,

00:29:00.460 --> 00:29:03.099
Eric, the driver, he's like, he's kind of like

00:29:03.099 --> 00:29:05.720
in between me and the dark side. You know, some

00:29:05.720 --> 00:29:09.079
of these cab drivers, they know stuff. And everyone's

00:29:09.079 --> 00:29:14.339
coming up empty. And I just kept telling Christina,

00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:17.819
my daughter said, look, we're praying. Every

00:29:17.819 --> 00:29:20.039
day, morning, noon, and night, we're praying

00:29:20.039 --> 00:29:23.480
that God finds the right thing for you. And in

00:29:23.480 --> 00:29:26.799
my own prayer, I was saying, God, I know you

00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:30.019
have the right plan. And it may be that you want

00:29:30.019 --> 00:29:32.200
them, you know, to have this child in this one

00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:35.140
-bedroom apartment. I'm okay with that. And I

00:29:35.140 --> 00:29:37.319
completely, this is probably one of the first

00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:39.799
times in my prayer life that I just like, because

00:29:39.799 --> 00:29:41.700
I'm dad, you know, like I'm supposed to be able

00:29:41.700 --> 00:29:44.460
to fix this. No amount of money or influence.

00:29:44.619 --> 00:29:48.130
Nothing could fix this. And seriously, the network

00:29:48.130 --> 00:29:50.430
that I still have access to, these people can

00:29:50.430 --> 00:29:52.869
make stuff happen that is just physically not

00:29:52.869 --> 00:29:57.089
available. And so I had really given it to God.

00:29:57.569 --> 00:30:00.670
And I told Christina that I said, trust God,

00:30:00.990 --> 00:30:05.009
trust Him. Even if this is what it is, and you're

00:30:05.009 --> 00:30:06.769
going to have to have the crib in your bedroom

00:30:06.769 --> 00:30:11.970
or whatever it is, trust Him. And three and a

00:30:11.970 --> 00:30:16.160
half weeks ago, all of a sudden, Her landlord

00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:19.819
of her current apartment says, hey, we've got

00:30:19.819 --> 00:30:24.079
a place. It's a house with like multiple floors,

00:30:24.359 --> 00:30:28.279
three bedrooms, a little garden in a lovely little

00:30:28.279 --> 00:30:32.000
old school Rotterdam street with Rotterdam families

00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:35.339
who still look out for each other. And I just

00:30:35.339 --> 00:30:38.920
said, this is what I'm talking about. Nice. This

00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:41.539
is what I'm talking about. And so when your kid

00:30:41.539 --> 00:30:46.460
says prayer answered, She's still prodigal, but

00:30:46.460 --> 00:30:50.720
to me, it was like, God, thank you. Not just

00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:53.359
for the house, but I wanted to see it. I wanted

00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:56.619
to see that this is how it works. A come through

00:30:56.619 --> 00:30:59.339
moment. Much better than she's even been looking

00:30:59.339 --> 00:31:04.420
for. I mean, a three bedroom house? This is unheard

00:31:04.420 --> 00:31:10.019
of. Unheard of. In a beautiful neighborhood where

00:31:10.019 --> 00:31:13.279
the neighbors can look after your kid. Love that.

00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:18.440
Praise Jesus on this one. Is she continuing to

00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.700
work up until? Yeah, she'll work pretty much

00:31:22.700 --> 00:31:26.630
until 10th month, I guess. Yeah, she's in healthcare.

00:31:27.450 --> 00:31:29.529
So, of course, the healthcare for her is really

00:31:29.529 --> 00:31:31.369
good because she's in healthcare, so she has

00:31:31.369 --> 00:31:34.289
great, great healthcare. Just because it's socialist

00:31:34.289 --> 00:31:36.329
and they say healthcare is free doesn't mean

00:31:36.329 --> 00:31:38.390
all the healthcare is great. It's great, right.

00:31:38.769 --> 00:31:40.789
It's a farce. Because she's in the system. Because

00:31:40.789 --> 00:31:42.710
she's in the system. Yeah, she works in the system.

00:31:43.410 --> 00:31:46.589
Good for her and Kevin. Yeah, happy for both

00:31:46.589 --> 00:31:48.369
of them. And that's another thing. That's a great

00:31:48.369 --> 00:31:50.789
thing. I was like, you know, because when your

00:31:50.789 --> 00:31:52.950
kid is sad and she's halfway around the world,

00:31:52.990 --> 00:31:55.799
like, Lord, can you lift her up? And what came

00:31:55.799 --> 00:32:00.400
back to me was, that's Kevin's job. It's true.

00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:03.079
I didn't even think about that. It is. That's

00:32:03.079 --> 00:32:07.400
right. It is. Leave and cleave. There you go.

00:32:07.420 --> 00:32:10.079
That's the scripture. Leave your father and mother.

00:32:10.859 --> 00:32:13.259
You don't keep the umbilical cord attached. You

00:32:13.259 --> 00:32:15.400
literally let them stand. What scripture is that?

00:32:15.539 --> 00:32:18.819
Do you know offhand? No, I don't. Disappointing.

00:32:18.819 --> 00:32:22.700
Disappointing pastor. It's classic. It's classic

00:32:22.700 --> 00:32:25.039
marriage structure. Leave and cleave. Leave and

00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:28.579
cleave. That's beautiful. That's nailing it right

00:32:28.579 --> 00:32:30.539
there. They will leave their father and their

00:32:30.539 --> 00:32:33.420
mother and they will cleave to their spouse.

00:32:33.660 --> 00:32:35.720
And so that's what they're doing and we have

00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:38.140
to let them do that. Glad you brought that up

00:32:38.140 --> 00:32:40.680
because I heard Josh Howerton, Pastor Josh, up

00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:42.519
in the Dallas Fort Worth area talking about that

00:32:42.519 --> 00:32:46.259
as well. Parents, we've got to let them go. You've

00:32:46.259 --> 00:32:48.980
got to take your hands off. We love them. We're

00:32:48.980 --> 00:32:51.799
there for them, but we can't helicopter them

00:32:51.799 --> 00:32:54.559
the rest of their lives. We can't be that helicopter

00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:57.160
parent. And I've been pretty good about that,

00:32:57.299 --> 00:33:00.599
but now it's not. It's my grandkid is in there

00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:04.900
and I want to be doing stuff and I want to...

00:33:04.900 --> 00:33:06.980
But you're right. It's Kevin's role now, just

00:33:06.980 --> 00:33:11.799
like it's for our two daughters. It's Mark's

00:33:11.799 --> 00:33:14.759
role and Brandon's role. And we're there to help

00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:18.920
them if they ask, but we don't interject. The

00:33:18.920 --> 00:33:22.640
help usually comes in financial ways. Hey, I'm

00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:25.059
a little short. Yeah, there's that. Yeah, we

00:33:25.059 --> 00:33:27.119
have to move next week. We need movers. Can you

00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:29.839
help us out? Oh my gosh. So I came up quick then.

