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Father, what a privilege to be before you today

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and literally to have the privilege of being

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able to speak into people's lives. But Father,

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it's not my voice or Adam's voice really that

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we want them to hear. We want them to hear your

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heart, your voice, your heart for them, your

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love for them, calling them back, wooing them,

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drawing them, teaching them, all of us together.

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And Father, we really are in this together. and

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we get to do it together. So Lord, we commit

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everything we do to you, everything we do for

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you, for your honor and glory in Jesus' name.

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Amen. Hello, brother. Cheers, brother. All right.

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There we go. The clanking of our metal. The Yeti

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cups. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful thing.

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What are you drinking over there? I'm drinking,

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I presume it's black rifle coffee. Just black.

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JB. Yeah, that's their medium. I love it. I need

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to. I'm drinking some. That's something you treated

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me with. Gigawatt. Oh, yes. Gigawattcoffeeroasters

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.com. Cold brew. This is amazing. Isn't that

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good stuff? I'm feeling like I'm going to have

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to reach out to these guys. How do you get it?

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Eli, the coffee guy, he started, he was a producer

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of the no agenda show and he, like many of the

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most amazing small companies who listen to the

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no agenda show, they started a little coffee

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roaster company and sent us some coffee. And

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like, wow, this is pretty good coffee. In particular,

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I like the cold brew, which he had to stop for

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a while because there was some, yeah, there was

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some scare about the way cold brews were made

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and everybody had to stop it for a little bit.

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And he brought it back and it's... I mean, it's

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the perfect add -on to my already caffeinated

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life. No kidding. Like, you know, I've already

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had two cups of coffee. I think I'm going to

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throw a cold brew on top of that. I need some

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cold, yeah. I'm just switching gears. It makes

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you feel better anyway, like you're not drinking

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too much. But it has that nitro in it, so you've

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got to give it a little shake. You've got to

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be careful opening it, because it will give you

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a... I noticed. I had a feeling. But it's good,

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isn't it? So good. So good. He and his wife Jen

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run that company. I'm going to have to get their

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email address and... I have a feeling Eli listens.

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Hey, Eli, if you do, brother, you've made me

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happy. I'm happy today. I like it. It has been

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a crazy week so far for me. How about you? You

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know, I hate to say this, this is kind of the

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contrast between black and white. Yes. Pretty

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easy one for me. Vacation time for you, man.

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You deserve every single minute of it. It's nice,

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though. Every minute of it. It's been great.

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Yeah, so we had this for our... We're kind of

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pulling radio stations and churches too, kicking

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and screaming into the digital station concept.

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We have a lot of partners, which is Christian

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for customers, I've learned. But for many of

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them, it's like, okay, I got it. It's checkbox,

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it's good to go. And we have probably 15 % that

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really are getting it and their success is amazing.

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huge increases in engagement, in listening, in

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sharing. It's really, really big. So we do these

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Godcaster use, which is for our customers. And

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we typically have like 25, 30 people, a little

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less in this vacation period. But it's a confluence

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of things we have to do. So there's Zoom. Man,

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you learn a lot about software development when

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you use Zoom professionally because they change

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things all the time. They move buttons. You have

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a co -presenter thing and then, you know, all

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of a sudden the sharing, screen sharing doesn't

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work, which is critical. And we also have to

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show how the app works on the phone. So now you're

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sharing your phone screen into the computer.

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There's a lot that can go wrong. And yesterday,

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and we've had four of these, every single one

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of them has had a problem. Yesterday was really

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probably the worst. And it starts at noon at

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830. First, my power brick on the computer died.

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This does not happen often. These things, I mean,

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it's a little underpowered for... because you're

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supposed to have 130 watt and this one came with

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a 90. And the thing just fried. Okay. I had a

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backup so plugged it in, ordered a 130. That's

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fine. And then literally everything went haywire.

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The computer had to almost be rebuilt from the

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ground up because of some, I think it had to

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do with the sharing of the phone screen and all

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kinds of driver displays. And so now it's like

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10 30. We haven't even really done a rehearsal,

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Gordon and I do this together. And I'm calm,

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but I'm like, oh man, I knew I had time. And

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then Gordon, my partner, Godcaster, he puts in,

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cause we have an internal chat. And so I'm like,

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the enemy is up to his tricks, power supply fried

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out. I have a backup, locating it, system crash,

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another 15, 20 minutes. And he replies, Psalm

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140 verse 4, keep me O Lord from the hands of

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the wicked preserve me from the violent man who

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have purpose to overthrow my goings which I sounds

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a lot like the King James version and And I and

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I look at that and I pray it right away. I prayed

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a second time. There you go And would you believe

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that the results came right away? Really? Right

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away. Love that. All of a sudden, ploop, ploop,

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the screams start coming back. Love it when God

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does that. And I'm like, Holy Spirit, thank you.

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Wow. And I just wanted to share that because

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we forget to do these things. Yes. We've talked

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about it before, you know, like, can't find my

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keys. Well, I have a golden question for you,

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and I want you to just, I'm teeing it up for

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you. Yeah, okay, sure. How did knowing Jesus

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help you navigate the technical meltdown? Complete

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trust and faith and knowing who's really in control

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and that this was an enemy attack. How does that

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translate into people's lives? I mean, just in

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the normal dailies? Well, more and more these

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days, every single thought of mine comes back

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to, I'm not in control of this. Now that doesn't

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mean that in the waiting, we're not supposed

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to be doing things. That doesn't mean you sit

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on your blessed assurance. But first just knowing

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that knowing that that I'm not really in control

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whatever is happening is for a reason In this

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case, it was pretty obvious anything that I mean

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man I'll tell you another story. The enemy does

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not like me doing this. That's just clear there

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Yeah, and so once you and it comes back to my

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Ephesians, you know, this is a spiritual war

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and These are wars happening in a whole different

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realm that we can't necessarily see I'm like,

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okay this makes nothing but sense that, you know,

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there's something going on. And I really believe

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that computers, you know, it's natural because

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it comes from sand, it is silicon, you know,

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no two chips are the same. So there's got to

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be some kind of connection to the natural world

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through these things. So easily friable, you

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know, you can create some energy and fry that.

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I mean, really a power brick, are you kidding

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me? How many times does that happen in your life?

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That really is how I look at things and increasingly,

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I recognize this for myself. Like, wait a minute,

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I'm not in control of this. And then I'll pray

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right away. And of course, the most important

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thing is when it is resolved, I pray out of gratitude

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and thanks. Absolutely. And just like, oh yeah,

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man, this is awesome. Thank you. Can I give a

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little caveat to that? Yeah, please. Because

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this is a hard thing I've learned. Most of my

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lessons, just quite frankly, I've learned the

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hard way. I rarely just get something by osmosis

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from somebody else. It's usually you have to

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be in a trench or in a ditch or behind a door

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and figure it out. But I learned to, when I pray

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for or about something, especially in the middle

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of a crisis or a meltdown or technical or mechanical,

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I thank God in advance. Thank you that you're

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going to take care of this. Thank you that you're

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in control. Father, I thank you that you're answering

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my prayer. Even as I'm praying right now, you're

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already orchestrating events. and atoms and molecules

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and things and elements to come together to bring

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this about. And so I've learned to do that with

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just about everything. People I pray for, I thank

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in advance for what God's going to do in their

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lives. That's just extending your faith out beyond

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the moment into a future probability. And this

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is what I think is the hardest for non -believers

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to hear and to see. It's like, come on, man,

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this isn't logical. You're praying to some sky

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daddy. Like, okay, you know, this is what faith

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is. This is what believing is. That, to me, is

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the core. And not always immediately, but it

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always works out. Not always the way I want it,

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but I'm still here. Every single day, everything

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works out. That's why we pray, your kingdom come,

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

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His will, not ours. Yes. Because we definitely

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have a will, don't we? We do. It can be very

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strong. We do. Especially when you're in the

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middle of a meltdown. That's why I think it's

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good to unpack this a little bit with you for

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our listeners because... You know, people can

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see, can hear a voice over the, over the air,

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over the internet or whatever, and think, think

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you live a charmed life. You know, you just got

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it all together. Everything works. Every time

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you fire it up, you know, your car always starts,

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you know, everything works, you know, every day

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is Friday. But the truth is it's not like that.

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Hard things come, trouble comes. It's, it's not

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that we live any different in terms of things

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happening. It's just. We now have the ability

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and the empowerment to engage those things with

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faith, with hope, with love. And that changes

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how we engage, changes how we deal with situations.