00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:33.400
So once it happened, it happened. They'll be

00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:35.799
in there in three days, and they'll be in there

00:33:35.799 --> 00:33:38.160
and painting and doing stuff. Luckily, Kevin's

00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:40.299
dad is still pretty agile, so he can help with

00:33:40.299 --> 00:33:44.750
some of that stuff. Good. But it was prayer answered,

00:33:45.109 --> 00:33:48.049
and it was really, really nice. Love it. I'm

00:33:48.049 --> 00:33:50.950
very happy for them. Man, hey, I can check that

00:33:50.950 --> 00:33:54.549
off my list. Everybody who's been praying for

00:33:54.549 --> 00:33:56.509
their home, thank you. You can take it off the

00:33:56.509 --> 00:33:58.849
list. It's going to be great. Beautiful. Love

00:33:58.849 --> 00:34:02.269
it. Let me see. I think I had a note here that

00:34:02.269 --> 00:34:09.590
I wanted to share from Kenny. Wanted to reach

00:34:09.590 --> 00:34:15.969
out. I guess he had reached out to me before.

00:34:16.190 --> 00:34:18.670
Oh yeah, here it is. In March of 2023, he reached

00:34:18.670 --> 00:34:20.590
out to you about why you had recently become

00:34:20.590 --> 00:34:22.710
a Christian. You recommended two books to me.

00:34:23.530 --> 00:34:26.269
You know what they are. The Case for Christ,

00:34:26.369 --> 00:34:28.469
actually, by Lee Strobel and Evidence that Demands

00:34:28.469 --> 00:34:31.230
a Verdict by Josh McDowell and his dad. I read

00:34:31.230 --> 00:34:33.809
them and amongst a few other things led me to

00:34:33.809 --> 00:34:36.769
accepting Christ in May of last year. I joined

00:34:36.769 --> 00:34:39.449
a church and was baptized on Father's Day last

00:34:39.449 --> 00:34:41.949
year. I also started school at Liberty University

00:34:41.949 --> 00:34:44.630
short after that, majoring in biblical studies

00:34:44.630 --> 00:34:47.489
and Christian apologetics. I plan on moving that

00:34:47.489 --> 00:34:50.090
straight into seminary when I graduate next spring.

00:34:50.789 --> 00:34:54.590
And he started a podcast called Practical Apologetics.

00:34:54.969 --> 00:34:57.809
All of the glory goes to God, but I believe that

00:34:57.809 --> 00:34:59.670
had you not recommended those books to me, I

00:34:59.670 --> 00:35:02.170
would still be agnostic slash atheist today.

00:35:02.329 --> 00:35:05.090
Thank you again. God bless from Kennedy. That

00:35:05.090 --> 00:35:08.630
is amazing. What's his name? Kenny. Kenny. Wow.

00:35:09.170 --> 00:35:14.570
Congratulations, Kenny. Man, talk about exponential

00:35:14.570 --> 00:35:18.110
growth. That's amazing. What a beautiful thing.

00:35:19.190 --> 00:35:22.130
I'm proud of him and for him. This is why we

00:35:22.130 --> 00:35:26.119
don't look at stats. of the podcast. Just look

00:35:26.119 --> 00:35:28.659
at what's happening around us. We throw this

00:35:28.659 --> 00:35:30.840
thing out there. We trust God that it'll land

00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:33.119
where it needs to land and it'll land on the

00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:36.360
hearts that need to hear it. And we trust that.

00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:39.900
So I was in Nashville, because you don't have

00:35:39.900 --> 00:35:41.900
a lot of stories because you were just in bed

00:35:41.900 --> 00:35:45.880
and sick at home for two weeks. I do have something

00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:48.980
to ask about your journey the past two weeks.

00:35:49.019 --> 00:35:51.949
I was in Nashville. for the National Religious

00:35:51.949 --> 00:35:53.809
Broadcasters Conference, where you're in the

00:35:53.809 --> 00:35:58.449
Gaylord Hotel. It's the biodome. Everything is

00:35:58.449 --> 00:36:02.610
artificial, artificial air. Nice people. They're

00:36:02.610 --> 00:36:06.570
real, I think, but artificial. We went to that

00:36:06.570 --> 00:36:10.670
steakhouse with my partner Gordon. It's like

00:36:10.670 --> 00:36:13.110
the last night before, because we were just kind

00:36:13.110 --> 00:36:16.050
of grab and go and do whatever. And we had planned,

00:36:16.170 --> 00:36:19.050
we'd made reservations, have a nice meal at the

00:36:19.050 --> 00:36:24.289
steakhouse. Brother an eight ounce fillet Seventy

00:36:24.289 --> 00:36:28.150
dollars. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding

00:36:28.150 --> 00:36:30.650
me now? Yeah, I mean we didn't have dessert.

00:36:30.690 --> 00:36:33.449
We were so mad about these prices for prices

00:36:33.449 --> 00:36:36.889
anyway Wow, but there were a couple of events

00:36:36.889 --> 00:36:41.150
and one of them was the Salem radio network breakfast

00:36:41.150 --> 00:36:49.760
and They had that interview With Bill Abbott

00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:51.980
you talked about this on Sunday in the in the

00:36:51.980 --> 00:36:54.039
culture report now He used to be with the Hallmark

00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:58.280
Channel, right? He left I think in 2022 or something

00:36:58.280 --> 00:37:01.360
because they really wanted to move towards Well,

00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:04.940
we have some, you know, LGBTQ friendly programming

00:37:04.940 --> 00:37:07.980
and same sex marriage. He's like, no, I'm not

00:37:07.980 --> 00:37:09.300
really on board with that. And he'd been there

00:37:09.300 --> 00:37:11.980
for a long time and he left. And he was the CEO

00:37:11.980 --> 00:37:14.800
of Hallmark. Yeah, he was the Hallmark, the channel.

00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:17.579
Yeah, he was the CEO of the channel. He said,

00:37:17.719 --> 00:37:20.760
no, that just doesn't align with me. And if that's

00:37:20.760 --> 00:37:22.400
the direction you guys want to go, that's fine.

00:37:22.420 --> 00:37:24.320
But I'm out. And so he started Great American

00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:27.800
Media Company. They acquired Pure Flix and he

00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:31.739
spoke and he was talking about this slate of

00:37:31.739 --> 00:37:35.280
new programming that they have. And what to me

00:37:35.280 --> 00:37:38.400
was important was he said, people who want to

00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:40.940
finance this stuff says they're lining up because

00:37:40.940 --> 00:37:43.960
they see the writing on the wall and they see

00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:47.300
that people want this type, this type of entertainment.

00:37:47.739 --> 00:37:51.199
They want it to be good stories, you know, which,

00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:53.659
and this is where I get to you and Annette staying

00:37:53.659 --> 00:37:57.269
home. you know, family -friendly. And it doesn't

00:37:57.269 --> 00:38:00.570
mean that it has to be all sappy and stuff, but

00:38:00.570 --> 00:38:03.769
there's a lot of topics that, you know, they're

00:38:03.769 --> 00:38:10.070
just going to avoid. And as Tina and I are, you

00:38:10.070 --> 00:38:13.030
know, we finished all of our royalty shows, you

00:38:13.030 --> 00:38:15.289
know, the history of the crown and all that.

00:38:15.289 --> 00:38:21.309
And we're looking around and, brother, everything

00:38:21.309 --> 00:38:26.920
is messed up. There's not a single thing that

00:38:26.920 --> 00:38:29.820
appeals to us. And I have some thoughts about

00:38:29.820 --> 00:38:32.940
that, but you guys actually got rid of all the

00:38:32.940 --> 00:38:36.119
streaming stuff that you felt was not adding

00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:39.639
anything to your life. Exactly. Annette had this

00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:44.519
epiphany one night. She said, I'm tired of this.

00:38:44.659 --> 00:38:49.440
I'm tired of compromising. And I'm tired of having

00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:52.619
to say, well, it only has this many, you know,

00:38:52.750 --> 00:38:55.969
gay couples, or it only has this many cuss words,

00:38:56.070 --> 00:38:59.170
or it only has this many sex scenes. She said,

00:38:59.710 --> 00:39:02.929
this is not helping me. And she said, I don't

00:39:02.929 --> 00:39:05.650
think it's helping us. And I'm not a big TV guy,

00:39:05.750 --> 00:39:07.949
so I'm like, hey, cut it all off. I don't care.

00:39:08.050 --> 00:39:10.190
Throw the thing out the window. And she said,

00:39:10.429 --> 00:39:12.730
so I'm going to, I'm going to, and by the time

00:39:12.730 --> 00:39:15.530
we got from, it was a Wednesday night, by the

00:39:15.530 --> 00:39:17.809
time we got home, she had already on her phone,

00:39:18.369 --> 00:39:23.219
deleted or, Cut off every streaming thing we

00:39:23.219 --> 00:39:26.400
had except we did have the great American, you

00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:29.300
know pure flakes. Mm -hmm And she cut everything

00:39:29.300 --> 00:39:33.219
else off. So wait, so there's no more CSI. No,

00:39:33.219 --> 00:39:36.559
not right now. We're just like nah Wow, don't

00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:39.800
need it. So I was hard cut I was super happy

00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:43.679
about this because I I like sometimes not turning

00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:48.019
the TV on at night and just reading an actual

00:39:48.019 --> 00:39:52.079
book. That's not been in her world though. Her

00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:56.639
attachment and addiction to TV was that that

00:39:56.639 --> 00:39:58.920
was the only thing her and her father had in

00:39:58.920 --> 00:40:02.920
common. So there's a real deep rooted thing there.

00:40:03.260 --> 00:40:05.719
So for her, it's a nostalgia thing in a positive

00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:09.260
way. I grew up, and I don't know about you in

00:40:09.260 --> 00:40:14.139
West Texas, but people my age, it was a thing

00:40:14.829 --> 00:40:17.969
after dinner and after, you know, cleaning up

00:40:17.969 --> 00:40:20.010
and everything, then we'd sit down as a family

00:40:20.010 --> 00:40:23.110
and watch Little House on the Prairie, Love Boat,

00:40:23.289 --> 00:40:26.570
Kung Fu, you know. Trent Skelton. I mean, come

00:40:26.570 --> 00:40:28.869
on. Samford and Son. Yeah. I mean, they were

00:40:28.869 --> 00:40:32.389
all and we'd watch them. It was a family activity.

00:40:32.570 --> 00:40:35.309
It was. We'd be laughing and, you know, and talking

00:40:35.309 --> 00:40:38.429
together about it. I don't think it's that at

00:40:38.429 --> 00:40:42.349
all anymore. But so I think maybe a lot of us

00:40:44.059 --> 00:40:47.380
boomers and Gen Xers boomer adjacent, like myself,

00:40:48.059 --> 00:40:50.139
still have some of that in us. No doubt. That

00:40:50.139 --> 00:40:52.619
that was a connection for us with family. No

00:40:52.619 --> 00:40:55.019
doubt. Yeah. So when we had Faith, you know,

00:40:55.099 --> 00:40:58.159
we adopted Faith after our two oldest had just

00:40:58.159 --> 00:40:59.900
graduated from high school and starting into

00:40:59.900 --> 00:41:02.300
college. So we sort of started over. We got to

00:41:02.300 --> 00:41:07.000
do over. And Faith and I watched shows together

00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:10.639
a lot, like all the... you know, Megamind, all

00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:14.179
the movies, all the Pixar movies, you know, Toy

00:41:14.179 --> 00:41:18.159
Story 2. Power Rangers? Not so much, a little

00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:20.400
bit here and there. But we watched all these

00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:23.800
shows together. And so I was able to process

00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:28.119
life in real time through media, through watching

00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:30.739
these shows. And to this day, we laugh about

00:41:30.739 --> 00:41:34.679
those shows. There'll be a nostalgia thing forever

00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:39.159
for us. But that was sort of how I grew up. With

00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:44.599
the family watching Manix. Manix, Colombo, Ironsides.

00:41:45.380 --> 00:41:48.139
Exactly, all of those. We did that together.

00:41:48.380 --> 00:41:50.159
I really did love Little House on the Prairie

00:41:50.159 --> 00:41:54.579
though. I still don't think about that. I like

00:41:54.579 --> 00:41:56.659
that story. It was always good. It is a great

00:41:56.659 --> 00:41:59.079
show. And they dealt with real issues in that

00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:01.519
show. It wasn't all squeaky clean. I mean, they

00:42:01.519 --> 00:42:04.320
had life issues. Paw, there's a storm coming.

00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:08.760
The Waltons. The Waltons, another one. Oh yes.

00:42:09.059 --> 00:42:11.480
But I agree with you. So we just made a decision.

00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:14.320
And so, but what we found out is that not only

00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:16.480
is there Pure Flix, which is Great American,

00:42:17.240 --> 00:42:20.179
There's also the Up network, which is faith and

00:42:20.179 --> 00:42:22.860
family. And that's all positive. And they take

00:42:22.860 --> 00:42:25.539
some shows that... that maybe aren't necessarily

00:42:25.539 --> 00:42:27.219
Christian, but they have a positive message.