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I'm counseling a couple of brothers right now

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online as we're talking. They produced a movie

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documentary that you know about. And they've

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got one guy who's a part of that world who's

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just gone rogue and dark and he's hammering them

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online and accusing them of things. And it's

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totally off. And yet he's a big detox Christian

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talk and Christianese all the time. And I was

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just encouraging them, hey, man, stay the course,

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never react, return hate with love. Love will

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always win. I'm so proud of you guys. But man,

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they've not been in the spotlight. Hardly ever.

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I just said, brothers, I said this, I said, I've

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learned the hard way after 40 years in the public

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eye, when you're over the target, you become

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the target. It's so true. And really, that's

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what you're saying is, man, the devil really

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hates me doing this stuff, because I'm feeling

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that resistance. Oh, and earlier in the week

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on Monday, it was quite an honor, actually, I

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was asked to be part of a discussion about the

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Young Washington movie. And that was for Angel

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Studios. They're doing an A -250, America 250

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series. So that movie's a part of it. And so

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the writers were on and they asked me to be on,

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which it was kind of weird, other than I've seen

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it and I have opinions about it. Your trusted

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voice. Well, thank you. That's kind of you to

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say. And so these Angel Studios has been doing

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these for a while. They know how to do interviews

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with people. They know how to set it up. They've

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got a studio, obviously, Angel Studios. We get

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ready. We're chatting. We're good to go. Hit

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record. Whole thing starts to fall apart. And

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they can't figure it out. And I'm like... Did

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you say it's because I'm on? No, I said, the

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enemy doesn't like this kind of talk. So you

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got to pray over the equipment. Good for you,

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brother. I couldn't hear what they were doing,

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but... it got resolved. But this happens all

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the time, all the time. You can almost set your

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clock by it. I'm like, ah, not today, Satan.

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You can try, you can try. You're not going to

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win. It'll eventually all resolve itself. And

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it does. If you think about it, the MO of the

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enemy is just like the MO of what you and I have

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been talking a lot about in that social media.

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And that's this insane attempt to steal your

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attention. And your joy. your joy, to divert

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your attention, to get something out of you or

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away from you. And we see that play out in social

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media and whatnot. And people do it and they

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don't even realize they're doing it. I think

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a lot of people don't realize they're just playing

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the game. You know, I got to do this to get more

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clicks, likes, comments, and followers. Or just

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feel recognized. Or just be seen, be noticed.

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It's not even for that kind of cloud. It's just

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notice me. Just to be validated. So I only really

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look at Twitter. X and I know every single time

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I look at it I'm gonna see something negative

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and I've noticed the algorithm because if you

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look at the comments, they're not always in chronological

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order and Interesting. So whenever I whenever

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I post it, it's usually just a new show That's

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all I really ever post there. The fourth comment

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will be the negative one and it's not the fourth

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in order of age. So that's what the algorithm

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does. It's like, oh, I feel good. Nice one. Thank

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you. Create friction. Yeah, which creates more

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feedback. And everybody's in a pecking contest.

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And it's a lot less sophisticated than people

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think. It really is. Tina's figured out her Instagram

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algo because she'll search for one thing and

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say, oh. I'm in the shoe, I'll go, oh, I'm in

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the cottage cheese, I'll go. I'm in the Maltese

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puppy, I'll go. And then eventually it goes away

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if you stop looking at it or you look at something

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else. But it's really, it's not that sophisticated.

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It's pretty obvious, but that's the same with

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you showing an interest for controversy or someone

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counted to your opinion. Then it only gets worse

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and worse and worse and worse. You go down the

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rabbit hole. Nothing surprising there. So speaking

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of social media and how people are looking at

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What is what the mainstream media is trying to

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call the war of choice? Have you noticed this

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this theme the lingo? Yeah, it's the war. It's

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a war of choice. It's always the way it's framed

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right and Framing matters where it's kind of

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interesting to see that, you know for all these

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decades Did we really even realize that the Strait

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of Hormuz was that important that the whole world

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would fall apart over it? Which actually hasn't

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happened in the United States. Yes, our gas is

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more expensive. Actually, I think it went down

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about 20 cents. And you know that there's clearly

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other things at play. And I say this because

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what has happened in certainly in the United

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States is there's this And I think young people

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believe this 100%. The 85 % who believe it are

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all in that Israel controls our government and

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Netanyahu controls Trump. This is just what people

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believe. This is why we have this big split in

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the conservative commentator. Pado Sphere, if

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I can call it that. Pado Sphere, you know, with

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Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Megan Kelly, you

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know, Megan Kelly lamenting with Sean Ryan, like,

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you know, they own everything, which is de facto

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quite. ridiculous. We've talked about that, about

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APAC and how small and insignificant APAC is

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compared to the National Association of Realtors

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or AARP, the biggest lobby in the world. There's

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old people. Oil industry lobbies. It's not even

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as big as the realtors. The realtors is much,

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much bigger than the oil lobby. There's also

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the NRA and there's all kinds of lobbying going

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on. the amount of money that we're you know,

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we're sending to Israel, which is very very insignificant

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in the grand scheme so this war is seen as And

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it's I kind of dispute that it's a war I mean

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that we don't have troops fighting each other

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people have died our own troops have died But

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it doesn't mean it's not important. It's like

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a chess game is what it looks like to me from

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the outside looking in It's definitely a chess

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game and and Israel is also a piece of the chess

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game now The reason why I'm bringing this up

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and why I want to play a few clips is I was reading

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I think the you version was doing the Beatitudes

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This week and so the seventh I believe it is

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is blessed are the peacemakers Should we be saying

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blessed or blessed? Yes. Blessed sounds so much

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more biblical. Blessed are the peacemakers. I

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know it does. I wrote this down and I forgot

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actually what is the scripture for blessed are

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the peacemakers. Matthew chapter 5 verse 9. Thank

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you. I wrote it down and I realized I'd written

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down blessed are the peacekeepers. I grew up

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in Europe and we had Yugoslavia, in essence,

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just blew apart. The US was a part of that too,

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but then it became Bosnia -Herzegovina and it

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was... partially a religious issue, but a lot

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more political and as always about resources

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and turf, etc. But in came the blue helmets and

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the blue helmets are the United Nations troops,

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which is kind of a weird thing. You don't hear

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too much about them anymore, but they literally

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have blue helmets and they are known as the peacekeeping

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force. And so, even though I read clearly Peacemakers,

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peacekeepers is what registered in my mind and

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As I'm and it struck me right away and this I

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had to do kind of a deeper dive on this like

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What exactly is a peacemaker? Is a peacemaker

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just someone who says hey guys calm down. Everything's

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gonna be okay Or does a peacemaker have to go

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through certain motions to create peace perhaps

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in a region where there has been no peace for

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100 or 200 or more years. Is there any explanation

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or any analog in Scripture that you can think

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of for the term peacemaker? Well, I mean, I'm

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looking at some explanation right now on one

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of my Bible programs, and I asked the question,

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can the word peacemakers in Matthew 5 .9 be translated

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to peacekeepers? And it says, the short answer,

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not really. The Greek word, and I'm going to

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try to pronounce this with my Texas accent to

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be butchering, means those who make or create

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peace, not those who merely maintain or keep

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it. That's another level. Make or create peace.

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Ooh, that's rich. So that's where my mind went,

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because I also looked at that Greek word and

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it's like a whole bunch of E's and I's with weird

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squiggly lines over it. I don't know if you have

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a phonetic pronunciation guide. I'm looking at

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it right now. Usually I take a stab at Greek,

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but this is a very long word. Is that it? Well,

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rene means peace. Irene and it's this equivalent

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of the Hebrew Shalom, but it's Greek means peace.

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So there's the front end of that piece and then

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the Irene so it's Irene no poya poyo poyo poyo

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so the definition I got of it is Disrupts the

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broken status quo to forge a new one and I'm

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like, wow, okay So, there's something else to

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the idea of creating peace. Now, what is the

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second part of Matthew 5, 9? For blessed be the

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peacemakers. For they shall be called the sons

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of God. Thank you. Wow. So, I can already hear

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someone going, oh man, are they calling Trump

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God, Son of God? No, no, no. I wasn't even thinking

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about Trump. I know you were because of the straights

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and all that. I went right to us as sons and

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daughters of God. I mean, although that's on

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a larger level, I get you. So I'm just saying

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that doesn't have to be the default. This is

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about us, all of us. But there's also a lot of

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believers who think that Trump is controlled.