00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:31.599
And you can tell they bleep over the words, but

00:42:31.599 --> 00:42:33.579
they don't bleep them, they like fill in something.

00:42:33.880 --> 00:42:36.000
And I noticed that on the show last night. Where

00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:38.079
they filled it in was like forever. Yeah, it

00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:41.079
was kind of a just moved past something. And

00:42:41.079 --> 00:42:43.239
of course we had the closed captioning on, you

00:42:43.239 --> 00:42:46.320
know, and it made it just, it was kind of a warbled

00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:50.000
thing. Like it was non -intelligible. And Annette

00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:51.920
goes, oh, do you see what they just did there?

00:42:52.059 --> 00:42:54.280
I said, oh, yeah, they did. And it wasn't even

00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:57.780
a really bad word. But anyway, I love that. So

00:42:57.780 --> 00:43:00.320
we watched a movie last night that was a Western

00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:04.179
that had a ledge to it. It wasn't your typical

00:43:04.179 --> 00:43:07.360
Christian movie. But they had fixed it where

00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:10.300
it was OK. We enjoyed it. It was a great story.

00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:14.179
So then there's the other one, The Wonder Project.

00:43:14.570 --> 00:43:17.969
So those are three networks. We had to subscribe

00:43:17.969 --> 00:43:20.289
to that in order to see House of David. It was

00:43:20.289 --> 00:43:23.530
an Amazon hook. Yeah, that's how we got onto

00:43:23.530 --> 00:43:26.030
it. The only other thing we have, we do have

00:43:26.030 --> 00:43:28.429
Amazon Prime because that's just going to always

00:43:28.429 --> 00:43:31.789
be there. But we can be selective. So it has

00:43:31.789 --> 00:43:36.869
been really good for us to watch things that

00:43:36.869 --> 00:43:40.500
feed our heart and our spirit. And they're not

00:43:40.500 --> 00:43:42.619
all Christian. Some of them is just good movies,

00:43:42.900 --> 00:43:46.519
just positive, life -giving, hope -filled. To

00:43:46.519 --> 00:43:49.159
me, that's legit and wonderful. So anyway, this

00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:51.800
has been a good experience for us. We're finding

00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:55.500
ourselves going to bed at night, peaceful. Not

00:43:55.500 --> 00:43:59.800
all worked up, stirred up, watching murders and

00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:02.420
slice and dice and all that. I come from the

00:44:02.420 --> 00:44:06.380
front line from last night, and Adam is like,

00:44:06.500 --> 00:44:09.219
oh yeah, we'll get that. Tina's always saying,

00:44:09.460 --> 00:44:11.039
do we even know we're subscribed to? He said,

00:44:11.119 --> 00:44:12.880
no, I just want to have anything. I don't want

00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:14.500
to have to bother with it and we'll get it all.

00:44:15.659 --> 00:44:19.579
And so we're, we actually, there's three new

00:44:19.579 --> 00:44:23.139
episodes of Paradise and which came back and

00:44:23.139 --> 00:44:25.179
you had, you had watched up to that point and

00:44:25.179 --> 00:44:28.139
we're watching this and we're like, this guy

00:44:28.139 --> 00:44:33.679
is stressful. You know, even though it's exactly

00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:37.239
what we knew it would be. So, okay, it's stressful.

00:44:37.659 --> 00:44:40.260
And and we watch that and then we're looking

00:44:40.260 --> 00:44:43.039
around and every first of all when streaming

00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:45.420
came in this is the same thing that happened

00:44:45.420 --> 00:44:48.820
with Sirius XM radio the minute you no longer

00:44:48.820 --> 00:44:53.079
have to worry about FCC rules for profanity it's

00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:55.420
the rails are off the rails are off and people

00:44:55.420 --> 00:44:57.719
feel like oh now we've got it we got to be like

00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:00.960
everybody talks well memo not everybody curses

00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:04.659
every fifth word except I used to, I'll be honest

00:45:04.659 --> 00:45:07.320
about that. I was definitely, the F word was

00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:12.820
a big one for me. I didn't even realize it. And

00:45:12.820 --> 00:45:14.739
so we're just trying to find something and it's

00:45:14.739 --> 00:45:20.039
all drama about murder, about death, about apocalypse.

00:45:20.699 --> 00:45:24.019
Like, no, we're trying to find something else.

00:45:24.320 --> 00:45:26.980
Then it's all about adultery. And it's like,

00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:30.710
no, no, I'm really not interested in that. And

00:45:30.710 --> 00:45:32.989
we're talking about this, like this, and Tina

00:45:32.989 --> 00:45:35.650
kept saying, you know, Jimmy and Nat, you know,

00:45:35.690 --> 00:45:37.190
they've gotten rid of everything. I'm like, I

00:45:37.190 --> 00:45:42.050
hear you. And we, and so we see something and

00:45:42.050 --> 00:45:44.130
it's called, I think it's God's favorite idiot

00:45:44.130 --> 00:45:47.369
or chosen idiot. And it's Melissa McCarthy and

00:45:47.369 --> 00:45:50.889
actually her husband, they both play in this,

00:45:51.130 --> 00:45:54.809
in this, it's like eight, eight episodes, short

00:45:54.809 --> 00:45:57.510
episodes. Yeah, like, you know, I think it was

00:45:57.510 --> 00:46:00.980
one in 2022, one, one season, it didn't come

00:46:00.980 --> 00:46:04.139
back. And the premise is kind of nice. It's like

00:46:04.139 --> 00:46:08.840
God chooses this one guy and he now has to preach

00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:11.039
the gospel. And so right off the bat, you know,

00:46:11.079 --> 00:46:12.739
he's throwing out Matthew and all, and he's like,

00:46:12.739 --> 00:46:14.420
I don't know where this came from. Oh, this is

00:46:14.420 --> 00:46:18.579
interesting. But, and everything was kind of

00:46:18.579 --> 00:46:22.739
good throughout these episodes. We watched almost

00:46:22.739 --> 00:46:25.280
everything in one go. It was just so quick to

00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:29.760
go through. But every five minutes there was

00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:36.079
a GD, a Jesus, a G's. I'm like, what is the point?

00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:39.760
And to the point where I'm thinking, I don't

00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:41.599
even want to finish this because I don't know

00:46:41.599 --> 00:46:44.360
what their conclusion is going to be. But it

00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:48.519
was so unnecessary, just unnecessary. It adds

00:46:48.519 --> 00:46:51.659
nothing to it. And specifically those words.

00:46:53.099 --> 00:46:56.980
Specifically. I'm like, Whenever someone says,

00:46:57.380 --> 00:46:59.880
Jesus Christ, I say, amen. That's right, Lord

00:46:59.880 --> 00:47:03.039
and Savior. And you got to look back at you like,

00:47:03.820 --> 00:47:06.139
huh? Joe Rogan's big on that. No, he'll say,

00:47:06.340 --> 00:47:08.840
Jesus. I say, amen. That's right. It's my man

00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:11.860
right there. Just try to put it in a different

00:47:11.860 --> 00:47:14.699
way. It's a good spin on it. You got to put a

00:47:14.699 --> 00:47:18.360
spin on it. But garbage in, garbage out. You

00:47:18.360 --> 00:47:21.179
texted that to me this morning and it is so right.

00:47:21.420 --> 00:47:26.000
I mean, it's just not beneficial. It really isn't.

00:47:26.280 --> 00:47:28.940
I did an illustration one time in a church and

00:47:28.940 --> 00:47:31.659
I had a five gallon was big Hygiea bottles, you

00:47:31.659 --> 00:47:34.579
know, five gallon of water, full of pure water.

00:47:34.820 --> 00:47:37.539
I opened the top of it and I picked the biggest

00:47:37.539 --> 00:47:40.420
guy, big military guy and I said, Hey, would

00:47:40.420 --> 00:47:42.340
you come take a drink of this water? And he saw

00:47:42.340 --> 00:47:44.880
me open it up. And so I poured a little, you

00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:47.780
know, and he took a drink of it. Well, then I

00:47:47.780 --> 00:47:52.059
took, I had a dropper and I had some putrid water.

00:47:52.300 --> 00:47:55.659
And I mixed up some like Nyquil and medicine

00:47:55.659 --> 00:48:00.360
and just junk. And I put one drop in there and

00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:01.880
I said, Hey, come back, take a drink of that.

00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:04.380
He goes, I ain't drinking that. I said, it was

00:48:04.380 --> 00:48:09.239
only a drop in five gallons, one drop. There's

00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:11.719
no way this will hurt you. He goes, I ain't drinking

00:48:11.719 --> 00:48:14.179
it. I mean, he literally was like, no way. I

00:48:14.179 --> 00:48:15.900
love you Pastor Jimmy, but no, I'm not going

00:48:15.900 --> 00:48:18.699
to come drink that. And the illustration's obvious,

00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:23.039
right? It just took one drop. to ruin the whole

00:48:23.039 --> 00:48:26.460
thing. Where he was like, I ain't touching that.

00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:29.679
Knowing full well probably won't hurt me, but

00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:33.420
I ain't taking that risk. And so the point is,

00:48:33.619 --> 00:48:36.659
is that it doesn't take much to taint something

00:48:36.659 --> 00:48:41.199
and to poison it. And that was the conclusion

00:48:41.199 --> 00:48:43.179
Annette had come to. I came to this a while back,

00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:45.840
but I let her roll because I know it's important.

00:48:46.239 --> 00:48:49.039
It's that nostalgia thing for her and I just

00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:52.389
don't fight it. But the fact that she came to

00:48:52.389 --> 00:48:55.230
that conclusion herself, and she even said, I

00:48:55.230 --> 00:48:57.070
don't really want to tell anybody about this.

00:48:57.210 --> 00:49:00.550
I am blabbing it out on the air. But she was

00:49:00.550 --> 00:49:03.650
like, it's just a decision I want to make for

00:49:03.650 --> 00:49:08.510
myself and us together. It's personal. And so

00:49:08.510 --> 00:49:11.750
we go to bed very peaceful now. We go to bed

00:49:11.750 --> 00:49:14.190
lifted up. And even talking about the movie we

00:49:14.190 --> 00:49:16.449
just watched about, wow, I really like the way

00:49:16.449 --> 00:49:19.409
they handled that or the questions that brought

00:49:19.409 --> 00:49:23.070
up. been watching a series and it's about divorce

00:49:23.070 --> 00:49:26.010
and all that. It's a Christian show, faith -based,

00:49:26.329 --> 00:49:27.949
but they're talking about the challenges that

00:49:27.949 --> 00:49:30.769
the kids are going through now. One of them lost

00:49:30.769 --> 00:49:33.449
theirs to a divorce, the other one lost theirs

00:49:33.449 --> 00:49:36.889
to death. The mom died. They're going through

00:49:36.889 --> 00:49:39.869
all the dynamics of pain and grief and sorrow.

00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:42.880
how the kids are acting out now and they're doing

00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:45.539
stuff they shouldn't be. One of the dad was an

00:49:45.539 --> 00:49:48.320
alcoholic, now his Christian son is sneaking

00:49:48.320 --> 00:49:50.900
alcohol. And that's how he's numbing because

00:49:50.900 --> 00:49:53.179
that's what he saw his dad doing. I love that

00:49:53.179 --> 00:49:56.780
they're taking that head on. And it's a pastor's

00:49:56.780 --> 00:49:59.360
family. So it's really cool. Up network, I got

00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:01.980
to look at that one. Yeah, it's up faith and

00:50:01.980 --> 00:50:07.079
family. And again, that one's not as blatantly

00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:10.179
I'm sure there is stuff on there, but they take

00:50:10.179 --> 00:50:13.400
shows and just sort of take the edge off of it.

00:50:14.219 --> 00:50:17.320
Also, just so people understand that all of these

00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:21.239
streaming shows, Netflix, Amazon originals, they

00:50:21.239 --> 00:50:26.880
are now made with the same knowledge and data.

00:50:27.230 --> 00:50:31.289
that short form video and social media networks

00:50:31.289 --> 00:50:35.130
are programmed by. So they re -explain the plot

00:50:35.130 --> 00:50:37.829
to you every five minutes. There's an explosion

00:50:37.829 --> 00:50:40.289
or something that happens every five to seven

00:50:40.289 --> 00:50:44.269
minutes to continuously keep you engaged and

00:50:44.269 --> 00:50:47.510
keep you in because they realize that... I mean,

00:50:47.849 --> 00:50:51.250
what new story is there? There's not really a

00:50:51.250 --> 00:50:54.429
new story. So it's just the same thing over and

00:50:54.429 --> 00:50:57.369
over again in different setting, but they literally

00:50:57.369 --> 00:51:03.429
are trying to jar you awake and get to your limbic

00:51:03.429 --> 00:51:08.010
system to keep you engaged and to bring you back

00:51:08.010 --> 00:51:10.809
in. And people talk about this openly in Hollywood

00:51:10.809 --> 00:51:13.150
now. Oh yeah, this is how we do it. Which brings

00:51:13.150 --> 00:51:18.679
me to my final point, the slave slab. This is

00:51:18.679 --> 00:51:20.800
my new term for what we used to call a phone.