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And I think he's controlled by one thing and

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one thing only, which is the same thing that

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controls my life and your life. And that's ABBA.

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So let's just hear how that control that people

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think about is working out in real life. A key

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piece of President Trump's 2024 campaign was

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no new wars. You guys remember this? This is

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the setup, obviously. This is MSNBC. So you can

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hear what's been this. And there's no difference

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between left -wing media and right -wing media.

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extreme left and extreme right in this particular

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regard. NBC's Kristen Welker asked him about

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that during their interview last week. One of

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your consistent campaign promises was no new

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wars going all the way back to 2015. Did you

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break that promise to the American people? I

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had to stop a country, very powerful, very dangerous

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country, from having a nuclear weapon. What changed

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because you insisted no new wars? If I didn't

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guarantee no war, why would I have built the

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strongest military in the world? I built our

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military. I inherited a terrible military. We

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had no equipment. We had nothing. I built a tremendous

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military. Biden gave a lot of it away, but it's

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still a relatively small portion compared to

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what I built. But you said it over and over again,

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Mr. Trump. Why would I build a military? The

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thing is, there's a lot, a lot of video of him

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from 2024 saying some version of no wars or no

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new wars. Take a look. So we are going to, we

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are going to make sure there's no wars. We don't

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want to have wars. I call them endless wars.

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With our victory in November, the years of war,

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weakness and chaos will be over. I don't... have

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wars. We had no wars. I could stop wars with

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a telephone call. I could stop wars with just

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a telephone call. It properly stated it would

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never start. No more wars, no more disruptions.

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We will have prosperity and we will have peace.

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Under Trump, we will have no more wars, no more

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disruptions that we will have prosperity and

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peace for all. This is what happens with campaign

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promises. You get called on it, right? You get

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called on it. And rightly so. And so having a

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new war, being a peacemaker, perhaps two different

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things. Is it a war of choice or is he being

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a peacemaker? Well, first, let's dive into the

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This was all done for Israel Netanyahu told him

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to do it. He was sitting there in the In the

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what is it the situation room? He was at the

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head of the table. This has all been written

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in the New York Times There's no wow no surprise

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no pictures or actual evidence of it is just

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here's a source Yeah, you know Trump was pushing

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his chair in at the table Yeah, he's a hospital

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hospitality guy. That's he's like that for everybody.

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But anyway, let's see how it's working out. Israel

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and Iran have now appeared to back away from

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further escalation just hours after the two nations

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exchanged fire for the first time since the US

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brokered April truce. Now we have to bear in

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mind that this is Israel now attacking Lebanon,

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which yes, there's proxies in there has Bala

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of Iran. But meanwhile, the president is waiting

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or working on some peace treaty or some deal

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with Iran, and this is going on in the sidelines.

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Axios cites two Israeli officials who say Israel

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was preparing for the biggest wave of strikes

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on Iran since the ceasefire took hold when President

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Trump called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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and asked him to stop the strikes. The president

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told Axios, quote, I said, Bibi, you better be

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careful or you will be on your own very soon.

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After the call, the outlet reports Netanyahu

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told his senior military commanders to cancel

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the strikes. So who's in control here? Why would

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they even report on it? Because they know that

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they feel like this is a scoop. And I'm pretty

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sure it's true, or at least the information about

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it was leaked purposely to them, also to ABC.

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This after President Trump posting on social

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media early Monday morning that Israel and Iran

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are looking to do an immediate ceasefire and

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claiming that broader negotiations for peace

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are proceeding. But over the weekend, the two

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countries traded intense strikes. Iran firing

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multiple waves of ballistic missiles at northern

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Israel, saying it was in retaliation after Israel

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launched strikes against Iranian -backed Hezbollah

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in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. President

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Trump in a series of interviews on Sunday sending

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a message to Israel. to hold its fire. This isn't

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the first time that he has called Netanyahu and

00:26:45.380 --> 00:26:49.059
said, dude, you got to stop this. This was also

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a report this was from two weeks ago. And according

00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:55.460
to Axios, President Trump just yesterday unloaded

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on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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over this with expletives flying over the phone.

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Axios reports that Trump demanded that Netanyahu

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back off. his plans to take his attacks and offensive

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against Hezbollah straight to the center of Beirut.

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A U .S. official summarized the call this way

00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:18.640
to Axios, that Trump told Netanyahu, quote, you're

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effing crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't

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for me. This is what you say to someone who controls

00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:28.359
you, obviously. And the part that no one has

00:27:28.359 --> 00:27:31.579
reported that was in the Axios piece was that

00:27:31.579 --> 00:27:34.900
he said, you're the reason everybody hates Israel

00:27:34.900 --> 00:27:39.170
right now. Wow. Now, why no one reported on that

00:27:39.170 --> 00:27:42.490
is, I mean, why bother, right? Right, right.

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So I'm not really believing the Trump is controlled

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by Netanyahu or he did this only for Israel.

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In fact, here comes the peacemaker part, because

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this has been going on since his first administration.

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And it's a little thing called the Abraham Accords.

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Very difficult to even find a current clip about

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the Abraham Accords. This is from WION, I think,

00:28:10.869 --> 00:28:12.930
so a bit of an Indian accent, but it just gives

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you the brief layup of it. Well, Abraham Accords

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are a set of agreements brokered by US that aim

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to normalize diplomatic relations between Israel

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and several Arab states. The pact was announced

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in 2020 during Donald Trump's first term as president.

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UAE and Bahrain were the first Arab nations to

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sign the deal and to recognize Israel as a state

00:28:36.980 --> 00:28:40.339
since Jordan in 1994. After the UAE and Bahrain,

00:28:40.619 --> 00:28:43.039
Morocco and Sudan also joined the Accords. However,

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Sudan has yet to ratify the pact. Kazakhstan

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formally joined the grouping on the 6th of November.

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That's just last year. And that makes it the

00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:53.920
first nation to join the Accords in Trump's second

00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:56.839
term. So this is pretty legendary, where you

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have Arab Muslim nations coming into agreement

00:29:01.339 --> 00:29:04.500
with Israel. There's only one person who that

00:29:04.500 --> 00:29:07.799
doesn't benefit, by the way, Benjamin Netanyahu,

00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:12.559
because without war, he's very vulnerable for

00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:15.970
his position. So you kind of got to look at his

00:29:15.970 --> 00:29:18.710
actions and say well Why is he trying to disrupt

00:29:18.710 --> 00:29:21.230
something and then why is president Trump telling

00:29:21.230 --> 00:29:24.049
him? Hey, bro, and you got to stand down so the

00:29:24.049 --> 00:29:26.950
final piece and I think this is why it's taking

00:29:26.950 --> 00:29:29.910
so long to get this deal together of What the

00:29:29.910 --> 00:29:32.809
peacemaker is doing is this I would like to have

00:29:32.809 --> 00:29:34.869
the countries we were talking about with Saudi

00:29:34.869 --> 00:29:38.210
Arabia UAE Guitar and the others we'd like to

00:29:38.210 --> 00:29:41.680
have them immediately join the NC. Woodcock is

00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:43.779
working on that with Jared and some others, but

00:29:43.779 --> 00:29:45.680
would like to have them join the Abraham Accords.

00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:49.180
It'll be historic if they do it. I think they

00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:51.559
owe that to us, to be honest. I think because

00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:54.940
that really would be a tremendous sign. And I

00:29:54.940 --> 00:29:58.880
think those countries owe it to us. Steve, are

00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:01.980
you going to get them to sign? We're definitely

00:30:01.980 --> 00:30:05.180
pushing it, Mr. President. I'm not sure we should

00:30:05.180 --> 00:30:07.720
make the deal if they don't sign. You want to

00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:10.339
know the truth? If they don't sign to join the

00:30:10.339 --> 00:30:12.019
Abrahamic course, I don't know that we, you know,

00:30:12.099 --> 00:30:15.839
we have countries in there already. UAE, great,

00:30:16.519 --> 00:30:19.440
great countries, bold countries. It's turned

00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:24.519
out to be so good, so effective. And so we're

00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:27.759
requesting strongly that they join. It'll be

00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:29.680
great. It'd be great for Saudi Arabia. It'd be

00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:32.720
great for Qatar and Kuwait, the whole group.