00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:25.599
I made that, Rob, just for you. Oh, I know what

00:51:25.599 --> 00:51:27.579
you're talking about. Because I realized that

00:51:27.579 --> 00:51:30.559
we call this a phone, but it's not a phone. No.

00:51:30.579 --> 00:51:35.320
It is a slab of technology that we are enslaved

00:51:35.320 --> 00:51:38.679
to. And here's why I'm saying this. It's like

00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:41.079
a recurring theme on We Get To Do This. No doubt.

00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:45.800
So I had that nice little, I finally upgraded

00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:49.820
to a Samsung, the foldable phone. I was real

00:51:49.820 --> 00:51:52.679
happy with it. And then I dropped one and I got

00:51:52.679 --> 00:51:56.039
a new one because I liked it so much and I could

00:51:56.039 --> 00:52:00.300
do things faster. And so I was actually using

00:52:00.300 --> 00:52:03.079
this to demonstrate the Godcaster app because

00:52:03.079 --> 00:52:05.380
you can connect it to your Windows machine and

00:52:05.380 --> 00:52:08.280
then you can show it on the screen and you can

00:52:08.280 --> 00:52:10.889
demonstrate it to people. And the last day was

00:52:10.889 --> 00:52:13.190
Friday, I get up in the morning, I pick up the

00:52:13.190 --> 00:52:14.969
phone that's been, it's folded and I pick it

00:52:14.969 --> 00:52:17.610
up because it's been charging and it feels hot.

00:52:17.769 --> 00:52:20.710
I'm like, oh, this is odd. So, you know, open

00:52:20.710 --> 00:52:22.909
up, it's functioning, but I see the battery go

00:52:22.909 --> 00:52:26.269
pretty quick and I plug it back in and it's getting

00:52:26.269 --> 00:52:28.969
even hotter. I'm like, and you know, you can't

00:52:28.969 --> 00:52:33.269
actually turn the phone off. You can hit the

00:52:33.269 --> 00:52:37.329
power off button. But it's still running and

00:52:37.329 --> 00:52:39.969
as is witnessed by the fact that it was still

00:52:39.969 --> 00:52:44.329
warm kept warm Wasn't as warm as it was and and

00:52:44.329 --> 00:52:46.650
if I plugged it in it would be like, you know

00:52:46.650 --> 00:52:50.670
56 or go up to 57 down to 55 So something's going

00:52:50.670 --> 00:52:54.329
on and I'm and I what I want to demo our app

00:52:54.329 --> 00:52:57.429
on the phone and the Application said your phone

00:52:57.429 --> 00:53:00.349
is too warm right now. We can't do this. So wow,

00:53:00.449 --> 00:53:04.420
I'm like, okay now We got through our demos and

00:53:04.420 --> 00:53:06.619
everything fine. Just held up a different phone.

00:53:06.679 --> 00:53:10.420
Here's how it works. And so now we're going to

00:53:10.420 --> 00:53:16.119
go to the airport and I got to get an Uber. I'm

00:53:16.119 --> 00:53:19.440
in the Uber at 35 % and this thing is still warm.

00:53:19.639 --> 00:53:21.780
And I can't turn it off because I turned it off

00:53:21.780 --> 00:53:25.179
and it just kept going down and down and down.

00:53:25.760 --> 00:53:29.300
And by the time I'm through TSA, the phone's

00:53:29.300 --> 00:53:32.719
dead. or almost dead. I'm like, okay, I got an

00:53:32.719 --> 00:53:34.599
hour and a half here. Let me sit down and let

00:53:34.599 --> 00:53:37.380
me see what I can figure out. And so it's an

00:53:37.380 --> 00:53:40.900
Android. So I go through all these troubleshooting

00:53:40.900 --> 00:53:44.139
steps. I have looked at all these apps that might've

00:53:44.139 --> 00:53:45.920
been on there. Something might be draining the

00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:49.980
battery. You can actually get into the phone

00:53:49.980 --> 00:53:52.760
when you connect it to a computer, if you know

00:53:52.760 --> 00:53:56.139
what you're doing. It's almost like going into

00:53:56.139 --> 00:53:59.099
a Unix machine. So you're seeing the command

00:53:59.099 --> 00:54:03.900
line, the processes that are running. And although

00:54:03.900 --> 00:54:07.119
it's purely an electronic thing, there's some

00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:09.400
short, and that's why I'm probably lucky that

00:54:09.400 --> 00:54:13.559
the phone didn't burn. What I saw in there, and

00:54:13.559 --> 00:54:16.619
I've been hacking into Unix type computers for

00:54:16.619 --> 00:54:21.320
a long, long time, shocked me. there is all kinds

00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:24.260
of stuff running that is tracking things you

00:54:24.260 --> 00:54:27.000
never even thought. I've never loaded anything

00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:30.159
from Feta, Meta, or Facebook or Instagram on

00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:33.579
it. There was Meta processes in there from the

00:54:33.579 --> 00:54:37.019
company Meta, tracking things, looking at other

00:54:37.019 --> 00:54:39.940
apps, what they were doing, getting temperatures,

00:54:40.179 --> 00:54:42.340
sensors, how you're holding the phone, what the

00:54:42.340 --> 00:54:48.199
movement of the phone is. I'm like, this is atrocious.

00:54:48.579 --> 00:54:50.099
And while I'm doing this, all of a sudden, bloop,

00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:53.579
hi, I'm Bixby. How can a Bixby, who's Bixby?

00:54:53.920 --> 00:54:56.960
Oh, I'm the Samsung AI. I'm here to help you.

00:54:58.340 --> 00:55:02.539
So this thing ran down, got on the plane. Of

00:55:02.539 --> 00:55:06.199
course, one of the only Southwest 737s that has

00:55:06.199 --> 00:55:10.219
no charging ports or anything. And so I couldn't

00:55:10.219 --> 00:55:13.019
even keep it going to test more. It's run down.