00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:35.980
So the Iran deal might be contingent on more

00:30:35.980 --> 00:30:38.660
countries joining. I don't want to say that.

00:30:38.740 --> 00:30:40.799
I'm not going to give you what's contingent,

00:30:40.819 --> 00:30:43.880
what's not. He just said that, but OK, I'm not

00:30:43.880 --> 00:30:45.599
going to tell you what I'm doing or not. But

00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:49.460
I think that's truly the idea here. And Iran

00:30:49.460 --> 00:30:52.559
will be one thing, but Saudi Arabia, home to

00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:55.779
Mecca and Medina, to be in these accords and

00:30:55.779 --> 00:30:58.000
to, hey, you know, we may not agree on a lot

00:30:58.000 --> 00:30:59.579
of things and we have some cultural differences.

00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:02.660
By the way, Arabs and Israelis have lived together

00:31:02.660 --> 00:31:06.880
forever. And friends who I know in Israel say,

00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:09.900
well, yeah, you know, they're all kind of coexisting.

00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:12.259
There's a whole Arab quarter in the old Jerusalem,

00:31:12.299 --> 00:31:16.250
the old city that you walk through. They're trading

00:31:16.250 --> 00:31:19.470
their wares just like everybody else. So I think

00:31:19.470 --> 00:31:22.910
that's what's going on here. And again, I take

00:31:22.910 --> 00:31:25.430
nothing for granted when things pop up in my

00:31:25.430 --> 00:31:27.609
daily devotional or something and it hits me

00:31:27.609 --> 00:31:31.170
like I'm like, blessed be the peacemakers, not

00:31:31.170 --> 00:31:35.369
the peacekeepers. So, you know, yeah, he said

00:31:35.369 --> 00:31:38.569
no more wars, no more endless wars, but maybe

00:31:38.569 --> 00:31:41.839
this was a great opportunity. Well, and I will

00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:45.319
I want to caveat that with don't make this jump

00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:50.720
that Adam Curry is stating that President Trump

00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:54.880
is the son of God. No, please. He is one of billions.

00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:59.039
I know you're not saying that, but I know how

00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:01.720
people take this stuff and run. That's okay.

00:32:02.440 --> 00:32:06.640
That'll be number four on X. It'll be right there.

00:32:06.900 --> 00:32:09.440
Or some Dutch guy rolling his eyes. You're like,

00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:12.420
oh boy, oh brother. I can't believe he said that.

00:32:12.859 --> 00:32:15.940
But I just wanted to put it into context because

00:32:15.940 --> 00:32:21.859
it gets so convoluted and so myopic, so constricted

00:32:21.859 --> 00:32:25.799
down to a worldview that is, well, that's just

00:32:25.799 --> 00:32:27.980
it. We might as well not vote because Israel

00:32:27.980 --> 00:32:30.799
controls everything. I'm like, no, it's really,

00:32:30.819 --> 00:32:33.359
it's ludicrous when you look at the facts of

00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:37.720
it. What started that jumping on that train?

00:32:38.019 --> 00:32:40.950
I know Candice was yacking for... She's been

00:32:40.950 --> 00:32:43.809
yakking for the last few years, but why, why

00:32:43.809 --> 00:32:46.450
Megan? Why Tucker? Why are they jumping on this

00:32:46.450 --> 00:32:50.630
train? It came from Massey. AIPAC has been, that's

00:32:50.630 --> 00:32:54.190
the American -Israeli Political Action. It's

00:32:54.190 --> 00:32:57.829
not a PAC. It's not like a political action committee.

00:32:58.170 --> 00:33:03.170
It has a different acronym. But it's a lobbyist,

00:33:03.250 --> 00:33:05.369
large lobby group, right? And it's Jewish Americans.

00:33:06.109 --> 00:33:11.559
And so the biggest complaint has been that AIPAC

00:33:11.559 --> 00:33:14.680
should register under FARA, the Foreign Agent

00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:18.160
Registry Act, that they are really acting on

00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:23.539
behalf of Israel. Now, is it a stretch to say

00:33:23.539 --> 00:33:29.460
that Jewish Americans want certain policies or

00:33:29.460 --> 00:33:34.480
laws based upon their... homeland, or their ancestral

00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:37.160
land, or their friends or family, or on behalf

00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:40.000
of Israel. It's not such a stretch, but it is

00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:42.940
not literally the Israeli government controlling

00:33:42.940 --> 00:33:46.240
the money. It's Jewish American money, just like

00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:53.700
there's Arab lobby groups, et cetera. I think

00:33:53.700 --> 00:33:55.500
we went through that on a previous show about

00:33:55.500 --> 00:34:00.140
how they separated all of that out. When Thomas

00:34:00.140 --> 00:34:05.920
Massey went on Tucker Carlson, he made true statements

00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:08.559
by saying, you've got to know, man, that AIPAC

00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:12.639
has a lobbyist, a person for every single member

00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:16.219
of Congress and the Senate. And that was, oh,

00:34:16.340 --> 00:34:19.820
what? That's my Tucker laugh. That was a good

00:34:19.820 --> 00:34:22.920
one. That was good. You know, like, oh, this

00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:26.179
is crazy. But you know, again, Yes, so does the

00:34:26.179 --> 00:34:29.159
National Association of Realtors, etc. But tie

00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:33.159
that in with thousands of years of the Jews are

00:34:33.159 --> 00:34:35.300
responsible for everything wrong in my life.

00:34:35.500 --> 00:34:38.460
It's not that hard to take that. And of course,

00:34:38.699 --> 00:34:43.059
at this certain point, it became okay to say

00:34:43.059 --> 00:34:46.179
these things out loud. I can't exactly pinpoint

00:34:46.179 --> 00:34:49.320
that, but it came after October 7. Which is so

00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:53.039
bizarre to me. I mean, I'm sorry. I'm outside

00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:56.150
looking and I'm going, These people got brutally

00:34:56.150 --> 00:35:02.090
attacked and kidnapped in brutality beyond human

00:35:02.090 --> 00:35:05.750
imagination. But they're the enemy? Well, it

00:35:05.750 --> 00:35:08.349
was the retaliation. The retaliation and how

00:35:08.349 --> 00:35:13.289
that was portrayed. genocide, but this had been

00:35:13.289 --> 00:35:16.269
going on for a long time on the left side of

00:35:16.269 --> 00:35:19.329
the political spectrum with boycott, divest,

00:35:19.949 --> 00:35:23.590
and sanction, the BDS having universities sell

00:35:23.590 --> 00:35:27.730
their stock, all of this stuff. And it just bled

00:35:27.730 --> 00:35:30.929
over in some form of audience capture. It's hard

00:35:30.929 --> 00:35:33.210
to pinpoint how these things work exactly. But

00:35:33.210 --> 00:35:37.070
it's amazing how it spreads so quickly and all

00:35:37.070 --> 00:35:41.460
of a sudden you've got a next generation, a lot

00:35:41.460 --> 00:35:43.599
of them coming to Christ, coming to Jesus. I

00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:45.920
mean, we see some amazing things happening in

00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:49.260
the next gen, but also we see this push, particularly

00:35:49.260 --> 00:35:53.860
in females, way to the left. And they're articulating

00:35:53.860 --> 00:35:56.940
this, you know, the river to the seas and all

00:35:56.940 --> 00:35:58.380
the mountain to the seas and all this stuff.

00:35:58.539 --> 00:36:01.139
And it's like, they've just bought it hook line

00:36:01.139 --> 00:36:03.760
and sinker. But if you were to sit one down and

00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:05.940
say, tell me exactly why you think what that

00:36:05.940 --> 00:36:08.500
means, and tell me why exactly you feel like

00:36:08.500 --> 00:36:11.039
the Jews are doing all this. All they can do

00:36:11.039 --> 00:36:14.000
is cite podcasters. Right. And what they will

00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:16.760
say is, well, why are we sending all this money

00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:21.119
to Israel and I can't afford my rent? And the

00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:24.860
answer is Look at the actual numbers. I looked

00:36:24.860 --> 00:36:27.340
them up today and it ends in 2028 and they're

00:36:27.340 --> 00:36:30.480
doing some things to change that. It's 3 .3 billion

00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:33.480
dollars a year. Well, we've sent 38 billion dollars

00:36:33.480 --> 00:36:38.380
to Israel over the past 15 years. We send 150

00:36:38.380 --> 00:36:41.320
billion within two years to Ukraine. There you

00:36:41.320 --> 00:36:43.400
go. Which isn't even something we're remotely

00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:46.760
involved in. Exactly. And we've said before that

00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:49.960
3 .3 billion is You know, that whole annual budget,

00:36:50.239 --> 00:36:53.659
which is spent on U S military equipment is about

00:36:53.659 --> 00:36:55.599
three weeks of snap benefits. So, you know, you

00:36:55.599 --> 00:36:59.139
have to put the money in perspective. Um, it's

00:36:59.139 --> 00:37:01.980
just, it's become people parrot stuff. They,

00:37:02.019 --> 00:37:04.260
and particularly if you've got your favorite

00:37:04.260 --> 00:37:07.500
podcasters, I know how hard this is because when

00:37:07.500 --> 00:37:10.639
I say, well, this is just not true. the hate

00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:13.039
I get, and I've been listening for 10 years,

00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:16.159
I can't listen anymore, boomer take, you know,

00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:19.420
everything you can imagine, like, okay, well,

00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:23.360
but I'm not going to buckle because this is just

00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:25.800
the truth. And I can go way back. I think we've

00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:27.659
done some of that. You can go back to the 70s

00:37:27.659 --> 00:37:31.139
and explain. how Israel got involved and why

00:37:31.139 --> 00:37:34.659
we set it up after Vietnam. We didn't want our

00:37:34.659 --> 00:37:37.280
kids dying, get some people in the desert to

00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:39.840
fight our wars. I mean, it's not like we're innocent

00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:45.119
as a country in the setup of this, but it's become

00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:48.400
a thing. And remember one of the last things

00:37:48.400 --> 00:37:51.679
Charlie Kirk did that we had on recording and

00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:55.840
we played where he was asking Gen Z, are you

00:37:55.840 --> 00:37:58.699
an anti -Semite? And they said, no, I just don't

00:37:58.699 --> 00:38:00.659
think we should be sending all this money to

00:38:00.659 --> 00:38:02.639
Israel. But if you're going to call me an anti

00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:04.139
-Semite, I might as well, if I'm going to be

00:38:04.139 --> 00:38:06.820
accused of the crime, I might as well just do

00:38:06.820 --> 00:38:11.699
the crime. So, you know, no one has helped in

00:38:11.699 --> 00:38:17.639
any way in this conversation. But it's dumb because

00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:23.760
the evidence isn't there. And ultimately, Netanyahu

00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:27.469
is responsible for what he does. But I see a

00:38:27.469 --> 00:38:31.650
very good outlook and picture. If Saudi Arabia

00:38:31.650 --> 00:38:34.110
signs onto this, and I have a feeling they will,

00:38:34.929 --> 00:38:38.050
Iran almost won't matter. By the way, Iran, I

00:38:38.050 --> 00:38:41.010
mean, the school kids are protesting. You look

00:38:41.010 --> 00:38:42.969
at, because the internet opened back up. They

00:38:42.969 --> 00:38:44.889
went, oh, we'll turn the internet back on for

00:38:44.889 --> 00:38:48.590
whatever reason. And so the high school kids,

00:38:48.730 --> 00:38:50.610
they're out there protesting saying, we're done

00:38:50.610 --> 00:38:54.550
with these mullahs. Not a lot of hijabs on the

00:38:54.550 --> 00:38:59.070
girls' heads. It does not like bombs and, you

00:38:59.070 --> 00:39:02.210
know, rubble everywhere. This is, you know, when

00:39:02.210 --> 00:39:05.050
you think of war, this is not exactly what you're

00:39:05.050 --> 00:39:08.809
seeing in that, in Iran or Tehran or anywhere

00:39:08.809 --> 00:39:14.570
really. This is a very small, small theater,

00:39:15.090 --> 00:39:17.269
which is just about the Hormuz Straits. And we're

00:39:17.269 --> 00:39:19.730
keeping it closed. We're keeping it closed because

00:39:19.730 --> 00:39:23.150
we're going to be okay. And we'll see if they...

00:39:23.230 --> 00:39:25.349
If they come to the table, I keep predicting

00:39:25.349 --> 00:39:27.769
before July 4th, I think I know the president

00:39:27.769 --> 00:39:30.630
well enough. You're like, I gotta get this done

00:39:30.630 --> 00:39:34.349
by July 4th. Maybe he's waiting a little bit.

00:39:34.610 --> 00:39:36.789
But meanwhile, oil just keeps going down no matter

00:39:36.789 --> 00:39:40.050
what happens and gas prices come down. So it's

00:39:40.050 --> 00:39:42.130
not exactly what people predicted it would be.

00:39:43.070 --> 00:39:46.110
But most importantly, just calm down everybody.

00:39:47.349 --> 00:39:49.710
Let's get on our knees and fight like men and

00:39:49.710 --> 00:39:54.250
women of God. That's not just some anecdote.

00:39:54.949 --> 00:39:57.969
This is what moves things. It moves nations.

00:39:58.110 --> 00:40:02.809
It moves atmospheres. It moves people. We have

00:40:02.809 --> 00:40:05.550
the ability to move things. I read a book years

00:40:05.550 --> 00:40:10.989
ago. It was in college, Wesley Duell. I'm trying

00:40:10.989 --> 00:40:12.889
to remember the title. It hit me when I'm not

00:40:12.889 --> 00:40:18.969
thinking about it. You can pray for any place

00:40:18.969 --> 00:40:20.969
in the world, and it's as though you're there.

00:40:21.110 --> 00:40:24.730
So, if you're praying for what's going on in

00:40:24.730 --> 00:40:29.289
Iran and Israel and Persia, for lack of a better

00:40:29.289 --> 00:40:33.150
term sometimes, if you're praying for that, it's

00:40:33.150 --> 00:40:34.929
literally as though you were standing on that

00:40:34.929 --> 00:40:36.550
ground praying. You don't have to go there to

00:40:36.550 --> 00:40:39.269
pray for it to be any more powerful than praying

00:40:39.269 --> 00:40:42.530
where you are. It was called Retouch the World

00:40:42.530 --> 00:40:44.769
Through Prayer is what it was, the book. where

00:40:44.769 --> 00:40:48.130
he talks about all these stories of prayer where

00:40:48.130 --> 00:40:50.389
people couldn't always travel and go to other

00:40:50.389 --> 00:40:52.690
places, but they could pray for them. And they

00:40:52.690 --> 00:40:55.889
would pray fervently and God would move. And

00:40:55.889 --> 00:40:58.289
this is where we've got to get back to as believers

00:40:58.289 --> 00:41:03.730
and sons and daughters of God to say, my prayers

00:41:03.730 --> 00:41:06.710
matter. What I say matters. I'm not just moving

00:41:06.710 --> 00:41:10.429
molecules in space. Even physically speaking,

00:41:10.590 --> 00:41:12.530
in terms of physics, when you say something,

00:41:12.909 --> 00:41:15.610
it It's forever. We think the internet captures

00:41:15.610 --> 00:41:18.449
something forever. That's just what you can see.

00:41:19.250 --> 00:41:21.969
But what you don't see are the sound waves that

00:41:21.969 --> 00:41:24.070
continue to reverberate. When I pray a prayer,

00:41:24.170 --> 00:41:26.829
it's going. The concept that a butterfly flapping

00:41:26.829 --> 00:41:28.989
its wings in one part of the world can cause

00:41:28.989 --> 00:41:32.769
a tornado somewhere else. Well, we can cause

00:41:32.769 --> 00:41:36.889
an F5 somewhere else in prayer. It's what I've

00:41:36.889 --> 00:41:39.489
been pounding this drum for three plus years.

00:41:41.150 --> 00:41:44.010
political problem, we have a spiritual problem.

00:41:44.530 --> 00:41:47.030
When we get that right, it's amazing how other

00:41:47.030 --> 00:41:49.389
things will line up. It's really cool to think

00:41:49.389 --> 00:41:53.849
of it that way because it's really like the internet.

00:41:54.769 --> 00:41:57.349
You can type something on your computer here

00:41:57.349 --> 00:42:00.469
and it shows instantaneously clear across the

00:42:00.469 --> 00:42:04.329
globe. Prayer works the same way. It does. Absolutely.