00:55:13.059 --> 00:55:15.679
It starts to go cold because it never started

00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:18.760
up again. Even when I plugged it in. Wow. And

00:55:18.760 --> 00:55:23.019
I'm like, that's it. That's it, man. Like I went

00:55:23.019 --> 00:55:26.579
back to my old my old brick. This is my my old

00:55:26.579 --> 00:55:29.440
brick. You know, the open source operating system

00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:32.179
at least does text messages. Good. Now I fix

00:55:32.179 --> 00:55:39.059
that. This this is a very, very. Very dangerous

00:55:39.059 --> 00:55:42.659
device just tells you how many things the data

00:55:42.659 --> 00:55:45.059
that they're getting from everything about your

00:55:45.059 --> 00:55:50.300
life and how much how much it so we book tickets

00:55:50.300 --> 00:55:55.360
Amsterdam to Israel LL and Had to oh now I know

00:55:55.360 --> 00:55:57.940
where the meta stuff came from whatsapp met one

00:55:57.940 --> 00:56:00.559
meta bought whatsapp So whatsapp is you know,

00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:04.199
it's a like a messaging app. Yeah, they're their

00:56:04.199 --> 00:56:07.849
customer service is done through whatsapp I don't

00:56:07.849 --> 00:56:11.610
know why, but so you you talk to like, hey, I

00:56:11.610 --> 00:56:13.630
need to change these because we're changing our

00:56:13.630 --> 00:56:16.849
flight. The bot comes back and I find that I

00:56:16.849 --> 00:56:20.329
get someone clearly a human person change everything.

00:56:21.469 --> 00:56:25.030
One day later, I start getting Hebrew email spam.

00:56:25.449 --> 00:56:28.429
Now, you're telling me you're telling me that

00:56:28.429 --> 00:56:31.510
this is not connected. Of course, it's connected.

00:56:31.730 --> 00:56:35.739
And if I was on. Instagram or any other thing

00:56:35.739 --> 00:56:37.340
that Tina might be on, just because we're on

00:56:37.340 --> 00:56:40.699
the same network, it can detect different devices

00:56:40.699 --> 00:56:43.659
and would start to give her Hebrew email spam,

00:56:43.900 --> 00:56:49.000
or maybe Israel videos on Instagram. This is

00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:53.599
not good stuff. And so I love this phone. I'm

00:56:53.599 --> 00:56:55.679
back on the old phone. I love it because it's

00:56:55.679 --> 00:56:59.639
slow. it's actually would be better for me to

00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:02.320
get up and go to a computer and do this task

00:57:02.320 --> 00:57:05.380
than wait for it on the phone. I am just, I have

00:57:05.380 --> 00:57:10.099
to weigh myself down. That technological, the

00:57:10.099 --> 00:57:13.679
technological discovery, and there's a rule in

00:57:13.679 --> 00:57:17.099
technology. Like back in the day, we had like

00:57:17.099 --> 00:57:21.340
a T1 line, one megabit per second, and our server

00:57:21.340 --> 00:57:24.039
was connected to that. And we would have, I don't

00:57:24.039 --> 00:57:27.320
know, 5 ,000 visits a day to this website. when

00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:31.320
we upgraded to a bigger pipe, automatically we'd

00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:37.119
have more visits. So whenever you increase the

00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:39.900
speed or throughput of something in technology,

00:57:40.920 --> 00:57:44.420
it fills up, more will be done with it. So when

00:57:44.420 --> 00:57:47.619
you get the newest phone and the fastest phone

00:57:47.619 --> 00:57:50.539
and the more storage and the more RAM and the

00:57:50.539 --> 00:57:55.289
more capability, The rule in technology is you

00:57:55.289 --> 00:57:57.949
will start using that for more, for more and

00:57:57.949 --> 00:58:00.929
more. So not condemning anybody, not telling

00:58:00.929 --> 00:58:04.829
anybody what to do, but I have made a real decision.

00:58:04.989 --> 00:58:07.349
This thing, the battery runs out within four

00:58:07.349 --> 00:58:10.010
hours. I have to plug it in again. I'm fine with

00:58:10.010 --> 00:58:12.369
that. I know I don't use it because the battery's

00:58:12.369 --> 00:58:16.710
running. I am forcing myself into this self -imposed

00:58:16.710 --> 00:58:20.650
exile. I can still text. I can text. It does

00:58:20.650 --> 00:58:22.309
have a great camera, so I can take a camera,

00:58:22.309 --> 00:58:25.730
a picture, and that's it. Everything else is

00:58:25.730 --> 00:58:27.949
not worth it to me. Once I saw what was going

00:58:27.949 --> 00:58:32.329
on inside of that phone, I'm like, no way. No

00:58:32.329 --> 00:58:34.889
way am I letting people do this to me. No way.

00:58:35.610 --> 00:58:37.510
That's amazing. No way. That's sickening. So

00:58:37.510 --> 00:58:41.070
there you go. Yeah. Wow. That's another level.

00:58:43.179 --> 00:58:45.900
That's another level from putting down your screens

00:58:45.900 --> 00:58:50.460
and picking up your Bibles. It is another level.

00:58:50.480 --> 00:58:53.619
It's like inviting people into your home, strangers

00:58:53.619 --> 00:58:55.920
into your home. Not just your home, your life,

00:58:56.659 --> 00:58:59.760
into your communications, into your patterns,

00:59:00.280 --> 00:59:03.280
your friend groups, your contacts, your trending,

00:59:03.380 --> 00:59:08.420
what you do, what you text. Wow. Man, I just

00:59:08.420 --> 00:59:13.239
ruined my day. I'm sorry. None of it surprises

00:59:13.239 --> 00:59:16.719
me, to be honest, though. I'm not surprised by

00:59:16.719 --> 00:59:18.099
any of that. You just got to be aware of it,

00:59:18.119 --> 00:59:23.780
that's all. Yeah, yeah. I'm to the extreme, but

00:59:23.780 --> 00:59:28.300
that's just where I'm at, the slave slab. Man,

00:59:29.019 --> 00:59:32.360
wow. Boy, talk about needing a shield of faith,

00:59:32.900 --> 00:59:37.650
man. Yes. Quench all the fiery darts at the evil

00:59:37.650 --> 00:59:40.630
one even just to pick it up Yeah, even just to

00:59:40.630 --> 00:59:42.710
pick it up which by the way when you pick it

00:59:42.710 --> 00:59:44.849
up You're sending signals to every single app.

00:59:44.869 --> 00:59:46.989
He's picking up his phone. Should we send him

00:59:46.989 --> 00:59:50.369
a notification? Wow that level of stuff that

00:59:50.369 --> 00:59:55.309
level he's on he's on Well, I remember seeing

00:59:55.309 --> 00:59:57.329
a documentary on that. I can't remember the name.

00:59:57.389 --> 00:59:59.750
It was pretty popular at the time. Showed these

00:59:59.750 --> 01:00:02.250
guys all standing at a bay and they were watching

01:00:02.250 --> 01:00:06.429
screens and they were acting out these processes

01:00:06.429 --> 01:00:08.409
that you're talking about. What was it called?

01:00:08.650 --> 01:00:12.050
It was actually really enlightening. I should

01:00:12.050 --> 01:00:15.849
know this. It's one of the more popular ones.