00:42:04.570 --> 00:42:08.780
It's already there. There is no time space. you

00:42:08.780 --> 00:42:14.440
know, just to quote back to the future. So, there

00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:18.000
is nothing. There's nothing to, in the spiritual

00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:21.420
realm, there's no walls. There's nothing resisting

00:42:21.420 --> 00:42:23.659
or, well, there is resistance. We know, of course,

00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:27.820
there is that. But it doesn't stop. And so, we

00:42:27.820 --> 00:42:31.699
can stand and pray. And here's the thing, you

00:42:31.699 --> 00:42:34.139
know, I don't have to agree with Massad or IDF

00:42:34.139 --> 00:42:35.960
or any of the things that are going on over there

00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:40.519
to pray for them and to pray that way for peace,

00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:42.980
for shalom, because that's what God told us to

00:42:42.980 --> 00:42:47.059
pray. Yes, there it is. You know, Texas Slim

00:42:47.059 --> 00:42:52.039
came through town and he actually got into his

00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:54.079
program that he needed to get into. He had some

00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:57.579
physical problems. So, pray for Texas Slim for

00:42:57.579 --> 00:42:58.860
his physical health. That's an answer to prayer

00:42:58.860 --> 00:43:02.559
right there. Are you kidding me? Yeah, right

00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:06.539
on. And even though he has some stuff that he

00:43:06.539 --> 00:43:09.739
has to go into medical care for, he's always

00:43:09.739 --> 00:43:12.039
thinking, and he's always thinking about young

00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:16.579
American men. And he sent me something that he's

00:43:16.579 --> 00:43:19.199
been working on for a while. He calls it the

00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:23.320
cowboy code, ancient wisdom for modern men. And

00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:25.699
I asked, I said, man, can I share this on the

00:43:25.699 --> 00:43:29.000
show? He said, yes, please. And so he has 12,

00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:33.179
go figure, he has 12 scripture, piece of scripture,

00:43:33.239 --> 00:43:35.840
and the way he sees them. And so I wanted to

00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:37.679
share that we can talk about each one. As iron

00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:39.880
sharpens iron, we hold these truths to be our

00:43:39.880 --> 00:43:42.760
standard stewardship. The Lord God took the man

00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:44.860
and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it

00:43:44.860 --> 00:43:47.940
and take care of it. That's Genesis 2 .15. So

00:43:47.940 --> 00:43:51.619
he's thinking like a rancher in how we should

00:43:51.619 --> 00:43:55.019
be But I think you can translate that to everything

00:43:55.019 --> 00:43:57.199
we do as men. He's not thinking in terms of climate

00:43:57.199 --> 00:44:00.260
change. He's thinking in terms of stewarding

00:44:00.260 --> 00:44:02.500
what God has given us the green light to do.

00:44:03.280 --> 00:44:06.099
Expertise. Know well the condition of your flocks

00:44:06.099 --> 00:44:09.360
and give attention to your herds. Proverbs 27,

00:44:09.380 --> 00:44:12.380
23, which, again, doesn't just apply to cattle.

00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:15.360
It can apply to anything. It can apply to being

00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:18.280
a pastor, really. Or your own family. Excellence.

00:44:18.420 --> 00:44:21.280
Whatever you do, work hardily as for the Lord

00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:24.860
and not for men. Colossians 3 .23. This is something

00:44:24.860 --> 00:44:27.539
I've been working on real hard. Like, I'm doing

00:44:27.539 --> 00:44:29.920
this for God. I'm not doing it for me. I'm not

00:44:29.920 --> 00:44:32.619
doing it for, you know, I hope it works for other

00:44:32.619 --> 00:44:35.059
people, but that, you know, really do not be

00:44:35.059 --> 00:44:38.639
confused with perfectionism. And that's easily

00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:42.760
done. Yeah, we'll break that down. Well, if something

00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:45.219
is excellent, it's got to be perfect. No, no,

00:44:45.219 --> 00:44:47.659
no, no. It just means it's given the best you've

00:44:47.659 --> 00:44:50.099
got towards something and then trusting God with

00:44:50.099 --> 00:44:54.559
the rest. Transparency. Let what you say be simply

00:44:54.559 --> 00:44:57.440
yes or no. Anything more than this comes from

00:44:57.440 --> 00:45:01.260
evil. Man, I've fallen prey to this a lot in

00:45:01.260 --> 00:45:03.380
the past. Like, yeah, maybe I'll work on that.

00:45:03.599 --> 00:45:07.500
Say yes or no. It's usually better than something

00:45:07.500 --> 00:45:11.019
wishy -washy. Integrity. Whoever walks in integrity

00:45:11.019 --> 00:45:14.019
walks securely, but he who makes his way crooked

00:45:14.019 --> 00:45:17.519
will be found out." Proverbs 10 -19. That's pretty

00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:21.019
much always true, I'd say. Honor. For we aim

00:45:21.019 --> 00:45:23.539
at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight,

00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:26.519
but also in the sight of man. 2 Corinthians 8

00:45:26.519 --> 00:45:30.480
-21. Do you have anything to say about that one?

00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:33.659
Well, I just think about the preamble to the

00:45:33.659 --> 00:45:35.780
Declaration of Independence. We pledge our lives,

00:45:35.900 --> 00:45:38.739
our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Yes, good

00:45:38.739 --> 00:45:42.420
one. Brotherhood, of course, my favorite is iron

00:45:42.420 --> 00:45:44.980
sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

00:45:45.539 --> 00:45:52.260
That's Proverbs 27 .17. I'd point out that sharpening

00:45:52.260 --> 00:45:54.860
an iron, if you're really doing it right, includes

00:45:54.860 --> 00:45:58.599
sparks. Absolutely. Friction, sparks, heat, all

00:45:58.599 --> 00:46:00.880
of the above. So it's not just like, hey, yo,

00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:02.420
bro, I agree with you. Oh, it's pretty. That's

00:46:02.420 --> 00:46:05.639
not how it works. Courage, be watchful, stand

00:46:05.639 --> 00:46:09.219
firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 1

00:46:09.219 --> 00:46:14.739
Corinthians 16, 13, 1 Corinthians. Tina was rubbing

00:46:14.739 --> 00:46:17.559
me about that. The other said, 2 Corinthians.

00:46:17.619 --> 00:46:20.920
She said, you mean 2 Corinthians? Oh, whatever.

00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:25.829
She said, I'm European. Exactly. Steadfastness

00:46:25.829 --> 00:46:28.369
be strong and courageous for the Lord your God

00:46:28.369 --> 00:46:31.969
is with you wherever you go Joshua 1 9 stay the

00:46:31.969 --> 00:46:35.429
course Mentorship in everything set them an example

00:46:35.429 --> 00:46:39.230
by doing what is good Titus 2 7 8 put down your

00:46:39.230 --> 00:46:41.329
screens parents. That's that's how you get that's

00:46:41.329 --> 00:46:43.730
the best. That's the shortest Yeah, what you

00:46:43.730 --> 00:46:46.769
need will lead Discipleship the student is not

00:46:46.769 --> 00:46:48.710
above the teacher, but everyone who is fully

00:46:48.710 --> 00:46:51.289
trained will be like their teacher This is a

00:46:51.289 --> 00:46:54.710
tough one from Luke 6 for a lot of people to

00:46:54.710 --> 00:46:57.110
wrap their head around. Well, the way I see that,

00:46:57.110 --> 00:46:58.489
first of all, you have to break down the word

00:46:58.489 --> 00:47:02.969
disciple. Another aberration of that is discipline.

00:47:04.230 --> 00:47:06.269
So again, it goes back to that excellence piece,

00:47:06.489 --> 00:47:09.070
integrity piece. When you have discipline, you

00:47:09.070 --> 00:47:12.710
become impervious to the enemy. I heard a Satanist

00:47:12.710 --> 00:47:15.630
say this recently. She said the thing that when

00:47:15.630 --> 00:47:19.070
she was in Satanism that they fear the most is

00:47:19.070 --> 00:47:22.860
a Christian who's disciplined. because they're

00:47:22.860 --> 00:47:25.179
unmovable. Where was this that you were listening

00:47:25.179 --> 00:47:28.500
to a Satanist? Just hanging out on the street

00:47:28.500 --> 00:47:31.360
corner, man. Hey, what's up? Hey, I like your

00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:33.579
pentagram. So you went to Austin, is that what

00:47:33.579 --> 00:47:35.340
you're saying? Okay, I'm sorry, Austin. Actually,

00:47:35.460 --> 00:47:37.340
I wasn't Austin. But anyway, no, it wasn't Austin.

00:47:37.460 --> 00:47:41.539
But anyway, she was writing, and I'm a Substack

00:47:41.539 --> 00:47:45.019
freak. I'm really enjoying Substack. But she

00:47:45.019 --> 00:47:48.360
was writing and talking about how now she's radically

00:47:48.360 --> 00:47:51.360
saved. She's all on fire for Jesus. But she said

00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:53.300
she feels like the Lord allowed her to go through

00:47:53.300 --> 00:47:55.800
that 10 -year period so that she can now come

00:47:55.800 --> 00:47:58.320
out and say, this is what's happening and this

00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:03.000
is what works. Wow. Discipline. Wow. Discipleship.

00:48:03.179 --> 00:48:06.300
It all works together. And 12, finally, justice.

00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:08.920
Surely the righteous will never be shaken, Psalm

00:48:08.920 --> 00:48:13.719
112, 5 to 6. Just a nice, nice list. Solid. And

00:48:13.719 --> 00:48:16.719
you mentioned Substack. So as we start to get

00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:19.780
our game together here, we're going to integrate

00:48:19.780 --> 00:48:22.079
the podcast with Substack. I think Tina and I

00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:24.199
are looking at some of the capabilities. We had

00:48:24.199 --> 00:48:27.400
a nice little hangout as we solidified our partnership

00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:30.650
with the girls. Yeah, that's great. Was that

00:48:30.650 --> 00:48:33.030
Monday? Yeah, it was Monday. No, it was Tuesday.

00:48:33.050 --> 00:48:34.849
It was Monday. I don't remember what day is today.

00:48:34.989 --> 00:48:36.829
Is it Wednesday still? Today is Wednesday. I

00:48:36.829 --> 00:48:38.969
know, me too. Hey, I'm on vacation. It's all

00:48:38.969 --> 00:48:41.489
running together right now. I know, I know. And

00:48:41.489 --> 00:48:43.929
also, so we really want, because it's such a

00:48:43.929 --> 00:48:47.849
nice social network that it's turned into something

00:48:47.849 --> 00:48:50.130
different than how it started out. Oh really?

00:48:50.409 --> 00:48:53.590
I mean, it was really just... It started out

00:48:53.590 --> 00:48:55.989
as really email lists. You write something, you

00:48:55.989 --> 00:48:58.690
can send it to email, you can subscribe to the

00:48:58.690 --> 00:49:01.429
email, you can pay for the subscription. Then

00:49:01.429 --> 00:49:03.889
they added these notes and other things and it

00:49:03.889 --> 00:49:07.269
became more of a social appreciation network.

00:49:07.269 --> 00:49:11.500
Yeah, it really is. It's positive. host and start,

00:49:11.599 --> 00:49:13.699
not that we're going to host our podcast with

00:49:13.699 --> 00:49:17.000
them, but it's now common to have a podcast integrated.

00:49:17.780 --> 00:49:21.760
I kind of like it. I think it's a cool system.

00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:24.659
I'm impressed. I got to read this note from Shelly

00:49:24.659 --> 00:49:27.539
Carpenter on Substack. She reached out. She said,

00:49:27.579 --> 00:49:31.059
I absolutely love we get to do this as do my

00:49:31.059 --> 00:49:35.210
pre and teenagers 12 and 13. They enjoy listening

00:49:35.210 --> 00:49:38.489
and without a doubt, questions ensue. We are

00:49:38.489 --> 00:49:42.869
a grateful family. We love that. What really

00:49:42.869 --> 00:49:46.829
landed with me on that was that a 12 and 13 year

00:49:46.829 --> 00:49:50.670
old are listening to us. I felt the weight from

00:49:50.670 --> 00:49:53.250
that in a good way. I even told Annette, I said,

00:49:53.570 --> 00:49:56.130
that really makes me think through even in a

00:49:56.130 --> 00:49:58.889
different level what I'm saying, how I'm responding,

00:49:59.650 --> 00:50:02.539
because the next generation, if they're listening,

00:50:02.760 --> 00:50:04.739
I want to make sure that what I'm saying is going

00:50:04.739 --> 00:50:07.440
to be helpful for them too. Yes. Not just for

00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:10.409
mom and dad. Keep the stay the course brother.

00:50:10.409 --> 00:50:12.489
I think I think we're doing okay, man Really,

00:50:12.550 --> 00:50:14.909
you know these 12 and out to the carpenter family

00:50:14.909 --> 00:50:17.530
man He's 12 and 13 year olds and not like we

00:50:17.530 --> 00:50:20.369
were when we were 12 and 13 We were kind of moronic.

00:50:20.369 --> 00:50:24.469
I'd say we were dumb you think Yeah, it's a different.

00:50:24.489 --> 00:50:26.670
It's a little different now. We're very different.

00:50:26.869 --> 00:50:31.269
So with that we got a note from Charles Charles

00:50:31.269 --> 00:50:35.130
steel and He he says he listed the show. He loved

00:50:35.130 --> 00:50:37.429
it. He doesn't just love the show. He absolutely

00:50:37.429 --> 00:50:40.909
loves the show But in 2017, his daughter Viola

00:50:40.909 --> 00:50:44.070
was diagnosed with a rare heart condition. It's

00:50:44.070 --> 00:50:47.869
pulmonary vein stenosis. I'm sure someone out

00:50:47.869 --> 00:50:51.150
there is going, oh boy. She's had several heart

00:50:51.150 --> 00:50:56.909
surgeries. He said 14. Yeah, a lot. A lot. But

00:50:56.909 --> 00:51:00.989
he is asking for discernment in a decision that

00:51:00.989 --> 00:51:04.590
they have to make about an operation. Should

00:51:04.590 --> 00:51:07.110
they do it or shouldn't they do it? pros and

00:51:07.110 --> 00:51:11.190
cons to everything. He sent a prayer flare, basically,

00:51:11.389 --> 00:51:13.809
for his daughter Viola, but also for discernment

00:51:13.809 --> 00:51:15.750
for them. Do you want to just pray for them real

00:51:15.750 --> 00:51:17.530
quick, brother, so we all can do that? We're

00:51:17.530 --> 00:51:20.469
praying for Viola, and he sent some pictures

00:51:20.469 --> 00:51:23.630
of her, too. Just a beautiful, beautiful child.

00:51:23.789 --> 00:51:26.789
I mean, just heart -wrenching, really, from a

00:51:26.789 --> 00:51:30.190
daddy, granddad. It's all in my heart. So, Father,

00:51:30.250 --> 00:51:32.409
we lift up Viola right now, and Charles and his

00:51:32.409 --> 00:51:36.320
family, as they make this this very weighty decision,

00:51:36.539 --> 00:51:38.500
this weight that they're carrying, Lord, Your

00:51:38.500 --> 00:51:41.460
Word says that Your yoke is easy, Your burden

00:51:41.460 --> 00:51:44.260
is light. So I'm asking, Lord, that You would

00:51:44.260 --> 00:51:48.139
just completely infuse this decision with Your

00:51:48.139 --> 00:51:51.099
wisdom, with Your guidance. Your Word tells them

00:51:51.099 --> 00:51:53.559
and tells us that we have the mind of Christ,

00:51:54.239 --> 00:51:56.300
that we hold the thoughts, feelings, and purposes

00:51:56.300 --> 00:51:59.059
of Your heart. And so, Lord, as they make this

00:51:59.059 --> 00:52:01.800
decision, I'm asking as a family, that they would

00:52:01.800 --> 00:52:05.059
be able to go into this confident. I just appreciated

00:52:05.059 --> 00:52:08.880
Charles' spirit even in the way he wrote. I was

00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:11.579
lifted up. I was encouraged. I was strengthened

00:52:11.579 --> 00:52:16.159
by his writing and just his faith. And so, Lord,

00:52:16.199 --> 00:52:18.559
we hold his family before you. We ask, Father,

00:52:18.599 --> 00:52:21.420
for a favor that you would do what only you could

00:52:21.420 --> 00:52:25.420
do for Viola's heart and for her life and extend

00:52:25.420 --> 00:52:28.139
her life, Lord, that she would live and not die.

00:52:28.179 --> 00:52:31.130
Give her peace. give their family peace, Charles'

00:52:31.510 --> 00:52:34.269
peace, in Jesus' name. We pray and we thank you

00:52:34.269 --> 00:52:38.170
in advance for the answer. We thank you in advance

00:52:38.170 --> 00:52:41.449
for the wisdom. Thank you in advance that the

00:52:41.449 --> 00:52:43.349
decision they make will be the one that's your

00:52:43.349 --> 00:52:46.889
heart, in Jesus' name. Amen. That's a new way.