01:00:16.469 --> 01:00:19.170
It was powerful. I actually told Annette, we

01:00:19.170 --> 01:00:21.690
need to find that. That documentary we watched

01:00:21.690 --> 01:00:24.309
and watch it again just to remind ourselves what

01:00:24.309 --> 01:00:31.010
we're up against. Technology tracking you. Oh,

01:00:31.130 --> 01:00:34.909
OK. I messed that up already. We'll have to owe

01:00:34.909 --> 01:00:38.050
it to people. I think it's important. That was

01:00:38.050 --> 01:00:40.750
an eye opener for me. I wish I remember. What

01:00:40.750 --> 01:00:50.889
is the movie about? Social media, tracking, you...

01:00:50.889 --> 01:00:54.949
Social network or something. Sounds familiar.

01:00:55.090 --> 01:00:57.590
I'm actually using technology to find this movie

01:00:57.590 --> 01:01:00.429
about technology. Let's see what it comes up

01:01:00.429 --> 01:01:04.869
with. But yeah, it was good because it gave you

01:01:04.869 --> 01:01:08.440
a real... kind of the view that I had technologically,

01:01:08.880 --> 01:01:11.179
it shows you that with little people standing,

01:01:11.739 --> 01:01:13.639
you know, oh, he's doing this. For somebody like

01:01:13.639 --> 01:01:16.739
me who's not as technically... The social dilemma.

01:01:16.900 --> 01:01:19.760
That's it. There it is. Yes. Powerful. Yeah.

01:01:19.900 --> 01:01:22.039
Very powerful. The social dilemma. And think

01:01:22.039 --> 01:01:24.380
about how far we've come since then, you know,

01:01:24.500 --> 01:01:27.260
can imagine. Miles and miles and miles. And yet

01:01:27.260 --> 01:01:30.940
it was a great introductory into what's, how

01:01:30.940 --> 01:01:33.820
algos work and how they're doing this. Let's

01:01:33.820 --> 01:01:35.460
land the plane on this then, brother. Can I land

01:01:35.460 --> 01:01:37.960
it with a scripture? Please do. We haven't had

01:01:37.960 --> 01:01:39.619
enough scripture in today's show. I was thinking,

01:01:39.679 --> 01:01:42.059
I was like, man, we need something. So Colossians

01:01:42.059 --> 01:01:44.940
chapter 2 verses 9 and 10, we're going through

01:01:44.940 --> 01:01:46.719
the book of Colossians, so I'm going to be covering

01:01:46.719 --> 01:01:51.400
this next section in a week from this week. It

01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:54.929
says this, for in him, that's Christ, for in

01:01:54.929 --> 01:01:58.030
Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead

01:01:58.030 --> 01:02:00.369
bodily. In other words, everything that's in

01:02:00.369 --> 01:02:03.489
God is in Jesus. He's saying all of that dwells

01:02:03.489 --> 01:02:06.329
in Christ. There's a word, a theological word,

01:02:06.610 --> 01:02:08.489
incarnate. That means he's the one who's come

01:02:08.489 --> 01:02:11.469
to this earth, or he's put on an earth suit and

01:02:11.469 --> 01:02:13.050
moved into the neighborhood. That's the easiest

01:02:13.050 --> 01:02:15.110
way to say it. That's my favorite way to say

01:02:15.110 --> 01:02:17.789
it. That's it. It says, so in him, all the fullness

01:02:17.789 --> 01:02:20.969
of the Godhead dwells bodily, and you, talking

01:02:20.969 --> 01:02:24.679
about you and me, are complete in him. That word

01:02:24.679 --> 01:02:27.639
complete means full and it literally the word

01:02:27.639 --> 01:02:31.460
is the picture of cramming something full. That

01:02:31.460 --> 01:02:33.599
is to me in the Greek, that's fascinating. So

01:02:33.599 --> 01:02:37.780
it's like taking a bag if you were a first century

01:02:37.780 --> 01:02:40.840
Hebrew and you're packing your mule. You don't

01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:44.219
just fill the bag, you cram things into it to

01:02:44.219 --> 01:02:46.920
get everything in you can. And that's the picture

01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:49.039
of this. So when it says you're complete, it

01:02:49.039 --> 01:02:52.199
means you are full. You're absolutely filled

01:02:52.199 --> 01:02:54.900
to the brim and overflowing. He says, you're

01:02:54.900 --> 01:02:57.280
complete in Him who is the head of all principality

01:02:57.280 --> 01:02:59.539
and power. And those principalities and power,

01:02:59.619 --> 01:03:01.440
what he's talking about is not earthly power.

01:03:01.579 --> 01:03:04.179
He's talking about the demonic realm, everything

01:03:04.179 --> 01:03:06.320
that's happening in the atmosphere around us.

01:03:06.639 --> 01:03:09.719
It says that you're complete in Him. And because

01:03:09.719 --> 01:03:13.340
you're in him, you now are sitting in the one

01:03:13.340 --> 01:03:16.179
who is head over all of that. So let me give

01:03:16.179 --> 01:03:18.739
you the DG from today. We'll end with the DG.

01:03:19.380 --> 01:03:23.420
So this is the daily grind. Today's scripture

01:03:23.420 --> 01:03:25.480
is Colossians chapter two, verses nine and 10.

01:03:25.559 --> 01:03:27.960
For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead

01:03:27.960 --> 01:03:31.659
bodily, and you are complete in him who is the

01:03:31.659 --> 01:03:34.099
head of all principality and power. Today's title

01:03:34.099 --> 01:03:38.219
is, Fully Supplied and Lacking Nothing. Everything

01:03:38.219 --> 01:03:41.480
that is God dwells in Jesus Christ. He was fully

01:03:41.480 --> 01:03:44.760
man. He was fully God. This is a game changer.

01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:47.980
If only you will receive it and believe it. Paul

01:03:47.980 --> 01:03:51.840
reminds us, and you are complete in him. It means

01:03:51.840 --> 01:03:54.980
to be fully supplied, filled to the brim, lacking

01:03:54.980 --> 01:03:58.119
nothing, to be made complete in every particular,

01:03:58.539 --> 01:04:01.739
to be rendered perfect. This is an astonishing

01:04:01.739 --> 01:04:05.760
truth. In him, you are complete, whole and filled

01:04:05.760 --> 01:04:08.980
to the top. dwell in this truth today about who

01:04:08.980 --> 01:04:11.840
you are in Christ. This is Pastor Jimmy Pruitt.

01:04:11.900 --> 01:04:16.300
Have an amazing day on purpose. Beautiful, brother.

01:04:16.460 --> 01:04:19.920
I love it. We'll see y 'all next week. We get

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to do this, and so do you.