00:52:47.150 --> 00:52:49.050
I like that, in advance. That's what we talked

00:52:49.050 --> 00:52:50.349
about at the very beginning. Instead of ending

00:52:50.349 --> 00:52:53.349
with just amen, thank the Lord for what's going

00:52:53.349 --> 00:52:57.130
to happen in advance. Yes. Okay, we learned something

00:52:57.130 --> 00:53:00.090
new. We learned every day. Every single show.

00:53:00.369 --> 00:53:03.050
Man, I had so many other things. We'll just move

00:53:03.050 --> 00:53:05.239
on. I know. There's always stuff too. What did

00:53:05.239 --> 00:53:07.360
you have that? Because I always feel like I buffalo

00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:10.199
right in. No, no, no, no, no. Brother, listen.

00:53:10.280 --> 00:53:12.360
You got to remind me so we do some of this stuff

00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:14.480
on the next step. You know what we need? Eventually,

00:53:14.519 --> 00:53:17.480
we need another day. That's where this is going

00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:19.239
to come down to. Brother, OK. I'm serious. We've

00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:22.039
got too much to say. Yeah, we do. Too much good.

00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:24.400
And every day, there's something else we could

00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:26.260
add to the world, I think. Well, just watch the

00:53:26.260 --> 00:53:30.079
news. So this morning, I want to do this very

00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:33.659
short. Sure. This morning. As I get up in the

00:53:33.659 --> 00:53:35.800
morning, well, I got up at 4 .55 this morning.

00:53:35.820 --> 00:53:38.400
I'm like, okay, Lord, apparently you have something

00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:40.039
to say, something to do. So I went ahead and

00:53:40.039 --> 00:53:42.760
got up, me and Mr. Chevy. And so I sat down and

00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:45.699
I just pulled out my Bible, my trusty Bible,

00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:48.739
and just started reading through. There's a couple

00:53:48.739 --> 00:53:51.139
of places where my Bible just falls open to.

00:53:52.059 --> 00:53:54.460
It's done it so much. It's like Harry Potter's

00:53:54.460 --> 00:53:58.900
book. Well, I don't know about that. I think

00:53:58.900 --> 00:54:01.139
this is really creased there, but anyway, it's

00:54:01.139 --> 00:54:03.519
in Colossians, and you know my heart for Colossians.

00:54:04.019 --> 00:54:06.739
Colossians 3 says this, and Colossians 3 .1,

00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:09.519
if you then were raised with Christ, seek those

00:54:09.519 --> 00:54:12.940
things which are above where Christ is, sitting

00:54:12.940 --> 00:54:14.820
at the right hand of God. Man, if that's not

00:54:14.820 --> 00:54:17.179
good enough, the next verse was the one that

00:54:17.179 --> 00:54:19.829
sealed the deal for me. Set your mind on things

00:54:19.829 --> 00:54:22.730
above not on things on the earth. Amen So I did

00:54:22.730 --> 00:54:24.969
a little deep dive because I had some time this

00:54:24.969 --> 00:54:28.670
morning hours And I just jumped into that that

00:54:28.670 --> 00:54:31.369
whole idea of what does it mean to set your mind?

00:54:31.610 --> 00:54:34.210
And it literally means to fix your attention

00:54:34.210 --> 00:54:38.030
upon your focus So I wrote this daily grind and

00:54:38.030 --> 00:54:40.010
I called it first things first and I want to

00:54:40.010 --> 00:54:41.769
share this because I think this might help somebody

00:54:41.769 --> 00:54:44.690
It helped me this morning just as I sort of thought

00:54:44.690 --> 00:54:48.059
out loud with my with my keyboard I accidentally

00:54:48.059 --> 00:54:50.199
caught a couple of headlines early this morning

00:54:50.199 --> 00:54:52.280
when I turned on my computer. That's all I had

00:54:52.280 --> 00:54:54.940
to do was just awaken. Yeah, just move the mouse.

00:54:54.960 --> 00:54:56.980
And there I was, you know? I said, bing, bing,

00:54:57.000 --> 00:54:59.780
bing, notifications. As I turned on my computer

00:54:59.780 --> 00:55:01.920
to write today's devotional, I could feel the

00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:05.699
pull to click and keep reading. Most everything

00:55:05.699 --> 00:55:08.059
that comes across your screen is screaming for

00:55:08.059 --> 00:55:10.679
your attention. The next news story, the next

00:55:10.679 --> 00:55:14.139
breaking headline, the next hyperlink, all designed

00:55:14.139 --> 00:55:17.340
to capture you. Not just your attention, but

00:55:17.340 --> 00:55:20.880
you. Paul was crystal clear when he wrote, set

00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:24.500
your minds on things above. This is a call to

00:55:24.500 --> 00:55:28.719
a deeper place of knowing Jesus more fully, eliminating

00:55:28.719 --> 00:55:31.579
distractions and focusing your attention on Him.

00:55:32.139 --> 00:55:35.760
This was such a wake -up call when I was waking

00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:37.820
up because I got my brand new cup of coffee.

00:55:38.039 --> 00:55:40.920
I mean, I'm barely, you know, and I hit my mouse

00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:43.400
and my screen comes on. And there's all those

00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:46.099
notifications just saying, Look at me. Look at

00:55:46.099 --> 00:55:48.719
me. Alert. Alert. Breaking news. So if you're

00:55:48.719 --> 00:55:51.239
reading this and now if you're listening to this,

00:55:51.460 --> 00:55:54.559
you have no doubt already been dopamine bombed

00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:58.659
by alerts, notifications, and headlines. Resist

00:55:58.659 --> 00:56:03.000
it. Resist it. Scripture before screens. I said,

00:56:03.239 --> 00:56:05.679
put down your screen and pick up your Bible.

00:56:06.420 --> 00:56:07.860
And brother, I just want to end with that today

00:56:07.860 --> 00:56:12.300
because As I floated that out on different platforms,

00:56:13.119 --> 00:56:15.400
here I am part of the problem, right? Alert,

00:56:15.539 --> 00:56:18.340
pay attention to me, my daily grinds. This is

00:56:18.340 --> 00:56:21.039
important. I feel so weird, doesn't it? It's

00:56:21.039 --> 00:56:24.159
meta. It totally is. But what was interesting

00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:26.420
is feedback I got from people just almost instantly

00:56:26.420 --> 00:56:28.780
is, I did that this morning. That happened to

00:56:28.780 --> 00:56:31.000
me this morning. Because it happens to all of

00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:33.079
us. Of course it does. By design, it happens

00:56:33.079 --> 00:56:36.769
to us. So just a caution, stay the course. Pick

00:56:36.769 --> 00:56:39.090
up your Bible. That's what I did. My real Bible,

00:56:39.269 --> 00:56:41.650
not my screen Bible. I've been doing that a lot

00:56:41.650 --> 00:56:44.030
more. This is really, that's why I have it with

00:56:44.030 --> 00:56:46.329
me today. That's the only way to avoid what's

00:56:46.329 --> 00:56:49.150
happening on the screen. If it's only you version,

00:56:49.329 --> 00:56:53.190
you're going to get a buzz, a bing, a boop, a

00:56:53.190 --> 00:56:55.230
notification, and it's going to distract and

00:56:55.230 --> 00:57:00.789
be like, I do turn off all my notifications when

00:57:00.789 --> 00:57:03.710
I go to bed. Especially in the mornings. Yeah,

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my stuff doesn't do anything at night. So it's

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just when I When you move that screen. I accidentally

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with my coffee go bump my mouse and all of a

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sudden the world's screaming. I literally laughed

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out loud. I said, I know what you're doing. I

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caught you and I just ignored it. But that's

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why I wrote that. I love it. I know people struggle

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because it's by design. Hey, we love you guys

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and we so appreciate everybody who's listening

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to the show. Your encouragement helps. and it

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motivates us to continue on. I mean, that one

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about the kids listening and also the privilege

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of praying for Viola and Charles and their family.

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It's our privilege to do. We get to do this.

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I have an idea. Let's do it again next week.

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We get to do this then. See everybody. Have a

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fantastic week. We get to do this This is a chance

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we did not miss This is the life We get to do

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this